flat5 Posted October 25, 2014 Report Posted October 25, 2014 Thought I'd make a jazz crossword puzzle. Downloaded a free puzzle maker. This is my first attempt. Quote
BillF Posted October 25, 2014 Report Posted October 25, 2014 Thanks. Great fun. Got about half of them. Quote
flat5 Posted October 25, 2014 Author Report Posted October 25, 2014 Thank you! I'm open to suggestions on how to improve the clues or other aspects. I don't do crosswords and hope I'm following the 'rules'. Quote
Jim R Posted October 25, 2014 Report Posted October 25, 2014 2 down ("channel") has me stumped, but I have guesses for the rest... Across: 1. Bonano 6. Jordan 7. salt ? 9. tritone 10. Lockjaw 12. Gates 13. hip 14. Pollack 16. waltz 17. cool ? 18. Groove Down: 1. Birks 2. ---d-e ? 3. Fountain 4. Most 5. StanleyGetz 6. JuttaHipp 8. Airegin 11. Wallace 15. Crow I don't do a lot of crosswords, but I do have some experience with them. In general, I don't think opposites are given as clues (e.g., "warm" for "cool"). One thing that would make it less ambiguous (although it would be more complicated and difficult) would be to make the puzzle more dense, with more overlapping letters in blocks and such. Perhaps a tall order, though. This was fun, thank you for doing it. Quote
T.D. Posted October 26, 2014 Report Posted October 26, 2014 Interesting! I do a lot of crossword puzzles, but only the "British cryptic" type, viz. the ones in the Guardian and London Times newspapers and Private Eye magazine. These puzzles occupy their own little world, and it takes a while to "learn the rules", but they can be a lot of fun. A good summary of cryptic composing/solving devices is at http://www.ukpuzzle.com/crypticxwordguide.htm Quote
flat5 Posted October 26, 2014 Author Report Posted October 26, 2014 Jim R, I'm VERY impressed that you did so well! It also means that the puzzle was not awful. You got one of the technical terms but missed the other. (hint) That is all you got wrong! That's actually an easy one so someone else will know it. I'm really impressed you got the fishy one.Thanks, T.D. I'll see if I can learn from the article and do another puzzle. After all, there are two more bass players with ornithological surnames :-) Quote
flat5 Posted October 26, 2014 Author Report Posted October 26, 2014 Sorry. I have to agree. After six hours I can't answer the questions. All the answers are the 'first' (or nickname) & last names with no space. Anagrams, riddles, facts of their lives or names, dates and just silliness are the clues. Quote
Jim R Posted October 26, 2014 Report Posted October 26, 2014 2 Down = Bridge Ahhhh. I'd convinced myself that the penultimate letter had to be an "L". Quote
BillF Posted October 26, 2014 Report Posted October 26, 2014 Sorry. I have to agree. After six hours I can't answer the questions. All the answers are the 'first' (or nickname) & last names with no space. Anagrams, riddles, facts of their lives or names, dates and just silliness are the clues. Following your additional information and with the help of Google, I've managed to get my score up to 9, but that still leaves 37 to be solved! Quote
flat5 Posted October 26, 2014 Author Report Posted October 26, 2014 I wish the software was better and had more options. The second quiz took 5 hours and 4 of that was layout. I can't even directly save a picture of the puzzle! I'm manipulating html files and taking screen shots and editing those! Getting more interconnects may be possible if I let the program take a long time to compute. 37? I think there are 25 questions. I'm happy to give hints. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 26, 2014 Report Posted October 26, 2014 I got several, then decided that, if I filled in the boxes, I'd probably do better, so I spent an age trying to do it in Paint. Bloomin' 'opeless! So I gave up. Should perhaps have printed it out and filled it in in pencil MG Quote
flat5 Posted October 26, 2014 Author Report Posted October 26, 2014 Yes, print it. When finished take a pic and post it here :-) Quote
Jim R Posted October 26, 2014 Report Posted October 26, 2014 This one is much harder! I had the same reaction. Maybe if we make it a group effort... Quote
Jim R Posted October 26, 2014 Report Posted October 26, 2014 Barry, again I think more "density" would be preferable. There are so many spaces in this puzzle which are contained in only one word (or word sequence), and don't intersect other words, which makes it difficult to gain any momentum even when you find solutions. Hopefully that makes sense. In terms of doing the puzzle without going to too much trouble (saving images and printing and scanning, etc), I just left the puzzle image and clues on my desktop and opened a text document in which I typed out the across and down clues. With puzzles that are spread out like these (not "dense" like a NY Times crossword, with blocks of spaces), it's not difficult to see where letters from solved words belong in the intersecting word that you're trying to solve. I just typed them out, using dashes for the unsolved letters (e.g., ---d-e when I was trying to solve "bridge" in the first puzzle). All I've got so far is "MaxRoach"... Quote
BillF Posted October 26, 2014 Report Posted October 26, 2014 I wish the software was better and had more options. The second quiz took 5 hours and 4 of that was layout. I can't even directly save a picture of the puzzle! I'm manipulating html files and taking screen shots and editing those! Getting more interconnects may be possible if I let the program take a long time to compute. 37? I think there are 25 questions. I'm happy to give hints. Ah, yes. 26 I make it. With Jim R's help (not to mention Google) I now have 10 solved. Quote
flat5 Posted October 26, 2014 Author Report Posted October 26, 2014 (edited) Jim, short of finding much better software all I can do is let the program take a long time to do it's work. Edit: more time did not help. It tries to provide more interconnects. Part of the problem may be that the answers are long. I would print out the form and work with it. Edited October 26, 2014 by flat5 Quote
flat5 Posted October 28, 2014 Author Report Posted October 28, 2014 (edited) "Maybe if we make it a group effort..." Please do! Let's solve this sucker. Ask for hints to specific questions. or let the thread die :-) That's an option. Edited October 28, 2014 by flat5 Quote
BillF Posted October 28, 2014 Report Posted October 28, 2014 OK, group effort it is. Here's my contribution: Across 1 Sun Ra 12 Melba Moore 20 Sonny Clark 22 Max Roach Down 1 Steve Swallow 3 Jelly Roll Morton 6 Yusef Lateef 7 Donald Byrd 19 Bill Holman Quote
flat5 Posted October 28, 2014 Author Report Posted October 28, 2014 Very good, BillF. Those are correct. You did not Google the dates? clue: 2 are not obviously anagrams. I'm impressed you got 'Willis'. Quote
BillF Posted October 28, 2014 Report Posted October 28, 2014 (edited) I've just read a Kenton biography in which Bill Holman is referred to constantly as Willis, besides which there's a Bob Florence composition dedicated to Holman called "Willis". (Going to the movies now - will return to the crossword later.) Edited October 28, 2014 by BillF Quote
flat5 Posted October 28, 2014 Author Report Posted October 28, 2014 Jazz Puzzle 3 - Quotes This is a dumb idea. There is nothing to figure out. You either know who said the quote or Google to find out to complete the crossword. However some of the quotes are nice to read. Quote
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