A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white and shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers.Crossword puzzle was chosen for creating this record as the game involves a lot of focus on the english words and elements of english language.
A total of 550 participants took part in the 6th Nationwide English Olympics at the Pacific Mall,Jakarta and started solving crossword puzzle.The Bina Nusantara University hatched this concept in 2006 with the scrabble word game.The focus was mainly to increase the english vocablary and knowledge bank of the students.The competition would set a benchmark and motivate more students to raise their performance in English Language.Being the english olympics it was important for the students to be well versed in the language and crossword puzzle proved to be the best thought option to challenge the English vocablary skills of the students.
On February 21,2010 the University went on to create a new landmark in history by making it a world record event for the huge number of students who had participated in solving the crossword puzzle.The University officials were pleased with this over whelming response of 550 students and that showed in their tyrst to notch up English skills at the International level.
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