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I'm posting this more for muse. Hello! I don't know if anyone's enjoyed this puzzle on The New York Times website, but I find it rather fun. The rules published on the site are as follows: Connect letters to spell words. Words must be at least 3 letters long. Letters can be reused. Consecutive letters cannot be from the same side.
11. The New York Times hosts a brilliant puzzle called Letter Boxed. The rules of the game are quite simple: Connect letters from the edges of a given square to spell out words at least three letters long. Consecutive letters cannot be from the same side. The last letter of a word becomes the first letter of the next word. Use up all the letters.
A robot visiting every edge of a 4x4 grid. This is a harder version of this puzzle: A robot visiting every edge of a 3x3 grid A robot is placed on the top-left vertex of a 4x4 grid. At each move the robot can take one step (up, down, left or ... combinatorics.
8. The US Scrabble dictionary only has 9,000ish 5 letter words, of which a good portion are plurals, and then there's the list of "dead" words in the code and then most of these words are not "crossword" puzzle words. Logically you'd want Aunt Gertrude and all her friends to be able to play so the vocabulary bias would be to more common words.
The challenge. For each letter of the alphabet, A to Z, find a word containing the highest possible proportion of that letter If people come up with more than one word with the same proportion, the longest one wins. Examples: taking the letter B, "blubber" (3/7) is an easy starting point which can probably be outdone.
4. Part of a series of similar puzzles - the answer to one will give you the type of thinking required for the others. What's the next letter in this series? What's the relationship? This one might be harder than the last, so I can give a hint sooner if there is enough demand. Does/can this sequence continue infinitely? Nope - that's a big hint!
The shortest possible is obviously 8 letters, using each of the number keys 2-9 exactly once. The online word search tool finds 3 such words: ENTHALPY, UNEASILY, UNFAIRLY. Picking a different dictionary gives even more results, although many of them are either two-word phrases (e.g. BOX KITES, WILD OATS) or words I have never seen before (e.g ...
Yellowwooddoor - a door made out of yellowwood (acknowledged as a real Scrabble word). It even has an extra double letter (ll) though it's not consecutive. (I can't believe how much time I just spent thinking about this. Time to get a life.)
Dear Puzzling, This crossword is a combination of straight crosswords clues, cryptic clues and printer’s devilry. In five cases, the answer is too long to fit the grid and one letter must be removed. Letter removals produce real words found in the UKACD. In these five clues, highlight one letter of the clue at the same position as the deleted ...
18. No, you were supposed to alphabetize by the zeroth letter! The answer is a three-letter word. Apologies that the answer is not more thematic; it made more sense in the context I originally used this puzzle. Also apologies that parts of the puzzle are a bit US-centric. word.