EditorialInside an apartment in a historic high-rise building in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Feb. 1, 2023. (Sahar Coston-Hardy/The New York Times)
EditorialInside an apartment in a historic high-rise building in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Feb. 1, 2023. (Sahar Coston-Hardy/The New York Times)
EditorialNervous System Studio owners Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg at the design studio with their daughter, Xyla, in Palenville, N.Y., Oct. 7, 2022. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
EditorialLarry Fitzgerald, the Arizona Cardinals great who has become a chess ambassador, in Phoenix, Oct. 5, 2022. (Tomás Karmelo Amaya/The New York Times)
EditorialLarry Fitzgerald, the Arizona Cardinals great who has become a chess ambassador, in Phoenix, Oct. 5, 2022. (Tomás Karmelo Amaya/The New York Times)
EditorialPatrick Adom, founder of Very Puzzled, with his stock of jigsaw puzzles at his home in London, Nov. 24, 2021. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialMaki Kaji stands for a portrait at Nakayama Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, Japan on March 3, 2007. Kaji, a university dropout who turned a numbers game into one of the world’s most popular logic puzzles and became known as the “Godfather of Sudoku,” died on Aug. 10, 2021, at his home in Tokyo. He was 69. His death was announced on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, by the puzzle company he co-founded, Nikoli. The cause was bile duct cancer, the company said in a statement. (Ko Sasaki/The New York Times)
EditorialMaki Kaji stands for a portrait at Nakayama Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, Japan on March 3, 2007. Kaji, a university dropout who turned a numbers game into one of the world’s most popular logic puzzles and became known as the “Godfather of Sudoku,” died on Aug. 10, 2021, at his home in Tokyo. He was 69. His death was announced on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, by the puzzle company he co-founded, Nikoli. The cause was bile duct cancer, the company said in a statement. (Ko Sasaki/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Donald Trump mimes wearing a face mask during a news conference at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (Erin Scott/The New York Times)
Editorial"Kaleidoscope," a puzzle made by Par Puzzles, is displayed at the company's workshop in Coram, N.Y., on June 5, 2020. (Johnny Milano/The New York Times)
EditorialEmployees of Ravensburger, a German puzzle maker, inspect a die-cutting tool, which makes a jigsaw puzzle from a solid cardboard image, at the company's plant in Ravensburg, Germany, on April 2, 2020. (Roderick Aichinger/The New York Times)
EditorialPo-Shen Loh, two-time winning coach of the USA Math Olympiad Team, gives a talk on mathematical puzzles at the Museum of Math in New York on Aug. 23, 2016. (Christian Hansen/The New York Times)
EditorialPo-Shen Loh, two-time winning coach of the USA Math Olympiad Team, gives a talk on mathematical puzzles at the Museum of Math in New York on Aug. 23, 2016. (Christian Hansen/The New York Times)
EditorialFirst Lady of the United States Melania Trump and Second Lady Karen Pence visit American Red Cross national headquarters to build comfort kits for U.S. troops