Will Shortz is to puzzles what Oprah is to books — an endorsement by the New York Times crossword editor is as good as gold. He helped popularize Sudoku in the U.S. and has sold more than 5 million ...

Sayonara, Sudoku. For a better-rounded puzzle that includes not just logic, but math, too, try KenKen. It's probably even good for you. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Did you ever play Milton Bradley’s Gator Golf or Crocodile Dentist, either growing up or with your kids? If so, you can thank Chappaqua toy entrepreneur Robert Fuhrer and his company, Nextoy, for your ...

Who says education can't be a lot of fun? There's a growing movement in classrooms to play the KenKen arithmetic logic puzzles invented by a Japanese math teacher named Tetsuya Miyamoto. The game, ...

You are powerless to stop KenKen. Perhaps the new Japanese arithmo-logical challenge, which debuted in the New York Times on Feb. 8, will burrow into your brain on account of a significant other, who ...

The game, invented by a Japanese educator to teach students math, has caught on around the world since we first started running it in 2009. By Will Shortz Times Insider explains who we are and what we ...

PW: Where did KenKen come from, and what’s its appeal? WS: It was invented by Tetsuya Miyamoto, a Japanese educator who runs a school in Japan. His philosophy of education is that you don’t teach kids ...

As a gamer and a math teacher, I am often asked which game is the most educational and entertaining. Many are surprised to hear that Sudoku is not my first choice. Hands down, KenKen puzzles are my ...

Last year’s free Sudoku game provided a nice little bit of logic puzzling for Xbox Windows Phone gamers, but it hardly had any staying power. The randomly-generated puzzles failed to instill much ...

<i>The New York Times</i> offers modest-sized KenKen puzzles, but Sudoku fans looking for a larger-scale challenge now have a new online option. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Over 3,000 young mathematicians will compete this weekend in a competition based on 'KenKen' - a grid-based numerical puzzle system. KenKen - which means 'Wisdom Squared' in Japanese - uses basic math ...