"And from that, it got to be puzzles and puzzles and more puzzles, until he was doing two and three puzzles a week," Fletcher said.
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There are puzzles within puzzles, puzzles that lead to other puzzles and puzzles just for the sake of it, but for all of the game's vastness, beauty and mystery, you still spend most of your time puzzling over the right path to draw.
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Andrew Ries's Aries Puzzles: Mr. Ries makes crosswords and variety puzzles.
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I preferred variety puzzles, especially cryptograms, and the Bull's-eye puzzles.
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The solution to the grid sharing puzzleThat was followed by some word puzzles, then number puzzles, and finally a series of "miscellaneous puzzles"—including, but not limited to, crosswords, word searches, chess schemes and pattern-matching puzzles.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — Marching Bands is one of my favorite Variety puzzles.
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"It was like working logic puzzles — big, complicated logic puzzles," Wilkes says.
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Monday puzzles are easiest, and throughout the week the puzzles progress in difficulty.
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You know about puzzle books—books of puzzles, or books that are themselves puzzles.
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I also started solving the daily Los Angeles Times puzzles and (at that time) weekly Wall Street Journal puzzles, as well as the puzzles in New York Magazine.
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I saw that real (and really nice!) people make puzzles, and I might make puzzles.
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"He got me puzzles because he knows I'm obsessed with puzzles right now," Trainor, 22, explained.
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VARIETY PUZZLE — Split Decisions puzzles are a great break after a week's worth of crossword puzzles.
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Matt Gaffney runs a weekly crossword contest for those who love meta puzzles within their puzzles.
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SUNDAY PUZZLE — Sam Ezersky lives puzzles: He's the associate puzzles editor at The Times and he's been constructing puzzles for us for nearly one third of his life, since he was 234.
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I love platforming and exploration and puzzles, and my partner abhors puzzles and does best in combat.
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They were always weekend puzzles, and I couldn't finish Friday-Saturday Times puzzles until the mid-90s.
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The restoration of the truck and construction of the radio had both been puzzles, and she enjoyed puzzles.
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More than 60 crossword puzzles edited by Mr. Parker copied elements from New York Times puzzles, FiveThirtyEight reported.
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"The puzzles in question repeated themes, answers, grids and clues from Times puzzles published years earlier," FiveThirtyEight reported.
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TUESDAY PUZZLE — Tuesday puzzles are supposed to be "one louder" than Monday puzzles, but it's a fine line.
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The first few puzzles I had published were advanced thematic puzzles in the Inquisitor and Enigmatic Variations series.
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Along with her puzzles for New York, Ms. Jacobson had 66 puzzles in The Times over the years.
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Sixty-five puzzles edited by Mr. Parker contained the same themes as New York Times puzzles, according to FiveThirtyEight.
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The puzzles are mostly crosswords or crossword variations in a range of difficulties, with some variety puzzles mixed in.
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If you find you can't do the harder days, you can always go back into the archive and practice on earlier Monday and Tuesday puzzles, or buy packs of puzzles, which cost about $4.99 for 10 puzzles.
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As such, I gravitated much more toward logic puzzles (grid puzzles and table puzzles — the kind you see in PennyPress and Dell magazines, where you have to match up the person to their profession and street and whatnot).
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The puzzles are all classic sliding block or sequence puzzles that could easily fit into a Broderbund title from the 1990s.
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I love puzzles in all shapes and sizes, but I particularly love puzzles that are meant to be solved with friends.
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Click here for the April 2, 2017 puzzles Click here for the answers to the March 26, 2017 puzzles Your thoughts?
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To me, programming feels like solving puzzles (or, rather, it is solving puzzles), or a great boss fight in a video game.
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There's wonderful sidebars and interviews with the puzzle makers — how they got into puzzles, what writing instruments they use to solve puzzles.
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"The puzzles in question repeated themes, answers, grids and clues" from New York Times puzzles published years earlier, the FiveThirtyEight report said.
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Serious Puzzles tells TMZ ... they're seeing record sales of jigsaw puzzles since March 13, when schools started closing due to the outbreak.
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For some solvers, the Monday and Tuesday puzzles don't present much of a challenge, but those puzzles are not really for them.
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Wordplay FRIDAY PUZZLE — When I started solving crossword puzzles on a regular basis, I was terrified of the Friday and Saturday puzzles.
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We knew that puzzles would be a good fit for this project, and we also knew that puzzles are also have something inherent.
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Did you find it more challenging, or was it easier, to design puzzles with multiple solutions, as opposed to more straightforward Zelda puzzles?
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters U + A T O N M I
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters F + A C I L O Y
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters O + C I N T U Y
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters N + J M O T Y E
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters D + A C E T V X
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters C + E I L P T X
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters L + B C E I N V
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters C + A G I L M Y
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters R + F I N O P T
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters L + A C H I R V
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters N + C E H I K T
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters N + A I Q T U Y
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters U + A C E N O T
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters C + E I M N O Z
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A LITTLE VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters O + D I M R T Y
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We would chat about puzzles, and one day I decided that if puzzles were things that people made, I could make them too.
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Now, with software making themeless puzzles far easier to churn out, I've gravitated toward themed puzzles, as well as collaborating with other constructors.
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One of the things I love about Ms. Burnikel's puzzles is the "start and don't stop until you're done" aspect of her puzzles.
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"Courtney Cox loves puzzles, like crossword puzzles and Sudoku and trivia," says Tyler, who played one of Matt LeBlanc's love interests in the sitcom.
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Other similarities were found between puzzles from USA Today or Universal Crossword and puzzles published in The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune.
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You'll work your way to puzzles like this one, I promise, because you'll eventually crave more of a challenge than the early week puzzles.
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I had done other crossword puzzles off and on throughout the years, but really got hooked on doing the daily New York Times crossword puzzles.
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About 75 percent of Ms. Michaels's puzzles run on Mondays and Tuesdays, and about 63 percent of Mr. Diehl's puzzles run on Fridays and Saturdays.
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San Francisco, CA. I made word games and trivia puzzles for Games Magazine and about 50 — 100 puzzles for TV Guide back in the 1980s.
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I started making puzzles with Agnes in December of 2015 and we've had a few puzzles published by Rich Norris in The Los Angeles Times.
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Don't give up after the early week puzzles, because the mid- to late-week puzzles are where we really start to see some puzzle derring-do.
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Instead of packing a dungeon full of puzzles and enemies (though the larger dungeons do exist, in limited quantity), shrines offer perfectly bite-sized dungeon puzzles.
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The website FiveThirtyEight reported in March that more than 60 crossword puzzles by the editor, Timothy Parker, copied elements from puzzles in The New York Times.
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The New York Times Take It Easy Crossword Puzzles: 75 Easy Puzzles I do a crossword puzzle pretty much every night to help me wind down.
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When I was little, I was obsessed with jigsaw puzzles and logic games, and I would create mazes and word puzzles for my friends at school.
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I freaking hate puzzles because I think I'm not good at them; I struggle to do puzzles that are age-appropriate for our 3-year-old.
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I published 14 of his puzzles in The Times between 1994 and 2016, and he had 24 more puzzles under my predecessors, going back to 1970.
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So people who practice crossword puzzles may get better at completing crossword puzzles, but they may not get better at remembering where they last put their wallets.
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I had had four unthemed puzzles published in The New York Times by this time, but no themed ones, although I've had many themed puzzles published elsewhere.
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Solving Puns and Anagrams puzzles, or PandAs, is a great way to make the transition to cryptic puzzles from standard crosswords because they contain elements of both.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — Please note that the "A Little Variety" suite of puzzles is not running in the Magazine this week because of the special Middle East coverage.
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We solve puzzles — knock-knock jokes, forgotten account logins, what to say next in a conversation — and we watch others solve those same puzzles, and we compare results.
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Obviously there are digital puzzles, and many people use our crossword app — but there's a print-centric quality to certain kinds of puzzles, particularly doing the Sunday crossword puzzle.
