As you might expect from the title, this is going to be yet more thoughts on a topic that we all find literally inescapable these days. As I write ...
Did you know that Haagen-Dazs was invented in the Bronx? It’s true; Danish doesn’t even have an umlaut. It’s an example of foreign branding--the tr...
Among card games, cribbage is an oddity. It uses a standard deck of playing cards, but the way you include your opponent’s hand and the discarded “...
Here at Kubiya games we love our classics, and there are few games older than the strategy game Go. It's a great game with a following as large as ...
When my oldest child was playing with neighbors at the age of seven, I heard a familiar taunt: “Becky and Joey, sittin’ in a tree….” I’m sure you...
Here’s a riddle for you: what game started in India, got its name from Persia as viewed by Byzantium, has rules from Spain and Italy, and the oldes...
How many ways can you arrange two square tiles so that they share at least edge? It doesn’t take much to show that there’s only one way: form a rec...
Like most great family traditions, I don’t remember how it started. Whenever guests arrive and dinner is still in the oven, one of the kids will go...
These past few months, I’ve found myself pondering the value of a good puzzle. Are they really just for clever people to show off? Is there any pra...
A legend about Carl Friedrich Gauss says that when the great mathematician was eight years old, a teacher asked him to add up all the integers from...
Most puzzle enthusiasts are familiar with burr puzzles as a special category of interlocking puzzles, traditionally made out of wood. They consist ...
More new puzzles from Jean-Claude Constantin!Jean-Claude Constantin is possibly the best-known inventor and designer of contemporary mechanical puz...