It’s more helpful, really, to think of Knotwords as sudoku with letters, rather than as a crossword variant. It’s odd how much this feels like cheating, when it’s the core gameplay of non-cryptic crosswords like the wonderful New York Times mini crossword. If you ever do get stuck, you can ask for a hint, which gives you a dictionary definition for a word you’re stumped on. Further solutions will start to cascade from there. The way to break into a puzzle is usually via two- or three-letter words, where options are limited. These are really just the foundation for what becomes a pure game of logic and tactics. Playing Knotwords does depend on a decent grounding in vocabulary and the arcane rules and tendencies of English spelling, as Wordle does. In Knotwords, you are assembling words from their raw materials, in a process not entirely dissimilar from the way you narrow down your options after the first guess or two in Wordle. In crosswords, you use a clue to guess a word, then combine clues and placed letters to fill out the rest of the puzzle in a snowball of erudition.
Knotwords uses similar cages and tells you what the letters within each cage are, but not where to place them. Killer sudoku, and the similar math game KenKen, guide players by boxing out portions of the grid and indicating what the sum of the numbers contained within each “cage” should be. In fact, it’s a mash-up of crosswords and killer sudoku.
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Knotwords - which is out now on Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows PC - is a crossword for people who don’t like solving clues, cryptic or otherwise. Now he and his co-developer Jack Schlesinger are back, and this time they’re tackling crossword puzzles.
Previous targets of his tinkering include solitaire, chess, pool, and sudoku.
I think we're talking at cross-purposes.Game designer and conceptual artist Zach Gage loves nothing more than fiddling around with, or trying to optimize, the oldest, most popular, and most ubiquitous games in the world. Of two or more people, confused about what they are saying or doing because of misunderstanding one another. In a court of law, to test or check the previous evidence of (a witness) by questioning him. To check information, calculations etc by using different sources or a different method.
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