Apparently, back in the day, people used to fill in these things called “Crossword Puzzles” that were printed in these other things called “newspapers”, instead of playing solitare or Snake or Tetris on their mobile phone. USA Today, one of these “newspapers”, and a quite large one at that, appears to be attempting to drag aficionados of these paper-based games into the modern era by bridging the gap between dead trees and phones with a word game based on the letters on a phone’s keypad.
I’m sure this is the sort of thing that’s been available in other countries for a long time, since, you know, we’re still using cans with string over here, but I thought it was sort of interesting nonetheless to see it in the country’s most widely read newspaper, on a page whose readership probably skews towards the geriatric.
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