A place to discuss the WSJ Weekly Crossword Contest and other "meta"-style crosswords
https://www.xword-muggles.com/
!I've found that the WSJ app doesn't work too well on my phone, so I use the Puzzazz phone app.BarbaraK wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 6:27 pm
Does anyone use the WSJ app to solve crosswords? I just installed it on my iPhone, wondering if it would give me a way to see the whole puzzle at once while I'm solving or working on the meta. I can't find the current puzzle anywhere in the app. When I search on "crossword" I get a random selection of older ones, and when I click one of those, I only see an option to get the PDF.
There must be a fan of the old "Adventure" computer game at the WSJ to use "xyzzy" as part of the URL. "You are in a maze of twisty passages..."TMart wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:18 amI've found that the WSJ app doesn't work too well on my phone, so I use the Puzzazz phone app.BarbaraK wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 6:27 pm
Does anyone use the WSJ app to solve crosswords? I just installed it on my iPhone, wondering if it would give me a way to see the whole puzzle at once while I'm solving or working on the meta. I can't find the current puzzle anywhere in the app. When I search on "crossword" I get a random selection of older ones, and when I click one of those, I only see an option to get the PDF.
You can download .puz versions of the WSJ puzzles here:
https://www.fleetingimage.com/wij/xyzzy/19-wsj.html
I assume there will be a similarly titled web page for 2020.
I use puzzazz to solve puzzles from other places, but when I try to open a WSJ one, it won’t let me. This is what I get.TMart wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:18 amI've found that the WSJ app doesn't work too well on my phone, so I use the Puzzazz phone app.BarbaraK wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 6:27 pm
Does anyone use the WSJ app to solve crosswords? I just installed it on my iPhone, wondering if it would give me a way to see the whole puzzle at once while I'm solving or working on the meta. I can't find the current puzzle anywhere in the app. When I search on "crossword" I get a random selection of older ones, and when I click one of those, I only see an option to get the PDF.
You can download .puz versions of the WSJ puzzles here:
https://www.fleetingimage.com/wij/xyzzy/19-wsj.html
I assume there will be a similarly titled web page for 2020.
Oops, you’re right - I think I get the same thing on my phone. But I can download on a computer from that site. I do so many metas each week, I have trouble remembering which is which - the others work on the phone, but for some reason the WSJ .puz files only work on the computer.BarbaraK wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2020 4:45 pmI use puzzazz to solve puzzles from other places, but when I try to open a WSJ one, it won’t let me. This is what I get.TMart wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:18 amI've found that the WSJ app doesn't work too well on my phone, so I use the Puzzazz phone app.BarbaraK wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 6:27 pm
Does anyone use the WSJ app to solve crosswords? I just installed it on my iPhone, wondering if it would give me a way to see the whole puzzle at once while I'm solving or working on the meta. I can't find the current puzzle anywhere in the app. When I search on "crossword" I get a random selection of older ones, and when I click one of those, I only see an option to get the PDF.
You can download .puz versions of the WSJ puzzles here:
https://www.fleetingimage.com/wij/xyzzy/19-wsj.html
I assume there will be a similarly titled web page for 2020.
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Is there some setting to convince puzzazz that I should be allowed to do the WSJ puzzles?
Barbara,BarbaraK wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 6:27 pm Does anyone use the WSJ app to solve crosswords? I just installed it on my iPhone, wondering if it would give me a way to see the whole puzzle at once while I'm solving or working on the meta. I can't find the current puzzle anywhere in the app. When I search on "crossword" I get a random selection of older ones, and when I click one of those, I only see an option to get the PDF.
I think your phone is bigger than my iPhone SE. (OK, everybody’s phone is bigger than my SE:)Joe Ross wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 1:24 pmBarbara,BarbaraK wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 6:27 pm Does anyone use the WSJ app to solve crosswords? I just installed it on my iPhone, wondering if it would give me a way to see the whole puzzle at once while I'm solving or working on the meta. I can't find the current puzzle anywhere in the app. When I search on "crossword" I get a random selection of older ones, and when I click one of those, I only see an option to get the PDF.
I assume that you mean that you want to see the entire grid, not the clues. If so, the grid can be slightly adjusted vertically with a finger or thumb drag. You can see the answers of the top & bottom rows, at least on my phone:
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