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Professor Ernő Rubik, inventor of Rubik's Cube, holding a Rubik's Cube

The man who designed the iconic Rubik’s Cube explains why it’s so popular after almost 50 years: ‘Contradiction’ is a key to its success

By Mark Kennedy and The Associated Press

December 1, 2022

Wordle on iPhone

New York Times rushes to change ‘fetus’ as Wordle answer as Supreme Court seemingly prepares to overturn Roe v. Wade

By Chris Morris

May 9, 2022

A phone screen showing the game, Wordle, on New York Times' website

Ranking reveals which countries are the best at solving Wordle, the addictive game that’s taking the world by storm

By Mahnoor Khan

March 8, 2022

Try these eight puzzles this weekend, part of Harvard’s most popular class

Try these eight puzzles this weekend, part of Harvard’s most popular class

By Geoff Colvin

April 12, 2020

Neural network

Brain Games Don’t Work

July 10, 2017

US-NORWAY-RUSSIA-CHESS-CHAMPIONSHIP

How Computers Made Humans Better at Chess

By David Z. Morris

November 27, 2016

The world's top Go player Lee Sedol reviews the match after the fourth match of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match against Google's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo in Seoul

Striking Back Against the Machine: Korean Go Player Beats Google Program

March 13, 2016

Chinese Board Game Go

Google’s Go Computer Beats Top-Ranked Human

By David Z. Morris

March 12, 2016

This Company Can No Longer Claim its Games Prevent Alzheimer’s

This Company Can No Longer Claim its Games Prevent Alzheimer’s

By Robert Hackett

January 5, 2016

Does anyone care if “brain games” actually work?

Does anyone care if “brain games” actually work?

August 11, 2015

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