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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.
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.
Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [31] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...
Memorable Events/Puzzles: A puzzle that used an interactive Virtual Earth map to locate items hidden on campus (two members of the organizing team had to fly an airplane over the Microsoft campus with a high-resolution digital camera to get the level of detail down to 3 cm per pixel, allowing each puzzle answer to indicate a 6-foot square ...
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9) 27 + 2 ≠ 25 10) 29 ≠ 25. How it should be: 7) 9 + 9 + 9 = 25 + 2 8) 9 + 9 + 9 -2 = 25 + 2 -2 (adding -2 to both sides of the equation to cancel the +2 on the right side, which means the bellhop returned the tip or gave a discount of $2) 9) 9 + 9 + 9 - 2 = 25 10) 27 - 2 = 25 11) 25 = 25. The puzzle should subtract the bellhop's tip from ...
The muddy children puzzle is the most frequently appearing induction puzzle in scientific literature on epistemic logic. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Muddy children puzzle is a variant of the well known wise men or cheating wives/husbands puzzles.
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