This weekend marked the one-year anniversary of one of the biggest stories in puzzles: the USA Today/Universal Uclick crossword plagiarism scandal, aka #gridgate. If you’re unfamiliar with the story, you can click here for more detail, but here’s a quick … Continue reading
After months of nothing, things are suddenly moving forward with the Universal Uclick/USA Today puzzle plagiarism scandal. A quick recap: Programmer Saul Pwanson and constructor Ben Tausig uncovered a pattern of unlikely repeated entries in the USA Today and Universal … Continue reading
It’s Follow-Up Friday, but it doesn’t feel right to open this post with our usual exuberant intro. Today, I’m returning to the subject of Timothy Parker and the USA Today/Universal Uclick plagiarism scandal. You know, when I first wrote about … Continue reading
[Image courtesy of PlagiarismToday.com.] Today’s post isn’t the usual Follow-Up Friday fare. Instead of returning to a previous subject, I’d like to discuss a topic that I expect I’ll be returning to in Follow-Up Friday form in the near future. … Continue reading
[Image courtesy of Alaris Health.] Thank you to everyone who entered our anniversary trivia scavenger hunt! Plenty of solvers, puzzlers, and PuzzleNationers tried their hand at answering all five questions before the deadline at midnight on Wednesday, and many succeeded! … Continue reading
It’s the final Follow-Up Friday of the year, so what do you say we revisit all of 2016 with a countdown of my ten favorite blog posts from the past year! #10 Doomsday Prep One of the big surprises for … Continue reading
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