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Life & fun · October 19, 2024

🕹️ Joystick Jargon

Crossword Puzzle for Gamers and other Word Nerds

🕹️ Joystick Jargon launched on October 19, 2024 with 2 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

A unique crossword puzzle experience that blends the density of New York Times-style crosswords with the world of gaming. - Using a 3.8 Million Rows Reddit dataset from Hugging Face - Different grid sizes (5x5 6x4, 9x9, 15x15) - Overengineered

What if you made a crossword puzzle out of r/gaming? This is the result! Internt Jargon and Gaming themed crossword.

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