Rebus puzzles incorporate symbols or multiple letters within single ... prompting solvers to think outside the box. As a real-world example, when participants encounter a starred entry in the grid, ...

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 ...

Mr. Chollet’s colorful puzzles test the ability to quickly identify visual patterns based on just a few examples. To play the game, you look closely at the examples and try to find the pattern.

LinkedIn introduced a new game—Zip, a logic-based puzzle game for professionals—on March 18. This puzzle game is designed to test problem-solving skills, requiring players to draw a path through the ...

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 ...