puzzles

Before I could muster up the courage to use the idli maker my mom gave me after I moved out, here I was making idli in a narrative cooking video game. Though Venba’s idli maker differs from ours, the fluffy steamed rice cakes at the end of…

How far can I toss a wiggling plant man with a bright red body? Not very, but I sure do love finding out. I’ve been hurling cadres of my willing little friends at the same ledge hoping to breach a gap Pikmin 4 clearly has not intended me…

The denizens of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are waiting for me to save Hyrule, but I’ve been slightly preoccupied. A generous breakdown of how I’ve spent my time so far is something like this: 5 percent on main storyline,…

ChatGPT and its brethren are both surprisingly clever and disappointingly dumb. Sure, they can generate pretty poems, solve scientific puzzles, and debug spaghetti code. But we know that they often fabricate, forget, and act…

While the material is not expressly religious, it is clearly aimed at painting same-sex marriage as aberrant and immoral behavior. Physicians lobbied by the group are also told to urge patients to purchase Christian-based parenting guides,…

Engineer better tasks for your AI chatbot with these tricks.

I’m convinced there are two kinds of nerds: word game people and number game people. The same thrill I feel at building letters into words, other people feel by manipulating numbers into different ones. If you’ve been waiting for a math…

Whether you get it off the block or grab handfuls from a bag, grated cheese is an important food. The tiny teeth of the grater transform it from a solid state into fluffy clouds of parmesan or piles of cheddar that melt the moment they make…

The Joe Rogan Experience is technically one of the biggest podcasts around, numbers-wise, but that doesn’t mean it’s the best. Here are 12 interview podcasts hosted by people with the magic touch for Q&A—shows that will stretch your…

The best podcasts are super engaging, and there’s nothing more engaging than a game show. The best game show podcasts can make you feel like you’re on the hot seat—these podcasts test your smarts, get your competitive juices flowing, and…