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Transatlanticism
Diamonds semifinalists do some Final Jeopardy pond-hopping
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More like “Pacific Down-Across,” amirite?
Oregon takes center stage in the crossworld this week
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Twist and Shout
… or, sure, but can you name two toys created by Hungarians?
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What heavy item appears in the Dockers logo?
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Signifying Nothing
Flags, calendars have our fact-checker in fits
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Squeaking Through
Champions Wildcard sees some low-dollar wins
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Stacks on Stacks
A puzzling trip through your library’s fiction section
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Shiny Side Up
Writing a round on Fabergé eggs is easier than making one, right?
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In the modern era, Willie Thrower was the first Black man to play what NFL position?
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Too Many Miamis
Fact-checking Florida is risky business, but here we are
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Avoiding Daily Doubles for fun and profit
Wildcard bracket-winner takes unusual route to the final
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Taking Back Sunday
This week, our columnist sticks to the big grid
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Mama’s Got a Quizbox
This week’s challenge round goes in and out, and in, and out…
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“The Flight of the Bumblebee” was the theme for what ’60s superhero show?
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Ooh, Ooh, Baby Love
Tracking the most common song-title words through six decades
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All Aboard the Katie Train
Wild Celebrity ride highlights a fun week in Jeopardy!
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The Cane Mutiny
Reddit’s not sure about a kids’ worksheet puzzle, and more crossword news
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Get a Grip
This round is the best way “writer” and “arm wrestling challenge” could ever turn out
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What does the word “Sahara” mean in Arabic?
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I call BULLSHIT
Besmirching Unbelievable Little Lies Sliding Headlong Into Tolerance: It’s the fact-checker’s way
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Don’t Bet the Farm
For better and worse, conservative wagers characterize the Jeopardy! week
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Day of the Thread
Crossworld offers up tricks, treats, textiles
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Log Me In
This round on cabins comes with all mod cons
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What Mexican beer was brewed to celebrate the turn of the 20th century?
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On My Honor
Footnotes take us from Girl Scouts to Tiffany Girls, with a detour through the DEA Museum.
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Palace Intrigue
Controversial candidate, sinister Senate leader highlight a busy week
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Dr. Wily and the Mountweazels
It’s not a band, it’s just this week’s Chriswords.
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Victoria Groce: From Geek Bowl Champion to The Chase
Just before the third season of the revival of The Chase on ABC, the network announced that O.G. chaser Mark ‘The Beast’ Labbett would not be returning. That wasn’t the…
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Feel the Pane
Write My Round shows us why we shouldn’t lick stained-glass windows
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Which Olympic gymnastics event is contested solely on a big flat surface?
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H-E-Double Hockey Sticks
Hellfire and hot goalies highlight this week’s Fact Check Footnotes
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My Little Runaway
Second Chancer rides lock games to Wildcard berth
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The seasons turn, and so do ice skaters
Chriswords takes us from Boston to Lagos
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Capped by Crustaceans
Pugnacious prawn headlines a veritable shrimp buffet
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In the 1970s, George Lucas had a dog named for what state?
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Welcome to the Kinky Shrek Epoch
A trivia fact-checker shows, tells, and overshares his findings.
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Living Up to the Name
SporcleCon’s Battle of the Brains featured tough competition against trivia royalty
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Second Chances, first warning signs
Ambiguous Final clue, strange billing cloud week 1 of writer-struck Jeopardy!
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Parks and Pics
This week’s Chriswords visits Midtown, photog history
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Hail, and well met
Write My Round takes an anachronistic trip to Ren Faire land
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Beat the clock to Beat the Bridge
Sept. 15 is deadline for GSN casting call
Duh!
Denzel Washington’s hometown is named for what presidential estate?
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The movement continues…
After 36 editions, Uncle John’s is still a buttload of work
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Playing Defense
LearnedLeague Live distills the essence of a competition for the masses
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This… is… Jeopardy?
Time to find out how much Season 40 feels like the others
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Taking flight
Bird gives a new way to clue an old name, and more from the week in crosswords
Live Trivia
A Duel to the Death
Weekly round-writing challenge kicks off with a sticky subject.
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Dispatches from a Crossroads
Questionist’s crossword column will cover a world in constant motion
Questionist-ist, TV & Podcasts
Questioning the Answers
Introducing our esteemed Jeopardy! columnist… in the middle of a strike
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Which TV network owns the Peacock streaming service?
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A Capital Idea
SporcleCon set to test wits at iconic Washington venue
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Lexiko-hell-no
On National Scrabble Day, we celebrate the perseverance of Alfred Butts
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The $5.62 Trivia Pageant
If you played TikTok Trivia, we sure hope you celebrated with a Big Mac.
Books/Games/Puzzles
Thank Wordle for Lingo
Wait a minute, RuPaul has SIX letters!
TV & Podcasts
Take two doses of Toronto
After Jeopardy, IBM’s Watson didn’t quite revolutionize medicine