A particularly attractive type of brain teaser is an anagram. An anagram is a word or phrase that uses once using all the original letters by reorganizing the letters of another word or phrase. For ...

As is well known, anagrams are ancient. Today, we see them as an interesting genre of wordplay. But they were hardly perceived as such in the past, and to an extent even today. Anagrams of people’s ...

In a previous post, I dealt with word ladders, the puzzle genre invented by Lewis Carroll. As you might recall, you are given two words, with steps in between, as in a ladder. For example, there are ...

Brain teasers are fun, challenging puzzles that stimulate the mind and encourage creative thinking. They come in many forms- designed to test ridls, logic puzzles, number games, and wordplays- and ...