Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 On its 100th anniversary, ‘King of the Crossword’ Merl Reagle spills on the strange origins of the puzzle—and his own favorite memories from decades of ...

Everywhere he looks, Merl Reagle sees word puzzles. A few minutes into our phone conversation, he stops mid-sentence. "Did you know that your last name anagrams perfectly into two different types of ...

People.com has one of 100 puzzle pieces scattered around the web – try to find them all! Hungry for a little online scavenger hunt? Sink your teeth into this one. The Hunger Games, a science-fiction ...

“Lee Iacocca says that he turns to the crossword the minute he gets his hands on the newspaper,” someone recently told me. I’ve been collecting this type of anecdote ever since I wrote my first book, ...

Historians of the crossword puzzle—yes, there are quite a few of them—generally date its first U.S. appearance to December 21, 1913, just about 100 years ago. That’s when Arthur Wynne of the New York ...