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word crossing
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 5:22 pm
by vilmibm
i am a stupid fiend for the nytimes xword. i do atlantic and new yorker intermittently. i didn't used to care about "streaks" but now that i've got one of 80+ i find that i do care...
i did today's in 12 minutes which is new saturday PB for me.
Re: word crossing
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 7:54 pm
by nbsp
i really love some of the other atlantic games. bracket city is a delight and stacks is like wordle but not bullshit
Re: word crossing
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 8:10 pm
by vilmibm
i suck at both of those! but am intrigued by them. maybe i'll get better.
Re: word crossing
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 11:50 pm
by pilosophos
I learned to put together crosswords last year and that has been pretty fun. Y'all should look out for the crossword I'm putting in the next tilde.town zine, and tell me how you find it!
I have done some NYT crosswords but I always solve them on a considerable delay because the Seattle Times licenses them and puts them online for free, but only after some time has passed.
I've also tried some cryptics but I'm pretty terrible at those.
Re: word crossing
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 11:52 pm
by nbsp
I've also tried some cryptics but I'm pretty terrible at those.
if you wanna get better at cryptic i highly highly highly recommend
https://minutecryptic.com. it's one cryptic
clue a day, without the rest of the crossword, and with a very soft spoken australian man explaining the clue to you after you've gotten it or given up
Re: word crossing
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 3:53 am
by acdw
I've also tried some cryptics but I'm pretty terrible at those.
if you wanna get better at cryptic i highly highly highly recommend
https://minutecryptic.com. it's one cryptic
clue a day, without the rest of the crossword, and with a very soft spoken australian man explaining the clue to you after you've gotten it or given up
Oh my god thank you for this! I've been wanting to get into cryptics forever.
I love the word for crossword people -
cruciverbalists.
Re: word crossing
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 4:26 pm
by vilmibm
I learned to put together crosswords last year and that has been pretty fun. Y'all should look out for the crossword I'm putting in the next tilde.town zine, and tell me how you find it!
EXCITE
Re: word crossing
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2026 4:56 pm
by curio
i was doing this for a bit and got annoyed at how often they reuse cheeky clues. then i realized that's a feature not a bug. perhaps now's the time to get back in