Re^2: Word Search Builder

[pbeckingham]

in reply to Re: Word Search Builder
in thread Word Search Builder

It all seems to hinge on the random placement of the first few words. After that, it jams them in wherever it can. But those first few make all the difference.

A challenging crossword algorithm would be one that randomly places a word, then the necessary dead spaces, then replicates the dead space according to some rule of symmetry, ultimately resulting in an "attractive" layout.