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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

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Sunday Puzzles

You can now download and print the popular variety puzzles from the Sunday magazine free online.

Look below for links to this week’s puzzle as well as answers to last week’s.

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.

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.

Sudoku

Solve a daily sudoku puzzle that matches your level of expertise.

Chess Column

Top Four Slug It Out at U.S. Championship

The fight for the United States titles among both the men and the women came reflected the game’s biggest rivalries.

More Chess News

Chess Champion Keeps Title After Tense Set of Tiebreakers

Viswanathan Anand defeated Boris Gelfand in a series of tiebreaker games in Moscow.

Chess Championship Goes Into Overtime After Another Draw

The world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand, the titleholder, and Boris Gelfand, remains tied at 6 points apiece.

Intensity Cools After 2 More Draws in Chess Championship

After Games 9 and 10 were drawn on Wednesday and Thursday, Viswanathan Anand, the titleholder, and Boris Gelfand are tied at 5 points apiece in a best-of-12 match.

Bridge Column
Bridge

Goldman Pairs at Eastern States Regional

The Goldman Pairs is the oldest bridge pair event still being held.

Crosswords for Mobile Devices

New York Times crosswords are now available for iPhone, BlackBerry and other devices.

Times Topics

Crossword Puzzles

Five free Times crossword puzzles, links to Web resources and more.

MAC OSX LION USERS

If you are a Mac OSX user, please update your Across Lite version to 2.1. A free download is available here: http://www.litsoft.com/across/alite/download/