For example, if you’re looking for the word RENTAL, and you see a sequence of letters like FPRENTAXQZ.
As someone who makes these puzzles, I’m interested in the thoughts on this. I personally like creating red herrings or garden path entries and have done it on plenty in the past. It didn’t even occur to me that someone might consider it a cheap trick or disingenuous until I saw this post. That’s why the ones I’ve posted on Lemmy haven’t had those intentionally.
That being said, if some users like the extra challenge I’m happy to add a few red herrings into my puzzles in the future.
Are they online?
Usually I just share them with a few teachers in a discord I’m on. Basically I wrote the software a while back when a teacher friend of mind mentioned wanting to make some. I always enjoyed doing the puzzles and figured why not write a program to generate them. I’ve shared the program with a few friends as well so others have been posted around.
I’ve been posting some pretty regularly in this community though.
Oh, I see. Even though this is my community, I have only been checking it sometimes. I’ll be sure to check them out.
