One of his puzzles was selected for Twenty Under Thirty, and another appeared in The American Red Crossword Book. Since then he has published nearly 500 puzzles in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsday, Orange County Register, Fireball Crosswords, Daily Celebrity Crossword, the American Values Club Crossword, BuzzFeed, 10-4 Magazine, The Jerusalem Post, and books. Steinberg's first crossword publication was in The New York Times on June 16, 2011. He attended Turtle Rock Elementary School in Irvine, California, the Lakeside School in Seattle, and Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. In middle school, he was introduced to The New York Times crossword puzzle by his parents and, after seeing Merl Reagle build a puzzle in the movie Wordplay, began constructing. All Rights Reserved.Steinberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in California and Washington. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. ![]() Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. And he had some nice things to say about the first week of puzzles," Shenk said.īut puzzle solvers can be a prickly group, and are notorious for complaining to newspapers when they can't find it in the paper or online, or believe a clue was wrong - even in the face such newfound plenty. ![]() "I got a nice little email from Will Shortz at the end of the first week offering congratulations. Shenk's work was applauded by New York Times' crossword puzzle legend Will Shortz. Despite the fact that he doesn't design most of the puzzles, his editing touch is evident to regular WSJ readers. ![]() The job for the paper's puzzle master Mike Shenk has just expanded exponentially, but he said he still finds time to solve five or six crosswords a week "just for fun."īut most of his time now is filled with creating puzzles or editing ones from contributors. "That was way beyond my own expectations," he said, noting that it was a new feature and one that required several steps for the reader to complete. ![]() But he was encouraged that at the end of the first week more than 1,400 people submitted answers to the Friday puzzle contest. There isn't enough data yet to determine whether the paper's more playful addition has made a difference in readership, either online or in newspaper sales. Miller, who calls himself a "puzzlehead," said the paper took a page from the Times of London ,which he said has a "gi-normous assortment" of puzzles to bolster reader habits and loyalties. Whoa: Friday WSJ crossword = Puzzle Contest! By Cool.
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