The Crossword Puzzle Is A Craze, Since When?

The crossword puzzle was both a new thing and a not so new thing. Since ancient times there had been what is called a word square. In a word square the letters spelled the same words horizontally and vertically.
The crossword is built on a pattern of black and white squares, with different words interlocking across and down. There are numbered definitions given as clues to the words. So the crossword puzzle added some new things.
The first crossword puzzle was put together by a man called Arthur Winn. It first appeared in a Sunday supplement of the New York World on December 21, 1913. It remained as feature of this newspaper for some time and various improvements were made in its form.
In 1924, the first book of crossword puzzle had not been very popular. But after this, the crossword puzzle became nationwide and then world wide craze.

The British took up crossword puzzles in 1925. At first they imported American books, but they soon developed a type of crossword puzzle that was a little different.