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Unportal? What the fuck is unportal? I have played games for 30 years and I've never heard the term "unportal". Google gives no useful results. That clue made me angrier than any crossword clue I've ever seen.

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TYVM for trying it out! Oh no, now I feel bad again. Please remember these are unsupervised generated clues by a Large Language Model (openai). More of a field test, however I now understand how serious you and others take crosswording. I vow to do better for the next crossword puzzles. It's not my intention to make people feel bad, sorry!

One more thing: Besides the obvious that clues and answers should make sense can you provide some insights in what makes a good crossword to you? I'd love to hear that from someone playing them for 30 years!

Sorry I can't help, I've been playing video games for 30 years not crosswords :) I'd be keen the hear the same insights as you are.

Oh, I misread your first comment. Thought you were playing crosswords for 30 years that would've been a knowledge goldmine

For me, a mixed crossword between all games doesn't make sense. You could give me 20 crosswords with Dota stuff in it and I would be able to solve 0, not even with hints it would be doable.

So maybe rather have some for League, some for CS, etc? Maybe you can do a mixed indie one with very popular games, or mixed Shooter. But then the questions have to be less difficult :D

TY for the feedback. I see what you are saying about the crossword getting too niche. For now this is mostly a technical decision since its easier to train on a more specific dataset. However i agree with you that the dataset should be expanded once the quality is there

Niche is fine, but mixing 3 niches is not.

AI hallucination

Agreed; probably derived from the 'portal' connections some games use to bridge areas of a map without having to consider their geographical layout.

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