gabriel (2 inches taller)

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Alastar Gabriel (but you can call me anything). I'm an ex-professional software developer, now I make weird art and music :p I will give you bug facts unprompted

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gabriel (2 inches taller)@ArtificialAngel11/27/2023, 5:39 PM

the continuously transgendering hy libre!@bigstuffedcat

the continuously transgendering hy libre!@bigstuffedcat11/26/2023, 7:43 PM

This is a new crossword puzzle format! Originally it was just in this post, but some folks in the comments kindly pointed out the grid looks like a swastika if you squint. I want to minimize the number of people who see it on their feed without expecting it, so I moved the puzzle to this draft.

#crossword #macro crossword #hy libre's puzzle dimension #word puzzles

@jseakle11/27/2023, 11:16 AM

I continue to be angry with cohost about the thing where you write a comment on a post and then you realize you'd like the share that comment on your own page but you basically just can't. Anyway here's my comment with some info about more crushwords and a way to solve this one in your browser.

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karma chameleon @candiedreptile11/26/2023, 8:01 PM

i like this! chopping up the words correctly in the top right corner was tricksy in a fun way. is 2 down perhaps missing its clue? my answer is the same as what's written there

the continuously transgendering hy libre!@bigstuffedcat11/26/2023, 8:26 PM

lol. thank you for pointing out 2d, i made a transcription error moving over from the excel spreadsheet. fixed!

Dana Callista Lexa 🏳️‍⚧️@authorx11/26/2023, 9:57 PM

Definitely interesting and fun, especially knowing an answer but not being sure how to chop it up, so having to look at the clues going the other way and see what subset of letters might fit.

ꙮ tatybara ꙮ @tati11/26/2023, 10:57 PM

can you fill in a dummy response ? i want to try but im not sure i get how to fill in the answers

fluffy @fluffy11/27/2023, 1:26 AM

same, I'm very confused at what I'm supposed to do here

the continuously transgendering hy libre!@bigstuffedcat11/27/2023, 5:21 AM

Added an example puzzle for y'all! https://cohost.org/bigstuffedcat/post/3674156-example-macross/f5d1a6b81d044780a5f32445378997a1

fluffy @fluffy11/27/2023, 6:23 AM

Thanks! That's kind of what I thought the rules were getting at but it's good to have clarification.

ꙮ tatybara ꙮ @tati11/27/2023, 11:16 AM

thank u!!!

ꙮ tatybara ꙮ @tati11/28/2023, 12:27 AM

I finished it. 😎 cool puzzle

🝢@serpentstair11/26/2023, 11:03 PM

i don't do a lot of (regular) crossword, but i like this a lot!

fluffy @fluffy11/27/2023, 1:27 AM

That's quite the accidental swastika there

@xavid11/27/2023, 3:38 AM

I thought this was really fun, tractable while also being interesting and a bit mind-bending.

@jseakle11/27/2023, 11:08 AM

Just so you know, this isn't entirely new! The genre is usually called "crushword", and while they're quite rare, there are a few around. You can see a few similar things from the MIT mystery hunt here, one by Paolo Pasco here, a spiraly one here and, if you happen to have an xwordinfo account, the July 9, 2000 NYT variety puzzle of this type here. There is also a subscription-only puzzle of this type available in the backlogs of http://www.joonpahk.com/.

anyway i'm excited to see that there's a new one! i'd rather solve it on squares.io than in an image editor, so i've gone ahead and put it up for anyone else to solve interactively as well (use Esc to enter multiple letters in a cell). Let me know if you'd rather I take it down, or if you'd like the file so you can put it up yourself.

the continuously transgendering hy libre!@bigstuffedcat11/27/2023, 5:31 PM

Thanks! Having made one of these I'm thoroughly impressed with the mystery hunt setters for making such a large one, even with concatenation. And I appreciate you putting it up on squares; I wanted to put it up as a .puz but I didn't know off the top of my head which software supported "Oops! All Rebuses"

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this is really cool, it was fun to solve! thanks for making it!

ghost of cohosts past @folly11/27/2023, 7:47 PM

took me quite a bit to understand what to do, but once i did (& using @jseakle's version), very fulfilling to solve! it was made easiest to figure out the format by starting from the clue that is Easy For Me, Personally and working from there

Shel @shel11/27/2023, 7:47 PM

Why is it a swastika

the continuously transgendering hy libre!@bigstuffedcat11/27/2023, 8:13 PM

It's certainly not intentional! I appreciate you pointing it out, in the future I'll stay away from this sort of rotational symmetry on a small grid.

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gabriel (2 inches taller)

@ArtificialAngel

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Macro Crossword #0

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