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Re: Regex Crossword

#41

Post by schoen »

FrankenPC wrote: post #40

In case there is someone out there who never saw MIT's entry into the RegEx competition: http://rampion.github.io/RegHex/ This is the web incarnation of that hexagon puzzle.

The MIT puzzle (from the 2013 Mystery Hunt) was called "A Regular Crossword" and its credit says "Dan Gulotta, based on an idea by Palmer Mebane".

(Just so it's not credited to MIT in general; each year's Mystery Hunt is written by a specific puzzle team, and indeed each puzzle is written by specific puzzlers!)

Re: Regex Crossword

#42

Post by schoen »

Robadob wrote: post #17
klausseiler wrote: post #15

i don't know how to solve beginner 4? shouldn't you be able to put anything into it?

* * / / / isn't a special character and * isn't special when inside a character class

Now here's a puzzle where the "post your solutions in ROT13 to avoid spoilers" conventional wisdom wouldn't help!

Re: Regex Crossword

#43

Post by Bahamut »

Robadob wrote: post #16

My main problem with this is telling the difference between O and 0, the clue O's look more like 0 so I have to copy paste them. (Although I don't think I've had any numbers required for solutions yet).

The zeroes have a slash through them on my browser - does yours not have that?

Re: Regex Crossword

#44

Post by vhost- »

pyroMax wrote: post #21

How about you save my progress in a cookie? You might find this hard to believe, but I don't have a Facebook account.

Also do not have a facebook account and was bummed to see my progress gone.

Re: Regex Crossword

#45

Post by schoen »

schoen wrote: post #41
FrankenPC wrote: post #40

In case there is someone out there who never saw MIT's entry into the RegEx competition: http://rampion.github.io/RegHex/ This is the web incarnation of that hexagon puzzle.

The MIT puzzle (from the 2013 Mystery Hunt) was called "A Regular Crossword" and its credit says "Dan Gulotta, based on an idea by Palmer Mebane". (Just so it's not credited to MIT in general; each year's Mystery Hunt is written by a specific puzzle team, and indeed each puzzle is written by specific puzzlers!)

This new site is super-awesome and challenging, but a great thing about the hexagonal grid in "A Regular Crossword" was that each hexagon was constrained by three intersecting regular expressions rather than two. That meant that the constraints could be trickier or vaguer in some ways, and comparatively more dependent on the sequence of elements within a regular expression rather than on the process of elimination between two intersecting sets.

Re: Regex Crossword

#46

Post by vsah »

kbuck wrote: post #39
mfsch wrote: post #37

Cool game, it really helped me brush up my regex skills. I think I found an error in “The Lektor Device“: The “I“ in “WITH” could also be a “T” from the rules, but only the “I” is accepted.

The "I" can't be "T" because the regex on the bottom (.(\sSAI).*) forces it to be "I".

No in this case the regex on the bottom only applies the . to the square in question while the \sSAI in question applies to the second square. It seems that it could be a I or a T.

Re: Regex Crossword

#47

Post by a1369209993 »

vobios wrote: post #25
aw3c2 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A site knowing my facebook account is a small issue, facebook knowing a visited that site is the big one.

There is a good chance that Facebook already knows you visited a particular site because that site is already serving Facebook content (via a like button, for example).

> that site is already serving Facebook content

  $ ping facebook.com
  connect: Invalid argument
Not so much, no.

Re: Regex Crossword

#48

Post by abbeyj »

FrankenPC wrote: post #40

In case there is someone out there who never saw MIT's entry into the RegEx competition: http://rampion.github.io/RegHex/ This is the web incarnation of that hexagon puzzle.

I liked this puzzle too and I also made a web based version: http://stardrifter.org/regexp/ . Yours looks nicer but I do miss one feature from my version which is the ability to click a clue to rotate it into view.

Re: Regex Crossword

#49

Post by source99 »

Pretty cool but I don't feel like I am actually learning regex. I think the explanations/definitions need to be more clear and probably the answers less easy to guess.
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