Talk:2957: A Crossword Puzzle

compare https://www.buttersafe.com/2011/02/17/crosswords/ --162.158.158.236 20:50, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

randall has now updated the header for this comic to "Today's comic accidentally inspired by this Buttersafe comic from 2011!" and i feel bad for having spotted the similarity and commented on it within 1 minute of this page's creation --162.158.62.248 03:48, 11 July 2024 (UTC) (same anon as above)

it's *A* crossword puzzle for a reason ;) -- 21:05, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

I suspect that that reason is that someone will inevitably compare the information content of solving this crossword puzzle to the information content of narrating 1190. 172.70.35.21 01:25, 11 July 2024 (UTC) I didn't sign. Was that rude? I'm new here, is it ok if I just ask questions?

i’m trying to table-ify it but i keep getting edit conflicted. 172.71.30.93 21:24, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Surprised something like "Jagged and loose Hawaiian lava flow (2)" couldn't be fit in (unless I've missed it). Maybe because there were no two-letter answers at all, of course. (I think... Again, maybe I'm missing them.) 172.70.86.38 21:30, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

unfortunate that "antepenultimate track of They Might Be Giants' Glean" did not make it in --172.70.230.200 21:35, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

And where is "Fonzie's catch-phrase"? Or does that end with a Y? Barmar (talk) 23:02, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Did I use the calculator wrong, or 12356631 in base 26 equals 111111, not AAAAAA? 172.69.90.180 22:33, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

anyone using base 26 is probably likely to be using all 26 letters, instead of ten numbers and sixteen letters. contextless, i would usually assume any base has standard decimal digits, but liberties have already been taken here so why not (please sign)

I wasn’t sure enough to comment, but it looks like he miscalculated. 26^5 + 26^4 + 26^3 + 26^2 + 26^1 + 26^0 = 12355631 = 111111 in base 26. To be AAAAAA it would have to be 123556310. Of course, maybe he’s using A through Z instead of the expected 0 through 9 followed by letters A through P, the way hexadecimal is. 172.70.210.52 23:16, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

If he’s using the letters A through Z as the ‘digits’ for base 26, then he’s still wrong, because A would be 0, Z would be 25 and 12355631 decimal would be --Elfakyn (talk) 06:47, 11 July 2024 (UTC)BBBBBB in that base 26. 172.70.210.235 00:54, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

The "Qalculate" program has a number base setting called "Bijective base 26", which outputs the answer as "AAAAAA_B26. Fabian42 (talk) 01:23, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

I'm surprised he didn't make this interactive, so you could type into all the cells to fill out the crossword. Barmar (talk) 23:02, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

I made and discarded various theories what the joke might be while I read through the questions, including all numbers, at least two possible solutions for the entire puzzle (I think that happened once in a newspaper), unknowable answers, … Only when I got to the "disregard for gravity" thing did I suspect the right answer and only because I once saw a meta gaming Stack exchange question about its tag. Otherwise it might have taken me until the Morse code question. This was really well hidden! Fabian42 (talk) 01:23, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

i dare not think about how long this took to make. youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk 01:31, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

In all honesty, this is probably easier to make than a regular crossword puzzle. 172.69.3.146 05:48, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

https://crosshare.org/crosswords/2YcIAgtQCMBK6clsrNK4/mini-39-literally-screaming 172.71.146.4 02:29, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

It's traditionally doctors that ask you to "say AAAAAAA" when they examine your throat. I'm pretty sure 36 across is supposed to be a joke about how dentists make smalltalk with their fingers in your mouth. 172.70.126.10 04:24, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

I filled in the answers. Can someone add the solved image? I don't have file upload permissions. https://i.imgur.com/AlDIT1p.png --Elfakyn (talk) 06:47, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

bro tried to nerd-snipe us 😭 172.69.194.96 07:30, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

People without aphantasia can visualize words in front of them to solve puzzles like 18-across? That's quite impressive, I have to painstakingly count the letters in my head! Maplestrip (talk) 08:05, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Every third letter in 'aphantasia' is 'hti'.172.70.162.18 08:17, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

The Ruby Rhod one is misleading; his actual catchphrase in the movie is "green", which fits perfectly in the given space. -Nyerguds (talk) 09:22, 11 July 2024 (UTC)