In 2012, a computer program named Dr. Fill placed 141st out of some 660 entries in that year’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, a competition for elite crossword puzzle solvers. This year, the ...

“Knowing the specific architecture of a puzzle (the rules of symmetry, word counts, etc.), in the long run, gives you a huge advantage.” Yet, there’s one crossword gimmick that practically requires ...

GENE ID: 2649530 DIP0959 | protein coding [Corynebacterium diphtheriae NCTC 13129] (10 or fewer PubMed links) Score = 26.1 bits (54), Expect = 215, Method: Composition-based stats.

Created by a British-American wordsmith, the very first Word-Cross appeared in the New York World on Dec. 21, 1913. And the crossword puzzle — as we know it — was born.. To observe the ...

Newspaper editor Arthur Wynne is credited with publishing the world’s first crossword puzzle in the Dec. 21, 1913, edition of the New York World, which called the game a “word-cross puzzle ...

A small-time newspaperman named Arthur Wynne invented the first ever "word-cross" puzzle, which was published December 21, 1913 in the New York World.. Wynne's editors didn't like the puzzles that ...

The crossword puzzle celebrates its centennial 05:23 (CBS News) In a word, it's a phenomenon one hundred years old and counting.Faith Salie spells it out for us: If you know a three-letter word ...