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IN THIS ISSUE

Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2016 16 Magnus Carlsen defends his Masters title

Family Game Night Across the Globe 34 An informal survey of the games enjoyed by families worldwide

World Puzzle Championships 56 How do you stack up against the world's top puzzlers?

PLUS...

What's Happening 33 Previews of upcoming events Your Word Against Mine: Scrabble Happenings, Puzzles, and Tips 38 Tools to improve your game This Old Game 40 Vintage board games from the collector’s closet

MinMoves Puzzles 41 A logical game of musical chairs Wild Cards: A potpourri of amusing 42 little puzzles for your solving pleasure Contest: New Role-Playing Connections 44 Contest Results: 45 Coded Crisscross III (from October) Electronic Game Reviews 46 The Room Three, Fallout 4 Traditional Game Reviews 47 Hengist, Flip City

Game On! 48 Offbeat news, trivia, and more from today’s world of games and puzzles

•CONTENTS•

COVER PUZZLE | BASED ON A PUZZLE BY PHILIP COHEN

COVER DESIGN | REGIS MODESTA

PENCILWISE

500 Rummy 50

Battleships 23

Buried Gold 52

Camoulage 7

Chip Off the Old Block 6

Cryptic Crossword 1 54

Cryptic Crossword 2 55

Crypto-Funnies 3

Double Cross 51

Dszquphsbnt! 20

Family Reunions 66

Get in Gear 6

Hashi 13

Helter-Skelter 30

Kid Stuff 8

Lettur Perfekt 31

Life of Ease 21

Mixed Doubles 4

Mixed Doubles: Shades of Meaning 22

One, Two, Three 32

Paint by Pairs 64

Pencil Pointers 1 5

Pencil Pointers 2 18

Pentominoes: A Variety Cryptic 63

Playing the Odds 10

Playing the Half-Dozens 62

Quint-Essential 29

Quote Boxes 12

Siamese Twins 53

The Plus 49

The Spiral 19

Tough as Diamonds 28

What Loose Lips Do 15

Word Squares Crisscross 14

Wordspair 67

World’s Most Ornery Crossword 67

You're on a Role!:

A White House Movie Mini-Caper 24

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...FROM THE EDITOR

There’s no question that we live in a digital age. We see evidence of this everywhere: Go into any waiting room, for example, and you’ll ind people passing the time on electronic devices—iPads, Kindles,

smartphones, etc. They may be playing games, managing their bank accounts, or simply avoiding interacting with others—even members of their own family.

So naturally you might start to wonder if traditional family activities are becoming a thing of the past. Happily, the answer to that question is a resounding no. In fact, board games—one of the pastimes family and friends enjoy most—are experiencing a resurgence as of late in the United States. The board game industry saw a 10 percent rise in sales in 2014. Classics like Monopoly and Scrabble are still going strong, while newer, more strategic games like Settlers of Catan have joined the ranks of top sellers.

But what about the rest of the world? Are board games as popular in, say, Russia, as they are here? To answer those questions, Jonathan Schmalzbach conducted an informal survey of his friends and family overseas. His article “Family Game Night Across the Globe” (page 34) will give you some insight into what games are enjoyed by families worldwide. It’s an entertaining and interesting piece that also delves into the history of some ancient games.

And in preparation for your next family Scrabble night at home, you can check out Scott Appel’s “Your Word Against Mine” (page 38) for tips, news, and puzzles that will help you improve your game. All of this information, including the puzzles, is more accessible than you might think, even if you’re the most casual of Scrabble players.

Finally, if you’re all about the puzzles, you’re in for a couple of treats. Along with the usual favorites, we present “You’re On a Role!” by Christopher Magan. This “White House Movie Mini-Caper” casts you as a reporter who must solve a series of puzzles in order to learn what actor will star as George Washington in an upcoming Hollywood biopic. Give it a try and see if you can get the scoop! Or try some of the favorite puzzles of the members of the U.S. Puzzle Team, who in October 2015 competed at The World Puzzle Championships in Soia, Bulgaria. These puzzles, which are brought to you by team captain Nick Baxter, can be found on pages 56 through 61. Are you up to the challenge?

Jennifer Orehowsky Senior Editor


In this comic strip, all the dialogue has been converted into a cryptogram. That is, each letter of the alphabet has been consistently replaced by another letter throughout the cartoon. For example, if G represents V in one word, it will represent V in every word. Look for distinctive letter patterns and punctuation to help you get started. ANSWER, PAGE 70

FROM THE GAMES LIBRARYCRYPTO-FUNNIES

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Each answer word in this crossword variation has two clues leading to it, using different meanings of the word. The clues are separated into Across and Down, but are otherwise ordered randomly.

When you find two Across clues or two Down clues that seem to have the same answer, add up their clue numbers to determine the place in the grid where the answer should be entered. For example, if the clue for 1-Across were “Metallic element“ and the clue for 17-Across read “Starring role,“ the answer would be “lead,“ which would go in the box labeled 18 (1 + 17). Note: Tags such as “Hyph.“ and “2 wds.“ have been omitted. ANSWER, PAGE 70

BY MIKE NOTHNAGELMIXED DOUBLES

ACROSS

1 British coin with the Royal Shield on the reverse 2 Fur trader’s stock 3 On the trail of 4 Hoped-for guest at a seance 5 Like traveling salespeople 6 Eyewitnesses’ stories 7 “All Star” sneaker brand 8 Gets up from a chair 9 Checking and savings, e.g. 10 Hits repeatedly, as with snowballs 11 Bleachers 12 Hidden DVD content 13 Volume measurement equivalent to a cup 14 They’re dyed in the spring

15 Subsequently 16 Sixteen ounces 17 “Short stuff” 18 Pride in one’s school 19 Full-service, as a shuttle 20 Talk

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8 Shrink 9 Component of a set of directions 10 Mad Men actress Elisabeth 11 Fall on one’s belly 12 Bend 13 Dance move 14 Made vulnerable, as to danger 15 Device used to increase or decrease voltage 16 Like a severely lopsided competition 17 Adjust the grades on an exam 18 Alternative plea to “guilty” or “not guilty” 19 Piece of data, for short 20 Do very poorly at the box office 21 Intermediate platforms in staircases 22 Celebrity couples

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Are you geared up for some fun? If so, give this pair of puzzles a whirl. In each one, position the 12 words in the list clockwise around the red hexagons so that the letters mesh in gearlike fashion. Some letters have already been filled in to get you started. ANSWERS, PAGE 70

CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK BY PAUL GUTTORMSSON

ACROSS

1 Fore’s opposite 4 Serpent’s sound 7 Pen brand 10 Pub potable 13 Neighbor of Serbia 15 Golf club used for driving: 2 wds. 17 Pupil’s place 18 Seasoned veterans: 2 wds. 19 Kid-oriented pizza chain: 3 wds. 21 Loosy-___ 22 Sizzling 23 Solidify 25 Auditioner’s goal 26 Charles in Charge star Scott 28 Courageous 30 Approved, briefly 31 Round, for short 32 Pops, as a balloon 33 Jam-packed: Hyph. 35 Hidden stores 38 Truant GI 39 “The Racer’s Edge” 42 Standoffish 43 Mary Baker ___ 44 Swedish furniture seller 45 Cake Boss network 46 Observe 47 Inactive 48 Place to log account transactions: 2 wds

53 Sport played on a walled court: 2 wds. 54 Harebrained 56 Syracuse, vis-à-vis Manhattan 57 Sushi wrapping 58 Mao ___-tung 59 Part of mph 60 Sarcastic laugh 61 Reading and Short Line, for short

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24 Cobb and Pennington 26 Book jacket bits, often 27 Joan of ___ 28 Shorebird 29 WWW address 31 Gordon Ramsay, for one 32 Floating marker 33 Comedian Margaret

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44 Along for the ride: 2 wds. 46 Glide on ice 47 NBA great Thomas 49 Grab a bite 50 Applaud 51 Actress Annabeth 52 Notion 53 Stick out 55 Music lover’s collection, briefly

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Place each of the 26 letters of the alphabet once in the grid below to form a common word of five or more letters reading across in each line. Not all the letters in each line will be used; it’s up to you to determine which ones are needed. Some letters may fit in more than one of the empty squares to form familiar words; however, only one arrangement of all the letters of the alphabet will complete a word in each row. Hyphenated words, proper nouns, and plurals are not used. ANSWER, PAGE 71

FROM THE GAMES LIBRARYCAMOUFLAGE

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

L O U M A R L E I F F Y

B L A S H O R A Y O N T

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The names of 19 fish are hidden in this word search. Look across, down, and diagonally (both forward and backward), and circle each fish you find. The word CARP has been circled as an example.

After you’ve found all the fish, write the uncircled letters from the grid on the blanks at the foot of the page. Keep the letters in order, from left to right and top to bottom. If you do everything correctly, you’ll discover the answer to this riddle: WHERE DO FISH SAVE THEIR MONEY? ANSWER, PAGE 71

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A LOGICAL TREASURE HUNT

FROM THE GAMES LIBRARY

The treasure map below was drawn many years ago by Captain Hood Winker, a pirate who loved puzzles as much as he loved plunder. He buried a fortune in gold doubloons within one of the square areas (A through J) marked with an X. ANSWER, PAGE 70

PUZZLE BY R. WAYNE SCHMITTBERGER

He also wrote these clues on the back of the map:

1. An even number of squares marked X lie farther east than the treasure.

2. The treasure is not located at the X that is closest to the abandoned mine.

3. If there are an even number of X’s farther north than the treasure, the treasure is located on one of the four small islands.

4. If the treasure is on one of the four small islands, then the distance from the treasure to the nearest other X is greater than the distance from the pirate hut to the sunken ship.

5. If the treasure is on the biggest island, then one of the buildings is farther west than the treasure and the other building is farther north than the treasure.

Now, the local islanders want to find the treasure. Can you save them a lot of digging by figuring out which X marks the treasure’s location?


