i think its', Awesome, to make people learnn about intricacies of "Green Paint" nomemclature, before they fill a 4x4. Thats Good to me
Ettuardo "Ettu" Etui
@ettuetui.bsky.social
Crossword maker. XwordInfo stockholder. Parent of 2. "Making puzzles is my passion" - Jigsaw from "Saw" RIP Craig Etui and stuff 😴
Excited to announce my daily game has been acquired by the Huffington Post! They'll be using it in their Punishment Room for employees who steal from the communal fridge
[guy today who started solving the NYT Crossword on Friday] I'm Confused... where is the KAMA SUTRA entry
i think if I had Buck Teeth you would regard me as some sort of Pet
Due to market pressures my puzzle blog is now moving to Freemium model. First eight clues remain free but rest of clues will only unlock after uploading one Kraft Single into computer , which, yuo can do it if u push da cheese fully in to Cd-Rom slot
(Et Tu origin story) the wind blows a "LEARN TO MAKE CROSSWORDS WORKSHOP" flyer loose from a pole. it flits thru the air, loopdy-looping until it lands on a café table where im seated. i dont see it bc im watching a dog gag on kibble & thinking "I should make puzzles that make people feel like that"
Solvers say my clues are circular. This is FALSE because a circle eventually returns to where it began , whereas mine have been instructèd to continue past that point and enter a different area where people Smoke weed n stuff,
Fun Fact! Every Word Here Has Appeared Within The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Penis
thoug its really not a big deal, Apologies to the 38 people who solved my Cool Shit Midi™ before i corrected the clue for 112-Across. [River in Europe] should have said [River located elsewhere,that i am Currently thinking of]
I like to write funny posts for you all, but right now i am Inside A Very Large Belluga Whales Digestive Tract.
"Well chastise me if you must but there's nothing in your precious Rules that says i cannnot give 'pencils' to my opponents that are rigged to explode in a puff of smoke!" "i see. Well i admit i've been too busy this month to see that addendum"
so ur saying we call a black square a “Square” and a cheater square a “SQUART”? now that’s handy…. a nonjudgmental name tha'ts Easy to remember….. squart huh… guess we All Gotta Start Sayin It Huh
Says here LeBron wanted to be " Closer to the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament" [I am pushed out of the press conference by seething reporters] I Am Simply Reporting The Words Of My Sources
OUTRAGED my puzzle where black squares form a perfect silhouette of Maine was rejected. editor said it “doesn’t look anything like Maine" but thats only becuase i referenced the Maine from memory , which includes da little handles i use to pick it up
Normalize ugly grids. Normalize 2-letter-words. Normalize 6+ letter partials. I need them to make my Puzzles That Would Have Sucked Anyway
this just in: ACPT has announced new Sportsmanship rule wehre, after finishing, you must remain perfectly still so slower solvers can pretend you died
Please stop calling my grid “asymmetrical”!!; it is Infact symmetrical under the viewing conditions specified in my submission email (left eye shut ,bus hits Pot hole )
shoutout to all my Wordlisting Compadres adding brand new "The Odyssey"-related entries this weekend. such as HELEN , and IMAX
CONSTRUCTOR TIP: If an editor says your grid "lacks flow", print it out and float it down a river. now it has flow. now it is also Gone , and you may finally rest
GUY AT PARTY: so Crosswords, eh .. do you make the mini?? ME: NO; i make FULL SIZE puzz— GUY: my aunt does the mini ME: I dont give a sh— GUY: [already showing me his aunts time in family group chat . appears to be one of those cool aunts who uses the 🖕 emoji a lot ]
Everyones mad at wordle today but I was there when the wordle was YUJZH. Chill out maybe
A Natick is only unfair if the solver survives to complain. thsi is why my puzzles now ship with a small live Scorpion,
They say " Innovation! Innovation! INnovation!" so i make puzzle that yuouo can only solve on airplane with Airplane Mode off (peak height). And they say: "NOTHING!!!!"
losing patience at Crossfire tech support: "no nono you dont understand. the entry i'm trying to add to my wordlist is 'JAZZ;100', the eight character string representing scoring JAZZ at 100. and i'd like to give this entry a score of 1 as it's a quite arbitrary string"
honing my acpt tight five. “Im dabbling in Double or Nothing crosswords now .. i get paid double and the crossword contains NOTHING!! ha ha !!!” Can we agree this is better than David kwong show
"And how bout that puzzle 5 huh"!! ACPT audience laughs politely. "It really." i think for 5 minutes. "It really sucked me off"
Just recieved my NPL welcome e-mail and they autoassigned my nom as “Et Tuberculosis” ?!??
NEWSPAPER EIC: and what makes You 🫵 a good puzzle editor? ME: Well , i would die for my craft. No one else will do it. They will turn like dogs. They disgust me. Only I can save you EIC: O I see [trying to jam on the lever that releases trapdoor under my chair]
Yoo sick puz (puzzle). Love an asym (asymmetrical) for real. Had to hit reev (Reveal Letter) a few times but it was worth it to see the CoThDoGrArtO'HerMun (Connect the Dots grid art of Herman Munster)