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Re:RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles by rtpg on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @11:59PM (#6056029)
Neat little game. One suggestion I have though: if the puzzle doesn't validate, signal the lines that don't validate properly.
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Re:RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles by ceph_ on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:23AM (#6056084)
Agree. Also, the check mark indicating validation is broken on iOS
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Re:RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles by MichaelAza on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:28AM (#6056101)
I tried to solve these with regular expressions. Now I have two crosswords.
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Re:RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles by brudgers on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:41AM (#6056130)
I struggle with regular expressions, now I have many cross words.
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Re:RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles by acrooks on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:29AM (#6056105)
Fun game. Only thing I can suggest is a way to rotate the puzzle so we don't have to crane our necks / rotate monitors.
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Re:RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles by NatCrodo on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:47AM (#6056142)
True. You read my mind.
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Re:RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles by brbcoding on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @09:57AM (#6057666)
Cool project... I always like the gratification of fake awards, but I'm not sure that yours are actually working... After completing the tutorial, I was informed that I had earned the "baby steps" badge... When going into my achievements however, it still has the `.unearned` class on that badge.
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Re:RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles by calebegg on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:54AM (#6056161)
Here's a really enjoyable regex crossword from, as I recall, the MIT Mystery Hunt:

http://www.coinheist.com/rubik/a_regular_crossword/grid.pdf

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Re:RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles by audreyt on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:22AM (#6056078)
The regex-genex SMT constraint solver ( previously covered in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2579783 ), as demonstrated by @LeventErkok ( https://gist.github.com/LeventErkok/4942496 ), is pretty good at solving this kind of puzzles. :-)
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Re:RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles by JacobJans on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:06AM (#6056048)
Wow, this is great. I'm shocked that I am finally enjoying something related to regular expressions.
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Re:RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles by michaelmior on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @02:21AM (#6056368)
This is awesome!
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