Sayonara, Sudoku. For a better-rounded puzzle that includes not just logic, but math, too, try KenKen. It's probably even good for you. My first infatuation was with Sudoku. Then my attentions moved ...

An elementary-school math teacher silently paces his classroom in a pin-striped stockbroker shirt, his mouth full of braces. All around him, tiny students with pencils in hand struggle over puzzles at ...

<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 ...

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 ...

KenKen can stump even the most dedicated of problem solvers yet requires nothing more than basic arithmetic and the ability to count to 10. Japanese creator Tetsuya Miyamoto, 55, has seen his math ...

[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 ...

PW: Where did KenKen come from, and what’s its appeal? WS: It was invented by Tetsuya Miyamoto, a Japanese educator who runs a school in Japan. His philosophy of education is that you don’t teach kids ...

All readers will have their own preferences, but in my view, there are a number of features newspapers do that work equally well in the paper and online. Some, such as multimedia projects, video, ...