Karen Spiegelman lives in the Richmond. People have paid her to write about technology, music and booze. She cofounded comedy group 2good4u in 2001. Contact her at karen@studiosububi.com, especially if you get the Latin joke.
You may have just missed the boat for 2010's Crossword Cruise through the Caribbean, but if you have a car, you can still make it to what looks like one of the geekiest, yet coolest, puzzle events of...
Among the reasons for avoiding the mall this Christmas season, besides not getting as stressed-out as the woman in this photo, is that you live in San Francisco. You can't swing an off-the-shoulder sweatshirt without...
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 to keep a menorah lit for one day, but it stayed lit for 8 days...
If you like sudoku, but the sterile look of the completed grid leaves you cold, you might like the paint-by-numbers logic game Pic-a-Pix. Also known as Picture Logic, Paint-a-Pic, and Japanese Crossword, the game...
There has finally been action in the potential cheating that occurred during the advanced finals of the Philadelphia Inquirer National Sudoku Championship on October 24. The finals came down to puzzle constructor Thomas Snyder, last year's third-place...
A recent New York Times column about Word Warp reminded me of how awesome word-assembling games are. In Word Warp, you rearrange six letters into as many words as you can. The problem is that it's an...
One of the best reference book sites, Merriam-Webster, goes beyond the obvious searchable dictionary and thesaurus by offering another product to appeal to word lovers: in-browser vocabulary games. The best part is that most of the games are...
Mystery Case Files is my favorite family of hidden picture games, and the Ravenhearst series reinforces the reason why. After I finished the first installment, MCF: Ravenhearst, I could not wait to download the sequel, Return to Ravenhearst. The basic...
OK, it's not as earth-shattering as the Bay Bridge repairs falling apart already, but the puzzle world is in a tizzy about the mysterious outsider who came out of nowhere to place third on Saturday in the...
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 me on to a crossword source off the beaten path: BestCrosswords.com. The site, run...