An undergraduate at Tufts University discovered a previously unnoticed acrostic in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Per a new paper published in the journal Milton Quarterly, 2018 graduate Miranda Phaal ...

David Balton and Jane Stewart provide an endearing, confessional puzzle. By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — Solving this puzzle made me very nostalgic. It’s a passage by David Sedaris, a writer whom I ...

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As is well known, anagrams are ancient. Today, we see them as an interesting genre of wordplay. But they were hardly perceived as such in the past, and to an extent even today. Anagrams of people’s ...

A witty guest star joins Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon and asks, “What’s so funny?” By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — The acrostic puzzle, nee “Double-Crostic,” has appeared regularly in The New York Times ...