Posted on February 17th, 2012, by Sam Donaldson
On Oscar Sunday, February 26, this blog will host the 2011 Oryx Awards, honoring several of the outstanding achievements in crossword puzzle construction from puzzles published in 2011. Honors will be given in several categories, including Best Easy Puzzle, Best Freestyle, Best Gimmick Puzzle, Best Sunday-sized Puzzle, Best Clue, and Constructor of the Year. We’ll [...]
Tags: Brendan Emmett Quigley, Jeremy Horwitz, Jeremy Newton, Joel Fagliano, Matt Gaffney, Merl Reagle, Patrick Blindauer, Tony Orbach, Tyler Hinman, Victor Barocas
Posted on February 15th, 2012, by Amy Reynaldo
Posted on February 7th, 2012, by Amy Reynaldo
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
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