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Quick—what’s a nine-letter word for hours and hours (and hours) of fun? For Grace Tiao ’08, the answer just might be “crossword...
More specifically, a gigantic, enormous, gargantuan crossword. Tiao is the proud owner of one “World’s Largest Crossword,” a massive tapestry of downs and acrosses with over 28,000 clues. The seven-by-seven foot puzzle, which hangs on a wall in Tiao’s room in Weld Hall, was a high school graduation gift. As Tiao explains, “My friend was flying home from MIT’s freshman weekend and saw this puzzle in the Skymall catalog.” (In other news, Tiao?...
...Georgia native began her crossword odyssey in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. As an act of rejection against what she termed the Journal Constitution’s “lackluster” comics page, Tiao began filling out the Sunday crossword. “There was nothing better to do when reading on a Sunday morning,” she says...
...mobile-industry veteran who used to run handheld device company Psion and cell-phone operating-system vendor Symbian, which he left in 2002. His idea for AQA flashed a year ago at Lord's cricket ground in London. While England was playing South Africa, Myers was struggling with a crossword puzzle that wanted four letters for a herring. "I sent a text to someone and got my answer [shad]," he says. "I thought, This is neat-let's press...
...mobile-industry veteran who used to run handheld-device company Psion and cell-phone operating-system vendor Symbian, which he left in 2002. His idea for AQA flashed a year ago at Lord's cricket ground in London. While England was playing South Africa, Myers was struggling with a crossword puzzle that wanted four letters for a herring. "I sent a text to someone and got my answer [shad]," he says. "I thought, This is neat - let's press on.'" How does it work? Most of the questions are answered by humans rather than by computers, which Myers describes...