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David Butler, a resident of East Palestine in eastern Ohio, started working jigsaw puzzles last year when his daughter, Cindy Fletcher, brought him a couple puzzles for his birthday.
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There, the puzzles change: Strict logical puzzles turn into creative problem solving, and what was a solo experience suddenly relies on social navigation, as your team members join you.
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This seems to be a side effect of the puzzles all being simple rehashings of previous puzzles, which basically boil down to finding the Theta sign hidden in the environment.
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We call that "hitting for the cycle," and it requires both gumption and persistence, because constructing early-week puzzles requires a much different skill set than constructing late-week, themeless puzzles.
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If you have not joined us for our weekly live stream, the extremely dapper associate puzzles editor Sam Ezersky and I solve the Thursday puzzles live on Twitter at 1 p.m.
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I would find her either reading a book or doing word puzzles — not just crossword puzzles, but all sorts of intricate word games, the kind that came in the daily paper.
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WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — Sometimes the midweek puzzles can go unloved.
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The rest of your understanding about what's happening is gleaned from the art and architecture of the game's environments, the puzzles, and the items you find and use to solve those puzzles.
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People in the memory group had to use word recall to assemble the puzzles, while individuals in the other group had to rely on subtle changes in sounds to complete the puzzles.
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For those who don't know me, I also make indie-flavored puzzles for BUST magazine, a bimonthly feminist publication, and I'm enjoying cooking up snack-size puzzles for the Daily Celebrity Crossword.
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My daily routine involves working with the puzzles editor, Will Shortz, and the digital puzzles editor, Joel Fagliano, with the three of us making up The New York Times Crossword's editorial team.
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If you are one of our Mini and Midi solvers and are thinking of taking the brave step into solving the daily puzzles, Monday puzzles like this are a perfect place to start.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters N + C E F I T U • "Projectors" by Patrick Berry • "Capsules" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters L + A C E F P U • "Switchbacks" by Patrick Berry • "Capsules" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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I've always enjoyed a type of puzzle called charade puzzles, which break words down into smaller parts and provide clues to the smaller parts, so such puzzles may well have inspired this theme.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters B + A C M N O T • "Whirlpool" by Patrick Berry • "Capsules" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters E + B H I O R V • "Hexnuts" by Patrick Berry • "Capsules" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters H + A B C E R W • "Projectors" by Patrick Berry • "Capsules" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Myth: Puzzles and games are great workouts for your brain.
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Early on, it's almost comically easy to solve the puzzles.
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The 18-month old Empires & Puzzles is also reportedly profitable.
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Those were the best kinds of puzzles though, weren't they?
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It's at its worst when facing bosses that employ puzzles.
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It also provides a clue for solving the game's puzzles.
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The puzzles are used sparingly, and they aren't particularly difficult.
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Here, again, we see a distinction between puzzles and art.
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I hope puzzles for her become a satisfying lifelong hobby.
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Solving Wheel Of Fortune puzzles can be quite the challenge.
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For all of their weirdness, the puzzles are surprisingly intuitive.
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Soon a new Fed chairman will be confronting these puzzles.
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They created the objects, the puzzles, and wrote the script.
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It still puzzles me that a battery can be sexy.
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As the game progresses, the puzzles don't get more challenging.
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You fidget with tools and cranks to solve weird puzzles.
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A Bitcoin is the prize for solving these 24 puzzles.
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The puzzles serve the story, not the other way around.
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Fletcher soon discovered her father was flying through the puzzles.
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You are not going to run out of Typeshift puzzles.
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Few novelty puzzles have had as long of a career.
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Jadon has started doing block puzzles and making animal noises.
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That's what got me into puzzles in the first place.
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I think the same can be said for constructing puzzles.
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Every new step Poland's government takes puzzles the outside world.
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Fallen Order has a lot of environmental puzzles and platforming.
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Rest up and we'll be solving puzzles in no time.
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One day, exploring XWord Info, I came across uniclue puzzles.
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Puzzles favor the wise, and power to them for that!
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But this looks like a first, too, in the puzzles.
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Brain fitness If you like crosswords or puzzles, that's fine.
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You will mostly see the word AGORA in crossword puzzles.
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Here's a peek at some of their other published puzzles.
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GOLDENS BRIDGE "A Universe of Puzzles," work by Tom Wills.
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Mr. Dekker seems to be fascinated with multiple pangrammatic puzzles.
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Where's your favorite place to solve the printable Variety puzzles?
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Even working with puzzles has been a little frustrating, though.
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You know how they print chess puzzles in the paper?
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But unlike most games, the puzzles don't get increasingly harder.
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You never know what you'll learn by solving crossword puzzles.
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And up to a point, I enjoyed solving those puzzles.
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Point values varied according to the difficulty of the puzzles.
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Tournament officials fanned out to distribute puzzles to waiting hands.
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But it was the crossword puzzles she liked the best.
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One of the puzzles required players to disassemble a chair.
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He has taken Tchelitchew's visual puzzles to a new level.
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Today's theme is inspired by my love of Thursday puzzles.
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This is why we push to do the midweek puzzles.
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New KenKen puzzles will resume in the April 14 issue.
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You won't see those as part of the daily puzzles.
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Wordplay WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — Well, look who's collaborating on crossword puzzles.
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This is especially important with themeless puzzles, in my opinion.
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My favorite thing about Saturday puzzles is writing tricky clues.
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I love playing number games, and puzzles, stuff like that.
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I'll happily solve your puzzles any day of the week.
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The clues in those puzzles will be the most straightforward.
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Almost all of the puzzles are open to creative solutions.
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The puzzles range from medium to very hard in difficulty.
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Interpretive puzzles mark the reading experience in unintended ways, too.
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Some solvers find it difficult, and they resist these puzzles.
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Some solvers find it difficult, and they resist these puzzles.
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So it is with solving crossword puzzles versus creating them.
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According to my stats, I've completed more than 1,800 puzzles.
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All three puzzles were picked up, two of them here.
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Eastern the evening before for the Monday and Sunday puzzles.
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The Otoe come up in puzzles a lot as well.
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And if that's not enough puzzles, then check out boswords.
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She still enjoys building puzzles, especially with her older sister.
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For some puzzles, The Times is not a good venue.
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Almost 150 million KenKen puzzles have been played on nytimes.
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She had one of the five tournament puzzles that year.
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He's quite adept at making puzzles feel like a dialogue.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — Not all Thursday crossword puzzles are devilishly tricky.
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I imagine more puzzles lurk within hidden temples/side missions—but, as far as the main story goes, puzzles are not very frequent and the ones you do run into are not very difficult.
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Like an overdesigned boat burdened by too many gadgets, the opening chapters of "The Left-Handed Fate" are a bit of a slog, with an excess of characters, arcane terminology and puzzles within puzzles.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters G + C E N O R V • "Hex Nuts" by Patrick Berry • "Skyscrapers" by Wei-Hwa Huang Your thoughts?
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters F + A C I L O R • "Food Reviews" by Patrick Berry • "Capsules" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters N + A B C H I L • "For Starters" by Patrick Berry • "Capsules" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters E + H M N P T U • "Three Outs" by Patrick Berry • "Capsules" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Naturally, the puzzles get more complex as you progress, and the goal for each one is to open up the object to find its bright, shiny center (which in turn unlocks more puzzles to solve).
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Areaware Little Food Puzzles, $45-$105While others are working on puzzles of boring landscapes and scenery, your recipient will be puzzling over how to create a fully formed cheese puff, bowl of ramen, or broccoli.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters U + A I L M N T • "Projectors" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Your thoughts?
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters F + A E K M R T • "Switchbacks" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Your thoughts?
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters U + C I M N O T • "Switchbacks" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters B + A C I N O T • "Whirlpool" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters L + A G N R T Y • "Whirlpool" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Your thoughts?
