Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

92: Untangling Language with Knotwords


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Knotwords creators Jack Schlesinger and our own Zach Gage chat to us about their elegant new logic puzzle word game. We discuss "cracking" the game design they'd been chasing forever, and how they created the puzzle/word generator that makes it great.

Show notes:

Jack Schlesinger

Zach Gage

Knotwords

Nikoli puzzles

Alcazar

Two Not Touch puzzles

Good Sudoku

SpellTower+

Bit Pilot

Wordle

Calvin & Hobbes

This episode edited by Dylan Shumway, thanks Dylan!

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