The New York Times’ most popular piece of content in 2013 wasn’t an article — it was, of course, its now famous dialogue quiz. The quiz, published Dec. 21 of that year, was also the paper’s third most ...

In 1904, the American author George Schorb published a lengthy collection of Riddles and Drawing-Room Magic, containing several hundred word games, parlor games, card tricks, and lateral thinking ...

This decidedly cryptic riddle is a word game taken from a New Collection of Enigmas, Charades, Transpositions, and &c., published in London in 1806. This particular puzzle is a charade-style game, and ...