Hello, fellow Double-Crostic-lovers. I wish I could be with you tonight, but time and distance prevent that.
We are a special breed of puzzler, we DCers.
We share with our far-more-numerous crossword-solving brethren the compulsion to fill in blank squares. Like them, we enjoy getting onto the constructor's wave-length. We accept his or her challenge and try to triumph with all blanks filled correctly.But when we are finished, we have more than the miscellany of words and phrases that comprise the typical crossword. We have a quote, a bit of wisdom, humor or information that may enrich our lives even for just a few moments.
And at DoubleCrostic.com we have the best of all DC-solving worlds. Every day brings a bright new puzzle, which we can solve without the tedium of finding and filling in 10G, 123G, 44G, 181G, etc. Thanks to Sue Gleason and her wonderful website, our solving times are halved, quartered or what have you. And our solving experience is greatly enhanced.
For the competitive among us, Sue has provided a means to time ourselves and test ourselves against fellow solvers. Her ingenious, easy-to-use and extensive record system tells us of our errors, our solving times, and our progress. She has achieved something unique in the puzzle world. Congratulations and thanks to her.
And sincere thanks also to our constructors, who contrive to challenge, amuse, inform, and sometimes frustrate us. Without their generous gifts of time and talent the site would be barren and we solvers would be forlorn.
So, speaking as the mechanical rabbit you greyhounds often chase and frequently surpass, I wish you a fun-filled night as you put faces to the names that appear with yours in the solving charts. Judging by the constructors' quotes, word choices and definitions, and by comments in the Forum, I know there are lots of fascinating folk among you.
Now on to the next thousand!
All the best,
Barry