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A MONOGRAPH ON CROSSWORD PUZZLES I
Introduction I've worked an average of just over one crossword puzzle a day since 1972
In fact, I prefer the phrase "playing a puzzle" to "working a puzzle" because that's the attitude I think you should have
For example, in a New York Times puzzle that ran on March 12, 2003, by, the theme answer is a takeoff on a Groucho Marx quip, strung in perfect symmetry throughout the grid: TIMEFLIESLIKEAN ARROWBUTFRUIT FLIESLIKEAMELON Here's another funny one, especially if you ever spent more than four years living less than three miles (exactly five El stops) from Addison Clark Street
In this NYT puzzle of October 23, 2005, by David J
For example, as every New York Times crossword puzzle fan will tell you, there's a limit to how many times you need to learn that Woodie Guthrie's son is named Arlo
Crossword puzzles that appear in The New York Times follow certain rules, and I hereby propose to list some of them
Clearly, if you can whip out a Monday puzzle in ten minutes instead of fifteen, that's five extra minutes you can use to get off the pot and get on with your day
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The nation's oldest and largest crossword competition.
March 23-25, 2007 30th Annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament Stamford, Connecticut You've seen the movie, now come join the fun! Congratulations to Tyler Hinman, winner of the 29th Annual ACPT, held March 24-26, 2006
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What's in this website Compete online and compare your scores! Want to compete but can't attend? Keep me informed! The details Print and send! Sample Puzzles (pdf) Other crossword websites What's going down Short history of crosswords, including the first one! Will Shortz • • • Previous Years | | | | | • SPONSORED BY • St
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Have fun! Posted by Kevin McCann on: September 22, 2006 1:54:04 PM Antony Lewis, creator of Crossword Compiler, made this brief announcement on CRUCIVERB-L: "Over the years various people have suggested an open XML file format for puzzles
I looked at the results for their solving of the NYT puzzle, for online and onsite participants
I remember doing this puzzle
It was either a monday or a tuesday puzzle, and Webcrow solved it in 13 mins, 25 secs, with a 95% accuracy rate (72/76 squares)
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And, indeed, some of the puzzles are very simple to solve
That's why these puzzles have such a broad appeal and are accessible to young children as well as adults
Monday August 7, 2006 | Anybody who likes Scrabble (or crossword puzzles) will probably enjoy this game and while Scrabble is limited to four players, this game will accommodate 2-3 times that many
Friday August 4, 2006 | To solve the puzzle, move the blocks so as to unscramble the picture
Have fun! Wednesday August 2, 2006 | How the Japanese puzzle's invasion has rocked American crossword writers Matt Gaffney has written an interesting article detailing the 'love-hate relationship the U.S
crossword community has with Sudoku.' This Japanese puzzle has upstaged the venerable crossword puzzle and is enjoying a popularity reminiscent of the 1920s when crossword puzzles became a national obsession in America
Monday July 31, 2006 | The New York Times provides great crossword puzzles from North America's premier crossword puzzle creators
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Subtopics Articles & Resources Sort By : Guide Picks | An eclectic selection of themed crossword puzzles by Dave Fisher
If you like to do crossword puzzles that don't have you pulling your hair out, then here's a selection of puzzle books that are compiled with the novice or casual solver in mind
Here's a selection of crossword puzzles that will challenge even the most experienced solvers
One recommendation: work these puzzles in pencil and have a good eraser on hand
Here are the helpful books that every crossword puzzle solver needs whether they're a novice or a seasoned pro
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Contents Info Extras Links Crossword Puzzle Maker Software for Windows NEW Version 7.2; includes Sudoku puzzle generator and export Crossword Compiler has everything you need to create great educational, professional, and fun crossword puzzles
The program can make a vocabulary puzzle from your own words in seconds, or fill in one of the many supplied grid patterns from a word list
There are several different puzzle styles to choose from, and many tools to help you create great grids and clues in a snap
You can print out and export your puzzles in many ways, including interactive online crosswords for your web page
This is the software used by most of the puzzle makers for the New York Times and other papers, and is widely used by professionals, teachers and hobbyists from around the world
Puzzles for education Create fun vocabulary puzzles automatically from a list of words
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If you like crossword puzzles, you are in the right place! We've put together a great site that I hope will tickle your crossword funny bone and keep you coming back for more
So sharpen your pencils and prepare for a great time! Free Crossword Puzzles To start off with, may I recommend the ? Click here to start solving some fun puzzles
Make Crossword Puzzles In the mean time, you may just get some ideas for some puzzles you would like to create
Crossword Weaver is software that lets you enter words you would like to see in your puzzle, press a button, and you're done! You have a New York Times quality puzzle in just a few minutes
For those who don't care about New York Times rules, you can even have the software create a free-form puzzle that uses only your words
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Cruciverbalist Summary
For the Macintosh, by West Pole Software. Contains documentation and information.
