In nearly five decades of directing puzzle competitions, New York Times crossword editor and NPR puzzle master Will Shortz ...

Last week's challenge was a numerical one from Ed Pegg Jr., who runs the website mathpuzzle.com. Take the nine digits -- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. You can group some ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WFIU listener Mark Minster of Terre Haute, Ind., and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer plays the puzzle with KAMW listener Daniel Abramson of Albuquerque, N.M, and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz. Sunday Puzzle: Pet theory Today's puzzle is called "Pet ...

Kanji of Westborough, Massachusetts plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and host Ayesha Rascoe.

Solve the grid in this expert Sudoku puzzle! The objective of Sudoku is to fill each row, column and sub-grid with exactly one of each number from 1-9. A conflict arises if you repeat any entry in the ...

Solve the grid in this medium Sudoku puzzle! The objective of Sudoku is to fill each row, column and sub-grid with exactly one of each number from 1-9. A conflict arises if you repeat any entry in the ...

Can you crack Killer Sudoku's mathematical twist? The objective of Sudoku is to fill each row, column and sub-grid with exactly one of each number from 1-9. In Killer Sudoku, the digits in each inner ...

Every year around this time I present a "new names in the news" quiz. I'm going to give you some names that you'd probably never heard before 2025 but that were prominent in the news during the past ...