Last week's challenge came from Joel Moorhead, of Downers Grove, Ill. Think of a word that means exceptionally good. Add two letters at the end of to make a word that means the exact opposite. What ...

From the Rorschach inkblots to the famous 'duck–rabbit', scientists use an arsenal of so–called ambiguous images to help probe the human mind. Now, researchers have revealed four new pictures which ...

New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists test the human mind. The work by Johns Hopkins University ...

Mel Taub, the longtime creator of the Puns and Anagrams puzzle for The New York Times — a form that involved wordplay and groan-inducing puns, of which Taub was a master — died on Sept. 14 at his home ...

Please describe the bug below and include any steps to reproduce the bug or screenshots if possible. In the problem (is-anagram) i submitted a approach which is not entirely correct but it accepted ...

If you love word play, you probably know that a word — or longer piece of writing — that reads the same forward and backward is called a palindrome. But what do you call a word that spells another ...

The current implementation of the isAnagram function compares sorted strings directly. If the input strings contain spaces (e.g., "rail safety" and "fairy tales"), the solution treats spaces as valid ...

Brain teasers are fun, challenging puzzles that stimulate the mind and encourage creative thinking. They come in many forms- designed to test ridls, logic puzzles, number games, and wordplays- and ...

Businesses write checks to vendors and suppliers, independent contractors, landlords and utility companies. Occasionally, one or more of those checks may go uncashed for a long time. Although banks do ...