Playing with Words

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wisconsin Public Radio

Prx, Philosophy, Knowledge, Wpr, Ttbook, Wisconsin, Society & Culture

4.7 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Sometime in the last couple of years, America’s collective morning routine shifted. We used to start the day with coffee. Now it’s coffee and Wordle. Or Spelling Bee. Or both, plus the crossword. We’re living in a golden age of word games – which is fun, and one way to get just a tiny bit of relief when the world feels out of control.

Original Air Date: November 09, 2024

Interviews In This Hour:
Getting into the puzzle mindset — Welcome to my crossworld

Guests:
A. J. Jacobs, Anna Schectman

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0:00.0	Hey friends, it's Anne.
0:07.1	And I'm going to kick off this hour with a clue.
0:11.2	What is a six-letter acronym for a long-running public radio show about curiosity, wonder, and intelligent optimism?
0:19.5	Yep, TT Book.
0:21.8	Our in-house shorthand for to the best of our knowledge.
0:24.8	We are playing word games this hour.
0:27.4	Crosswords, anagrams, rebuses, anything to take our minds off the news and our to-do lists.
0:34.1	Join us.
0:35.2	Puzzles are good for the brain and even democracy.
0:40.7	Today's show, playing with words.
0:43.5	After this.
0:50.1	From WPR.
0:54.8	It's to the best of our knowledge.
0:59.2	I'm Anne Strain Champs, and today's show is all about puzzles.
1:01.6	I want to do one of your games.
1:03.9	Oh, well, thank you for asking.
1:05.6	Do you have a puzzle?
1:07.1	I do.
1:14.6	Well, one thing we love to do is it's a podcast. So we try to lean into the audio and have audio puzzles for your ears, like wordle for your ears. This is AJ Jacobs, a journalist known for
1:25.4	his research into obsessive lifestyle experiments.
1:29.0	And one of his latest fascinations, which includes a new podcast, is puzzles.
1:36.4	There's a famous genre of puzzles called Rebuses.
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