Labels:text | electronics | screenshot | display OCR: How It Began! Page 9 For a number of years children played a game called word square. In this game letters of words spelled out the same word horizontally and verti- cally. This was the birth of the crossword puzzle. The first interlock- ing words across and down appeared in England sometime in the 19th century. But it wasn't until Americans started working the crossword puzzle that it gained in huge popularity. Arthur Wynne was the first to place a cross- word puzzle in "Fun" the Sunday supplement of the New York World newspaper December 21, 1913 and it gained in popularity immediately. Eleven years later Simon and Schuster asked the World newspaper to allow them to pub- lish a complete book of crossword puzzles, using the writers of the World. The idea of a book came from Simon's aunt wh ...
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