<i>The New York Times</i> offers modest-sized KenKen puzzles, but Sudoku fans looking for a larger-scale challenge now have a new online option. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The game, invented by a Japanese educator to teach students math, has caught on around the world since we first started running it in 2009. By Will Shortz Times Insider explains who we are and what we ...

Looking for a new puzzle challenge? Starting this week, find the logic puzzle KenKen on the back page of the Sunday comics section. Created in Japan by educator Tetsuya Miyamoto as a way to help ...

Will Shortz is to puzzles what Oprah is to books — an endorsement by the New York Times crosswords editor is as good as gold. He’s sold more than 5 million volumes of Sudoku games and has now moved on ...

My first infatuation was with Sudoku. Then my attentions moved to Kakuro. Now, though, I have a big crush on KenKen. No, I'm not talking about marital infidelity involving various Japanese women. I'm ...

[Announcer] Four, three, two, one, KenKen. in newspapers of the world. I learned about KenKen through Games Magazine. In a graduate school class at Brooklyn College. Randomly, in maybe a airplane ...

Did you ever play Milton Bradley’s Gator Golf or Crocodile Dentist, either growing up or with your kids? If so, you can thank Chappaqua toy entrepreneur Robert Fuhrer and his company, Nextoy, for your ...

Today the Globe and Mail introduces to its pages the super-addictive puzzle KenKen, a Japanese-born creation that's being touted as the "new Sudoku" by the august British daily The Times. KenKen ...

Will Shortz is to puzzles what Oprah is to books — an endorsement by the New York Times crossword editor is as good as gold. He helped popularize Sudoku in the U.S. and has sold more than 5 million ...