2025–2026
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October 2026
- Poles Apart
- Unquote
- “Curious Address”
- Turnabout
- Zoology
- Degree
- Parable
- Tic-Tac-Don’t
- Catalog
- Black and White
- Indisposed
- The Miracle Stair
- To Be Precise
- Enlightenment
- Smile 4
- Counterparts
- False Prospect
- A Late Addition
- Criticism
- Relativity
- Two for One
- Query 9
- Strike Up the Bland
- Alphabetical Disorder
- Throughput
- Lineage
- Singing Lessons
- In a Word
- The Karidis Keyboard
- Esprit de Corps
- What’s New, Pussycat?
- “We and They”
- An Orderly Vacation
- Shelf Concepts
- Road Thoughts
- The Ringelmann Effect
- Lingua Franca
- A Fable
- Succinct
- “The Lacquer Liquor Locker”
- Turnabout
- Co-Existence
- Self-Study
- Unquote
- Scrap Mettle
- The Mind’s Eye
- Misc 107
- Points of View
- Gunner
- Onlookers
- Relocated
September 2026
- Also-Rans
- Roll Call
- Light Verse
- Decisions
- Veritas
- Clarity
- “Tracking the Fugitives”
- Summary Advice
- Turnabout
- A Late Work
- Math Notes
- Black and White
- Pardon?
- “Lines to a Lady of Quality, With the Gift of a Jaguar”
- In a Word
- Making Sense
- Dead Man’s Chest
- Morton’s Fork
- Frugal
- His and Hers
- Spin Doctor
- Miniature
- Oh, Thank You
- For Short
- A Magic Globe
- “Rebecca”
- Worldly Wisdom
- Looking Back
- Speed Limit
- Unquote
- Reflection
- Kakuro
- Still Life
- Self-Study
- “Ballade of Soporific Absorption”
- Speak, Memory
- A Bouquet
- Oops 27
- Orb Weaver
- Impostors
- Four Seasons
- Fare Division
- A Blow to Tourism
- Bad Stanzas
- Dinner for One
- Synopsis
- Diplomacy
- Flight From Moscow
- Small World
- Open and Shut
August 2026
- Connections
- A Bug’s Life
- In a Word
- For Short
- Nowhere Man
- Forward and Back
- Double Duty
- Passing Trains
- Kudos
- Applied Geometry
- Unquote
- Harmony
- The Other Half
- Balloon Balance
- Roundabout
- Things to Come
- O Loving Hate!
- Checkmate
- End to End
- All Right Then
- “Gloss”
- Having Words
- Dry
- Bhartrhari’s Paradox
- Taking Pause
- Around the World
- Good Enough
- “Scripture Cake”
- CyberChance
- Point of Order
- Polchinski’s Paradox
- Tile Swap
- Level Best
- Black and White
- Postal Inspector
- Nothing Doing
- Friendly Numbers
- In a Word
- Faith and Hope
- Flights of Fancy
- Reflection
- Portrait
- Level-Headed
- Unquote
- Changed Men
- The Same Boat
- Math Notes
- Plot Lines
- Casting Call
- Poser 7
- In Other News
July 2026
- The Europa Redux Manuscript
- Lacunae
- The Magic Hat Puzzler
- Extra Large
- Verse 2
- In Short
- The Hurt Locker
- Amara’s Law
- Diversion
- The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem
- Verdict
- The Moral Superiority Illusion
- Misc 106
- The Tennis Racket Theorem
- Long Distance
- Out of Joint
- A Wide Net
- Quinary
- Science Marches On
- Supervision
- Ernst’s Paradox
- Blow by Blow
- Tableau
- Weather and Art
- Tête-à-Tête
- Complaint
- Counterpoint
- Perspective
- Hobo Ethics
- The Fene Cellist
- Unquote
- Math Notes
- In a Word
- The Blast Shadow
- The Gingerbread Game
- Centers of Attraction
- The B List
- Limerick
- Elemental Words
- A Pressing Appointment
- The Tritone Paradox
- Overview
- The Five Regiments
- Interloper
- Post Holes
- Living Memory
- Offensive Escargot
- Sob Story
- Fences
- “An Autograph Inside a Tree”
- Another Skeleton Pair
June 2026
- Wiggle Stereoscopy
- Drive-Thru
- Presentation
- Essentials
- Unpaired Words
- Summing Up
- Fair Enough
- Safety First
- Of Thee I Sing
- Shell Attack
- Around the Block
- Young and Old
- Small World
- Unquote
- Gunplay
- Wildlife
- 64 Coins
- Singmaster’s Conjecture
- The Rilke Cryptogram
- Progress
- In a Word
- Reckoning
- A Salt Hygrometer
- Black and White
- “Memorumdrums”
- Stargazing
- Head Count
- “Immune”
- Good Works
- Parfit’s Hitchhiker
- The Tonnetz
- Sea Battle
- Math Notes
- Limerick
- A Show of Hands
- Brainstorm
- The Theory of Deadly Initials
- Misc 105
- Noted 31
- Eating Out
- Perspective
- Suspense
- The Seven-Dice Shuffle
- “Humility”
- A Topology Puzzle
- Unquote
- Prayer Vigil
- Literary
- Groundwork
- Descent
May 2026
- Accommodation
- The Perko Pair
- A Curious Letter
- Concise
- Forefather
- Afoot 3
- One World
- Help Wanted
- Ha!
