Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In late 1913, New York World journalist and editor Arthur Wynne was planning the Christmas edition of “Fun,” the newspaper’s jokes ...

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Just as Wordle has its share of detractors today (a phenomenon only magnified by social media), a look back at newspaper reports from the 1920s shows that the crossword faced its own number of critics ...

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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 ...

In a New York newspaper office 100 years ago, a Liverpool-born journalist called Arthur Wynne had rather a good idea. Wynne was in charge of The World’s "Fun" supplement and he’d been asked to come up ...