Alain BRUNET, verbicruciste, designed the largest crossword grid in the world manufactured without computer software. The design of this grid of 18,262 words took him 5 years.
Amédée COIRIER 94 years is verbicrucist and cruciverbist. He’s been doing crossword puzzles since he was 12. Under the alias ' Jean des Marais " he designed more than 16,000 grids for magazines
Admirer and disciple of Tristan Bernard, Max FAVALELLI explains how this one gave their letters of nobility to the crossword. He cites the definition given by Tristan Bernard of the character of Atreus.
Report from a game magazine publisher where crossword puzzles are designed by a computer. Interview with Yves CUNOW, a verbicrucist who himself uses his own grids. " The craftsman will try to put more traps, by putting complicated words, sometimes by putting twisted definitions and saying "I will try to make the reader suffer so that he takes pleasure in finding the solution".
Report at Max FAVALELLI where he makes crossword puzzles. He explains the basic rule for the design of a crossword puzzle and tells that in 1939, The first step taken by military censorship would have been to prohibit crossword authors from placing more than five black boxes to prevent spies from using them as a means of communication.