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — Puns and Anagrams puzzles, a known gateway drug to cryptic crosswords, are probably the most self-explanatory of all the Variety puzzles, and if you've never tried one, I highly recommend them.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters L + A I N O P V • "Freewheeling" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters N + A C D H I R • "Double or Nothing" by Patrick Berry • "Capsules" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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" "He loved to snowboard with Zak and did puzzles with Zelda.
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The pairing leads to some of the game's more delightful puzzles.
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This repetition extends to everything from the dungeons to the puzzles.
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I imagined a real-life version of classic Zelda dungeon puzzles.
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The best puzzles combine physical interactions with magical realist storytelling exercises.
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The gnome belongs to Chivo, a gnome collector (?) who loves puzzles.
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"We told him it was a day of puzzles," Chrissie says.
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Koenig stuffs these songs with samples, references, and puzzles to decode.
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As the two become closer, the puzzles simplify and get easier.
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Like any good history, "Separate" introduces some puzzles while resolving others.
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The further along you get, the more complicated the puzzles become.
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A number of food puzzles are currently available on the market.
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Puzzles and bubbles are a model that's working for Jam City.
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Across human experience, we've always been obsessed with puzzles and solutions.
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Use the hole to solve puzzles and navigate the game's story.
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The truck's winch is also a useful tool for solving puzzles.
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The McJannett-Smiths are selling ideas, concepts and puzzles for rooms.
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Figuring out how to make the puzzles work is so satisfying.
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You can sign up to be notified when new puzzles appear.
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If you solve enough crossword puzzles, you get better at them.
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I have always had to approach Friday puzzles like a hurricane.
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I like making puzzles that push solvers to really stretch themselves.
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And, without exception, her puzzles are solid and fun to solve.
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This was one of the rare puzzles I had to redo.
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"It still puzzles me why she even added that," Abramovitz said.
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She spent hours alone, watching "South Park" or doing jigsaw puzzles.
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But Vasyl is brilliant at solving problems and working out puzzles.
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Puzzles that get you out into the world are my favorite.
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Later, one of the final puzzles just throws logic away entirely.
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Crucially, these puzzles are not simply plopped down into the plot.
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A twentysomething named Ben Tausig was behind many of these puzzles.
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My favorite puzzles to prepare (and to solve!) have wordplay themes.
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It's a lot of visual, spatial puzzles, and it's beautifully designed.
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This is why we push to get to the Friday puzzles.
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"Does he still like puzzles?" she asked a few weeks before.
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They're mainly just meant to be more difficult than Wednesday puzzles.
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Unlike many puzzles, I clearly recall the genesis of this one.
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These puzzles are among my first attempts at wide open grids.
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Most of my New York Times puzzles have featured stacked 15s.
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The puzzles I create are all done on my own time.
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" The date responds that "it sounds like one of those puzzles.
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Like the puzzles, the game's message is a matter of perspective.
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There's a reason old puzzles have a lot of obscure words.
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He tells people that he has 200 puzzles in his collection.
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Studies have connected jigsaw puzzles to improved cognition in the elderly.
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Crossword puzzles are games, and games are meant to be fun.
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Fill a bin with puzzles, MadLibs, coloring books, and quiet toys.
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But as in many puzzles, the answer is following the money.
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We've solved puzzles that celebrate Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas and Hanukkah.
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The personalized children's book company has recently introduced personalized pet puzzles.
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Consider three important global puzzles – China, the United Kingdom and Ethiopia.
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It has become one of the knottier puzzles on Wall Street.
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I've been doing puzzles for as long as I can remember.
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You fought monsters and solved puzzles as part of your quests.
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Wordplay TUESDAY PUZZLE — Crossword puzzles aren't well known for evoking emotions.
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Be on the lookout for DOTLIMO and DOTDIAMONDS in future puzzles.
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The collection is the embodiment of a lifelong obsession with puzzles.
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I submitted two puzzles in 1972, when Will Weng was editor.
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There's no fighting, no puzzles, nothing challenging except some existential unease.
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We understand that solvers would like to see those puzzles too.
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As he drifted upward, his images became flatter, stranger: visual puzzles.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — Rebus puzzles can come in all shapes and sizes.
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What puzzles me is that Secretary Kelly surely knows all this.
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The graphics, music and tricky puzzles make it stunning and addictive.
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Puzzles are constructed by Adrian Powell, and edited by Vox staff.
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We decided to collaborate on themeless puzzles about a year ago.
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Smooth and easy, just the way I like my Monday puzzles.
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For as long as I can remember, I've loved doing puzzles.
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For as long as I can remember, I've loved doing puzzles.
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Passengers have been whiling away time playing chess and doing puzzles.
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In recent years, I found my name used in the puzzles.
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SATURDAY PUZZLE — Our two constructors have shared work on puzzles before.
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And in Germany, games and puzzles are not just for children.
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But instead of chipping away at rock, you're solving complex puzzles.
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Strangely, I started making crossword puzzles before I started solving them.
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For example, you will sometimes see "A AND W" in puzzles.
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If we could do that more often, we'd make more puzzles!
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Mudpuppy is also releasing large two-piece Puzzles Pairs, which is available for both of Fallon's books and features 10 sturdy, two-piece matching puzzles that introduce problem-solving, basic educational concepts, and fine motor skills.
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I loved my cutesy robot sidekicks — jumbles of machinery that could be deployed to solve environmental puzzles — but the puzzles themselves felt finicky and fiddly, more like artificial gates to my progress than real head-scratchers.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters M + E I L N T Y • "Winding Down" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Your thoughts?
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This seemed odd to me, having enjoyed the work of, for example, my friend Sherry Blackard (34 New York Times themeless puzzles to date), Liz Gorski (27 themeless puzzles to date) … and a host of others.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters B + E L M N O W • "For Starters" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters A + B C I K L W • "Winding Down" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters P + A F I L N T • "Hex Nuts" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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To purchase the puzzles in the new collection, donate $10 or more to an L.G.B.T.Q.-friendly charity (suggested charities are listed on their website), email Queer Qrosswords the receipt and they will email you the puzzles.
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The early week puzzles have built up your solving self-esteem, you've sharpened your skills on the midweek puzzles and now, at the end of the week, you're primed and ready for a tug-of-war.
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Wordplay THURSDAY PUZZLE — I have this theory that once you start solving crossword puzzles regularly and you push past the early week puzzles, you will look at words much differently than you did before you started.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters H + C E I N T Y • "Set Design" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters F + A C I L R T • "Hex Nuts" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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PUZZLES EARN COINS Bitcoin miners - typically firms that run collections of highly-powered computers hooked up to cheap, plentiful electricity - compete against others in the bitcoin network to solve complex maths puzzles and earn new coins.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters A + I P R T U Y • "Half and Half" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Your thoughts?
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters U + C E O P R Y • "Double or Nothing" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLES — This week's puzzles include: • "Spelling Bee" by Frank Longo, with the letters A + C I P T V Y • "Double or Nothing" by Patrick Berry • "Tight-Fit Sudoku" by Wei-Hwa Huang Spoiler alert!
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As a budding horticulturist (so sorry) and very earthbound Olympics fan, I also devoured certain specific clues that might have been real toughies for others, which is one of the things that make weekend puzzles weekend puzzles.
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Third, we provide a venue for women to publish and get paid for high-quality puzzles, especially (but not exclusively) puzzles that may not have a chance at mainstream publications because of feminist, political or provocative content.
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Along the way, there's explosions, and more than a couple of puzzles.
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Down the hall, children played with blocks and puzzles and other toys.
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Overt puzzles are a rarity as you wander around in Prince Interactive.
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Most of the puzzles require movements along the x and y axis.
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Compared to most puzzles, cracking Codex Silenda is a distinctly physical experience.
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To be sure, as transgender Americans become more visible, new puzzles emerge.
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The GitHub repository contained five puzzles that, when solved, confirmed the details.
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He wrote it, and Will edited it as he does all puzzles.
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Hellblade features both puzzles and combat, but both feel like an afterthought.
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People I meet often comment that I'm so normal, which puzzles me.
