When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswordese

    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...

  3. Crossword - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword

    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...

  4. Cryptic crossword - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_crossword

    A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.

  5. The New York Times crossword - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_crossword

    Times style is to always capitalize the first letter of a clue, regardless of whether the clue is a complete sentence or whether the first word is a proper noun. On occasion, this is used to deliberately create difficulties for the solver; e.g., in the clue [John, for one], it is ambiguous whether the clue is referring to the proper name John ...

  6. Cluedo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo

    Clue "Vintage Edition" (2005, 2009), [39] also released as Cluedo "Vintage Edition", is a re-formatted nostalgia edition into a "vintage" bookshelf collection along with a series of other popular board games. In the Cluedo version, they continued to use the 1963 design and adapted it for the UK market for the first time with localised ...

  7. Nancy Drew - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Drew

    Nancy Drew is a fictional character appearing in several mystery book series, movies, video games, and TV shows as a teenage amateur sleuth. The books are ghostwritten by a number of authors and published under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene. [1]

  8. Dieppe Raid - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Raid

    The letter was given much publicity in Germany and France as a sign of how the French people allegedly appreciated Germany's efforts to defend them from les Anglo-Saxons. Pétain's letter was later used as an exhibit for the prosecution at his trial for high treason in 1945. [77]

  9. Countdown (game show) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show)

    A significant change in the format occurred in September 2001, when the show was expanded from nine rounds and 30 minutes to the current fifteen rounds and 45 minutes. [56] The older format was split into two halves, each with three letters and one numbers game, plus the conundrum at the end of the second half.