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MYT puzzles are popular. The crossword puzzel is legendary.

Wordle and the crossword puzzle.

www.nytimes.com

Subscribe to New York Times Games

Upgrade your downtime with full access to The Crossword, The Mini, Spelling Bee and more.
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steve_bank said:
WAB said:
Egads.
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How do you play Egads?
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https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36557/e-gads

E-GADS was developed by Bob Slater to raise funds for humanitarian projects around the world.

Contestants move around the game board collecting cards and attempting to slow down the progress of the other players. When a player lands on a "War" space a special die roll settles the conflict using the classic rock/paper/scissors method!
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bilby said:
steve_bank said:
WAB said:
Egads.
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How do you play Egads?
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https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36557/e-gads

E-GADS was developed by Bob Slater to raise funds for humanitarian projects around the world.

Contestants move around the game board collecting cards and attempting to slow down the progress of the other players. When a player lands on a "War" space a special die roll settles the conflict using the classic rock/paper/scissors method!
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Egads indeed! I assumed this was bilby's (in)famous humo(u)r at work, but Gullible Swammi clicked and ... Egads! Of course I'll not rule out that bilby created this page himself shortly before posting the above!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/70666/gullibility

Gullibility™ was developed by Alfredo von Neumann to support unspecified tax-immune activities.. Players move around the board rolling an eleven-sided die, collecting crypto-tokens and cards of various sorts, while trying to get opponents to click on unlikely links. If a player shouts "Election!" whoever has the most cards in the Gerrymander suit can create a new meme coin and award themself 1000 of the new coins. The game is won by whoever encounters the fewest 404 errors.
 
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I do the Spelling Bee and Wordle over my morning coffee, usually. The crossword is too small to do on my phone, but I still get a paper edition of the San Francisco Chronicle on Sundays, so my partner and I tackle their crossword together if we have time.
 
Politesse said:
I do the Spelling Bee and Wordle over my morning coffee, usually. The crossword is too small to do on my phone, but I still get a paper edition of the San Francisco Chronicle on Sundays, so my partner and I tackle their crossword together if we have time.
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The SF Chronicle still has a print edition? It must be about the size of a napkin by now.
 
A slightly spicy 12 dollars per issue, but it looks about the same as it ever did, to me. People say the paper is thinner, but I've not noticed it such to be offended.
 
Politesse said:
A slightly spicy 12 dollars per issue, but it looks about the same as it ever did, to me. People say the paper is thinner, but I've not noticed it such to be offended.
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:oops: $12 for a print copy of the Chron?

ETA: Just looked it up. You're right. That's $1300/yr for a 7 day print subscription. Yikes. When I found out I was paying over $700/yr for the Merc 10 years ago, I cancelled. I was on autopay, and failed to keep myself informed about the rate increases. I still miss reading a daily newspaper in my Lazy Boy chair with a cup of coffee, though.
 
I sometimes play this online jigsaw, using my own photos.
www.jigsawexplorer.com

A Jigsaw Explorer Jigsaw Puzzle

This jigsaw puzzle is presented within Jigsaw Explorer's premium jigsaw puzzle web app. Anyone can use this web app to play their own photos as jigsaw puzzles, or choose from the thousands of beautiful jigsaw puzzles available at the Jigsaw Explorer website.
www.jigsawexplorer.com
 
The NYT puzzle is edited by Will Shortz, who is also known as the "puzzle master". He has held this position at The New York Times since 1993. Shortz is also the puzzle master for NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday". He is known for his passion for puzzles and has been involved in various puzzle-related activities throughout his career
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He has a short puzzle segment on a weekend NPR show. He puts out a weekly puzzle.

For some reason posting the link causes a time out error when saving.

Search on NPR Sunday puzzle.
 
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thebeave said:
Politesse said:
A slightly spicy 12 dollars per issue, but it looks about the same as it ever did, to me. People say the paper is thinner, but I've not noticed it such to be offended.
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:oops: $12 for a print copy of the Chron?

