On April 2, 1935, The Stanford Daily announced its first crossword with great fanfare. “To give students ever more service and pleasure The Daily starts today a series of Crossword Puzzles ...

A few hours before cruciverbalist Tyler Hinman won his seventh American National Crossword Puzzle Tournament this Sunday, Yale students performed the first act of the musical Word Nerd on the same ...

Elizabeth Crane is a writer, editor, proofreader, fact-checker, word nerd, and nitpicker. In fall 2019, we launched our daily crossword puzzles on Vox, initially as an experiment. We wanted to see ...

The 28-year-old from Gaithersburg, Maryland, a "word nerd" growing up, is known for being one of the most inclusive – some say revolutionary – crossword editors in mainstream puzzles. What ...

The musical is the result of four students’ senior theses — three of them within the Theater and Performance Studies department. The show features a crossword-themed television game show broadcast ...

If a letter you input turns green it means you’ve placed the correct letter in that position. If it turns orange, that letter is in the word but in a different position. Gray letters are not in that ...

A puzzling new act from rapping word nerd Zach Sherwin. Zach Sherwin is hosting “The ... “My grandmother did The New York Times crossword puzzle every day. My mom is a big reader.

Although I try to keep my writing succinct, today I’m going to be far more labyrinthine because I’m preparing myself for Word Nerd Day, which takes place on Jan. 9. Like the majority of… ...