Chinaward
Chainward
A puzzle in which sequentially located cells are filled in so that the guessed words form a row in which the last letter of the previous word is the first letter of the next one.
Explanatory Dictionary by Efremova. T. F. Efremova. 2000.
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- (from the English chain chain and word word) (puzzle task) filling in sequentially located cells in such a way that the guessed words form a row in which the last letter of the previous word is the first letter of the subsequent one... Big Encyclopedic Dictionary
CHINEWORD, ah, husband. The game is a task in which cells arranged in a chain are filled with words in such a way that the last letter of one word begins the next. | adj. Chinaword, oh, oh. Ozhegov's explanatory dictionary. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova.... ... Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary
Noun, number of synonyms: 4 puzzle (9) task (31) game (318) ... Synonym dictionary
A; m. [from English chain chain and word word] A puzzle in which sequentially located cells are filled in so that the guessed words form a row in which the last letter of the previous word is the first letter of the word... ... encyclopedic Dictionary
- (English chain chain + word word) a type of puzzle task that consists of filling in sequentially located (chain) cells (usually printed on the last pages of some popular magazines, newspapers, books) to make a row... ... Dictionary of foreign words of the Russian language
teaword- China ord, and... Russian spelling dictionary
teaword- (2 m); pl. Chainvo/rdov, R. chainvo/rdov… Spelling dictionary of the Russian language
teaword- Bush shakmaklarga berse artyna berse totashkan sүzlәr yazudan torgan bashvatkych (crossword ohshash) ... Tatar telen anlatmaly suzlege
teaword- a, h. The problem is a puzzle that lies in the completed sequential placement of cells, in which the remaining letter of the previous word is the first letter of the next one... Ukrainian Tlumach Dictionary
teaword- A; m. (from the English chain chain and word word) A puzzle in which sequentially located cells are filled in so that the guessed words form a row in which the last letter of the previous word is the first letter of the word... ... Dictionary of many expressions
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Chainword is a type of word puzzle, the essence of which is to fill in sequentially located cells in such a way that the guessed words form a row in which the last letter of the previous word is the first letter of the next one.
Chinaward No. 1
Tasks
1. King of beasts. (A lion.)
2. Desert animal with two humps. (Camel.)
3. An extinct prehistoric animal, but so popular among kids. (Dinosaur.)
4. Fisherman's catch. (Fish.)
6. A very hot continent where elephants and hippos live. (Africa.)
7. The leader of the wolf pack who once missed. (Akela.)
8. The largest (Mississippi or Chinese) representative of the crocodile order. (Alligator.)
9. Gray hare. (Trotter.)
10. Little fluffy purr. (Kitty.)
Chinaward No. 2
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Tasks
1. Angry toothy predator. (Wolf.)
2. A sheet of paper on which hundreds of rivers and seas, cities and countries fit. (Map.)
3. A certain order of letters, for example, in Russian. (Alphabet.)
4. “A terrible giant, red-haired and mustachioed” from the fairy tale by Korney Chukovsky. (Cockroach.)
5. Blue space above our heads. (Sky.)
6. The ring that gymnasts play with. (Hoop.)
7. A delicious drink from India, which people like to drink hot in Rus'. (Tea.)
8. This medicine is used to lubricate abrasions and small wounds. (Iodine.)
9. Both pedestrians and cars travel along it. (Road.)
Crossword(English) Crossword- crossing words, crossword) is the most common game with words in the world. There are a huge number of repeat publications specializing in crossword puzzles; they are also often published in non-specialized print media.
From the history of the crossword
During excavations of the ancient Roman settlement of Corinum in 1868 in Great Britain, a slab with a design depicted on it, very similar to a crossword puzzle, was found. The find dated back to the 3rd-4th centuries. Something similar was found on a column in the famous Pompeii during excavations in 1936. This creation dates back to the year 79 of our era and was amazing in that the crossword could be read identically from left to right, right to left, top to bottom and bottom to top.
The crossword, in the modern understanding of this word, appeared quite recently, about a century ago (for comparison, chess and checkers are more than one and a half thousand years old). The versions of his appearance today are very contradictory. Three countries - England, the United States of America and the Republic of South Africa - are now challenging the right to be called the birthplace of the crossword puzzle.
The inhabitants of Foggy Albion believe that the first crossword puzzle appeared in Great Britain. According to them, the first crossword puzzles were published already in the middle of the 19th century in the English newspaper The Times, and the first creator of the game was Michael Davis. These puzzles were very ordinary and were mainly intended for children. The task was as follows: fill the squares with letters so that the same word appears both horizontally and vertically.
