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She is also an assistant editor at the American Values Club Crossword. [1] [2] In 2022, Liu constructed the final round puzzle for the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. [3] Liu is the editor of Connections, a New York Times game officially introduced in 2023, [4] and the author of the crossword compilation Pause for Puzzles: Hard Crosswords ...
The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT) is a crossword -solving tournament held annually in February, March, or April. Founded in 1978 by Will Shortz, who still directs the tournament, it is the oldest and largest crossword tournament held in the United States; the 2023 event set an attendance record with more than 750 competitors. [1][2]
Andrea Carla Michaels (née Eisenberg; born 1959) is an American crossword puzzle constructor and corporate naming consultant. She was a comedian and television writer after graduating from Harvard University in 1980 and has played competitive chess and Scrabble and appeared on Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune.
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. Helped form the World Puzzle Championship. She was the coordinator for the first and ninth WPCs and was the chairwoman of the captains ...
Raphel writes about the history of crossword puzzles in Thinking Inside the Box (2020), published by Penguin Group. The book grew out of her PhD dissertation on crosswords. [2] [5] Besides conducting archival research and interviews, she competed in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and submitted her own puzzle to The New York Times. [7] [8]
Shortz also is the former editor of Games magazine and founded and has served as director of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament since 1978 (a focus of the 2006 documentary “Wordplay”).
William F. Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is an American puzzle creator and editor who is the crossword editor for The New York Times. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in the invented field of enigmatology. After starting his career at Penny Press and Games magazine, he was hired by The New York Times in 1993.
The New York Times crossword is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times, syndicated to more than 300 other newspapers and journals, and released online on the newspaper's website and mobile apps as part of The New York Times Games. [1][2][3][4][5] The puzzle is created by various freelance constructors and has ...