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United Launch Alliance, an aerospace industry roll-up of General Dynamics Atlas, Martin Marietta Titan and McDonnell Douglas Delta launch vehicle divisions, put out this incredibly awful set of 9 Sudoku puzzles on Twitter. The purpose was to whip up enthusiasm for the 2021-09-21 launch of Landsat 9.

I made a weird third guess due to coffee deficiency.

9 board tic tac toe is a tic tac toe variant played on 9, 3x3 tic tac toe boards, arranged in a 3x3 pattern:

NYT Wordlebot claimed I had two choices after my 3rd guess. Let’s see if it’s correct.

I was curious about whether the “hint” that you get with an official Cryptoquip makes any difference.

I was also curious about how hard it is to construct a decent Cryptoquip.

Previous Cryptoquip Post

Cryptoquip Solver Github Repo

I wrote a Cryptoquip solver.

My big contribution here is using the “shape” of the words to narrow the choice of clear text letters.

I wrote a program to help solve Jumble word puzzles.

I’m a little happier with my wordle-solving regular expression today.