American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

Don Christensen The winner, Dan Feyer!

Congratulations! Dan Feyer Tyler Hinman Howard Barkin Joon Pahk Anne Erdmann Jon Delfin Erik Agard David Plotkin Francis Heaney Ellen Ripstein See Results by Rank B division Benjamin Coe Andy Kravis Kevan Choset Full B Division Results C division Michael Megargee David Heinick Matt Sandler Full C Division Results See left panel for all results.

Capsule History

A Carnival of Puzzles was held Friday night, in which 10 different puzzlemakers presented original, timed word puzzles. Saturday evening featured presentations by Matt Ginsberg (Dr. Fill 3.0), David Steinberg (Pre-Shortzian Project update), and Will Shortz ("Clever Clues" game). Will announced that the tournament would be returning to Stamford in 2015. Dan Feyer won for the fifth year in a row, tying Tyler Hinman's record of consecutive wins. Tyler finished second. Katy Steinmetz wrote about their rivalry in Time.

Will Shortz

Capsule history of all previous years.

Videos from the Tournament

Nancy Shack took lots of videos. So did Don Christensen. Click to view

Pictures from the Tournament

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• Don Christensen: Friday Night | Saturday Puzzles 1 through 6, Saturday Night | Sunday | Playoffs
• Michael Alpern's Photos — CRU Dinner and more!
• Nancy Shack's Photos

Blogosphere

• Deb Amlen: Wordplay — The Crossword Blog of the New York Times.
• Patricia Campbell Stewart: Rookie's Report
• Eric Berlin: A shorter-than-usual ACPT wrap-up [spoilers]
• Dan Feyer: ACPT 2014: Fighting for Five
• Tyler Hinman: Two Much
• Peter Johannson The Puzzled Knucklehead
• Dave and Robert Mackey, the Puzzle Brothers: Damn, Feyer (also on Twitter at @thepuzbros
• Patrick Merrell: Final Impressions
• Mark Murphy: Fun at the puzzle tournament [spoilers]
• Brendan Emmett Quigley: "Steely" Dan Scores a Five-Peat [spoilers]
• David Steinberg: ACPT Wrap-Up, New XWord Info Feature on Women Constructors, and In 1948

Solving Perfection

The following 43 contestants solved all 7 puzzles with no mistakes.

Howard Barkin, Victor Barocas, John Beck, Jonathan Berman, Patty Buethe, David Chapus, Kevan Choset, Benjamin Coe, Judy Cole, Paul Coulter, Ken Crowell, Tom Daily, Jon Delfin, Alice Dutton, Anne Erdmann, Dan Feyer, Amy Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Rolf Hamburger, Katie Hamill, Francis Heaney, David Heinick, Tyler Hinman, Kari Knutson, Andy Kravis, Eric LeVasseur, Eric Maddy, Matt Matera, Michael Megargee, Leigh Newman, Joon Pahk, Doug Peterson, David Plotkin, Christine Quinones, Peter Rimkus, Ellen Ripstein, Dawn Ross, Matt Sandler, Ken Stern, Scott Weiss, Thomas Weisswange, John Wilson, Stella Zawistowski.

In the News

• Inside America’s Most Elite Crossword Puzzle Rivalry Katy Steinmetz, Time [March 12, 2014]
• Hillsborough resident places third in American Crossword Puzzle Tournament Susan Loyer, MyCentralJersey.com [March 11, 2014]
• The 60-second interview: Will Shortz, Crossword Editor for The New York Times Capital Staff, Capital New York [March 7, 2014]
• Local Crossword fan readies for national competition Philip Walzer, The Virginian-Pilot [March 2, 2014]

Stuff

• Meet the Constructors of the 2014 ACPT tournament puzzles

Officials — 2014