And I would try at least two methods: one where I would sort the letters first and then rearrange the letters to form the word, and another where I would first use the letters in the order the appear in the word and then sort the letters. I would transpose, or not transpose. And wh...
all. I suppose there was something meditative about it, feeling, at least on one day during the week, that you were up to date on the goings on in the world. Once the news was fully digested, he would then settle in for a prolonged attempt at the Sunday New York Times crossword ...
I’ve arrived! A puzzler let me know that I was a clue in today’s USA Today crossword. (Check out 13 down). This might be cooler than getting thatvegetarian sandwich named after mein 2020. The sentimental part isUSA Todayis the first newspaper that’s ever published my writing. I ap...
Crossword puzzles? Good fun! Ask us what is different between several seemingly similar pictures? The longer we stare at them the more differences we can pick out. This brain function is what gave us math, chemistry, and physics… and religion. And then there’s death. I’m sorry, there...
Spending time with the poem wasn’t a matter of trying to decipher a ‘meaning’ as if it was a cryptic crossword. I did work out where sentences began and ended; and incidentally noted that the obvious punctuation – the extra spaces on lines 4, 12 and 18, the comma and the semicol...
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Kevin’s team decided to do Snakes and Ladders, Junaid’s team decided to do a crossword puzzle, and Manu decided to do a magic game, and of course, he did it all alone. Manu completed the project and was happy with the result. The night before the exhibition, he again checked ...
Whatever my professional activity is, it is not dabbling. I only dabble in hobbies, like collecting postcards and doing NYT crossword puzzles (both of which are my actual hobbies, by the way). But not in my work. Work is destiny. You only live once — so work is a serious matter. ...