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		tolien 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's g... I'll quite often wind up solving this by a sort of parallel construction, as in rather than getting the hint I can work out what word is supposed to be there based on what's around it. Some of the clues can be really cryptic.

linsomniac 7 months ago [–]

Yes, that is the real trick when you get stuck is to start constructing the clues that it will eventually become.

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