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Everyman and Speedy (grde and grds) are moving to Observer Magazine

Open mixographer opened this issue 8 months ago • 1 comments

Guardian Media has sold the Observer puzzles (Azed, Everyman and Speedy) to someone called Turtle media. They will no longer appear in the guardian. The existing puzzles will remain, so people could still download them by URL, but I guess "latest" will now be whatever is up as of today. I'll keep an eye on the observer site and see what format they post the puzzle in the future. Observer may go behind a paywall.

mixographer avatar Apr 23 '25 17:04 mixographer

The company is Tortoise Media: https://www.tortoisemedia.com/

danielpunkass avatar Apr 23 '25 17:04 danielpunkass

Looks like they are using PuzzleMe for now.

mixographer avatar Apr 27 '25 18:04 mixographer

Alright, I think it's been long enough to assume things have settled, and it looks like it would be pretty straightforward to add Everyman and Speedy as a new case for some planned updates to AmuseLabs downloaders. (Azed is barred, which .puz files don't support, but maybe someday.)

For my reference, the two puzzles live at:

  • https://observer.co.uk/topics/everyman
  • https://observer.co.uk/topics/speedy

thisisparker avatar Aug 30 '25 00:08 thisisparker