NYTimes.Com Relaunches Crosswords with Multi-Player and ''Beat the Clock'' Features.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2003 NYTimes.com today announced three new features on its Premium Crosswords (www.nytimes.com/crosswords) that enable members to play collaboratively or competitively, solo or in groups. The new features, "Play Against the Clock," "Play With a Friend" and "Challenge Matches," are available to Premium Crosswords subscribers only, for an annual subscription fee of $34.95 or a monthly fee of $5.95. "Everyone from Times crosswords enthusiasts to experts will enjoy these easy-to-use interactive games," said Will Shortz Will Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is a U.S. puzzle creator and editor. Early life Will Shortz was born and raised on an Arabian horse farm in Crawfordsville, Indiana. , crossword puzzle crossword puzzle, word game in which words corresponding to numbered clues are put into a grid of horizontal and vertical squares to form intersecting words. The puzzle is solved when a player supplies all of the words correctly. editor for The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. "Now Times readers can invite fellow crossword aficionados to collaborate or compete in solving the same puzzle “Puzzle solving” redirects here. For the concept in Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of science, see normal science. A puzzle is a problem or enigma that challenges ingenuity. at the same time." Also new to Premium Crosswords is a Top Ten Puzzlers area that is continuously updated. There are three categories: the 10 puzzlers who most recently completed that day's crossword, the first 10 puzzlers to complete it that day, and the top 10 fastest puzzlers of the day. All members can compete for the Top Ten Rankings as soon as each new puzzle is published on NYTimes.com - on weekdays, the crossword posts at 10 p.m. E.S.T. the night before it appears in print, and on weekends it is available at 6 p.m. the prior evening. The Play With a Friend feature enables a player to invite up to four other members, via instant message, e-mail or phone, to join an online game room devoted exclusively to their puzzle. In Challenge Matches, members can play an opponent or solve the puzzle by themselves. The Top Ten list and multi-player components are powered by PZZL.com, a company that designs and programs custom-made interactive puzzles puz·zle v. puz·zled, puz·zling, puz·zles v.tr. 1. To baffle or confuse mentally by presenting or being a difficult problem or matter. 2. for Web sites, magazines and newspapers. "With these new competitive and multi-player features, puzzle lovers can experience even more challenging and engaging levels of play," said Peter Ritmeester, chief executive officer of PZZL.com. Premium Crosswords is the only place to play the daily Times crossword online. It also offers an exclusive online collection of more than 2,000 New York Times crossword puzzles including five years of daily and weekend puzzles and their solutions, both puzzles from the Sunday Magazine, and a selection of acrostics and Web-only puzzles. "Premium Crosswords is a superior product with an extremely loyal and passionate user base," said Eliot Pierce Pierce may refer to: Places
diastolic thrill one felt over the precordium during ventricular diastole in advanced aortic insufficiency. of victory - Premium Crosswords has it all." The Crosswords/Games section on NYTimes.com also offers Bridge and Chess columns, trivia and cartoons Many of the cartoons used in this database were obtained from The Cartoon Bank, Dobbs Ferry, NY, which has a huge selection of cartoons on every subject (visit www.cartoonbank.com). . Readers can join online forums devoted to Crosswords, Bridge and Chess where they can discuss tips and strategies with other Times readers. Launched in March 2001, Premium Crosswords has more than 40,000 subscribers. Other premium services and products from NYTimes.com include Times News Tracker, a highly-customizable e-mail notification service with more than 20,000 subscribers, and paid archives of articles older than seven days. About New York Times Digital New York Times Digital is the digital business unit of The New York Times Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NYT NYT New York Times NYT National Youth Theatre (UK) NYT New York Transit (New York, USA) NYT New York Tribune ) and includes market leaders NYTimes.com and Boston.com, and an archive distribution business. NYTD's mission is to provide a high-quality, worldwide online audience with trusted editorial content from The New York Times and The Boston Globe. |
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