PuzzlersCave.com allows users to play sudoku and do crossword puzzles online
Title
Free Quick, Cryptic, & Themed Online Crossword Puzzles
Description
Puzzlers Cave started off in July 2000 when I was going through some crosswords in a puzzle book and the idea of creating a real-time crossword generating web site came into my head. It occured to me that writing software to generate crosswords would be a doddle, especially with modern day computing power. So I sat down to write the code.
After quickly knocking out the code to produce new grids, and putting together some useful word lookup code I soon discovered that writing code to solve the grids was not going to be as easy as it first seemed. Some quick research on the internet however gave me the clue on how to write the crossword solver...Crosswords are actually a mathematical problem known as a constraint satisfaction problem. With some sample algorithms I was able to put together the code that solved the crossword grids. One final hurdle remained....getting the clues for the crosswords.
And this hurdle still remains. At present each of the grids at puzzlerscave, although generated and solved automatically using the Puzzlers Cave Crossword Compiler, are finished manually by adding the clues. This will change when enough clues have been written to make the whole site fully automated.
Languages
English
Address
- 5 Scotts Way
- Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 2DG UNITED KINGDOM
Contact
- Modular IT Ltd
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- +44 0 1732 456807, Fax: +1 571 434 4620
Additional Information
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External Links
- Alexa: PuzzlersCave.com
