Do you think it's cheap when puzzles add something very close to the word but which is ultimately not the word?
Do you think it's cheap when puzzles add something very close to the word but which is ultimately not the word?
For example, if you're looking for the word RENTAL, and you see a sequence of letters like FPRENTAXQZ.
As someone who makes these puzzles, I'm interested in the thoughts on this. I personally like creating red herrings or garden path entries and have done it on plenty in the past. It didn't even occur to me that someone might consider it a cheap trick or disingenuous until I saw this post. That's why the ones I've posted on Lemmy haven't had those intentionally.
That being said, if some users like the extra challenge I'm happy to add a few red herrings into my puzzles in the future.
Are they online?
Usually I just share them with a few teachers in a discord I'm on. Basically I wrote the software a while back when a teacher friend of mind mentioned wanting to make some. I always enjoyed doing the puzzles and figured why not write a program to generate them. I've shared the program with a few friends as well so others have been posted around.
I've been posting some pretty regularly in this community though.