Author: Eric Berlin

The introduction to my new book, “Off The Wall Word Searches,” co-written with my wife: Word searches have been a popular puzzle for generations, and why not? They’re fun and…

On Air Fest is a days-long celebration of podcasts, occurring over the next few days in Brooklyn, NY. One of the participants is Hark Audio, which curates snippets of different…

I normally write about the annual MIT Mystery Hunt within a day or two of its conclusion. The 2024 edition, however, seems to still be going on. Ostensibly a puzzle…

Back in 2012, I made a joke on Facebook. I said that if I presented a bunch of words and claimed it was a puzzle, that my friends would be…

I’m the guest this week on the Reality Escape Pod, talking about crosswords and Puzzlesnacks and all sorts of other puzzly topics. Listen at your favorite podcast site, or right…

My new download-and-solve puzzle hunt, “Into The Words,” is available for your downloading-and-solving pleasure! Ten puzzles, including a metapuzzle, just right for a few hours of solo solving or some…

I’ve been asked this question a few times over the last couple of months. It is a very polite question, insofar as it probably doesn’t need to be asked at…

Tomorrow, Puzzlesnacks subscribers will get to try a brand new puzzle type: “Consonant Companions!” It’s a neat two-grid format — consonants go in the shaded squares, and vowels in the…

It’s been a long time coming, but two new collections of Puzzlesnacks puzzles are now available! We’re trying something new this time — instead of downloading them from the Puzzlesnacks…

There are two new case studies on the Puzzles page — the charity project Puzzles for Democracy, and an exciting recent project, the Rule The Word Challenge, commissioned by the…