Researchers working on artificial intelligence have taught a computer to create magic tricks. The researchers gave a computer program the outline of how a magic jigsaw puzzle and a mind reading card ...

With a reality-warping camera and a barrage of ingenious strangeness, Viewfinder surprised me like nothing else this year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Look, I’m a homebody and I live in the Midwest — of course I do puzzles. I probably complete a few each year, mostly in the winter when it’s time to hibernate. They help with anxiety and they’re just ...

Cards Against Humanity co-founders Max Temkin and Ben Hantoot just launched the Magic Puzzle Company, a push to develop a new line of jigsaw puzzles, and it’s already been a hit. On Monday, the ...

In the late ’70s and early ’80s, the Rubik’s Cube took the world by storm. Billed as a puzzle toy, it was equal parts mechanical wonder and near-magical oddity. As a kid, WESN’s founder, Billy Chester ...

The perfect sleight is a flawlessly coordinated act of deception. Magicians dedicate hours to bullying their fingers into precise positions and years mastering the art of misdirection. The best ...

Page 4B of the Aug. 29 edition is the Aug. 22 page. The puzzles and funnies are from the Aug. 22 edition. How did you do that?

For thousands of years, magicians have mixed technology, psychology, and performance to ingeniously hack people’s concepts of reality. But when it comes to creating ...

There’s nothing new about 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles, so when a jigsaw puzzle goes on Kickstarter, creators have to think outside of the box. Now, the co-founder of Cards Against Humanity has done ...

In three new variations of a famous logic puzzle, what are the best strategies for guessing the color of the hat on your head? Hat puzzles are a delightful genre of logic puzzles whose number and ...

If you aren't already familiar with the earlier Magic Puzzle Company Puzzles, I'd recommend checking out Series One to get ...

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