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From this coming Sunday's New York Times Magazine, the directions for the second Sunday puzzle (on the page with the crossword puzzle):

Crazy Eights by Mike Shenk

Each pair of clues below leads to two eight-letter words or phrases. If you take the middle six letters of the answer to the first clue and reverse their order, you’ll get the middle six letters of the answer to the second clue. At the recent National Puzzlers’ League convention, Lance Nathan of Somerville, Mass., solved all 25 pairs in less than 6 minutes. The average score of the 150 puzzlers playing was about 15 answers in 20 minutes.


My name in the New York Times! Bwahahahaha! OK, I can die happy now.

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Date: 2004-08-28 05:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lilisonna.livejournal.com
Congrats. And very keen.

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Date: 2004-08-28 06:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thedan.livejournal.com
Rock on. :)

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Date: 2004-08-28 06:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marith.livejournal.com
Congratulations! Your reputation as Guy With Scary Brain is further cemented.

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Date: 2004-08-28 07:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] srl.livejournal.com
Mmmm, brains. Congrats.

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Date: 2004-08-28 08:17 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] saxikath
That's so cool.

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Date: 2004-08-28 08:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] littleowl.livejournal.com
Woo! Way to go:)

nathan's famous!

Date: 2004-08-28 10:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cramerica.livejournal.com
now even MORE people know you! WHERE WILL IT STOP?

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Date: 2004-08-28 12:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 42itous.livejournal.com
I'm just proud of myself for being average on this one.

You people with scary-smart brains must get bored easily.

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Date: 2004-08-28 06:22 pm (UTC)
jadelennox: Senora Sabasa Garcia, by Goya (rosie)
From: [personal profile] jadelennox
I'm going home with you tonight.

yeah well

Date: 2004-08-29 11:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toonhead-npl.livejournal.com
I kissed that Canadian guy what writes those NYT cryptics what ain't got no connectors. And what do *I* get? Bupkes!

--Toonhead!

(P.S. Congrats!)

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Date: 2004-08-29 04:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jordanwillow.livejournal.com
wow! that's so cool. i'll make sure all my nyt puzzlers see it :)

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Date: 2004-08-29 05:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mendoza.livejournal.com
Very, very cool.

--Captain Haddock ;)

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Date: 2004-08-29 06:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tahnan.livejournal.com
Good Lord, it's Captain Haddock! Who I haven't seen in donkey's years!

(And, thanks!)

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Date: 2004-08-30 06:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bendix.livejournal.com
You rule. Bwahahahah indeed.