Games are a bottomless reservoir of puzzle inspiration. This is because games and puzzles both tend to be founded on a concise set of logical rules. This week’s puzzle concerns one of the simplest ...

With perfect play, tic-tac-toe always ends in a draw. But what if you can play for both sides? Reading time 3 minutes Although most view tic-tac-toe as a kid’s game, puzzle designers see it as a ...

In case you've faced some hurdles solving the clue, Fingers and toes, we've got the answer for you. Crossword puzzles offer a ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro plays with the puzzle with Weekend Edition's puzzle master Will Shortz and WBEZ listener Brian Standstrom of Chicago. Sunday Puzzle: Let's Go Toe-To-Toe On-air challenge: The ...

The game of three men’s morris was invented hundreds of years ago. It was eventually superseded by noughts and crosses, or tic-tac-toe. To play, you draw a grid. Each player has three counters, and ...

In an ingenious 1982 collection of puzzles, called Gotcha, the late brilliant puzzle-maker Martin Gardner used the word “gotcha” to identify a genre that involves any puzzle that aims to dupe the ...

On-air challenge: The theme is toes. Every answer is a word or name that has the accented syllable "toe" somewhere inside it.