In five years of Insights puzzles, we’ve tried to present questions that lived up to the column’s name. Sometimes the intended insights have relied on simplified scenarios that shed light on ...

A pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently discovered hints that the process of compressing information can solve complex reasoning tasks without pre-training on a large number of ...

Ever get stuck trying to solve a puzzle? You look for a pattern, or a rule, and you just can't spot it. So you back up and start over. That's your brain recognizing that your current strategy isn't ...

The “eureka” or “aha” moment of insight is legendary in math and science, dating at least two millenniums back to the possibly apocryphal story of Archimedes rushing naked out of a bath, having hit ...

Most crossword puzzle fans have experienced that moment where, after a period of struggle on a particularly difficult puzzle, everything suddenly starts to come together, and they are able to fill in ...

仕事や生活をして生きている限り避けては通れない何らかの問題にぶち当たってしまったときに求められるのが、いかにして問題の状況を乗り越えるかという「問題解決能力」です。そして、The New York Timesが公開している問題解決能力を簡単にテストできる ...

Ishikawa, Japan-- For decades, efforts in solving games had been exclusive to solving two-player games (i.e., board games like checkers, chess-like games, etc.), where the game outcome can be ...

This puzzle game is perfect for you if you enjoy challenges that test your logic and patience. But be warned. It’s trickier than it seems. Do you have what it takes to crack it? Only a few have ...