This puzzle might seem a bit odd—not strange, mind you, just odd. Each illustration below represents a two-word phrase in which the irst word has seven letters and the second is composed of the four odd-numbered letters of the irst word, in order. For example, given a picture of a ship sailing high in the water, the answer would be BUOYANT BOAT. We think these are pretty hard, but odds are you’ll get at least half. ANSWERS, PAGE 71

PLAYING THE ODDS FROM THE GAMES LIBRARY

ILLUSTRATIONS BY STEVE MELLOR

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To solve Quote Boxes, drop the letters from each vertical column—not necessarily in the order in which they appear—into the empty squares below them to spell a quotation reading from left to right, line by line. Words may continue from one line to the next; black squares indicate ends of words. The author of each quote is given above its grid. ANSWERS, PAGE 71

QUOTE BOXES BY JENNIFER OREHOWSKY

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In these puzzles, you are given an arrangement of numbered islands. Your goal is to add bridges (lines) between islands so that the islands form a single connected group.

When adding bridges, you must follow these rules: 1. The number on each island tells you how many bridges are to be connected to that island. 2. There are at most two bridges between any pair of islands. 3. All bridges are placed horizontally or vertically. 4. A bridge never passes through an island. 5. Bridges do not intersect.

An example of a solved puzzle is shown at right. The puzzles start out easy and get harder as you go. ANSWERS, PAGE 71

BY CONCEPTIS LTD.www.conceptispuzzles.com


Fit all of the words and phrases listed below into the big grid so that they interlock in standard crossword style. Then fit the six letter words into the four word squares on the left. If the big grid seems daunting, you may not have noticed a few helps to get you started. STARTING HINT, PAGE 71 ANSWER, PAGE 72

BY RAYMOND YOUNGWORD SQUARES CRISSCROSS

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Yes, they sink ships. Circle all of the words and phrases listed below, reading horizontally, vertically, and diagonally, always in a straight line. Each star in the grid stands for a series of letters. In the part of the picture showing the sky, a star represents A-I-R. In the Titanic, it stands for S-H-I-P. In the iceberg, it stands for I-C-E. Finally, in the ocean, it represents S-E-A. For example, VOLTAIRE would be found in the grid as VOLT*E, with the star in the sky portion. Some words and phrases will pass through more than one region. When you’ve circled all of the entries, read the leftover letters from left to right to discover a fact about what happened to one of the stars of the 1997 blockbuster Titanic after shooting the water scenes. ANSWER, PAGE 72

WHAT LOOSE LIPS DO BY RAYMOND YOUNG

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For the second year in a row and the fifth time in

his career, world chess champion Magnus Carlsen

of Norway won the elite 14-player Tata Steel Mas-

ters chess tournament that was held in the Netherlands,

mostly at Wijk aan Zee, in January. It was the 78th edi-

tion of this annual tournament, previously known under

the names Corus and Hoogovens. Fourteen highly rated

grandmasters took part, including the players ranked 1, 3,

5, and 10 through 13 in the world going into the event, as

well as the highest-rated woman in the world, Hou Yifan.

Live commentary and interviews with players after

some of their games were provided by four-time United

States champion Yasser Seirawan at tatasteelchess.com.

Ongoing computer analysis by three of the best engines

(Houdini, Komodo, and Stockfish) was available at chess-

dom.com.

As was the case last year, Carlsen started the tourna-

ment “carefully,” as he explained to Seirawan, drawing

his first four games. He then won three games in a row to

take the tournament lead—which he never relinquished,

although he was only half a point ahead of Fabiano

Caruana of the United States going into the final round.

Carlsen drew his last game to end up with 5 wins, 8 draws,

and no losses, while Caruana lost his final game but still

finished second on tiebreak over Ding Liren of China.

Wesley So of the United States finished fourth.

The youngest player,16-year-old Wei Yi of China, ended

up with a very respectable 50 percent score. A true chess

prodigy, Wei is notable for being the youngest player ever

to achieve a rating of 2600, as well as being the young-

est ever to reach 2700. He had qualified for the event

by virtue of winning last year’s Tata Steel Challengers

tournament.

This year’s Tata Steel Challengers event was won by

Baskaran Adhiban of India, who thereby qualifies for next

year’s Tata Steel Masters group. Adhiban, Alexey Dreev of

Russia, and Eltaj Safarli of Azerbaijan each finished with a

score of 9–4, but Adhiban had defeated both Dreev and

Safarli during the tournament and so won on tiebreak.

Top players are attracted to this event year in and year

out because of its prestigious nature, but there are also

modest cash prizes. For the Masters group, prizes ranged

from €10,000 for first place down to €500 for seventh,

while the top seven Challengers group players earned

from €2,000 to €200.

Wei’s only loss came at the hands of Caruana in the

10th round. Wei met Caruana’s Ruy Lopez with the Open

Defense, characterized by the move 5. …Nxe5. Caruana’s

10. Bc2 was a bit unusual, 10. Nbd2 being the most com-

mon move in that position. The turning point of the game

may have been when Wei used more than 40 minutes to

decide how to answer 11. h3. By move 20, he only had

eight minutes left on his clock, plus the 30 seconds of ad-

ditional time that is added to a player’s time after each

move is made, to make his next 20 moves.

Wei probably erred with 17. …c6, when he could have

played Nxc3 to keep the center closed. After 18. Bxe4,

Black could hardly recapture with the f pawn, which

would allow White to play a cramping f5 and e6. But after

18. …dxe4 19. d5, White seemed to have an initiative.

Computer engines preferred 19. …cxd5 and 20. …Qxc6

to the moves Wei played, but Caruana let some of his

advantage slip when he played 23. Bc5 instead of Re1.

Wei’s bishop retreat 26. …Be8 hastened the end; better

was 26. …Bxf5, though White would still have stood

significantly better.

From the position in Diagram 1, the game continued 29.

Bxb4 Bxb4 30. Rxc6 Re8 (Of course Rxc6?? would allow e8Q+)

31. f6 Rd4 32. Re6, and Black resigned. White can improve

the position of his other rook at his leisure, such as by mov-

ing it to the g file, while Black’s rook on e8 cannot afford

to move at all. —R. Wayne Schmittberger

•CHESS•

MAGNUS CARLSEN DEFENDS TATA STEEL MASTERS TITLE

FABIANO CARUANA VS. WEI YITATA STEEL MASTERS, ROUND 10

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•CHESS•

DING LIREN VS. MICHAEL ADAMSTATA STEEL MASTERS, ROUND 1

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formula. Ratings and world rank are

based on FIDE ratings of January 2016.

TATA STEEL MASTERS, ROUND 10

White: Fabiano Caruana

Black: Wei Yi

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4

Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5

8. dxe5 Be6 9. c3 Be7 10. Bc2 Bg4 11.

h3 Bh5 12. g4 Bg6 13. Nd4 Qd7 14. f4

Nxd4 15. cxd4 f5 16. Be3 O-O 17. Nc3 c6

18. Bxe4 dxe4 19. d5 b4 20. dxc6 Qxd1

21. Nxd1 Rfd8 22. Rc1 Rd3 23. Bc5 Bd8

24. e6 Rc8 25. e7 Ba5 26. gxf5 Be8 27.

Nf2 Rd5 28. Nxe4 Bxc6 (Diagram 1)

29. Bxb4 Bxb4 30. Rxc6 Re8 31. f6 Rd4

32. Re6 1-0

FINAL STANDINGS

Diagram 2: This position arose in the game between Ding Liren

(White) and Michael Adams (Black). Black has just played 60. … Re4

and is threatening to play Rg4 mate. If White takes the rook with

the knight, the result will be a draw by stalemate, since Black will

then have no legal move. How did White win the game?

ANSWER, PAGE 74

Finish Score Title Player Country Rating World Rank Age

1 9.0 GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 2844 1 25

2 8.0 GM Fabiano Caruana USA 2787 5 23

3 8.0 GM Ding Liren CHN 2766 12 23

4 7.0 GM Wesley So USA 2773 10 22

5 7.0 GM Anish Giri NED 2798 3 21

6 7.0 GM Pavel Eljanov UKR 2760 13 32

7 6.5 GM Wei Yi CHN 2706 37 16

8 6.5 GM Shakhryar Mamedyarov AZE 2747 19 30

9 6.0 GM Sergey Karjakin RUS 2769 11 26

10 5.5 GM David Navara CZE 2730 25 30

11 5.5 GM Evgeny Tomashevsky RUS 2728 26 28

12 5.0 GM Hou Yifan CHN 2673 68 21

13 5.0 GM Michael Adams ENG 2744 20 44

14 5.0 GM Loek Van Wely NED 2640 126 43


In this crossword puzzle, the clues appear in the grid itself. Enter the answers in the direction of the pointers. ANSWER, PAGE 71

BY COREY KOSAKPENCIL POINTERS 2

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This puzzle turns in two directions. The Spiral’s Inward clues yield a sequence of words to be entered counterclockwise in the spaces from 1 to 100. The Outward clues yield a different set of words to be entered clockwise from 100 to 1. Fill in the answers, one letter per space, according to the numbers beside the clues. Keep track of which way you’re going, and have many happy returns. ANSWER, PAGE 72

THE SPIRAL BY FRANK LONGO

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1-9 Second-place winner’s token: 2 wds. 10-16 Part of the Czech Republic 17-22 La Mafia’s kind of music 23-28 Artistically ornate 29-35 Trade votes, in the legislature 36-41 Tarzan, for one: Hyph. 42-45 Not e’en a single time 46-50 Congressional hearing airer: Hyph. 51-61 Mexican restaurant meal: 2 wds. 62-64 Dusting cloth 65-71 Fly catcher, often 72-78 Batting game for junior: 2 wds. 79-82 Active Sicilian volcano 83-89 Wearisome working life: 2 wds. 90-100 Released from a training program, e.g.

