February 22, 2008
Late breaking news
Why are crossword puzzles so popular? "Nature abhors a vacuum," The New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz theorizes. "You see that empty black-and-white grid, and you want to start filling it in. You like to fill up those squares."
The Penumbra series comes to a close with more creeps and physics-based puzzles.
Sounds like the opening of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting but even number puzzles can create addiction and in my case nearly did!
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Redmond puzzles over endless reboots. Responding to reports of endlessly rebooting PCs that flooded support newsgroups last week, Microsoft has said that it had pulled an update designed to prep Windows Vista for Service Pack 1.
Macgamestore.com and Hidden Objects has announced the release of The Count of Monte Cristo, a new casual puzzle game for the Mac. It costs $19.95, and a downloadable demo is available.
It's been 2 minutes and 32 seconds, and Al Sanders has just breezed through the more than 70 mini-puzzles that make up the New York Times crossword puzzle.
FOR CHILDREN.
The Spiderwick Chronicles isn't bad for a game-of-the-movie, but it's not good for a game.
- Students at Parsons Memorial Elementary School raised $10,700 for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in their annual math-a-thon. In this national program, students sponsored by family and friends solve math puzzles and problems to earn points and collect pledges for their work.