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A “Bullish” Grid for Traders
On Genius Day last month, brokerage service TastyTrade created a beautifully customized crossword puzzle for their audience of traders. The puzzle had a creative background image with trading themes. Answers to the clues included trading buzzwords as well.
Give the TastyTrades puzzle a go, and you’ll notice just how flexible PuzzleMe is in terms of adapting to the brand’s aesthetic. We love that brands like TastyTrade can customize the PuzzleMe crossword player for their customers, making it look like a natural extension of their brand.
The Boston Globe Launches a New Games Hub
The Boston Globe has launched a brand-new games hub with a whole host of PuzzleMe games.
With this launch, solvers in the U.S. can now look forward to the Globe’s daily Mini Crossword among other games. The Mini Crossword and the Sudoku are free to play, whereas the larger 15×15 crossword, Word Flower, WordroW and Jigsaw are for paid subscribers only.
By keeping some puzzles free and others behind a paywall, the Globe plans to accomplish two goals. It allows free users to get a taste for the puzzles and allows paid subscribers to go deeper with more games.
Puzzles on LinkedIn?
TechCrunch recently reported that LinkedIn is experimenting with puzzles to engage its users. According to reports, LinkedIn might use puzzles to aggregate player scores by companies. This means that companies could be ranked by those scores in a leaderboard.
“We’re playing with adding puzzle-based games within the LinkedIn experience to unlock a bit of fun, deepen relationships, and hopefully spark the opportunity for conversations,” a LinkedIn spokesperson told TechCrunch.
At Amuse Labs, we’ve witnessed firsthand the power of puzzles and games to bring people together, from cooperative multiplayer experiences to fierce competitions. We’re glad LinkedIn is thinking along these lines, and can’t wait to see what they come up with. latest puzzle, for example, is based on American actor Michael Keaton with the clue “Star of 2024’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”, referring to the latest film he’s starring in. Test your knowledge of pop-culture with this breezy puzzle here.
From the Crossworld
The ORCA Awards, the annual event celebrating creativity in crosswords, concluded last month. The best clue of the year was awarded to Alex Rosen, who clued the word “ADAM” with “Only human, briefly.” See the winners in each category as well as the nominees here.
The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament is starting today! We’re thrilled to be supporting the online version of the event with PuzzleMe’s contest mode. If you’re at the offline event, come find us at our booth. You can also catch the live-stream for the event starting at 8PM ET today.
PuzzleMe Spotlight
A selection of features from PuzzleMe, the most advanced digital platform for games
1. Quiz CoPilot is here!
We’re excited to announce Quiz CoPilot, a new PuzzleMe feature that makes creating a quiz easier than ever. All you need to do is enter your topic, and PuzzleMe will use OpenAI models to create a set of questions and answers for a multiple-choice quiz.
Creators on PuzzleMe have already started generating AI quizzes on the platform. We can’t wait to see how you use the Quiz CoPilot. Give it a try here.
2. Make Your Grids More Dense
3. Contest Mode for Competitions
PuzzleMe’s Contest Mode is designed to ensure that you can organize credible and engaging online puzzle contests. We’re proud to support online editions the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and Boswords with Contest Mode.
Turning on Contest Mode disables reveal, check, error check, and hint options, ensuring a fair and challenging environment for your participants. Unlike the usual puzzle experience, solvers cannot restart their progress, ensuring that each attempt is genuine. You can also get participant details through a form after submission.
Get in touch with us today if you’d like to use PuzzleMe for a competition.
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