' I recently became a registered user of Cruciverbalist, and I love it! I like to develop puzzles as well as solve them
' -- Michael Webb Cruciverbalist A Shareware Crossword Program for the MacOS by the West Pole Software Company You can use Cruciverbalist to: Construct newspaper quality crosswords of your own Show possible words from its included extensive word list Create word lists from text files, add and delete words from files and puzzles, merge and difference word lists Use standard or customized printing formats for puzzles you solve or those you construct Solve Cruciverbalist puzzles, and puzzles published on the internet by The New York Times, USA Today, and others Solve traditionally published puzzles and, by viewing possible words from word lists, improve your solving skills ' Cruciverbalist is a wonderful piece of software! It does everything that I wanted and more
I'm having great fun whipping out 'insider' puzzles for friends and relatives
I just completed a puzzle that is themed to my 18 year old son's interests, which I'm going to present as a birthday card this week
' It is like a dream creating puzzles with Cruciverbalist: you just touch a key and there it is! In fact Cruciverbalist is even much better than this: you can choose to be in command of the process all the time and pick the words you feel will make good clues
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The business of brain teasers | Do you sudoku? | Economist.com
Article on the puzzle's popularity in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
Sudoku , an old puzzle long popular in Japan is fast gaining popularity the world over
In Britain, a sudoku book is a bestseller and national newspapers are competing feverishly to publish the most, and the most fiendish, puzzles
(Last week the Guardian printed a board on every page of one day's features section.) Meanwhile, the puzzle is being published in newspapers from Australia to Croatia to America
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Discussion about the documentary movie 'Wordplay' which shows how people from
different walks of life relate to crossword puzzles.
| Search: > from the June 16, 2006 edition Play on words Patrick Creadon directed 'Wordplay, ' a documentary about the cult of crossword puzzles
By Irene Svete | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor SEATTLE – Who'd have thought that a documentary about crossword puzzles and the people who love them would generate the kind of excitement that gets theatergoers shouting solutions at the screen? Watching audiences catch the puzzle bug has been great fun, says Patrick Creadon, director of 'Wordplay, ' which opens Friday in New York before expanding wider later in June
'As people get older, they don't always make time for that.' SOLUTION ORIENTED: Competitors work fast at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, held in Stamford, Conn
More than 50 million Americans - from former presidents and rock stars to ordinary folks around the corner - do crossword puzzles each week
As Jon Stewart, who proposed to his wife in a custom-made crossword puzzle, quips in the film: 'I'll solve a USA Today [puzzle] in a hotel room, but I don't feel good about myself.' Creadon and his wife, producer Christine O'Malley, had been casting about for a topic for their first feature-length documentary when they realized it was right on the page in front of them
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The entire Merriam-Webster Crossword Puzzle Dictionary and a search engine is built into CrossWorks to find and list for you all the words in the Dictionary that fit a puzzle space — no matter what letters are already in it
Solving a puzzle but can't come up with an answer? Creating but can't think of a word to fit a space? CrossWorks finds all the possibilities instantly
Everything you need to create or solve crossword puzzles CrossWorks has all that a crossword puzzle enthusiast could want
Just select a list you have created or imported — or any combination of such lists — pick one of our puzzle layouts — or design your own — and watch CrossWorks race to fill in the words
Unlimited word lists let you make differently themed puzzles perfectly tailored to family, to friends, to co-workers, to school children
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Parnell Hall and his mystery novels.
Description of the series featuring The Puzzle Lady.
"That Parnell Hall--what a wit! In a whimsical series of novels that use crossword puzzles as mystery clues, he manages to make fun of the very genre conventions he executes so skillfully
Stalking the Puzzle Lady is a typical clever piece of work.....Crossword puzzles the reader can solve
Feisty, contentious Cora has plenty of quirky charm, which will continue to attract those who have enjoyed her sleuthing in the past." - BookList (09/2005) Bantam, October 31, 2006, ISBN 0-553-80418-9, $24.00/US Puzzled? You might be, if you were arrested for murder! Did Cora kill two-bit gambler Benny Southstreet over a purloined puzzle? That's what the Bakerhaven police contend, in
The new Puzzle Lady adventure, peppered with puzzles by famed New York Times contributor Manny Nosowsky, hits the shelves on October 31st
NPR : Sunday Puzzle
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
| | | | | | Sunday Puzzle By August 6, 2006· Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home
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July 16, 2006 · Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home
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July 2, 2006 · Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home
June 25, 2006 · Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home
June 18, 2006 · Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home
June 11, 2006 · Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home
NPR : Jill Sobule: Singer, Actress, Crossword Addict
For the artwork of her latest CD, Underdog Victorious, Sobule incorporated her
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| | | | | | Pop Music Jill Sobule: Singer, Actress, Crossword Addict by and Julian Hibbard Singer Jill Sobule is also a crossword-puzzle enthusiast, as reflected in the artwork on her new CD
And with the release of her latest CD, the critically acclaimed Underdog Victorious , Sobule fulfilled yet another desire: she became a clue in a crossword puzzle
A self-proclaimed crossword addict, Sobule enlisted the help of Weekend Edition puzzle master Will Shortz to create a full-fledged puzzle on the inside cover of her CD
The singer talks with Shortz and NPR's Liane Hansen about her puzzle habit and her career
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An article by Seth Stevenson offering a brief overview of Sudoku.
My Days Are Numbered I'm addicted to a Japanese logic puzzle
By Seth Stevenson Posted Tuesday, May 31, 2005, at 6:19 AM ET When Slate asked me to write about 'sudoku'âthe number puzzle that's taken Britain by storm (and seems poised to conquer the United States, too)âI thought it might be a pleasant little assignment
After all, I like puzzles
Sudoku is a logic puzzle
This sort of puzzle has been around forever, all over the world
(The really nice thing about number puzzles is that they work in any language.) Sudoku is often called 'Number Place' in the United States, and it's popped up in puzzle magazines here for years
He created a computer program that will compose new sudoku puzzles on demand
Then he walked into the Times of London offices without an appointment and convinced them to run his puzzles
Being a crossword nut myself, I understand how folks can get excited about puzzles
Gould presented the puzzle to newspaper editors in a clear, understated way (his Web site is a marvel of clarity)
And by providing the puzzles for free, he relied on word of mouth to build all the hype for him
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