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XOXO, or, mini tic tac toe
Image source. Not a spoiler. It's summer in the strange schedule of university, so you know what that means: it's time for another...
Elise Corbin
17 hours ago1 min read
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Charged Interactions
Image source. Not a spoiler. It's finals season and I'm stuck inside with a cold, so naturally, it's time for another blog puzzle! This...
Elise Corbin
Apr 151 min read
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The Seaweed Is Always Greener In Somebody Else's Lake
Not a spoiler. I have made it abundantly clear that this puzzle is about crabs. Hello again and sorry about the last couple of...
Elise Corbin
Feb 61 min read
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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...
Elise Corbin
Nov 11, 20241 min read
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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...
Elise Corbin
Oct 28, 20241 min read
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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...
Elise Corbin
Aug 29, 20241 min read
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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...
Elise Corbin
Aug 1, 20242 min read
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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....
Elise Corbin
Jul 7, 20241 min read
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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!...
Elise Corbin
Jun 11, 20241 min read
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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...
Elise Corbin
Mar 5, 20241 min read
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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...
Elise Corbin
Dec 19, 20231 min read
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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...
Elise Corbin
Nov 12, 20231 min read
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Entangled v.2.0
Image source. (Spoiler alert.) Happy fall, everyone! Between creating Words on Fire and embarking on a few other crossword adventures...
Elise Corbin
Sep 29, 20231 min read
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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)...
Elise Corbin
Aug 9, 20231 min read
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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...
Elise Corbin
Jul 24, 20232 min read
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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...
Elise Corbin
Jun 14, 20231 min read
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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...
Elise Corbin
Apr 29, 20231 min read
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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...
Elise Corbin
Apr 10, 20231 min read
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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...
Elise Corbin
Mar 18, 20232 min read
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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...
Elise Corbin
Feb 26, 20231 min read
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