Category: Puzzles

According to this web site, one of the things you are encouraged to do on National Spaghetti Day is “Think Outside The Box.” They mean you should make your own…

I’ve got a new set of 20 larger-than-snack-sized variety puzzles for you — Puzzlesnacks Plus, Volume 3! The collection includes many Puzzlesnacks favorites: Jelly Roll, Patchwork, Cascades, Consonant Companions, One…

Today is New York Times’ Puzzle Mania day! A huge puzzle supplement will be folded into the Sunday paper, or you can buy it online. And hey, that’s my Jelly…

Every year I created a small puzzle event for the Wonderful Weekend of Words, an event held at the beautiful Mohonk Mountain House. Soon after that, I post those puzzles…

Fraternal Twins is a variety form I created years ago for my Puzzlesnacks subscribers. The puzzle takes the form of two curvy grids. Letters in each corresponding six-space section are…

Puzzled Pint is a fun mini-puzzle-hunt hosted every month at bars and other outlets all around the world… …and I’ve created the October set of puzzles, “Shopping Spree!” The event…

Hey, New York Times subscribers! When you’re done with Connections and Wordle and Spelling Bee and so forth, open up this weekend’s Sunday magazine and try my new Patchwork variety…

A few decades ago, I lived in New York City, and every once in a while I would hear about some puzzle-adjacent event taking place. Maybe it was in a…

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…