There are riddles, and then there are riddles. Lateral-thinking puzzles fall into the latter category. Among the trickiest riddles out there, these brain games will give your noggin a serious workout.

Connections is a daily word puzzle created by The New York Times, in which players are given 16 words displayed in a four-by-four grid. The goal is to sort the 16 words into four distinct groups of ...

Overview Backup roles, keyboard shortcuts, pasta varieties, and suffix-based wordplay shape today’s NYT Connections, making ...

WHEN solving problems in the real world, it is rare that the solution is purely mathematical, but maths is often a key ingredient. The puzzle we set a few weeks ago (New Scientist, 30 September, p 45) ...

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 ...