It’s easy to dismiss games as a distraction with all that's going on in the world today. Crossword puzzles, word searches, Sudoku — they might seem like frivolous pursuits compared to the stream of ...

Pens, pencils and a facility with numbers. Also helpful: earplugs, plushies, a water bottle, calming herbal oil and the occasional “wild bifurcation” (a.k.a. a wild guess). Competitors at the World ...

Survey of Nearly 10,000 Sudoku Players Finds Stress Relief Outranks Brain Training as Primary Motivation The stress ...

The game’s most devoted solvers have unlocked creativity and complexity in the classic logic game. By Elie Levine and Sam Corbin Sudoku is like any other logic puzzle, in that it relies on deductive ...