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Hamlet – A crossword puzzle game using regular expressions
- pavel_lishin 12y agoExcellent! I only wish the column clues were tilted so that I could read them without having to crane my neck.
- bkcooper 12y agoOn either side of the "validate" button at the bottom are controls to rotate the puzzle to this end.
- joshstrange 12y agoThat's still not acceptable, now it's harder to read both.
- lygaret 12y agoConsidering that (from their stats page), 15k people have answered 326k puzzles, I'm pretty sure it's "acceptable" to somebody.
- oneeyedpigeon 12y agoThose buttons could do with a 'position: relative; z-index: 1' so they are still easy to click when the table is rotated and overlaps them.
- joshstrange 12y agoYes, as it is now it's unreadable, I came here to make the same point. Tilted to the right starting above their column would make the most sense. I can barely read text in it's current orientation let alone regex's.
- gibsonje 12y agoEdit: Coworker pointed out you can rotate the board to read it better.
- pavel_lishin 12y agoHoly crap, that's 1000x better.
- pavel_lishin 12y agoSecond comment, probably deserving its own discussion: if you're familiar with Shakespeare (or Google) once you solve about half the puzzle, the full answer is trivial to guess Wheel-of-Fortune style - and kind of robs you of having to puzzle out the rest of the regular expressions.
- lazerwalker 12y agoI adore regex crosswords. I believe the first one I'd ever seen was from the MIT Puzzle Hunt (http://www.coinheist.com/rubik/a_regular_crossword/grid.pdf http://www.coinheist.com/rubik/a_regular_crossword/grid.pdf), although it wouldn't surprise me if they'd existed earlier. However, I find this site a bit frustrating. I love the idea, I love that they have so many puzzles, and I love the UI they've built. But I don't want themed puzzles that I can solve without having to crunch the regex themselves – if I was interested in that, I'd do a regular crossword.
- schoen 12y agoI'm pretty sure "A Regular Crossword" was the first one to come to the public's attention. When solvers came across it during the 2013 Hunt, we were very surprised and impressed and enthusiastically told our friends about it. It looks like a squatter has gotten ahold of coinheist.com; a correct permanent link is http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/2013/coinheist.com/rubik/a_regular_crossword/grid.pdf http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/2013/coinheist.com/rubik/a_regula... The solution (with author credits) is at http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/2013/coinheist.com/rubik/a_regular_crossword/answer/index.html http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/2013/coinheist.com/rubik/a_regula...