black squares
Crossword puzzle blockers
Black squares are the dark-colored spaces on a checkerboard or chessboard, alternating with white squares to create the familiar grid pattern.
In crossword puzzles, black squares separate words and create the puzzle's structure.
The term appears in discussions of visual patterns, grid-based games, and graphic design: The bishop moves diagonally along black squares.
- checkerboardAlternating square pattern
- chess boardCheckered playing surface
- chessStrategic board game
- gridFramework of intersecting lines
- tilesFlat covering pieces
puzzle grid · pixels · pixel art · crossword · fill in · pattern · checkered · dark · void · boxes · cells · monochrome · mosaic · lattice · graph paper · knight · rook · pawn
- logic puzzlessudoku, skyscraper, tapa, cave, corral
- crosswordsacross, cryptic, acrostic, clues, codeword
- chessboardranks, files, diagonals, checkered pattern, center
- crossword gridletter boxes, intersections, grid pattern, rows, columns
- nonogramsgriddler, paint by numbers, clues, numbers, rows