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Publié en ligne: 20 sept. 2024
Pages: 1 - 16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rmm-2024-0008
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Crossword puzzles lend themselves to mathematical inquiry. Several authors have already described the arrangement of crossword grids and associated combinatorics of answer numbers [Fer14] [Fer20] [McS16]. In this paper, we present a new graph-theoretic representation of crossword puzzle grid designs and describe the mathematical conditions placed on these graphs by well-known crossword construction conventions.