Brian’s Puzzles #5 and #6: Puzzle Snacks
I’m still playing around with different things, so here’s my latest effort. It’s two miniature puzzles, both 7×7. I used bars instead of black squares to separate words — although there aren’t that many words to work with. For cluing, I checked up on old clues that had been used for many of the entries here (yes, the fill is nothing out of the ordinary), and tried to keep things a little more consistent than I had in my last puzzle. They’re both probably rather easy, considering that if you get one answer, you’ve got most of many other answers, too.
I’d love your opinions on them, so please feel free to say anything and everything in the comments. I use this blog as a place to try out first drafts, so it’s not like I’m pretending that these are polished, finished products. Heck, there might even still be wrong clues or misspelled entries.
Also, what do you think of the 7×7 form? Is it too small to be worth it? Too easy to be challenging? Maybe I should really go for far more complicated fill? Really, any opinions are welcome.
Oh — and if you know anything about PDFs, maybe you can tell me how to make both of these into a one-page PDF. Don’t they look silly, with all the huge white margin?
