Crossword constructors volunteer their time to help underrepresented populations get published. By Deb Amlen One not-so-well-kept secret on the puzzle-making side of the business is that your favorite ...
These are the best games for puzzle fanatics and skeptics alike, guaranteed to convert you into a puzzle fan for life.
Tired of boring posters and cliched wall art? Try framing a puzzle for wall art that’s a conversation starter. Plus, if you’re a puzzle lover you’ll have a legit excuse for getting your nerd on and ...
For his 30th birthday, Sandor Weisz hosted an unconventional party — a puzzle hunt. The only problem: No one could solve it. “It was a mess. It was not well done,” he said. “But my friends were really ...
When Susan Oliver-Heard made her first puzzle, it was meant as a gift to her friend and artist Ana Fernandez, who painted the original work. “What I thought was really cool was all the little pieces ...
This meant plenty of smaller titles, and many have come and gone since then, but few have occupied the same amount of headspace in the years since as Henry Halfhead, a sandbox puzzle game from ...
He is the Star’s new crossword puzzle maker, a role the late Merl Reagle filled since the launch of this section nearly 20 years ago. “If Merl’s not the greatest, he’s in the top five,” says Agard.
Some of the finest jigsaw puzzles on earth come from Vermont, where for four decades the craftsmen at Stave Puzzles have made them by hand. Keeping alive an almost extinct tradition, all of Stave’s ...
He was the main whiz behind a crossword variation for The Times, whose readers delighted in his anagrams and sometimes groan-inducing wordplay. (Try one yourself.) ...