Mr. Niederman has a gift for making puzzles that make a solver do a double (or triple) take — a theme that sneaks up on you, for example, or one with an extra layer of intricacy (or more!) like ...
CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as ...
What’s a 11-letter concept shared by crossword puzzles and avalanches, and starts with the letter “P?” According to one physicist, the answer is simple: Percolation. “When a statistical ...
As you fill out a crossword, it can abruptly shift from fiendishly difficult to extremely simple. This is similar to the way some physical systems undergo a phase transition – but compared to ...