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2. Helene Hovanec - Wikipedia

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   In addition to her books Hovanec is involved in the grown-up puzzle world, mainly through her connection to Will Shortz. With Shortz she: Met Margaret Farrar, the pioneering crossword editor, and wrote about her contribution to the world of crossword puzzles. [3] Helped reinstitute the annual conventions of The National Puzzlers' League.

3. Puzzle book - Wikipedia

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   Puzzle books may contain puzzles all of simply one type like (e.g. crosswords, sudoku, or wordsearch) or a mixture of different puzzle types. Puzzle books may be aimed for either adults or children. Puzzle books can be used for many purposes such as education or purely for entertainment. The first crossword puzzle book was published in 1924 by ...

4. Margaret Farrar - Wikipedia

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   Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]

5. List of puzzle topics - Wikipedia

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   Chess puzzle. Chess problem; Computer puzzle game; Cross Sums; Crossword puzzle; Cryptic crossword; Cryptogram; Maze. Back from the klondike; Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Mechanical puzzle. Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Burr puzzle; Word puzzle. Acrostic; Daughter in the box; Disentanglement puzzle; Edge-matching puzzle; Egg of Columbus; Eight queens puzzle ...

6. Puzzle - Wikipedia

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   In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together (or take them apart) in a logical way, in order to find the solution of the puzzle. There are different genres of puzzles, such as crossword puzzles, word-search puzzles, number puzzles, relational puzzles, and logic puzzles. The academic study of puzzles is called enigmatology.

7. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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   The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.