New York Magazine today announced that it’s expanding its print and digital crossword offerings. New York’s flagship 21x21 puzzle by Matt Gaffney, which has run on alternate Sundays online and in each print issue, will increase its cadence to weekly, appearing online every Sunday night. Additionally, New York will launch a new daily Vulture-branded midi 10x10 puzzle and newsletter constructed by Malaika Handa and Stella Zawistowski, who have collectively created puzzles for outlets including the New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and more. The Vulture 10x10 will be entirely focused on entertainment, giving Vulture’s audience of pop-culture obsessives a puzzle of their own. To accompany these changes, the magazine will reimagine its print crossword pages, running one 21x21 puzzle and three 10x10s in every issue. All puzzles will be available on desktops and mobile devices at nymag.com/games. The first Vulture 10x10 is online now, and Gaffney’s newest weekly will drop on Sunday, January 30.
Puzzles and games have been a fixture of New York since its very first issue in 1968, beginning with Stephen Sondheim’s elaborately themed cryptic crosswords and Mary Ann Madden’s long-running “New York Competition.” For many years thereafter, New York was the American outlet for the Times of London cryptic, under the title “World’s Most Challenging Crossword,” and Maura B. Jacobson’s and Cathy Allis’s beloved American-style puzzles appeared in its pages for decades. Building on the crossword’s digital debut in 2019, this latest expansion will offer New York’s audience of solvers even more of what they want, bringing them new and engaging approaches unlike any offered elsewhere.
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