I have three chess puzzles for you this week, but you don’t need to know the rules of chess for two of them. These two are variants of the famous eight queens puzzle, which asks solvers to position ...

Mina has been playing video games for her whole life. She hails from Virginia in the USA, and she loves cozy games, FPSs, MMOs, and puzzle games. She lives in Richmond with her husband and her kitty, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

There are a lot of puzzles in Blue Prince, some that can be solved within the same room you find them in, like the Dartboard puzzle, and some that are much, much grander in scale. The Blue Prince ...

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

Jay (He/They) is a fiction writer and high school teacher. He has a Bachelor's degree majoring in English and a Master's in Creative Writing. When he's not writing, he's either gaming (on the Destiny ...

Blue Prince has puzzles stacked on top of puzzles — and one of the weirdest is the chess set found beneath the fountain area. By unlocking the hidden Precipice room permanently in the Grounds, you’ll ...