I submitted a wordsearch and a crossword to the New York Times, but for some reason they rejected them! I'm really disappointed, but I'm willing to improve. It sounds like my wordsearch was fine, but my friends are telling me that my crossword looks a bit off. Can you guys tell me what it's mi...

Sing me the song of days gone by, sing me the song that made me cry. The remorse, regret, and pain I'm in, reflects the memories of what has been. Hint 1

Logic puzzles like Nurikabe, Slitherlink, and Battleships -- the ones we call grid-deduction puzzles -- can be a lot of fun. How do I go about constructing them? What's the best strategy for making these puzzles interesting and still uniquely solvable?

I'm absolutely full of pairs, And that's why I'm important. If my owner's used to describe me, I'd be like just a pair of letters. With the first pair, I'm from a plant or animal. With the second pair, you won't see me at all. With the third pair, you'll hear me instead. With the fourth pair, I'...

Note: Eleven clues are printer's devilry with thematic answers. Across 1. By the 1980s, his style of music hanged (4) 3. They had the hammer my bricks as the mason was absent (6) 9. According to Europeans (no male among them), it is a syndrome (9) 10. Montreal player exiting tumultous Abu Dhab...

Can you figure out which person the picture below, most likely, represent? You're going to do some translation into another language(which language it is, you'll definitely notice :))

What greeting to use with a bee when approaching its lair? (-) What thing do relief sculptor DJs drop, pumping it too? (---) What insect do little old ladies purl all through their hair? (----) To keep the wheels going, now what does the kind engine do? (----) What weapon would grounds...

Alice, Bob and Charles are involved in a deadly three way duel game. Before the game starts, there are three guns available for them to choose: the best, the mediocre and the worst. The exact hit probabilities are not known, but the players know the three guns were randomly chosen from a very lar...

Dominosa is a logic puzzle with a similar feel to Sudoku, and I've recently added it to Donimoes, my collection of domino puzzles and games. Given a grid of numbers, you have to lay out the dominoes so they match the numbers, without duplicated or missing dominoes. See Monday's problem for comple...

I found some logic puzzles on someone's blog from a few years ago, and have been trying to solve them. Here's the link to the page: https://hedgehogcomms.blogspot.com/2015/04/puzzling-over-logic-problems.html Please let me know if you have any suggestions! I have looked at this from different po...

I found some logic puzzles on someone's blog from a few years ago, and have been trying to solve them. Here's the link to the page: https://hedgehogcomms.blogspot.com/2015/04/puzzling-over-logic-problems.html The final problem on the page is really, really tough, and I can't figure it out. Any h...

A machine has 2020 lights and 1 button. Each button press changes the state of exactly 3 of the lights. That means if the light is currently on, it turns off, and if the light is currently off, it turns on. Before each button press, the user selects which 3 lights will change their state. To beg...

That's the rule: "A shepherd from Holland has a son doctor at London , the son doctor from London doesn't have a father shepherd from Holland " How is this possible ?

My friend Thetis and I cons— wait, where's Thetis? Hmm, that's funny... she was here a minute ago.... Wait, a note!... Oh dear, it seems things have taken a turn from bad to worse; Thetis is not only missing but she's been abducted! Thetis is asking us to help find her, but to prevent her hijack...

Here's a map: How to play Legend: (◾) = Start point ★ = Objective ⚑ = End point Mission: Collect all the objectives and go to the end with the minimum count of steps. How the game works: • The pawn counts its steps that are incremented by the number co...