Ian Simpson
@iangsimpson.bsky.social
Engineer from Edinburgh, Scotland. Co-inventor of Square Routes®, a word puzzle that appears in The Times each Saturday.
I did wonder if the use of "Reversi" might have been a trademark infringement, but it seems not, the name having been around since the 1880s.
August 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I did wonder if the use of "Reversi" might have been a trademark infringement, but it seems not, the name having been around since the 1880s.
Oh, interesting - I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
June 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Oh, interesting - I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
Yes, I think that's right - a quick look through ABE shows that the Twentieth Century Dictionary was "Chambers's" in the 1965 edition but "Chambers" in the 1972 one. The Biographical Dictionary seems to have made the switch around 1968.
March 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Yes, I think that's right - a quick look through ABE shows that the Twentieth Century Dictionary was "Chambers's" in the 1965 edition but "Chambers" in the 1972 one. The Biographical Dictionary seems to have made the switch around 1968.
2/2 The competition judge was the popular crime fiction author Edgar Wallace. The yellow star is not part of the original #puzzle but seems to have been a newsagent's display piece.
January 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
2/2 The competition judge was the popular crime fiction author Edgar Wallace. The yellow star is not part of the original #puzzle but seems to have been a newsagent's display piece.