Wait a minute! Coming up with a theme is the most difficult part? That seems like a ridiculous thing to say. Surely, the biggest challenge, and it's probably too difficult for me, is what you blithely call, "fill in the rest of the grid with words." Easily said, but difficult, nearly impossible to do. That's the only challenge. That's why crossword puzzles are so interesting. Themes? who cares? Themes are not even needed.What do they add? It's only the fitting together of the vertical and horizontal that makes crossword puzzles worthwhile.
I think its ez to understand. Its an artistic difficulty. Imagine Van Gogh drawing a painting. Or Mozart composing a piece. Everything they draw or compose is sophisticated and difficult to produce af. But only to ordinary ppl. What they think difficult is to come up with the theme or key they want to compose in. How to make them meaningful and unique. The process of doing so is easy for them already cus they are geniuses
@@chakra2938 Why would anyone want such an app? It would be like doing your exercises by having someone else lift the barbell for you. Would that make any sense?
@@quabledistocficklepo3597 Well it doesn't do everything for you. You fill in the black squares and it will show a list of words that can potentially fit into that space. Then you only use the good fill and not the weird words it suggests that no one ever uses. Trying to make sure the fill of the puzzle is nice takes some time. Takes me about an hour or two
Brax1982 The black squares are 0:18 aren't symmetrical. There are two black cells symmetrically opposite white cells. What am I misunderstanding of what I was told?
Grant Fikes Indeed. To my defense, you didn't specify. =) Should have known being snippy would bite back. Then again, this whole thing is not even true. Rotational symmetry is no requirement everywhere. Neither are themes.
1:42 what is the rule for spreading an answer over two answers? How would it look in the clues? I couldn't find any explanation to this on Google or RUclips.
I learned exactly NOTHING from this video. I'm a longtime NY Times crossword puzzle fan, and everything "explained" here is patently obvious. It said nothing, for example, about how the process of shuffling around letters to make a coherent puzzle happens. Honestly, anyone who would even learn anything from this video wouldn't be able to do a Monday puzzle in the first place.
I feel like the "just fill in the rest of the words" part got really glossed over there
Nah bro, the hardest part is actually filling the words. -.-
Wait a minute! Coming up with a theme is the most difficult part? That seems like a ridiculous thing to say. Surely, the biggest challenge, and it's probably too difficult for me, is what you blithely call, "fill in the rest of the grid with words." Easily said, but difficult, nearly impossible to do. That's the only challenge. That's why crossword puzzles are so interesting. Themes? who cares? Themes are not even needed.What do they add? It's only the fitting together of the vertical and horizontal that makes crossword puzzles worthwhile.
I think its ez to understand. Its an artistic difficulty. Imagine Van Gogh drawing a painting. Or Mozart composing a piece. Everything they draw or compose is sophisticated and difficult to produce af. But only to ordinary ppl. What they think difficult is to come up with the theme or key they want to compose in. How to make them meaningful and unique. The process of doing so is easy for them already cus they are geniuses
There's an app called CrossFire that fills in words for you
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Why would anyone want such an app? It would be like doing your exercises by having someone else lift the barbell for you. Would that make any sense?
@@quabledistocficklepo3597 Well it doesn't do everything for you. You fill in the black squares and it will show a list of words that can potentially fit into that space. Then you only use the good fill and not the weird words it suggests that no one ever uses. Trying to make sure the fill of the puzzle is nice takes some time. Takes me about an hour or two
@@quabledistocficklepo3597 And of course, you clue the puzzle yourself
I love how the black squares aren't actually symmetrical. :p
Grant Fikes I love how you actually did not understand what you were told.
Brax1982 The black squares are 0:18 aren't symmetrical. There are two black cells symmetrically opposite white cells. What am I misunderstanding of what I was told?
Grant Fikes Indeed. To my defense, you didn't specify. =) Should have known being snippy would bite back.
Then again, this whole thing is not even true. Rotational symmetry is no requirement everywhere. Neither are themes.
I love Slate.
I wonder if you can use the same technique of the black squares yo make some sort of art or pattern
Do you know a code to put the numbers in a grid in css and html
1:42 what is the rule for spreading an answer over two answers? How would it look in the clues? I couldn't find any explanation to this on Google or RUclips.
I bet when the crossword puzzle guy died they buried him 4 down and 3 across.
XD
Or you could just come up with a bunch of clues and words and then make a grind and THEN fill in those with fitting words!
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Why do you need the symmetry? I've seen plenty of non-symmetric crossword puzzles.
He's explaining the style of New York Times Crosswords
Norman Rasmussen,
Yeah, I wondered about that.
I learned exactly NOTHING from this video. I'm a longtime NY Times crossword puzzle fan, and everything "explained" here is patently obvious. It said nothing, for example, about how the process of shuffling around letters to make a coherent puzzle happens.
Honestly, anyone who would even learn anything from this video wouldn't be able to do a Monday puzzle in the first place.