Residents of the United States say that the world's first crossword puzzle was published on December 21, 1913 in the Sunday Fun supplement of the New York World newspaper and was invented by journalist Arthur Wynne, who emigrated to America from Great Britain. One publisher commissioned Winn to create a Christmas supplement for the newspaper that would arouse the enthusiasm of not just an individual reader, but an entire family. And here the journalist remembered how his grandfather asked him puzzles as a child. These were the so-called “magic squares”, in which the horizontal and vertical lines were filled with similar words. Wynn has perfected this game. He decided that if the word appeared in the problem only once, this would make it more interesting. And Winn, as they say, hit the nail on the head. Readers liked his invention so much that they, in their own countless letters, asked the newspaper to continue publishing similar problems. Arthur Wynne was also the first to use darkened cells to separate words in a crossword puzzle.
There is also a completely romantic story about the origin of the world's first crossword puzzle. At the beginning of the 20th century, South African resident Victor Orville, who was responsible for a car accident, was sentenced to three years in prison. In the cell where he was sitting, the floor was paved with stone slabs, which formed a kind of grid. Out of boredom, he began to fill in the cells with letters of intersecting words. Then it was transferred to paper, and definitions were selected for the words. Comrades in misfortune approved of Victor's new product. Then Orville decided to send his invention by mail to the editor of a large Cape Town newspaper. He called the game “Back and forth in squares.” The editor did not immediately appreciate it, but his friends liked the game so much that they spent the entire evening guessing words, after which the editor was obliged to publish a crossword puzzle: this is the name the game received by the time its creator was released. Other newspapers and magazines began publishing crosswords, as a result of which a decent amount of royalties accumulated in Orville’s account.
So, out of 3 versions of the origin of the world’s first crossword puzzle, the American one is taken as the basis: after all, a specific creator, publication date, and printing authority are named. While it is difficult to verify the origin of the world’s first crossword puzzle, the first crossword puzzle in Russia, as it was believed until recently, was written in the magazine “Ogonyok” (No. 18) dated May 12, 1929. Not long ago, new information became known about the origin of the first Russian crossword puzzle. The magazine “World of Adventures” introduced a new section “Intertwined Words” back in the summer of 1925. It is clear that the term “crossword” was introduced by the Russian-American writer V.V. Nabokov.
There are several varieties of crossword puzzle:
Scanword (Scandinavian crossword)- This is one of the most favorite types of crossword puzzle. Definitions of words are given in squares right inside the grid, and answer words are crossed out along the fronts indicated by arrows.
There should not be empty cells in the grid of a perfect crossword puzzle. The denser the scanword grid, the more difficult it is to compose and easier to solve. Definitions can be associative (for example, the correct answer to the definition “Tsar” can be peas, Saltan, sir, etc.). When solving scanword puzzles, the fundamental quality is intuition. The main highlight of scanwords is that the definitions are in the body of the scanword itself, as well as the multidirectionality of addressing words, the ability to use drawings and photos as riddles.
Japanese crossword- a special type of puzzle in which it is necessary, based on code clue numbers, to unravel not words, but an encrypted picture.
There are two types of Japanese crosswords: black and white and color. The numbers show how many merged cells of a given color are in the corresponding column or row. Groups of cells must necessarily share at least one empty (snow-white) cell. The puzzler's task boils down to finding out exactly how many empty cells divide the groups. Although this type of puzzle is not essentially a crossword puzzle as such, the phrase “Japanese crossword” has stuck.
Hungarian crossword or fillword. When solving Hungarian crossword puzzles, you need to cross out the answers in a grid with arranged letters. More precisely, not cross out, but cross out. This is very similar to the British crossword, but there are two fundamental differences - the words usually bend like snakes, and any letter cannot belong to two or more words. In the Hungarian crossword there are no shaded cells, and all the letters are already given. You need to find words for which definitions are given; words can break in any direction vertically or horizontally, but not obliquely. Any letter can only be used once. After crossing out all the words, there should be no empty cells left.
Chinaward- parent of the linear crossword; a type of crossword puzzle that is easy to create but awkward to solve. The network in it is linear cells (squares), drawn in any geometric shape.
Rules. A chain of words is built by joining, where the last letter of the first word is the first letter of the second, etc. This joint is numbered. Only singular nouns are entered into Chinaword. In other words, words in a Chinese word do not intersect, but are only joined together. From time to time the chain of words is bent to give the grid an unusual shape.