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Once you start encountering puzzles, that exploration helps you piece things together.
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It turns learning to program into a series of puzzles and games.
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In a lot of ways, David herself embodies the puzzles 86ed presents.
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I was constantly discovering new places and puzzles, both elaborate and diminutive.
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You are welcome to talk about the puzzles in the comments section.
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He sees his son playing with the Switch and it puzzles him.
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Countless more puzzles await, on everything from patent protection to space exploration.
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They fail to understand the purpose of crossword puzzles in my life.
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I found the question in an old British book of math puzzles.
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Check out the 1000 Vibrating Colors Puzzle from Clemens Habicht's Colour Puzzles.
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Surprises and puzzles in Venice and Vienna, from Sean Scully to Tintoretto.
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There were puzzles, and when the snow finally came, there was sledding.
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The festivities included classic engagement party games like Pictionary and word puzzles.
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Its tutorial is effortless, introducing its real-time tactics puzzles with grace.
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Typically, these puzzles can be used with either wet or dry food.
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The game has a lot of brilliant puzzles built around this mechanic.
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The one thing that puzzles people is that it's taking this long.
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Sold things like board games, puzzles, card games (like MtG, YuGiOh, etc).
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Their game involves a van, remote locations, and 26 mind-busting puzzles.
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Here's the front page of our Sunday paper, and our crossword puzzles.
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Sexy Doomed Sad Girls are more like puzzles than fully formed characters.
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Near-flawless performance, with the occasional torn frame when looking at puzzles.
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"I kind of like puzzles and that sort of thing," he says.
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"How in the world did we miss that?" the hapless Lindsey puzzles.
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At its best, the game is a series of room-sized puzzles.
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Most of the game-play revolves around solving puzzles and humorous dialogues.
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He escaped and (left) us here putting (pieces of) the puzzles together.
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If you haven't solved his puzzles at Grids These Days, fix that.
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The staff gives residents cognitive exercises, such as puzzles, tracing, and hangman.
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His rise in the field is one of those dance-world puzzles.
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Here are a pair of July 25 puzzles to celebrate American Independence.
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It carries books, decorative boat prints and two different Lake Superior puzzles.
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This is one of those puzzles that is most impressive at completion.
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It has been my pleasure to work these puzzles with you people!
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Of course, the puzzles collections and creation spend a lot of time.
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There's an intensity not found in pen-and-paper puzzles like sudoku.
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It features crowdsourced gameplay, like Twitch Plays Pokemon, but with IRL puzzles.
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There are, however, logic puzzles in the games, and they're elegantly designed.
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With each stumble, I saw my ability to navigate Celeste's puzzles improve.
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Otherwise, you're crawling through dungeons and solving simple puzzles to unlock secrets.
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It builds puzzles into its songs — can an odd meter be funky?
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Common toys that help boost cognitive skills include puzzles and number games.
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They then placed exercise floor mat puzzles purchased from Walmart on top.
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The dialogue puzzles communicate this by becoming increasingly fast-paced and panicked.
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We are all puzzles, and I'm the only puzzle who doesn't fit.
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You don't see puzzles like this on a Monday or a Tuesday.
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The Times's puzzle editors are featuring puzzles made by women all week.
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AMANDA: We submitted quite a few puzzles before this one was accepted.
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It offers fresh techniques for solving all sorts of infuriating baking puzzles.
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Need to get writing and push some fresh puzzles out the door!
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Puzzles and craft activities are effective, but nothing comes close to Lego.
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Sometimes the puzzles tell you a story, and that's called the theme.
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Six crossword puzzles of varying sizes and difficulties were completed on Saturday.
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But to paraphrase Newman from "Seinfeld," the puzzles never stop, my friends.
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The puzzles are simple but fun and the sound design is excellent.
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See the list of acrostic puzzles they have made for The Times.
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Likewise, XWord Info tracks only puzzles with the longest average word length.
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I love pushing the envelope with the parameters of the crossword puzzles.
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The puzzles are too large to be assembled anywhere but the driveway.
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Mondays are the worst for us; the puzzles are gone too soon.
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And that work, like his puzzles, is fresh and full of enthusiasm.
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It's hardwired and has existed far before our capability to solve puzzles.
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Most of us, however, really see the word only in crossword puzzles.
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I'm excited to be back making puzzles for The New York Times!
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Crossword puzzles gave us a quiet space for bonding, a shared contentment.
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Recently I was asked about using seed entries in my themeless puzzles.
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We don't have flowers or candy, but we have lots of puzzles.
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The character doesn't just solve puzzles in English and Spanish, she learned.
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Pictures of Jesus and completed jigsaw puzzles were posted on the walls.
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So I began making puzzles by hand, moved on to using software.
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I have enjoyed word puzzles, and especially crosswords, for a long time.
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I pare junk entries from Ginsberg's database as I'm working on puzzles.
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I certainly learn a lot through the process of refining these puzzles.
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I'm a big fan of games and puzzles (and Will, as well).
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That's why their relatives are ERNES, the official crosswordese bird of puzzles.
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Park, in particular, proves her crime-solving smarts cracking the trickier puzzles.
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They are always so witty and inventive (the puzzles and their solvers).
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I've been told that another of Daniel's puzzles is on the way.
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This is one of those puzzles that's a little like a whodunit.
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Here's the front page of our Sunday paper and our crossword puzzles.
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And, in addition to puzzles, he has another great love: table tennis.
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Let me add that there's something about this situation that puzzles me.
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WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — I am a huge fan of Alex Eaton-Salners's puzzles.
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You have time to work your way to the late-week puzzles.
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On a side note, I seem to specialize in Valentine's Day puzzles.
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I have been doing crossword puzzles since I was 10 years old.
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I tried, unsuccessfully, to tempt Tess with word puzzles throughout her childhood.
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Start with the Monday puzzles, and work your way through the week.
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I have rarely, if ever, finished one of her puzzles without smiling.
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I'll bet you never imagined that crossword puzzles could be so social.
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Now, as a teacher, I enjoy sharing word puzzles with my students.
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I trip myself up sometimes racing through puzzles early in the week.
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Subsequent puzzles will come out on the first Tuesday of each month.
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Ozobot even has printable mazes, puzzles and races for Evo to follow.
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For me, it was one of the principal draws of U.S. puzzles.
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Three example puzzles from the competition, not the hardest ones, appear below.
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There's definitely a place for puzzles like this once in a while.
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Sam Ezersky is the associate puzzles editor for The New York Times.
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Puzzles with a focus on language and logic tend to do best.
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Remember those constraints I was talking about before in the themed puzzles?
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Like many good and elegant variety puzzles, the solving rules are simple.
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Look: This is one of the first themeless puzzles I ever constructed.
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Adults engage in board games, card games and puzzles of all kinds.
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Solving jigsaw puzzles was my family's way to connect to each other.
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As much as possible, I want my puzzles to remain evergreen. 9.
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This was a man who loved puzzles, new technology, and—yes—penises.
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For email updates when new puzzles are published, subscribe to Motherboard's newsletter.
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Since then there have been hundreds of Celebrations from Helsinki to Antarctica, Bombay to Silicon Valley, sharing in Mr. Gardner's many interests, including math puzzles, logic puzzles, hexaflexagons and Möbius strips, magic and card tricks, and visual paradoxes.
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Some of the themes in Mr. Parker's puzzles seemed to replicate themes from those in The New York Times Crossword and elsewhere, as well as repeating themes from prior USA Today puzzles and running them again under fake names.
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Subscribers to The New York Times Crossword have access to the daily puzzle (as it appears in the paper) and the daily Mini puzzles, as well as more than 20 years of archived crosswords, including acrostics and variety puzzles.
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This is Todd Gross, your New York Times "Constructor of the Moment," with my crossword confession of the year: Even after more than a dozen puzzles published by Will, I still question if my puzzles are worthy of publication.
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OMDO married the magic of Doom to the wonder of Magic Eye puzzles.
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Players learn about Wells' crusade against lynching by unlocking archives and solving puzzles.
