Crossword vs Codeword - What's the difference?
crossword | codeword |
(senseid)(games, puzzles) A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.
(cryptography) A string representing an encoded piece of text.
A type of crossword puzzle where individual letters are represented by numbers and the solver must identify them by their position and frequency.
As nouns the difference between crossword and codeword
is that crossword is (a word puzzle) A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word while codeword is a string representing an encoded piece of text.crossword
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(en noun)Synonyms
* crossword puzzleSee also
* acrostic * cryptic crossword * game * puzzlecodeword
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Noun
(en noun)- Bob cannot get any information out of the codeword since he doesn't know what transmission bases Alice used.