There was a post on Passion for Puzzles recently about CrosScan puzzles. CrosScan puzzles are billed as a combination of crossword puzzles and word search puzzle. What this means is that the puzzle is essentially a word search puzzle but instead of a list of words, you are giving a list of clues to decipher. You then need to find the word in the word search grid.
I have a couple thoughts on this puzzle type. First, it may be harder than a crossoword because the answers to clues don’t really help you at all for the others. The clues generally form a theme, but that’s about all you get. You don’t get letter clues. My second thought is that it seems like it’s possible to find the wrong answer. I may get the wrong answer for the clue, but as long as I can find the right letters in the grid, I’ll never know it was a wrong answer. I think there needs to be some kind of final answer, like a word made up of unused letters. That could help solve the problem.
Tags: crossword,puzzles,word,wordsearch
It is really not as easy as it looks.
Comment by Lisa — October 31, 2008 @ 2:52 am