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Sam Trabucco always makes very elegant, whimsical puzzles, and today's is no exception.
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Some of the VR resumés include animations, while others include static visual puzzles.
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We did not solve all the puzzles in time (though other teams did).
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That's faster than other billion-dollar games Candy Crush Saga and Puzzles & Dragons.
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How did a section dedicated to crosswords and puzzles in general come about?
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And crossword puzzles stopped the worry by keeping my brain and hands moving.
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Chris: I want to circle back to what Adi said about the puzzles.
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Did you just have a lot of people pitching ideas and designing puzzles?
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WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — Some of us complain about cross-referenced clues in crossword puzzles.
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So, when all else fails, you make puzzles about other things you love.
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Every time it introduces a new concept, you get several puzzles for practice.
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Fascinatingly the puzzles are not solved through complex mechanics, but rather psychological reasoning.
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After making it through a few landscapes / puzzles, the gameplay feels easy enough.
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But many puzzles remain: Were all the victims killed by the same person?
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I like trivia generally, because I like puzzles and I like to win.
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These puzzles take advantage of the feline hunting instinct, fulfilling their ingrained desires.
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The hardest Moons combine those less-obvious solutions with pro-tier platforming puzzles.
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People often confuse my toys with games — puzzles, Rubik's Cubes and so forth.
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This door is just the first lesson in The Witness' masterclass on puzzles.
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I'm thinking in terms of maybe puzzles, some of the returning monsters/zombies.
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"We can adjust by making the puzzles harder or easier," she told me.
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Puzzles were bogged down by tedious searches for pathways hidden in dense cloud.
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The announcement actually gives a good sense of how the puzzles work, generally.
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In fact, only 2628 similar puzzles have ever been published by the Times.
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We always did our crossword puzzles together in the hair-and-makeup room.
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The puzzles never get too tough, staying pleasant and breezy to contend with.
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I can't believe one of my puzzles is in The New York Times.
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Below, more than 150 puzzles on topics inspired by subjects across the curriculum.
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I like to think of the Wednesday puzzles as "stop and think" difficult.
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Wordplay SATURDAY PUZZLE — So does everyone agree that puzzles keep the mind young?
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There are formal and rhetorical puzzles in nearly every one of Hayes's poems.
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ET. The event will feature four unpublished puzzles from The New York Times.
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It blends action, puzzles, and story into a well-balanced and fun concoction.
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Ms. Steinem knew Mr. Sondheim was a fiend for British-style crossword puzzles.
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SUNDAY PUZZLE — Creating crossword puzzles is not just a matter of crossing words.
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The problem generated quite a storm on Twitter, including suggestions for more puzzles.
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There's maybe puzzles and a few scares, but rarely combat of any kind.
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I've discovered new hobbies like baking and crossword puzzles and riding my bike.
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Understanding this disconnect has become one of the key puzzles for political scientists.
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Think of it as a cross between Sudoku and Dot-to-Dot puzzles.
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By the mid-2000s, alternative weekly newspapers started publishing puzzles from young constructors.
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Last year, women wrote or cowrote 16 percent of the Times' daily puzzles.
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The whole family can help with these gorgeous 500-piece puzzles from Printworks.
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If you've been intimidated by these puzzles, do give this one a shot.
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And here's the front page of our Sunday paper, and our crossword puzzles.
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This is especially true for themeless puzzles, where you begin with no constraints.
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While the answers are free to everyone, the crossword puzzles require a subscription.
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You just have to like puzzles and then you're part of the club.
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While the answers are free to everyone, the Crossword puzzles require a subscription.
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It has since been constructed daily by Joel Fagliano, the digital puzzles editor.
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Mike Mussina poring over crossword puzzles, challenging his mind to pass the time.
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At least we can still do crossword puzzles and hopefully you enjoyed mine.
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And if you can crack the code, it will lead to more puzzles.
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I got a book called "Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers" by Martin Gardner.
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Visiting my parents allowed me to enjoy the puzzles in nearly perfect quiet.
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I've been making crossword puzzles since I was a freshman at Brown University.
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Top cubers are on the verge of making full-time livings solving puzzles.
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Despite some puzzles in recent US data, I'm not willing to go there.
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But here's the front page of our Sunday paper, and our crossword puzzles.
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ERIK: With crossword tournaments, it's really more about the people than the puzzles.
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All comments on my puzzles are welcomed, in any forum that you choose.
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These puzzles brought back good memories of my time in the Golden State.
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Doesn't it feel like we're seeing more themed or lightly themed weekend puzzles?
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But there is one quirk that consistently puzzles America's fans and critics alike.
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There's a popular psychological concept, called flow, that activities like puzzles can ignite.
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Visual puzzles, triggered by a hallucinatory use of scale, are this artist's specialty.
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If all the puzzles were the same, this game would become very boring.
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Eventually, I realized that I could be doing puzzles on my phone instead.
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Noah and I crushed a few puzzles that week and then said goodbye.
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She also likes puzzles and blocks and has started to play with Charley.
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Eating blueberries, doing crossword puzzles, exercising, having an active social life, staying trim?
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Creating puzzles on either end of the difficulty spectrum requires different skill sets.
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If that makes me the Marie Kondo of crossword puzzles, so be it.
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I didn't start solving puzzles regularly until 2005, and I was quickly hooked.
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These are subscription services which feature original puzzles sent every week via email.
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Big congrats to the Queer Qrosswords folks on another great set of puzzles.
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Apparently, I'm the go-to guy when it comes to puzzles warranting circles.
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In this puzzle, he gets to do it with one of his puzzles.
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For class warm-ups, kids solve puzzles I make from their vocabulary lists.
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Through puzzles, we found a unique connection — and we both admired Jeff's work.
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Forget solving puzzles to improve your memory and learn a foreign language instead.
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Are they mission-oriented, do they solve the puzzles in a linear order?
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"We're a big solution to a lot of big puzzles," Mr. Bretschneider said.
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I briefly wondered if Michael had been pushing Daniel to send us puzzles.
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His father got him one, and suddenly Daniel's puzzles got a lot better.
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I got into solving puzzles as a high school English teacher in Oakland.
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As a committed foodie, I have a deep fondness for food-themed puzzles.
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Framed's puzzles can get delightfully challenging, but not too much for a commute.
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My first one appeared in the January 1976 issue of Classic Crossword Puzzles.
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For one, I wrote a paper on copyright protection for puzzles and games.
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AVEC has appeared in over 200 puzzles in The New York Times Crossword.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — I love Marching Bands puzzles, cannot get enough of them.
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In a given year, some of my favorite experiences inevitably revolve around puzzles.
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I have previously done three cryptic puzzles as the Variety Sunday Magazine puzzle.
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That is enough to give you some good headway into these fun puzzles.
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Plus, there's a strangely satisfying subreddit entirely full of pictures of completed puzzles.
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Mr. Pedersen said they had also given him a couple of crossword puzzles.
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Once again there is a mega meta hidden in the 12 monthly puzzles.
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Mel Rosen, one of the longtime greats in crossword puzzles, died on Tuesday.
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And they say that real life doesn't prepare you for solving crossword puzzles.
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Spiral puzzles consist of a grid of letters that corkscrews toward the center.
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And you can always play six new puzzles each day at nytimes.com/kenken.
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I wanted my mother to be well, but discarded puzzles told another tale.
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There is an upside and a downside to solving crossword puzzles every day.
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It's funny looking back at older puzzles and seeing what you'd do different.
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Donut County could've easily had a few more of those increasingly complex puzzles.
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In one, octogenarians mingle with millennials over a shared love of crossword puzzles.
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Oddmar, an immersive viking game with beautiful puzzles and colorful challenges (Eskişehir, Turkey).
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Where its contemporaries like Call of Duty and Battlefield have chosen to be faster, louder, and more complex, Superhot is slower and compact, akin to a box of puzzles — very deadly puzzles that involve, yes, shooting people in the head.
