Word Connection #3 : Money Game 💸🕹️

     Continuing the Word Connection puzzles, here is an even bigger puzzle (in terms of word bank, it's still a 10x10), with this time a theming based on lyrics of a song. This puzzle may seem tedious, but I can assure that looking at the right place can make for smooth(-ish) progress on the grid.

    The lyrics comes from the song Money Game : Part 2, by Ren. You may either know this artist directly (who usually comes off as a whistleblower in his songs, with very punchy lyrics) or by the internet meme "Luigi explains capitalism". It uses the famous tonguetwister "she sells sea shells on a sea shore" (and yes, in the actual song, it's not "the" but "a" but I will NOT bother with that fact), and degenerates into greedy capitalism and manipulation.

    Don't forget, if a word appears multiple times, it must appear in the correct place in the list as you travel along the line, for every occurence.

    Check the oldest post for the rules.

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Word Connection #2 : Hakkenshi Warriors (八犬士)

     Here is a bigger Word Connection puzzle, using this time rather big words to make placement more restrained. The grids will look impossible at first, then the words will seems impossible to fit together, then it will make sense. As before, order rule is primordial to find your way in this puzzle.

    Not much to say here, but this puzzle was featured in the CTC Discord in puzzle submissions, so some of you may have come across it. The theming comes from the Hakkenden anime (which I discovered through Housamo) and gives the name of all 8 Hakkenshi fighters.

    Check the oldest post for the rules.

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Word Connection #1 ⓦ🔗ⓦ

     Today, we're featuring Word Connection as a fun puzzle type, for which the rules may differ from one author to another. Here is the version of the rules I use, as follow :

Place all the words from the bank and trace a line going through every cell of the grid.

- Words cannot bend, and can be placed in any direction.

- The line must go through all words from in order from the bank, starting from the first letter of the topmost word and ending on the last letter of the last word. (If the list is split, further indication is given for the word order.) The words must be traversed by the path such that all letters appear in the correct order.

- The line cannot branch or cross itself, and may visit a cell only once.

- Some letters are provided in the grid, and must be part of one word.

    If the bank contains a repeated word, it must be placed as many times as it appears. Don't forget the order rule, which is crucial for solving (and uniqueness, ofc). The main difference with other rulesets is that words can touch, which is not allowed for Serkan Yürekli's puzzle, for instance.

    This first post will be on 2 entry-level puzzles, with small grids. This doesn't mean the logic behind them is lacking, quite the contrary ! But it can be pretty easy to do with intuition since there's not many words to place or space to work with.

Word Connection 1

Word Connection 2