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'Solving crosswords involves so much knowledge, so much stuff that's not in books, that's not in any database, that it is amazing to think that a computer could solve a crossword,' Shortz says.īut the good doctor is not without its flaws. Fill perform at the tournament this year. New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz says he looks forward to watching Dr. 'But its understanding of the constraints that come from the crossing words is much stronger, and it's doing much more sophisticated numerical analyses,' Ginsberg says. It looks at all the clues, tries to understand them and then fills in words, trying not to make mistakes. Fill solves crossword puzzles isn't unlike the way its human counterparts do. 'I figured this would be a way for me to become a better solver sort of through a proxy,' he says. Ginsberg actually constructs crossword puzzles for The New York Times, but say's he isn't a very good solver.

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It was created by Matt Ginsberg's software company, On Time Systems, which specializes in optimization algorithms. The computer program will be an unofficial competitor at the 35th annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in New York this week.

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Fill,' but unlike the TV psychologist, this doctor solves less complicated problems. There's a new kind of technology that may be able to beat you at your own game - at least if your game is a crossword puzzle. Fill' will be allowed to unofficially compete.ĭon Christensen/American Crossword Puzzle Tournament We’ll end the contest midnight of Sunday, May 17, and release the solution on Monday, May 18.Challengers work to solve puzzles in the 2011 American Crossword Puzzle tournament. If you work as a team of two, we’ll send you both a shirt with up to a total of three winning teams. We’ll be in touch with the winners individually to arrange t-shirt selection and mailing addresses.

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So sharpen a pencil, chalk up, and hopefully you’ll enjoy this Gunks test piece.Ĭompleted solutions should be emailed back to us at the GCC as a PDF so we can check them and award the first five to arrive correctly GCC t-shirts. But if you find you need beta, well, there’s always Google to spray some your way.

That said, I don’t think any clue/answer pair is (totally) unfair. Some of the clues are puns and a few of the answers are admittedly obscure - but hopefully none of the hardest bits cross each other to make for a sandbagged solution. And as crosswords and some of the routes go, I’d rate the puzzle a solid 10, so it’ll likely be a project you’ll have to work a bit before sending. There are 14 individual, named routes across 7 long, linkup entries in the puzzle. Impossible linkups are individual, named routes from across the Gunks (all in the Williams guides) that are overlapped and mashed together to create linkup routes that don’t (can’t!) connect in reality.Īs an example of an impossible linkup take “birdlandsend” which is an overlapping mashup of Birdland in the Nears with Lands End in the Trapps. So towards that end, I’ve constructed a Sunday Times sized, themed crossword I call “Impossible Linkups”.

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And I’ve also been teaching myself how to construct them. But I’ve still become much more of a homebody than ever before - and part of that means doing the New York Times crossword puzzles all week long as opposed to only on Sunday. Here at home in Gardiner, we’re really fortunate to be able to go safely outside the house whenever we want. And as this second weekend in May would’ve been the GCC BBQ, we’re going to really miss this annual gathering of the tribe. I’m sure we’re not alone in feeling so, no matter what your physical distance from the ridge.

Our home is at the base of the Gunks but with the cliffs quarantined we might as well live a thousand miles away.

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