Arkansas Blog: Puzzling -- UPDATE

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Puzzling -- UPDATE

I've just chatted with the amiable Will Shortz, crossword puzzle editor for the New York Times, who'll be speaking tonight at the Clinton School after a showing of the documentary "Wordplay." (The film features music by the puzzle-creating District Judge Vic Fleming.)

A crossword/sudoku tournament is about to get underway as part of Arkansas Puzzle Day, so proclaimed by Gov. Mike Beebe. About 400 people have registered to attend various puzzling events. (Shortz tips me that the puzzles in the competition will be the Mon.-Thur. puzzles scheduled for publication in next week's Times.)

UPDATE: That was no lady who won today's crossword contest, I'm told. That was my wife. The brains of the family operation. And if you can't put your own wife on your blog for winning a crossword contest, getting a handshake from Will Shortz, why even have a blog?

Posted by Max Brantley on May 30, 2007 12:53 PM | Permalink

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Never cared for crosswords, but am addicted to sudoku puzzles and work several of them every day. It's a great form of mental gymnastics. Will Shortz's puzzles and books are the best published when it comes to sudoku.

Posted by: durangokid | May 30, 2007 02:28 PM

Yeah, she looks like a know-it-all, the kind that can work the Sunday puzzle without a dictionary.

Posted by: Cato | May 30, 2007 07:39 PM

You don't say! Congratulations to her honor. That is way cool.

Posted by: hugh mann | May 30, 2007 08:30 PM

Your beautiful bride is one of the SMARTEST folks I know. And, there was Emily Matson........ a loooooooooooong time ago.
Congrats to the solver of the crosswords! Gees, doesn't she ever age?????

Posted by: Curious | May 30, 2007 10:22 PM

Congratulations to Her Honor, but also to Beth Levi, the winner of the Sudoku competition with a blazing fast time!

Posted by: DR | May 30, 2007 10:47 PM

Congrats! Wish I could have been there. Alas, I had to work, then get a kid to swim practice, then attend my monthly book club (which was great - we've just read Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Life in Iraq's Green Zone).

Looks like the event was lots of fun. Kudos to the Clinton Center, too.

Posted by: Liberal and Proud | May 31, 2007 05:52 AM

Woooo-wooo! Judge Ellen!

Posted by: Quapaw | May 31, 2007 03:05 PM

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