NY Times Puzzle Support Group?

[Stacy Steck]

Does anyone know of an IRC or a private mail list of NY Times spoilers?
I'm thinking of something where people work together on the puzzle.
Kind of an MMORG for puzzle freaks. :-)

Thanks

[Mike Easter]

"Stacy Steck"

> Does anyone know of an IRC or a private mail list of NY Times
spoilers? I'm thinking of something where people work together on the
puzzle. Kind of an MMORG for puzzle freaks. :-)

I don't think I know what a mmorg is unless it has something to do with
mmorpg.com, .net and such [for role playing games] - and I don't
understand the concept of "working together on the puzzle". If one is
unable to complete the puzzle without use of resources, modern internet
googling up [and other tools] of answers as well as academically or
intellectually "fleshing them out" along avenues of interest would
obviate any need for anyone's outside help. Of course, I like to google
on the answers [or the questions] even when I know them.

It is quite popular to commiserate about the puzzle -after- the fact in
the NYT puzzle forums, but that is never done prior to noon as I
recall - when [almost] all of the participants there have completed the
puzzle - and that forum applies only to the "fresh" NYT puzzles, as they
appear in the NYT, not to syndicated versions which appear in a number
of papers 6 weeks later for the dailies, 1 week for Sundays.

Front door to the NYT forum:
http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?14@@.ee6bc15 [if that doesn't work
you may have to free register to get past
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/index.html]

The closest thing to a forum for belated NYT syndicateds might be here,
as far as I know. I argue that there are more "bizarro" cru than
"regular" cru - but they just don't appear much. Whenever someone
[American crossworder, non-cryptic] drops in here they must be baffled
by the cryptics and slink away. Or, just continue to lurk.

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Mike Easter