OUTWARD

100-97 HP competitor 96-93 Novelist Sarah ___ Jewett 92-86 Motorcycle attachment 85-76 Rapid, whirling Italian folk dance 75-69 Really flushed: Hyph. 68-58 Teen idol of the 1970s: 2 wds. 57-54 Iams competitor 53-48 Catch a few Z’s 47-38 Online forum handle: 2 wds. 37-32 White-as-a-ghost look 31-26 Flip out: 2 wds. 25-20 Ring around the sun 19-13 “I love you,” in Le Havre: 2 wds. 12-7 Rub elbows 6-1 Ornithology buff with binoculars


1. CRYPTOON

2. CAREFREE “HI” WAY

“ V T I I D I O A G X A S Z E G E I U U M L

V T I K X P S O M X G U H M O I V T X E

H X S I U J R L M O V T I X P V U M L

W O I I G Z E V T I T I X G Q Z E I U . ”

— * P T X O Q I U * S J O X Q V .

3. PULLING THE PLUG

H D Z I W Q S X Q C B T X D Q G S H C G S I

C B D H D Z P C N Z I X S O N S L D T

Z S L J U N Z O S Z P S G H D X G J S I I

E A D Z S , H C J J N Z B P A S

N Z Z D O C P N D Z “ P D P C J J U D T T P A S

A D D R . ”

4. FRONT-PAGE NEWS

K O M N U Y A M D L O B K T Y H Y S T U O

I H Y C G D T D H G Y U P G F H F U O

O U F M O B U O Q U S H L G U M K Z T G

L Y S H Y Y A H Q T I T B A B M H I P H A G

C U I T W U O B Z U G S M M F .

5. FLEXIBLE PLANS

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L S Q K K A P K J X S K F X

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Q O D X T W Y Y W S V A P E H N O B B W U Z

P Q X W N Q X O T L O N K V U T P Q X

T X S W L W K U .

6. CENTS AND SENSIBILITY

D H O J F H Z U H Q J Z Z J G “ H

R X V F T D V G V Y V Q ” B Y N “ T Y * K J N

I H Z F V G Z , ” Z U H R H Y Y P D J F H

Z U H G X J K B Y “ Q T Y N P J V F

D V G T Y H G G . ”

7. IN THE ZONES

V Z G Q N F * V T Z T H V T V T Y Z V Z T T O

V T Y V W V G U R V Z K X R E G H D V Z G O .

V Z K H W C T Z U W V Z R N

V Z K H W X R Z W G H D V R Z Z G V T Z G R W

V T V Z R H B F V T Y Z G W V V Z K O .

Below are seven messages—pithy sayings, fascinating facts, and a cartoon gag—that have been translated into simple cipher alphabets. Letter substitutions remain constant throughout any one cipher, but change from one cipher to the next; the level of difficulty increases as you progress. An asterisk (*) indicates a proper noun or title. Clues are given at the bottom of the page to provide assistance if you need it. ANSWERS, PAGE 72

DSZQUPHSBNT! BY SHAWN KENNEDYCipher 1: VGTV doesn’t stand for THAT in this instance, although V

does represent T.Cipher 2: Three-letter word VTI appears four times, making it likely to

be AND or THE. Since it starts a sentence, try THE.Cipher 3: Compare DT and DTT. Both are common prepositions.Cipher 4: In LYSHYYA, the letter A ends a longish word after a doubled

letter, so it’s likely to represent Y.

Cipher 5: A three-letter suffix after a doubled letter in a long word is likely to be -ING. Can you find it here?

Cipher 6: The letter H doesn’t stand for A or I in this instance. This puzzle’s title should serve as an additional hint.

Cipher 7: Vowels A, E, I, O, and U are represented by G, K, R, T, and Y, in some order.

TIPS AND CLUES

W M Q R V Y A W T B V E Y G S Q A

Q T O Y B G T V X G R R Q B G O R W T B

R X E H G R W B T Q S R . W V M Q R ,

“ F G S N ! X A V G T V W R E T

L W Y G ! ”


BY BILLIE TRUITTLIFE OF EASE

ACROSS

1 Tea holder 4 Microwave, slangily 7 Pinnacle 11 “___ miracle!”: 2 wds. 15 Reuters rival, briefly 16 Supermarket chain initials 17 Weighty book 18 Rock guitarist Lofgren 19 State of bewilderment 20 Three times, to a pharmacist 21 Fail to enunciate 22 ___ B’rith 23 Sunshine State archipelago: 2 wds. 26 Jelly fruit 27 That femme

28 Cinch 29 Cotton pod 30 “See ya!”: Hyph. 33 Gym session 36 Welcome arrival on a hot day: 2 wds. 39 French article 40 Traveled astride: 2 wds. 43 Trade show 44 Capitol Hill worker 45 Defeatist’s motto: 2 wds. 46 R2-D2, for one 48 Mary-Kate or Ashley 49 Part of GAO: Abbr. 50 Cause for alarm? 51 Laundromat appliances 52 Record label letters 53 Pollen transporters 56 Bookkeeper’s books 58 Relic of the past 62 Just 63 Spent bullet 65 ___ Reader (alternative magazine) 66 Beatnik’s cap 68 Take a nap: 3 wds. 71 When Hamlet sees his father’s ghost: 2 wds. 72 Hoodlum 73 Musical gift 74 Early 11th-century date 75 Baseball Hall-of-Famer Aparicio 76 Maine/New Hampshire river

77 Entirely 78 Abbr. on some invoices 79 Häagen-___ 80 Ukrainian capital 81 It breaks every morning 82 Sugar suffix

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1 Smorgasbord 2 Historic Harlem theater 3 American ___ (Richard Gere movie) 4 Pasta tubes 5 Ripened 6 Sun screen, of a kind 7 Between ports: 2 wds. 8 Sea anemone, for one 9 They’ll never get off the ground 10 Gen-___ (Boomer’s kid) 11 Economical way to buy: 2 wds.

12 Bob Denver’s ‘60s costar: 2 wds. 13 Czech or Serb 14 Polo’s destination 24 Something of little value: 2 wds. 25 Door opener 26 An Inconvenient

Truth author 29 Clown of renown 31 Stolen goods 32 Long, long time 33 Shed tears 34 Reporting to 35 Most new drivers 37 Insurgent 38 Prefix for skeleton 40 Orion’s left foot 41 “___ All Ye Faithful”: 2 wds. 42 Red Sox slugger nicknamed “Big Papi”: 2 wds. 44 Flowering ground cover 46 Edges

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This puzzle is solved like a standard Mixed Doubles in that each answer word has two clues leading to it, using different meanings of the word. The clues are separated into Across and Down, but are otherwise ordered randomly.

When you find two Across or two Down clues that seem to have the same answer, add up their clue numbers to determine the place in the grid at which the answer should be entered. For example, if the clue for 1-Across were “Metallic element” and the clue for 17-Across read “Starring role,” the answer would be LEAD, which would go in 18-Across (1 + 17). Tags such as “Hyph.” and “2 wds.” have been omitted.

In this puzzle, there is an added twist: The Across and Down clue lists each contain one extra clue. If you rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces of the grid, you will discover a word that is suggested by both of the extra clues. ANSWER, PAGE 73

BY MIKE NOTHNAGEL

ACROSS

1 It’s mixed and then poured 2 Political pamphlets 3 Thing with a routing number 4 Take the wheel 5 Unrelenting 6 Spice found in a shaker or grinder 7 Showy stuntman 8 Nun’s duds 9 Inspect 10 Anaheim or poblano, e.g. 11 Insult 12 Tilt 13 Like an overestimate 14 Without a layover 15 Lifts weights, perhaps 16 Crowd scene actor 17 Additional

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Water End of ship (will continue in the direction of the lat side)

Submarine Middle of a ship (will continue either left and right or up and down)

The six puzzles on this page are solitaire versions of the classic paper-and-pencil game of Battleships. Each grid represents a section of ocean in which a fleet is hiding. This fleet consists of one battleship (four grid cells in length), two cruisers (three cells each), three destroyers (two cells each), and four submarines (one cell each). The ships may be oriented either horizontally or vertically, and no two ships can occupy adjacent grid cells, not even diagonally. The digits along the grid’s perimeter indicate the number of cells in the corresponding rows and columns that are occupied by vessels. You’ll notice that some “shots” have been taken to start you off. These may show water (indicated by wavy lines), a complete sub (a circle), the bow or stern of a ship (a rounded-off square), or a midsection of a battleship or cruiser (a square). The puzzles get harder as you go. Can you reach the rank of admiral by locating all six fleets? ANSWERS, PAGE 73

BY CONCEPTIS LTD.

WWW.CONCEPTISPUZZLES.COMBATTLESHIPS

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1–SEAMAN 2–PETTY OFFICER 3–ENSIGN

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PRESIDENTIAL GRID

NO. LAST NAME FIRST NAME PARTY

1 WASHINGTON George Federalist

2 ADAMS John Federalist

3 JEFFERSON Thomas Democrat-Republican

4 MADISON James Democrat-Republican

5 MONROE James Democrat-Republican

6 ADAMS John Quincy Democrat-Republican

7 JACKSON Andrew Democrat

8 VAN BUREN Martin Democrat

9 HARRISON William Henry Whig

10 TYLER John Whig

11 POLK James K. Democrat

12 TAYLOR Zachary Whig

13 FILLMORE Millard Whig

14 PIERCE Franklin Democrat

15 BUCHANAN James Democrat

16 LINCOLN Abraham Republican

17 JOHNSON Andrew Union

18 GRANT Ulysses S. Republican

19 HAYES Rutherford B. Republican

20 GARFIELD James A. Republican

21 ARTHUR Chester Republican

22 CLEVELAND Grover Democrat

As the main writer for Hollywood Insider magazine, you’ve heard that a big casting decision will be announced soon for a highly anticipated historical drama. The 2012 film Lincoln was quite an achievement, having been nominated for Best Picture and winning Daniel Day-Lewis his third Academy Award. A major studio wants to replicate the success of that film with a biopic about George Washington. The studio is confident in this picture’s potential—if they can cast the right actor to play the first president. Casting the lead has been unusually difficult; many prominent actors like Kevin Spacey and Michael Fassbender auditioned but didn’t get the high-profile role. Luckily, you heard from a confidant over at the studio that the producers and director have finally agreed on which actor will play Washington. Can you figure out who it is and earn yourself an exclusive?

