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on: August 20, 2023, 04:40:22 AM
Since the Sheriff mentioned her kids play:

I solved the 8/20/2023 New York Times Mini Crossword in 2:13!
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Reply #1 on: August 21, 2023, 12:31:56 AM
Monday's is out.  Tried doing todays, but I can't I guess.

I solved the 8/21/2023 New York Times Mini Crossword in 2:33!

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Reply #2 on: August 21, 2023, 12:50:10 AM

Monday's is out.  Tried doing todays, but I can't I guess.

I solved the 8/21/2023 New York Times Mini Crossword in 2:33!


I must be thinking of a different puzzle than you guys. I'm not a crossword expert, and here's today's:







"Sometimes the best things in life are a hot girl and a cold beer."



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Reply #3 on: August 21, 2023, 12:59:12 AM
I solved the 8/21/2023 New York Times Mini Crossword in 1:20!

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Reply #4 on: August 21, 2023, 02:20:10 AM

I must be thinking of a different puzzle than you guys. I'm not a crossword expert, and here's today's:


I'm doing it from the NYT Games app.
Usually on the iPad.  So it doesn't look exactly like mine, but close.  Toe can probably tell you if that's the Sunday answers


I solved the 8/21/2023 New York Times Mini Crossword in 1:20!

The kids were both sub 1:15.  Par for the course, I was at least double.

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Reply #5 on: August 21, 2023, 03:04:39 AM
Just Google “NYT Crossword Mini” if you want to see what I play. The one Barb showed does not look like it.

https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/mini

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Reply #6 on: August 21, 2023, 03:12:47 AM
Just Google “NYT Crossword Mini” if you want to see what I play. The one Barb showed does not look like it.

https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/mini

That opened to the puzzle that I had on my app.

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Reply #7 on: August 21, 2023, 03:21:36 AM
I solved the 8/21/2023 New York Times Mini Crossword in 1:20!

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Reply #8 on: August 21, 2023, 05:27:24 PM

Just Google “NYT Crossword Mini” if you want to see what I play. The one Barb showed does not look like it.

https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/mini


That opened to the puzzle that I had on my app.


Me, too:







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Reply #9 on: August 21, 2023, 10:15:25 PM
There is something called “Mini Mania” that are 5 x 5 puzzles.

I play NYT Daily Mini. It is different.

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Reply #10 on: August 22, 2023, 12:52:18 PM
I solved the 8/22/2023 New York Times Mini Crossword in 1:55!

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Reply #11 on: August 22, 2023, 01:27:25 PM

I solved the 8/22/2023 New York Times Mini Crossword in 3:29!

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Reply #12 on: August 22, 2023, 01:28:09 PM
Here's an anecdote I heard from a friend who was addicted to The Times (UK) cryptic crossword puzzle. He'd begin his day (which started at 4 pm) with a cup of coffee, a hand-rolled cigarette, and a copy of that morning's Times. It took him about 30 mins to solve the puzzle, but his goal was to get it down to 10 mins, which was considered the unattainable holy grail.

One day he boarded the train to London as usual, sitting in one of those old compartment carriages with long seats facing one other. No corridor. Exit was through one of the two side doors.

No sooner had the train moved off than the commuters pulled out their copies of the Times and their pens, and got down to the crossword puzzle. Silence reigned. One new passenger, however, appeared to be sailing through the puzzle, filling in one or two squares a second. A minute or two later he folded up his newspaper and spent the rest of the journey staring smugly out of the window. At the terminus station he was the first to alight, leaving the newspaper on his seat.

The other passengers leapt at the abandoned newspaper and stared in disbelief at the puzzle. It had, indeed, been filled in, but with rows and columns of neatly penned X-X-Xs

Clearly a joker with a very sophisticated and slightly malicious sense of humour.



The thing is, that friend never finished his dissertation and we were all concerned about his job prospects. We needn't have worried. Rumour had it that he'd found a position in a certain government agency that he couldn't mention, even to his friends.

I believe the crossword solving test in the new film about Alan Turing isn't factual but makes for good cinema. However, it's not so far off the mark.


