Starting up again
I'm trying to start up the blog on a more regular basis. Right now, I'm working on preparing for the American Crossword Tournament, as featured in the documentary "WordPlay". (http://www.crosswordtournament.com). I'll do it online because I'm not good enough to justify a trip to the east coast. I did it online least year for fun and got 8500 points - I should have had 8900 but made typing mistakes. This would have put me around 30th in the Rookie category and about halfway in the overall ranking.
Every day, I do the word related puzzles in my paper (Sacramento Bee): Jumble, Word Sleuth, NEA crossword, NY Times crossword. Tues/Wed, I do the Onion AV Club crossword (http://www.avclub.com/content/node/58032), even though the interface is terribly clunky. I also try to do crosswords from collections of NYT books, since the NYT people usually create the Crossword Tournament crosswords.
Jumble is usually around a minute; Word Sleuth around 3 minutes; NEA about 3-4 minutes; NYT depends on the day of the week (5-6 mins for M/TU; 7-8 Wed; anything for Thurs-Sat).
Jumble = 1:13
Word Sleuth = 3:28
NEA xword = 3:25
NYT = 5:31
Onion AV = 10:49 (like I said, navigating the interface was a real pain)
Every day, I do the word related puzzles in my paper (Sacramento Bee): Jumble, Word Sleuth, NEA crossword, NY Times crossword. Tues/Wed, I do the Onion AV Club crossword (http://www.avclub.com/content/node/58032), even though the interface is terribly clunky. I also try to do crosswords from collections of NYT books, since the NYT people usually create the Crossword Tournament crosswords.
Jumble is usually around a minute; Word Sleuth around 3 minutes; NEA about 3-4 minutes; NYT depends on the day of the week (5-6 mins for M/TU; 7-8 Wed; anything for Thurs-Sat).
Jumble = 1:13
Word Sleuth = 3:28
NEA xword = 3:25
NYT = 5:31
Onion AV = 10:49 (like I said, navigating the interface was a real pain)
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