Word: crossworder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Will Shortz is to puzzles what Oprah is to books - an endorsement by the New York Times crosswords editor is as good as gold. He's sold more than 5 million volumes of Sudoku games and has now moved on to KenKen, a numerical logic puzzle invented by a Japanese educator as a clever way to teach math to kids (the name means "cleverness squared" in Japanese). Shortz held the first U.S. KenKen tournament this weekend at the 32nd annual American Crosswords Puzzle tournament in Brooklyn, which drew more than 900 people from across the world - including KenKen's creator...
First of all, I love almost any kind of puzzle. My sense is that most crossword people are not interested in Sudoku or KenKen, and vice versa. I'm in the minority that is crazy about all three varieties. I think KenKen is bringing in a whole new solver. (Read "Who Needs Sudoku...
...good as it is, you can't do a crossword puzzle on the Kindle, which speaks to a bigger problem. For most people, the Kindle is still not as good as cheap and wonderful-to-touch paper. An old saw in the technology business is that any new tech must be 10 times as good as the thing it seeks to displace. Most people would agree that the automobile was exponentially better than the horse, just as the personal computer was a vast improvement over the typewriter. The change didn't happen overnight; it took time for both the auto...
...retired administrator who has proctored Harvard exams for several semesters, said that during the three-hour finals, “you can only sit and stare at a wall for so long.” She admitted to glancing at exams before passing them out or working on a crossword puzzle occasionally during her breaks to avoid boredom...
...Even before this fall, trivia has held a constant presence in Schleicher’s life throughout his undergraduate years. Troy C. Murrell ’09, who met Schleicher when the two were freshmen, said that they used to do New York Times crossword puzzles and play Trivial Pursuit. Last summer, they took a team to trivia night at Charlie’s Kitchen...