DIRECTIONS: When solved correctly, the puzzles on the next three pages will reveal four “TRUE CLUE” letters. These letters correspond to the four clues in the TRUE CLUE GRID (page 25) that are indeed true. The remaining clues are false and should be ignored. After you’ve identified all four TRUE CLUES, follow their instructions. Upon doing so, you should be able to determine the actor who will be playing the lead in this highly anticipated movie. ANSWERS, PAGES 73 & 74

BY CHRISTOPHER MAGAN

NO. LAST NAME FIRST NAME PARTY

23 HARRISON Benjamin Republican

24 CLEVELAND Grover Democrat

25 MCKINLEY William Republican

26 ROOSEVELT Theodore Republican

27 TAFT William Republican

28 WILSON Woodrow Democrat

29 HARDING Warren G. Republican

30 COOLIDGE Calvin Republican

31 HOOVER Herbert Republican

32 ROOSEVELT Franklin D. Democrat

33 TRUMAN Harry S. Democrat

34 EISENHOWER Dwight D. Republican

35 KENNEDY John F. Democrat

36 JOHNSON Lyndon B. Democrat

37 NIXON Richard Republican

38 FORD Gerald Republican

39 CARTER Jimmy Democrat

40 REAGAN Ronald Republican

41 BUSH George H. W. Republican

42 CLINTON Bill Democrat

43 BUSH George W. Republican

44 OBAMA Barack Democrat

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

YOU’RE ON A ROLE!A WHITE HOUSE MOVIE MINI-CAPER


For each of the four identified TRUE CLUES, do the following in (or near) the Presidential Grid (page 24):

TRUE CLUE GRID

PUZZLE 1: THE TRY-FECTA

A Completely shade in the LAST NAME cell of any president whose last name contains a double letter

C Cross out any president whose party is not Republican

E Cross out any president whose last name has exactly two syllables

H Write the first letter of the names of presidents 1–22 in the lines beneath the Presidential Grid

M Cross out any even-numbered president

R Cross out any president whose “First Name” field in the Presidential Grid contains a W

S Completely shade in the row (four cells) of any president whose party ends in T

T Cross out any president whose last name has an odd number of letters

Each of the 12 clues below has at least three correct answers that each have the same number of letters (indicated in brackets). For example, three answers to the clue “First word of a two-word U.S. state [5]” would be NORTH, SOUTH, and RHODE. Your mission is to identify the three intended correct answers for each clue and enter them into the appropriate grid in such a way that the three highlighted columns in the grids spell out three correct responses to the Common Theme clue. An E in each grid has been filled in for you. Omit any spaces and punctuation. TRUE CLUE letter #1 is the most commonly used letter in all three highlighted Common Theme columns.

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1 Planet in our solar system [7]

2 Four-letter U.S. state [4]

3 One of Santa’s reindeer [5]

4 Color of the rainbow [6]

5 First name of one of the six TV Friends [6]

6 California major league baseball team [6]

7 Number less than 15 [3]

8 Base hit in baseball [6]

9 Season of the year [6]

10 One of the top 10 most populous cities in the U.S. [7]

11 Sign of the Zodiac [5]

12 One of the first four letters of the Greek alphabet [5]

COMMON THEME: “Hanks” for the memories


PUZZLE 2: ATTACK OF THE TLAs (OMG!)

Each of the red boxes in the puzzle grid contains a three-letter acronym. All but one of these acronyms has two clue answers associated with it. For example, the acronym TLC could represent “Tender Loving Care” and “Tastes Like Chicken.” Note that only one of the acronyms has just one clue answer associated with it. TRUE CLUE letter #2 is the first letter of the acronym that has only one clue answer associated with it.

CLUES

1 Tuber toy

2 U.S. state capital

3 Radar gun reading

4 Salty flavor enhancer

5 Baseball pitcher’s statistic

6 2016 presidential contender

7 U.S. espionage organization

8 One way to cross the Hudson

9 “Here’s to a speedy recovery!”

10 One of two airliner “black boxes”

11 Award-winning Weeds actress

12 Music-themed restaurant chain

13 “Your oversharing is awkward”

14 Longest-serving U.S. president

15 Hasbro’s colorful equestrian franchise

16 Chapter list in the front of a book

17 “Fly Like an Eagle” and “The Joker” music group

18 Retail chain whose name includes an ampersand

19 New Mexico town named after a radio quiz show

20 American college for aspiring chefs

21 Its disco soundtrack sold 15 million U.S. copies

22 Site of a major nuclear accident in 1979

23 2013 Emma Thompson film about Mary Poppins

24 Consumer complaint intermediary organization

25 Fad dolls “born” at Babyland General Hospital

26 Proposed gender-parity Constitutional add-on

27 Site that provides long-term health care

28 Major League team with a bird logo

29 Its only natural predator is the orca

30 41: A Portrait of My Father author

31 Famous arena atop Penn Station

BBB CIA CPK ERA

FDR GWB GWS HRC

MLP MPH MSG SLC

SMB SNF TMI TOC


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PUZZLE 3: WHITEOUT! PUZZLE 4: REEL FUN

FINAL ANSWER

All of the answers to the clues below fit a common theme. Answer each clue and write its first letter in the correspondingly numbered box in the grid. Then proceed in a straight line in any one direction: up, down, left, right, or diagonally. When the puzzle is finished, every square should be used. Note: Each answer shares at least one letter with another answer. Punctuation, spaces, and tags (such as “Hyph.” or “2 wds.”) have been omitted. TRUE CLUE letter #3 can be found in the center square (highlighted in red) when the grid is completed correctly.

Below are three shaded “reels” that represent the titles of three 8-letter films. Using the randomly ordered clues provided, enter each film’s title in the correct reel (clockwise or counterclockwise, omitting any spaces). When this is done correctly, the name of a nine-letter 1970s comedy—starring two relatives—will be revealed in the highlighted red row. A vowel in each of the three reel titles has been filled in for you. TRUE CLUE letter #4 is the letter in the highlighted red row that comes last alphabetically.

OK—so you’ve hopefully solved the four puzzles to reveal the four correct TRUE CLUE letters. You’ve also followed each TRUE CLUE’s directions. You’ll find your EXCLUSIVE! in one of the Presidential Grid’s columns.

1 Four-legged comic strip character named after

the cartoonist’s grandfather

1 Bestow

2 Kerrigan rival

2 Competitor of Dyson and Oreck

3 Name repeated in the makers of Band-Aids

3 Southern U.S. capital that sits atop an extinct volcano

4 1981 Dudley Moore comedy

5 Burton’s two-time divorcée

6 Boxer Attell or actor Vigoda

7 Surname of “The First Lady of the American Theatre”

8 Mr. Perry who created and portrays Madea in the movies

9 Tina’s “Proud Mary” collaborator

10 ___ baby (galago)

11 “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher”

singer Rita

11 Largest city along Lake Erie

12 ___ apple (neck feature)

13 First word in the name of a shrimp-themed

restaurant chain

CLUES

1952 Western for which Gary Cooper won his

second Best Actor Academy Award

1973 “great escape” movie starring Steve McQueen

1978 sequel-spawning blockbuster based on

a DC Comics character

Actor _________ _________ chosen to play �rst president

in big-budget”WASHINGTON: The Movie”

HOLLYWOODINSIDER

EXCLUSIVE!

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Arrange the digits 1 through 9 in each diamond-shaped set of diamonds below, based on the clues provided. Some diamonds already contain the correct numbers. Numbers at the end of a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line represent the sum of the numbers in the diamonds in that line. “Greater than” signs indicate the relationship between the two numbers adjacent to the symbol. In the double-diamond puzzles (#5 and #6), the same number cannot appear twice in the same line, and the number in the intersection point between diamonds counts as part of both sets of nine.

When solving, start with lines having high or low totals. Intersections are helpful, but so are non-intersecting totals—there are fewer ways to produce two totals if the same number cannot appear in both lines. Keep in mind that the numbers 1 through 9 add up to 45. You will discover other solving techniques as you work through the puzzles. ANSWERS, PAGE 74

BY STEVE COUGHLANTOUGH AS DIAMONDS

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QUINT-ESSENTIAL Quit what you’re doing for a quick fix of quiet time with this quite delightful word search. Though they’re not listed for you, there are 50 words (of five or more letters) to be found in the grid below, each of which appears as a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of letters. Once located, they can be segregated into 10 groups of five related words each. To get you started, we’ve circled a sixth word from one group. The remaining five words are all members of the same category. There is also a hint about one of the other categories in the third row of letters from the bottom.

After you’ve circled all 50 words and filled in the blanks, the unused letters (read from left to right and top to bottom) will spell out an eleventh bonus group of five related words. Note: The words DAIRY, LUNAR and RENEGE appear incidentally and are not part of the solution. There are no plurals in this puzzle. If you need a little help getting started, check out the hint listing the 10 categories on page 77. ANSWERS, PAGE 74

BY DON HENDERSON


Helter-Skelter is a crossword variation in which the answers interlock in any of eight different directions. To solve, write the answer to each clue starting in its numbered square and proceed in a straight line toward—and if necessary, beyond—the next consecutive number. The first answer, ALTAR, has been entered in Helter-Skelter #1 as an example. ANSWERS, PAGE 74

BY FRANK LONGOHELTER-SKELTER

1 Rite site

2 It makes your kisses slippery: 2 wds.

3 Ran, as dye

4 Jostled in jest

5 Drops a line

6 Great scholar

7 ”___ Mr. Nice Guy!”: 2 wds.

8 Jeopardy! creator Griffin

9 It’s often added to milk: 2 wds.

10 Kate’s sitcom friend

11 Not nearly as cordial

12 Carmaker Olds’s first name

13 Caught in a trap

14 More ghostly

15 Hang around

16 Plenty: 2 wds.

17 Lock of hair

18 Where the beach crowd is at: 2 wds.

19 Olin who played Irina on Alias

20 Leontyne Price solo

21 Instead (of): 2 wds.

22 Anderson or Armstrong

23 Make into law

1 World’s highest capital city: 2 wds.

2 Volkswagen’s luxury brand

3 Of standard quality: 3 wds.

4 Feast fit for a filly

5 Deprive (of)

6 Betrays, in a way: 2 wds.

7 Conical quarters

8 Piano-practice piece

9 Cass of The Mamas & the Papas

10 ”Clock-wise” global section: 2 wds.

