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Will Shortz. William F. Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is an American puzzle creator and editor who is the crossword editor for The New York Times. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in the invented field of enigmatology. After starting his career at Penny Press and Games magazine, he was hired by The New York Times in 1993.
In the English-language KenKen books of Will Shortz, the issue of the non-associativity of division and subtraction is addressed by restricting clues based on either of those operations to cages of only two cells in which the numbers may appear in any order. Hence if the target is 1 and the operation is - (subtraction) and the number choices ...
The KenKen and second Sunday puzzles are available online at the New York Times crosswords and games page, as are "SET!" logic puzzles, a word search variant called "Spelling Bee" in which the solver uses a hexagonal diagram of letters to spell words of four or more letters in length, and a monthly bonus crossword with a theme relating to the ...
Shortz, 71, has appeared on NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday” since the program’s debut in 1987. He has served as crossword editor of the Times since 1993 — only the fourth person to hold ...
Shortz is editor of The New York Times crossword and puzzle master on NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday." Indiana University alumnus Will Shortz, 71, recovering from stroke Skip to main content
Tetsuya Miyamoto (宮本 哲也, Miyamoto Tetsuya, born 1959) is a Japanese mathematics teacher who invented the numerical logic puzzle KenKen. (It is called Kashikoku-Naru-Puzzle in Japanese, which literally means "a puzzle that makes you smarter." It is also known as Keisan Block .) Miyamoto developed KenKen in 2003 to help his students ...
The Simpsons season 20. List of episodes. " Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words " is the sixth episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 16, 2008. In the episode, Lisa discovers that she has a talent for solving crossword ...
Box office. $3,121,270 [1] Wordplay is a 2006 documentary film directed by Patrick Creadon. It features Will Shortz, the editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle, crossword constructor Merl Reagle, and many other noted crossword solvers and constructors. The second half of the movie is set at the 2005 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament ...