Friday, 2/3/12
CHE tba
Tags: Ben Tausig, David J. Kahn, David Steinberg, Joel Kaplow, Patrick Blindauer, Steve Salitan
CHE tba
Tags: Ben Tausig, David J. Kahn, David Steinberg, Joel Kaplow, Patrick Blindauer, Steve Salitan
Holy cats, people! It’s Friday the 13th! And you know what that means. Yep, that’s right: The next day will be Saturday the 14th.
Tags: Doug Peterson, Jim Holland, Joe DiPietro, Marti DuGuay-Carpenter, Patrick Blindauer, Todd Gross
If you’re a Facebook user, check out the new Crosswords app from PuzzleSocial. New ways to solve competitively or in tandem with a friend, plus the standard “solve online by yourself” and “print out the puzzle” options. The familiar CrosSynergy and Newsday daily puzzles, plus the indie/alt-weekly puzzles that are blogged here weekly. And all-new [...]
Tags: Ben Tausig, Brendan Emmett Quigley, John Lampkin, Kristian House, Patrick Blindauer
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
WSJ (Saturday) tba
Tags: Barry C. Silk, Brad Wilber, Doug Peterson, Lars G. Doubleday, Patrick Blindauer
Did you buy Patrick Blindauer’s inaugural puzzle suite a year ago? He funded that one through Kickstarter.com supporters and it was a lot of fun… except for the part where I just plain couldn’t figure out what direction to go for the meta answer. The individual puzzles were all fun, but I crashed and burned [...]
Tags: Patrick Blindauer