Puzzles

After taking up the hobby during the coronavirus lockdowns, a Victorian doctor has taken her place among competitive puzzling's world elite with a strong showing at the World Championships in Spain.

It's time to test your knowledge about the news of the week. 

It's time to test your knowledge about the news of the week. 

Australia's national jigsaw speed puzzling champ begins her title defence in Tasmania next month. Best beware, she's knocked more than 10 minutes off her time since competing in the last international competition in Spain.

It's fast, fierce and adrenaline-loaded as puzzle pieces fall into place with a speed rarely seen. Welcome to Australia's first National Jigsaw Puzzle Competition, the brainchild of D'Arne Healy.

Hidden within a tree hollow is a small capsule. Within is a tiny scroll with hundreds of signatures and dates. This is geocaching, an outdoor treasure-hunting game.

Not all jigsaw puzzles should start with the outside border, as WA champion Emma Telfer can tell you — cracking a 500-piece puzzle in just one hour and 13 minutes.

As almost everyone appears hooked on the daily five-guess word puzzle, what does it mean if you think it's just too hard, or the even more mortal sin — just don't find it fun?

The New York Times confirms it has removed a number of answers from Wordle, including the British spelling of ‘fibre’.

Are you terrible at remembering faces? Here's one trick from a memory coach that might help.

North Queensland's Rubik's Cube elite have squared off with some young contenders in the city's first speedcubing competition.

The humble crossword has been delighting and challenging its fans for over a century. But it hasn't always been a newspaper staple — it took a war before The New York Times would allow the puzzle into print.

Jigsaw puzzles have been given a boost since the Prime Minister singled them out during a recent announcement. Is this the humble jigsaw puzzle's moment to shine — again?

Forget Sudoku and cryptic crosswords, Australia's senior memory champion draws on indigenous cultures from around the world for memory techniques.

Bewitched by words and puzzles since boyhood, David Astle turned his passion into his profession – writing, broadcasting and creating cryptic crosswords for newspapers.

Can a humble typeface improve your mental processes? A team of experts have developed a hard-to-read font specifically designed to help you remember things — aptly named Sans Forgetica.

Self confessed word nerd David Astle talks to News Breakfast about his latest book 'Riddledom', and helps to explain the difference between a riddle and a Dad joke.

Australian crossword and comic designers are running out of work but hope there is a new dawn amid the digital revolution.

Being locked in a dark room with nothing but hidden clues to aid your escape might not be your idea of fun, but the "Escape Room" has reached Melbourne and is attracting people daily.

Science guru Dr Karl Kruszelnicki discusses the impact photographs have on memory.