Originally published at: Brilliant Star Trek vs. Star Wars trick in the New York Times crossword puzzle | Boing Boing
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I love how you need to use the Star Wars version of the clue for 71 down if you answer StarTrek for 70 across.
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Exactly! This right here is word art. Fabulous!
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Impressive. Most impressive.
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Talk about brain flexing…
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Very cool. I would inevitably not solve the horizontal clue until I had already solved a mishmash of the vertical clues resulting in a complete unintelligible mess and me screaming at Will Shortz and throwing my phone.
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This was a stumper for me, I already got “do/or/do/not/there/is/no/try”, “rebel/alliance”, and “starwars” and was staring at “mrsp…” trying to remember all obscure Star Wars characters who could fit.
I started doing crosswords over christmas, and am shocked at how much fun the authors have with the rules. For instance, a solution can contain a “rebus” where you put a full word in a slot instead of a letter, that fried my brain.
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Yes! It’s a nice tweak to the SW fans. I’m trying to amend the puzzle to make a similar clue that went the other way: A ST phrase that points to SW.
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People got so enraged at that puzzle…and yes, on BOTH SIDES
It was the rare time where BOTH SIDES was true
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The people who chose Star Wars also have to choose “It’s a wrap!”
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Beware clues that have a question mark.
It will inevitably be a bad pun.
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Do all English language crosswords look like that? In Finnish and Swedish they usually look like this:
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How do you play this? Do the words bend or does a two-word phrase go around the corners? Are the drawings always there, or is this one just colorfully decorated? Are the drawings the clues?
This is so cool. I wish there was an English language version in this style so I could give it a go.
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Words go horizontally or vertically. Coloured squares are longer phrases arrows are spaces.
Are the drawings always there, or is this one just colorfully decorated? Are the drawings the clues?
Words and drawings are clues.
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Thanks! Could you tell me the name of this type of puzzle, either in Swedish or Finnish? When I Google “Scandinavian Crossword Puzzle,” I just get Scandinavian answers to clues for English-style puzzles.
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It’s called arroword or arrowword. In Finnish it’s sanaristikko (word lattice)= crossword puzzle.
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If you find regular crossword puzzles too easy, try doing them using only the down (or across) clues. I started doing only the down clues on the New Yorker puzzles, and they became much more challenging.
