{"id":1880,"date":"2008-11-23T10:14:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T15:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2008-11-24T18:53:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T23:53:56","slug":"were-the-answer-to-this-weeks-sunday-magazine-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/23\/were-the-answer-to-this-weeks-sunday-magazine-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re the Answer to this Week’s Sunday Magazine Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Fortune<\/a>

Fortune Cookie Chronicles as the Sunday New York Magazine Acrostic<\/p><\/div>\n

So this week, I’m part of the solution to the Sunday Magazine puzzle (not the crossword, but the second one). It’s called an acrostic (otherwise known as an anacrostic<\/a>) by famed puzzlers Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon<\/a>. Which is very flattering.<\/p>\n

As it explains. It’s some related somewhat to crossword puzzles<\/a>, except it uses an acrostic<\/a> form. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer. [This usually in the NYT is the last name of the author + the title of hte book.]<\/p>\n

The second part is a long series of numbered blanks and spaces, representing a quotation or other text, into which the answers for the clues fit. [This is from my book!]<\/p>\n

The Wordplay blog discusses how it came about<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quote from Jennifer 8. Lee was sent to us by a solver and correspondent named Marc McGarry, an avid reader and lover of puzzles (and also a Red Sox fan with whom we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve exchanged sympathetic e-mail during the baseball playoffs). With no particular prompting, Marc sent us a number of excerpts from The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, saying only that the book seemed rife with acrostic-worthy quotes.<\/p>\n

As it happened, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d already been browsing happily in that book, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d earmarked a few passages \u00e2\u20ac\u201d including the one Marc sent regarding chop suey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s etymology. Yielding to coincidence, we chose that passage for the puzzle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yay. Of course, solving this is beyond me, so my professor is sending me a filled in copy to keep. And here is someone who completed the puzzle.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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