Cut-Throat said:I do the N.Y. Times thru Thursday by myself. And I work the Saturday one with a old doctor friend of mine (he's good at it).
Thanks Sheryl I'll need lots of it for sure..I'm defintely a candidate for collaboration!Sheryl said:Good luck with the puzzling DanTien!
You will soon learn many intersting facts like the 4-letter word for sea eagle, and the names of mountain ranges in eastern Europe, and ports in the middle east.
I like to do a crossword puzzle now and then. My co-worker and I do them at lunch, in a pointless combination of competition until we're both stuck, and then collaboaration.
brewer12345 said:Why do you hate America?
DanTien said:I just found Sea-Going Eagle = erne ...how did you know? do alot of puzzles use same words over and over?
sounds like the masons!Sheryl said:Yup. You will notice those words frequently, ural and erne start with vowels and have lots of vowels in them... but I'm not going to give away all the crossworders secrets. You have to earn your way to the top, young man!
Thank you JohnJohn Tuttle said:I do at least one crossword puzzle a day. Most online puzzles use Across Lite which you can get here:
http://www.litsoft.com/
You can get some easy puzzles to solve here:
http://www.chron.com/content/fun/games/xword/puzzles/
The WSJ has a medium difficulty puzzle every week which you can get here:
http://www.fleetingimage.com/wij/xyzzy/06-wsj.html
The Sunday Washington Post is another medium difficulty puzzle you can get Here
http://www.fleetingimage.com/wij/xyzzy/06-wp.html
The Washington Post Puzzles answers are not unlocked until the following week.
I loaded it and will now give it a try - I think I have to since it's one of Will Shortz' favs.John Tuttle said:You're welcome Dan.
I put Wordplay in my Netflix queue. If you decide you like doing crosswords, you have a 100 or so good free ones in the WSJ and WP archives.
I get a kick out of the WSJ puzzles because I think they often have clever themes. I think it is easier to do them on the computer, but I prefer to do them with paper and pen.
Since we just had an election, you might find this interesting
http://barelybad.com/xwdthemes_110596.htm
This is one of Will Shortz's favorite puzzles of all times.
...I was on the edge of my seat....says something about me no doubt....That poor guy who always finished third didn't take the time to check his work and ended up finishing third again : ..I'm still doing crosswords and don't cheat as much now...John Tuttle said:Netflix delivered Wordplay today and I just finished watching it. I thought it was very interesting but DW was bored. It had a sort of sad ending. I thought it was interesting that one of the folks said the best solvers tended to be musicians and math types. I'm in the latter category.