"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In late 1913, New York World journalist and editor Arthur Wynne was planning the Christmas edition of ...

Created by a British-American wordsmith, the very first Word-Cross appeared in the New York World on Dec. 21, 1913. And the crossword puzzle — as we know it — was born. To observe the centennial ...

Crossword puzzles are now a staple of newspapers, but that wasn’t always the case. The first modern crossword, as we know it today, appeared in the New York World on 21 December 1913. Arthur Wynne, ...

What’s a 10-letter word for the 100th anniversary of something, in this case crossword puzzles? Google is celebrating the centennial of crossword puzzles Friday with an interactive doodle on its home ...

Everywhere he looks, Merl Reagle sees word puzzles. A few minutes into our phone conversation, he stops mid-sentence. "Did you know that your last name anagrams perfectly into two different types of ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Word Cross Puzzle Are you tired of the old-fashioned word search interfaces? Do you want to enjoy a totally new experience of word puzzle game? Now, you can ...

Started playing the new CodyCross crossword puzzle game but stuck on answers for some of the levels? Check out our cheat guide with every answer to the addictive iOS puzzle game, here. IBTimes Started ...

The New York World ran the first-ever “Word-Cross Puzzle” in 1913, sending other papers, including the Globe, scrambling to introduce their own. This puzzle below was published in The Boston Globe on ...