The meetings of the Michigan Puzzle Club are held in a nondescript Mason Hall classroom for two hours on Sunday afternoons.

Long-term brain-training activities can improve your working memory, verbal memory, and global functioning. Challenging yourself to try new activities can also improve brain functioning through a ...

“It makes no sense. It’s impossible to solve” – so decries John “Ludwig” Taylor (David Mitchell) when trying to solve a murder using puzzle techniques in the new six-part BBC detective series, Ludwig.

The winner, a 30-year-old woman from Norway, took just 37 minutes to complete a tricky puzzle featuring tigers.

My heart pounds and my shoulders tense as my fingers hover over identikit pieces of steel grey cloud. “Surely this one…, ...