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Date: August 26th, 2026 11:33 AM Author: Deep Corner (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094128) |
Date: August 26th, 2026 11:33 AM Author: Pearly passionate resort the nytime crossword is too hard right esp th eone with a theme? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094132) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 11:37 AM Author: Peach Dilemma Hissy Fit the daily ones are designed to get progressively harder monday-saturday. although it's bigger and usually has a theme, sunday's is designed to be of only average difficulty, like wednesday/thursday. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094144) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 11:46 AM Author: Up-to-no-good Internal Respiration cr, except that weekday puzzles also have a theme except fri-sat; it's not just sunday that has a theme.
NOT having a theme makes it harder. that's why fri-sat is much harder than sunday. a theme allowed you to rely on the theme to figure out a lot of the long words. without a theme, you have no way of getting long words. |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 11:51 AM Author: Spectacular lay thursday is decidedly not of average difficulty (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094182) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 11:59 AM Author: Up-to-no-good Internal Respiration it's of above-average difficulty for a nyt puzzle. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094192) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 12:05 PM Author: Big parlour it is designed in theory to be between wednesday and friday in terms of difficulty. the prevalence of themed puzzles on thursdays often results in higher reported difficulties, however. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094203) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 12:45 PM Author: Up-to-no-good Internal Respiration how is a theme more difficult? it makes it easier (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094287) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 1:00 PM Author: Spectacular lay you must be one of the historically most irritating people on xo (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094321) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 1:18 PM Author: sapphire rigpig IF you solve the theme (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094389) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 1:55 PM Author: Up-to-no-good Internal Respiration even if you dont solve the theme, it's neutral. i do themes monday/tuesday puzzles w/o even thinking about the theme sometimes if im in a hurry. and dont realize the theme until after. there's no way the theme makes it worse. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094537) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: Big parlour the theme may not be as simple as topically related answers. it may involve blank squares, ignored squares, squares that are meant to be read differently depending on orientation, numbers, etc., etc., all of which might make answers to a given clue non-obvious. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094661) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 2:45 PM Author: Spectacular lay youre going to argue an obvious point with DBG until you end up shooting yourself. just walk away (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094724) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 2:48 PM Author: Up-to-no-good Internal Respiration he made a good point and we've found middle ground. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094729) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 2:47 PM Author: Up-to-no-good Internal Respiration fair enough. those kind of really tricky ones are relatively rare though. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094727) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 11:38 AM Author: Amber Jap Gaping both (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094146) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 11:38 AM Author: Richard Ames Both. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094148) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 11:44 AM Author: Up-to-no-good Internal Respiration people mag: prole
nyt/lat/etc: prestigious |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 11:47 AM Author: animeboi (.) (Will Shortz) (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094170) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 12:01 PM Author: Up-to-no-good Internal Respiration will shortz is the classic boomer. gets the top xword job in the world at age 41 and keeps it for 40 yrs and counting. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094194) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 12:03 PM Author: animeboi (.) I'm sorry but do you have a degree in Enigmatology buddy? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094196) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 12:43 PM Author: Up-to-no-good Internal Respiration best choice of his life:
He also earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law (1977), but did not sit for the bar exam, opting for a career in puzzles instead.[11] |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 2:08 PM Author: clear marketing idea locale Also, gets to be a (the?) "Puzzlemaster" (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094579) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 2:39 PM Author: animeboi (.) I saw that. Pretty bad special effects even for a direct to VHS horror flick. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094704) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 2:09 PM Author: clear marketing idea locale CR (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094583) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 12:08 PM Author: it's all so judaic Prestigious. If you've ever tried to do a crossword puzzle with someone who is not intelligent, they cannot get even a single answer. It's pretty funny (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094211) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 12:45 PM Author: Up-to-no-good Internal Respiration otoh, plenty of middling iq ppl do well on xwords bc they know obscure boomer pop culture references that boomer constructors like...or they have done enough xwords that they know the usual fill (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094283) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 1:17 PM Author: sapphire rigpig Both (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094386) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 2:10 PM Author: clear marketing idea locale Writing a crossword with multiple potential answers that work well: Decadent or shrewd?
https://preview.redd.it/this-nyt-crossword-with-the-better-of-two-sci-fi-franchises-v0-r2xtov3vjng81.jpg?auto=webp&s=8b09593432edc36dd55a0824b31775a4fc97e6f0 |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 2:15 PM Author: Spectacular lay is writing crosswords about xo prestigious or prole: https://imgur.com/a/Cqesnm4 (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094610) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 2:29 PM Author: Up-to-no-good Internal Respiration rofl i dont remember that. original thread pls? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094673) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 2:40 PM Author: Spectacular lay I wrote a crossword mini for the great boart. Should only take you a minute. Enj (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094705) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 2:45 PM Author: Up-to-no-good Internal Respiration (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094722) |
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Date: August 26th, 2026 2:40 PM Author: Spectacular lay i wrote a second one but idk where that is (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897447&forum_id=2#50094711) |