Today’s Google Doodle might just be the best ever. Honoring the 100 year anniversary of the first crossword puzzle, Google made their doodle an actual crossword puzzle that you can play. You can even save your answers when partially complete, and come back to finish it later. Better yet, the puzzle, written by Merl Reagle, pays homage to Arthur Wynne, the British based newspaper editor who published the first ever crossword puzzle in the New York World in 1913. Wynne, looking to make a Christmas edition more fun, created a diamond shaped crossword puzzle with the simple instructions “Fill in the small squares with words which agree with the following definitions.”
Apparently Wynne originally referred to the crossword as a word-cross, and when he heard the term “Crossword” used by accident he liked it better and stuck with that. Check out the Google Crossword Answers here.
