I love crossword puzzles. I work on one every day. I inherited my passion from my mother, who did a crossword every day to keep her mind sharp, until her vision deteriorated to where she couldn’t read them anymore. Puzzles are often classified according to difficulty, as in Easy, Medium or Hard. The problem is, every publisher seems to have a different standard for these categories.
I worked through a book of Christmas crosswords from Random House that was labeled as “Hard”, but I solved them easily, and started to feel quite highly of myself. Then I started working on puzzles in a book from the New York Times described as “Medium”. Whoa! They were incredibly difficult! They had me stumped. Suddenly I didn’t feel like such a genius.
Clearly, various companies set their own standards, just as our evolving culture does. It can be confusing and frustrating. We would be well advised to stick to God’s standards for life. That way you will always fill in the blanks with the right answers.
Amen
Hahaha Ken. I love doing crosswords on the airplane to pass the time. I finally figured out the standards are indeed different depending on the publisher. But my most frustrating encounters are those that come in the Alabama Baptist that have errors in them. You can’t defeat that. I get 75% done and move on to the next one (errors or not).
I can relate Bill.