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Video game industry. The video game industry is the tertiary and quaternary sectors of the entertainment industry that specialize in the development, marketing, distribution, monetization and consumer feedback of video games. The industry encompasses dozens of job disciplines and thousands of jobs worldwide.
The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Bonza (video game) Crosswords DS. Crosswords Plus. N. The New York Times Crosswords. Categories: Crossword software. Word puzzle video games. Video games based on games.
Puzzle video games make up a broad genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles can test problem-solving skills, including logic , pattern recognition , sequence solving , spatial recognition , and word completion .
- Oh No! Princess Peach Has Eaten Dubious Food! Food has been an important part of video games since settlers died of dysentery on the Oregon Trail. Join me for a puzzle focused on food in video games.
- A Feast of Games. The puzzle looks at a variety of video and computer games... but there was a snag (pun intended), at least six of the answers had to be a food item.
- Video Games and Characters #4. A series of video games and characters since 1980. RPG means role-playing game. Video Games. Harder. Small Puzzle. 1894 plays.
- Skirmishing Software. Number 5 (of 20) in a series of crosswords produced for November's Quiz Writing Challenge. A personal goal is to create a crossword for every Fun Trivia category.
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- Records and Puzzles of Note
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While crosswords became popular in the early 1920s, it was not until 1942 that The New York Times (which initially regarded crosswords as frivolous, calling them "a primitive form of mental exercise") began running a crossword in its Sunday edition. The first puzzle ran on Sunday, February 15, 1942. The motivating impulse for the Times to finally r...
Will Shortz does not write the Times crossword himself; the puzzles are submitted to him by a wide variety of contributors. A full specification sheet listing the paper's requirements for crossword puzzle submission can be found online (see "External Links") or by writing to the paper. Aside from increasing in difficulty throughout the week, the Mo...
Second Sunday puzzles
In addition to the primary crossword, the Times publishes a second Sunday puzzle each week, of varying types, something that the first crossword editor, Margaret Farrar, saw as a part of the paper's Sunday puzzle offering from the start; she wrote in a memo when the Times was considering whether or not to start running crosswords that "The smaller puzzle, which would occupy the lower part of the page, could provide variety each Sunday. It could be topical, humorous, have rhymed definitions or...
Other puzzles
As well as a second word puzzle on Sundays, the Times publishes a KenKen numbers puzzle (a variant of the popular sudoku logic puzzles) each day of the week. The KenKen and second Sunday puzzles are available online at the New York Times crosswords and games page, as are "SET!" logic puzzles, a word search variant called "Spelling Bee" in which the solver uses a hexagonal diagram of letters to spell words of four or more letters in length, and a monthly bonus crossword with a theme relating t...
Fans of the Times crossword have kept track of a number of records and interesting puzzles (primarily from among those published in Shortz's tenure), including those below. (All puzzles published from October 23, 1996, on are available to online subscribers to the Timescrossword.) 1. Fewest words in a daily 15x15 puzzle: 50 words, on Saturday, June...
The Times crossword has been criticized for a lack of diversity in its constructors and clues. Major crosswords like the Times's have been said to be “largely written, edited, fact-checked, and test-solved by older white men”, whom critics call tone-deaf or out-of-touch. Less than 30% of puzzle constructors in the Shortz Era have been women.In the ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
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