Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: include a phone number where we can reach you.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WAMC listener Ellen Triebwasser of Red Hook, N.Y., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: include a phone number where we can reach you.

A larger puzzle format for Sunday players of America’s favorited word game. The navigation bar above the puzzle will provide you with options for instructions, information, guesses, reveal ...

Every Sunday, NPR host Will Shortz, The New York Times’ crossword puzzle guru, gets to quiz thousands of listeners in a long-running segment called the Sunday Puzzle. While written to be ...

On the researchers' benchmark, which consists of around 600 Sunday Puzzle riddles, reasoning models such as o1 and DeepSeek's R1 far outperform the rest. Reasoning models thoroughly fact-check ...