A word that is used commonly today in psychology and artificial intelligence is “connective thinking”—a term that bears different meanings according to who uses it and how it is used within a ...

Overview Backup roles, keyboard shortcuts, pasta varieties, and suffix-based wordplay shape today’s NYT Connections, making ...

WHEN solving problems in the real world, it is rare that the solution is purely mathematical, but maths is often a key ingredient. The puzzle we set a few weeks ago (New Scientist, 30 September, p 45) ...

In various previous posts, I have discussed the role of word puzzles in stimulating different components of "verbal thinking," which can be defined, for the present purpose, as the formation of ...