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Dr. Frank H. Vizitelly, managing edi-. lor o£ an Americau dictionary, declares as the result of extensive researches, that .something similar to cross word puzzles took up milch of the time of the Hindus and Chinese, 1000 years B.C. According to. Dr. Vizitelly, "the Indians who lived in America before the arrival of the whites used to play, a crisscross puzzle with grains of corn," each, marked with some Indian sign. It is bis opinion that the Indians brought puzzle working to America from Asia; when there was ■ a stretch of land all the way-. "The crossword puzzle of the present is evolved by combining the anagram, the acrostic, the rebus, etc., with ancient magic squares," Dr. Vizitelly says: "It is also closely allied to chess, and is possibly an earlier form of that game." "The magic squares played an important part in the occultism and mysticisms of the Middle Ages," he added. "They were known to Hindus and Chinese, however, before the Christian era, and were introduced into Europe in the fifteenth century."
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 75, 31 March 1925, Page 6
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 75, 31 March 1925, Page 6
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