Program Summary:

Take your puzzle solving to a whole new level under the expert guidance of Stan Newman, Newsday's crossword editor, five-time tournament champion and America's foremost mental fitness coach. Your campus for these series of "puzzle cruises" is usually held aboard ships of the Holland America Line. Stan's last "Crossword University Cruise" was conducted in January 2012. Future cruises will be announced here and at Stan's website.
 

About Stanley Newman:

Formerly a Wall Street executive, his prowess in crossword solving won Newman the first U.S. Open Crossword Championship in 1982. He entered the puzzle business as a hobby the next year, founding the American Crossword Federation and starting a puzzle newsletter. After retiring from Wall Street in 1987, Newman plunged into crosswords full-time, as a puzzle creator, editor, publisher, syndicator, and mail-order bookseller - becoming the first to achieve concurrent success in five different arenas of puzzledom

Newman joined Random House in 1993 to head its Puzzles & Games imprint, and while there published over 200 titles from America's best-known sources, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times and Games magazine. He is the author/editor of more than 70 of his own books, most published by Random House. These include books of crosswords and word games, two New York Times crossword-reference books, and the just-published 10,000 Answers: The Ultimate Trivia Encyclopedia. Newman has organized and conducted scores of puzzle and trivia events nationwide over the past 15 years, including seminars on "brain games" and trivia at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

In addition to his Random House activities, Newman has been crossword editor for the Long Island, New York newspaper Newsday since 1988, whose puzzles are currently syndicated worldwide to over 100 daily, Sunday and Internet newspapers. In 2002, he succeeded Mel Rosen as Editor of the Crosswords Club. As puzzle creator, his work has appeared regularly in People, Sport and Business Week magazines. And as puzzle solver, he holds the world's record, set in 1996 under Guinness Book conditions, for the fastest completion of a New York Times crossword: 2 minutes, 14 seconds.

For more information, visit stanxwords.com.

| home |