Puzzles

It's a puzzling situation, but Jigsaw racing is an actual thing. Puzzle wizards will be on the start line for the masters games in Dunedin next week, competing for the joy of it and bragging rights of… Video, Audio

Kathryn speaks with Doug Hendry, who makes the crosswords that appear in nearly all our newspapers every day. Doug and partner Ange run Tauranga-based The Puzzle Company. They've been testing people's… Audio

Wallace and panellists Conor English and Sue Kedgley discuss Auckland's congestion problem and why more roads may not be the solution, why New Zealand's love affair with cats is a huge problem for our… Audio

A simple 5-letter word game has taken the world by storm. It's called Wordle. And now a version in Te Reo Maori has sprung up - called Panga.  Audio

We talk to Erin Daldry who competed in the Masters Games jigsaw puzzle racing competition in Whanganui at the weekend. Audio

We've talked about rollerskating but something else saw a revival in 2020 in lockdown - puzzles.... Caitlin Cherry reports. Audio

Alex Rosenthal is an expert puzzle solver. He's part of the team, which last year, won one of the oldest puzzle competitions in the world, the MIT mystery hunt at the Massachusetts Institute of… Audio

What is going on in the brain when we are doing crosswords? David Astle is somewhat of a dictionary expert, he is also Melbourne-based writer and a full-on word nerd - somewhat of a walking… Audio

Wayne Gould found a puzzle book in Japan and set about bringing it to a wider audience, now it's in every major newspaper in the world. Wayne Gould was the first to mass produce the games with a… Audio