Posted on January 18th, 2012, by Amy Reynaldo
If you’re near Killingworth, Connecticut, Jan O’Sullivan (who comments here as “danjan”) has organized a local crossword tournament at the Killingworth Library this Sunday afternoon. Details here. Also, the weekend after this one is when the grand Silicon Valley Puzzle Fest takes place. Terrific line-up of Saturday workshops, plus assorted puzzle tournaments (crosswords, sudoku, cryptics—adults [...]
Tags: Ben Tausig, Brendan Emmett Quigley, C.C. Burnikel, Derek Bowman, Don Gagliardo, Peter Gordon, Sarah Keller, Tony Orbach
Posted on January 7th, 2012, by Amy Reynaldo
I made my travel arrangements the other day for the upcoming American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, March 16-18 in Brooklyn. For more info about the weekend’s events and to register, click here.
Tags: Gail Grabowski, Henry Hook, Merl Reagle, Tony Orbach, Trip Payne, William I. Johnston
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 10th, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
Puzzle announcement: Peter Gordon’s weekly crossword for The Week is now available in Across Lite. Go to http://theweek.com/puzzle and click the relevant link (e.g. “Crossword – December 16, 2011″). That takes you to a page with a puzzle you can click on. Click on that and it takes you to a page where you can [...]
Tags: Alex Boisvert, Henry Hook, Jayne Boisvert, Merl Reagle, Mike Selinker, Mike Shenk, Timothy Polin, 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 24th, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
Posted on November 12th, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
Posted on November 8th, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
Posted on October 25th, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
Posted on October 5th, 2011, by Amy Reynaldo
Aww, R.I.P., Steve Jobs. The crossword world thanks you for all the 4-letter device names (iMac, iPod, iPad) that help us fill in our grids, and for designing the first phone we could solve crosswords on. And then the first tablet we could solve crosswords on even more easily. On a brighter note, yay, Joon! [...]
Tags: Alan Arbesfeld, Ben Tausig, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Frank Longo, Peter A. Collins, Tony Orbach
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