The 19-year-old business major studying actuarial science didn’t know that most people give up on submitting crossword ...

It was an idyllic pocket of Los Angeles where people knew their neighbors — and homes sold for $5 million. The fire ignited ...

WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — Greetings, my fellow puzzleheads! Deb Amlen here, sitting in for my illustrious colleague, Sam Corbin, who ...

1A. The clue [Bub] and its answer, MAC, are old-timey ways of saying “pal,” especially to someone you don’t know. 4A. Not a ...

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

The next day, millions of Spelling Bee solvers got to play with plurals. Mr. Ezersky joined The Times as a puzzle editor in ...

Kareem Ayas’s Sunday puzzle is major fun.

Connections is one of the best puzzle games from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate ...