Everything you need to know about this year’s special print puzzle section. By New York Times Games What is Puzzle Mania? Puzzle Mania is an annual special puzzle section in the print edition of the Sunday paper. It includes Sudoku, a Cryptic Crossword ...

At the time, the crossword was little more than a decade old and it had only appeared in newspapers, namely the New York World, where the puzzle — initially known as a “Word-Cross” until a typesetting error — was first printed in 1913.