Sayonara, Sudoku. For a better-rounded puzzle that includes not just logic, but math, too, try KenKen. It's probably even good for you. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Looking for a new puzzle challenge? Starting this week, find the logic puzzle KenKen on the back page of the Sunday comics section. Created in Japan by educator Tetsuya Miyamoto as a way to help ...

My first infatuation was with Sudoku. Then my attentions moved to Kakuro. Now, though, I have a big crush on KenKen. No, I'm not talking about marital infidelity involving various Japanese women. I'm ...

Did you ever play Milton Bradley’s Gator Golf or Crocodile Dentist, either growing up or with your kids? If so, you can thank Chappaqua toy entrepreneur Robert Fuhrer and his company, Nextoy, for your ...

Will Shortz is to puzzles what Oprah is to books — an endorsement by the New York Times crosswords editor is as good as gold. He’s sold more than 5 million volumes of Sudoku games and has now moved on ...

PW: Where did KenKen come from, and what’s its appeal? WS: It was invented by Tetsuya Miyamoto, a Japanese educator who runs a school in Japan. His philosophy of education is that you don’t teach kids ...

Today the Globe and Mail introduces to its pages the super-addictive puzzle KenKen, a Japanese-born creation that's being touted as the "new Sudoku" by the august British daily The Times. KenKen ...

Will Shortz is to puzzles what Oprah is to books — an endorsement by the New York Times crossword editor is as good as gold. He helped popularize Sudoku in the U.S. and has sold more than 5 million ...

You are powerless to stop KenKen. Perhaps the new Japanese arithmo-logical challenge, which debuted in the New York Times on Feb. 8, will burrow into your brain on account of a significant other, who ...