NYT Puzzle Master Will Shortz Adds Alaska To His Table Tennis Quest

Fred Ssessanga plays against Will Shortz (front) while Tim McCloud plays Robert Roberts (back) at the Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School Gym. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)
Fred Ssessanga plays against Will Shortz (front) while Tim McCloud plays Robert Roberts (back) at the Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School Gym. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)

NPR’s puzzle master Will Shortz will be taping his weekly puzzle for Weekend Edition from Anchorage, where he’s exercising his other passion – table tennis. Anchorage is the second stop of a seven-day table tennis tour in Alaska that Shortz is taking with Caribbean table tennis champion Robert Roberts.

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Lisa Phu is a reporter at KTOO in Juneau.

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