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Thus Arthur Wynne is credited as the inventor of what is arguably the first mobile game—the American-style crossword puzzle, notable for its intellectual challenge and...
Feb 14, 2017 · Jean Sherman of New York City, N.Y. proposed to Peter Sherman in the September 11, 1989 puzzle, after working with then-editor Eugene T. Maleska to get both their names, “proposes ...
May 6, 2024 · The first crosswords appeared in England during the 19th century. They were of an elementary kind apparently derived from the word square, a group of words arranged so the letters read alike vertically and horizontally, and printed in children’s puzzle books and various periodicals.
Dec 17, 2022 · It was constructed by Charles Erlenkotter (1881-1948) on a 23-by-23 grid; a tear sheet of the original is in The Times’s archive. It was edited by Margaret Farrar (1897-1984), who was already known...
Jul 21, 2015 · Crossword puzzles, like so many things I love, originated in England in the 19th century, although they were first widely published in the United States. They were a derivation of the “word square,” a children’s puzzle that looks exactly how you imagine it looking.
Mar 17, 2020 · The first “Word-Cross Puzzle” was invented out of desperation by Arthur Wynne, the British-born editor of the Sunday color supplement (titled, simply, “FUN”) for Joseph Pulitzer’s...
Sep 25, 2022 · Crossword puzzles got their start in 1913, when Arthur Wynne was putting together the Christmas edition of “Fun,” the jokes and puzzles supplement he managed for the New York World. Believing that readers needed a new challenge, the Liverpool native designed a puzzle with a numbered, diamond-shaped grid with an empty center.
