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Feb 5, 2018 · The history of crossword puzzles dates back to 1913 with the first crossword puzzle. 100 years later, Crossword Hobbyist launches the first in-browser crossword puzzle creation software for newspaper-style puzzles.
Mar 17, 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.
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 ...
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...
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...
Dec 6, 2018 · The first puzzle ran Sunday, February 15, 1942, and it was, in fact, a primitive pursuit, (Dictionary.com’s first definition for the adjective: “Being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence”), as they were the first major US paper to run a crossword puzzle. By 1950, the paper began running a crossword puzzle daily.
