During the blustery cold days and cozy nights this winter, there’s no better time to rediscover the simple pleasures and quiet joys of indoor activities that help you relax and reconnect with family.

Gregory Treverton, a national security expert at RAND Corporation, famously distinguished between two types of problems, puzzles and mysteries. He was describing the modern challenges faced by the ...

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The chessboard has been the source of many ingenious puzzles that involve spatial reasoning and insight thinking. The seven ...

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This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere. A math teacher walks us through ...

Security pros tackle tough problems every day, from breach investigations to niche technical issues to strategy and policy development. The key to maintaining and improving these critical ...

At the beginning of freshman year my floormates and I bought a puzzle together. It doesn’t seem like a noteworthy act of rebellion or a radical move in any sense, but for me, it was life-changing.

After a week of hearing from readers, I am hopeful that our crossword puzzle problem has a solution. Last week, I wrote about the changes readers had noticed in The Daily Commuter crossword puzzle, ...