I am a jigsaw puzzle newbie. I have so little experience in assembling puzzles, that I made the rookie mistake of looking for ...

Alexander Hartmann, a physicist at the University of Oldenburg, in Germany, has introduced a new model to explain a common word puzzle phenomenon. In his paper published in the journal Physical ...

There are computer versions of jigsaw puzzles, which have the advantages of requiring zero cleanup as well as no risk of ...

San Diego just moved to preserve affordable housing. Here’s what it could do. The proposed preservation law aims to prevent thousands of rent-restricted apartments intended for low-income and ...

Challenges can come in the form of puzzle pieces that fit more than one spot, in final images that don’t exactly match the picture on the box, pictures that have riddles within them, or a picture that ...

February 2, 2025 • NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Lauren Cusitello of San Diego, Cali.

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Lightweight, parallelizable C++ implementation of an Octree/Quadtree/N-d orthotree using Morton Z curve-based location code ordering. What is the Octree and what is ...