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Do you think it's cheap when puzzles add something very close to the word but which is ultimately not the word? (self.wordsearches)

submitted 1 year ago by favrion to c/wordsearches

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For example, if you're looking for the word RENTAL, and you see a sequence of letters like FPRENTAXQZ.

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[–] escapedgoat 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

As someone who makes these puzzles, I'm interested in the thoughts on this. I personally like creating red herrings or garden path entries and have done it on plenty in the past. It didn't even occur to me that someone might consider it a cheap trick or disingenuous until I saw this post. That's why the ones I've posted on Lemmy haven't had those intentionally.

That being said, if some users like the extra challenge I'm happy to add a few red herrings into my puzzles in the future.

[–] favrion 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are they online?

[–] escapedgoat 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Usually I just share them with a few teachers in a discord I'm on. Basically I wrote the software a while back when a teacher friend of mind mentioned wanting to make some. I always enjoyed doing the puzzles and figured why not write a program to generate them. I've shared the program with a few friends as well so others have been posted around.

I've been posting some pretty regularly in this community though.

[–] favrion 1 points 11 months ago

Oh, I see. Even though this is my community, I have only been checking it sometimes. I'll be sure to check them out.

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