Sunday puzzler tip

[trochee]

Will Shortz' Sunday puzzler today is very easy for people with tools.

It would be fun if a computational linguist won -- raise the profile of our (pre)occupation, eh?

Stuff the ballot box! Solve it (took me about 10 seconds on the command line) and maybe one of us will win!

Comments

[trochee.livejournal.com]

the schtick is that the winner gets to be on the show and do a puzzle online. also you win stuff (dictionaries, scrabble sets, etc) for being on the show.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Well, without tools or time at my disposal, I doubt I could answer a puzzle on the spot per se :).

[trochee.livejournal.com]

the ones they have you do on the spot are much easier. And they fit into a pattern. Like today's was "dog breeds, built from an anagram plus a letter":

ghana + F = afghan

etc.

Besides, the host (not Shortz) helps out if you get stuck. and you win the stuff anyway.