| 2026-03-01 | It's all there in black and white |
| 2023-10-02 | Game ending in "mate" |
| 2023-06-15 | "A foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time," per Shaw |
| 2022-05-22 | It has thousands of openings |
| 2022-02-21 | "The Queen's Gambit" game |
| 2022-01-05 | The mating game? |
| 2021-12-24 | "The gymnasium of the mind," per Blaise Pascal |
| 2021-08-14 | Game of checkers? |
| 2020-08-04 | "The gymnasium of the mind," per Pascal |
| 2020-06-11 | Pastime for Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin |
| 2019-09-30 | Game on an 8x8 board |
| 2019-07-07 | See instructions |
| 2019-01-06 | "___ makes man wiser and clear-sighted": Vladimir Putin |
| 2017-10-18 | "Life is a kind of ___": Benjamin Franklin |
| 2015-10-24 | "As elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency," per Raymond Chandler |
| 2015-02-22 | Setting for a castle |
| 2014-08-20 | Game in which pieces can be forked |
| 2014-08-15 | What a check might be delivered in |
| 2014-04-09 | Magnus Carlsen's game |
| 2013-01-25 | Game with forks and pins |
| 2011-02-10 | Benjamin Franklin's "The Morals of ___" |
| 2010-12-14 | Game with knights |
| 2010-02-25 | Knight's activity? |
| 2010-01-02 | Its openings are often studied |
| 2009-08-11 | Knight's realm? |
| 2007-05-14 | The mating game? |
| 2006-07-28 | "Through the Looking-Glass" game |
| 2006-07-27 | Setting for a check |
| 2006-03-25 | Speed ___ |
| 2005-03-28 | Game played on 64 squares |
| 2003-08-24 | Mating game |
| 2002-03-28 | Game with pins |
| 2000-07-18 | Game of kings and queens |
| 1998-12-12 | Battle of wits |
| 1998-06-29 | Deep Blue's game |
| 1997-11-10 | Kasparov's game |
| 1997-10-17 | Deep Blue specialty |
| 1997-08-24 | Castle locale |
| 1997-07-19 | Black-and-white set |
| 1997-04-13 | Popular newspaper column |
| 1997-01-23 | Kind of board |
| 1995-06-11 | 1988 Tim Rice musical |
| 1995-05-23 | This puzzle's theme |
| 1994-11-28 | 1988 Tim Rice musical |
| 1994-06-28 | Judit Polgar's game |