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PLEASANTVILLE, NEW YORK -- Will Shortz is a puzzle master by day and a table-tennis fanatic by night. He has been the New York Times crossword editor and NPR's puzzle master for over three decades.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WXXI listener Jonathan Black and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Not since — well, ever — have the numbers 1 to 9 been so popular. In less than a year, sudoku, the numerical logic puzzle with the funny name (pronounced soo-doh-koo), has swept the globe.

(CNN) — One Sunday night in February, Will Shortz was at his desk at home in Pleasantville, New York, when he leaned to his left and realized he couldn’t sit back up straight. “I knew immediately I ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WLRN listener Christopher Hoffman, of Wellington, Florida, along with Weekend Edition Puzzle Master Will Shortz. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with ...

Last week's challenge came from Greg VanMechelen, of Berkeley, Calif. Name something you don't want to have at night (3,5). Shift each of the letters of the second word nine spaces later in the ...

Shortz said he spent more than a week in emergency care at the hospital, where staffers got him on his feet “as quickly as they could.” From there, he spent several weeks in a rehabilitation center ...