Simon and Max Schuster, “The Cross-Word Puzzle Book.” It was an instant bestseller, launching Simon & Schuster as a major publisher. Margaret Farrar publishes the first book of crossword puzzles under contract for Richard L. Hill publishes the first Crossword Dictionary. Her puzzles soon exceed Wynne’s in popularity.Ĭolonel H.W. Margaret Farrar is hired by The New York World as a secretary, but soon finds herself assisting Arthur Wynne with proofreading puzzles. (The puzzle is originally known as a word-cross.)įuture New York Times crossword editor Eugene T. The New York World publishes the first crossword, invented by Liverpool journalist Arthur Wynne. Rudimentary crosswords, similar to word squares, begin appearing in England, and later elsewhere in Europe.įuture inventor of the crossword, Arthur Wynne, is born.įuture New York Times crossword editor Margaret Farrar is born.įuture New York Times crossword editor Will Weng is born. These inscriptions are later referred to by Egyptologists as “Egyptian crossword puzzles.” Inscriptions from New Kingdom-era Egypt (Eighteenth to Twentieth Dynasties) of horizontal and vertical lines of text divided into equal squares, that can be read both across the rows and down the columns, are made. (by Glenn Dallas and the PuzzleNation Team) The hundredth anniversary of the crossword is nearly upon us, and we at PuzzleNation Blog thought we’d take a look at the long (yet surprisingly short) road it took to get to this marvelous centennial!Īnd so, without further ado or folderol, we proudly present:
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