WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday." Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

A puzzling global phenomenon "The Economist"

The biggest craze to hit "The Times" since the first crossword puzzle was published in 1935. "The Times of London"

England's most addictive newspaper puzzle. "New York magazine"

The latest craze in games "BBC News"

Sudoku is dangerous stuff. Forget work and family think papers hurled across the room and industrial-sized blobs of correction fluid. I love it! "The Times of London"

Sudokus are to the first decade of the 21st century what Rubik's Cube was to the 1970s. "The Daily Telegraph"

Britain has a new addiction. Hunched over newspapers on crowded subway trains, sneaking secret peeks in the office, a puzzle-crazy nation is trying to slot numbers into small checkerboard grids. "Associated Press"

Forget crosswords. "The Christian Science Monitor""

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Pub date: 2017-02-14

Length: 320 pages