[HN Gopher] Regex Crossword
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       Regex Crossword
        
       Author : cab404
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2024-08-28 10:28 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (mathspp.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (mathspp.com)
        
       | ThomasWink1981 wrote:
       | I'm going to have to print this one out lol. Very creative.
        
         | lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
         | I remember playing this in a browser. I'll try to find where.
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         | edit: https://jimbly.github.io/regex-crossword/
        
           | tills13 wrote:
           | oops there went my afternoon
        
         | abbeyj wrote:
         | I built a browser-based version that allows you to rotate it:
         | http://www.stardrifter.org/regexp/
        
         | dunham wrote:
         | I've done this a few times over the years (and occasionally
         | printed another copy when I made a mistake). Lots of fun. I
         | wish there were more like it.
        
       | frob wrote:
       | This is a Mystery Hunt puzzle, so solving the obvious puzzle is
       | only the first step of solving the puzzle. You will need to do
       | something with the puzzle solution to somehow get a word or short
       | phrase.
       | 
       | I remember doing this one by hand over a decade ago. Fond
       | memories.
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       | https://puzzles.mit.edu/
        
         | Sniffnoy wrote:
         | Yes, the original is here:
         | https://puzzles.mit.edu/2013/coinheist.com/rubik/a_regular_c...
        
       | padolsey wrote:
       | I really love this kind of thing. I made one called 'redoku' a
       | long long time ago. It generates random challenges. Try it here:
       | https://padolsey.github.io/redoku/
        
       | matthberg wrote:
       | I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the Regex Crossword game site
       | [0], it's shown up on HN several times [1][2] and has a fantastic
       | user-submitted puzzle section (that includes the MIT Mystery Hunt
       | puzzle [3]) and a puzzle builder.
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       | 0: https://regexcrossword.com/
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       | 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=regexcrossword.com
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       | 2: Most discussed posting:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8674039
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       | 3:
       | https://regexcrossword.com/playerpuzzles/8cbea27f-c4c5-4d11-...
        
       | fsckboy wrote:
       | A good puzzle poses a problem for you to solve. A regex puzzle?
       | now you have two problems to solve.
        
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