NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition puzzle master Will Shortz and Chris House of Annandale, Virginia.

Alexander Hartmann, a physicist at the University of Oldenburg, in Germany, has introduced a new model to explain a common word puzzle phenomenon. In his paper published in the journal Physical Review ...

Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread disability affecting the health and quality of life of millions of people across the globe and costing economies ...

The brainteaser was launched by The New York Times in June 2023 and has gone on to become the newspaper's second-most played game behind Wordle, another word-based puzzle. Connections challenges ...

Test your mental mettle with this brain-twisting assortment of word, logic and number puzzles by Fraser Simpson, creator of The Globe and Mail’s cryptic crossword. You can play the giant ...

Similarly, the puzzle genre continues to produce new projects at a reasonable rate, even if the releases tend to be indie projects that do not attract too much mainstream attention. There are ...

The word HUG is giving each theme answer a HUG today. This is a fun set of theme answers. HUMBLE BRAG, with its delightful clue, is my favorite. Thank you, Sam, for this excellent puzzle.

The popular puzzle was launched by The New York Times in June 2023 and has gone on to become the newspaper's second-most played game behind Wordle, another word-based puzzle. Below are ...

China's scientific journals have made significant strides in their academic influence and quality improvements over the past decade, according to the Blue Book on China's Scientific Journal ...

The lowly lab tech can spend hours with a scientific syringe “pipette,” manually moving liquids from tube to tube. Attempts to automate the process have not taken off because the robots ...

They can also give you some solid ideas for starting words that keep your daily puzzle-solving fresh. There are six rows of five boxes presented to you by Wordle each day, and you'll need to work ...

He published the first-ever Word-Cross Puzzle, the brainteaser we now know as the crossword puzzle. Unlike the puzzles we often see today, Wynne’s version was diamond-shaped with a hollow center.