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Timothy Eric Parker (born April 7, 1960) is an American puzzle editor, games creator, author, and TV producer. [1] Puzzle career. In November 1996, Parker started writing a "Daily Crossword" feature. By early 1997, Parker’s puzzle became the "Universal Crossword" syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate to newspapers and clients worldwide.
May 10, 2016 · Parker, a 56-year-old crossword constructor and editor, began editing the USA Today Crossword 13 years ago this month. A FiveThirtyEight investigation, published in March, explored...
Jan 14, 2020 · For the uninitiated, Timothy Parker was the crossword editor for Universal’s syndicated puzzle and USA Today, both of which are owned by Universal Uclick. He touted himself as “America’s most solved crossword constructor.” And almost four years ago, devastating accusations of plagiarism emerged regarding Parker’s conduct as a crossword editor.
- How Crosswords Work
- A Web of Repetition
- How Parker’s Repeats Were Discovered
- Consequences
To understand why Parker’s repetitions cut against crossword norms, it helps to understand what a crossword puzzle is made of. The vast majority have a few main parts: 1. The theme: A crossword puzzle’s identity — it’s why a puzzle is memorable, or clever, or creative, or funny, and it’s the toughest part to execute when constructing a puzzle. The ...
The database that helped uncover the repetition holds tens of thousands of puzzles published by 11 outlets over various time periods — for example, it holds puzzles from The New York Times starting in 1942 and from the Los Angeles Times starting in 1996. The engineer who created the database also wrote a computer program that identifies similar puz...
Tausig, who has constructed puzzles for several major publications, drew the crossword world’s attention to the repetitions in a tweet on Feb. 25. Tausig told me — and I confirmed with the database –– that a puzzle he had authored for Universal in 2004 had been very slightly tweaked and rerun by Universal in 2008 — under the byline “Bruce Manders” ...
Pwanson wasn’t searching for anything in particular when he began assembling his database, he said. He’s an aspiring constructor and wanted to explore how grids and words and phrases tended to come together to form a puzzle using the languages in which he’s fluent — programming and data. But “when you get the data into a nice, clean, dense form, st...
Timothy Britten Parker (born February 8, 1962), also known as Toby Parker, is an American actor.
Jun 21, 2001 · Timothy Parker. Crossword puzzle artist, Timothy Parker was born on April 7, 1960, in Baltimore, Maryland, to a family of ten children. Spending the first part of his life in an extremely poor neighborhood, Parker and his family later moved to a nicer neighborhood as his father's business grew.
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Timothy Parker may refer to: Timothy Parker (puzzle designer) (born 1960) Timothy Britten Parker (born 1962), American stage, film, and television actor. Gift of Gab (rapper) (Timothy Jerome Parker), American rapper.
