The scavenger hunt is indeed up on the Wordplay site this morning, and it is an empty crossword grid with no clues. And nothing else for that matter, nothing to even help find the clues. Anyone who read my post from yesterday, knows the location of at least six clues. Happy hunting!

Update: OK… my browser wasn’t showing the puzzle correctly. There are no down clues, but there are across clues. Also, the sites where the down clues are located are given.

An article has gone up at Movieweb about a crossword scavenger hunt to promote the movie Wordplay.  The article directs you to the Wordplay movie site for complete instructions, but notes that complete rules will not be posted until tomorrow.  Currently, I can find nothing about this on the Wordplay website.  However, there are a couple things that can be deduced from the Movieweb article.

The article has 6 crossword clues in it and suggests that others will be scattered among other sites on the internet.  From this, I would guess that a crossword grid with no clues is going up on the Wordplay site tomorrow.  Instead, we will get a list of sites where clues can be found, or perhaps hints as to where the clues can be found.  I’ll post more tomorrow when the official rules go up.

Wordplay, the documentary about crossword puzzles, is one of the films screening at this year’s Philadelphia Film Festival. Carrie Rickey gave the film a middling review saying that the segments featuring Merl Reagle (a local favorite in Philly) and Bill Clinton were particularly engaging but she was less thrilled about watching people working on puzzles you couldn’t see in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament segment. After the review, however, the article notes that the film’s first screening was sold out. At least in part due to Reagle’s popularity.

The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament starts tomorrow in Stamford, Connecticut. A local newspaper has run an article on the event and the documentary Wordplay which will be screened at the event tomorrow. Wordplay is about Will Shortz, who founded the event, and will feature some of the tournament participants along with many famous cruciverbalists including Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Jon Stewart, and Mike Mussina. The tournament is apparently growing and turning into more of a general puzzle event. Jeopardy star Ken Jennings will be on hand to run a trivia game and a “Sudoku Smackdown” is also planned. So, I wonder… will the best cruciverbalists in the country be otherwise occupied when the final Starbucks puzzle come out?