Date: August 26th, 2026 11:37 AM Author: Lascivious disrespectful whorehouse
the daily ones are designed to get progressively harder monday-saturday. although it's bigger and usually has a theme, sunday's is designed to be of only average difficulty, like wednesday/thursday.
Date: August 26th, 2026 11:46 AM Author: Bistre Bipolar Codepig
cr, except that weekday puzzles also have a theme except fri-sat; it's not just sunday that has a theme.
NOT having a theme makes it harder. that's why fri-sat is much harder than sunday. a theme allowed you to rely on the theme to figure out a lot of the long words. without a theme, you have no way of getting long words.
Date: August 26th, 2026 12:05 PM Author: bearded pit
it is designed in theory to be between wednesday and friday in terms of difficulty. the prevalence of themed puzzles on thursdays often results in higher reported difficulties, however.
Date: August 26th, 2026 1:55 PM Author: Bistre Bipolar Codepig
even if you dont solve the theme, it's neutral. i do themes monday/tuesday puzzles w/o even thinking about the theme sometimes if im in a hurry. and dont realize the theme until after. there's no way the theme makes it worse.
Date: August 26th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: bearded pit
the theme may not be as simple as topically related answers. it may involve blank squares, ignored squares, squares that are meant to be read differently depending on orientation, numbers, etc., etc., all of which might make answers to a given clue non-obvious.
Date: August 26th, 2026 12:43 PM Author: Bistre Bipolar Codepig
best choice of his life:
He also earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law (1977), but did not sit for the bar exam, opting for a career in puzzles instead.[11]
Date: August 26th, 2026 12:08 PM Author: gamers rise up
Prestigious. If you've ever tried to do a crossword puzzle with someone who is not intelligent, they cannot get even a single answer. It's pretty funny
Date: August 26th, 2026 12:45 PM Author: Bistre Bipolar Codepig
otoh, plenty of middling iq ppl do well on xwords bc they know obscure boomer pop culture references that boomer constructors like...or they have done enough xwords that they know the usual fill