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  2. Arthur Wynne - Wikipedia

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    He is best known for the invention of the crossword puzzle in 1913, when he was a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey. [ 5 ] Wynne created the page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the New York World .

  3. Evaporating dish - Wikipedia

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    An evaporating dish is a piece of laboratory glassware used for the evaporation of solutions and supernatant liquids, [a] and sometimes to their melting point.Evaporating dishes are used to evaporate excess solvents – most commonly water – to produce a concentrated solution or a solid precipitate of the dissolved substance.

  4. List of English inventors and designers - Wikipedia

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    Frank Whittle (1907–1996), co-inventor of the jet engine William Winlaw (d.1796), patented agricultural machinery Arthur Wynne (1862–1945), inventor of crossword puzzle

  5. ClueQuest - Wikipedia

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    clueQuest revolves around the spy world of 'Mr Q', a yellow mouse who acts as the mascot of the brand. Participating teams (known as 'agents') have sixty minutes to escape the rooms using teamwork, logic, and common sense to gather clues and solve the puzzles. These games are an accessible experience for both adults and children.

  6. David L. Hoyt - Wikipedia

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    Hoyt is the inventor of numerous well-known puzzles, games and brain teasers including USA Today Word Roundup, USA Today Up & Down Words, Jumble Crosswords, TV Jumble and more. He is the current co-author of Jumble , the most syndicated daily word game in the world.

  7. Kakuro - Wikipedia

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    An easy Kakuro puzzle Solution for the above puzzle. Kakuro or Kakkuro or Kakoro (Japanese: カックロ) is a kind of logic puzzle that is often referred to as a mathematical transliteration of the crossword. Kakuro puzzles are regular features in many math-and-logic puzzle publications across the world.

  8. Puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The nine linked-rings puzzle, an advanced puzzle device that requires mathematical calculation to solve, was invented in China during the Warring States period (475-221 BCE). [5] Jigsaw puzzles were invented around 1760, when John Spilsbury , a British engraver and cartographer , mounted a map on a sheet of wood, which he then sawed around the ...

  9. Larry D. Nichols - Wikipedia

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    Diagram from Nichols' patent showing a cube held together with magnets Pocket Cube animation.. Larry D. Nichols, born 1939 in the United States, is a puzzle designer.He grew up in Xenia, Ohio, and studied chemistry at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, before moving to Massachusetts to attend Harvard Graduate School.