Here's an interesting idea for a puzzle I came up with (not sure if it's been done before). The idea is that it's kinda like a crossword, and also kinda like a word search.
Here's how it works:
- You start with a grid of letters and a list of clues
- Your goal is to shade in some of the squares on the grid so that it becomes a crossword, such that:
- Every clue is matched to exactly one word in the crossword
- Every word in the crossword matches to exactly one clue
- Words in the crossword go horizontally or vertically, and only forwards (not backwards; like in a normal crossword)
- All words in the crossword are at least 2 letters long
To solve you must:
- Show the final solved grid, with the proper squares shaded in
- List every word in the crossword grid with its matching clue
Text version:
S I P S S Z I P
A D I P P E R R
F A M A N S I C
D R A M A T I C
A I R Y E Y E S
N D O X X X B I
Y O C S I M P T
A W K W T A R M
Clues (In no particular order, in parenthesis is length of word)
- 501(c)(3) Org. [abbr.] (3)
- A pebble's father (5)
- Adobe product [abbr.] (2)
- Common archive format (3)
- Baby sound (2)
- Important body organs (4)
- One of four classical elements (3)
- Company necessity [abbr.] (2)
- Type of computer memory [abbr.] (4)
- Math Constant (2)
- Crime checker [abbr.] (3)
- Da! (2)
- Don't do this (4)
- Food checker [abbr.] (3)
- Emergency sign text (4)
- Garbage action (3)
- Gargantuar's friend (3)
- Half of the name of a paper game (3)
- Orange peel adjective (5)
- Nacho chip action (3)
- Standards Organization (4)
- Unix cli tool (3)
- Unwanted emails (4)
- Will Smith meme word (2)
Any feedback or constructive criticism for this puzzle would be greatly appreciated