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Reply #13 on: August 22, 2023, 01:54:43 PM
Haha, I loved reading that Hilda.  Thank you for sharing.

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Reply #14 on: August 22, 2023, 03:54:24 PM
After my “big one” and open heart surgery in 2017, I was suffering from brain fog and desperately looking for something to assist with stimulating mental acuity. I took to playing word games and card games. I do about eight of them every morning. Can’t say they are helping, but I don’t think they are hurting.

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Reply #15 on: August 22, 2023, 06:08:50 PM

After my “big one” and open heart surgery in 2017, I was suffering from brain fog and desperately looking for something to assist with stimulating mental acuity. I took to playing word games and card games. I do about eight of them every morning. Can’t say they are helping, but I don’t think they are hurting.


My mom did something similar.

When she was in her mid-70s, and she began to realize her memory was starting to slip, she decided to take proactive steps.

While she was never even remotely a sports fan, she decided she would watch Chicago sports teams games, and keep gamer stats in her head. This was especially true with Chicago Bulls games, where, at any moment in the game, she would try to remember exactly how many points each player had scored. She then realized that she loved watching the Bulls play, and she became a huge fan.

Sadly, her brain ultimately betrayed her efforts, and she passed away from Alzheimer's back in April.





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Reply #16 on: August 22, 2023, 08:39:29 PM
Sorry to hear about your mom. I lost an aunt to early onset Alzheimer’s. She was only 58.

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Reply #17 on: August 22, 2023, 09:01:23 PM

Sadly, her brain ultimately betrayed her efforts, and she passed away from Alzheimer's back in April.

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Oh my god, Barb.  I'm so so sorry. :(   Alzheimers hit all three of us it seems.  Kevin was 55 I think.   

You know my brain isn't right.  I have timeline issues. Alsomemory issues, very selective. I might remember one thing of non importance, but forget something of great importance.   Other things besides those two. 
All of my doctors want me to play puzzles.  I can't get enough of Suduko.  Wordle.  I'm not a cross word fan, but Dan and the girls are.  I'll sit next to Dan on occasion and chip in where I can. 
I guess the NYT mini will be my crossword daily now.  Maybe graduate to something bigger down the road.


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Reply #18 on: August 22, 2023, 09:33:06 PM
So sorry about your mom Barb. Alzheimer's.is the worse. We lost a neighbor to that a couple years ago.

It was long a bigger fear to me than death. One of my reactions when I was diagnosed with cancer was, "Well, I don't have to worry about Alzheimer's any more."

I also have had experience with "brain fog". I went through some heavy duty treatment for Hepatitis C many years ago. The medication left me with a fog like feeling in my head. I'd already been doing crosswords but starting getting more serious about them to help clear the cobwebs.

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Reply #19 on: August 22, 2023, 11:49:24 PM

Sorry to hear about your mom. I lost an aunt to early onset Alzheimer’s. She was only 58.


My mom was 89 when she died, and she had lived a very rich and full life. In addition to raising us four kids, she was a teacher and then a principal for about 30 years, and she was one of the most loving people I've ever known. My brothers, their wives, and I decided to have the wake all day, rather than the traditional 3-4 hours over two days. It started at noon (for the "old people") and ended at close to 10 pm. I didn't count, but there were likely 200 people that came throughout the day. And at her funeral Mass, the church was packed.

For the last five years, her memory began to seriously decline. We've talked on the phone at least once a week for decades, and beginning about a year before she died, it was clear that it was seriously slipping, to the point where she no longer knew who I was. It was sad and tragic, yet the knowledge that she spent 80+ years embracing life with both arms somehow mitigated it.

I'm not sure why, but at her wake and funeral, I cried a lot less than I thought she would. There was something incredibly positive and life-affirming about her wake, and I actually laughed a lot.

There was a really cool moment at her funeral Mass. Her birth name was Marie, but she had gone by Mickey since she was a little girl. The priest saying the Mass had known her for at least 30 years. At the very beginning, he was saying a prayer over the casket before things began, and right in the middle he stopped. He explained the prayer indicated the person's name should be stated, and he told us the despite knowing her for 30 years, he had no idea what her name was, other than Mickey. There was something joyful about that for me.





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