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Fool Me Once – Don’t Get Fooled This April

Were you taken in by any April Fool’s Day pranks today?

There were certainly a few being dished out around our office this morning, which got us thinking about the origins of this most mischievous of days.

According to most sources, the modern embodiment of April Fool’s Day derives from an ancient Tongan religious festival [more…]

Code Cracker Video Tutorial

A Code Cracker tutorial from puzzle queen, Christine Lovatt.

Acrostic Video Tutorial

Christine Lovatt shows you how to get started with this popular puzzle, the Acrostic.

Binary Video Tutorial

Get started with the highly addictive logic puzzles known as Binaries.

Killer Sudoku (Addoku) Video Tutorial

An Addoku (Killer Sudoku) tutorial from puzzle queen Christine Lovatt.

Skeleton Crossword Video Tutorial

Christine Lovatt shows you step-by-step how to flesh out a Skeleton Crossword.

Word Search Video Tutorial

Puzzle queen, Christine Lovatt, shows you how to find your way around our popular find-a-word puzzles.

Hello – BIG August 2013

There may have been a time when all the lands of the world were joined. Way back in 1596, Flemish geographer Abraham Ortelius suggested that the Americas were “torn away from Europe and Africa ... by earthquakes and floods".

Hello – BIG July 2013

Words, just like us, come from families. Some are related to each other and have ancient ancestors.

It’s not always an obvious relationship. For instance, the words free and friend both came from an Indo-European root meaning ‘to love’.

You wouldn’t think there was a connection between biscuit, precocious and concoct but they all come from [more…]