- Mouthful
- Paper Route
- The Social Whirl
- Before and After
- Long Distance
- The Watercolor Illusion
- “A Dimensional Howler”
- Riding Along
- Milestones
- New Leaves
- Dark Matter
- The Hattusa Green Stone
- Chestnut
- Snunkoople
- Twist
- Ahead of Schedule
- Unquote
- “Words Without Song”
- The Embracing Skeletons of Alepotrypa
- Penmanship
- The Silver Rule
- In a Word
- Seniority
- “To a Lost Sweetheart”
- A Union Cipher
- Conclusions
- The Last Straw
- Black and White
- Progress
- The Brazil Nut Effect
- Couplet
- Commitment
- Training
- Census Trouble
- Providence
- Noted 30
- Conway’s 99-Graph Problem
- A Little Help
- Upstream Contamination
- Track Record
- Self-Assessment
April 2026
- Rebus 3
- Ah 6
- Juggling
- “The Time-Traveling Hipster”
- Update 5
- The Stepping Feet Illusion
- An Unsolved Cipher
- Misc 104
- Elegy 2
- Taking Stock
- Less Art
- Interloper
- Math Notes
- Unquote
- Double Duty
- Epithet
- Borrowed Time
- In a Word
- Twilight
- Hidato
- Ready to Hand
- Intermission
- Time Check
- Ghost Tint
- Inksmanship
- Set Theory
- The Long View
- Losing Chess
- Read It Aloud
- The Oppel–Kundt Illusion
- The Camel Girl
- Down and Up
- The Koffka Ring
- Memory Span
- Family Ties
- Limerick
- Figures of Speech
- Perspective
- Overtime
- Private Matters
- Internal Affairs
- The Cylob Cryptogram
- Unquote
- In a Word
- Happy Returns
- Infinite Digest
- Testimonial
March 2026
- A Folded Story
- Fair Enough
- Amity 3
- Roman Surprise
- The Numerosity Adaptation Effect
- Seasonal Characters
- Hush-Hush
- Selflessness
- The Clockwise Ant
- A Near Thing
- Desperate Measures
- Weather Report
- Complex Harmony
- Waste Not, Want Not
- Math Notes
- A Second Act
- The Petrie Multiplier
- Circulation
- Square Diamonds
- The Tullock Paradox
- Fanciful Creatures
- A Gettysburg Puzzle
- The Number Checks Puzzle
- The Disk Covering Problem
- Unquote
- Quite a Dedication
- Life During Wartime
- Charged Words
- Interest Group
- Square Deal
- He and She
- The Lovers’ Knot
- A Few Specific Words
- Penetration
- Paperwork
- Charlie’s Birthday
- Prospects
- “An Egg Sent Through the Post”
- The Pulfrich Effect
- The Devil’s Golf Course
- Neck Deep
- Sliding Dominoes
- Guardrails
- Inspiration
- Daring
- Words and Numbers
- Hue and Cry
- Overboard
- Last Words
- Observation
- “The Impossible Fact”
- The Top Hat Illusion
- “The Worst of All Puns”
February 2026
- Cameo 7
- Devotion
- Portrait
- Down Under
- Urban Sprawl
- Shapes of Things
- Unquote
- Stained Glass
- The Art of Living
- In a Word
- Tops
- The Erdős–Faber–Lovász Conjecture
- Noted 29
- Second Coming
- Casualties
- The Beautiful City
- Decalogue
- Swivel Engineering
- Amen
- Long Story
- Redux
- Insight
- Succinct
- Viewpoints
- Family Matters
- Sibling Rivalry
- Illumination
- To the Life
- Busywork
- Unquote
- Set Piece
January 2026
- Arrears
- Hot Woe!
