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It's easy to call it amazing now... I'll be amazed when I see a proof that the auther of this traveled through time or something.
by cycojesus 15y ago
It's easy to call it amazing now... I'll be amazed when I see a proof that the auther of this traveled through time or something.
- prospero 15y agoClick through to the explanation. The amazing part is that the crossword worked no matter who won.
- VladRussian 15y agolike any skilled precog :)
- kens 15y agoYou need to click on the "Click through to see how they did it link" to see why this is cool. They used ten ambiguous clues so "CLINTON ELECTED" and "BOBDOLE ELECTED" were both valid solutions to the puzzle. For instance, the down word intersecting the intial C/B is CAT/BAT with the clue "Black Halloween animal". Since they publish the solution the next day, they can publish the right solution no matter which way the election goes. [edit: I didn't downvote you, btw]
- cycojesus 15y agoMea maxima culpa -.- I upvoted you both for my sin. What can I say, I have one of those extra-short attention span... When opening the link I first thought maybe the black squares pattern was a game-of-life automata and thought "that'd be clever if it was that, added bonus for related words and definitions" and then my blood just boiled so fast when it turned out (wrongly) to be such a basic predicted-afterward parlor trick that I didn't bother noticing the link... (I'll dig myself a bit deeper but I can't help it but say that this click-on-the-link-to-get-the-meat trick is annoying me too, but that's another story (go ahead, I have 64 more karma bits to loose before the ground))