Alright, so I spent some time with this crossword puzzle today, the one titled ‘none of this makes any sense’. That name alone kinda pulled me in. I figured, okay, what’s this gonna be? Some kind of trick? Maybe the clues would be intentionally weird.
So, I got comfortable, grabbed my usual pen, the one I always use for puzzles, and started looking it over. First impressions? It looked like a regular crossword grid. Nothing obviously strange there.
Getting Started
I jumped in like I always do, looking for the easy ones first. You know, the short words, the fill-in-the-blanks, stuff like that. Got a few pretty quickly. Felt normal enough. There was a clue like ‘Opposite of black (5 letters)’, filled in ‘WHITE’. Standard stuff.
But then, maybe five or six clues in, things started getting… odd. The wording felt deliberately awkward on some of them. Like one clue was ‘What you might do with string, but backwards, maybe? (3 letters)’. I stared at that for a long time. Tried thinking of knots, tying… nothing fit with the letters I already had from the across clues. It felt forced.
This is where I started thinking, okay, maybe the title is serious.
The Middle Muddle
I pushed on, filling in bits here and there. Some clues were totally fine, just regular crossword fare. But others kept tripping me up with their strange phrasing or slightly off definitions. It wasn’t like they were super difficult in terms of vocabulary, just… weirdly put.
Here’s what was going through my head:
- Is there a meta-joke I’m missing?
- Are the answers supposed to be nonsensical too?
- Did the creator just have a strange way of thinking?
It was a real mix. One minute I’d get a satisfying run of answers, the next I’d hit a wall with a clue that felt like it came from another planet. That ‘string’ clue? Turned out to be ‘EAT’. Because ‘TIE’ backwards is ‘EIT’, which sounds like ‘EAT’? I guess? Felt like a real stretch to me.
I had to take a break, honestly. Stood up, walked around a bit. Cleared my head. Sometimes staring too hard just makes it worse.
Wrapping It Up
Came back to it after a bit. Managed to chip away at more of it. Seeing more letters filled in definitely helped. The crossing words confirmed some of the stranger answers, even if I didn’t love the clues that led to them.
Finished most of it. There were one or two squares in the bottom corner that I just couldn’t get. The clues were just too vague or strange, and the crossing letters didn’t give me enough to guess confidently. So, not a 100% completion, but close enough.
Looking back, the title was spot on for the experience.
It wasn’t that the puzzle itself was nonsense – there were actual answers and a logic, however twisted sometimes. But the feeling while solving it? Yeah, plenty of moments where I thought “none of this makes any sense”. It was kind of frustrating, but also kinda memorable because of it. Not my usual smooth puzzle experience, that’s for sure.
