You Won’t See Them at the Olympics, but These Speed Puzzlers Are World-Class (Gift Article)
nytimes.com/2024/07/30/world/europe/speed-puzzling-competitions.htmlPuzzling has been around for more than 250 years, but a budding tournament featuring participants from more than 75 countries in Spain is giving it new life.
The puzzle as propaganda
africasacountry.com/2024/07/the-puzzle-as-propagandaAt the height of African decolonization, radical writers turned to interactive features like competitions and quizzes to engage their audiences.
Finding the Hardest Spelling Bee Puzzle
christopherwolfram.com/projects/spelling-bee/The Spelling Bee is a word puzzle published daily by The New York Times. The rules are very simple, which got me thinking about generating puzzles automatically. In this project, I created a metric for measuring the approximate difficulty of Spelling Bee puzzles, which I used to study the space of all Spelling Bees. In particular, I found the easiest and hardest puzzles, and also looked at how the subset of human curated puzzles published by The New York Times fit into the broader space.
Scrabble: Mattel launches new version of game which is 'less competitive'
bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68769981Mattel says the new board is designed to be accessible for those who find word games intimidating.
Figure • Puzzle #44
figure.game/Free daily puzzle. Clear all the tiles before running out of moves!
Tripods
tripodsgame.com/Tripods: a puzzle game
TEMPRES by tak
tak.itch.io/tempresa puzzle, at first
Regex Crossword
regexcrossword.com/A crossword puzzle game using regular expressions. Earn achievements completing puzzle challenges. Easy tutorials for people new to regular expressions.