Show HN: Build your own Bracket City puzzlebuilder.bracket.city32 points·by brgross·8 months ago·8 comments
Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzlebracket.city109 points·by brgross·last year·53 comments
brgross·8 months ago·discussI've played around a little with this but never found a way to do it that I thought worked for the Atlantic puzzle.Here's a very bad example I just made of one way you might use emoji to make inter-clue references:https://suburbs.bracket.city/5Q1O24too confusing/unsatisfying right now -- but I made the builder partly so that people would experiment...I bet someone will figure out something good!
brgross·last year·discusshave gone back and forth on this point -- so far I've decided that outer brackets should be a hint that guides on you inner brackets, but that you can't skip any cluesbut I hear you!
brgross·last year·discussfair! I do think today's puzzle betrays my elder millennial status more than most...