Using Transformers to Generate Crossword Puzzles

For this project, I trained a set of transformers to generate crossword puzzles, akin to the New York Times crosswords.

• Used Huggingface’s API to utilize transfer learning for the NL tasks.
• Used beam search to create multiple board candidates that were evaluated at each step.
• Puzzles are available to play at nickvinden.com/crossword.

How to Play

Select cells with your mouse and type them in with your keyboard. To get a new puzzle click “New Puzzle”. There are 3 different options for puzzle clue generation.

1. GPT4: Best Model.
2. GPT3.5: Good Model.
3. T5: Miserable solving experience.

To see if your answers are correct select “autocheck”.

Give a go at cracking these completely AI generated crossword puzzles.