Dell Magazines was a company founded by George T. Delacorte Jr. in 1921 as part of his Dell Publishing Co. Dell is today known for its many puzzle magazines, as well as fiction magazines such as Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It is now a division of Crosstown Publications, with headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut, under the same ownership as Penny Publication, LLC, which publishes Penny Press puzzle magazines.
The first puzzle magazine Dell published was Dell Crossword Puzzles, in 1931, and since then it has printed magazines containing word searches, math and logic puzzles, and other diversions.
Some puzzles that first appeared in Dell magazines, such as Number Place and Cross Sums, gained new popularity when they were used by Nikoli in Japan as sudoku and kakuro and then spread back into the Western world.
