Allan Gottlieb ’67 signs off. Who knew? I would never have guessed that when, during my junior year at MIT, I agreed to edit a puzzle column for Tech Engineering News, I was making a decision that ...

Everything you need to know about this year’s special print puzzle section. By New York Times Games What is Puzzle Mania? Puzzle Mania is an annual special puzzle section in the print edition of the ...

Overviews: NYT Strands is one of the unique word puzzles that challenge players to find new words from the randomly arranged ...

A word that is used commonly today in psychology and artificial intelligence is “connective thinking”—a term that bears different meanings according to who uses it and how it is used within a ...

Every answer today is a familiar three-word phrase in which the middle word is "of." The first word starts with S and the last word starts with L. Last week's challenge came from Ed Pegg Jr., who ...

Before Spelling Bee, before Wordle and before Connections, there was the crossword. Who invented the first published crossword, and what was it? On Dec. 21, 1913, the New York World, a prominent New ...

Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the July/August 2025 Puzzle Corner, brought to you by guest editor Ed Faulkner '03. Send problems, solutions (by August 1), and comments to ...