The walls of the hedge maze close in around you. Before you is a single stone table covered in quill pens and several sheets of parchment. Even if you normally cannot read or write, for the time being, you find that you can.
"A man who was quite full of himself sat down to eat some food that had spoiled. He found himself becoming drowsy, but that was interrupted as his stomach writhed as if a fire crackled through it."
It logically follows that we'll probably have to make up a clue for our puzzle, if we're going to be solving the ones that other teams make up. Otherwise no one would be able to even try and solve anything.
Maybe words that don't seem like they'd be associated, but are, so that there's a common link we can base a clue on.
"Armadillo" for the top across word, "bear" for the middle across, "rabbit" for the down word, and "cattle" for the bottom across? It's animals instead of words related to them, but it's pretty hard to come up with words that fit the spaces.
Armadillos are armored, or scaled, or something like that. Rabbits have long ears and little tails. Cattle have hooves, and you get milk from them. And bears hibernate in winter.
We could pick one of them to base our clue on, and then allude to the puzzle overall so anyone who understands it knows that the other words are related to the solved clue.
Maybe about the rabbit, since it connects the others. Maybe a story about how while helping its friend the armadillo it ran afoul of a bear until a brave bull protected it, or something.
[The words glow faintly as they settle onto the parchment, and then the papers around you ruffle in a sudden breeze, which whisks your crossword and your clue away...]
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Fill in the blank spaces with words that fit.
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Create a saying or short story based on the puzzle you made, without using any of the words themselves. This will be the clue for your puzzle.
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It logically follows that we'll probably have to make up a clue for our puzzle, if we're going to be solving the ones that other teams make up. Otherwise no one would be able to even try and solve anything.
Maybe words that don't seem like they'd be associated, but are, so that there's a common link we can base a clue on.
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...Words that have synonyms that rhyme would probably be too much though.
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Let's see.....
"Armadillo" for the top across word, "bear" for the middle across, "rabbit" for the down word, and "cattle" for the bottom across? It's animals instead of words related to them, but it's pretty hard to come up with words that fit the spaces.
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That'd work.
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[settles in to think]
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[Synonyms for things, he can try to do.]
Armadillos are armored, or scaled, or something like that. Rabbits have long ears and little tails. Cattle have hooves, and you get milk from them. And bears hibernate in winter.
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[thinking]
If we focus on the rabbit....
"Even though the entire world is my enemy, part of me is said to be good luck.
The puzzle is the world. I am a word."
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[Is that one of his derpy smiles?]
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That's only natural, since I've got more experience.
We could focus on the bear instead, though. Listen....
"I sleep inside stone, shielded from the hunger that others feel.
Others are the puzzle. I am a word."
What do you think?
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That earns some applause though :)]
Whoa, that's even better!
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Others are the puzzle. I am a word."
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[musing]
"He found himself becoming drowsy"...."tire"? And then the last one might be "burned".
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It fits, and it fits the clue, too. Sounds good to me.
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But they might have split the burden of coming up with words and had to compromise.
[points out the different colored text, which indicates two teams have been paired together]
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