My favorite word puzzles these days are cryptic clues. I'll show you two websites that teach you how to solve them, without ...

Crosswords, inexplicably, are more popular than ever. The New York Times alone apparently has more than 28 million people playing its word games. (Speaking of which, have you tried Slate’s?) Something ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But I would like to take this time to get on a hobbyhorse of mine: More people should be doing cryptic crosswords. For the ...

The creator of Wordle has returned with another word game based on cryptic crosswords, and it's completely free to play.

Welcome to Fifteen Minutes first-ever (to my knowledge) cryptic crossword. Cryptics are the trickier and weirder British cousin of normal crosswords. Whereas a normal crossword’s clues only have a ...