Otherwise they're just - no, they don't make puzzles. There's, I don't know, there's a constructor in Boston that I know of who's one of the top constructors, and he says he's not very good at solving puzzles at all.Īnd I know out of the top 10, say, American crossword solvers, there's two or three, maybe four, who are good constructors. Creating puzzles, that's a different skill altogether.ĬONAN: And the - one - that you're a good constructor does not necessarily make you a good solver. I think to be a good solver, well, you have to be smart, but just because you're smart doesn't mean you're going to be a good solver. SHORTZ: Constructors and solvers? They are different kinds of minds. Do you think their brains work the same way? As the editor, you're the interface between constructors, people who design the puzzles, and the solvers, people who take out their pens and pencils. WILL SHORTZ (New York Times Crossword Puzzle Editor): Hi, Neal, nice to talk to you again.ĬONAN: Good to talk to you. His day job is crossword editor for the New York Times, and he's edited a special Science Times puzzle that ran in yesterday's puzzle edition, and he joins us from his home in New York. You hear him Sunday mornings on WEEKEND EDITION. You know Will Shortz as NPR's Puzzlemaster. Later in the hour, Amnesty International turns 50. Email us, You can also join the conversation on our website. Whatever your puzzle: What helps your brain to solve it? Is it analysis or insight, a quiet room or a crowded subway car? Give us a call, 80. And researchers are at work on the science of puzzles, how we come to those a-ha moments, ways the brain works to solve these problems, why some can finish a difficult crossword in five minutes while the rest of us take a little longer, and why so many of us love puzzles.Īnd we want to hear from crossword, Sudoku, anagram fanatics. We solve them to stay sharp, or at least we think we do. We solve these puzzles for fun, sometimes to win. The front page of yesterday's Science Times section in the New York Times described a phenomenon that threatens to become a craze: crosswords, Sudoku, KenKen, Scrabble, riddles. With a roar of engines, the Beaters departed to take up their positions, followed by the Lures, on their nippy dirt bikes that looked all too flimsy for the work they must do.This is TALK OF THE NATION. In fact, she was ambivalent to a degree that made her wonder how her bumper sticker would have read had one been affixed to her buttocks on that nippy January afternoon. The color in my cheeks was only the product of the nippy air and the freckles stood out like beauty marks. The sorserir gave me directshins an sum advyce an that, but ah had a nippy heid at the time coz and been drinkin the wine the night befoar an so ah didnae reelly take in aw he wiz sayin an besides ah woz all ecsited coz ah wiz getting tae go intae the Underground at last. However, the front-wheel drive vehicle was light enough and nippy enough to negotiate even the most unfriendly dry river-beds, although Craig had to corduroy the sandy bottoms with branches to give it purchase in the fine sand. Oscar made a few wistful remarks about how good New England food would be now that the weather was getting nippy, but there were still no takers for his Criterion Patented Brassbound Pie Safe. Master Thady Boy Ballagh, ollave, poet, professor, the fifteenth and the nippiest, climbed straight to the yardarm, made his way to the peak, and sixty feet up over a listing deck, knife in hand, probed the lashings. X is a rather dreary little Soviet-fan who combines philately with communism, and is pretty nippy with the darts.
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