In St. Petersburg there is the International Club of Russian Crosswords "Krestoslovitsa".
Scandinavian crossword
This view is a continuous field of cells, in some of which questions are written. The directions of the responses are indicated as arrows. Due to the small space in which the inscription must fit, the questions are short definitions, associations, or even abbreviations. In general, crosswords are more popular than classic crosswords. The density of the intersection of words in them is much greater, so it becomes easier to find the right answers. However, there are more complex varieties of Scandinavian crossword puzzles. For example, in "capacious scanwords" more than one letter fits into some cells, and in "hexagonal" words fit in 6 directions at once.Hungarian crossword
This variety is also called "filvord". The Hungarian crossword puzzle is a square field with letters already entered, which make up the answers. However, words can be written in different directions and bent at right angles without intersecting. In simple filwords, answers are given hints - definitions or drawings. In more complex ones, only the number of words and their subject matter are indicated. A variation of the Hungarian crossword is English. In it, words can only go in a straight line, but their intersection is permissible.Specialized crossword editions appeared in the 1990s.
Linear crossword
In this type of crossword puzzle, also called "chainword", the words go in a chain, one after another. Answers can have one or more letters in common. Sometimes a chain of a linear crossword puzzle can cross itself - this kind of puzzle is called a crossword puzzle.keyward
A keyword, or keyword, consists of a field filled with numbers. Each number has its own letter. It is necessary to restore the crossword by filling it with words. As a rule, the task contains a keyword, the letters of which are numbered with the corresponding numbers. Correlating with the key, you need to guess which words are encrypted in the crossword puzzle.Classic crossword. The pattern of this crossword puzzle has, as a rule, two- or four-sided symmetry. Preferably, at least two intersections, and ideally, single black blocks touching diagonally. There are open crossword puzzles, i.e. black blocks are also available outside or closed - only letters are outside the crossword puzzle.
The crossword continues to evolve both in form and content. There are many varieties of this game. Different countries have their favorite variants of the crossword puzzle, and they can be used not only as useful entertainment, but also for educational purposes. In many countries, competitions are held for solving and compiling crosswords, there are crossword clubs (in Russia - the International Club of Russian Crosswords "Krestoslovitsa" in St. Petersburg).
IN American version crossword puzzle all cells must be at the intersection of words. So the grid is not sparse, as in European, but dense, as in Scandinavian crossword puzzles (Fig. 3).
Figure 3. Grid of the American version of the crossword puzzle
IN Japanese version crossword puzzle black cells should not touch the sides (which means that there should be no blocks of black cells - accordingly, the density of the grid also approaches the crossword puzzle) and the corner cells of the grid must be white, so that the grid must remain a strict rectangle (Fig. 4).
Figure 4. Grid of the Japanese version of the crossword puzzle
Scanword. Questions to words are written inside the grid, in cells not occupied by letters. The correspondence of questions to words is indicated by arrows. If the arrows are only horizontal and vertical - the type of gothic scanword. If there are arrows and diagonally - italic.
Estonian crossword puzzle (with partitions). The words in this crossword puzzle are separated not by blocks, but by the thickened sides of the cells in which the letters are located. These crossword puzzles look very dense.
Keyward. A kind of crossword puzzle, in the cells of which numbers are indicated replacing letters. For the same letters, the same numbers. Perhaps, to simplify the solution of the crossword puzzle, it already indicates a word.
Criss cross. Given a crossword puzzle grid and the words that need to be placed in it. Perhaps, just like in a keyword, a word or letters are inscribed in the grid to simplify the initial process.
Fillword. This type of crossword is a field filled with letters. In all this accumulation of letters, it is necessary to find the words that are listed next to each other. There are two types of fillwords: Hungarian and German.
Hungarian assumes the direction of the word in any direction, including along a broken line. In this type of fillword, one letter can be used once.
The German type suggests the arrangement of words in a straight line in any direction, while one letter can be used several times.
Hungarian crossword represents a field of cells in which the letters of the answers are already entered. In the chain of cells that make up each answer, adjacent cells must touch sides. Answer words do not intersect and do not have common cells with other words. This puzzle is much simpler than a crossword and is often published in children's publications (with rebuses or illustrations instead of definitions).
English crossword similar to Hungarian, the same field with letters is used, but each word always goes in one direction (including diagonal), without breaking inside itself. At the same time, unlike the Hungarian crossword, words can intersect in letters, so the same letter can belong to different words. Just like in the Hungarian crossword, after guessing all the words on the field, there may be “extra” letters that make up the common keyword of the crossword.
