Looking For Crossword Packs In Machine-Readable Format (.puz, .json etc)
Looking For Crossword Packs In Machine-Readable Format (.puz, .json etc)
Hi all 👋
I'm looking for some help locating large packs/collections of crossword puzzles (in my case for use with the Shortyz/Forkyz Android app) pretty please (sob story below if you're interested). I promise I'm not trying to be lazy (though it's possible, as my mum would say, that I'm having a boy's look), but I've looked around on archive.org, all my usual pirate sources (the generals and MAM have a bunch of books in PDF/ePub and the like, but nothing in machine-readable format), Forkyz list of sources, and ofc Google, and come up I feel surprisingly empty.
Anyway, thank you in advance to everyone 💙
NB: This is an edited-for-context cross-post from here. Please remove if not appropriate 👍
<sob-story> Dad's in palliative care and my step-mum is getting a bit bored with her Sudoku puzzles, which of course I've had no trouble providing lol. </sob-story>
It looks like Forkyz (in its current version) reads more than just PUZ files now:
Support new input formats (AM Universal JSON, Exolve, PA Puzzles HTML, Spoonbill, Wall Street Journal JSON, .xd, XWord).
[This page] (https://github.com/doshea/nyt_crosswords) is linked from the Forkyz list of sources page you linked. It was the first one I clicked on, and it is a huge archive of JSON files.
I'm very sorry to hear about your dad, and I hope this can help in some way.
Yep thanks mate! We've seen this, both the nyt repo and the Forkyz list but I removed it from the post as it didn't seem relevant for this community (I may have been overly liberal with my editing there). It's just that the NYT crosswords are a bit too americentric (and honestly probably a bit too advanced) for her.
I have a bunch of Kappa Puzzles' Bent n Wiggly word search PDFs that I can send you, if you want.
Would there be anything in this for crossword puzzle creators?
How do you mean?