Numberplay: Ordering in Circles
A puzzle based on a very simple idea of summing small integers arranged in a circle to magically generate all the numbers in order, without end.

Wordplay Blog: Numberplay: Ordering in Circles
A puzzle based on a very simple idea of summing small integers arranged in a circle to magically generate all the numbers in order, without end.

Skyrim Wins Video Game Critics Award
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the sprawling fantasy role-playing adventure from Bethesda Softworks, won the Big Apple Award for Best Game from the New York Videogame Critics Circle, which announced its first annual prizes on Thursday evening.

Check out the Red Planet's craziest colors
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A picture from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter paints the Red Planet in shades of blue, yellow and green — but there's a method in the madness.

Crazy colors from the Red Planet
There's not much red in this picture of the Red Planet, produced by the high-resolution camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Browns and blues and greens and yellows and violets ... but red? Not so much.