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Post by moon/Laura on Dec 18, 2022 20:54:43 GMT -5
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 18, 2022 21:18:26 GMT -5
You weren't the only one to take note of it. Someone at the NYT needs to review the design of future puzzles. Disgusting!': 'New York Times' slammed after crossword puzzle resembles swastikaSeveral people are calling out the New York Times after the shape of its Sunday crossword puzzle resembled a swastika. Twitter users slammed the American newspaper on Dec. 18, with many people calling the Sunday edition of its puzzle "disgusting" and "shocking," with some noting that it was published before the first evening of Hanukkah. The puzzle, titled "Some Theme's Missing," was created by Ryan McCarty, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting manager who has previously created 22 other puzzles for the paper. "He started this grid in the middle and worked his way out, stirring in a heap of fresh, lively vocabulary, including 20 debut entries," a New York Times article said. link |
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Post by moon/Laura on Dec 18, 2022 23:49:43 GMT -5
I read about it on Facebook, and it's incredibly hard to believe that no one noticed that it looked like a swastika before it got published. Hanukkah aside, how does that even happen?
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Post by swamp on Dec 19, 2022 9:22:56 GMT -5
Honestly, I had a really hard time seeing the swastika.
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Post by moon/Laura on Dec 19, 2022 10:04:42 GMT -5
I thought it was easier without the answers filled in.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Dec 19, 2022 10:48:41 GMT -5
Freudian slip  ?? |
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Post by Tiny on Dec 19, 2022 11:09:34 GMT -5
If I hadn't been told what to look for - I would have ventured "it's a pinwheel? and a variation on a somewhat typical crossword puzzle design?) I do crossword puzzles so my brain might be "trained" to skim over what pattern the block has... so I can get right to the clues (working left to right, top to bottom).
That said, I can see where it was a bad choice of design for the day it was published.
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Post by moon/Laura on Dec 19, 2022 11:19:48 GMT -5
Empty puzzle. Definitely a bad choice of design - on any day, IMO.  |
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Dec 30, 2022 17:35:19 GMT -5
I have to work a seeing the pattern. They've been called out on it.
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