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Sunday Puzzles
Classic Puzzle From the Archive
Enjoy this weekly puzzle from our online archive, updated every Monday.
Interactive Feature: Total Recall
Test your memorization skills with games from the World Memory Championship.
Interactive Feature: Science Times Crossword
A “Wednesday” level crossword edited by Will Shortz, The New York Times puzzle editor, on social scientists.
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NPR's Talk of the Nation: Solving Puzzles Satisfies The Nimble Brain
Play KENKEN
Play what Will Shortz calls “the most addictive puzzle since Sudoku.” Exclusively on NYTimes.com, new puzzles daily.
SET Puzzle
Play SET! The popular card game of visual perception is now available on NYTimes.com. Four daily puzzles.
From the Learning Network
Crossword for Young Solvers: Remembering the Titanic
By FRANK LONGO
Events Marked by Large Streamers
April 20, 2012
A Freckled Beauty
April 19, 2012
Outliers
April 18, 2012
Chess
Overly Aggressive Player Is Own Worst Enemy
By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN
The grandmaster Giorgi Kacheishvili was burned twice by being overly aggressive at the Philadelphia Open.
City Room
From the 'Broncs' to 'Coney,' New York as a Scrabble Board
By DAVID BUKSZPAN
The city is rife with playable Scrabble words, like queens, manhattan and yanquis. Help us collect more New York-related Scrabble words.
More Chess News
Chess Coach to Leave Texas Tech With Her Team’s Best in Tow
By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN
Susan Polgar and her institute are moving to Webster University in St. Louis because of funding issues, she said. The grandmaster’s top 10 players are also switching schools.
Bridge
Kyle Larsen Voted Into Hall of Fame
By PHILLIP ALDER
Only one player was voted by his peers into the American Contract Bridge League’s Hall of Fame this year: Kyle Larsen of San Francisco.
Have Board, Will Hustle. Your Move.
A small army of hustlers scratch out a living by playing chess in New York City.
A View of a Chess Genius
The photographer Harry Benson befriended the eccentric American chess champion Bobby Fischer in 1971. A book with Mr. Benson’s photographs of Mr. Fischer is being released this month.
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