Since antiquity, we have been fascinated by a seemingly simple verbal mind game: Can the letters in a word be rearranged to produce another word that reveals a meaning hidden in the original word?

My favorite word puzzles these days are cryptic clues. I'll show you two websites that teach you how to solve them, without ...

As is well known, anagrams are ancient. Today, we see them as an interesting genre of wordplay. But they were hardly perceived as such in the past, and to an extent even today. Anagrams of people’s ...

VARIETY PUZZLE — Hello, and welcome back to another episode of “Does Deb Remember How to Do This?” My guest today is a Puns & Anagrams puzzle by Daniel Raymon. First, let’s have a hearty round of ...

Brain teasers are fun, challenging puzzles that stimulate the mind and encourage creative thinking. They come in many forms- designed to test ridls, logic puzzles, number games, and wordplays- and ...

Mel Taub, the longtime creator of the Puns and Anagrams puzzle for The New York Times -- a form that involved wordplay and groan-inducing puns, of which Taub was a master -- died on Sept. 14 at his ...

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