Solving a crossword puzzle today feels more like a spirited conversation with modern culture.
Tag: Sudoku (Puzzle)
To Wear the Sudoku Crown, One Must Solve Any Number of Puzzles
Pens, pencils and a facility with numbers. Also helpful: earplugs, plushies, a water bottle, calming herbal oil and the occasional “wild bifurcation” (a.k.a. a wild guess).
Maki Kaji, the ‘Godfather of Sudoku,’ Is Dead at 69
Mr. Kaji, a university dropout, turned a numbers game into one of the world’s most popular logic puzzles.
Is This Some Kind of Code? You Can Solve the …
Erik and Martin Demaine, a father-and-son team of “algorithmic typographers,” have confected an entire suite of mathematically inspired typefaces.