Letter Boxed’s Crossword Influence: Why Crossword-Specific Obscure Words Appear in Puzzles
If you’ve spent any time solving Letter Boxed on the New York Times website, you’ve probably had that moment — you’re staring at the puzzle, cycling through every word you know, and suddenly you type in something like TACE or ALEW on a whim, and the game accepts it. Where do these strange little words […]