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Arrow Word and Crossword. And what's the difference?
At first it was a crossword puzzle ... And a Arrow Word is just a kind of crossword puzzle. And if the crossword puzzle dating from the III-IV centuries AD is considered to be the most ancient, then the scanword was invented only recently, in the 90's. Crossword puzzles gained popularity in the early twentieth century. It is considered that the first Ukrainian publication to publish a crossword puzzle on its pages was Ogonek magazine. And the first convoys in Ukraine appeared on the pages of the periodicals during the newspaper boom of the 90s. They quickly gained popularity, and soon all newsstands were littered with magazine magazines.
The difference between crossword puzzles and scanword puzzles is that the word contains much more cross-sections of words arranged horizontally and vertically. In addition, the questions that need to be answered are not as detailed as in the crossword puzzle, and they are placed not in a separate graph, but within the framework of the scanwords in the cells specially designated for this purpose. The definitions themselves, the answers to which are to be guessed, are laid out in the form of brief hints of the word spoken. The definitions in the scanword can also be various illustrations or photographs that occupy several cells. An exemplary scanword is considered to be a box filled with cells for answers and definitions.
Compared to crossword puzzles, it is a disadvantage that scanword pans have a small area for writing definitions and therefore, they are usually written in very small print and in abbreviated form. It happens that the author places two definitions in a single cell, in the form of only two or three words. Such tasks are often associative in nature, can be expressed by antagonist words, synonymous words, these may be well-known misspellings, etc.
The maximum number of intersections, of course, facilitates the process of solving the scan, but creates additional difficulties for its creators. The fact is that the Ukrainian language is rich in words with too complex endings, such as -it, -it, -it, etc. Such words are very difficult to find words for crossing. Despite these shortcomings, scandals are still more popular today than classic crossword puzzles.
At first it was a crossword puzzle ... And a Arrow Word is just a kind of crossword puzzle. And if the crossword puzzle dating from the III-IV centuries AD is considered to be the most ancient, then the scanword was invented only recently, in the 90's. Crossword puzzles gained popularity in the early twentieth century. It is considered that the first Ukrainian publication to publish a crossword puzzle on its pages was Ogonek magazine. And the first convoys in Ukraine appeared on the pages of the periodicals during the newspaper boom of the 90s. They quickly gained popularity, and soon all newsstands were littered with magazine magazines.
The difference between crossword puzzles and scanword puzzles is that the word contains much more cross-sections of words arranged horizontally and vertically. In addition, the questions that need to be answered are not as detailed as in the crossword puzzle, and they are placed not in a separate graph, but within the framework of the scanwords in the cells specially designated for this purpose. The definitions themselves, the answers to which are to be guessed, are laid out in the form of brief hints of the word spoken. The definitions in the scanword can also be various illustrations or photographs that occupy several cells. An exemplary scanword is considered to be a box filled with cells for answers and definitions.
Compared to crossword puzzles, it is a disadvantage that scanword pans have a small area for writing definitions and therefore, they are usually written in very small print and in abbreviated form. It happens that the author places two definitions in a single cell, in the form of only two or three words. Such tasks are often associative in nature, can be expressed by antagonist words, synonymous words, these may be well-known misspellings, etc.
The maximum number of intersections, of course, facilitates the process of solving the scan, but creates additional difficulties for its creators. The fact is that the Ukrainian language is rich in words with too complex endings, such as -it, -it, -it, etc. Such words are very difficult to find words for crossing. Despite these shortcomings, scandals are still more popular today than classic crossword puzzles.
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