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The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, or ACPT, annually gathers contestants from around the world to tackle eight original crossword puzzles. This year, the top ACPT performer was not a human but was instead an artificial intelligence system built in part by a team of UC Berkeley researchers. According to Will Shortz, crossword editor for The New York Times and founder and director of the ACPT, this year’s tournament was held virtually and had a record number of 1,287 contestants. While t...

Wish you could solve a tricky crossword in under a minute? Dr Fill can We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Matt Ginsberg is a magician, a stunt pilot and a sub-standard crossword-solver. “It annoyed me that I was so terrible,” the Oregonian told Jane Wakefield, the BBC’s tech reporter. Doubly annoying, as Ginsberg also built crosswords for US papers, often getting stumped by his own clues in hindsight. Enter ...