At the Scripps National Spelling Bee, behind the spectacle of kids vying to be champion spellers, a whole lot of... more

I went to the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee, to marvel at kids spelling words I had mostly never even... more

Cain's Jawbone, a murder mystery cryptic puzzle novella in the form of 100 pages presented in the wrong order, has... more

Exciting things have been happening with crossword puzzles in the US: more constructors, more outlets to get puzzles published, clues... more

AJ Jacobs makes The Puzzler podcast, wrote The Puzzler book, and sometimes turns his whole life into a puzzle. He... more

This episode, and the next couple of episodes, are about word games! Today, Joshua Blackburn recounts how his sons' uninspiring... more

The word 'hypochondria' has travelled from meaning physical ailments in a particular region of your body, to ones that are... more

"It's quite a big undertaking going through every named feature in the whole solar system and trying to find out... more

This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, soothe your brain by saying a load of words that don’t... more

At Lunar New Year, certain foods are particularly lucky to eat. Why? Because in Chinese, their names are puns on... more