The crossword puzzle technique is not so much a stand-alone technique as a vehicle for enriching another technique in a meaningful way. The crossword puzzle can be combined with the vast majority of brainstorming and brainwriting variants. By using the crossword puzzle grid, which is familiar to all participants, the necessary relaxed atmosphere needed for a creative meeting is created very quickly.
Besides, it is very easy to additionally arouse sporting ambition, because when filling you have to proceed SUDOKU-like and mobilize all your gray cells. Due to the clear concentration performance, the otherwise so present daily business very quickly fades into the background.
Let your imagination run wild and use other relatives of the crossword puzzle, such as the syllable puzzle. Here, instead of letters, whole syllables are entered into the boxes.
Historical: The world’s first crossword puzzle appeared in the Christmas supplement of the New York World newspaper on December 21, 1913, and contained 31 search terms. It is said to have been invented by Arthur Wynne, a journalist from Liverpool. Wynne’s crossword puzzle contained no black squares and was diamond-shaped. In the early 1920s, the first crossword puzzles appeared in European newspapers and magazines. The first crossword puzzle in a German newspaper was printed by the Berliner Illustrierte in 1925.
