Pieces and Bits

bits and pieces, bits and bobs, odds and ends, odds and sods, oddments, fragments, a farrago, a hotchpotch, a medley, a mélange, a mingle-mangle, a mishmash, a ragbag, an omnium gatherum.

Words and Word Play

• Cockney Rhyming Slang
  
  
• A Little Lot of Limericks
  
  
• A Parade of Palindromes
  
  
• A Treasury of Tongue-Twisters

Video

• The Two Ronnies: Classic Sketches

  Crossword sketch, Four Candles sketch, Mastermind sketch, Courtroom Quiz sketch.

• Will Shortz: Crosswords and Ping Pong.

  Will Shortz, crossword editor of the New York Times, discusses crosswords and ping pong.

• Sequences: Fractals

  An introduction to fractals

Some Puzzle History

• The World's First Crossword

  The World's first crossword, published in the New York World, December 21, 1913.

• Amusements in Mathematics

  The complete text of this classic puzzle book by Henry Ernest Dudeney, first published in 1917

• The Canterbury Puzzles

  Another classic puzzle book by Henry Ernest Dudeney, first published in 1907