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Wordplay wars return to Delhi’s ‘Oktoberfest’Subscriber Only
October 25, 2024 05:50 IST
Sixty spirited teams experienced the joy of printed crosswords—tweaked for Gen Z—at Miranda House this weekend. Who took the crown?
Express News Quiz: Ratan Tata, Durga Puja & BigBSubscriber Only
October 11, 2024 20:34 IST
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Bazaars, Bombay locals, dancers, dreams: How does one make 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles? Ask Surabhi BanerjeeSubscriber Only
October 9, 2024 14:33 IST
“Most of the time, I have precedents in mind: a beautifully designed interior from a magazine, or animal drawings in an old science book,” says Banerjee, an illustrator-cum-architect who captures the colourful chaos of India in jigsaw puzzles.
Express News Quiz: Joker, Navratri & genre-defining scienceSubscriber Only
October 7, 2024 22:55 IST
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The journey to solving a Rubik’s Cube in secondsSubscriber Only
April 12, 2025 16:32 IST
Pro cubers share tales and tactics that helped them achieve superhuman speeds on the world's most popular puzzle.
Express News Quiz: Oscars, Harry Potter & 100 years of civilisationSubscriber Only
September 27, 2024 23:12 IST
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World Tourism Day: Discover 20 fun destinations on our jumbled words puzzleSubscriber Only
October 7, 2024 23:42 IST
World Tourism Day: Look up, down, forward, backward and diagonally to find 20 autumn and winter destinations hidden on our word search.
Mathematicians discover ‘soft cells’, a new shape class found in natureSubscriber Only
September 25, 2024 20:10 IST
Soft cells can determine something as small as a zebra's stripes, to the formation of river islands, all due to a lack of sharp corners. Might it inspire new decor or puzzle ideas?
Express News Quiz: Amid a sea of fakes, can you spot the real headline?Subscriber Only
September 22, 2024 04:07 IST
Our 81st news quiz has a twist. Sift through bogus claims to put together what really happened this week in politics, science and culture.
Alice was in Wonderland. Was maths with her?Subscriber Only
September 19, 2024 22:50 IST
Lewis Carroll's absurd universe may hold traces of his beliefs as a mathematics professor at Oxford. Marrying logic with imagination, he was also a prolific creator of puzzles.
Express News Quiz: Veer-Zaara, Emmy Awards & conspiracy theoriesSubscriber Only
September 17, 2024 05:47 IST
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‘I turned Lichess into Google Drive’: 18yo shows how to store files, secret messages in a game of chessSubscriber Only
September 15, 2024 04:16 IST
Fair warning: it's probably illegal.
Onam Games | From snakeboats to Pulikali, uncover Kerala’s folk arts with jigsaw puzzlesSubscriber Only
September 14, 2024 07:53 IST
Onam is a time for feasting and togetherness in Kerala. Piece together its colours and stories with five jigsaw puzzles!
Express News Quiz: Ganesh Chaturthi, Linkin Park, Anti-Rape BillSubscriber Only
September 17, 2024 00:03 IST
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Would you rather try the RBI’s Quiz, or one hosted by a Kali Mandir?Subscriber Only
September 11, 2024 23:13 IST
In September’s diverse lineup of quiz competitions, you can enjoy both.
Defending champs IIT Delhi win National Crossword Contest for third year in a rowSubscriber Only
September 6, 2024 11:00 IST
Wordplay gurus Harshul Sagar and Arush Utkarsh continue to dominate at the National Inter-College Crossword Expedition (NICE), whose 2024 Grand Finale was held this Wednesday.
Indian teens decode rare languages, earn top honours in global linguistics challengeSubscriber Only
September 7, 2024 13:32 IST
Animikha Dutta Dhar, Shrilakshmi Venkatraman and Faraz Siddiqui relied on Sherlockian levels of deduction to bag one silver and two bronze medals at the International Linguistics Olympiad.
Express News Quiz: Sports-stars, rock music and a king’s legacySubscriber Only
August 31, 2024 04:20 IST
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Express News Quiz: Stree 2, SEBI, Chandrayaan-3 & immortalitySubscriber Only
August 24, 2024 08:05 IST
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Chequered legacies: Remembering Krishnaraja Wadiyar III, the ‘board gaming’ Maharaja of MysoreSubscriber Only
August 14, 2024 21:48 IST
A deposed king who found refuge in art, Wadiyar III’s passions once created India’s mightiest collection of traditional board games — a treasury he hoped to one day “broadcast” around the world.
Our Freedom Struggle, in Pictures: a Visual History QuizSubscriber Only
August 22, 2024 21:25 IST
78th Independence Day Quiz : If you score 8/8 on this game, tag @iepuzzles on Instagram for a shoutout!
The Navajo Code: How an ‘unbreakable’ Native American language helped the Allies win World War 2Subscriber Only
August 14, 2024 17:40 IST
[Codebreaking Game Inside] In the Navajo language, fighter planes flew as “hummingbirds”, tortoises became tanks, and submarines swam as “iron fish” — and their most important job was to stay lost in translation.
Rubik’s Cube 50th anniversary: Meet the Indian collector with 400 cubes (and counting)Subscriber Only
August 10, 2024 15:47 IST
Having invented 100+ puzzles, Manish 'Manqube' Rathod feels that his main challenge was a non-engineering background. “I’ve had to learn things like the golden ratio and designing Platonic solids from scratch…”
Express News Quiz: SpaceX, Market Crash, Bangladeshi Hindus and Cult FollowingsSubscriber Only
August 9, 2024 23:38 IST
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Tata Crucible Campus Quiz opens with 2.5 lakh prize, luxury holiday for winnerSubscriber Only
August 6, 2024 09:29 IST
Pradunma Choudhury from IIT Kanpur is the reigning champ, lifting the business quiz trophy in 2023. This year’s online quiz prelims are open till August 31.
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