![]() ![]() * – I used Bill’s times a lot to try to gauge difficulty of puzzles while I was trying to find my footing in this in knowing how difficult the puzzles are I’ve been doing, especially when I completely blow it on one like last Thurs syndicated NYT – the only question I would have out of curiosity would be his times on some of Mr. Only thing would be weighting them into the time, which wouldn’t be hard (maybe 15 seconds additional per or something like that). It wouldn’t be hard to scrape this data from Bill’s site if he can already scrape times. Kaleko about his approach would be the presence of errors in terms of factoring difficulty, as he aims to do. In front of each clue we have added its number. If you are done solving this clue take a look below to the other clues found on today's puzzle in case you may need help with any of them. This clue was last seen on NYTimes OctoPuzzle. The only question/problem I would put to Mr. THEY GET HARDER THE MORE YOU WORK OUT Nytimes Crossword Clue Answer. Anyhow, while confirming what I’ve already surmised (*), I did find a formal analysis pretty interesting and would love to see the same tests run on other puzzles like the NYT, WSJ (which by experience I can state varies pretty wildly, though only has a 11 month full sample), Newsday (which definitely has the hardest Saturday puzzle by all accounts), CrosSynergy etc. While I would normally just post on the same day, this seems special enough to comment on. Thank you, David and please visit us sometime. Thursday as the degree of difficulty of a Sunday sounds about right too.īill you also realize that the only way this study works is assuming you’re a machine like entity that has constant functionality…which although a little dehumanizing, is probably pretty close to accurate □ I doubt anyone would want to try to look into that, but I wonder how many of those results wound up being outliers. Kaleko ends up throwing out – it always seemed to me that Bill’s times were slightly higher whenever he was on vacation – be it Ireland, road trips or whatever. Also – I’d be curious how the errors are spread out – as few errors as Bill ever has, he does have a few more over on the NY Times grids. I’d be very curious to see what the same study would do with the NY Times posts which to me seem to have more variation in difficulty. Indeed it was very interestingly done….although leaving out the people here in the comments section ruined it for me □ And to defend Bill – he actually did the puzzle the day he switched formats. How To Solve The New York Times Crossword - Crossword Guides - The New York Times Video Data Failed to Load How to Get Started A Step Further Cracking the Harder Clues Bonus: Crossword. ![]()
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