Clues are generally a couple of words long, and are a mixture of those that require a bit of lateral thinking and more straightforward filler to make the others doable. Monday’s puzzle is meant to be solvable by “ anyone in America ,” and up it goes. It also operates on a weekly schedule, increasing in difficulty from Monday to Saturday (with Thursdays occasionally going a bit weird) - on Sunday, the crossword is bigger but around the middle difficulty-wise. The crossword generally has a theme linking the longest words in it. Understanding how the puzzle works, for instance, will prove extremely helpful.
The second time is easier, the third time even more so, and by the tenth time, you’re finding yourself filling in an entry without needing a single crossing letter.” “You’ll likely fail the first time you encounter a certain type of trick or entry. “You need to have some basic vocabulary and knowledge, but so much of solving crosswords is repetition,” Chen explains. Chen knows a hell of a lot about the New York Times Crossword - he has set it over 100 times and both solves and analyzes it daily, providing commentary and insight on the process at Xword Info. There are definitely elements of both, according to Jeff Chen. Is it about actual intelligence, or just learning a bunch of tricks? But then, sometimes an old person sees you use WhatsApp and thinks you’re basically Stephen Hawking. To someone that doesn’t do them, it can seem like a slick crossword-solver is a walking human encyclopedia, bursting with all the knowledge in the world. Knows poems that aren’t about farting or dicks smart.īut how smart do you really have to be to do it? Can’t you just figure out how they work, get good at crosswords and solve them all while still being a human idiot? Quotes ancient scholars when making a point smart. Not just “knows what they’re talking about” smart, like smart smart. Doing the New York Times Crossword every day is like cultural shorthand for someone being really smart.
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