| Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
| Mon, Oct 02, 2023 | 36A | Game ending in "mate" | Alexandria Mason | Shortz |
| Thu, Jun 15, 2023 | 46A | "A foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time," per Shaw | David Harris | Shortz |
| Sun, May 22, 2022 | 75A | It has thousands of openings | David and Karen and Paul Steinberg | Shortz |
| Mon, Feb 21, 2022 | 13D | "The Queen's Gambit" game | Natalie Murphy | Shortz |
| Wed, Jan 05, 2022 | 27D | The mating game? | Damon Gulczynski | Shortz |
| Fri, Dec 24, 2021 | 30D | "The gymnasium of the mind," per Blaise Pascal | Evan Kalish | Shortz |
| Sat, Aug 14, 2021 | 1D | Game of checkers? | Nam Jin Yoon | Shortz |
| Tue, Aug 04, 2020 | 51A | "The gymnasium of the mind," per Pascal | Jacob Stulberg | Shortz |
| Thu, Jun 11, 2020 | 71A | Pastime for Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin | Peter A. Collins | Shortz |
| Mon, Sep 30, 2019 | 6D | Game on an 8x8 board | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
| Sun, Jul 07, 2019 | 70D | Subject game of this puzzle | Jack Reuter | Shortz |
| Sun, Jan 06, 2019 | 72A | "___ makes man wiser and clear-sighted": Vladimir Putin | Zhouqin Burnikel | Shortz |
| Wed, Oct 18, 2017 | 46D | "Life is a kind of ___": Benjamin Franklin | John Lithgow and Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
| Sat, Oct 24, 2015 | 27D | "As elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency," per Raymond Chandler | Andrew Zhou | Shortz |
| Sun, Feb 22, 2015 | 16D | Setting for a castle | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
| Wed, Aug 20, 2014 | 10D | Game in which pieces can be forked | Zhouqin Burnikel | Shortz |
| Fri, Aug 15, 2014 | 29A | What a check might be delivered in | Jeff Chen | Shortz |
| Wed, Apr 09, 2014 | 56D | Magnus Carlsen's game | John E. Bennett | Shortz |
| Fri, Jan 25, 2013 | 40A | Game with forks and pins | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
| Thu, Feb 10, 2011 | 43D | Benjamin Franklin's "The Morals of ___" | Derek Bowman | Shortz |
| Tue, Dec 14, 2010 | 9A | Game with knights | Mark Feldman | Shortz |
| Thu, Feb 25, 2010 | 13D | Knight's activity? | Holden Baker | Shortz |
| Sat, Jan 02, 2010 | 51A | Its openings are often studied | Robert H. Wolfe | Shortz |
| Tue, Aug 11, 2009 | 33D | Knight's realm? | Oliver Hill | Shortz |
| Mon, May 14, 2007 | 42A | The mating game? | Paula Gamache | Shortz |
| Fri, Jul 28, 2006 | 1D | "Through the Looking-Glass" game | Sherry O. Blackard | Shortz |
| Thu, Jul 27, 2006 | 31A | Setting for a check | Ethan Friedman | Shortz |
| Sat, Mar 25, 2006 | 41A | Speed ___ | Byron Walden | Shortz |
| Mon, Mar 28, 2005 | 26A | Game played on 64 squares | Elizabeth Babikan | Shortz |
| Sun, Aug 24, 2003 | 50A | Mating game | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
| Thu, Mar 28, 2002 | 23A | Game with pins | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
| Tue, Jul 18, 2000 | 1A | Game of kings and queens | Richard Silvestri | Shortz |
| Sat, Dec 12, 1998 | 53D | Battle of wits | Rich Norris | Shortz |
| Mon, Jun 29, 1998 | 56D | Deep Blue's game | Gregory E. Paul | Shortz |
| Mon, Nov 10, 1997 | 63A | Kasparov's game | Grace Fabbroni | Shortz |
| Fri, Oct 17, 1997 | 7A | Deep Blue specialty | Alan Jay Weiss | Shortz |
| Sun, Aug 24, 1997 | 34D | Castle locale | Michael S. Maurer | Shortz |
| Sat, Jul 19, 1997 | 43A | Black-and-white set | Robert H. Wolfe | Shortz |
| Sun, Apr 13, 1997 | 17A | Popular newspaper column | Cathy Millhauser | Shortz |
| Thu, Jan 23, 1997 | 56A | Kind of board | F. Hansen | Shortz |
| Sun, Jun 11, 1995 | 30D | 1988 Tim Rice musical | Coral Amende | Shortz |
| Tue, May 23, 1995 | 6D | This puzzle's theme | Jay Livingston | Shortz |
| Mon, Nov 28, 1994 | 5D | 1988 Tim Rice musical | Jonathan Schmalzbach | Shortz |
| Tue, Jun 28, 1994 | 47D | Judit Polgar's game | Jonathan Schmatzbach | Shortz |