Re: #25 (acrostic puzzle generator)

John Macdonald <john-Z7w/En0MP3xWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
> One quibble - this set of rules is tighter than what most puzzle
> magazines use.  In most magazines, there is only a number under
> each letter in the quotation, and that same number may occur
> under letters in more than one of the singlew word answers
> (which is why there is no letter to index into the word list).

I have never seen such a thing in my entire life.  Every double
acrostic puzzle I have ever seen has had a one-to-one correspondence
between answer letters and grid letters, and a reverse index from the
grid back to the answers.  All the double acrostic puzzles in _Games_
magazine and in the New York Times Magazine section have this form,
for example.

I would be interested to see a counterexample.