21-year-old Tyler Himan won the American Crossword Tournament. And just for the record, you can’t become the youngest person to do something a second time. Will Shortz predicts this as the beginning of a 75-year run.
Tyler did it all wearing his black Trogdor T-shirt which gives him extra coolness points in my book. And since the Courant did an extremely bad job of explaining Trogdor to the uninitiated, I’m providing this link. Enjoy!
[...] I have two major questions after reading this article. First, how long did it take WebCrow to solve the puzzles? i.e. Was it close? Or did WebCrow solve the puzzles so quickly that it blew the people out of the water? Second, who were the human contestants? As best I can tell, they were conference attendees. How would WebCrow fare against Tyler Hinman? [...]