Other gigs have included puzzles for The Progressive ... a biweekly word-game contest for The Atlantic Monthly online at AOL. These contests involve anagrams, acronyms, puns, rhymes, and writing ...

An anagram clue for STEW could be "Wild West food ... we hear (4)." See if you can solve this one: "Vocal gossip for a lodger (6)." (See answer.) A clue may break the answer into two or more ...

Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by Sally Hoelscher. Uncover expert takes and answers in our ...

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,000 games later. It offers a ...

The classic word game Scrabble is making a thrilling return ... word-based challenges from speed rounds to solving complex ...

The global omnipresence of American culture has laid the groundwork to prepare many of us for challenges like this, but the point of the puzzles is to make them a challenge to everyone ...

Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by . Uncover expert takes and answers in our crossword blog.

Bored with the same old Wordle? The New York Times has just released Strands, a new word puzzle that will put your vocabulary ...

When curators at the National Toy Hall of Fame learned the Fisher-Price Corn Popper had been voted in, they knew they had ...

Scrabble is, for me, a game that is dusted off ... to show us how to work collaboratively when we have problems to solve? While we can sympathise with both perspectives, Robert seems to capture ...

(If you're ever in need of a helping hand with the daily NYT games, my colleague Gael Cooper has tip sheets on how to play Wordle, Connections and Strands just generally, as well as daily posts with ...

I’ve become spoiled by playing on my computer, where some little guy inside the box instantly shouts “Wrong!” with flashing ...