Yesterday, I discovered regexle [1] and today found out that this was the inspiration for it.
I think I've seen this puzzle before, but I really enjoyed myself gradually solving it while doing other things in the last two hours. I'm sharing this for anyone else who wants a way to spend their afternoon!
Thanks for posting about Regexle! My buddy and I made it last year, inspired by Jimbly, but we regularly forget it's still up. Stoked that folks are enjoying it.
If you have any suggestions for improvements, we're open to em!
https://gitlab.com/Nathaniel.Belles/regexle/-/issues
I tried this for over 20 minutes and made almost zero progress because I thought the expressions also had to be words, like a crossword puzzle. Oops. It might be worth clarifying that somewhere.
This is a really cool idea! It seems really hard though, I tried for a while and didn't get far. Would be keen to see one that's a little easier, maybe with less * qualifiers and more + or ?
That was pretty hard! It took me a bit over 2 hours. It took me a long time to get started, it felt impossible.
But I found a lot of satisfying "ah ah!" moments that kept me going.
Really well done, but now I don't ever want to do one of these again.
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[1]: https://regexle.com
Took 4.5 min to solve #519. Would have been quicker if I started with a better strategy but it was my first time.
On the left a horizontal must start with F: F.[AO].[AO].*
However, the diagonal for that cell may not include an F (aside from the start): [^X]*(DN|TE|NI)
Really well done, but now I don't ever want to do one of these again.