Is It a Different Part of the Brain That Fills in Blank Spaces?

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I like doing both. I feel like I have to really let my mind be more flexible and elastic because sometimes if I see a word scramble and it starts with a TH, all I can think of is TH words. Whereas when you have all the letters in front of you, it's a little more of a physical exercise of moving things around and recognizing the patterns that are right in front ofYou. You know, that is not an anagram though, right? Yeah, they are anagram. Well, a pangram, pan meaning all, uses all the letters,. So there are sometimes several pangrams which means those are all anagrams of each other but anagram

Crosswords! Puzzles! Wordles! Magic? Ah yes, world-renowned Enigmatologist David Kwong drops in to chat about the intersection of sleight of hand and brain games, covering everything from Scrabble strategies to how to get away with a surprise party unsuspected. Also: crosswords and dementia, how puzzles are like hot sauce, a secret group of Hollywood magicians, his most clever clues, cryptic crosswords, international slang, Wordle’s many derivatives, and how to get over your intimidation of all those empty squares.

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