Do crossword puzzles make people smarter?

填谜会让人变得更聪明吗？

Hmm. I think I might just lie down after the show with a box of chocolates and today's crossword… or maybe I'll memorize another shopping list… this time in Japanese.

嗯。我想做完节目之后我要躺下吃盒巧克力，然后玩下谜游戏，或者再购物清单，这次日语的。

For example, it might be working out a new song on the piano, solving a problem, completing a crossword puzzle, creating website graphics, planning your travel budget, painting.

例如，可能是在钢琴上写首新歌，解决个问题，完成谜，创建网站图形，规划你的旅行预算，绘画。

He got into construction and then the insurance industry, but he'd always liked to write and do crossword puzzles. " And I loved to read. A lot, " he said.

他进到了建筑行业，然后是保险行业，但是他总是喜欢写作和玩谜游戏。他说：“我也很爱阅读。”

Elaine Higgleton, a representative of Collins Cobuild dictionaries, explained that thousands of crossword and Scrabble fans read dictionaries for fun and to improve their game.

《柯林斯高阶英语学习词典》的代理商伊莱恩·希格登解释说很多谜和拼游戏的爱好者都以读典提高自己玩游戏的水平为乐。

And ways to train your brain might be doing a crossword puzzle, playing chess, or studying a new language! Now I have a question for you, Neil.

训练方法可以是玩谜游戏、下象棋或者学习门新语言！现在，我要问你个问题尼尔。

That was Wil-- he's feeling a lot better. Apparently, he's 12-down in the TV Guide crossword puzzle.

那是威尔，他现在感觉好多了，很显然，他玩到电视指南谜的12行。

Yeah, we need to pause on the Crossword Cruise.

是的，我们得暂停下《谜邮轮》。

What's a four-letter word for a crossword puzzle creator?

谜创作者的四英文单词是什么？

So the three  finalists at the ACPT have to solve it basically using a marker on easels.

所以在美国谜锦标赛的三名决赛选手必须使用画架上的记号笔来解题。

Aaron, the things you learn from doing the New York Times Crossword every day and the things you absorb when you're making them.

艾伦，每天做《纽约时报》谜所学到的知识，以及在制作这些谜题时所吸收的经验。

This crossword puzzle is next to impossible.

【next to】这个谜几乎不可能做出来。

First of all, this is a crossword puzzle.

首先, 这是个谜。

So it seems like in times of trouble,   we turn to crosswords and other games, of course.

所以看来，在困难时期，我们会转向谜和其他游戏，这是理所当然的。

And also this guy, Isidore Edelstein, in addition to being  this young phenom as a crossword constructor, also won a crossword puzzle tournament himself back in  1935.

还有这位伊西多尔·埃德尔斯坦，除了作为谜构造师的年轻天才之外，他自己也在1935年赢得了个谜锦标赛。

But she got a new job in 1942 when " The New York Times" finally, finally,   decided that they would deign to run a crossword puzzle for the longest time.

但在1942年，她找到了新工作，因为《纽约时报》终于、终于决定他们愿意刊登谜了。

A fellow named Arthur Wynn who worked at the " New York World, " the newspaper, the  " New York World" came up with the crossword.

位名叫亚瑟·温恩的先生，在《纽约世界报》这家报纸工作时，想出了谜。

And  I believe his time on this very difficult final puzzle was yeah, something  like five and a half minutes.

我相信他在这个非常难的最后道谜上的时间是大约五分半钟。

That will also have links to resources like crossword construction software, which there  are some, you know, free software packages and others that you might have to pay a bit for.

那还将包含些资源链接， 比如谜制作软件，有些是免费的软件包， 还有些可能需要付费。

And I believe Sylvia doesn't compete, but  her daughter competed in the pairs division of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament with  their husband.

我相信西尔维娅不参赛，但她的女儿曾与她们的丈夫起参加了美国谜锦标赛的搭档组别。