11 Conditionally free: 2 wds.

12 Once-a-year

13 Time cofounder Henry

14 Capital of Lower Normandy

15 Like all-skim yogurt

16 Samurai’s relative

17 Dilettantish

18 Car-lot transaction: Hyph.

19 As an alternative

20 “Thing” word

21 On its second owner

22 Throw out

23 Doubloon, e.g.

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HELTER-SKELTER #1 HELTER-SKELTER #2


In these puzzles, each set of letters is a familiar uncapitalized word with exactly one letter changed. In Puzzle A, #1, for example, if you change the M in DIMORCE to a V, you get DIVORCE. Can you figure out the unique solution in each puzzle? As a solving aid, each of the 26 letters of the alphabet is replaced exactly once, so you can cross off letters as you use them. ANSWERS, PAGE 75

LETTUR PERFEKT BY STEPHEN SNIDERMAN

A B C D E F G H I J K L M

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z







PUZZLE A

PUZZLE C PUZZLE D

PUZZLE B

1. DIMORCE

2. ANTIVUE

3. SPECKAL

4. STANYARD

5. RENEFIT

6. GENDINE

7. MARTILL

8. AROPHY

9. TRUSPET

10. CRIEND

11. BIGAMP

12. TRAPEWE

13. WALOPY

14. COORUS

15. SARCALM

16. ASERUAL

17. COLDNEL

18. SADMON

19. VETCRAN

20. PENOIL

21. ASKWARD

22. PRENNANT

23. NICAEL

24. HASPOON

25. AGLOSTIC

26. DIOLOMA

1. HAINDO

2. INSTINET

3. THOUTH

4. TRANSIER

5. BULKARK

6. PHRAMID

7. FELINI

8. ANDIETY

9. ALBINK

10. ROSTINE

11. WATERAL

12. HEIGOT

13. SUPOLY

14. SCUMEN

15. FAMBLIAR

16. FROGEN

17. COLUIN

18. OPARUE

19. ADIANCE

20. ABOOMEN

21. OILIGED

22. PERAURY

23. ALIALI

24. ACHOOL

25. DEBOOR

26. TORIADO

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2. TORENDOR

3. DESTRE

4. MILIRU

5. TONARD

6. BROGLE

7. SUBOLE

8. BALMET

9. GALAPY

10. SOLEMP

11. BOBEAT

12. GARGOBLE

13. WISHOM

14. JURIOT

15. IMAMINE

16. SOTTENER

17. SUSINESS

18. ONEMONIC

19. THEPRY

20. TORTUE

21. ASTOMA

22. STANEA

23. LOGUAM

24. DOSSIEL

25. CHEERON

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2. BAGUIPE

3. AISHOP

4. TAWDOY

5. BAMAAR

6. WOMEW

7. SCENTRIO

8. SOOTOE

9. ENSERBLE

10. CHOAR

11. PURSPIT

12. ENAMED

13. ANECROTE

14. ANCHOLY

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16. SORFERY

17. TOMBRY

18. CRODUET

19. BANHOIST

20. GIMMICE

21. UNURUAL

22. STIOMA

23. PREVIEN

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25. INDERNO

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Solve this puzzle as you would a regular crossword, except that each space may hold one, two, or three letters. The number of letters in a space is for you to determine, using logic and the crossing of words. The answer to 1-Across, B-RA-VER, has been filled in as an example. ANSWER, PAGE 75

ONE, TWO, THREE BY FRANK LONGO

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1 Less cowardly 4 Freeloading sort 8 Dominant themes 12 Delta of Venus author Nin 13 Gas brand with a star logo 14 1982 Pryor/Gleason comedy: 2 wds. 15 Tony Bennett hit with a city in its title: 7 wds. 18 Put on a detour 19 Twist into a knot 20 Giant ape of film, for short 22 Gloomy donkey of kid-lit 26 Elevating 29 CD album’s ancestor: 2 wds. 32 Campbell of the Scream films 33 Jan & Dean hit with a city in its title: 6 wds. 36 Part of a procedure 37 The Jeffersons actress Sanford 38 Soda bottle sizes 39 Hamlet and King Lear, for two 41 First-string athletic group: Hyph. 43 Yiddish writer Aleichem or Asch 46 Grants entry to: 2 wds.

50 Dionne Warwick hit with a city in its title: 8 wds. 54 Earnest requests 55 Creators of detailed directories 56 Raised, as livestock 57 Small bag for scenting clothes 58 Picks in a classroom: 2 wds. 59 Dormant

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1 One dumping water overboard 2 Pursued speedily: 2 wds. 3 Artistic realism, as in late 19th-century Italian opera 4 Uselessly old-fashioned: Hyph. 5 Earthy pigment 6 Making rigorous demands 7 Desperately Seeking Susan costar Arquette 8 Nurturing, protective, and kind 9 Giant of Greek myth 10 Points of convergence 11 Big name in food service products 16 Yellow-fleshed potato variety: 2 wds. 17 What a prisoner longs for

21 Knight who sang with the Pips 23 At the location itself, as training: Hyph. 24 Library patron 25 At the very same time that: 2 wds. 26 Most limber 27 Move quickly and seemingly randomly 28 Part of a book’s front matter: 2 wds. 30 Factory-cut home 31 Establish a mutual connection between 34 Stays in hiding: 2 wds. 35 State trees of Florida and South Carolina 40 Deceitful 42 American Pie actress Hannigan 44 Concerning right and wrong 45 Genetics pioneer Gregor 47 TV’s teenage witch 48 Deliver with a hypodermic needle 49 Sharp decline 50 Groups’ senior members 51 Community service program 52 Newswoman Couric 53 People shining floors

B RA VER


•WHAT'S HAPPENING•BY JASON ELMER

What’s Happening: ANIMINNEAPOLIS

When: May 6–8, 2016Where: Hyatt Regency Minneapolis; Minneapolis, MNDetails: This con provides a safe and fun place to make friends with people who share similar interests. Anime fans will gather together for “three days of anime, video games, and music in Minneapolis.” You can cosplay (optional); attend concerts, dances, and contests; play video games; and shop for anime items. Autograph sessions and entertaining panels will also be featured.For more info: www.animinneapolis.com

What’s Happening:XCON

When: May 20–22, 2016Where: Myrtle Beach Convention Center; Myrtle Beach, SCDetails: This annual comic convention and show offers attendees the chance to enjoy special exhibits, immerse themselves in RPGs, and much more. As always the 2016 edition will feature an excellent lineup of celebrity guests, authors, and artists. For more info: www.xconworld.info

What’s Happening:GAME-O-RAMA

When:May 26–30, 2016Where : At lanta Marriott Perimeter Center; Atlanta, GADetails: Get

together with other enthusiasts to enjoy board and card games, miniatures, and RPGs. There will be tournaments, as well as opportunities to play certain games with their designers. Special events include a room devoted to the Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator, and a flea market where attendees can sell, buy, and trade games.For more info: www.game-o-rama.com

What’s Happening:NORFOLK ANIME EXPLOSION

When: May 26–29, 2016Where: Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel

Details: Join fellow anime lovers at this con dedicated to Japanese culture, anime, manga, music, cosplay, and more. Special activities and guests round out the events.For more info: www.norfolkanime.com

What’s Happening:MOBICON XIX

When: May 27–29, 2016Where: Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel; Mobile, ALDetails: This con is for fans of fantasy, science fiction, horror, comic books, anime, and gaming. For gamers there are board games, CCGs, RPGs, miniatures, and more. Other activities include cosplay, panels, and live entertainment. Special events include a Zombie Walk through downtown Mobile, with awards for Best Zombie and Best Hunter.For more info: www.mobicon.org

What’s Happening:BGG.CON SPRING

When: May27–30, 2016Where: HyattRegency DFW; DFW Airport,TXDetails: Comeand enjoy BGG.CON’s vastgame library, where attendees can borrow games and try them out in the open gaming area. There are also special rooms where new games will be taught, as well as special events such as tournaments and puzzle hunts.For more info: www.boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/BGGCON_Spring

What’s Happening: KUBLACON

When: May 27–30, 2016Where: Hyatt Regency SFO; Burlingame, CA

Details: This “Khan of Cons” is the West Coast’s largest gaming convention, with a huge selection of board games, RPGs, CCGs, and more. Special programs for teens and younger players will be offered. Other events include miniatures painting, a flea market, and a dealers’ room.For more info: www.kublacon.com

What’s Happening: STUNFEST 2016

When: May 20–22, 2016Where: Le Liberté; Rennes, FranceDetails: Stunfest, which takes place in the historic city of Rennes in Brittany, bills itself as a “video games festival like you’ve never seen.” Drawing gamers from around the world, it offers arcade games, retrogaming, indie games, concerts, and conferences, among other things. The goal of Stunfest is to show video games as not only a form of entertainment, but as a whole culture.For more info: www.stunfest.fr/english-informations

What’s Happening: EVERGREEN TABLETOP EXPO

When: May 27–29, 2016Where: Greater Tacoma Convention Center; Tacoma, WADetails: Evergreen Tabletop Expo, or ETX, is the Pacific Northwest’s home for tabletop gaming; hence its slogan “A game for every player and a table for every

game.” Attendees will enjoy guest appearances and organized gaming events. Game publishers will also be on hand to answer questions.For more info: etxwa.com

What’s Happening: GEEKWAY TO

THE WEST

When: May19–22, 2016Where: Westport Sheraton Chalet; St. Louis, MODetails: Geekway boasts “Four Days of Peace, Love, and Board Games!” Attendees can visit the game library and participate in open gaming the whole time, or they may sample the scheduled and informal events. “Official” Geekway events include a Game Prototype Lab, Game Design Competition, daily door prizes, and a Game Market. One of the many perks that makes this con special is that every registered guest will take home a free game.For more info: www.geekwaytothewest.com

FAMILY GAME NIGHT ACROSS THE GLOBEBy Jonathan Schmalzbach

Family game night, my favorite night of the month. Just me,

my family, and my ‘jama pants.—Cory Matthews

On the Disney Channel show Girl Meets World, family game

night is a sacred monthly tradition. Dad Cory Matthews giddily

looks forward to playing board games; his favorite, aptly, is

called the Family Game.

