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Shortz
William F. Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is an American puzzle creator and editor and crossword puzzle editor for '' The New York Times''. Early life and education Will Shortz was born and raised on an Arabian horse farm in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He was drawn to puzzles at an early age; in eighth grade he wrote a paper titled “Puzzles as a Profession.” (The paper earned him a B+.) At age 13, Shortz wrote to '' Language on Vacation'' author Dmitri Borgmann for advice on how to pursue a career in puzzles. At age 16, Shortz began regularly contributing crossword puzzles to Dell publications. He eventually graduated from Indiana University in 1974, and is the only person known to hold a college degree in enigmatology, the study of puzzles. Shortz wrote his thesis about the history of American word puzzles. Shortz achieved this by designing his own curriculum through Indiana University's Individualized Major Program. He also earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
''The New York Times'' crossword puzzle is a daily crossword puzzle published in '' The New York Times'', online on the newspaper's website, syndicated to more than 300 other newspapers and journals, and on mobile apps. The puzzle is created by various freelance constructors and has been edited by Will Shortz since 1993. The crosswords are designed to increase in difficulty throughout the week, with the easiest puzzle on Monday and the most difficult on Saturday. The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in '' The New York Times Magazine'', is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be as difficult as a Thursday puzzle. The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares. History Although crosswords became popular in the early 1920s, ''The New York Times'' (which initially regarded crosswords as frivolous, calling them "a primitive form of mental exercise") did not begin to run a crossword until 1942, in i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossword
A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white- and black-shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer words and phrases are placed in the grid from left to right ("across") and from top to bottom ("down"). The shaded squares are used to separate the words or phrases. Types Crossword grids such as those appearing in most North American newspapers and magazines feature solid areas of white squares. Every letter is checked (i.e. is part of both an "across" word and a "down" word) and usually each answer must contain at least three letters. In such puzzles shaded squares are typically limited to about one-sixth of the total. Crossword grids elsewhere, such as in Britain, South Africa, India and Australia, have a lattice-like structure, with a higher percentage of shaded squares ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Puzzle Championship
The World Puzzle Championship (commonly abbreviated as WPC) is an annual international puzzle competition run by the World Puzzle Federation. All the puzzles in the competition are pure-logic problems based on simple principles, designed to be playable regardless of language or culture. National teams are determined by local affiliates of the World Puzzle Federation. Of the 26 championships (team category) held thus far, 14 have been won by the United States, 7 by Germany, 3 by the Czech Republic, and 2 by Japan. The most successful individual contestant is Ulrich Voigt (Germany) with 11 titles since 2000. The latest WPC was held in October 2019 in Germany. Origin The World Puzzle Championship was the brainchild of Levi Summers, who wanted to create an event where puzzlers from different countries could compete on an even playing field. Previously, the International Crossword Marathon was the major international competition for puzzle-solving, and Shortz had attended it every ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament is a crossword-solving tournament held annually in February, March, or April. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 tournament was canceled. In April 2021, the 43rd tournament was held virtually. Founded in 1978 by Will Shortz, who still directs the tournament, it is the oldest and largest crossword tournament held in the United States; the 2019 event set an attendance record with 741 competitors, including over 200 rookies. For its first 30 years the contest was held at the Marriott in Stamford, Connecticut, but owing to increasing popularity, in 2008 it moved to the larger Marriott Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York. In 2015, the tournament returned to Stamford. The tournament traditionally begins Friday evening with social games and a wine-and-cheese reception. More games are played on Saturday evening, many of them adaptations of television game shows. Participants and divisions Anyone can participate, although registration is l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Puzzlers' League
The National Puzzlers' League (NPL) is a nonprofit organization focused on puzzle, puzzling, primarily in the realm of word play and word games. Founded in 1883, it is the oldest puzzlers' organization in the world. It originally hosted semiannual conventions in February and September of each year, but conventions are now held annually, in July. History On July 4, 1883, twenty-eight word puzzlers, mostly young men, met at Pythagoras Hall in New York City and founded the Eastern Puzzlers' League; they then celebrated the event by paying a penny each to walk across the newly dedicated Brooklyn Bridge. Renamed the National Puzzlers' League in 1920, the organization has been in continuous existence ever since that first meeting and is the oldest puzzlers' organization in the world. The league's official publication began as ''The Eastern Enigma''. It originally contained few, if any, puzzles, and instead reported on business transacted at puzzlers' conventions, presented verses and skit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremiah Farrell
