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ToPuWriMo, week 1

Tue, 06/07/2011 - 6:08pm — Nathan

It's been one week since you looked at me, cocked your head to the side and said...you want to do what every day for a month? Well, not necessarily; I did make the announcement a few days ahead of time. But I've been doing a puzzle a day for a week now, and I feel that it's time to reflect on my progress.

Do I repeat myself?

Mon, 05/09/2011 - 8:29pm — Nathan

I'm struggling somewhat with the issue of repeating entries in puzzles. Not in a single puzzle, mind you -- that would be right out, unless repetition was a theme of the puzzle. I mean repetitions across multiple puzzles. In some circumstances, this is clearly okay. In your typical crossword puzzle, you have somewhere between 60 and 75 entries, and nobody's going to bat an eyelash if OLEO shows up in both the Monday and Tuesday NYT puzzles. As the number of entries per puzzle goes down, the oddness of repeated entries goes up.

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