I settled on puzzle G’s theme, “graphic language” (har har) pretty early. I had other ideas for I, which could’ve been “images,” or P, which could’ve been “pictures,” but nothing else in mind for G. As a comics writer, I’m used to communicating visually, and I’ve long been interested in how such communication could work in puzzles that are more traditionally word-based.
The graphics of “G” come in two flavors. One is emoji-based, using just emoji or some combination of words and emoji to indicate the answers. The other is photo-based. I designed 100x100-pixel photo clues, working around some copyright issues I’ll get into later, each of them indicating one of the puzzle’s 4,630 clues.
The Ubercross Abecedaria G contained 547 photo clues, and the small g had another 23, for a total of 570.
Here they all are.
(Note, the images’ resolution is slightly reduced to fit them all in this grid, so not all captions are legible.)
Tomorrow: breaking down those rights issues.