Games World of Puzzles

Welcome to the May issue of GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES! Surely you’ve noticed Shawn Kennedy’s clever Magic 8 Ball puzzle on the cover; maybe you’ve already started trying to match each question with its punny response. Now, let’s ask that ball another qu

The object of this solitaire challenge is to guess a word before making six incorrect guesses, as in a familiar childhood game. To begin, choose any letter of the alphabet that you think might appear in word I below. Suppose you pick E. Go to the Let

After April’s challenging Caves puzzles, I present a slightly less taxing experience in this month’s column. Akari puzzles, also known in North America as Light Up, require the solver to illuminate every unshaded square in a grid by strategically pla

Already hooked on Wordle? Spend hours daily on Spelling Bee? You should still make time to try Anigrams, an amusing new word game created by Adam Wagner. Wagner, who’s written a dozen crosswords for the New York Times, launched Anigrams in August 202

These nine puzzles feature a unique blend of logic and art. The numbers are all you need to determine which squares should be filled in to form a picture. Here’s how it’s done: The numbers outside each row and column tell you how many groups of black