Huynh’s latest puzzle exemplifies this with the inclusion of both an asterisk () as well as the word "STAR" in designated theme squares. Unlike traditional crosswords, where each square contains only ...

The easiest example for me was 62-Across, [* Composed *], which solves to WRITTEN IN THE STARS. The word “Composed,” defined ...

The New York Times looks for intelligent, literate, entertaining and well-crafted crosswords that appeal to the broad range of Times solvers. Submissions are open. A New York Times crossword will ...

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

In various previous posts, I have discussed the role of word puzzles in stimulating different components of "verbal thinking," which can be defined, for the present purpose, as the formation of ...

Don’t worry, he has some examples. “Puzzles that deal with the faculty of language—like riddles and acrostics—are likely to stimulate the language areas of the brain,” Danesi explains.

Something is in the air. It seems as if everyone I know has got a little puzzle—a crossword, Wordle, Sudoku—that they do on their phone. There’s even a cozy British murder show, BBC One’s ...

Connections quickly became an online hit after it was released by The New York Times in June 2023—and, today, it remains as popular as ever. Wyna Liu, a puzzle editor at The New York Times who ...