![]() ![]() The confusion and disenfranchisement can end. Making it even worse, creating the standards themselves does not require an earth-shattering amount of work.Ĭreating an open standard for grading Sudoku puzzles is accomplished easily enough. ![]() It is a crime to for such a rift to cause mass disillusionment with an otherwise enjoyable form of brain-teasing entertainment. Individuals are needlessly discouraged when their egos, inflated by relatively easy level “5 of 5” puzzles in one, are crushed to sand by “Moderate” puzzles in another. Every publication seems to follow its own grading scale, and the rifts between different scales can be treacherous. This is a world without standards, and a realm imbued with chaos. So nice of you to go the extra step to give us the deals at each place.Imagine a world where every last screw has to be custom-built, and everybody drives on different sides of the road. You really captured Stripling and his presence in Columbus.ĭispatch: Thanks for your thorough comparison on "Cineplex Shopping" (Tuesday, Page D1, Life & Arts). Researched article (and related Web links) on Stripling. I hope your article turns more people on to this Columbus gem.ĭispatch: On behalf of the staff and board of the Jazz Arts Group and the musicians of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, thank you for the thoughtful and well. We had no idea that such a high-caliber jazz ensemble existed in Columbus. My husband and I were given tickets to see theĬolumbus Jazz Orchestra in the spring. Increasingly, in fact, many cartoons are adult-oriented.įor better or worse, that's the direction the humor has headed thus, parental guidance might be in order.ĭispatch: Thanks so much for Gary Budzak's article on Byron Stripling ("Jazz revival," July 20, Page E1, Arts & Life). Your point about young readers, though, raises another matter: Some adults view the comics as targeted to children. The caption worked well, in my view, because of the subtlety of the joke.Īnd, because the writer avoided overtly objectionable material, the caption seemingly would have been easilyĮxplained away by parents of inquisitive young children. That said, others surely got a chuckle out of it.īawdy seems an unfair characterization of the entry ("Mom said she lost something here the night she met Dad"), which accompanied a panel showing two boys digging in the sand at the beach. Given its suggestive nature, we suspected that some readers might not appreciate the humor. Margaret: As the announcement last week acknowledged, the winning caption carried some risk. How many children do you suppose turned the cartoon over to their parents asking for an explanation?īawdy humor has no place on the pages of The Dispatch, least of all the funny pages. Two puzzles can be found on Page D4 (with the solutions on Page D2).īoth my husband and I saw little amusement in the winning submission for the 19th caption contest (" 'Risky' suggestion takes the prize," last Saturday, Page D1, ![]() In fact, because of our oversight yesterday, we're offering twice the fun - frustration? - today. Those who didn't call yesterday can take heart: Sudoku survives. In the present-day environment of newspapering, we're always looking for more ads - but we didn't omit Sudoku to make room for any. One of the unhappiest campers went so far as to accuse us of eliminating Sudoku so we could put in more "money-grubbing ads." ![]() Many callers, understandably, worried that we'd dropped it from the paper. We learned that the hard way yesterday, when we inadvertently omitted the daily puzzle from Life & Arts. (We haven't messed with the feature since.)įans of Sudoku undoubtedly rival bridge players in intensity. They flooded The Dispatch with calls, pleading for its reprise. Sudoku fans or bridge fans: Which are moreīridge fans let their preference be known many years ago when we dropped the bridge column as part of a redesign. ![]()
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