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by skellystudios 4123 days ago
For my masters thesis I wrote some software to solve UK-style cryptic crosswords[1].

We're cleaning up the code now for release as an AI paper, so as soon as we're done I'll release the code on Github.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_crossword

2 comments

What a great idea. What's your success rate like?

Cryptic crosswords (at least good ones) play with conventions so much, I imagine it must be quite a challenge.

Excellent! How does its performance compare with Crossword Maestro (http://www.crosswordtools.com/cm/) which I think is the current state of the art?