The world's first online crossword puzzle tournament

Well, reference works are essentially engaged in such verification. TEA went bankrupt or is about to go bankrupt. Which means that it is not a very nice or profitable activity. As a compiler, I verify my own data plus the other compiler always solves my puzzle. And in return, I solve his/hers, because a person often has the ability not to notice his/her own mistakes. We both probably both have the ability to notice mistakes more than the average person thanks to our experiences. But that may not be enough. At some point earlier, when we were discussing crosswords with you, I thought that in principle I would be interested in a platform on which crosswords could be submitted online and for that I could not only verify concepts, but also offer crosswords of any size, with different themes and difficulty levels. (We can also do Arter's children's puzzles, just like the Friday megas of Õhtuleht, which are still considered difficult). But since your wish was for a self-producing machine, I don't really see any points of contact anymore. And we have already made our investments in other directions.

Anyway, I have come to the understanding that there are no wrong answers, only wrong questions! I don't know how it fits in terms of programming, but the different levels of difficulty should be shown by the questions, i.e., that the same answers could be allowed for different questions. I will try to give an example of an answer that would meet other requirements at the same time (11 letters in the answer and 22 in the question, etc.) Answer: salary Question variants: 1.Wood product / wood product 2.Material for construction 3. Traitor... is death 4. Wage 5. Unearned ... 6.Salary Estonian k. 7.Corduroy Estonian k. Many variants and levels of difficulty are different!! I will not start philosophizing about the correct spelling of the word in the online version and in crosswords in general... Just because of the name, I don't think it makes sense to dislike it like some have been doing for a long time..., I am in favor of a substantive discussion

Reading raopalm's opinion, it's nice to see that he has understood one very important component of crossword puzzles very correctly. And I wouldn't emphasize the difficulty in this list right now, it depends and probably varies from person to person (for example, number 7 would be too much for me, for a language expert it probably wouldn't, the others' level is similar and 1 and 2 (and maybe 5) are more difficult, because there are a lot of building materials and wood products, 3 and 4 are again quite immediate and straightforward, which probably don't require much thinking from most people. But the idea is right, so that the crossword doesn't turn into an automatic nonsense with the stamp questions, the questions of which can be learned to some extent by solving the words. The problem is actually that of course there must also be words from which you can start developing the solution - for this there must be a bit of stamp and a bit of simplicity, but there must also be other things as a counterbalance. Quite a few compilers actually compile with a machine, the engine is usually Crossword Compiler, which is good for sucking up dictionaries and entering word-matches. For example. Enno Faster (Ristleja/Ragistaja/Postimees); Rister Ruut from Ristiku was like this The author, who developed his own database, threw the fork in the corner a while ago, but someone in Õhtuleht is passing it on under the name of the compiler, probably the aunt who drew his words or some other "heir". By solving it a little, he can recognize the machine-compiled words. But Meikop's are special in the sense that they are 100% AI, our machine compilers with CC manually insert the main sentences and some questions by hand and add the pattern of the question boxes. And undoubtedly, Vind's crossword engine is something almost genius. So, while muttering here, I have to constantly think that I am not babbling anything important out of the crossword, otherwise Meikop will have a crossword compiler next week, (plus an ideal robot president, an automatic writer who wins novel competitions and a few other things ready) And I have lost another blonde cheerful aunt in addition to myself and we are going to the trash can with her and the top 150 of the Writers' Union.

That's the goal for a few years - to create crosswords of the desired size and difficulty with the click of a button; the question database could be six-digit. I can already see an interface in my mind's eye where you can set the grid size, upload an image, assign an answer somewhere in the grid, choose the difficulty level and/or topic, click a button and the crossword is ready. You can then print it out or use it as a PDF somewhere. Looking at how fast the development has actually been (the original goal was to get the generator working by September), I fully believe that in a few years vint.ee will be the best online crossword solving environment in Estonia (like it is with sudoku today).

Well, I imagine that the solving engines are eagerly waiting. You could do even bigger things, you could press a button that chooses the format, topic, questions, and images yourself. And then in a couple of years, a button would be ready that can press the previous button. There is one annoying difference between Sudoku and crossword puzzles: crossword puzzles are a linguistic-cultural puzzle, while sudoku is strictly mathematical and supra-linguistic or sub-linguistic. Therefore, you essentially have AI in your mind's eye, and if you do it in a couple of years, you will probably be the first Estonian to win a Nobel or Abel or some other prize.

Everything would be fine if I hadn't encountered my own apocalyptic dream last night... And this so-called apocalypse affected people all over the world only on the spiritual side, and even then with concessions... The most important message for me was this: that if there is a (spiritual) bang, the whole world will start again spiritually and so-called restart from the beginning!! Dreams are the reality of the future!! I would like to see some person who says that my dream was nonsense or incompetent and that the system seen at exactly the same time did not match the visions that were happening at the same time as me. or reality!!

I'm not a big solver, but I looked at the Postimees crosswords and I didn't get any deeper meaning from them. Ultimately, solvers decide in which format / whose crosswords they want to solve. Many solvers will probably never start solving crosswords on a computer, for example. But times are changing - the younger generation definitely wants a little more interactivity and the vint.ee crossword tournaments are trying to offer that. And of course - as with all games at vint - we are trying to introduce a competitive element into crossword solving. The start has been promising, there were already 8 tournaments yesterday.

As for verification, we need to come up with a solution here, going through 15,000 manually is a bit of a stretch. Assuming that solvers report errors, the following solution might work: Each question/answer will be verified when it is used somewhere in the crossword. If there is an error/inaccuracy somewhere, we will find out about it and correct it. If there is no notification, we will consider the question checked (by the solver). We cannot claim that everything would be 100% OK, but can we do it if someone checks all the questions one by one (which is unlikely to happen)? The human (error) factor remains even when checking manually... And this is how questions/answers come out that the generator cannot put anywhere in the crosswords (we would find out how many questions are actually used). This way we can also put a warning label next to the crosswords that the crossword contains unverified facts and may contain errors. After a couple of months, such crosswords may not appear very often anymore. How to conveniently report an error? At the moment, the idea came to me that you right-click on the question box and the message will be sent automatically. If there are two questions in the box, the message will come twice, but I will solve this problem myself. To avoid spam, this only works for those who have the right to enter questions and answers. UPDATE: A question will be verified if it appears in a crossword puzzle that has been solved by a user who is part of the question entry group.

As I wrote, PM crosswords are mostly machine-generated. A crossword as such shouldn't be considered a carrier of a very deep meaning, but for example, I still can't imagine that a machine generates relatively concise words. For example, I consider them here http://paremalla.ee/down/4 pisiI.jpg to be such that a machine can't do it.

How to get the difficulty level and category for the 7200 answers that were entered before it was possible to set difficulty levels. Is it conceivable that one more line will be added to the crossword entry form: One existing question/answer pair that lacks difficulty level and category? Maybe it would take a few more clicks to enter each word. That way, we can get the difficulty level and category for all questions after 7200 new words :) In return, I promise that when you start entering an answer, words with a similar beginning that are already in the database will be displayed - this way you can quickly find out whether you are entering an answer that already exists in the database.