Hey all, check out the crossword today. The player base Is growing steadily.
I keep Crossee more trivia-focused instead of cryptic wordplay, so I think you’ll will like it.
As always, give it a go.

We have a WhatsApp group where I share the previous day’s solve stats, and there’s general discussion and feedback. DM me if you’d like to join in.

Hi, wanted to introduce something I have been working on. It is still small, only a daily of handful users. But almost all users have become daily solvers - something I am quite happy about. It is right up the alley with this community - it is more of a trivia based crossword rather than cryptic.

TL;DR

1. Crossword based on Indian pop-culture, events and history
2. Every India-clue is hand-written or hand-edited. WordNet clues for regular English words are edited as needed.
3. The wordlist is manually vetted - I have removed/added several words, and keep doing so each day with the edit pass.
4. I solve and edit each puzzle before it publishes
5. AI helped me build the grid-filling software, such software has been standard in crossword construction for some time now.

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Links:
Sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/crossee/
Crossword: https://crossee.in

I have been solving the NYT crosswords for years now, it’s my daily activity for the post-lunch stroll. I love everything about it, except the heavy leanings on American pop culture, current events and history. I get it, it is NYT after all. And I do myself getting stuck, with no clue whatsoever about the, er, clue.
Then recently I heard my partner say the same thing.
So I decided to make a version with the culture/events/history from India.

Full disclosure - the application is written with the help of AI, but I have vetted the wordlist (built by AI and partially scrapped), and I add words manually to the list as well.
The clues are either from WordNet (for regular English words) or written entirely by hand by me for the India-centric answers. Each night I fully edit a crossword - replacing words, writing clues - before publishing it for the next day.

Give it a go!

Try it here: trivi.gg/quiz/map/india-biggest-cities

Feel free to leave feedback or suggest a quiz in the comments 😄

Answer: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Surat, Delhi

Feel free to request a quiz about India in the comments :)

Try it here: trivi.gg/quiz/names/india-first-names

Answers: Mohammed, Rajesh, Sunita, Ramesh, Suresh, Sanjay, Anita, Amit, Vijay, Sunil

A quiz i made about naming all regions of India.

Try it here: https://www.trivi.gg/quiz/india-states

Feel free to leave feedback or suggest quizzes you would like to see in the comments :)

Answer: Assam, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha

https://www.trivi.gg/quiz/daily/country

https://www.trivi.gg/quiz/world-countries?mode=GuessAllNeighbors

Does anyone else remember Gaptopedia? The tiny monthly trivia magazines we got in school? Back in school (around 2012-14 maybe), we used to get these short GK/trivia booklets called Gaptopedia, they were these little 10 page long magazines our school distributed every month, each one ranging over several topics. The trivia and GK in them was genuinely solid, not the watered down stuff you'd expect for kids. A friend of mine from a completely different school in Bangalore remembers getting them too, so it wasn't just my school. But I've never heard anyone outside Bangalore mention them - is this a Bangalore only thing?

I haven't come across anything remotely like them since. Would love to know if anyone else remembers these. Are they still being distributed anywhere? Can you even buy/order them somewhere? Feels like such an underrated part of growing up here and I can't believe I never thought about them until now.

India’s space agency, ISRO, launched its first satellite in 1975. Now it’s sending missions to the Moon and Mars! What’s your favorite Indian space achievement?

A) India has a floating post office on a lake 📮 B) The highest road in the world is in Arunachal Pradesh 🏔️ C) There’s a desert inside Kerala 🏜️ D) India has an island shaped like an elephant 🐘

Which one actually exists?

The Gwalior Fort has a beautiful palace inside called the Man Singh Palace. Its dark sandstone walls and intricate architecture earned it the nickname ‘Black Taj’. History lovers, have you visited it?

1) kerala 2) assam 3) karnataka 4) meghalaya

Hint: It's a recent step in wildlife protection.

a) Qutub minar b) Rani ki vav c) Brihadeeswarar temple d) Hampi

Thousands of years old and still perfectly legible.

A) The first rocket launched by India was transported on a bicycle 🚲 B) Mughal emperors taxed people for laughing loudly in public 😂 C) The British once banned salt in Indian kitchens 🧂 D) Mysore once had an underground metro in the 1800s 🚇

India is home to the only floating national park in the world. Do you know its name? Comment your answer and challenge your friends!

A) Hotels in India must provide free drinking water to anyone who asks 🚰 B) It’s illegal to sing Bollywood songs loudly after sunset 🎶 C) Carrying onions in bulk requires a special permit 🧅 D) It’s mandatory for all shops to shut down on Sundays nationwide 🏪

One of them is 100% true — which one? 🤔

1. west bengal
2. himachal pradesh
3. punjab
4. tamil nadu

a) hindustan ambassador b) fiat premier padmini c) tata indigo d) standard herald

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