An MIT student has released a simple CoffeeScript/JavaScript-based tool for creating recursive drawings - combinations of rectangles and ell...

A great new arcade-like word game has just been released for desktop computers. It's called Lexcavator, a name that evokes the idea of d...

Researchers from the University of Calgary recently published a study (available in PDF or HTML ) on how being an elite player in Scrabble ...

Following up on my previous post about the first annual palindrome-writing competition , here is how it played out: As mentioned on contesta...

I've learned that, as part of this year's American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (made famous through the documentary Wordplay), a liv...

Last year I wrote a post partially about how great indie video games are , citing as an example the creativity of Jonathan Blow's tempor...

Every few decades an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, clarity, range, wit, beauty and originality that it is recognized at on...