From d66f1195102e74446e5baa505dc7e030f79e9885 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holly Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:20:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] adjust cryptic author's note again --- crosswords/index.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/crosswords/index.html b/crosswords/index.html index e941282..64fb2c4 100644 --- a/crosswords/index.html +++ b/crosswords/index.html @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@

I don't usually come back to edit the author's notes, but: Now that a few more people have solved this, I think I should mention that this is absolutely our first cryptic, and it's definitely flawed. I made some easy changes where I could to fix some correctness issues, but not all of them are easily fixable. Little tense and verb plurality isuses that I don't know that I can fix without destroying the surface.

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It's also worth noting that I like to approach puzzle construction in a kind of fast-and-loose way; I want to write clues that make sense to me and I'm willing to bend and stretch rules for the sake of a clue I like more. My understanding is that this is roughly the distinction between US- and UK-style cryptics, with UK cryptics following more rigid rules and US ones going a little bit more by vibes. This is the first puzzle I had playtested before publishing it, but riotblob primarily solves UK-style cryptics so I did keep the fact that they're used to stricter cluing rules than I wanted to use in mind when I considered their feedback. I'll only know for sure if I went too far in that direction with experience.

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It's also worth noting that I like to approach puzzle construction in a kind of fast-and-loose way; I want to write clues that make sense to me and I'm willing to bend and stretch rules for the sake of a clue I like more. My understanding is that this is roughly the distinction between US- and UK-style cryptics, with UK cryptics following more rigid rules and US ones going a little bit more by vibes (Editing again to say that this is not as cut and dry as I thought it was at the time!). This is the first puzzle I had playtested before publishing it, but riotblob primarily solves UK-style cryptics so I did keep the fact that they're used to stricter cluing rules than I wanted to use in mind when I considered their feedback. I'll only know for sure if I went too far in that direction with experience.

I'm absolutely still proud of the puzzle, I just think you deserve this warning! :P