In linear crosswords, words can overlap not only with one, but also with 2 or 3 letters, therefore their length is indicated by a bracket in which the definition of the word is given.
The “hybrid” of a chainword and a crossword is called crosschinword. Its main difference from a chainword is that the possibility of self-intersection of a chainword string is allowed.
Keyword (keyword)— letters in the keyword are changed to numbers; similar letters correspond to the same numbers, different letters - different ones. You need to find this correspondence and get a grid with words that agree with each other. A word or letters may be revealed as a clue.
Keyword is a type of crossword puzzle, a linguistic puzzle, that is popular abroad. Each cell of the crossword puzzle contains a number that replaces a letter. The same letters correspond to the same numbers. From time to time, a crossword puzzle is accompanied by a plate with numbers for entering letters that have already been guessed. Letters or clue words are given on the tablet or in the crossword puzzle itself.
Shuttle- a cell field with indicator arrows placed outside it. The meanings of words, both horizontally and vertically, are given one by one, and the grid is filled in in accordance with the directions of the arrows. There are no dividing partitions or cells in the grid; words are not transferred to the next line or column. For clues, the number of letters in the answer word may be given in parentheses. Another fundamental difference is that the last letter of a word is not the first letter of the next one.
Divord (dual)— the diword field is a regular crossword grid, any cell of which already contains two variants of the letter that can appear in it. The player’s task is to choose one of the two proposed letter options so that the grid is filled with meaning intersecting words (like in a crossword puzzle). From time to time, a ready-made key word is entered into the diword first.
American (criss cross)- next to the crossword grid there are words that need to be entered into the grid, from time to time a hint is given - certain words or letters have already been entered into the grid.
Estonian crossword— the words in this crossword are broken up not by blocks, but by the thickened sides of the cells in which the letters are placed. These crosswords look very dense.
On the websites below you can find different types of crosswords, materials for composing and solving crosswords, different programs for composing crosswords:
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What is teaword?
Crossword (eng. Crossword - crossing words, crossword) is the most common game with words in the world. There are a huge number of repeat publications specializing in crossword puzzles; they are also often published in non-specialized print media. From the history of the crossword During excavations of the ancient Roman settlement of Corinum in 1868 in Great Britain, a slab was found with a design depicted on it, very similar to...
Chainwords (from the English chain-word - chain of words) are really chains of words. Probably the simplest puzzles in terms of design. Reminds me of a city game. Words are selected (usually on some topic) and written one after another so that each subsequent word begins with the letter with which the previous word ends. The words seem to be linked together by their outermost letters. For example, RhinoGroMonkeyWarboHareHeronAppleWasp...
In chainwords, as in almost all letter-word puzzles, only nouns are used and only in the singular (with the exception of words that do not have a singular, for example, “scissors”). To turn a chain of words into a puzzle, each letter of the word is written in a cell; common cells are marked with numbers so that it is clear where one word ends and another begins. At the same time, using the numbers you can conveniently compose an explanatory text for guessing the chain word.
If there are a lot of words, then it is inconvenient to write them in one long row - they won’t fit, and even if they do fit, the chainword will turn out to be small. Therefore, it is customary to “fold” chainwords - write them with boustrophedon, twist them in a spiral, etc. The shape of the chainword is the most attractive thing in the puzzle.
If a teaword is ugly and unattractive, then no matter what words are hidden in it, solving it will no longer be so interesting. Making a chain of words, in general, is not so difficult. Therefore, the design of a teaword is almost the most important thing in it. You can make a thematic design, or you can even depict some of the hidden words - a teaword made from ordinary cells will become a small work of art.
Ring chainwords
If you make a chain of words so that the last letter in the last word is the same as the first letter in the first word, then the chainword can be made closed or circular!
For example, you need to make a Chinese word for Pushkin’s work “The Captain’s Daughter”. For the chain of words: Grinev-Vasilisa-Arkhip-Loss-Shvabrin-Nizhneozernaya-Yaik-Commandant-Tulup-Letter-Orenburg, you can make the following figure:
With double or triple coupling
In the chainwords described above, words were linked by one letter. What if words are linked not with one, but with two or three, or an arbitrary number of letters? Yes, it will be even cooler!
