Jobe,
Thanks for the e-mail. It was insightful.
Crossword puzzles are all over the place and making them for game sites and
the such is indeed not worth the effort. With that said, I work a e-learning
government contractor. I am building a number of generic games that can be
used to re-enforce l
Hi Charles,
I once created a crossword in Flash about 2-3 years ago.
http://www.electrotank.com/playGame.electro?gId=111
Building a randomly unique board from a list of words I found to be way too
difficult. My gut feeling was that even if I found a way it would be too
slow to generate.
In m
Thanks for the reply Bart,
Yes, I have indeed gone through the process you described in my Word Search
game. But things are a little different for a cross word puzzle.
1) Words can only be placed either vertical (top to bottom) or horizontal
(left to right). We are talking about English only wor
Hi Charles,
I don't know how others would take a swing at this, but this is what I would do:
First, define your boundaries. You're making a crossword puzzle, so
that would be a matrix with a specified width and height. Next up
you'll want to add words. Grab your nearest dictionairy and pounce in
Can anyone point me to any links or give me some pointers on building a
programmatically built crossword puzzle board? I don't mean just building
squares, but rather taking a word list and building intersecting words.
I have already build a word search game which is similar but there are some
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