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General Discussion / Re: Why isn't there a search here?
« Last post by danwitte on October 22, 2023, 06:41:26 PM »
Quote from: cuhnkedrik on October 03, 2023, 07:03:30 AM
You've found an excellent workaround till a search is implemented, and I really appreciate you telling me about it. 5070 angel number

But the search has always been there. It's just that not everyone can see it. I saw it with my old account that I forgot the password for. So I made a new one, and now I can't see it anymore. Just bookmark this link and use it whenever you need to search for something on the forum: https://www.cruciverb.com/index.php?action=search
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General Discussion / Re: A dupe too far?
« Last post by zinaphile on October 22, 2023, 04:41:15 PM »
Thanks for the response. Yeah, hard to know what an editor would do. I was looking for some sense of how bad these dupes are. Some dupes are obviously fatal, some are trivial and typically not a problem (eg. a repeated article), others lie somewhere in between. I wasn't sure where these fall on the spectrum. I can fix them, but the price is a small but clear reduction in the quality of the fill. Looking for help calibrating this tradeoff.
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General Discussion / Re: A dupe too far?
« Last post by mmcbs on October 22, 2023, 03:35:54 PM »
Of course, we don't know. If the theme and other fill are spectacular, these might be overlooked.

The real answer is if you are worried about these issues, then you should fix them. If they simply cannot be fixed by rearranging things (which is doubtful), then go ahead with the submission.

No one following this forum can tell you what an editor will do in these "close call" cases.

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General Discussion / A dupe too far?
« Last post by zinaphile on October 22, 2023, 03:27:59 PM »
I've got ITSADEAL and ISITME in the same fill. I think having IT in the puzzle twice is acceptable, NYT had a Friday puzzle recently with this. But does adding in IS (and the S contraction) take it too far?

If that's OK, I also have IMNO and IASSUME. Again NYT has done puzzles with I duplicated so it would seem that this dupe by itself isn't fatal, but would doing it on top of the ITS/ISIT dupe be too much?

 
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General Discussion / Re: WSJ .puz glitch
« Last post by Wunderteam on October 22, 2023, 03:49:26 AM »
Silly me, the WSJ publishes the solution to the Friday puzzle itself on the following Monday (sometimes Tuesday) as a PDF. The letters can then be simply copied and pasted into the .puz file after skipping the blacks squares and recalculating the checksum values.
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General Discussion / Re: WSJ .puz glitch
« Last post by Wunderteam on October 20, 2023, 03:56:42 AM »
Does anyone have the address of a website, which has the answers to the Friday puzzle in an easily parsable format? I would like to add the answers back into the .puz file using a program. "Diary of a Crossword Fiend" has the filled grid as a low-resolution .png file, which my OCR cannot transform, while the result of a Google search is greatly obfuscated by cheesy clickbait sites.
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General Discussion / Re: WSJ .puz glitch
« Last post by phil262 on October 18, 2023, 07:13:10 PM »
OK, obviously I don't know what I'm talking about. I'll stop posting now.
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General Discussion / Re: WSJ .puz glitch
« Last post by Glenn9999 on October 18, 2023, 03:16:20 PM »
Quote from: phil262 on October 18, 2023, 07:12:09 AM
But now I see that the answers are omitted on purpose because Friday puzzles are now contest puzzles.

The Friday puzzles have always been contest puzzles for years.  They just didn't care about putting answers in the online solver until about 3 weeks ago.
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General Discussion / Re: WSJ .puz glitch
« Last post by phil262 on October 18, 2023, 07:12:09 AM »
Sorry, I though it was a one-time glitch.  :P
But now I see that the answers are omitted on purpose because Friday puzzles are now contest puzzles.

Quote from: wsj.com
Email your answer—in the subject line—to crosswordcontest@wsj.com by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time Sunday.... A solver selected at random will win a WSJ mug.... Complete contest rules at WSJ.com/Puzzles. (No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. U.S. residents 18 and over only.)
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General Discussion / Re: WSJ .puz glitch
« Last post by Glenn9999 on October 17, 2023, 10:11:16 PM »
Quote from: phil262 on October 16, 2023, 07:27:17 AM
Turns out the .puz file was not formatted correctly, causing the solution to be all Xs.

No, actually the WSJ has started removing answers out of the Friday puzzles for the last three weeks.  To make PUZ files work given this, the X's are inserted into the PUZ files as the answers.  So it's not a glitch, it's not "not formatted correctly", it's a FEATURE.  So, if you don't like that the WSJ doesn't provide answers to Friday puzzles, complain very loudly to them.  Given track record, they won't listen, but I thought I'd explain actually why this is happening.  Expect it to continue for every Friday in the future.
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