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After the competition, Will Shortz—the New York Times crossword puzzle editor and the man who introduced Sudoku to America—gave a short talk about his favorite crossword puzzle experiences. Flyby slowly realized, as the audience responded to Shortz with roars of laughter and knowing shouts of approval, that we were in the presence of a cruciverbalist...
...Will Shortz is to puzzles what Oprah is to books - an endorsement by the New York Times crossword editor is as good as gold. He helped popularize Sudoku in the U.S. and has sold more than 5 million volumes of the number-sequencing game. Now he's moved on to another numerical brainteaser, KenKen, which boasts something Sudoku does not: actual math. The game was invented by a teacher in Tokyo to help kids learn arithmetic; kenken means "cleverness squared" in Japanese...
...pretty busy guy, and I don't solve many puzzle books anymore, certainly not from start to finish," Shortz says of his becoming addicted to KenKen a year and a half ago. "I just loved it." He persuaded his newspaper to start publishing the game last month and just held KenKen's first U.S. competition at the annual American Crossword Puzzle tournament, in New York City, which drew more than 900 people from around the world - including KenKen's creator, Tetsuya Miyamoto. (Read an interview with Shortz...
...Will Shortz is to puzzles what Oprah is to books - an endorsement by the New York Times crosswords editor is as good as gold. He's sold more than 5 million volumes of Sudoku games and has now moved on to KenKen, a numerical logic puzzle invented by a Japanese educator as a clever way to teach math to kids (the name means "cleverness squared" in Japanese). Shortz held the first U.S. KenKen tournament this weekend at the 32nd annual American Crosswords Puzzle tournament in Brooklyn, which drew more than 900 people from across the world - including KenKen's creator...
...basics of the crossword craft to about half a dozen crossword enthusiasts. Mahowald said this year’s Crossword Society public event was much more “low-key” than last year’s tournament, which brought famed New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz and 120 cross-wordsmiths. The key to starting a crossword, Mahowald said, is to create several theme answers that fit symmetrically into the grid. Next, he recommended finding long words that form “fun, interesting answers.” As an example, Mahowald showed the group...