I do the NYT crossword every day (current streak = 1079), and I loved to solve a rubik's cube as a kid.<p>This game is absolutely incredible. In about 10 minutes I've done a bunch of 3x3s and a 4x4 to see how it works with black squares. I'd encourage you to tweet this at the Wordplay / NYTGames accounts and to make lots more of these!<p>Actually, a little feedback:<p>- on my iPad the bottom row of a 9x9 gets clipped in a way that makes it very difficult to play <a href="https://imgur.com/a/EpSPiz1" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/EpSPiz1</a><p>- Some clues reference 14-across or 16-down or whatever, but I don't see the numbers in the squares / a full list of clues to compare with.<p>- I wish tab took me to the next clue and space changed me from across to down.
Looks like there's a bit more information (but no comments) in the previous post:<p><i>Show HN: SlideCross – a combination of a crossword and Rubik's Cube</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112197">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112197</a><p>(A small number of reposts is fine - I'm just pointing to that one because it looks like there are more instructions there)
I've got rubiks skills, but once I moved up past 3x3 the crossword clues were super opaque to me. Very fun, though, and I'm not above googling the clue to find hints. Finished one 5x5 so far, but those 15x15s are super intimidating!
I'm a lifetime intermediate NYT crossword solver and this is impossible. I love it. Got lucky where a few of them were all but done when I started. Haven't even tried anything bigger than 3x3
You can check out the source code here: <a href="https://github.com/matttt/slidecross">https://github.com/matttt/slidecross</a>