Day 48: NYT Crossword Puzzle

A few weeks ago, Cole and I attempted to complete the Saturday edition of the NYT crossword puzzle as our first; we failed miserably.

One of my favorite things about my relationship with Cole is our love of nerding out together: we watch Jeopardy three nights a week (and are competitive with each other), download NPR podcasts for road trips, take long walks catching Pokemon together, and  watch Brain Games on Netflix. Something the both of us have always wanted to do, is (finish) a NYT crossword puzzle.

A few weeks ago, Cole and I picked up the Saturday edition of the NYT, walked to The Center with Mini, and sat down to do the crossword puzzle. For some reason, we thought that the Saturday puzzle was the easiest... but we quickly learned that that was not the case. We promised ourselves that we wouldn't use our phones to look up any answers, but said we could use our "phone a friend" for help. Well, after an hour, we came up with six answers: two were right, two were WRONG, and two were "phone a friend" answers (thank you Annette and Uncle Larry). We then learned that Saturdays were considered the most difficult day to do the puzzle, and that Mondays were considered the easiest. Exasperated, we gave up.

So, this past Monday, Cole and I picked up another NYT and sat down in our living room to complete the puzzle. Incredibly, we did not need any help with this one. It took us about 1.5 hours to do, but WE DID IT... on our own... as a team. Feeling a great sense of accomplishment, Cole asked if we could make this a monthly tradition; I agreed that this would be a fun activity for us to do. Moving forward, our google calendars now have the event "NYT Crossword" for the first Monday of every month.