“educational” but I find it to be a great vocabulary builder for the 4th-6th grade crowd. It’s a simple game of synonyms. You are given a clue, similar to a crossword puzzle, but are provided with word fragments that must be unscrambled to determine the word that fits the clue. ...
Perhaps nmwhiteport’s puzzle loving student would be less likely to produce ‘make a crossword’ having seen the above diagrams and noted howmakeinvolves “a nothing to a something” compared todowhich has a “something to a samething”? One clue to the second issue of the efficacy of co...
Disambiguating the word “astro” as a crossword clue. Tom McCoy, who graduated from Yale this year with a major in linguistics, began competing in NACLO when he was a high school student living in Pittsburgh. He knew nothing of computational linguistics at the time, but he liked puzzles an...