[triMichael]

Definitely not the same technique, but at one point I watched a Mario Maker puzzle level someone had uploaded that used part of its own level code as a clue. The trick was that only two characters of the level code were used, which is hexadecimal, so there are 256 combinations of those two characters, allowing the level creator to brute force re-uploading the level until getting the desired combination.

[georgespencer]

Reminds me of the brilliant New York Times crossword which "predicted" the winner of the US election in 1996:

http://www.alaricstephen.com/main-featured/2017/7/3/the-clin...

[vl]

This crossword is available in NYT Crossword app, I just loaded it!

I'm going to try to solve it both ways. :)

[Lammy]

This page seems to have zero text or image content unless I let SquareSpace run Javascript (and ostensibly track me).