- “The Prison Poet’s Farewell”
- Toil and Trouble
- “Chess of the Future”
- Workaround
- In a Word
- A Late Edit
- Efficiency
- Conjunction
- First Steps
- Company
- A Dudeney Square
- Dead Center
- Vivid
- Sum of Squares
- Credential Envy
- Uh oh 4
- Body Heat
- A Roman New Year
- Succinct
- Poser 6
- Time Out of Joint
- “The Universe and the Philosopher”
- Performance Review
- Proof Without Words
- Words and Numbers
- Burattini’s Dragon
- Falling Currency
- Modern Times
- Unquote
- Heesch’s Problem
- Memories
- Summing Up
- Black and White
- Diplomacy
- Solo 2
- One Solution
- The Willoughby Postdiction
- “WIPEOUT!”
- Dymaxion Sleep
- Mixed Doubles
- In a Word
- “History Talks Too Little About Animals”
- Misc 103
- Register
- Death Do Us Part
- Nonary
- Round and Round
2025 587
December 2025
- The High Life
- Stellate Thaumaturgy
- Exemplary
- Oh 16
- Variant
- Second Thoughts
- Topsy Turvy
- The 21-Card Trick
- A Harrowing Puzzle
- Unquote
- One Last Christmas Challenge
- An Unbounded Stomach
- Breathless
- Standards
- Round Trip
- Homage à Fromage
- Last Words
- All in the Family
- A Chess Maze
- Plunges in Dumbness
- Another Christmas Quiz
- Seeing Double
- Self-Seeking
- Ah 5
- Food for Thought
- In a Word
- Jigsy
- Schematic
- Cut Spelling
- Inspiration
- The Asahi Illusion
- “A Waste of Time”
- Another Christmas Quiz
- Onlooker
- Dividing Line
- Gang Aft Agley
- Tableau
- Saving Santa
- Endorsement
- Unquote
- 100 Voices
- Extra Large
- Progress
- Math Notes
- Same Thing
- Arithmetic
- The Roving Wazir
- Okay Then
- Upgrade
- Finale 2
- Observation
November 2025
- An Awkward Pause
- Queries
- Geomagic
- Points of Pride
- “Hallelujah!”
- Query 8
- Impostor
- Nobility
- Dead Letters
- Roundabout
- Home Again
- All the Way Down
- Briefly
- Misc 102
- In a Word
- “His Mother-in-Law”
- Noted 28
- Close Enough
- Midy’s Theorem
- Lament 5
- Two Solutions
- Constitution
- Suggestion
- Overspecialized Words
- Notice 7
- First Impressions
- Black and White
- Great Expectations
- Personae
- Unquote
- “The New Regime”
- Glorious Summer
- Character Study
- Trompe-l’œil
- Relative
- Details
October 2025
- Full House
- A Late Valentine?
- Making Trouble
- First Things
- A Self-Intersecting Reflexicon
- Noted 27
- Cortège
- The Sands of Time
- Fervency
- Summing Up
- Mother Ross
- The Bright Side
- A Prickly Puzzle
- Near Things
- Purple Haze
- Syllabus
- Ahem 5
- A Kitchen Timer
- The Paradox of Trust
- Deal
- Road Show
- In a Word
- “Jealousy Is as Blind as Love”
- “A Happy Retort”
- Square Deal
- Two Meetings
- Up and Down
- Black and White
- Never Mind
- Unquote
- An Upper Stove
- “Collective Farm”
- An NSA Puzzle
- In Brief
- Velato
- Tight Quarters
- Lahaina Noon
- “The Difficult Case of Wine”
- A Perpetual Motion Device
- “Narrow Escape of a Mouse”
- Education
- Number Theory
- Watch Your Step
- Late Word
- Piecework
- “A Reading in Unlove”
- Five-Sided Story
- Double or Nothing
- A Grim Friday
- Reflections
- “Man and Bird”
September 2025
- In a Word
- Betrothed Numbers
- Constraint
- Emergency
- A 3×3 Panmagic Square
- A Crowded Verse
- Comparative Biology
- A Literary Effort
- Unquote
- Peace and Quiet
- Edwardian Fashion
- Road Trip
- The Epolenep Principle
- Black and White
- Mix and Match
- Noted 26
- Early Observer
- Impedance Matching
- Product Placement
- Little Women
- The Problem of Good
- Orderly
- Both Sides Now
- Showing and Telling
- Anthropology
- Oh 15
- Twisted
- More Postal Torture
- Stiff Upper Lip
- Advice 4
- Dots and Boxes
- Thinking
- Tat-a-Tat
- The Münchhausen Trilemma
- The Math of Christmas
- Unquote
- Translation Table
- In a Word
- A Second Try
- Doubly True
- Turnabout
- In Other Words
- Black and White
- Second Senses
August 2025
- Retro Cinema
- A Pretty Find
- “In Memoriam: Dizzy Gillespie and Rudolf Nureyev”
- The Positivist Calendar
- The Three Utilities Problem
- Quickie
- Commemoration
- A Magnet Motor
- Olbers’ Paradox
- Small Change
- “Hence These Rimes”
- On the Nose
- A Surprising Find
- Wayfarer
- Mixed Singles
- Rationale
- “Tudor Aspersions”
- Evolution
- Unquote
- What Am I?