Many of today’s adults grew up with a similar tradition in

which board and card games would bring families together—

when taunting and fighting weren’t tearing them apart.

Baby Boomers and Gen Xers alike fondly remember playing

games like Chutes and Ladders, Candy Land, Parcheesi, and

Trouble, which are long on luck but short on strategy. As they

grew from kids to teens, their games became more sophisticated,

tactical, or knowledge-based. Today, bloggers write nostalgically

about family time spent competing in such popular games as

Monopoly, Scrabble, Connect Four, and Trivial Pursuit.

This gives rise to some interesting questions: Is family game

night a global phenomenon, embraced by the rest of the world?

What board games are popular in other parts of the world?

In search of answers, I conducted a spot survey of friends and

family living around the globe and also did some research of my

own. While not being able to stop in all countries, I did learn

that many nations have an equivalent of game night. Plenty

of American board games enjoy international popularity and,

conversely, quite a few board games popular in the States have

their roots abroad.

The Netherlands

According to my stepsister, Beth, who lives in Amsterdam

with her Dutch husband, Marcel, family game night in the

Netherlands includes many of the same board games played in

the United States. Marcel grew up playing American games such

as Rummikub, Scrabble, and Monopoly with his family. A more

recent favorite, according to Beth, is Settlers of Catan, created by

German game designer Klaus Teuber.

The website dutchcommunity.com confirms the popularity

of the American classics but adds that “old-fashioned

board games are still passionately played in Dutch living

rooms up and down the country.” One popular game

they point out is Mens Erger Je Niet, which translatestt

roughly as “Don’t get worked up, guys!” The game is

Parcheesi-esque and is known for infuriating the players, as the

cover of the game shown above suggests.

And just like in the States, munchies figure prominently in

family game night here, where players indulge in such typical

Dutch noshes as borrelnootjes (cocktail nuts), s Hollandse

kaasblokjes (Dutch cheese cubes), ands bitterballen

(deep-fried meatballs).

India

Speaking of Parcheesi, it is the national game of India,

where it is known as Pachisi. According to 19th-century game

historian Edward Falkener, the game dates back as early as

500 A.D. Pachisi is also called the Royal Game of India because

royalty used servants of the royal household adorned in

colored costumes as game pieces on large outdoor boards.

A traditional board is shaped like a symmetrical cross and

players move pieces around the board based on a throw of

cowrie shells. The name Pachisi derives from the Hindi word

meaning “twenty-five,” which is the highest number that can

be thrown with cowrie shells.

Other popular games originated in India, where they have

been played for centuries. Chess, for instance, is believed

to have originated in India in the sixth century. The game

of Chutes and Ladders can be traced back to a game called

Moksha Patam that originated in 13th-century India.

Moksha Patam was associated with traditional Hindu

philosophy that contrasts karma and kama, or destiny and

desire. Blogger Ruma Chakravarti writes that the original

game squares were associated with virtues and vices. As

she notes, “the 12th square was faith, the 51st square was

reliability, [and] the 57th square was

generosity.” These were the

squares where the

ladders

CLOTH PACHISI BOARD

were found and one could move ahead faster.

Vices—including disobedience, arrogance, vulgarity,

drunkenness, anger, greed, pride, and lust—were

associated with other squares. “These were the squares

where the snake waited with its mouth open,” Chakravarti

writes. Note that the vices outnumber the virtues. Likely

this was meant as a reminder that a path of good is much

more difficult to tread than a path of sins.

Fortunately, the final square represented Nirvana or

Moksha. The moral lesson of the game is that a person can

attain salvation, or Moksha, through being virtuous. But if

one does evil he will slide down the snakes and be reborn as

a lower form of life.

In the 1890s, the British rechristened the game as Snakes

and Ladders, and the board was adapted to reflect Victorian

values. Victorian virtues included Penitence (8) and pity

(54), whereas vices included depravity (64), pride (95), and

unpunctuality (48).

Milton Bradley created a U.S. version called Chutes and

Ladders in 1943. A playground setting replaced the snakes,

which elicited negative reactions from children of that

period, according to an article in The New York Times. In a

particularly American twist, virtues and vices were nowhere

to be seen.

TRADITIONAL HANAFUDA CARDS

MODERN PARCHEESI BOARD

MOKSHA PATAM BOARD, 19th-CENTURY INDIA CHUTES AND LADDERS

Japan

An ex-pat buddy of mine, Dave, moved to

Japan to teach after graduating from college

and never came back. His Japanese wife

Sayuri remembers playing board games with

her family such as Go and Othello. Likewise,

many bloggers from Japan report playing Go,

the ancient territory-acquisition game, with

their families.

Sayuri also mentioned a traditional

card game that people often play at New

Year’s called Hanafuda. Literally translated,

Hanafuda means “flower cards” in Japanese.

Its development was influenced by the

arrival of Portuguese traders in Japan in

the 16th century. Incredibly, Nintendo, one

of the world’s most successful video game

companies, was originally founded with

the sole purpose of creating and printing

Hanafuda cards. The company still produces

these cards today, mainly to honor its

history.

Another friend, Kathie, who lived in

Japan as a young adult, fondly recalls

Uta-garuta, a card game based on the

Hyakunin Isshu (100 waka poems by 100

poets). These 100 waka are very famous

and widely studied in Japanese schools.

All waka poems have five lines. The

last two lines appear on the cards facing

players. When the reader starts reading

the first three lines of the poem, players

race to grab the card with the two lines

that complete the poem.

According to Kathie, brainy kids

in Japan play Uta-garuta, which she

described as “kind of a nerdy, literary

Name That Tune.”

Several Japanese bloggers mention

playing Jinsei, which translates literally as

“life game.” This is apt as it’s modeled on

The Game of Life, an American favorite.

The website BoardGameGeek describes Jinsei as Life with

“an additional game board, the ‘Junior Stage’ board, which

lays over top of the standard board and roulette spinner

wheel.” The Junior Stage variant, which was made for children

but can be played by anyone, has large, easy-to-read print and

follows players from birth until they begin to look for their

first job.

Russia

When asked about games in Russia, my cousin Ella, who was

born there, mentions Preferans, the country’s national card

game. This trick-taking card game has been popular since the

1830s and is enjoyed by serious and casual players alike.

But Yelena, who posts for the Russian language blog

“Transparent Language,” offers an interesting perspective

on the differences between board games in the U.S. and her

native country.

“Do you like playing board games?” she asks. “Let me tell

you, board game fans in the U.S. are absolutely spoiled. Unlike

Russia, in the U.S. there’s such a variety of board games there

for all ages and for every taste.”

Growing up in Russia, Yelena remembers playing just a few

classic board games such as chess, checkers, and dominoes. She

recalls a more fun strategy game called Battle Ships, although

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CHEMICAL WARFARE, ANOTHER GAME FROM THE FORMER U.S.S.R.

most of the time she made do with hand-drawn “boards” in

the backs of grid notebooks.

It does not appear that family game night was a popular

tradition in Russia. Yelena writes that adults generally scorned

game playing as a frivolous way of spending one’s leisure time.

This was not always the case. As Ross Wolfe writes in

his blog “The Charnel-House,” comrades in the 1920s and

1930s could keep sharp fighting the forces of capitalism

by playing revolutionary board games. A company called

A.V. Kuklin issued “a whole batch of revolutionary board-

games, featuring such riveting class-conscious titles as

Electrification, Revolution, Reds vs. Whites, and Maneuvers:

A Game for Young Pioneers.” As he notes, drily, these were

“games for the whole family, even though the family form of

property-relations must eventually be abolished.”

To these Yelena adds board games from the same era

that can be roughly translated as: Deliver Raw Materials to

Factories, Lenin Is Walking to Smolny, and Chemical Warfare.

“I have to mention,” she adds, “that all these games were

games for children.”

Africa

The next stop on our tour of games from around the globe

is Africa, the likely birthplace of mancala, one of the oldest

games in the world, dating back thousands of years. Mancala

boards have been found carved into the roofs of ancient

Egyptian tombs in Luxor and Thebes.

A mancala board has holes arranged in either two or four

rows. Small stones or seeds were used in earlier mancala sets;

today, marbles are common. The name mancala literally means

“to transfer” in Arabic, so the aim is to move your stones around

so that you can capture more than your opponent. The game is

played by both children and adults; many families report playing

the game together in a family setting.

Anouk Zijlma, who writes for the website About Travel,

grew up playing mancala, which is known as bao in Malawi.

She writes “some of you may know the game as mancala,

oware, ayo, omweso, enkeshui, or aweet. There are in fact

more than 200 versions of this ‘count and capture’ game,

played throughout Africa, all with slightly different rules.”

My friend Kathie, whom I mentioned earlier, also spent

several years in Uganda, where mancala is called omweso.

“We played it with rocks or beans in the dirt because we

usually didn’t have the wooden board,” she said. “We would

dig 14 holes and play that way.”

So what did I learn from my informal survey of games

around the world? At first glance, family game night appears

to be a primarily American phenomenon, but families in

other areas of the world often come together to enjoy

their favorite board games, too. Of course, the Golden Age

of board games predates the current video game era. Yet,

board games continue to endure. Classics such as Monopoly,

Sorry, and Clue are still big sellers, while newer games such

as Taboo and Pie Face are making the top-10 lists. When I

can pull my 10-year-old daughter Rose away from her video

screens, she’ll play Rummikub or Uno—she even taught her

folks mancala!

Mens Erger Je Niet, anyone?

