452 Episodes

  1. "A Funnish Puzzle" w/ Arika Okrent

    Published: 4/18/2024

  2. "Eye Rhymes" w/ Arika Okrent

    Published: 4/17/2024

  3. "Letters Witch" w/ Adam Felber

    Published: 4/16/2024

  4. "B Movies" w/ Adam Felber

    Published: 4/15/2024

  5. Weekend Favorite: "Taking the Simpsons to the Bank" w/ Mike Reiss

    Published: 4/13/2024

  6. "Could You Solve A Puzzle To Save The World?" w/ A.J. & Greg

    Published: 4/12/2024

  7. "Far/Sad" w/ Negin Farsad

    Published: 4/11/2024

  8. "Core Competence" w/ Negin Farsad

    Published: 4/10/2024

  9. "Eye Rhymes" w/ Negin Farsad

    Published: 4/9/2024

  10. "Television Newt" w/ Negin Farsad

    Published: 4/8/2024

  11. Weekend Favorites: "Wide Opposite World Of Sports" w/ Jay Bilas

    Published: 4/6/2024

  12. "Greeks Who Sink" w/ Christopher Short

    Published: 4/5/2024

  13. "1-2-3 Hill" w/ Bethany Joy Lenz

    Published: 4/4/2024

  14. "Categories" w/ Jay Bilas

    Published: 4/3/2024

  15. "El-literation" w/ Lisa Loeb

    Published: 4/2/2024

  16. "April Fools" w/ A.J. & Greg

    Published: 4/1/2024

  17. Weekend Favorites: "In the Form of a Question" w/ Ken Jennings

    Published: 3/30/2024

  18. "Invented Languages" w/ A.J. & Greg

    Published: 3/29/2024

  19. "The Middle" w/ Jeremy Hobson

    Published: 3/28/2024

  20. "Middle America Charades" w/ Jeremy Hobson

    Published: 3/27/2024

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Finally, your daily puzzle fix—in audio form! Every day, New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs and his celebrity guests will puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old puzzle favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses.  Plus, Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska joins A.J. each week to present new puzzles from the Puzzle Lab. And there’s a daily Extra Credit Puzzler for our Puzzlers at home. (Answers revealed in the following episode.)  Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast today for more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you, puzzlingly! "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.