#401 The World Before Wordle: Talking Puzzles With AJ Jacobs

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

A.J. Jacobs, author of "The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life," leads Greg and Tom down a maze of fascinating origins for the world's most popular puzzles.

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0:00.0	Episode 401 of The Bowery Boys.
0:02.8	The world before Whirtle.
0:05.1	Talking puzzles with AJ Jacobs.
0:08.1	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys.
0:09.6	Hey.
0:10.8	Support for The Bowery Boys is provided by our listeners.
0:14.3	Join us for as little as $1 a month
0:16.9	by visiting patreon.com slash Bowery Boys.
0:23.0	Hi there, welcome to The Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:26.2	And I'm Tom Myers and we have a very puzzling show and store for you today.
0:31.7	Yeah, you know, we thought we'd wrap up 2022
0:35.4	by taking a break from some of the more serious subjects
0:39.7	that we've been covering recently, you know,
0:42.4	housing reform, tenement living conditions,
0:44.8	neighborhood gentrification, mounting urban problems,
0:48.9	all very important topics too.
0:51.0	But now it's just time to exhale and take a deep breath
0:54.9	and puzzle ourselves and do Whirtle.
0:58.6	I mean, isn't that why we do Whirtle?
1:02.5	You do do Whirtle, right, Greg?
1:04.3	Yeah, I mean, most days, in fact, actually, I forgot to do it today.
1:07.1	I usually do it early in the morning.
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