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Study after study shows that kids who are rewarded for activities like coloring or solving puzzles set the books or puzzles aside when the reward dries up, while those who aren't rewarded carry on with the activities just for fun.
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Once you beat the majority of puzzles (but not all of them, thank god) you can progress to the next room, learn a little bit more of the history of cryptography, and apply those lessons to a new set of puzzles.
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Mr. Ries has had six crosswords in The New York Times, but he is best known in the community for his inventive, independent crosswords and Rows Gardens puzzles that can be purchased as a subscription through his Aries Puzzles website.
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Wordplay THURSDAY PUZZLE — I have a special soft spot in my heart for families that solve puzzles together, especially when the children in the families grow up to continue the family solving tradition, or even make puzzles of their own.
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The same can't be said of HBO's Watchmen, which proved to be as intricately constructed as the comic book that inspired it, filled with mysteries and puzzles that weren't even revealed to be puzzles until their secrets were laid bare.
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I tend to work through puzzles (well, our puzzles, anyway) by Kameron Austin Collins at a lively pace, but when I look at the finished product, I feel pleased with both the constructor and myself, so it's a win-win.
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It's incredibly complex, with all kinds of rooms and doors locked behind cryptic puzzles.
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I love hanging out with friends trying to solve innumerable puzzles that pop up.
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You role play as a Sherlock Holmes character to solve various mysteries and puzzles.
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The Puzzle Man promises he won't stop solving the tough puzzles any time soon.
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I felt little connection to the books, so I wandered to the puzzles section.
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On a whim, I bought the cheapest book of New York Times crossword puzzles.
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You won't face challenging enemies or get stuck on overly complex puzzles in Oxenfree.
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The puzzles feel very Resident Evil: often cryptic, sometimes illogical, and generally pretty challenging.
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It's for solvers of course, but it's also just a celebration of puzzles too.
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Did somebody's great-great-great-grandparents just really, really like puzzles and secret passageways?
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One reason is that we have puzzles that are based on physics and chemistry.
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Some of the puzzles they originally designed even made it into the final game.
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That is because, if it is true, it could help solve many physical puzzles.
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While it's not especially difficult, solving the puzzles in Gris is still incredibly satisfying.
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Concept videos show the disembodied eyes and hands celebrating and collaborating to play puzzles.
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When things get really heated, it's like you're racing to complete puzzles before Krish.
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Ray's plight echoes throughout the game, from enemies to environments to puzzles to cutscenes.
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There are naturalistic and anthropomorphic animals, weapons, puzzles, games, dollhouses and architectural construction kits.
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The company also launched "Empires & Puzzles" in South Korea and Japan during the quarter.
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Albritton calls her brother a "smart" man who loved to solve puzzles and riddles.
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Where this water went is one of the great puzzles in our solar system.
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Teams are buried in a tiny dark mine and have three puzzles to solve.
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If you're a fan of puzzles, Edward Snowden may have just ruined your Friday.
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"Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in physics and astronomy," Geraci explained.
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"Clue Puzzles," in which actual crossword clues are offered, are added to the mix.
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Since 2008, the Foldit game has engaged the public in solving puzzles for science.
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The two then need to escape the ruins by exploring and solving various puzzles.
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Puzzles aside, what makes Wayward Sky work so well is a sense of style.
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Villeneuve's films aren't simple puzzles or satisfying stories, so what is he getting at?
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Smaller and slimmer than sea gulls, they will certainly fly through your puzzles again.
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We've tried to calm him down by playing puzzles, but he's not doing well.
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This one is by Lynn Lempel, one of the Queens of the Monday Puzzles.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — I have this theory that solving crossword puzzles is like mental yoga.
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My aim is to post at least two puzzles a month, if not more.
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The small puzzles are party pleasers that should only take 20 minutes to complete.
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This advent has miniature wooden and metal puzzles, challenge cards, word games, and more.
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Pokémon Picross is another Pokémon puzzle game featuring over 300 different puzzles of Pokémon.
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One of the many beauties of math puzzles is that they can travel anywhere.
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They even solve puzzles: This theme makes a good Monday puzzle for new solvers.
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Educators too have devised word games and puzzles that keep children engaged and motivated.
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That's an encouraging sign which I attribute to more practice in solving quality puzzles.
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Did you really get Stephen Sondheim to write crossword puzzles for New York magazine?
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Let's move on to the Variety puzzles with some ELI Young Band: Your thoughts?
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I went through drafts and drafts of puzzles that Will and Joel didn't like.
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Unfortunately, quite a few of the 15s found in such puzzles suffer from overuse.
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Ciphers puzzles were used for our entertainment long before the age of video games.
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I felt smart again and again as I found the solution to those puzzles.
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Cost: $25 You can learn more about the 500-piece puzzles by Printworks here.
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I tend to like puzzles that have something of visual interest in the design.
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Solver Stories For Maria Janelli, solving crossword puzzles made loss bearable and love possible.
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PandA's are a sort of hybrid between British cryptic puzzles and regular American crosswords.
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Hope you enjoy — maybe it's time for me to start solving my old puzzles!
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I know, he's come up before in crossword puzzles and I should know that.
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I've gotten rejections on similar puzzles because the theme entries just weren't funny enough.
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Other tips included entertaining children with "games, reading, puzzles, and TV/videos at home."
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I don't want to leave the impression that all that's left are crossword puzzles.
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Friedman—as she was universally known to the government spooks—to solve their puzzles.
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I've worked on cryptic puzzles for years, and have grown very fond of them.
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Think about how bored you would get if all the puzzles were the same.
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These are people that are fascinated by complex puzzles that have some commercial significance.
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DAILY CROSSWORD COLUMN Zhouqin Burnikel sets a heartbreakingly high bar for 2019 Sunday puzzles.
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I just wanted to work on digital puzzles with someone to keep me company.
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These puzzles are a lovely palate cleanser after a week of American-style crosswords.
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Because it's a strange website that's already been involved in head-scratching online puzzles.
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They have flair, and when working together create puzzles with a distinctive, improvisatory feel.
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While he does not construct anymore, solvers still remember his puzzles with great fondness.
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They travel a world filled with beautiful landscapes, playing clever and occasionally maddening puzzles.
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Wordplay SATURDAY PUZZLE — The differences between Friday and Saturday puzzles are not always obvious.
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Rather than running two similar puzzles in the same year, mine was pushed back.
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There will be game development webinars, dozens of puzzles, Polish history quizzes, and more.
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SUNDAY VARIETY COLUMN I'm always of two minds when solving these Fred Piscop puzzles.
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I'm looking forward to her take on the weekend and Variety puzzles, aren't you?
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This is a common approach I have when writing these stagger-stack freestyle puzzles.
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As solvers, we all know that unappealing words creep into puzzles with some regularity.
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"Like any scientist, I like solving puzzles," he said in an interview this morning.
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Will Shortz, above right, has edited The New York Times's crossword puzzles since 1993.
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This puzzle is by Brendan Emmett Quigley, who also makes puzzles for his website.
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By the time solvers push through to Thursday puzzles, however, all bets are off.
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I noticed that 3x2 blocks of circles had not been used in many puzzles.
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Working on these two puzzles at the same time definitely influenced my fill here.
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This puzzle was even more of a family affair than most of my puzzles.
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When the conversation turned to the inevitable You working on any puzzles right now?
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Sudoku, puzzles, riddles, board games, video games, card games, and similar activities increase neuroplasticity.
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Come for the satisfying hole-based puzzles, stay for the Weird Twitter-inspired humor.
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This was one of the times when I wish the daily puzzles had titles.
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"The bad puzzles, we can tell within 10 or 15 seconds," Mr. Shortz said.
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There are no guarantees in life, and that extends, of course, to crossword puzzles.
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We give you recipes to cook, puzzles to solve, advice on what to buy.
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One involves quests for players, such as solving puzzles or taking a personality test.
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Puzzles, paintings, ghost brides: plenty to watch this weekend, and our critic has recommendations.
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The good news is that there is a basic recipe for solving these puzzles.
