With a reality-warping camera and a barrage of ingenious strangeness, Viewfinder surprised me like nothing else this year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Computer scientists at Queen Mary University London have taught a computer how to create magic tricks using artificial intelligence. After feeding the machine information outlining how to create a ...

Page 4B of the Aug. 29 edition is the Aug. 22 page. The puzzles and funnies are from the Aug. 22 edition. How did you do that?

This week’s Kickstarter roundup includes ‘DOOM Arena Board Game’, ‘Houdini’s Double Escape’ and much more.

Arlen Solomon’s interest in magic was sparked by a card trick and a cousin who just had to spill the beans about it.

In the late ’70s and early ’80s, the Rubik’s Cube took the world by storm. Billed as a puzzle toy, it was equal parts mechanical wonder and near-magical oddity. As a kid, WESN’s founder, Billy Chester ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Todd Bishop on Apr 5, 2017 at 10:34 ...

Turchi follows up Maps of the Imagination, which connected writing and cartography, by exploring the links between artistic creation and puzzle making and solving. While presenting different kinds of ...

Cards Against Humanity co-founders Max Temkin and Ben Hantoot just launched the Magic Puzzle Company, a push to develop a new line of jigsaw puzzles, and it’s already been a hit. On Monday, the ...

For thousands of years, magicians have mixed technology, psychology, and performance to ingeniously hack people’s concepts of reality. But when it comes to creating ...