Sporcle is a lot cooler than it sounds.

My new favorite game website: Sporcle. The site features tons of quizzes along the lines of "Name all the countries in Europe" or "Name the book based on the antagonist." Be very careful about when you start playing, though, because it quickly sucks you in for long periods of time.

(We have really fallen off the blogging. This post is just under a month after the last post. I would love it if we could all start this up again.)

KENKEN

Check out this new puzzle that the New York Times has begun to publish regularly. Below are the rules and a sample 4x4 KENKEN puzzle. (As a disclaimer: The name of the game seems to always be written in all capital letters. I hate this and copied it only for the sake of accuracy.)