Adam Aaronson

Solve here: www.billboard.com/p/billboard-...

My second crossword for @billboard.com! Taylor Swift week continues apace

My (very much still work-in-progress) project is here: mindpalace.fun

Kevin Payravi introducing the game jam

Me presenting my game Mind Palace

Had a blast at the inaugural WikiGameJam this past weekend hosted by @wikimediafoundation.org @wikimedianyc.bsky.social! Great crowd of creative tech + wiki + game people, and a great chance to lock in on a project (which won the "Most Likely to Keep Me Coming Back for More" award!)

NEW NEWS: I'm making music-themed crosswords for @billboard.com!

Solve the inaugural one, constructed by me and inspired by a certain album that dropped today:

www.billboard.com/p/billboard-...

Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

I wrote about how Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack

I wonder if this was the originally submitted clue or a Will Shortz master stroke

They gotta do something about this contrast

I made a trombone for HTML Day @htmlenergy.bsky.social

aaronson.org/trombone/

I'm in this! Along with lots of other fun and cool people!

You're absolutely right

Huge honor! Real full-circle moment (since I used Markdown to write the post)

I Drank Every Cocktail The International Bartenders Association, or IBA, maintains a list of official cocktails, ones they deem to be “the most requested recipes” at bars all around the world. It’s the closest thing the bartending industry has to a canonical list of cocktails, akin to the American Kennel Club’s registry of dog breeds or a jazz musician’s Real Book of standards.

Adam Aaronson drank every cocktail: or, at least, all 102 listed in the International Bartenders Association's official list https://aaronson.org/blog/i-dr...

I Drank Every Cocktail The International Bartenders Association, or IBA, maintains a list of official cocktails, ones they deem to be “the most requested recipes” at bars all around the world. It’s the closest thing the bar...

I drank every cocktail on the IBA official cocktail list, and I wrote some words about it

aaronson.org/blog/i-drank...

Michael and I facing each other in a New York City subway car

A screenshot of the New York Times Games app showing the Tuesday, July 1 crossword by Adam Aaronson and Michael Garbus

Just a couple of guys who made a crossword. #NYTXW

The Crossword: Wednesday, June 25, 2025 By Adam Aaronson Today's themed crossword appears in the Fiction issue.

Made another @newyorker.com crossword. This one's for the bookworms

Borg chart

Jim Acosta macOS Tahoe
🤝
MACOSTA

How it started / how it's going @rickycruz.bsky.social

This is spot-on, really great work

Square Theory The story starts in Crosscord, the crossword Discord server. Over 5,000 users strong, the server has emerged as a central hub for the online crossword community, a buzzing, sometimes overwhelming, som...

New blog post! At the intersection of language and... abstract math

aaronson.org/blog/square-...

Ticker Tape puzzle in the Bloomberg Businessweek magazine

Made my @bloomberg.com Businessweek magazine debut with a stock-flavored word puzzle! Catch it on the last page of the June issue

PUZZLE: Two complementary crossword tournament solving divisions anagram to European capitals. What are they? (no spoilers)

You might enjoy this puzzle ;)

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Blues Clues Bonjour-hi from Montréal! I made this entire puzzle aboard the 11-hour Amtrak ride here from New York City. There’s something about Amtrak rides that get my crossword juices flowing. I guess they put ...

New crossword on Aaronson.org! And yeah—it's a "tricky" one

aaronson.org/crosswords/b...

Helium balloons float because He is risen

45 Pounds - Wikipedia

STATUS: cannot stop listening to the new YHWH Nailgun album (and made a Wikipedia page for it)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45_Pounds

Asking this to Lynsi Snyder to try to get them to expand to the east coast