Thursday, December 15, 2011

Crossword puzzles

The first crossword puzzle appeared in the New York World newspaper in December 1913. Editor Arthur Wynne developed a game for the paper that was inspired by a boyhood game called Magic Squares. Wynne called his new game "word cross." Crossword puzzles became a popular regular weekly feature in the New York World paper.
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