19th-CENTURY MANCALA BOARD, BROOKLYN MUSEUM


1. FAQ ABOUT NORTH AMERICAN SCRABBLE CLUBS

Can anyone come to Scrabble clubs or do you first have to be a member of NASPA (North American Scrabble Players Association)?Anyone at all can come. Check out www.cross-tables.com for a list of clubs across the U.S. Before attending, contact the club organizer to make sure the club will be meeting as listed, what word list the club uses, and if the club charges a fee (most don’t, but some do—usually just to cover the cost of the meeting space). You would need to join NASPA before potentially playing a tournament, though.

What is it like at a Scrabble club?In general, clubs are very welcoming to

new players, and sometimes even allow them to use a cheat sheet. Expect to encounter a mix of players, ranging from novice to expert. Clubs vary in many ways, but what is consistent are that games are one-on-one, and they are timed (25 minutes per person per game using a chess clock, 10-point penalty for each minute one goes beyond their allotted 25 minutes).

What else should a new player know before attending?It’s helpful to know the basics, like the rules of the game and rules of challenging opponents’ words. But again, club veterans will be happy to teach you what

you don’t know. It may also be helpful to be familiar with some word basics, like the 2-letter words and high-scoring short words you can make using the high-point tiles (J,Q,X,Z). But it’s also fine to learn as you play. A typical club offers 3 to 5 games per session, though players are encouraged to come for whatever portion they’d like.

If I already can beat my family and friends regularly, should I skip club and go right to tournament play?You certainly could, but I’d recommend at least one or two club sessions just to get the feel of organized play and playing on a clock. ANSWERS, PAGE 75

•YOUR WORD AGAINST MINE: SCRABBLE HAPPENINGS, PUZZLES, AND TIPS•

Scott Appel has been playing tournament Scrabble for nearly 20 years. He’ll be at several tournaments this year, including

the North American Scrabble Championship (in Fort Wayne, Indiana, starting on August 6). See www.cross-tables.com

for more info regarding all upcoming tournaments.

2. IT HAD TO BE U (OR V OR W, ETC.):Each of the following groups of letters includes a blank, denoted by a question mark. In each case, there is exactly one (common) word that can be made—it’s up to you to figure out what letter the blank needs to be. In each list the puzzles get progressively harder.

6-LETTER WORDS 7-LETTER WORDS 8-LETTER WORDS


BY SCOTT APPEL

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3. HOOKS AND EXTENSIONS AND PARALLELS, OH MY!

In Scrabble, there are four types of plays you can make on any given turn. Here is a description and example of each:

Using the board at left, make the highest scoring play that is either a perpendicular, a hook, a parallel, or an extension, as indicated. All four plays use the same board. Once you make a play using a given rack, remove those letters from the board before starting the next rack.

Rack 1: EEIIRVZ, perpendicular

Rack 2: CEGLPRS, extension

Rack 3: EEPRTTX, parallel

Rack 4: EEEINQU, hook

Board 1: WIG is on the board,play MIGHT through the G. This is called playing perpen-dicular to a word. This is the style of play newer players generally find easiest to see.

Board 2: WIG is on the board,play ZIT/TWIG. This is called ahook.

Board 3: WIG is on the board, play KENO under WIG, form-ing WE/IN/GO as well. This is called playing parallel to aword.

Board 4: WIG is on the board, play WIGGLE. This is called an extension.

Using the board at left, find the highest scoring play for each of the four racks. The type of play (perpendicular, hook, parallel or extension) has not been identified, but each of the four types will be used exactly once. Again, once you make a play using a given rack, remove those letters before starting the next rack. As a hint to solving, the total number of points that can be scored across all four plays is 246.

Rack 1: CILOOUZ

Rack 2: EEIQSTU

Rack 3: DEILMNV

Rack 4: AADEEFT


SHENANIGANS

“Come one, come all. Step right up to play

Shenanigans, the ‘Carnival of Fun Game.’

Would you like your palm read? Visit the snake

charmer—if you dare. Step right up!”

The 1964 board game Shenanigans looks like a colorful car-

nival and features several midway-type games. The board has

a third dimension—a cardboard wall— that shows the games,

several of which have definitive ’60s-sounding names such as

Bowlaganza and Balloono.

The object of the game is to collect the most Shenaniganzas

(Shenanigans money) while traveling through the “carnival”—

that is, moving along the board the number of squares indicated

by the roll of a die.

Milton Bradley produced the board game, which was based

on an ABC TV show called Shenanigans. On the show, children

played a life-size version of the game.

Hosted by Broadway mainstay Stubby Kaye, the TV game

show had a boardwalk-meets-carnival vibe. There was a haunted

house, Skee-Ball, and Pie in the Eye, where contestants threw a

pie into a big plastic eye that would open and close. It had to be

timed just right to get it into the hole, which was the eye’s pupil.

It also featured the prototype for the classic board game Op-

eration, where a kid had to pull a bone out of a life-size model.

Pie in the Eye and Bowlaganza are two games that made it

into the board game. Pie in the Eye is a tiddlywinks variant where

the challenge is to flip a tiddlywink through a hole in the wall.

Players are awarded $50 Shenaniganzas for each successful shot.

Bowlaganza also requires some skill. Here, a player bowls

marbles into a cutout and, depending on where they land, is

awarded Shenaniganzas.

The rest of the games are solely luck-oriented. In Dog House,

for instance, a player has to guess whether the drawn card is a

cat, dog, or cow, by imitating its voice with a meow, bowwow,

or moo. Get it right, and add to your Shenaniganzas. In Balloono

and Hold Everything, players draw a card with an amount of

Shenaniganzas on it. Players can continue drawing—but if they

draw a losing card, they suffer a penalty. You can really rack up

the Shenaniganzas in these games!

However, in Guess the Weight, a player essentially has a one-

in-six chance of guessing correctly. With only a $50 Shenanigan-

zas reward for guessing right, the payoff seems a little paltry.

The player who finishes first gets a bonus of $50 Shenanigan-

zas, and whoever has the most money wins.

Sadly, Shenanigans looks a lot more fun than it actually is.

It’s recommended for ages 5 to 12, but most kids today would

likely find the game a little slow and silly. My 10-year-old

wanted nothing to do with it. Nostalgic adults on the other

hand—particularly those who watched the TV show— may get

a kick out of playing.

As Stubby Kaye sang in the TV show theme, “Shenanigans—

have some fun and play Shenanigans…”

This Old Game is a new feature by GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES

contributor and board game collector Jonathan Schmalz-

bach. Each column will profile a game from his collection.

•THIS OLD GAME• BY JONATHAN SCHMALZBACH


MINMOVES PUZZLES

In MinMoves puzzles you are given a set of chairs around

a table with a person whose name begins with the letter

shown. You want to rearrange the people in the chairs to

be sorted in alphabetical order in a clockwise fashion, with one

empty chair just to the left of the person whose name begins

with A.

For this month’s puzzle, in each move, you are allowed to move

a person from one chair to an empty chair three away in either

direction. The goal is to minimize the number of moves.

ANSWER, PAGE 75

Dennis Shasha is a professor

of computer science at New

York University’s Courant Insti-

tute. In addition to his scholarly

research, Dr. Shasha has written

six books of puzzles featuring a

mathematical detective, Dr. Ecco.

He writes the puzzle column

for CACM (Communications of

The Association for Computing

Machinery), and has also writ-

ten puzzle columns for Scientific

American and Dr. Dobb’s Journal.

•LOGIC•BY DENNIS SHASHA

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Below is the starting arrangement. Use atmost two moves to get to a sorted order.

HERE’S THE SOLUTION TO THE WARMUP PUZZLE:

NOW HERE IS THE PROBLEM FOR THIS ISSUE:

Find a way to achieve a sorted outcome using at most 8 moves, where the only allowed move is to move

three seats away to an empty chair.

Note that in this case A starts and ends at seat 1,but that need not have been the case.


TEASERS

TRADING PLACES

Four pieces from a certain chesslike board game have been placed on a 3×2 grid as shown. Each piece—Copper, Silver, Platinum, and Gold, as indicated by their symbols—can move onto an adjacent empty square in any of the directions indicated by the arrows. Can you make a series of just seven moves after which the positions of the Silver and Gold have been switched but the Copper and Platinum are on their original squares?

—R.H. WEI

LOGIC

SPORTING COMPANIONS

Fred had invited three friends to his home for an afternoon of games. At one point in the afternoon the following lively conversation took place:

Mr. Beacham: In golf, the chef beats me but I beat Jim.The engineer: Yes—and you, Mr. Beacham, beat me in tennis, where I beat Karl.Karl: True, I can beat the engineer only in golf, not in tennis. However, Mr. Harkness beats me in golf.Jim: Mr. Harkness beats me in tennis, where I beat the lawyer.Irv: In tennis I beat Mr. Dodge, but I lose to the accountant.Mr. Grant: Well, I beat the accountant at golf, where I lose to you, Irv.

From the information imparted above, can you identify all the men by full name and occupation, and tell their relative skills in both games?

—PAUL R. MCCLENON

MAPPIT

LATITUDINAL THINKING

Each group of three world cities below lies within a different 10-degree band of latitudes, ranging from 70° N. to 50° S. Can you put the groups in order from north to south?

1. Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong,

Honolulu

2. Bangkok, Manila, Mumbai

3. Bogota, Kuala Lumpur,

Monrovia

4. Brisbane, Johannesburg,

Rio de Janeiro

5. Cape Town, Santiago, Sydney

6. Casablanca, Tehran, Tokyo

7. Darwin, Harare, Lima

8. Dublin, Edmonton, Moscow

9. Fairbanks, Helsinki, Reykjavik

10. Hobart, Puerto Montt (Chile),

Wellington

11. Jakarta, Nairobi, Recife

12. Montreal, Paris, Rome

—PADDY SMITH

•WILD CARDS•

ANSWERS, PAGE 76

WORDPLAY

COVER-UP

Imagine the four 3×3 grids shown as separate slips of paper below. How can they be placed in the larger square (with some overlapping) to form a word square, with five five-letter words reading across and five different five-letter words reading down? Letters covered by an overlapping grid will not be part of the finished square.

