Puzzles
The passion behind puzzling, Anna Shechtman's story
Anna Shechtman is a 14 letter word for someone who loves creating or solving crossword puzzles. As a passionate cruciverbalist, she published her first puzzle in the New York Times at just 19. She… Audio
Jigsaw racing masters to be held in Dunedin next week
It's a puzzling situation, but Jigsaw racing is an actual thing. Puzzle wizards will be on the start line for the masters games in Dunedin next week, competing for the joy of it and bragging rights of… Video, Audio
Cracking Crosswords: Doug Hendry
Kathryn speaks with Doug Hendry, who makes the crosswords that appear in nearly all our newspapers every day. Doug and partner Ange run Tauranga-based The Puzzle Company. They've been testing people's… Audio
The Panel with Conor English and Sue Kedgley (part 2)
Wallace and panellists Conor English and Sue Kedgley discuss Auckland's congestion problem and why more roads may not be the solution, why New Zealand's love affair with cats is a huge problem for our… Audio
Panga: the Te Reo Maori Wordle
A simple 5-letter word game has taken the world by storm. It's called Wordle. And now a version in Te Reo Maori has sprung up - called Panga. Audio
Jigsaw Puzzle Racing
We talk to Erin Daldry who competed in the Masters Games jigsaw puzzle racing competition in Whanganui at the weekend. Audio
Story of the Day: The joy of Puzzles
We've talked about rollerskating but something else saw a revival in 2020 in lockdown - puzzles.... Caitlin Cherry reports. Audio
Feature interview: Alex Rosenthal
Alex Rosenthal is an expert puzzle solver. He's part of the team, which last year, won one of the oldest puzzle competitions in the world, the MIT mystery hunt at the Massachusetts Institute of… Audio
Changes to fix Warkworth intersection don't go far enough - locals
An infamously confusing intersection in Warkworth, north of Auckland, is again riling locals who are unimpressed with two proposed solutions to fix it. Audio
Digging into crosswords' cryptic mind powers (and some tips!)
What is going on in the brain when we are doing crosswords? David Astle is somewhat of a dictionary expert, he is also Melbourne-based writer and a full-on word nerd - somewhat of a walking… Audio
The Kiwi who brought Sudoku to the world
Wayne Gould found a puzzle book in Japan and set about bringing it to a wider audience, now it's in every major newspaper in the world. Wayne Gould was the first to mass produce the games with a… Audio
Crossword-setting plagiarism row
Journalist Oliver Roeder of FiveThirtyEight.com has uncovered a dastardly tale of plagiarism in the normally serene and cerebral world of crossword setting. Audio