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Barnes & Noble.com Announces Top Toys, Games & Puzzles Picks (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----This holiday season, Barnes & Noble.com , a wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. , the world’s largest bookseller, has an extensive collection of educational toys, games and puzzles for everyone on your holiday list.

NY Times crossword editor is at the top of his game (Lansing State Journal)
Will Shortz majored in puzzles. OK, officially his diploma from Indiana University reads "Enigmatology." But that's just a fancy word for puzzle-study.

Triumphant, Brown's 'Sons of Tamarkin' crush brainiacs (Brown Daily Herald)
This Saturday, Brown's enigma-solving team "The Sons of Tamarkin" won Microsoft's fifth annual College Puzzle Challenge, beating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by a margin of 180 seconds. "The Sons of Tamarkin," consisting of four graduate students in the math department, traveled to Microsoft's Cambridge, Mass.

Start-Up Teaches Math to Americans, Indian-Style (New York Times)
The New York Times recently reported on a study that found, once again, that the United States is failing to develop the math skills of its students, particularly girls, especially compared to other countries where math education is more highly valued.