Anagrams are words or phrases made by rearranging the letters of other words or phrases. Their origin goes right back to the dawn of recorded history. Initially, they were perceived as harboring ...

If you love word play, you probably know that a word — or longer piece of writing — that reads the same forward and backward is called a palindrome. But what do you call a word that spells another ...

The creator of the Puns and Anagrams puzzle for The New York Times — a form that involved wordplay and groan-inducing puns, of which Taub was a master — died Sept. 14.

Michael Lieberman tries out some new material on us. By Caitlin Lovinger PUNS AND ANAGRAMS — This is Michael Lieberman’s fourth installment of this genre of puzzle for The New York Times, all in the ...