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Everywhere he looks, Merl Reagle sees word puzzles. A few minutes into our phone conversation, he stops mid-sentence. "Did you know that your last name anagrams perfectly into two different types of ...

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Just as Wordle has its share of detractors today (a phenomenon only magnified by social media), a look back at newspaper reports from the 1920s shows that the crossword faced its own number of critics ...

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Crossword puzzles are now a staple of newspapers, but that wasn’t always the case. The first modern crossword, as we know it today, appeared in the New York World on 21 December 1913. Arthur Wynne, ...

The New York World ran the first-ever “Word-Cross Puzzle” in 1913, sending other papers, including the Globe, scrambling to introduce their own. This puzzle below was published in The Boston Globe on ...