dbdatvic replied to your photo “Did my first skeleton crossword in a while! No pencils, we die like...”
There's a Dell Pencil Puzzles & Word Games monthly magazine that used to have some of these. Even if it no longer exists, I bet there's a replacement-type mag avaiable? --Dave ps: yeah, they called them 'diagramless'
I knew they were also called Diagramless, but why would you define anything by what it isn’t when you could call it A SKELETON? :D
Also in my experience, diagramless sometimes means normal crosswords but also often means like, crosswords that are of the “super simple” kind, like the kind you see on printed kids’ activity menus in restaurants? Which is not really...fair, or how crosswords were meant to function.
i-ddpej replied to your photo “Did my first skeleton crossword in a while! No pencils, we die like...”
No Pencils Club solidarity! My dad does puzzles with pen *and* pencil, carefully erasing all of his test stuff and inking in the right answers as he finds them, but I learned to puzzle from my mom and we don't believe in pencils. (Dad hates it, lol, he says it looks diseased and sickly. xD)
I honestly just can’t stand the texture of a pencil on paper. Unless it’s either super sharp or super hard lead, I just cringe.
delphia2000 replied to your photo “Did my first skeleton crossword in a while! No pencils, we die like...”
My mom used to do those under the name 'diagramless' crosswords. I only do regular crosswords, but yeah, ink rules. (And I usually do the same printing only taught by my comic book artist boyfriend who insisted I print as my cursive was shite.)
Yeah, there’s a strong kinship between comic lettering and draftsman lettering, and my cursive was bullshit anyway, so I feel ya.
jbk598 replied to your post “rionsanura replied to your photo: Did my first...”
My dad was an engineer who mostly designed filters & valves, and his handwriting, esp. for crosswords, looked like yours.
VALIDATION! And also thank you to the anon who sent me an ask about this. It’s nice that I still look faintly drafts-y :D
rionsanura replied to your post “rionsanura replied to your photo: Did my first...”
she got a degree in botany, so I suppose it's possible? hmm. My uncle is an architect and yours also resembles his, but much more my grandmother's. I wonder if there are different schools of draftsmanship
Or maybe she picked it up from him? Like, sort of picked up a bit of his style but with her own twist! Definitely mine has shifted since I left the arts, my Ns and Ws are a lot softer and I don’t as often drop my verticals anymore.
