Inside the Minds of Crossword-Puzzle Creators

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Inside the Minds of Crossword-Puzzle Creators | The New Yorker

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5 жыл бұрын

The New Yorker's cruciverbalists, Anna Shechtman and Erik Agard, discuss dating, pop culture, and the art of the clue in the new age of crossword puzzles.
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Inside the Minds of Crossword-Puzzle Creators | The New Yorker

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@joycechahinepiano 5 жыл бұрын

Felt like I was watching a cute first date

@FrancisRanger 5 жыл бұрын

Joyce Chahine - Pianist ...but her body posture tell me he won’t have a second date !!!

@indiragajah 5 жыл бұрын

This looks like a great first date

@sindhu4836 5 жыл бұрын

Amy Santiago is freaking out over this video

@nickwatson8641 4 жыл бұрын

What are easy and hard clues for BINDER?

@whatadamnusername 5 жыл бұрын

"Cruciverbalist." That's a word I can get behind.

@manshellgren3129 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a Harry potter spell

@liviatonolli6885 2 жыл бұрын

in Italy some kind of puzzles are called "cruciverba" so it might make sense after all

@Pauloden 5 жыл бұрын

Please do this at least once a month, very amusing to watch

@youmeandi100 5 жыл бұрын

didn't know this is what I was missing in life. More please!

@samscarbrough4376 5 жыл бұрын

Hey that guy was on Jeopardy! Edit: I didnt watch the whole video before commenting

@coma-body-stilllife 5 жыл бұрын

yeah you did.

@JJFLIP101 5 жыл бұрын

omg I took a grad seminar with Anna Schectman once she is wildly smart

@MelancholyCrypto 5 жыл бұрын

Wish I could be half as likable as these two individuals

@absbi0000 4 жыл бұрын

You can

@waterwise77 11 ай бұрын

What’s holding you back ?

@Starrymite 5 жыл бұрын

they should have made this a competition. Give one a word that they make a clue for and the other has to guess.

@matt00794 5 жыл бұрын

avant garde crossword puzzle is a great phrase I wish I could use. I can't really "do" crossword puzzles, my brain just can't think that way. I like word play and stuff but I can't see the clue and think up a word, i can see the word and clue and get why it works, it's the same with trivia.

@travisk4215 6 ай бұрын

‘Long, luxurious car’ - 4 letters (We’ll give you the short version)

@weare21century 5 жыл бұрын

cross word puzzle creators are under rated.

@jasonalexander8471 5 жыл бұрын

Off topic but....HIS HAIR THO!!!😻😻😻

@lukesmith2725 4 жыл бұрын

These two are adorable. Please do this once a week. I don’t care what you talk about.

@christyfan5813 5 жыл бұрын

*amy santiago has entered the chat*

@adamtak3128 5 жыл бұрын

I'm living for that dudes Afro... I'm black and can't even grow an afro :(

@Ms.NoNo2 5 жыл бұрын

Adam Tak I feel like he definitely has some black in him, looks mixed

@idontwantone132 5 жыл бұрын

He's definitely mixed

@HxWilliams 5 жыл бұрын

Its easy tho especially if you’re under 30

@vyentro29 5 жыл бұрын

I can't either. Lmao.

@msteaguer1908 5 жыл бұрын

This is a great understanding of crossword puzzle creation.

@joycechahinepiano 5 жыл бұрын

A great look into how our language is evolving through internet culture!

@rgerber 5 жыл бұрын

The Millenial vibe in this video and comments

@kc0mwl 4 ай бұрын

I love when he's the creator of the puzzle, great clues

@alexdiana2377 5 жыл бұрын

you can see them falling in love oml

@Andy-Mesa 5 жыл бұрын

Alright, I totally fell for her after "Globe trotter".

@siccodewilt1 5 жыл бұрын

I'll preface this and say, I'am sorry. Could you explain why globe trotter works? I don't get it.

@Jasscie 5 жыл бұрын

@@siccodewilt1 No need to be sorry! Shakespeare is commonly affiliated with the Globe Theatre in London (built by his playing company)

@Infidelio 5 жыл бұрын

Globe trotter is sooooo good.

@somecunninglinguist 5 жыл бұрын

Globe trotter is the best thing I've ever herd

@cheesebean8 5 жыл бұрын

Holy crap they're like people what a surprise that they are sort of like smart people having a conversation, now that is amazing its very enjoyable that it has nothing to do with crosswords

@anjarainbow33 5 жыл бұрын

"Waiting for Beyonce" Aren't we all kind of tough?

@noahy.9827 5 жыл бұрын

I'm not that tough

@seacitadel 5 жыл бұрын

Now do a video about people who create cryptic crosswords.

@MrPeter1337 5 жыл бұрын

second that!

@nobloodforfoil 5 жыл бұрын

3:04 - ..WOW FUZZ!!

@alexgarrido4293 5 жыл бұрын

I was waiting on Thirsty

@GorgonDrageil 5 жыл бұрын

👀

@sydtwi1 5 жыл бұрын

His fro is so perfect

@yj6118 5 жыл бұрын

anyone know what blue pen they were using near the beginning of the video?

