puzzles & games editor @newyorker // no personal business on company pond
Brooklyn, NY
Joined January 2011
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The New Yorker’s Puzzles & Games editor, Liz Maynes-Aminzade, is doing a Reddit A.M.A. about all things crosswords and brainteasers. Start submitting your questions now, and she’ll begin answering them at 1 P.M.
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Excited to announce the eight exceptionally talented writers who are joining our Episodic Intensive tomorrow! They will receive guidance from top showrunners, producers and development execs who are generously supporting this group.
📢 Announcing the 2025 Episodic Intensive Fellows!
Eight talented screenwriters join the Sundance Institute’s annual Episodic Intensive with guidance from top industry showrunners, producers, and development execs.
Read more: sndnc.org/42gYXSV
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In celebration of The New Yorker’s centenary, we’re introducing a new game: Laugh Lines, which challenges you to guess when cartoons from our hundred-year archive were originally published. nyer.cm/HgsItj8
The 2024 Cartoons & Puzzles issue is here! ✏️🎁
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Test your knowledge of cartoon history with our game Laugh Lines; decorate a Yule Log by Patrick Berry; assemble a menu with @kateschmate ; master the logic of dinner party seating with @foggybrume ; solve a kooky crossword by @Adam__Wagner …
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SIREN @newyorker.com is hiring a GAME DESIGNER, who will help us grow our suite of puzzles and games. Join @Lizzymaynes and co. condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.…
Come live-construct a crossword with me and two of the greats, @natanlast and @Robynw414, at this year’s @NewYorkerFest! Get your tickets here: nyer.cm/zCmbo30
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Announcing some changes to the New Yorker's Puzzles & Games lineup—including twice-weekly Mini Crosswords constructed by @kateschmate, @molliecowger, and me. As always, happy solving! 🖤🤍
Introducing something special for the overscheduled puzzler: the Mini Crossword. You can finish it in the span of a subway transfer, or while you’re waiting for your latte. nyer.cm/cOiCPdt
Loved this @annashechtman piece on women and crosswords, in which I learned (among other things) there’s a Tracy-Hepburn romcom about library science
An excerpt of RIDDLES is online today in the @NewYorker. Welcome to the CrossWorld!
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thanks to the new yorker cartoons & puzzles issue, i am now able to represent my two moods in life
It’s that time of year: the Cartoons & Puzzles issue is here! 🎁🧩🪩
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It’s that time of year: the Cartoons & Puzzles issue is here! 🎁🧩🪩
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Escape Central Park with Patrick Berry; fix the subway with Fred Piscop; trim the Rockefeller Center tree with @holyhegemony ; go celebrity spotting with me & @suerynns ; tackle a themed cryptic by @lilygeller & @flyingelevator and a 3x-the-fun xword by @brookehus @Adam__Wagner…
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Really happy I got to make today's crossword for the @NewYorker's Therapy Issue. Thanks to everyone who made it possible; hope you like it! newyorker.com/puzzles-and-ga…
For the @NewYorker, I went to Stamford, CT to scope out the country’s biggest crossword puzzle tournament.
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Ft. fashion cameos from @TrudeauRoss @jessiewtrudeau @xor and an exhilarating final showdown between @gpaolopasco and @danfeyer
Plus! Join @wynaliu @gpaolopasco and @natanlast for round one of our TikTok Live Clueing series 🔍
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