The Crossword Puzzle Is All Yours!!

I suppose you can blame it all on Joseph Pulitzer, who published the very first crossword puzzle in his publication, The New York World, on December 21, 1913. Arthur Wynne, who created the puzzle in the shape of a diamond with just a few clues, started a phenomenon that many newspaper subscribers cannot live without. Many newspaper publishers will tell you that you can forget to post an important news item with no reaction, but if you fail to publish the daily crossword puzzle, readers will have a snit.

According to Will Shortz, editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle, perhaps as many as 50 million people do crosswords just in America. One reader claims that he never gets bored as long as he has his daily puzzle, where another woman says that it keeps her mind sharp, improving her vocabulary.

A homemaker in Virginia states that she cringed when her husband bought her a crossword puzzle dictionary for Christmas, thinking it would help her. "That would be cheating," she said. But hold everything! If you’re having trouble getting that last word, you can actually have your clues analyzed at www.one across.com. In the event that you get stuck, OneAcross will help you out and no one is the wiser.

Rumors and tales have spread throughout the last century that some marriages have become stronger and some have failed because of the addiction to crossword puzzles. Have a score to settle or a little vendetta? Just hide your enemy’s crossword puzzle.

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Hazel Warren of London, England claims that she actually forgot to prepare dinner for her family one night. Others like Hazel say they’ve been late picking up the kids from school or late for work, all because of the rage over “Sudoku”. Sudoku, which means "single number" in Japanese, is essentially a simple logic problem with layers of hidden complexity that can draw the solver in to the point of obsession and they claim it's all the rage in th UK.

Isn’t it lovely to be single? You have the freedom to sort out the logical assumptions on your own, celebrate your prowess of completing the puzzle yourself and you never have to argue or debate over your choices. If you can’t take the puzzle with you, it will still be there in the safe place you left it when you return home.