@n8style 5 жыл бұрын

it's a bic

@gabrielalehle6135 5 жыл бұрын

i absolutely love crosswords,,,, like i have one with me wherever i go

@travisk4215 6 ай бұрын

I’m at the point where I can just about finish the daily puzzle faster than I can boil a pot of water. Not The NY Times puzzle, mind you... that takes a little longer. If I can manage to get out of bed... that is. 🙃

@susiefisch 5 жыл бұрын

I thought this title was “Crossword Puzzle Cheaters”, and I thought YES! Oh well☹️

@bedward93 5 жыл бұрын

The background music is annoying

@monatahan1986 5 жыл бұрын

How much do they earn

@ianbaker4494 4 жыл бұрын

Why am I entertained by just two people talking about writing crossword puzzles

@absbi0000 4 жыл бұрын

Because they’re not talking about crossword puzzles

@d3olinsky 5 жыл бұрын

Def watching this a second time :)

@nadiagracecheng1665 5 жыл бұрын

Completely random but- Emilia sacconejoly will grow up to look like Anna in the video

@baileybee 5 жыл бұрын

I don’t get globetrotter someone help me

@newremote 5 жыл бұрын

The Globe was the 17th century London theatre that Shakespeare is most closely associated with. He acted there and was a part owner of it. So the cryptic clue is that he trotted around in The Globe.

@evanjacoby7805 5 жыл бұрын

@@newremote that's actually brilliant

@ceyf8724 5 жыл бұрын

I suck at them I also suck at jeopardy reminds me I'm not nearly as smart as I think I is

@nezbut7 5 жыл бұрын

love this!

@thestralix 5 жыл бұрын

Bob Ross's alive ? :o

@ryomashouta5046 5 жыл бұрын

I'm thirsty for Pepsi

@TanningMiami 5 жыл бұрын

I ship these two

@aarond9563 5 жыл бұрын

I liked this almost as much as the WIRED crosswords video... but unfortunately not as much!

@samcavanagh7993 4 жыл бұрын

at 6:23 a better one would have been "One in three of us by 2020" with us being US as in USA also at 8:15 "Henry the 5th's speechwriter" is more clever i feel like

@Anna-hk1xw 5 жыл бұрын

whyyyy does she look so familiar?

@jessicsgarcia3907 2 жыл бұрын

Spelling how different wat to spell Spider

@emilyfreeman2940 5 жыл бұрын

Eric marry me

@scottm2553 5 жыл бұрын

This is why I don't do crossword puzzles. They're easy ones are hard.

@scottm2553 5 жыл бұрын

@Geertje Kik (leerling) The funny thing is that's the first time I've ever mixed those up. I'm usually the one to catch it. Probably hard to believe though based off of the context.

@lizbeth461 5 жыл бұрын

Geertje Kik (leerling) their shows possession and there is no form of possession in Scott’s sentence(😂we are taking this way to far)

@elizabethsaporito7566 5 жыл бұрын

She's brilliant...

@gyanchudasama4412 5 жыл бұрын

there's something about that girl...

@cbraman 5 жыл бұрын

Is it that she's really smart and very pretty? Just a guess.

@lisagordon6355 5 жыл бұрын

um her body language ~ could she get any further away?

@absbi0000 4 жыл бұрын

He went in way too strong. Came off creepy.

@TKEsweetheart24 5 жыл бұрын

Not water resistant has nothing to do with what the word thirsty means.

@RagenRibbonz 2 жыл бұрын

if you were thirsty and someone offered you water, would you resist it?

@s99bf0c8 4 жыл бұрын

I love her. I would marry her in a heartbeat. Not being creepy, just honest. Perfection in every way!

@Jo3W3st 5 жыл бұрын

I can't tell what background he is

@Elizbethhhh 5 жыл бұрын

they look cute together!!

@cowandkat 5 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t he on jeopardy?

@GorgonDrageil 5 жыл бұрын

Erik's Afro needs to be a meme...

@florencew66 5 жыл бұрын

He is adorable

@filmblooms 5 жыл бұрын

she reminds me of lea michele so much but we all know lea michele can't read

@Probablylani 5 жыл бұрын

BloomyDays 💀

@failtolawl 5 жыл бұрын

Will be automated.

@MCSolaireBro 5 жыл бұрын

I find it funny she's yet to find an industry less dominated by old white dudes yet she's in academia, really can't think of anything MORE diverse and less old and white

@LM-qe9hp 5 жыл бұрын

S O W O K E

@monkeygoesbananas 5 жыл бұрын

It's kinda hard to believe that you need so much education to do this job lol

@bisonhappenstance 5 жыл бұрын

Words spoken out loud require enunciation. I could not understand the person on the left when their pitch dropped into a growly tone. I guess she was subconciously mirroring her colleague, but speaking in a natural pitch aids the listener. Actually, his natural pitch is probably higher, too, but his resonance was able to overcome. I would probably be muttering and rushing my words in such a scenario, so I'm not saying I would do better, but when the vid is about words, maybe the words should be heard. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it was the sound mix?

@emilyfreeman2940 5 жыл бұрын

Master O'None good note

@somecunninglinguist 5 жыл бұрын

I didn't have an issue at any point