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92: Untangling Language with Knotwords

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Importance of Interjections in Sudoku

Near the end of development, Jack was like, what if we had some themed puzzles? What if we did one that was just nouns, or just adjectives, or whatever? And then I tried it, and I was like, this kind of just feels like a good puzzle. Yeah, maybe we should ban interjections from the game. But thinking like, well, interjections are just not interesting words. That's like kind of a next level thing that we didn't realize. With Sudoku, you need to make sure that at every point in the puzzle, you never have to guess there's always some kind of path.

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