The crossword clue '1= Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' gave rise to what common puzzle format?
Ditloid Ditloid A ditloid is a type of word puzzle, in which a phrase, quotation, date, or fact must be deduced from the numbers and abbreviated letters in the clue. Common words such as 'the', 'in', 'a', 'an', 'of', 'to', etc. are not normally abbreviated. The name 'ditloid' was given by the "Daily Express" newspaper, originating from the clue: 1 = DitLoID ≡ "1 Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Will Shortz originated the current form of this puzzle and first published it in the May–June 1981 issue of "Games" magazine, calling it the Equation Analysis Test. In its annual
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ( "Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha" ) is a novel by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine "Novy Mir" ("New World"). The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s and describes a single day in the life of ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. The book's publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history, since never before had an account of Stalinist repression been openly distributed. "Novy Mir" editor Aleksandr Tvardovsky wrote a