Usama has a passion for video games and a talent for capturing their magic in writing. He brings games to life with his words, and he's been fascinated by games for as long as he's had a joystick in ...

The New York Times has another excellent little puzzle game to add to your daily Wordle. This one, however, taps into your math skills rather than your vocabulary. Still, I find the two rather ...

Math fans, the New York Times has launched a new daily numbers game comparable to its beloved Wordle, just for you. On April 10, the Times revealed that it had temporarily launched Digits, a ...

Board games based on numbers, like Monopoly, Othello and Chutes and Ladders, make young children better at math, according to a comprehensive review of research published on the topic over the last 23 ...

In Erin Bryan’s 5th grade math classroom, TGIF takes on a whole new meaning. Fridays don’t just herald the coming weekend. They’re also game days. “They all come in here on Fridays pumped,” said Bryan ...

The New York Times announced last week that it will stop making Digits, a math puzzle game that debuted in beta in April. The last of these daily math puzzles will go up on August 8. Digits is a fun ...

If you were to list all the natural numbers from 1 to 1,000,000,000, which digit would you have to write least often and which would you have to write most often? Show puzzle solution First, we look ...

Find one million consecutive positive numbers, none of which are prime. Ancient math tells us that prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ...,), which have no factors except for 1 and themselves, go on ...

In 1974, a geneticist named Marsha Jean Falco devised an ingenious research tool to help determine whether epilepsy in dogs was an inherited trait. She drew a series of symbols on index cards, where ...