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RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles

by unfletch on 7/17/13, 3:51 AM with 11 comments

• by rtpg on 7/17/13, 3:59 AM

  Neat little game. One suggestion I have though: if the puzzle doesn't validate, signal the lines that don't validate properly.

• by MichaelAza on 7/17/13, 4:28 AM

  I tried to solve these with regular expressions. Now I have two crosswords.

• by acrooks on 7/17/13, 4:29 AM

  Fun game. Only thing I can suggest is a way to rotate the puzzle so we don't have to crane our necks / rotate monitors.

• by brbcoding on 7/17/13, 1:57 PM

  Cool project... I always like the gratification of fake awards, but I'm not sure that yours are actually working... After completing the tutorial, I was informed that I had earned the "baby steps" badge... When going into my achievements however, it still has the `.unearned` class on that badge.

• by calebegg on 7/17/13, 4:54 AM

  Here's a really enjoyable regex crossword from, as I recall, the MIT Mystery Hunt:

  http://www.coinheist.com/rubik/a_regular_crossword/grid.pdf

• by audreyt on 7/17/13, 4:22 AM

  The regex-genex SMT constraint solver ( previously covered in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2579783 ), as demonstrated by @LeventErkok ( https://gist.github.com/LeventErkok/4942496 ), is pretty good at solving this kind of puzzles. :-)

• by JacobJans on 7/17/13, 4:06 AM

  Wow, this is great. I'm shocked that I am finally enjoying something related to regular expressions.

• by michaelmior on 7/17/13, 6:21 AM

  This is awesome!