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My mother-in-law remains one of my indispensable test solvers of new puzzles.
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The puzzles are complex, the level design is perfect, and the atmosphere is engrossing.
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But now, with crossword puzzles, there was an opportunity for us to work together.
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Not to brag, but by then I was completing Sunday puzzles with some regularity.
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ONAGERS crop up more in puzzles than they ever do in life, I think.
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MONDAY PUZZLE — Life is black and white only in the world of crossword puzzles.
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Eastern the night before for the Tuesday through Friday puzzles, and at 6 p.m.
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Since then, roboticists have increasingly relied on algorithms to solve these complex kinematic puzzles.
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Bread was always setting, pie crust rolled out, jigsaw puzzles on the card table.
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Oh right, we have to wait for the A Little Variety and Variety puzzles.
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My grandmother, hoping to prevent future breakdowns, banned puzzles and games from the house.
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While she was obsessed with solving puzzles, I was obsessed with solving her diagnosis.
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Puzzles truly can be cultural ambassadors, as Mr. Ghogre says in his notes below.
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Every publishing venue has different guidelines for submitting puzzles, also called "specs," or specifications.
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Also, I published many of Mel's puzzles in my former life at Games magazine.
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P.S. I was able to find a home for 23 of those other puzzles.
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Thus, A DUE has appeared in nearly 150 puzzles for The New York Times.
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It's nice to know that you can rework your puzzles until they are right!
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She bought Noah magnet toys and puzzles to help develop his fine motor skills.
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Historically, the themeless, late week puzzles have generally been the domain of male constructors.
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Rest assured, there will never be any substitute for the human touch in puzzles.
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Other times, like my recent hours with the brilliant Gorogoa, it remains the puzzles.
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It's also quite short, so the less said about any specific puzzles the better.
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Butler says he&aposs put together about 80 puzzles in the past six months, and prefers the activity to sitting around watching TV. He and his daughter hope to sell the finished puzzles to buy first aid kits for East Palestine Schools.
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For those who would like to celebrate by doing even more puzzles, I'm told that there is a new puzzle pack in the Crossword app that explores LGBTQ+ lives and culture, and these puzzles were made by a terrific group of LGBTQ+ constructors.
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David: I have been test-solving Sophia's puzzles since she asked for crossword construction software six years ago and started making puzzles for her high school newspaper but I had only watched over her shoulder as she built grids until last year.
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Crossword puzzles and exercise are just a few of the habits that improve memory best.
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Plus there are actual musical puzzles that reward special items and pieces of heart containers.
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Political science is based on applying the scientific method to questions and puzzles of politics.
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When did you recognize you could apply that excitement about puzzles to pursuing math professionally?
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His paintings and sculptures are enticing visual puzzles, filled with clues the viewer must solve.
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We can now have puzzles which do many things on just one sheet of paper.
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Luckily, Hungarian artist Gergely Dudás' brain-teasing puzzles are a little bit easier to solve.
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They did puzzles, played mini golf, and went to the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh together.
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Santoli went on to win all but one of the puzzles, according to the interview.
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I found the unhurried pace of Devotion's puzzles to be one of its greatest strengths.
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She and her friends had been using the app Wit Puzzles for about a year.
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Most of the puzzles involve switching back and forth between the two in some way.
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The sparse survival supplies, the cryptic and convoluted puzzles, the jump scares — it felt familiar.
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SUNDAY PUZZLE — You know those puzzles where your first guess is never right, not once?
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In first-person mode, I had completed complex puzzles to help my characters move forward.
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There's lots of trial-and-error and playful experimentation that goes on in Snipperclips' puzzles.
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Bill: We do a lot reading and we do more jigsaw puzzles than most people.
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Right now, computers solving these puzzles consume 0.16 percent of the whole world's electricity consumption.
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New research shows that food puzzles are effective at staving off many of these problems.
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The offices are overflowing with toys and puzzles, including an elaborate boat-themed escape room.
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All I know is that I always like seeing the big picture and solving puzzles.
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But the real communication is conducted within the 660-plus puzzles dotted around the island.
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Puzzles stood between my squad and progression, which required a bit of thinking to complete.
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As Butler&aposs fame spreads on Facebook, people have started sending him puzzles to complete.
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The Witness is a game about solving puzzles, but it's also a game about observation.
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There are also some timed hacking puzzles that end up being more frustrating than challenging.
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Psychonauts came out in 2005, and blended 3D platforming with adventure game puzzles and logic.
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If I wanted to play puzzles, I'd pick up a book from the dollar store.
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NADA is distributing an edition of 150 puzzles in collaboration with Artspace for $200 each.
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Check out some of our puzzles; one that I co-wrote is even a crossword!
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I'm talking, of course, about whether crossword puzzles should be able to display diacritical marks.
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Comment from discussion ConradBHart42's comment from discussion "I used to love puzzles. Never. Again.".
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Of course, there are still those tricky clues for which late-week puzzles are famous.
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One of the earlier puzzles, it's setting the stage for What Do We Do Now?
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If you're a beginning solver, don't shy away from these mid-to-late week puzzles.
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It is because of him that I learned to love words, puzzles, and life itself.
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This was one of those puzzles where I finished solving before I understood the theme.
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Gooigi can also help Luigi solve puzzles that require more than one set of hands.
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Consider this official permission to not know things and to learn them from crossword puzzles.
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Joyce once boasted that the puzzles of "Ulysses" would keep the professors busy for centuries.
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It's still unclear which companies will solve the technical and business puzzles of autonomous vehicles.
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Vintage jigsaw puzzles, chinoiserie, Bangladeshi rickshaw art: these are a few of their favorite things.
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One of his clients was Games magazine, which created puzzles and activities for each issue.
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It's about solving the labyrinth's puzzles and mysteries, harvesting its resources, and growing your party.
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I'm enjoying the story, the characters, just about everything about Thimbleweed Park—except the puzzles.
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You play a silent, unnamed, unseen protagonist and wander around the island solving maze puzzles.
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From a gameplay perspective, Francy Droo is a visual novel balanced out with some puzzles.
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Forget about all the puzzles and RPG elements and all that crap—it's really difficult.
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But this is a fascinating piece of writing married to straightforward, but cleverly entertaining, puzzles.
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Watch as three entertainers attempt to solve crossword puzzles in front of a live audience.
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But taurine levels in other affected dogs, including mixed breeds, are normal, which puzzles researchers.
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The thing is, you shouldn't be hard on yourself if you find these puzzles difficult.
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This makes building "freestyle" or themeless puzzles an attractive proposition for many a budding constructor.
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My obsession with puzzles grew enough, I guess, to put me on The Times' radar.
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One can find more of my puzzles in The Los Angeles Times, if so inclined.
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Expect climbing puzzles, third-person gunfights, and miraculous leaps that should kill any normal person.
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I can't remember ever not solving word puzzles, or not being fascinated by language. 4.
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Wordplay The weekly feature of words and phrases in the crossword puzzles that flummoxed solvers.
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"There's a great sense of triumph when you overcome one of these puzzles," he said.
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There are also myriad videos, games, puzzles, programs and what-have-you currently being marketed.
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When submitting puzzles, I always include possible titles for when they are collected in books.
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Sam Ezersky, the assistant editor of puzzles for The Times, discussed the tech he's using.
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I've been constructing puzzles for some years now, but never broke through until this one.
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All crossword puzzles published in The Times have been accepted through our open submission process.
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As the puzzles get harder through the week, she routinely leaves me in the dust.
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DOWN TIME If I'm really relaxing, for me it's video games or puzzles or sudoku.
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I like jigsaw puzzles, Grand Theft Auto; I play a little bit of NBA 2K.
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Many of my recent puzzles, including this collaboration with Senator Joe Donnelly, are themed puns.
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We began collaborating on a few puzzles and submitted "Ghosted" in the middle of April.
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Math is solving puzzles, which most children already love doing and are naturally good at.
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Eric Berlin's "Puzzle Snacks" (Simon & Schuster, 2019): Bite-size puzzles for solvers of all ages.
