Gisnep

About Gisnep

Gisnep is a daily word puzzle by David Friedman, who writes the Ironic Sans newsletter. The game counts its puzzles from 8 August 2024, and it is built on the old quotefall, or dropquote, format that used to run in puzzle magazines. The name is a common misreading of the Disney logo, and the mascot is a cartoon moose.

Each day's grid hides one quote. The letters for every column are given, but not their order, so your job is to work out which row each letter belongs in. Black squares mark the gaps between words, and words wrap around from the end of one line to the start of the next. You click a cell and type, and a timer runs from the moment you press Start.

The twist is the quote source. Some cells are circled, and whatever you type in them also appears in a line below the grid that spells out the person or work being quoted. If that line starts to make sense, you are on the right track; if it turns into nonsense, something above is wrong. Letters that do not appear in the quote at all are filled into the source for free at the start.

There is a Check button if you get stuck, a Reset that keeps the timer running, settings for word highlighting and dimming letters you can no longer use, and an archive of every earlier puzzle. Your history stays in the browser, or you can sign in with Google to sync it. Gisnep suits players who like crosswords and cryptograms and want a short daily puzzle with a satisfying sentence at the end.

How to play Gisnep

1. Press Start to begin the puzzle and the timer.
2. Click a cell; each column shows the letters that belong somewhere in it.
3. Type letters into the cells so that words read across the rows, wrapping onto the next line.
4. Watch the circled cells: their letters also spell out the quote's source below the grid.
5. Keep going until the whole quote and its source are filled in, then share your time.

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Tips

• Start with short words of one to three letters; they have few possible fits.
• Columns with only one or two letters left are usually quick to settle.
• Use the source line: once you can guess the speaker, the circled letters are given.
• Turn on letter filtering in settings so used letters are dimmed.
• Remember that a word can break at the end of a row and carry on in the next one.

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