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Not sure I’d call them _video_ games per se but anecdotally (me) it does work. That said NYT crossword has existed for much longer, puzzle games are a longstan
by wisemang 1y ago
Not sure I’d call them _video_ games per se but anecdotally (me) it does work.
That said NYT crossword has existed for much longer, puzzle games are a longstanding feature of many newspapers.
- intended 1y agoArgh… yes … I was being lazy, and definitely didnt want to spend the calories figuring out or coining the right classification for what the NYT is doing. Yes, the crossword has existed for longer, but it was never the core source of funding. It’s interesting, and I doubt it can scale - every newspaper has its own puzzle section?
- wisemang 1y agoRight I guess in the old model they were often syndicated. But as a kid I remember seeing things like the jumble, word search, cryptic something or other etc. in my local small-ish city newspaper