ETA: Just looked it up. You're right. That's $1300/yr for a 7 day print subscription. Yikes. When I found out I was paying over $700/yr for the Merc 10 years ago, I cancelled. I was on autopay, and failed to keep myself informed about the rate increases. I still miss reading a daily newspaper in my Lazy Boy chair with a cup of coffee, though.
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See, that's the thing. I was thinking of letting it go with this last house move, but... Sundays would never quite be the same.
 
Politesse said:
A slightly spicy 12 dollars per issue, but it looks about the same as it ever did, to me. People say the paper is thinner, but I've not noticed it such to be offended.
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You joking? For the San Francisco Chronicle? Last time I bought one it was 23¢ in the late 20th century. (The odd price was to make it an even quarter with sales tax. This was after California started charging tax on periodicals.)

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For free on-line puzzles I recommend
I enjoy Untangle and Towers, but Tatham has several puzzle types I've not tried and they're probably fun also. Simon doesn't offer Nurikabe, one of my favorite puzzle types, but Google can find a few Nurikabe sites.
 
Swammerdami said:
Politesse said:
A slightly spicy 12 dollars per issue, but it looks about the same as it ever did, to me. People say the paper is thinner, but I've not noticed it such to be offended.
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You joking? For the San Francisco Chronicle? Last time I bought one it was 23¢ in the late 20th century. (The odd price was to make it an even quarter with sales tax. This was after California started charging tax on periodicals.)

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For free on-line puzzles I recommend
I enjoy Untangle and Towers, but Tatham has several puzzle types I've not tried and they're probably fun also. Simon doesn't offer Nurikabe, one of my favorite puzzle types, but Google can find a few Nurikabe sites.
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That was probably for a weekday edition. Sunday editions for most papers have always been more, say $1 or $1.50. But still, $12 is pretty rich. And its shrunk in size, and content is lower quality than in past years. The days of Herb Caen, the pink section and the "Little Man" movie reviewer et al are long gone. :(
 
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I do Connections and Strands.
 
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But still, $12 is pretty rich. And its shrunk in size, and content is lower quality than in past years. The days of Herb Caen, the pink section and the "Little Man" movie reviewer et al are long gone. :(
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I barely remember Herb Caen's columns, but a certain Bernard Trink wrote a column for the Bangkok Post and called himself "the Herb Caen of Bangkok." The column was mostly movie reviews and advice for Farungs fraternizing with Go-Go dancers! He lived in Bangkok for many years -- I often ran into him in the Soi Cowboy area -- but one anecdote reminds me of the difference between the polite register of Thai that foreigners are taught, and vulgar rural Thai.

He wrote a column warning Farangs to listen to the pronouns bar girls use. If they refer to you as /man/ ("it") rather than /khao/ ("he") that shows what they think of you. Had I followed Trink's advice (when an older man called me /man/) I'd have made a major life-changing mistake. But fortunately I already understood that such vulgar speech was common up-country.
 
thebeave said:
Swammerdami said:
Politesse said:
A slightly spicy 12 dollars per issue, but it looks about the same as it ever did, to me. People say the paper is thinner, but I've not noticed it such to be offended.
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You joking? For the San Francisco Chronicle? Last time I bought one it was 23¢ in the late 20th century. (The odd price was to make it an even quarter with sales tax. This was after California started charging tax on periodicals.)

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For free on-line puzzles I recommend
I enjoy Untangle and Towers, but Tatham has several puzzle types I've not tried and they're probably fun also. Simon doesn't offer Nurikabe, one of my favorite puzzle types, but Google can find a few Nurikabe sites.
Click to expand...
That was probably for a weekday edition. Sunday editions for most papers have always been more, say $1 or $1.50. But still, $12 is pretty rich. And its shrunk in size, and content is lower quality than in past years. The days of Herb Caen, the pink section and the "Little Man" movie reviewer et al are long gone. :(
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I miss the movie reviews, but have never shared the apparently common adoration for Herb Caen. Phil Frank, now, there was a cartoonist who really got the City.
 
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