Puzzles

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A University of Michigan student is one of the world's foremost "speedcubers," a person capable of quickly solving a Rubik's Cube. He also is an accomplished violinist.

Stanley Chapel says the two fields go hand in hand.

Not only does Chapel say he has equal interest in both, but the 21-year-old says the violin has aided in his speedcubing success.

The Turkish Brain Team has achieved to win two medals at the 2022 World Mind Games Championship held in Poland.

The 28th World Mind Games Championship, organized by the International Mind Sports Association in a different country every year, was held in Krakow on Oct. 16-23.

Maki Kaji, a puzzle enthusiast and publisher who was known as the "Godfather of Sudoku" - the number puzzle played daily by millions around the world - has died, his company said. He was 69.

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A tax official who allegedly made around 20 taxpayers in Crete wait while tried to complete a crossword puzzle is under investigation. A picture was published in the local media appearing to show the civil servant filling in the crossword while on duty.

The director of the general secretariat for public revenues, Giorgos Pitsilis, has ordered a freeze on any plans to transfer a tax authority official who was photographed working on a crossword puzzle during his shift, it emerged on Tuesday.

A crossword puzzle with top-to-bottom and left-to-right Greek words has been unearthed on the in the walls of a basilica at the Smyrna agora, located in İzmir's İkiçeşmelik area.

Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah is hosting the "Black Week" event in honor of the 125th anniversary of the birth of popular novelist Agatha Christie's birth, featuring a week of crime fiction-themed events.

The festival, which will continue until Oct 24, will include panel discussions at the historic hotel with local and international detective novelists.

Three young inventors were received with much applause by the public at the opening ceremony of CEEDS'15 by Webit, the biggest IT event in Eastern Europe.

One of the most emblematic inventions, the Rubik's Cube, turns 40 years.

In 1974, Hungarian professor of design Erno Rubik creates a 3-D puzzle, which goes on to sweep the world. Initially, it is named the Magic Cube. It gains ground in the 1980s, and by 2009 it has sold over 350 million cubes worldwide.