CROSSWORDS: 1930s

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Highlights

  • 1930: The Times (UK) -- the "Thunderer" mentioned in letter to NYT editor [on right]
  • "Together with The Times of London, yours [NYT] is...
  • 1931: Dell Crossword Puzzle Magazine
  • 1934: Acrostics
  • 1938: Scrabble; Bletchley Park
  • 1939: Frank Lewis
  • "By the late 1930s, the crossword puzzle boom...

1930

1931

1932

1934

  • "Acrostic puzzles, also known as 'Double-Crostics', were the invention of...
  • A 1934 murder mystery’s pages were printed out of order. Now the world is obsessed.
    only four people have ever solved the puzzle contained in the pages of 'Cain’s Jawbone.'
    TikTok helped turn the obscure, 100-page British novel into a craze; WaPo; 12/26/2022

1935

1937

scrabble
English-language Scrabble game in progress
by thebarrowboy via Wikimedia Commons
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

1938

1939

References