- In a Word
- Horology
- By the People
- “How to Get a Head-Ache”
- Kennedy’s Waffles
- What’s That?
- Black and White
- “Moonshine”
- “The Adventure of the Tall Man”
- After You
- Diy 9
- Navel Warfare
- Hypertension
- Footwork
- Poem 2
- Block Diagram
- “Ascot Waistcoat”
- The Perfect Infinitive
- Piecework
- And They’re Off
- Reflexicon
- Fare
- Elevated Thoughts
- Foundation
- Adages
- Cover Letters
- “A Credit to the GPO”
- “Locker Lotto”
- Unquote
- First Things First
- Nowhere
- The Mahler Hammer
July 2025
- In a Word
- Marchetti’s Constant
- Spring Fever
- Two for One
- Miquel’s Pentagram Theorem
- Family Plan
- Hematology
- Black and White
- Kotani’s Ant Problem
- Tricolor
- Chamber Music
- The Soiled Dove Plea
- Puppy Love
- Helly’s Theorem
- The Great Raft
- Math Notes
- Impromptu
- R i p 14
- Piecework
- Inspiration
- “Fifth Philosopher’s Song”
- Hand Holding
- Jumping Kangaroos
- “A Matter of Method”
- An American in Paris
- Current Affairs
- First Things First
- Winifred’s Bloomers
- Portent
- Unquote
- The Graceful Pi-Way
- “A Wooden Alphabet”
- In a Word
- Bus Bunching
- “Printer’s Errors”
- Great and Small
- Odd Job
- Worth Noting
- Uh oh 3
- The Sure Thing
- Studies
- Dispatches
- Escape
- High Water
- Plaque Buildup
- Turnabout
- Beg Pardon
- Delighted
- Expanding Knowledge
- Improvements
- Made to Order
- Express
June 2025
- Gatherings
- The Miura Fold
- Medley
- “The Sniffle”
- Quick Thinking
- A Medieval Mystery
- The Studious Bather
- “Dry Pants Eat No Fish”
- Row and Columns
- Unquote
- The Bell Tolls
- Transparency
- Otherwise Stated
- An “Excentrical Query”
- Noted 25
- In Other Words
- Buridan’s Bridge
- Watch This Space
- R i p 13
- Saving Time
- Good Manners
- The Bride’s Chair
- Notice 6
- Bid the Tree Unfix
- Boxes and Bales
- Note Taking
- Mixed Media
- An Inescapable Truth
- Love’s Labour’s Lost
- Backward Baseball
- Inventory
- Crime and Punishment
- The Shrinking Mill Illusion
- The Puzzle Wall
- Eye to Eye
- Side Business
- Persistence
- A Book Toilet
- Mementos
- Associate Degrees
- Double Duty
- Footwork
- “The Ingenious Patriot”
- Math Notes
- Learning
- The Arc of Narrative
- Black and White
- “The Elephant; or the Force of Habit”
- Unquote
- Plato’s Number
- Notice 5
May 2025
- In the Stars
- In a Word
- The Illinois
- Judgment
- Last Moments
- A Glimpse
- “A Wonderful Monogram”
- A Semimagic Geomagic Square
- “A Square Poem”
- Roundup
- Close to Home
- Holorime
- Twice-Told Tales
- Close Enough
- “Geographical Enigma”
- Self-Made Man
- Character Study
- Overheard
- Weight Limit
- Essentially
- Wild Life
- Around the World
- “The Fence”
- On Your Own
- Endangered Species
- Doubt
- Rivers
- A Day’s Work
- Roll Call
- The Constitution State
- A Poem
- Wittenbauer’s Parallelogram
- Unquote
- Inventory
- Product Packaging
- Procedure
- Round Trip
- “A Pastoral”
- Position
- Langford’s Problem
- Still Waiting
- Oh, Never Mind
- A Code Poem
- Nothing Ventured
- Black and White
- Interlocking Squares
- In a Word
- Query 7
- Bang’s Theorem on Tetrahedra
- The Ross-Littlewood Paradox
- Getting Started
April 2025
- Other Duties as Assigned
