Re: Plagiarism in crossword puzzles - has it ever occurred?
- From: Peter Biddlecombe <peterbiddlecombe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 22:12:23 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 10, 5:35 am, Offramp <alaneobr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are hundreds of crossword puzzles printed every day; and there
are also thousands of books of crosswords of various types in
bookshops. Has it ever been found that a puzzle-setter has been lazy
(or worse) and copied clues or grids from another setter?
If "grids" just means patterns of black and white squares, no-one
seems to care - I'm pretty sure there are grids used by more than
one paper.
If you mean the words filling in the pattern, I think people would
care, but I've never heard of anyone re-using the grid and word
pattern, but writing new clues.
Clues do get repeated, but it's very hard to know whether they
are copied or independently invented. I once sent a puzzle to
a famous setter for review - he found plenty to improve on,
except for one clue where he said "I wrote the same thing the
other day." And we get fairly occaional reports of the same word
appearing with similar clues in different papers on the same day.
If you include non-cryptic puzzles where clues are often one or
two words, it's even harder to identify plagiarism.
I know that the world of chess problems has had some occurrences of
this in he past. Most of the examples I have seen are problems that
have no pawns; these can be rotated and submitted by someone else.
.
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