In a regular crossword (with a single link), only the initial cells of the word are marked with numbers. The word begins in the cell with its number, and ends in the cell with the next number, and the next word begins in it. When in Chinaward double or triple hitch or arbitrary (sometimes single, sometimes two or more letters), then you need to mark both the beginning and the end of the word with the same number, otherwise it will be unclear where the word ends. Sometimes it may turn out that in one cell one word ends and another word begins. Then both numbers are written in the cell separated by commas. It turns out "double" cell.
Here is an example of a finished chainword with different gears.
Zoochinword
1-1. Songbird migratory bird.
2-2. A very rare animal from the giraffe family, living in the tropical forests of Africa and discovered by naturalists only at the beginning of the 20th century.
3-3. A swimming but not flying polar bird.
4-4. A breed of large poultry raised for meat.
5-5. A hornless, artiodactyl animal from the deer family.
6-6. Poisonous snake.
7-7. Flat sea fish.
8-8. A small predatory animal from the mustelidae family.
9-9. Wild pig.
10-10. Ruminant artiodactyl animal of the bovid family.
11-11. An arthropod with four pairs of legs.
12-12. A freshwater schooling fish whose scales are used to make artificial pearls.
13-13. A good swimming and diving polar bird that nests on coastal rocky cliffs.
14-14. Ten-legged inhabitant of fresh waters.
15-15. Large marine predatory fish.
16-16. A breed of hunting dogs.
17-17. Sea otter or Kamchatka beaver.
18-18. The water boa is the largest snake in the world.
Double row teawords
You may notice that the numbers in the cells of the chainwords take up all the space, and in the process of solving it you have to write letters on top of them. This is not very convenient, especially for chainwords with double and triple links, since they have a lot of cells occupied by numbers. In this case, you can make two rows: the first row is for numbers, the second is for guessed letters.
Scanwords without numbers
You don’t have to bother with numbers at all when solving crossword puzzles, but do it like in scanword puzzles - write text next to the cells.
Crosschainwords
Cross chainwords are no longer quite chainwords - they are a hybrid of a chainword and a crossword puzzle. Classic chainwords do not have self-intersections, but cross chainwords do.
There may be very few such intersections, for example, like here:
Or maybe significantly more:
And this completely brings crosswords closer to their siblings - .
The purpose of the lesson: continue to get acquainted with the simplest types of crosswords; familiarize yourself with the “Drawing” toolbar in the MS Word text editor, familiarize yourself with the technology of creating, formatting and copying simple autoshapes.
Lesson plan.
- Organizing time. Updating knowledge. Speech by a student with his presentation on the topic “Chineword”.
- Discussion of types of chainword grids.
- Practical work based on handouts.
- Summarizing.
Preliminary work: one of the students must prepare a short presentation about chainwords.
Necessary equipment: interactive whiteboard or multimedia equipment.
1. Hello. Sit down.
In the last lesson, we began to get acquainted with the huge world of crossword puzzles.
Today I would like to dwell on teawords. A speech about this type of crossword puzzles was prepared for us by....
(student speaks; the content of his speech should reflect the concept of “chainword”, the basic rules for creating and solving and the appearance of the grid)
2. Let's highlight the main details in the appearance of the teaword.
What does teaword consist of?
From a list of questions and a grid for answers.
What does the grid look like?
The net looks like a snake.
Indeed, the chainword grid sometimes leads to the side, sometimes goes down, sometimes goes up. So, today we will learn how to create a grid for chainwords using the drawing panel in the MS Word text editor. And the topic of our lesson “How to create a chainword grid? "
The grid consists of identical figures.
What shapes can there be?
Squares, rectangles, rhombuses, ovals...
Yes, indeed, the components of the grid can be completely different shapes - even stars. (Appendix 1, slide No. 3)
Do you think that when creating a mesh, you need to create a new shape each time?
No, you can create one shape and then copy it.
How else can you decorate the grid, besides choosing unusual shapes?
You can change the color of the line and paint it over.
If we change the line style and color and add a fill, even a boring grid of squares can look like this. (Appendix 1, slide No. 4)
So, now you will create the chainword grid yourself using the drawing toolbar in the MS Word text editor. Take the handout ( Appendix No. 2), and follow the instructions. Upon completion of the work, we will select the most original mesh. Sit down at your computer and get to work.
4. You have created some wonderful meshes.
Well done. What new things did you learn during the lesson? (students' answers)
Let's summarize - today we got acquainted with the simplest type of crossword puzzles - the chainword; learned how to create a chainword grid from autoshapes using the Drawing toolbar in the MS Word text editor, using formatting and copying.
This is only the beginning of our knowledge, we will continue to expand our knowledge and skills in the next lesson. The lesson is over.
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