The murder mystery became cool again with the 2019 release of “Knives Out,” Rian Johnson’s whodunnit that introduced the world to gentleman detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig). When it came time to ...

Word sequence puzzles constitute fascinating (and fun) experiments in associative thinking—that is, experiments in how we make semantic, conceptual, or formal connections among the words in a set.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. I am enjoying Far Harbor quite a bit. The quests are ...

Dr. Emma Chen, a renowned mathematician, has set the international math community abuzz with her latest numerical sequence puzzle. This challenging brain teaser has stumped even the most brilliant ...

Math Riddle Challenge: Solve this interesting math sequence puzzle. Think about it and solve it! This is what puzzles are about right? identify the problem and answer it in 15 seconds. Only people ...

Here’s a classic brainteaser that I don’t like. What’s the next number in this sequence: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, …? The answer is 312211, because each number describes the digits in the number that ...

Can you infer the simple rule behind a number sequence that spikes up and down like the beating of a heart? Our Insights problem this month is based on a sequence of integers which comes from Neil ...

“It’s a really fun cinematic sequence,” Ducsay says fondly. “Most people like puzzles, and it’s a really elaborate puzzle. But at the same time, you learn so much about these characters that we’re ...