I for one will miss The Puzzler. Hopefully Henry and Emily will find an outlet somewhere else.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 July 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey look.
― jaymc, Sunday, 9 August 2009 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, but you saw what amateurist said about him.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 August 2009 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I have now.
― jaymc, Sunday, 9 August 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― amateurist, Sunday, 9 August 2009 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I made a crossword puzzle for Marbles: The Brain Store, a local chain that sells educational games and toys. It's a pretty easy one, I should think (especially since the site gives a hint about the theme).
― jaymc, Friday, 18 September 2009 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
nice! the linked down clues are good ones.
― nabisco, Friday, 18 September 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone notice the glaring factual error in this week's Ink Well puzzle?
― jaymc, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
ha: is it worth making a point of doing the puzzle later?
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Sure. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that Tausig just needed to have changed "won an Oscar" to "nominated for an Oscar" in the clue.
― jaymc, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
the warren beatty one?
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
xp
Yeah.
― jaymc, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
OOXTEPLERNON!
― O-mar Gaya (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Good article in Slate by Matt Gaffney about how easy it is for crossword constructors to duplicate each other's themes.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Do you do Matt Gaffney's puzzle, jaymc?
Just saw this article for the first time: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/fashion/12puzzle.html?_r=1
― O-mar Gaya (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I used to, but I got too busy to keep up with it. After he published this puzzle a few months ago, he posed a challenge to readers to come up with a 15-letter theme fill that contained no vowels other than U. The best I could do was "BURNSBURNSBURNS" ("What Johnny Cash's ring of fire does), but it did inspire me to write this poem. (The winning entry was "CRUSHCRUSHCRUSH," which I guess is a Paramore song.)
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice. I think you might have done an embryonic version of it on this thread: Me Need Help! ( A Spelling Thread)
― O-mar Gaya (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, I don't remember that at all!
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:56 (fourteen years ago) link
The NYT was very, um, challenging today. I gave up and looked at the blogs before I finished it.
― O-mar Gaya (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 December 2009 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
While we're at it, the Marbles: The Brain Store puzzle I mentioned upthread has turned into a monthly assignment. You can do my September through December puzzles here. They have to be printed out, but I'll e-mail .puz files if anyone's interested. Also, I tried to make them solvable for a general audience, so there's nothing too-too clever. Just so you know.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 4 December 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
(P.S. Ignore the bit under the September puzzle, which makes it look like that's the only puzzle I created. That was put up when that was the only puzzle on the site, and they haven't taken it down yet.)
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 4 December 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked this comment from Rex Parker today: "Theme answers then lend themselves to preposterous cluing of the sort that adds much-needed thorniness to the typical Sunday solve."
― Borinquen C (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, jaymc, I did your September and October puzzles and like you said, nothing too difficult but they were nicely clued. Did somebody edit them for you (although I can't imagine that) or was it all yours?
― 35 Millimeter Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
No, it was all me, although occasionally I look for inspiration here. Thanks!
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
(Actually, I feel like my cluing could be a lot stronger, because the sort of punnish wordplay that's inimical to good crosswords simply doesn't occur to me that often. I do try to avoid straightforward definitions, if I can help it, in favor of secondary meanings or synonyms.)
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been ramping up again recently so I'm used to the punning, but sometimes I find it tiresome and I bet your intended audience for that puzzle would too
― don van leet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
RHETMENTATEE!
Do you ever do the Brendan Emmett Quigley puzzle, jaymc? Themeless Monday is hard!
― Tlön, Uqbar, Morbius Tertius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 December 2009 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Aaargh!
― Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 December 2009 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
If you haven't been doing Merl Reagle's Sunday puzzles, today is a good time to start.
― Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 December 2009 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.sundaycrosswords.com/ccpuz/MPuz.php
― Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 December 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Dan Naddor. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dan-naddor7-2010jan07,0,3697756.story
― nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Today's LA Times puzzle is one of his: http://games.latimes.com/index_crossword.html?uc_feature_code=tmcal
― nico anemic cinema icon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i enjoyed tausig's triple crossword in the mcsweeney's newspaper thing
― an american hippie in israel (Jordan), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't, but he just added me on Facebook!
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Still trying to decide whether to attend the ACPT next month. Guess I'll look into flights to NYC.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Will you be in the rookie category?
― lex submerge (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah. I don't think the Marbles tournament I competed in last year counts.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i might do it, as the hotel is about a 15-minute bus ride from my apartment
― louis malle-rat (donna rouge), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
also it is the last possible year for me to enter as a 'junior'
When is the last day to sign up?
― lex submerge (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
dunno when the deadline is but if you register online you get $10 off the registration fee before feb. 13
― louis malle-rat (donna rouge), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Airfare is pretty reasonable. Think I'm gonna do this.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
nice
― an american hippie in israel (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i am registered for sat/sun only
― louis malle-rat (donna rouge), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I dunno about the Friday night thing.
― lex submerge (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh tell me you haven't wanted to hobnob with Andrea Carla Michaels.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
BEQ puts an Avatar clue in every one of his puzzles now. I may have to go see it just to get those.
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 January 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
also it is the last possible year for me to enter as a 'junior'― louis malle-rat (donna rouge), Tuesday, January 12, 2010 2:25 PM (5 days ago)
― louis malle-rat (donna rouge), Tuesday, January 12, 2010 2:25 PM (5 days ago)
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 January 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link