A few years later, he applied for a patent to market his invention, a puzzle game that eventually became known as the Rubik's Cube. It would go on to become the most popular puzzle toy in the ...

January 26, 2025 • NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Marian Fowler of Indian Purchase Township, Maine.

Solving puzzles may happen in your daily life from various word puzzle games like Wordle, or through strategy-based games and puzzle books, but piecing together a physical puzzle is a great way to ...

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Whilst many VR games are shooters or melee combat games, one consistently popular form of VR game is puzzle games. Puzzle games can use VR's unique view and control scheme to create a compelling ...

If you're still trying to stick to some healthy New Year's resolutions, smoothie cubes could be a game changer for your daily routine. Bumpin Blends smoothie cubes are a convenient way to boost ...

Challenge yourself every day with a free mini version of the classic crossword puzzle. Can you solve The Mini in minutes — or seconds? Play a new puzzle every day or browse the archive.

The categories vary in difficulty from yellow to green to blue to purple, with yellow considered the easiest category and purple the trickiest. For example, a recent game linked the words "Braid ...