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I completed the New York Times Monday crossword - by myself! 18 and a half minutes!
Russet has been doing it for ages, and I would help her out occasionally on music and some other older pop culture references. When we were doing long-distance driving at night, I'd load up the puzzle on my iPad and we'd thrash it out while driving - she driving, me working the iPad.
About three months ago we started doing it together every night. When she worked, I'd call her and we'd do it over the phone. She liked the higher difficulty level of not being able to see it, though last week there was a tough one and I'd pause it, she'd pick it up, and eventually we thrashed it. Last night's was interesting: there were eight "locks" - the theme was safe-cracking, and each lock would rotate, and the four letters it contained would change the words as it rotated! It was pretty cool.
Tonight I was infusing and she decided it was nap time for her, after my infusion was over I grabbed my laptop and went to it. Now, granted, Monday is the easiest of the week's puzzles as they increase in difficulty with the weekend being the most challenging, but I was still pleased with completing it entirely on my own, and in a fairly good time as the two of us together usually take 15-20 minutes on early week puzzles.
Her specialty is jigsaw puzzles. She has competed in tournaments and will flip a completed puzzle over and do the blank back! Have I mentioned that she's just a teensy-bit insane?
Russet has been doing it for ages, and I would help her out occasionally on music and some other older pop culture references. When we were doing long-distance driving at night, I'd load up the puzzle on my iPad and we'd thrash it out while driving - she driving, me working the iPad.
About three months ago we started doing it together every night. When she worked, I'd call her and we'd do it over the phone. She liked the higher difficulty level of not being able to see it, though last week there was a tough one and I'd pause it, she'd pick it up, and eventually we thrashed it. Last night's was interesting: there were eight "locks" - the theme was safe-cracking, and each lock would rotate, and the four letters it contained would change the words as it rotated! It was pretty cool.
Tonight I was infusing and she decided it was nap time for her, after my infusion was over I grabbed my laptop and went to it. Now, granted, Monday is the easiest of the week's puzzles as they increase in difficulty with the weekend being the most challenging, but I was still pleased with completing it entirely on my own, and in a fairly good time as the two of us together usually take 15-20 minutes on early week puzzles.
Her specialty is jigsaw puzzles. She has competed in tournaments and will flip a completed puzzle over and do the blank back! Have I mentioned that she's just a teensy-bit insane?
