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8 great Hanukkah gifts for puzzle fans

The Jewish festival of lights, which starts this year at sunset on Friday, December 11, celebrates the time when the Maccabees only had enough oil...
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Indie crosswords every day

You can get name-brand crosswords from a local newspaper, the New York Times site, and Games magazine, among many sources. But MyYahoo just turned...
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Some days call for sudoku

At The Times, easy sudoku does mean easy. If yesterday's column about cryptic crosswords made you feel as inferior to read as it made me feel to...
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Stephen Sondheim is smarter than you

The trivia section of Stephen Sondheim's entry on IMDB says, "Is aficionado of puzzles, according to The New York Times." That is more of...
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