American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

Crossword Tournament

37th ACPT • March 7-9, 2014

NOTE: All queries and challenges will be addressed within about a week. Puzzle scans (see left) will be available for several months and then permanently removed. All available scans are posted.

Tournament Winner Dan Feyer
Don Christensen
The winner!

Congratulations!

  1. Dan Feyer
  2. Tyler Hinman
  3. Howard Barkin
  4. Joon Pahk
  5. Anne Erdmann
  6. Jon Delfin
  7. Erik Agard
  8. David Plotkin
  9. Francis Heaney
  10. Ellen Ripstein

See Results by Rank

B division

  1. Benjamin Coe
  2. Andy Kravis
  3. Kevan Choset

Full B Division Results

C division

  1. Michael Megargee
  2. David Heinick
  3. Matt Sandler

Full C Division Results

See left panel for all results.

Capsule History

A Carnival of Puzzles was held Friday night, in which 10 different puzzlemakers presented original, timed word puzzles. Saturday evening featured presentations by Matt Ginsberg (Dr. Fill 3.0), David Steinberg (Pre-Shortzian Project update), and Will Shortz ("Clever Clues" game). Will announced that the tournament would be returning to Stamford in 2015. Dan Feyer won for the fifth year in a row, tying Tyler Hinman's record of consecutive wins. Tyler finished second. Katy Steinmetz wrote about their rivalry in Time.

Will Shortz

Capsule history of all previous years.


Videos from the Tournament

Nancy Shack took lots of videos. So did Don Christensen. Click to view


Pictures from the Tournament

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Blogosphere


Solving Perfection

The following 43 contestants solved all 7 puzzles with no mistakes.

Howard Barkin, Victor Barocas, John Beck, Jonathan Berman, Patty Buethe, David Chapus, Kevan Choset, Benjamin Coe, Judy Cole, Paul Coulter, Ken Crowell, Tom Daily, Jon Delfin, Alice Dutton, Anne Erdmann, Dan Feyer, Amy Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Rolf Hamburger, Katie Hamill, Francis Heaney, David Heinick, Tyler Hinman, Kari Knutson, Andy Kravis, Eric LeVasseur, Eric Maddy, Matt Matera, Michael Megargee, Leigh Newman, Joon Pahk, Doug Peterson, David Plotkin, Christine Quinones, Peter Rimkus, Ellen Ripstein, Dawn Ross, Matt Sandler, Ken Stern, Scott Weiss, Thomas Weisswange, John Wilson, Stella Zawistowski.


In the News


Stuff


Officials — 2014

DirectorWill Shortz
CoordinatorHelene Hovanec
WebmasterNancy Parsons Heller
Scoring ProgrammerMatt Ginsberg
Database PreparerJoe Cabrera
Online Tournament ManagerPeter Ritmeester
PhotographerDon Christensen
NametagsMike Shenk
Playoff BoardsDouglas Ashleigh
Playoff AnnouncersOphira Eisenberg and Greg Pliska
Judges and referees (in alphabetical order)
Allison Broad, Andrea Carla Michaels, Anna Ball, Anna Shechtman, Ashish Vengsarkar, Brad Wilber, Brendan Emmett Quigley, Brian Cimmet, Bruce Haight, Bruce Venzke, Byron Walden, Caroline Pahk, Casey Julia, Charles Foreman, David Kahn, David Quarfoot, Donna Levin, Donna Tessitore, Doug Ashleigh, Emily Volz, Ethan Friedman, Evie Eysenburg, Fran Kaplan, Fred Piscop, George Barany, Helene Hovanec, Ian Livengood, Janie Smulyan, Jeff Chen, Jen Tanner, Jen Yuan, Jim Page, Jim Russell, Joanne Sullivan, John Dunn, John Lieb, Judy Raphael, Jules Markey, Kate Lepp, Kevin Christian, Kristian House, Lauren Salitan, Laurie Resnick, Leanne O’Donnell, Mala Nagarajan, Mangesh Ghogre, Marilyn Kelly, Mark Danna, Matt Ginsberg, Merl Reagle, Michael Dewey, Michael Smith, Michelle Arnot, Mike Nothnagel, Mike Shenk, Nancy Parsons, Nancy Schuster, Nicole Mobley, Patrick Merrell, Paula Gamache, Sara Sadin, Sara Salitan, Sarah Keller, Shawn Kennedy, Stan Newman, Steve Levy, Steve Salitan, Susan West, Trip Payne, Valerie Salitan, Vic Fleming, Will Shortz, Yang-Yang Chen