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Kakuro

about 16 hours ago

Image: Wikimedia Commons This logic puzzle is the numerical equivalent of a...

Still Life

about 24 hours ago

The programming language efghij is literally object-oriented — its logic is expressed...

Self-Study

1 day ago

A puzzle from the October 1962 issue of Eureka, the journal of...

“Ballade of Soporific Absorption”

2 days ago

Ho! Ho! Yes! Yes! It’s very all well You may drunk I...

Speak, Memory

3 days ago

A puzzling passage from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1957 novel Pnin Pnin’s birthday …...

A Bouquet

3 days ago

A surprising number of flowers are named for people begonia: after Michel...

Oops

4 days ago

In 1848, English poet Arthur Hugh Clough named a new work The...

Orb Weaver

4 days ago

An elegant alphametic by Jonathan Joseph, from the October 1991 issue of...

Impostors

5 days ago

“Plaindromes” are ordinary sentences that sound as if they ought to be...

Four Seasons

7 days ago

Flemish engraver Aegidius Sadeler II based these prints on designs by Pieter...

Fare Division

7 days ago

Image: ArXiv There are four states in which matter can exist: solid...

A Blow to Tourism

8 days ago

Anglican priest Samuel Peters opposed American independence and was forced to flee...