Posted on December 28th, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
Three announcements! Trip Payne‘s going to create a puzzle extravaganza contest—a dozen puzzles of various types with words and images, plus a final “meta” puzzle—this spring if he gets enough funding via Kickstarter.com. The puzzles will be along the lines of a “special section” in Games World of Puzzles. In other words, nowhere near as [...]
Tags: Ben Tausig, Brendan Emmett Quigley, David Steinberg, Ed Sessa, Tony Orbach
Posted on December 1st, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
A couple solving-software tips to share: If you’ve got a .puz file but you are on a computer without Across Lite (perhaps as a houseguest in an Across Lite–free domicile), you can drop a .puz file onto Derek Slager’s webpage (using an HTML5-savvy browser—Google Chrome 4 or Mozilla Firefox 3.6 or better) and voilà, the [...]
Tags: Doug Peterson, Ed Sessa, Jeffrey Wechsler, Michael Yanagisawa, Patrick Blindauer, Tony Orbach
Posted on November 26th, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
The Trip Payne puzzle cited above is a variety cryptic called “Minefield,” posted in PDF form last month at Triple Play Puzzles.
Tags: Ed Sessa, Henry Hook, Jeff Chen, Mark Halpin, Martin Ashwood-Smith, Merl Reagle, Trip Payne
Posted on October 10th, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
Posted on October 3rd, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
Posted on September 14th, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
Sometimes we grouse about themes or fill or clues that don’t quite meet our standards for what we want in a crossword. You know what, though? No matter how clunky or stilted that one section of a puzzle blogged at Crossword Fiend may be, it never does seem to use an answer word to clue [...]
Tags: Ben Tausig, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Ed Sessa, Frank Longo, Randolph Ross, Samuel A. Donaldson
Posted on September 1st, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
Posted on July 10th, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
Posted on June 29th, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
Posted on June 1st, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
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