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.

HMC Junior Helps U.S. Win Puzzle Tournament
Palmer Mebane HM ’12 helped the United States emerge victorious from the 19th World Puzzle Championship last month in Paprotnia, Poland.

How to Solve the Teacher Pay Puzzle
Should teachers be paid more or less? The answer is: both. REUTERS/Julie Gordon Arguments about how to pay public school teachers have an unfortunate habit of focusing on big, blanket solutions. Unions ...

Physics-math student wins W&M Jefferson Prize
From William & Mary News WILLIAMSBURG -- Ari Cukierman enrolled as a freshman at William & Mary intending to major in music and philosophy. He’ll graduate near the top of his class of 2012 as a physics-math double major, with at least one important peer-reviewed paper to his credit.

Simon Storey's Eel's Nest: Small house, even smaller lot
Simon Storey, principal of Anonymous Architects in Los Angeles, set out to build an affordable modern house with a built-in math puzzle: How to squeeze 960 square feet of living space on a hemmed-in urban lot of just 780 square feet?