Each year in mid-November, the Mohonk Mountain House, a stunningly beautiful resort in New Paltz, NY, presents “The Wonderful World of Words,” a weekend of puzzles and interesting lectures about…

I’m back in the New York Times this weekend with a new Jelly Roll variety puzzle, a form I invented and really enjoy constructing. I hope you like it!

I have not had a difficult pandemic, certainly not in comparison to many others. It was easy enough to work at home; it was similarly easy to hunker down with…

Greetings from Washington, D.C., where I am one of the not-as-many-attendees-as-usual-thanks-to-the-pandemic at the 2022 convention of the National Puzzlers’ League. It is great to see so many of my friends…

Over the past year or so, I’ve worked on creating new variety puzzle types for my main puzzle outlet, Puzzlesnacks. Two of these new types, Cascades and Jelly Roll, have…

I contributed a Valentine’s Day puzzle to Scott Kominer’s puzzles-and-games column on Bloomberg News. You can see it here.