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We in the cruciverbal industry have long known that crossword puzzles do make us smarter.
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Unlike other seasons, however, there haven't been any internet puzzles to solve during the wait.
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Wordplay TUESDAY PUZZLE — Bruce Haight offers what could be a master class in Tuesday puzzles.
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The disparity is primarily because of shorter queue times for Monday, Wednesday and Thursday puzzles.
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I think it was this that got me interested in crosswords and puzzles in general.
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It puzzles her to see the life that Tom (Paul Rattray) has so quickly built.
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All in all, it's no secret that Thursday puzzles are difficult, even compared with Wednesdays.
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I learn when I solve puzzles, and I learn even more when I create them!
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I am told that most crossword builders use computers these days to make their puzzles.
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FRIDAY PUZZLE — I am a firm believer that everything benefits from seasoning, even crossword puzzles.
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There's some debate over whether rebus puzzles should have symmetric placement of the theme squares.
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The more puzzles you solve, the more sets of objects you blink back into existence.
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Can you work with your partner to make the perfect shapes to complete the puzzles?
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Who wouldn't love it when there are essentially two puzzles to solve for your money?
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An earlier version of this article misstated President Bill Clinton's experience in creating crossword puzzles.
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Coming up with interesting clues for themeless puzzles is always a learning experience for me.
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But hopefully with the collaborative effort of the internet, these puzzles will get solved soon.
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There's no traditional challenge; the game doesn't ask you to collect objects or solve puzzles.
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Let's look at 3D as an example of how learning from puzzles can be useful.
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Once they complete that stage, they are confronted with a series of code-breaking puzzles.
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CHINESE PUZZLES The only place in which zinc production is performing to script is China.
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To enter the performance, you first have to solve four puzzles distributed throughout the anteroom.
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For a terrific break from the week of crossword puzzles, give Building Blocks a try.
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More than half of participants also believed doing crossword puzzles could help stave off dementia.
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" Crossword puzzles "I usually grab The New York Times, unless it's Thursday, Friday or Saturday.
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Solving these Colonial Outpost puzzles usually gets you important crafting material recipes and upgrade schematics.
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Octopuses are smart animals that can use tools, recognize individual people, and even solve puzzles.
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The practice puzzles infectious disease types, because swapping saliva clearly increases the risk of contagion.
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This is a new feature for us: Are the puzzles too easy, or too hard?
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She couldn't verbalize it, but I knew that building puzzles calmed her mind and body.
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Her obsessive interest with puzzles would eventually be a sign that pointed to her diagnosis.
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The battery of tests that followed was an endless series of puzzles for my daughter.
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It's maybe more useful to think of cybersecurity as solving a bunch of interesting puzzles.
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If you are just starting to solve Saturday puzzles, don't let that put you off.
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In crossword puzzles, ARCO may also be clued as the gasoline brand based in California.
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FRIDAY PUZZLE — Hand up if you feel even just a bit intimidated by Friday puzzles.
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The opposite of "legato" would be "staccato," which is abbreviated in crossword puzzles as STAC.
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I've made some incredible, nerdy friends and I've started constructing (occasionally reviewing) puzzles with them.
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The puzzles are what matters, though, and Superliminal is a fundamentally different kind of game.
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As a solver, I like my puzzles tough and, even more, I like them tricky.
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Obscure entries made the crosswords frustrating for me, so I mostly stuck to variety puzzles.
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Want to play a beautiful game for smartphone that is filled with ESCHER-like puzzles?
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Wordplay FRIDAY PUZZLE — The crossword constructor Zhouqin Burnikel has had 43 puzzles published in The New York Times including today's and, while she has primarily made early week themed puzzles, Ms. Burnikel has branched out to Sundays as well as themeless Fridays and Saturdays.
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MONDAY PUZZLE — We get a lot of email about the crossword puzzles, and one of the most entertaining categories of missives is when solvers write in to insist that the presence of brand names in the puzzles is some sort of paid product placement.
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You clear out enemies, navigate environmental puzzles, and collect everything from smiling flowers to hidden souvenirs.
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Rohrer's other projects range from arcade-style action games, to intricate puzzles, to massive multiplayer experiences.
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"It would be easy to think of coding as neutral—we solve puzzles," Marquis told Gizmodo.
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Here they are pieced together in 'poetic visual puzzles' to create 3D tableaux of daily life.
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Even after you've solved all the puzzles, the book will still look great on your shelf.
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The children also took questionnaires, provided spit samples, and completed puzzles that measured their cognitive functions.
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Toward the end you'll control both characters, which gives a completely different feel to the puzzles.
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It's both challenging and cute, seemingly straightforward puzzles given character by lots of hilarious little animations.
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The pushback against movements like #WeNeedDiverseBooks or the drama of the Hugo Awards always puzzles me.
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When it's all over, the camera issues and unclear puzzles aren't what will stick with you.
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The puzzles in Thimbleweed Park also feel much logical and organic compared to its spiritual predecessors.
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You've got no weapons, so it involves a lot of sneaking, simple puzzles, and frantic sprinting.
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Thankfully, he connected me with Chris, who provided superb feedback on several puzzles, including this one.
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There's a trick to solving puzzles like this one, and it lies in getting the revealer.
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An underappreciated gem, StarTropics combines interesting action with puzzles and a full RPG overworld and story.
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I've been solving for a long time and even I occasionally have trouble with certain puzzles.
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Jeff and I were on a BINGE, having just finished a few other holiday-themed puzzles.
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And my latest book of (40) puzzles, "White House Crosswords," came out a few months ago.
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The longer they talk, the simpler the puzzles get, showing how much easier their conversation flows.
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This time around, though, players will encounter those puzzles while exploring a larger world and story.
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As a spoof, he also offered to bring Sudoku puzzles, which they took him up on.
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Initially, I wished Delete had randomly generated puzzles, but after finishing I'm glad there weren't any.
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At first the puzzles involve a large number of pieces, and take some time to complete.
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It's a lot to take in, but it leads to some very satisfying and challenging puzzles.
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But, though Mr Harris enjoyed solving maths puzzles, he also wanted to help the less fortunate.
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It's best to see the game working in motion, though it'll spoil some of the puzzles.
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One of the game's first puzzles centers around sacrificing a boy named Wei, a fellow student.
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But the puzzles aren't really the point of the game, and neither is solving the case.
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You just need to have the right expectations for what the puzzles will demand of you.
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Soon the word "doggo" was appearing in books and crossword puzzles as a term for canines.
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A cat at work on the Trixie Fun Board Strategy Game, which features five distinct puzzles.
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Election-watchers querying when to pay attention to the 2020 race have to solve three puzzles.
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Something as tactile as Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes could use puzzles deciphered by surface texture.
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It's a series of puzzles set in a maze players explore in the first person perspective.
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I felt like a wizard when I finally understood the tetronimo puzzles and completed the marsh.
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Each one has its own story and set of puzzles to be solved, just like always.
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The game stood out for its challenging puzzles and gruesome depiction of the main character's demise.
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You play as an unnamed boy exploring a monochromatic, scary world, solving puzzles along the way.
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No puzzles either, merely the greatest riddle of all: maintaining reasonable teenage dialogue at 3 am.
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"You have one of the most interesting puzzles in the world in your hands," it said.
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But I also remembered the irritating slide puzzles, the clumsy turret aiming, the awkwardly integrated microtransactions.
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Crimes of Grindelwald is long on puzzles, but short on reasons to care about solving them.
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If you're just starting out with midweek puzzles, you might be wondering where your theme went.
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With these abilities, players must use "do" to solve word puzzles that move the narrative forward.
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American columns on mathematical puzzles and in his annotations to Alice in Wonderland; in the French
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The BBC's fondness for second-rate comedians is one of the great puzzles of our age.
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Constructing crossword puzzles is an art form performed by massively talented, creative, word-loving human beings.
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I recently started a crossword blog called Grid Therapy, where I offer puzzles free of charge.
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