Contributor studio
Build a grid
Nothing goes live without editorial review. Your name sits on the brief screen before anyone plays.
Workflow
Contributors can move a game to Submitted. Editors own everything after that.
Step 1
Theme & answers
New grid — start with your own theme, in your own words.
Suggestions always follow the theme above — refine the wording (gender, era, place) and ask again. Every line stays editable.
Step 2
Automated validation
Fits the 10x10 frame
All answers fit
At least 4 answers on the board
0 answers placed
Answers cross only on a shared matching letter
All crossings valid
No adjoining answers creating false letter strings
Parallel answers properly separated
One connected crossword (no isolated answers or islands)
All answers connect through real crossings
Every typed answer made it onto the board
0 answers placed
8–12 answers (packed grid)advisory
0 answers — CrossPunk grids run packed, aim for 8–12
Grid densityadvisory
0 filled cells of 100
Letter spreadadvisory
0 unique letters
Step 2b
Title similarity check
Full-phrase comparison against every published title and every theme already in the review pipeline. You see titles only — never another game's answers or grid. It is a signal, not a block: you can always submit and let an editor decide.
Checking past and pending titles…
Step 3
Grid preview & play-test
0 entries · 0 filled cells · bars mark word boundaries
Step 4
Submit for editorial review
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