Editorial Standards

How LimeGrid creates and reviews its content

Some LimeGrid puzzles and guides are developed with the support of digital tools. Before anything is shared, the LimeGrid Editorial Team — Jamaica reviews the material for accuracy, clarity, playability and cultural context.

Who is responsible

The LimeGrid Editorial Team — Jamaica is responsible for every puzzle and guide on the site. Suggestions from digital tools are treated as starting points, not finished work.

From idea to finished puzzle

Digital tools can help the team explore categories, organise a first draft, test a grid or consider alternate clue wording. A team member then checks, rewrites or removes anything that is unclear, inaccurate or unsuitable.

Puzzle review checklist

  • Every answer uses consistent spelling.
  • Every clue points fairly to the intended answer.
  • Crossing letters and the grid layout work correctly.
  • The difficulty fits the clue style and grid size.
  • Jamaican and Caribbean terms are checked with local context in mind.
  • Each puzzle is complete and ready to play.
  • The game is checked on phones, tablets and desktop screens.

Cultural wording

Jamaican Creole, proverbs, food terms and place names can have alternate spellings or regional uses. The team aims to choose a readable form, explain the context and avoid presenting one household's wording as the only possible version.

Quotations and proverbs

Authored quotations are checked against a reliable source. LimeGrid favours traditional proverbs, public-domain works and short quotations that suit the game. Traditional sayings are labelled by tradition rather than assigned to a modern person without evidence. LimeGrid keeps a note of the wording, source and review date for each quotation puzzle.

Images and visual media

Any photographs or illustrations added to LimeGrid must be original, licensed, public domain or otherwise clearly authorised. Alternative text should explain useful visual information without repeating decorative wording.

Corrections

Visitors can email support@limegrid.net with the page, puzzle, clue or quotation involved. The team checks the report, updates the material when appropriate and changes the review date for a substantive correction. A correction may also be declined when it reflects a valid regional variant rather than an error.

Family-friendly standard

LimeGrid avoids explicit sexual content, hateful material, graphic violence, dangerous instructions and other subjects that do not fit a broad family audience. Historical or cultural topics should be treated accurately and respectfully rather than sanitised into misleading statements.

Advertising separation

Editorial choices are not sold to advertisers. Advertising, when present, is kept separate from game controls and written content. LimeGrid pages remain useful without requiring a visitor to click an advertisement.

Review dates and maintenance

Guides show when they were last reviewed. Game pages are checked whenever rules, puzzle content or features change, and outdated information is corrected or removed.

The important question is simple: has LimeGrid checked that the content is accurate, useful, playable and honestly presented?