[HN Gopher] RegEx Crossword (2013)
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RegEx Crossword (2013)
Author : nabla9
Score : 144 points
Date : 2023-11-02 10:30 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (jimbly.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (jimbly.github.io)
| M3L0NM4N wrote:
| This looks like it belongs in Guantanamo Bay more than it does on
| my screen.
| Jeff_Brown wrote:
| The variation in human preferences truly is wild.
| asicsp wrote:
| Previous discussion:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26439208 _(390 points |
| March 12, 2021 | 151 comments)_
|
| See also: https://regexcrossword.com/ and
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20614847 (various online
| regex tools).
|
| I wrote a TUI for interactive Python exercises (`re` and third-
| party `regex` modules): https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-
| apps/tree/main/PyRegex...
| Already__Taken wrote:
| I love these I do all I come across. I find a lot of the
| generated ones like to make tricks. I'm not having fun figuring
| out a shit font of [O0lI]+ or rules you ignore most of. that's
| just an entropy trick the generator uses. Hopefully this one's
| good
| kqr wrote:
| I dislike that almost every clue starts with a variant of
| (something)* - like, yeah, I can make a regex crossword more
| difficult by starting every clue with a laundry list of things
| that might not even be in the solution, but that's lazy
| crossword crafting.
| dajt wrote:
| I agree. I've managed 14 letters but it's not enough fun -
| every letter takes too much effort and there's no sense of
| dominos falling yet. I assume there is some tipping point but
| it feels too far off.
|
| Maybe this is why I can't get one of those ludicrously paid
| FAANG jobs :)
| samtho wrote:
| If you've completed any human language crosswords before,
| this is a trick they use too in the form of ambiguous, common
| answers (e.g. "super quick, abbr" can be ASAP or STAT - for
| more annoyance, notice letter 3 is the same in both), usually
| requiring you to get crosses to figure out exactly what fits.
| xeyownt wrote:
| Not sure why I lost my time on this but that was fun ;-)
| npn wrote:
| Huh, is there more than one? This looks different from my memory
| pil0u wrote:
| You can select among 4 different puzzles at the bottom of the
| big hexagone. The default is the original one though.
| kzrdude wrote:
| Whew, that took a good hour to solve (maybe more)
| scaradim wrote:
| now that's cool...
| 112233 wrote:
| What a nice CAPTCHA!
| jonhohle wrote:
| To prove that you are a Turing machine.
| schoen wrote:
| Regular expressions (in the original computer science sense)
| can be matched by finite-state automata!
| lemoing wrote:
| Yes, but filling a grid in a way that satisfies all of the
| regular expressions is a much harder problem than matching
| a single regex.
|
| Semi-related: generating fill for regular crosswords is NP-
| complete: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs
| /pii/S03043...
| jjice wrote:
| I love these! There are more out there on the Internet and I've
| unfortunately done all of them more than once, so I'm craving
| more. I'll be diving deep into this.
|
| Not sure if this helped me get better at regular expressions or
| getting better at regular expressions helped me with these.
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| I love these too.
|
| Every day I use the iOS NYTimes Games app to play the daily
| round of Wordle, Spelling Bee, the mini-crossword, and
| Connections.
|
| We need a daily regex puzzle rotation. I have no idea how you
| would generate these programmatically.
| serialNumber wrote:
| Have you given letterboxd a shot? Can be surprisingly hard
| Feathercrown wrote:
| That was very cool... hard to start and stayed difficult
| throughout!
| 3c6bYDXLMj wrote:
| I was a student when this came out, so I obviously remember it
| well. Kids with loads of free time, that were tuned to rote
| memorise crap like regular expressions, ate this crap for
| breakfast.
|
| I didn't have the patience :)
| benibela wrote:
| That was uneventful
|
| I thought something would happen if you solve it
| nonseq wrote:
| Took me a couple of hours, but it was fun!
| sinuhe69 wrote:
| I thought this crossword, where one can start learning regex
| step-by-step.
|
| A great app, though.
|
| https://regexcrossword.com/
| alonmln wrote:
| I enjoyed this a lot! Took me around and hour an a half
| MrPatan wrote:
| Just solved it, finally, it only took me ten years of seeing it
| on HN and attempting it.
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