ROOK & REGENT

The Journal

Launch announcements, anniversaries of great finals, and dispatches from the editorial desk.

12 June 2026

Announcement

The World Cup 2026 · Quiz & Puzzle Book goes to press

Our newest tournament edition is complete and now shipping through Amazon in all ten marketplaces — with a prediction ledger bound at the rear.

18 December 2025

From the Desk

Notes on cryptograms

A short essay on why the cryptogram — that most patient of puzzles — belongs in every one of our editions. Encoding a name is the closest we come to setting it in stone.

18 December 2022

Anniversary

The Lusail final, remembered

A year on from the finest final in living memory, we revisited its closing minutes for a new crossword. It appears in the World Cup 2022 volume.