I realized that my passion for word puzzles had gone from passion to obsession to addiction when I began to stay awake in bed at 2 a.m. with my cell on, ... The Chicago Sun-Times is free to all, ...

Wordle is a word puzzle that gives players six chances to guess a five-letter word. Originally created by software engineer ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — As we say ADIEU to 2024, a new study has revealed last year's hardest Wordle puzzles in each U.S. state, including Illinois. Unscramblerer.com analyzed Google Trends to posit the ...

Last week's challenge: Last week's challenge comes from Sandy Weisz, of Chicago. He runs puzzle hunts and trivia events under the name The Mystery League. Think of a familiar two-word phrase that ...

Maybe an upcoming Wordle puzzle will include the word PAPAL. On Thursday, Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was chosen the first American pope ever, taking the papal name Pope Leo XIV. Although ...

Hidden in the grid are multiple words. But your challenge is to find the word "DOUBT" within 7 seconds. Can you? Test your vocabulary and puzzle-solving skills with this word puzzle.

If you're perplexed by today's Wordle puzzle, let us lend a helping hand. However, before jumping into the hints and solutions for the Wednesday, Feb. 19 puzzle, let’s go over the basics of Wordle.

Puzzles such as doublets and riddles bring out the inherent connectivity that exists not only between words and reality but between words themselves. Here are 15 examples.

SUNDAY PUZZLE — Will Shortz, in his print introduction to this grid, writes: “Garrett Chalfin is a second-year student at the University of Chicago, studying philosophy and economics.

Chicago’s offbeat news year inspired our first-ever crossword puzzle We’ve distilled highlights straight from Chicago headlines for an end-of-year puzzle.

Word Puzzle: This anagram, ‘SAVE’, can be rearranged to form a new word. Make use of your vocabulary power and observation skills to create a new word that has meaning.

The variety of word puzzles, many dating back to antiquity, is truly mind-boggling—riddles, anagrams, acrostics, and so on and so forth. Puzzles based on language are truly universal, revealing ...