- The Illusionist Stage
- Unorthodox Behavior
- I’ve Told You Twice
- Minimalism
- Turnabout
- String Theory
- Review
- Tip
- Misc 101
- Finger Math
- “Nott Shott”
- Ambiguous Latin
- Unquote
- “Lessons of Noblemen”
- Sharp Dealing
- Quickie
- Coming and Going
- Monsky’s Theorem
- Going Up
- Uh oh 2
- A Bad Night
- All in the Family
- Fast Rites
- Query 6
- The Banner of St. George
- What Indeed
- Moveable Feast
- Matching Sums
- Horseplay
- Card Games
- Dammit I’m Mad
- Hand to Hand
- Double Duty
- Square Meal
- Excerpts
- Quantum Entanglement
- Local Talk
- C Change
- Upside Down
- Round Numbers
- Yes or No
- Grime Dice
- Correspondence
- Road Work
- “Discombobulated Discobolus”
- In a Word
- Unquote
- Place Settings
- One or the Other
- Another World
- The Moralist
- All Sides
March 2025
- Credit 2
- Appeal
- Foreign Food
- Words and Music
- “Almost Too Ceremonious”
- Steady State
- Roll Call
- Auteur
- Reflection
- First and Last
- “Have You Seen This One?”
- Late Progress
- Black and White
- Blowback
- “An Electric Man”
- Alienated Majesty
- The Polish Acquaintanceship Problem
- Speeding Indeed
- “A True Maid”
- Double Duty
- “A Mill”
- Warning
- The Lunatic
- The Liars
- Misc 100
- In a Word
- “The Latest Decalogue”
- All in the Wrist
- Good Point
- The Grammar of Landscape
- All Right Then
- Memento
- One Way
- Mnemonics
- Sentinel
- Unquote
- Worldly Wisdom
- “Henry King”
- Apt 5
- Partiality
- “Alternative Endings to an Unwritten Ballad”
- No Comment
- Spectator
- Many Worlds
- Good Advice
- Missing the Mark
- Interloper
- Passing Tones
- By the Book
February 2025
- All Together Now
- Fair and Square
- Horsemanship
- Going Places
- Rapid Transit
- Zeckendorf’s Theorem
- Variations
- In a Word
- Grammar
- First Person
- Visitor
- Rewards
- In Other Words
- Recent Developments
- Zoology
- A Number Maze
- The Vista Paradox
- Topsy-Turvy
- Memoranda
- Unquote
- Dream Weaving
- Wine and Roses
- Alternating Tread Stairs
- Secondhand
- A Hazy Mate
- R i p 12
- Head Games
- More Geomagic
- Seeing Things
- One World at a Time
- Shipshape
- Escort 2
- Narrow Meaning
- Small Talk
- The Octoplex
- Practice
- In a Word
- Misc 99
- International Relations
- A Smile More Brightened
- The Other Half
- The Engine
- Fundamentals
- Freight
- Overheard
- Some Lost Snowmen
- “Good and Clever”
January 2025
- A Magic Box Cube
- “A Sound of Clinking Waiters”
- “Mary Had a Transposed Lamb”
- Academia
- Viewpoint
- Misc 98
- Addendum
- Block Grant
- Unquote
- Reunion
- Perspective
- “A ‘Religious’ Fish”
- Turnabout
- Prospect
- Line of Succession
- “Prepopr Splelnig”
- Pigs Penned
- Oh 14
- Self-Destruction
- Chronicle
- In a Word
- Chesterton’s Fence
- Field Notes
- Artificial Night
- Noted 24
- The Gentleman Highwayman
- Range
- Gun Control
- Call of the Wild
- The Toaster Project
- Exchange
- Rules of Engagement
- Rolligon Tires
- Pianissimo
- The Napkin Folding Problem
- Tenterhooks
- Rough Crossing
- Branch Manager
- A Long Sleep
- Overheard
- Urban Renewal
- Unquote
- Misc 97
- A Pirate’s Credo
- A Lesson
- A Syntax Maze
- Coghill’s Law
- High Hopes
- Top Score
- Perspective