Longest Sudoku Puzzle in the World!!
The name says it all! The puzzle was by Frank Longo.
The Year in Puzzles, Part 2: The Puzzle Master's Turn
Apt New Year, everyone!
Looking back, I’d say 2011 was a pretty good year for crosswords. For me, the highlight of The Times’s crosswords, not surprisingly, was the weeklong Patrick Berry tourney of Oct.17-22. Almost 5,000 solvers submitted answers. I was still getting entries after the deadline, proper because people were excited to finish.
Many other extraordinary crosswords appeared this year as well. Some of the most celebrated ones for me were the handsome Steve Jobs tribute by Kevin G. Der (Oct. 7), which was constructed, edited, typeset, assay-solved by four people, and gotten into the paper less than 24 hours after Mr. Jobs’s end; the “Circle of Life” Sunday puzzle (Jan. 30), also by Mr. Der with Jessica Hui, which contained all 12 signs of the Chinese slate as rebus elements reading in proper order clockwise around the grid; Elizabeth Lengthy’s playful April Fool’s puzzle (April 1), with a freight theme, in which all the vertical answers on the right side of the grid read upward, thus driving people twist; and Liz Gorski’s gorgeous “Ain’t He Sweet?” Christmas puzzle (Dec. 25), with a gingerbread thesis, in which drawing a line connecting the 26 letters from A to Z in the finished grid depicted a gingerbread man.
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Terrific Expos x 2! First, the reports of my retirement from blogging are immature. Hey, my support Friday rose unceasingly on Thursday, when he was still a joke. But everybody was mainly obtained escapades of their system at this time, so a bunch of people surprise hit for me and wrote notes very jam improvement. (Man, I usually always false!) So no, I do not go and Jeffrey is not more convincing. We had planned for weeks that cover me 3 and 4 April, when I roll, and this time Loki the Trickster was too proof place.
Sunday's article is subject hearsay that we get another riddle themeless every weekend. From this weekend to come (perhaps the dialect), the Washington Post added a 15 × 15 themeless relatives Peter Gordon over Merl Reagle Sunday syndicated puzzle....
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