Pre A D Letters Crossword

Pre A D Letters Crossword – The crossword in question is not an old crossword; it’s the New York Times crossword, an institution so well known and revered that its longtime editor is a minor celebrity who was the focus of a 2006 documentary. In addition to the daily puzzle and a crossword archive dating back to 1993, the Times’ crossword section features three daily logic puzzles — Sudoku, KenKen, and Set — that are free for everyone.

In May 2018, the Times expanded the section – which requires a fee separate from that of a subscription to the newspaper itself and is available on web as well as Android and iOS devices – with a pun reserved for subscribers, Spelling Bee. The company rolled out another soft launch, Letter Boxed, in mid-January. Von Ehren said things are currently “doing better than we had hoped,” especially considering people have heard about the game mostly through word of mouth so far.

Pre A D Letters Crossword

At the same time, putting something on the Times crossword page means it gets a lot of eyes. A month after debut

Crossword: ‘nation Notion’

, the company announced that it has surpassed 400,000 subscribers to its crosswords section – double the number it had two years ago. (A crossword subscription is $6.95 per month or $39.95 annually; there is a half price discount for those who are already subscribers to the print or digital Times.)

Are part of an effort to get more crossword subscribers. A Times representative didn’t specifically respond to a question about whether any complaints about subscription costs prompted the company to include games in the bundle. And in fairness, the above subscriber count shows that a

Of people were willing to pay for the crosswords alone. Instead, the digital games aim to appeal to a different audience by being more accessible than the crossword.

“We’re trying to design these new games so that anyone can come in and really get into it, and then maybe they’ll move on to crosswords, too,” said von Ehren, who leads the Times’ in-house games expansion team of about 30 people the only designer.

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The two games seem to fit well into the crossword section, which attracts a certain type of player: a well-read person looking for a mental challenge. The fact that the Times’ first two games are both puns is more of a coincidence – it wasn’t the plan, says von Ehren. The gaming team has spent most of the last year prototyping about one new title each month, including a physics-puzzle game involving a golf ball, but it’s found that language and logic games are the ones that get the Times audience on encounter resonance.

Features a seven-cell honeycomb – one in the center and six around it, each with a letter in it – and challenges players to form as many words as possible with those seven letters. Each word must be at least four letters long and use the middle letter. Von Ehren described it as “kind of an all-day thing that you come back to maybe three, four, five times a day as more words come to mind.”

Takes place at, well, a box. There are three letters on each side and players must connect them to form words that are at least three letters long. Letters on the same side cannot be used consecutively, and the last letter of each word becomes the first letter of the next word. The goal is to use all 12 letters in as few words as possible. “It’s a lot faster, it’s a much faster hit, but you can keep playing that forever,” von Ehren said.

Unlike crosswords, which have certain conventions and linguistic quirks that can frustrate newcomers, Times digital games rely only on the breadth of a player’s vocabulary. and

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, particularly in its openness, is the opposite of a crossword: there is only one correct letter for each box in a crossword, but the ingenious design of

Allows for an endless variety of solutions touching all 12 letters. Clicking on “Yesterday’s Answers” does not show a box that the game demonstratively calls “Our Solution”.

However, there is one element of all of this that doesn’t quite add up. The Times hopes to attract new crossword subscribers by expanding the section with games that will appeal to people who may not be interested in crosswords, which makes sense. But how can these people give

This is not lost on the gaming team. “There are definitely different avenues that we’ve taken,” von Ehren said, noting that the Times had offered

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“As the future progresses and we reveal more and more games, we’ll probably be a little bit more explicit in our efforts to do things like that,” he continued. “But I think for now we’re going to take it slow and steady and make things right.”

Are fantastic puns, and they won’t be able to woo new players unless they get a chance to shine in the sun. By the way: We have solved the problem. I’m in a bad mood, so I’ll be brief. The subject is a mishmash of compound words and two-word phrases, broken into short entries in the margins and cross-referenced extensively, with both 1a and 1d being LIFE. 1/5a. [Survival], LIFE/BOAT. 5/9a. [Place to yacht shop], BOAT SHOW. (This is the New York Times totally aimed at the wealthy, so rest assured that “yacht shop” is legitimate for that audience.) 9a/5a is SHOWBOAT, but that gives no clue. 9a/16d, [decisive confrontation], SHOWDOWN. 16/39d, [minimize], DOWNPLAY. 39/62d [lie motionless], PLAY DEAD. 62d/71a [earlier traveling music fan], DEADHEAD. 71/70a marching backwards, [call it a night] GO HOME. 70a/69a [advantage in sport], HOME GAME (but I think the advantage is the home court/stadium/field and not the HOME GAME). 69a/50d [Intense athlete’s facial expression], GAME FACE. 50/27d [Apple app], FACETIME. 27/1d [company named after two magazines], TIME-LIFE. 1d/41a [sequence of generations], LIFE CYCLE. So the words circled from LEBEN to LEBEN. In the end, I didn’t find the theme all that satisfying.

However, the filling has some good highlights, most notably HAWAIIAN, SPENSER, EAR CANDY, and EAT HERE. I always like to see that “annoying little Belgian,” as Dame Christie once called POIROT, and the clue [“Macbeth” prop] serves double duty for both DAGGER and CAULDRON. Kind.

However, I napped at the intersection of SHECRAB [Type of Soup, in Southern Kitchen] and HAWS [Turns left, as a team of oxen]. I’ve been driving all day and my little brain cells couldn’t find anything other than YAWS for that final answer. SYECRAB was clearly wrong, but there seemed to be no other reasonable alternative in sight. Other tired entries: SNEE, ETAILED.

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That was fun! The long entries are all really excellent and the hints were good, especially the hint translations of the colloquial entries [I’M SHOCKED, CAN WE?, PSST]. Aside from a few minor nits, this was a solid (if not great)

The long stuff today included: POST HASTE / I’M SHOCKED / ALAN MOORE / SEMANTICS / BLEEPED OUT / BONG JOON HO / INNUMERATE / SWITCHEROO / THUMB WARS / HOME DEPOT. We only saw BONG JOON HO in another New Yorker a few weeks ago when I absolutely couldn’t remember his name, so I definitely got it this time. The rest of these entries are pretty fun, with my personal favorites being SWITCHEROO, BLEEPED OUT, and THUMB WARS. However, I have to say that the reference to THUMB WARS may be too clever for its own good. You don’t win a THUMB WAR easily! You win it when your thumb is on the thumb of someone else who is down. This riddle also made me read ALAN MOORE’s Wikipedia page. Apparently he’s an anarchist!

Today’s AVCX is an AVCX debut for Trent Evans! At first glance, some entries appear to be missing something:

Directly above the topic entries (and indicated by blank clues below) above each of these entries is an I that “makes it happen” – ME DIA CIRCUS, ME ET AND GREET, and ME AN STREAK.

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That felt NYT themed, although there are some hints that are clearly AVCX — you can’t call PEG “Use a strap-on” and pass the breakfast test. Elsewhere, I liked the conversation I MEAN COME ON (26D, “Like, really, there’s just no way…”) and a mention of Mocedades’ ERES TU (47A, “Spanish-language hit song titled ‘You Are’ means” ), a song that I strongly associate with high school Spanish classes.

The I-shape resulted in a preponderance of mid-range fill responses. Highlights included the ALDENTE, EARWORM (the best way to serve them) drenched in TABASCO, as well as a rustic BRASSIERE. One reply, SNARFED, will have tripped up some of you, as it did for me; SCARFED seemed so right!

And there you have it, your Astazidi pun quota for the month. The tomalley is my favorite as it is the most specific to the organism.

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