Jeremiah (Jerry) Farrell (December 12, 1937, in Hastings, Nebraska—July 4, 2022, in Indianapolis, Indiana) , Hastings Tribune, Jul 7, 2022 was an American professor emeritus of mathematics at in . He was well known for having constructed 's favorite puzzle, the 1996 "Election Day" crossword in '' |
KenKen
KenKen and KenDoku are trademarked names for a style of arithmetic and logic puzzle invented in 2004 by Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto,A New Puzzle Challenges Math Skills '''', February 8, 2009 who intended the puzzles to be an instruction-free method of training the brain.Tetsuya Miyamoto creates KenKen. Train your brain '' |
Weekend Edition Sunday
''Weekend Edition'' is a set of American radio news magazine programs produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). It is the weekend counterpart to the NPR radio program ''Morning Edition''. It consists of ''Weekend Edition Saturday'' and ''Weekend Edition Sunday'', each of which airs for two hours, from 8:00a.m. to 10:00a.m. Eastern time, with refeeds until 2:00 p.m. ''Weekend Edition Saturday'' is hosted by Scott Simon, while ''Weekend Edition Sunday'' is hosted by Ayesha Rascoe, a White House correspondent for NPR, whose first broadcast as permanent host was March 27, 2022. Rascoe and other NPR correspondents alternated hosting ''Weekend Edition Sunday'', after previous host Lulu Garcia-Navarro departed in October 2021. The programs feature longer stories than most NPR news magazines, and more arts and culture stories. Format Weekday sibling ''Morning Edition'' breaks up each hour into five segments, none more than twelve minutes long; ''Weekend Edition'' uses only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weekend Edition
''Weekend Edition'' is a set of American radio news magazine programs produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). It is the weekend counterpart to the NPR radio program ''Morning Edition''. It consists of ''Weekend Edition Saturday'' and ''Weekend Edition Sunday'', each of which airs for two hours, from 8:00a.m. to 10:00a.m. Eastern time, with refeeds until 2:00 p.m. ''Weekend Edition Saturday'' is hosted by Scott Simon, while ''Weekend Edition Sunday'' is hosted by Ayesha Rascoe, a White House correspondent for NPR, whose first broadcast as permanent host was March 27, 2022. Rascoe and other NPR correspondents alternated hosting ''Weekend Edition Sunday'', after previous host Lulu Garcia-Navarro departed in October 2021. The programs feature longer stories than most NPR news magazines, and more arts and culture stories. Format Weekday sibling ''Morning Edition'' breaks up each hour into five segments, none more than twelve minutes long; ''Weekend Edition'' uses only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Thomas Maleska
Eugene Thomas Maleska (January 6, 1916 – August 3, 1993) was a U.S. crossword puzzle constructor and editor. ''The New York Times'' had published dozens of crosswords that he had submitted as a freelance contributor. He became the crossword editor for ''The New York Times'' in 1977, replacing Will Weng. In 1993, Maleska was succeeded by Will Shortz, who remains New York Times crossword editor to this day. Besides numerous collections of puzzles, Maleska also published Maleska's Favorite Word Games and A Pleasure in Words, which included a chapter on constructing crossword puzzles. Biography Maleska was born on January 6, 1916, in Jersey City. He graduated from Regis High School in New York City. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Montclair State College and began his career teaching Latin and English at a junior high school in Palisades Park, New Jersey. He married Jean (c. 1915–1983) and had two children: Merryl Maleska Wilbur and Gary Maleska. Eugene mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Games (magazine)
''GAMES World of Puzzles'' is a puzzle magazine formed from the merger of Games and World of Puzzles in October 2014. The entire magazine interior is now newsprint (as opposed to the part-glossy/part-newsprint format of the original ''Games'') and the puzzles and articles that originally sandwiched the "Pencilwise" section are now themselves sandwiched ''by'' the main puzzle pages, replacing the "feature puzzle" section. (They are still full-color, unlike the two-color "Pencilwise" sections.) Like the original ''World of Puzzles'' (which is now discontinued), the answer key is now at the rear of the magazine. The new combined title remained on the same 9-issue-per-year publication schedule as the original ''Games''. Games ''Games'' magazine (ISSN 0199-9788) was a magazine devoted to games and puzzles, and it was published by Games Publications, a division of Kappa Publishing Group. History Games was originally published by ''Playboy'' (debuting with the September/October 1977 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Publications
Penny Publications, LLC is a United States magazine publisher specializing in puzzles, mysteries, and crosswords. , Penny Publications publishes at least 85 magazines, distributed through newsstands, in stores, and by subscription in U.S. and Canada, and at least 60 puzzle books. Penny Publications' headquarters are in Norwalk, Connecticut. History Penny Publications was founded in 1973 in Stamford, Connecticut, by the husband-and-wife team of William E. "Bill" Kanter and Penny Kanter. Bill Kanter was the son of Albert Kanter (1897–1973), founder of The Gilberton Company, formerly the publisher of ''Classics Illustrated''. The Kanters combined the remaining Gilberton assets with a struggling crossword publisher to form Penny Press and Crosstown Publications. The parent company was named after Penny. In an homage to ''Classics Illustrated'', one of the company's first titles was ''Classic Crosswords''. In March 1996, Penny Publications acquired Dell Magazines, founded in 1921 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
