Crossword Inspiration

 

 

This particular piece is a crossword puzzle. The crossword is a bit difficult to read in the picture but the across row starts out 1. A very long race/ 3. Where many games take place/ 6. This holds the flame. The entire puzzle relates to different things associated with the Olympics. An easier to read version of this crossword puzzle can be found at Enchanted Leaning's website in addition to all the answers to the puzzle. This puzzle includes both hints to fill in words that go both across and down and in total has thirty-five hints.

I found this particular piece searching through Bing images shortly before starting to make this post. I was looking for a fairly simple crossword that was not overly complicated and was educational. I ended up choosing this particular piece off the Enchanted Learning because it is a good example of what a crossword should look like and is not very complicated.

The conventions typical associated with crossword puzzles are they go two ways across and down, they give hints as to what word should go in the boxes, what the hint describes and has the same amount of letters a number of boxes for that particular hint. Overall, there is not much to cross word puzzles, but sometimes they can be quite difficult. This particular piece follows the typical conventions of crossword puzzles. However, I'm not exactly sure how crossword puzzles conventions can be altered because they are fairly broad on topic range and specific as to how a crossword should look.

 

The target audience for this particular piece is most likely teachers or students learning about the Olympics. Because this particular piece is on a learning website, the target audience is narrowed down significantly. This particular piece gives simple terms and facts about the Olympics; therefore, the audience is also probable for a younger audience and certainly not a college student writing a research paper. In contrast from crosswords that are more difficult and more complicated would be for a more intelligent/mature audience.