From “Ayo Edebiri” to “this is fine,” puzzles reveal a portrait of the people who make and solve them.

Construction has come to be very important for Ms. Baik, who began making crosswords during her first semester in college.

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It’s easy to dismiss games as a distraction with all that's going on in the world today. Crossword puzzles, word searches, Sudoku — they might seem like frivolous pursuits compared to the stream of ...

As millions of people play The New York Times crossword Tuesday, Dec. 2, they will be working on a puzzle by Traverse City resident Jonathan Baude, who is making his NYT debut as a crossword author.

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Microsoft announced new agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They can help to shrink the gap between ideation and production. Other Copilot updates include an expanded Voice mode. In the era of AI ...

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Outside of the brief period when seemingly everyone on the internet was obsessed with playing and talking about Wordle, word games don’t tend to be the most exciting games around. But they’re sure ...