Wordplay (2006): the Puzzle Master

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All right, here we go. From the beginning.
From NPRNews, this is Weekend Edition.
I'm Liane Hansen, and joining us is puzzle master Will Shortz.
Hi, Will.
Hi, Liane.
My name's Will Shortz. I'm the crossword editor of the New York Times.
When you're in grade school, you take aptitude tests...
to find out what you're good at and what you want to do in life.
I remember This would have been fourth, fifth or sixth grade.
I took this test, and, when I was done, I turned over the paper...
and looked through the list of professions to find out how I scored in that category.
And not surprisingly, puzzle maker was not one of their listed professions.
Now, are you a puzzle player?
Uh, yeah. I'm an avid Scrabble player...
and I like word games and puzzles.
I'm blessed to work for the two greatest news organizations in the country
The New York Times and National Public Radio.
And I know that whatever puzzle I throw out there...
for an intelligent, cultured audience...
is gonna be understood and appreciated by them, and they're my kind of people.
Daniel, it's time to meet Will, and it's time for everyone to play.
Well, Daniel, I'm gonna name some categories.
For each one, name something in that category...
that begins with the same first two letters as the category.
For example, if I said Planets, you might say Pluto.
Number one is Auto Makes.
Auto Uh, Auto Makes. Audi.
Audi. Excellent.
Well, of course, I've spent my whole life on puzzles.
I've been making puzzles since, uh, I was eight or nine.
And I sold my first one when I was 14.
When I was a kid, I used to joke about majoring in puzzles when I got to college.
Well, I was lucky enough to go to Indiana University.
And if you're accepted, you can major in anything you want.
I found this old-fashioned word called "enigmatology"...
that was in the unabridged dictionaries...
and I convinced the people that puzzles were a serious field of academic inquiry.
I devised an entire curriculum for myself in puzzles.
I figured from the beginning that it would mean a life of poverty...

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