In 2012, a computer program named Dr. Fill placed 141st out of some 660 entries in that year’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, a competition for elite crossword puzzle solvers. This year, the ...

“Knowing the specific architecture of a puzzle (the rules of symmetry, word counts, etc.), in the long run, gives you a huge advantage.” Yet, there’s one crossword gimmick that practically requires ...

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“Percolation is ubiquitous in all fields of sciences like physics, mathematics, computer science, social sciences, or biology,” he adds. Percolation, in this sense, relates to what is known as ...

One hundred years ago yesterday, a curious new feature appeared in the Sunday New York World: On Dec. 21, 1913, English-born journalist Arthur Wynne published what he called a “word-cross” puzzle.