I found it easy in the pastuntil I realised that there were all these RULES you had to stick to, about symmetry and so forth. I've still not done it right because the middle 'island' shouldn't be isolated in that way, but I kind of gave up with this halfway. I guess the newspapers have computer programs to make them, I can't see how someone at The Times has the time or the sanity to write a completely new one every day!
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
Sat 9 Jun 2012, 2:18,
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I'm sure a lot only have one axis of symmetryHah, you never know, there are some crazy people out there. I'm kinda tempted to write a program that generates them now though, possibly with some kind of website scraping to make it choose audience-relevant words.
Anyway, looks like I've buggered up some of the corners. So I think I'll leave the rest 'til tomorrow.
(Anyway, looks like I've buggered up some of the corners. So I think I'll leave the rest 'til tomorrow.
Antubis right round, like a record, lion,
Sat 9 Jun 2012, 2:56,
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Ah, I've seen them beforeSo yeah, patterns and symmetry of some kind. Although.. why is that? The only way that has any purpose is in those horrific ones that make you work out what squares to fill in black as well. *checks Wikipedia* Oh, tradition :)
( Antubis right round, like a record, lion,
Sat 9 Jun 2012, 3:11,
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