The answer to the “spider roll” crossword clue is “CRAB.” It’s called a spider roll because the crab legs look like spider legs coming out of the roll. Fortunately, we’re not eating actual spiders in sushi rolls just yet. But hey, you do you. Eat whatever you want, though I...
One of the best tips for making crossword puzzles is to fill in the longest words first. Filling these in, and creating the clues for them, is often much easier than trying to do this after you write in the smaller words. If you find yourself getting stuck trying to fit words that ...
Considering how some crossword puzzles can be tricky, there will always be times when we get stuck on a crossword puzzle clue. If it’s from a category you don’t know much about, it can wrack your brains out and make you spend hours thinking of the word, only to end up with nothi...
The cryptic crossword, in which the clues themselves are little puzzles, are most common in the UK. Some crossword puzzles are even written so that every answer is in a foreign language. There are also double-clue crosswords. These are puzzles designed so that the puzzle worker can either ...
Riddles are also sometimes word puzzles, which try to lead you down a specific train of thought - usually the wrong one. Because of that, paying close attention to the wording of the riddles is the key to finding the correct answer. If you swallow the words of the riddle at face value...
I am working on this crossword puzzle. Oh, I love crossword puzzles. What clue are you working on? Well, here, the clue is began in 1896, it starts with an O. I know this one. It is the Olympics. The Olympics has only been around since 1896? Well, yes. The modern Olympics. ...
My first big tip is to not make the mistake I did: That pop-up window you see the first time you visit the site is a fixed tutorial, not a clue for the day's puzzle! It's clearer on a PC display than it was on the smartphone browser I was using at the time, so that's pro...
The paper asks, how does information operate in the context of crossword puzzles? A model is proposed that quantifies the difficulty of a puzzle P with respect to its clues. Given a clue-answer pair (c,a), we model the difficulty of guessing a based on c using the conditional ...
The cryptic crossword, in which the clues themselves are little puzzles, are most common in the UK. Some crossword puzzles are even written so that every answer is in a foreign language. There are also double-clue crosswords. These are puzzles designed so that the puzzle worker can either ...
Another remarkable application of ToT is in solving 5x5 mini crossword puzzles. The framework enables the model to consider multiple word options for each crossword clue, evaluating them not just in isolation but also how they interact with already placed words. This iterative, holistic assessment...