xkcd #2896: Crossword Constructors

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• ZDL@ttrpg.network ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imma need “xkcd explained” for this one!

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  • Deebster@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    These are all short words full of the most common letters, so will make designing crosswords easier because they’ll be useful “crossers”.

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    • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But why references to musicians?

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    • ZDL@ttrpg.network ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, I see! Thanks!

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    • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are we called crossers?

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  • randomaccount43543@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    explainxkcd.com/2896

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• x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m having a mental stronk trying to figure out what the words on the bottom say

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  • Pipoca@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Crosswords have clues going across and down.

    The words just use common letters so they’re things puzzle creators wish were real words. They’re not currently words.

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    • _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ahem:

      aerae: Latin, genitive/dative singular of aera

      eni: Urhobo for ‘elephant’

      oreta: Latin, taxonomic genus within the family Drepanidae.

      aroe: Rōmaji transcription of アロエ

      oine: Danish, indefinite plural of øie

      aen: Rōmaji transcription of あえん

      enta: French, third-person singular past historic of enter

      aete: Rōmaji transcription of あえて

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    • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s why they use “oboe” so often eh

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Having been doing daily crosswords for a few months, ERAS has come up like, ten times.

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• palordrolap@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or they could push for the sort of crosswords with more black squares (very common here in Britain) that rarely have anything bigger than a 1x1 intersection. There are other ways to challenge the solver.

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  • Deebster@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I only do the cryptics myself - I like that you can be confident you have the right answer without waiting for the crossers to check your guess.

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