Crack the code with today’s The Atlantic Games! Get walkthroughs for Fluxis, Bracket City, and Stacks and see how your ...

Stood outside the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, is a mystery that has eluded the agency's brightest minds for 35 years. A curving metal sculpture, known as Kryptos, was built by the artist ...

Jim Sanborn’s inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say they’ve cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3. SIGN UP for Plaintext to read the whole thing, and tap Steven's unique insights ...

Math puzzles have a special way of making even the sharpest minds stop and think. A new brain teaser going around online has been challenging people to figure out the pattern hidden in a series of ...