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
8–12 answers (packed grid)
0 answers — CrossPunk grids run packed, aim for 8–12
Every answer placed across or down (never diagonal)
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
Grid is interlocked
Every answer crosses another
Grid density
0 filled cells of 100
Letter spread
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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