IN cyclocrossword(cyclic crossword) words are arranged around the cell with the number of the corresponding question. A distinctive feature of such a crossword puzzle is the same number of letters in all the hidden words - as a rule, 4, 6 or 8. The intersections of words occur along an arc of a circle. Moreover, if the word is not on the edge of the grid, then all its letters, one way or another, are simultaneously letters of neighboring words.
3d crossword puzzle- a crossword puzzle, the words in which can be arranged in such a way that when it is cut by planes parallel to the coordinate planes and spaced from each other by a given distance-step, crossword puzzles are formed in the sections.
As a sample, in December 2000, a 3D-Spaceword was created - a three-dimensional spatial crossword with a specialized structure (Fig. 5).
Figure 5. Three-dimensional crossword puzzle
For 2013, more than 400 printed publications are registered, publishing crosswords and puzzles (both verbal and digital) of varying degrees of complexity.
Enter known letters in the "mask" input field, replacing unknown letters with a hyphen "-" (or *?._), if the number of letters is not known, use the "+" sign, inserting instead of missing letters, if necessary, add a short and concise description .
If the possibilities of using the "mask" do not suit you, then there is the possibility of using the classic method - indicate how many letters are in the word (the field on the right instead of the mask) and fill in the known ones.
It is worth noting that the compilers of crossword puzzles are quite cunning in coming up with tasks, and our database may not contain similar descriptions, in this case we recommend that you focus on searching for a word by mask. And so that next time this does not happen again and to make your contribution to the work of the service - you can add the found answer to our database. We are very grateful to our users for this.
Our assistant has become smarter and now understands if you specify the number of letters of the searched word directly in the description, for example like this: " capital 6 letters", in this case the helper will set 6 letters as a mask and will search for capitals by this mask. If the number of letters is not defined, then the helper will understand: " capital of russia without letters", in this case, the number of specified letters will be reset. In the hope of making the assistant more convenient, we added the ability to correct typos to it, but unfortunately it does not always do it right.
EXAMPLE:
Suppose when solving a crossword puzzle or a crossword puzzle, you come across a task:
Small town in North America, 7 letters.
At the same time, it is known that the first letter is "B", then it makes sense to enter the task in the assistant as follows - in the field for entering the mask (template), enter "B------", i.e. we set the first letter "B" and six gaps, indicating that the word is 7 letters, and in the description field we enter, "city of America" and that's it - the service will decide that this is the city of "Burbank" or "Brandon", from which you choose the most suitable.
FIND ANSWERS TO ANY KIND OF *WORD:
Why is it very useful to solve crossword puzzles: scientists from London will tell.
Note that solving and searching for words for scanwords and chainwords is done in a similar way. If necessary, i.e. while solving a complex crossword puzzle, it is better to enter a description using keywords that describe exactly the essence of an object or phenomenon.
Many of us are familiar with the classic crossword puzzle. This is an interesting game that provides excellent opportunities for the development of intelligence, as well as an indispensable travel companion. The passion for this game has a long history. Even the inhabitants of ancient Pompeii found a lot of interesting things in this game. The development of the game led to the emergence of a Scandinavian crossword puzzle, which was called the "scanword".
Types of scanwords
Fans of this exciting game know perfectly well what a scanword is and devote a lot of time to it. And there are good reasons for this. Unlike the classic crossword, the crossword is more informative. Playing a crossword puzzle guarantees a good time. A scanword is a kind of crossword with a lot of intersections, in which detailed questions are often replaced by brief definitions, in addition, instead of questions, there can simply be images or photographs.
When solving a crossword puzzle, you will be asked to write a continuation to the words that are located inside the cells or a word to which a brief definition is given. The directions of the answers are indicated by arrows. An ideally designed scanword does not contain empty cells. The more informative the field, the more interesting it is to solve it. The undoubted advantage of this game is that it perfectly develops associative and figurative thinking.
There is a wide variety of different types of scanwords, the information field in them can be supplemented with color or thematic pictures. There are many types of crosswords: Russian, American, digital, etc. In such games, the arrows can be removed, and the task of the player is not only to guess the word, but also to determine its location. These are the rules for the Russian scanword. Also, the game may contain a digital code, by guessing which, you can correctly put the right word.
