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The world of acrostics

atari2600land

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So I was trying to find a program to make big huge crosswords with when I stumbled upon an acrostic solving program. So I downloaded it, even though I'm not especially good at acrostics. I decided, "Hey, I might be able to make one of these." So I worked on trying to figure out a phrase to acrostic. After that, I took out letters to form different words, like you do in acrostics. Once I was done, I noticed something about the acrostics from the site where I got the acrostics from. Turns out they're double acrostics! D'oh! I had to rethink different words so the primary letters in each word spell out another phrase that relates to the other one. That took way longer since I had to form different words and work with the constraint of letter usages. Luckily, I had downloaded an acrostic MAKER program after joining the acrostics Yahoo group. I wasn't really familiar with it, though, so my first one stunk. I decided to have another go at it and learn some more about the program. So I made it better, deleted the old one and put the new one in. So I made my first acrostic puzzle. For those who don't know what an acrostic is, it's a puzzle where there's a long phrase or quote, and to solve the phrase or quote, you fill in smaller words given with clues. All the words with clues anagram the phrase or quote. A double acrostic is (I think) one where the first letter of each clue answer spells out an additional phrase. So you can see how hard it is. In case it doesn't get published (I've yet to find out), I'll put it on here so you can see what it looks like.



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