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Elise Corbin
Nov 111 min read
I Feel The Earth Move
Image source. Sort of a spoiler, but not really. I recently expanded my crossword horizons by making my first-ever cryptic! It has a few...
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Elise Corbin
Oct 281 min read
Car-dinal Sins
Image source It's reading week, which means that I have some time on my hands, so I've made a new puzzle I'm very excited about! But...
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Elise Corbin
Aug 291 min read
It's Not Easy Being Green
Image source Hello again! I'm in Siena, Italy this month, but fall semester starts soon, so these are my last few days of freedom. This...
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Elise Corbin
Aug 12 min read
Introducing the Repeating Tile Mini Grids!
Image source. I've been wanting to experiment with the idea of tiles in crosswords since the einstein took the popular science world by...
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Elise Corbin
Jul 71 min read
Big telescope, small puzzle
Image source Happy 25 puzzles!! My very first puzzle on this blog was a James Webb Space Telescope-inspired puzzle called Mirror Images....
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Elise Corbin
Jun 111 min read
I'm Doing It Again (and again and again) Baby!
Image source: this poor person on Stack Overflow. I'm back from another long semester (and summer course) with another blog puzzle!...
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Elise Corbin
Mar 41 min read
You're Projecting
Image source. Not a spoiler, although it would be really funny if the puzzle was about this. Happy first blog puzzle of 2024! I...
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Elise Corbin
Dec 19, 20231 min read
Seedy Business
Image source. (Spoiler alert.) This puzzle is a birthday present for my dad, who wrote a paper on this subject in 2016. Happy birthday...
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Elise Corbin
Nov 12, 20231 min read
DNA is kinda based
I saw this comic a few months ago, and naturally I had to write my own DNA-Palooza at some point! Don't worry, though, no actual codons...
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Elise Corbin
Sep 29, 20231 min read
Entangled v.2.0
Image source. (Spoiler alert.) Happy fall, everyone! Between creating Words on Fire and embarking on a few other crossword adventures...
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Elise Corbin
Aug 9, 20231 min read
Words on Fire is OUT!
Image source: Car-dinal Sins, one of the new Words on Fire puzzles! No puzzle this week, people, just the announcement you've (hopefully)...
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Elise Corbin
Jul 23, 20232 min read
Words on Fire: announcement and preview puzzle
Image source: me (and Canva) Hi everyone!! It's been a long time, and of course part of that is because it's summer, but it's also...
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Elise Corbin
Jun 14, 20231 min read
False Outcomes
Well-deserved credit for the image (spoiler alert): I replaced my very old Mac with a PC recently, and so far Bing has very much lived up...
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Elise Corbin
Apr 29, 20231 min read
How did it end up like this???
Image source, obviously not even tangentially related to the theme I honestly don't know how I managed to produce a puzzle this week, but...
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Elise Corbin
Apr 10, 20231 min read
The World Turned Upside Down
Image source. (Has nothing to do with the theme.) I had an amazing time at ACPT last weekend!!! I had no idea so many people had heard...
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Elise Corbin
Mar 18, 20232 min read
Polar Plunge
Image source. (Not a spoiler.) Happy weekend-after-Pi-Day, everyone! Hope you all are recovering from a week of (no doubt) partying hard...
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Elise Corbin
Feb 26, 20231 min read
To Infinity And Beyond
GIF version which wouldn't show up: Image source above. Not a spoiler. This puzzle is just about the closest thing to a themeless you'll...
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Elise Corbin
Feb 11, 20231 min read
The other hole thing
Image source. (Spoiler alert, but then again, the image itself is kind of a spoiler.) Lots of announcements today! 1. Cruciverbology is...
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Elise Corbin
Jan 28, 20231 min read
Looking forward to the next Dune movie?
Image source. (Not a spoiler) Science fiction falls under the umbrella of this blog, right? I think it does. This puzzle was my tribute...
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Elise Corbin
Jan 13, 20231 min read
Cubism 2: Cruciverbal Boogaloo
Image source. (Not a spoiler.) I don't have a new puzzle ready for this week, partly because I was busy the previous weekend and partly...
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