Re: #25 (acrostic puzzle generator)

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:05:02PM -0400, Mark Jason Dominus wrote:
> 
> 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.

I just picked up a Dell magazine since I had one at hand, fully
expecting to verify my point.  I turned to the anacrostic,
and they're using the back-index letter format too.  It is
their "figgerit" puzzle (same kind of puzzle but a shorter
quote and no back letter indexes) that I was thinking of.

My mistake.

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