Difference from crossword
In a crossword puzzle, you need to pick up a word and enter it in the information field. The number of letters of this word must correspond to the number of cells. In addition, tasks and questions for words that need to be guessed are written separately from the cell field in the crossword puzzle, while tasks are included in cells in the crossword puzzle. Also, in crossword puzzles, for the most part, detailed and precise definitions of words are used, and in scanwords, associations, short definitions or phrase continuations are used. In the scanword, the words are already entered in the cells specially allocated for this. For example, the word “frog” can serve as an association to the word “princess”. In the scanword, words are written in free cells on the information field. In which field you need to enter the desired word depends on the rules of the game.
5. Crossword with pictures
- the usual classic crossword puzzle, but with pictures, as in a crossword puzzle -
6. Estonian crossword
- a crossword puzzle in which there are partitions instead of dividing black cells -
7. Crossword "German"
- a crossword puzzle in which there are no serial numbers and all questions are mixed. The hints are the initial letters in the grid and
number of letters in brackets -
8. Crossword "Abracadabra"
- this crossword without black cells and all filled with letters. It is necessary to shade the cells with extra letters so that
turned out to be a fully solved crossword puzzle -
9. Crossword "Mosaic"
- from disparate parts you need to put together a whole crossword puzzle -
Scandinavian type crosswords (scanwords)
10. Scanword "Normal"
- from the Scandinavian crossword puzzle, which has long been familiar, which at one time received the name "scanword" -
11. Scanword "Voiceless"
- from kanword in which the answers are already given, but with the vowels removed in them -
12. Scanword "Confusion"
- from kanword in which answers are already given, but with letters mixed in them -
13. Scanword "Three answers"
- a scanword, in which instead of questions, three answers are given at once, from which you need to choose the correct one -
14. Scanword "Switchman"
- IN this scanword, when solving, you also need to restore the deleted arrows -
15. Scanword "Mirror"
- E that scanword is turned upside down twice, therefore it is solved on the contrary - from the lower right corner -
16. Scanword "Two tasks"
- a scanword in which for each answer two questions are given at once, of which only one is correct -
17. Scanword "Figured"
- a scanword in which a certain geometric pattern is visible from the cells with definition questions -
18.Scanword "With puzzles"
- in this scanword as illustrations, puzzles are inserted, the answers to which must be entered in the scanword -
Other types of crosswords and scanwords
19. Number bus (keyword)
- h here all letters are replaced with the corresponding numbers -
20. Number bus with partitions
- T
21. Number-scan
- G a hybrid of a regular scanword and a keyword (numberbus) -
22. Neighbor letter
- a scanword like a number bus, only the letters here are replaced by alphabetically adjacent ones -
23. Neighbor letter with partitions
- T about the same as in the previous paragraph, but with dividing partitions -
24. extra letter
- to solve this type of scanwords, you just need to cross out an unnecessary letter in each cell -
25. Extra letter with partitions
- T about the same as in the previous paragraph, but with dividing partitions -
26. Italian
- in this scanword, all questions-definitions for words are placed outside the perimeter of the grid and mixed up with each other (in each line and in
each column, respectively) -
27. Spanish
- similar to "Italian", but the location of the questions-definitions exactly corresponds to the position of the answers in the grid -
28. By the places of the word
- put the grouped words in their places -
29. Placed words with partitions
- T about the same as in the previous paragraph, but with dividing partitions -
30. By place of number
- put the grouped numbers in their places -
31. In places numbers with partitions
- T about the same as in the previous paragraph, but with dividing partitions -
32. Cellular
- about The answers here fit clockwise around the cells, starting from the cell with the arrow -
33. Cell "Mute"
- all arrows are removed here -
34. Cell "Confusion"
- all arrows are removed here -
35. Cell "Three answers"
36. Cellular "In places"
- a cellular scanword in which a list of answers is given - you need to put them in their places -
37. bricks
- a scanword, more like a brickwork, but in fact - the same cellular scanword -
38. Bricks "Mute"
- here the answers have already been given, but with the vowels removed from them. Besides, removed all arrows -
39. Bricks "Confusion"
- here answers are already given, but with letters mixed in them. Besides, removed all arrows -
40. Bricks "Three Answers"
- here three answers are given at once, of which only one is correct. Also removed all arrows -
41. Bricks "In places"
- a cellular scanword in which a list of answers is given - you need to put them in their places -
