Do you know December 21 is commutated the world crossword puzzle day? This was when the first ever crossword got published in ‘The New York World’ by Arthur Wynne.
Are you passionate about crosswords? If so, we have something for you.
Here are a few more interesting facts you may not have known about crossword puzzles:
1. Controversy in the early days
In 1924, The New York Times complained that “sinful waste in the utterly futile finding of words the letters of which will fit into a prearranged pattern…This is not a game at all, and it hardly can be called a sport… [solvers] get nothing out of it except a primitive form of mental exercise, and success or failure in any given attempt is equally irrelevant to mental development.”
The controversy turned into a hot topic in 1925 when many started arguing that colossal waste of time is nothing but a fad.
The Time Magazine claimed that ‘The craze for crosswords will positively end by June’ or ‘The crossword puzzle is here to stay.’
2. Crosswords were ban
During the Second World War, crosswords had to face ban in Paris as they use to pass secret messages to the enemy.
3. Largest crossword ever
Have you tried to find out which is the largest crossword ever? According to the Guinness Book of Records, the biggest crossword was the size of ‘7×7’, 91,000 squares and 28000 clues.
4. The board crossword
AN architect Alfred Mosher Butt creates a board based crossword puzzle in 1930 which turned out to be a very popular pastime game of that time. The game was known as ‘Scrabble.’
5. Special name for crossword lovers
Do you know that the Crossword enthusiast have a special name and it is “cruciverbalists”?
It means, a person having the skill of creating and solving crossword puzzles.
The oldest crossword tournament
The Annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament that began in 1978 is the oldest crossword competition.
6. Highest vowels
The most conducive language to crossword construction is Italian. The language has the maximum number of vowels and more regularity in the spelling pattern than the English language.
7. Crossword suicide
A waiter in Budapest committed suicide in 1926. He left behind a blank crossword with a note that said, “The solution will give the reason for my suicide and also the name of the people.” Sadly, the solution was never found.
8. Unique crossword
The corner squares of every crossword puzzle that is in the newspaper must be white in Japan.
9. Fastest crossword solver
The New York Time crossword was done in the shortest time by Stanley Newman during 1996. He completed it in 2 minutes and 14 seconds.
10. The Guardian’s crossword constructor
In January 2013, the Guardian’s crossword maker Araucaria who has been constructing puzzles for 50 plus years made an announcement. He has 18 down (cancer) of the 19 (oesophagus) that is being taken care with 13 15.
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