—MIKE SHENK

WORDPLAY

PREFIX AFFIXATION

The blanks in each row below can be filled in with the same nine letters in the same order to make 10 common words. Can you determine what are the missing nine letters?

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—RAYMOND LOVE

WORDPLAY

MIDDLE GROUND

All of the words below share an unusual quality. Can you determine what it is?

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MATCH GAME

Each item in the first list below (1–12) can be paired with one of the items in the second list (a–l) according to a particular criterion that is the same for all 12 pairs. Can you determine the criterion and match up the items?

1. 61st minute of a football game

2. Climate control device in a house or car

3. Common college degree

4. First-year MLB player

5. Gibraltar or Hormuz, e.g.

6. Jessica Jones’s occupation

7. One-eighth of a gallon

8. One of the eight main compass directions

9. Speed of light

10. Strikeout

11. What a general is to a colonel

12. What Cheerios or Wheaties is to General Mills

a. Chemical element number 19, used in many fertilizers

b. Chess piece often resembling a castle

c. Cornhusker State

d. Easy or Wall, e.g.

e. Football lineman between the guards

f. Form of electric power delivered to residences

g. Group that includes Luzon and Mindanao

h. Longer portion of the King James Bible

i. Practice based on ancient Hindu texts and involving mantras

j. Ted Williams’s was .406 in 1941

k. Type of employee who works only two days a week

l. What Orange or Alameda is in California

—R. WAYNE SCHMITTBERGER

•WILD CARDS•

WORDPLAY

AUNT HILDEGARDE

Last time I visited Aunt Hildegarde, she was partial to tea but not coffee, planes but not trains, pears but not apples—all because her fancy had been caught by words having homophones (tea/tee, planes/plains, pears/pairs, etc.). This month she’s been spending a lot of time with Uncle Frank, and she’s developed a whole new set of likes and dislikes. Can you figure out what principle is guiding her current tastes?

This month Aunt Hildegarde likes to dress in STRIPES, not in POLKA DOTS.

She’s wearing SHOES, but not SOCKS.

She enjoys WHIST, but not BRIDGE.

She goes to the RACES, but she doesn’t like HORSES.

She’s taken up POTTERY, and she’s given up KNITTING.

She’s fond of her new pet HYENA, but she’s lost interest in her PARROT.

She likes TRUTH but not LIES.

She likes an ORANGE but not an APPLE.

She’ll get DRUNK but not SMASHED.

She plans to vacation in ATHENS, even though she hates GREECE.

—DAVID DIEFENDORF


•CONTEST•

NEW ROLE-PLAYING CONNECTIONSBy R. Wayne Schmittberger

First Prize $1005 Runner-Up Prizes: A ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTION

TO GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES

This edition of our Role Playing

contest, found most recently in the

February 2016 issue, comes with

two new twists. As usual, each orange

square in the diagram represents a film

and each yellow circle represents an ac-

tor, who may be male or female. None

of the films are shorts or documentaries,

but some may have been shown only at

film festivals. None of them were released

prior to 1990.

As in previous Role Playing contests,

a line may connect an actor to a film,

indicating that the actor had a role in

that film. But—here are the twists—a line

may also connect two films, indicating

that they had the same director, or two

actors, indicating that the actors are either

siblings or are parent and child.

The numbers in each circle indicate

how many letters are in the first and last

names of the actor, while the numbers

in each square tell you the number of

letters in each word of the film’s title,

in order. Punctuation in titles has been

omitted, and hyphenated words are

treated as separate words (i.e., the

hyphen is replaced by a space). For

example, “6,5” in a circle indicates an

actor with a six-letter first name and a

five-letter last name, while “3,8” in a

square indicates a two-word title with

three letters in the first word and eight

letters in the second word.

The nine circles and squares near the

center of the diagram have question

marks instead of enumerations. The ob-

ject of the contest is to determine what

four films and five actors or actresses are

represented by these question marks.

To enter, send your nine answers (in any

order) to: New Role-Playing Connections

Contest, GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES,

P.O. Box 184, Fort Washington, PA 19034.

Entries must be received by May 31, 2016.

You may enter as many times as you like,

but each entry must be mailed separately.

The winner will be chosen by random

draw from among the correct entries—or,

if necessary, from among the entries with

the most correct answers.

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•CONTEST RESULTS•

CODED CRISSCROSS IIIFROM OCTOBER

In this contest, you were presented

with a grid that, when correctly

decoded, contained a set of seven

items reading across and down in the

white squares. The two shaded columns

named the category to which all the

other items belong. We replaced each

letter of the alphabet with a number.

Each number stood for the same letter

throughout the grid. The decoded

category description that appeared in

the yellow squares was the solution to

the contest.

The decoded grid appears above. As you can see, the white

squares contain film titles and the yellow squares contain the

category description, and solution to the contest: FILMS THAT

WON ACADEMY AWARDS FOR BEST ACTOR AND BEST ACTRESS.

We received a respectable total of 234 entries. Congratulations

to the winner of the $100 first prize, Martin Puller of

Benbrook, TX. Runner-up prizes of a year’s subscription to

GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES (or an additional year if you are

already a subscriber) go to: Cory Brownson of West St. Paul,

Manitoba; Greg Cebelak of Selwyn, Ontario; Corliss Hubert of

Margaretville, NY; Sandra Prupas of Canton de Hatley, Quebec;

and Hedy Weiss of Toronto, Ontario.

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Oops! Our judges regret to report

that we made an error regarding a

runner-up entry in August’s Initial

Definitions contest, the results of

which appeared in the February

2016 issue.

The entry in question didn’t quite

follow the contest rules: Instead of

using the four chosen letters (A, E,

G, S) to begin each of the four words

to be defined, the entry used the G

three times and the S once, thereby

violating the rules.

What can we say? We momen-

tarily lost our heads—all of the

judges were amused by this entry

and missed the fact that it fudged

the rules a bit.

The results of the contest will

stand, but our editorial staff will

renew its efforts to review contest

entries more scrupulously in the

future.


•ELECTRONIC GAMEVIEWS•

PUZZLE

THE ROOM THREE

FIREPROOF GAMES

IOS: $5

AGE RANGE: 9+

PLAY TIME: 3 HOURS

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As The Room series has developed, it’s also become oddly con-

ventional. That’s not a bad thing, because what’s there is still very good. But the tight focus of the original has been diffused over two iterations until the game is now merely a skilled variation of other puzzle adventures, albeit with some of the more ap-pealing core mechanics of the first game.

That first game was daz-zling, but it’s easy to see how its structure could be limiting for a game designer. The original Room gave the player nothing but a box on a table. This particular box could be explored from dif-ferent angles, and its faces

were masterpieces of me-chanical puzzling. As each face was unlocked, the box opened like a flower, reveal-ing layer upon layer of mys-tery without ever directing the gamer beyond the box itself. The puzzles were fresh and interesting, and the en-tire experience was unique.

The Room Two abandoned that format and opened things up. The player moved around different rooms to

solve similar mechanical puz-zles, but that bit of freshness was lost. With The Room Three, Fireproof Games has gone even further, offering a longer game spread across multiple locations. It feels like a clever riff on Myst.

And that’s okay. Satisfying puzzle adventures aren’t so plentiful that we can bypass such a good one. The Room Three opens the action up across even more rooms, con-

nected to a hub and accessed through teleportation. This castle/lighthouse location provides plenty of atmo-sphere, while an optional narrative element unfolds through notes and diaries.

The puzzles themselves are visually and mechanically interesting, involving hidden levers, invisible writing, and other fairly intuitive ele-ments. The difficulty level is pretty mild until late in the game, and even that is made navigable by an efficient in-game hint system.

The Room Three is certain-ly longer and more elaborate than the original, and it’s quite good. But when I was done I went back and played the first, marveling at its skill. I doubt I’ll return to The Room Three. And that’s the difference between a good game and a classic. —THOMAS L. MCDONALD

ROLE-PLAYING GAME

FALLOUT 4

BETHESDA SOFTWORKS

XBOX ONE/PS4/PC: $60

AGE RANGE: M (MATURE)

PLAY TIME: 50+ HOURS

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Bethesda’s Fal lout games always deliv-er a unique gaming

experience, from the top-down role-playing of the early years to the first-person gameplay of later titles. Fall-out places the player in the radioactive wasteland of post-nuclear America. Com-bining a first-person shooter combat system with an open world and classic RPG nar-rative, the series allows the player to choose their own path and watch their story unfold as they shoot, stab, and disintegrate their way through hordes of savage raiders and mutants.

Fallout 4, the long-awaited next chapter in the series, takes place in the ruins of

Boston, Massachusetts, now simply referred to as The Commonwealth. It remains faithful to its predecessors, combining narrative role-playing with first-person combat and plenty of cus-tomization options. Various gameplay mechanics have been added, the most no-table being a settlement creation system. Players can scavenge materials during their travels, then later use those materials to create settlements among the ruins. These outposts slowly evolve into small towns completely under the player’s control.

You play as a character placed in cryogenic stor-age shortly before a nuclear war, waking 200 years later and immediately plunged into a quest to save your kidnapped son. The vast ruined landscape of The Commonwealth is filled with

countless dangers as well as plenty of chatty non-player characters eager to hand out side quests.

The game takes you through monster-riddled subways, irradiated deserts, and ruined city streets, each offering its own deadly hazard. Along the way, players develop a person-alized store of weapons. Some equipment is found naturally, while other items require the completion of side quests.

Fallout 4 improves upon its predecessors, providing more variety in both play style and narrative than either of the prior Fallout games. The open world allows for nearly limitless exploration, while the branching narra-tive allows gamers to replay its main story several times for new experiences. One of the most eagerly anticipated games of 2015, it lives up to the hype and is an excellent addition to the franchise. —BRENDAN R. MCDONALD

Good choice for fans of: Myst BOVERALL RATING

Good choice for fans of: Skyrim AOVERALL RATING

EDITED BY THOMAS L. MCDONALD


•TRADITIONAL GAMEVIEWS•

CATEGORY:

SET COLLECTION

HENGIST

PUBLISHER:

MAYFAIR/LOOKOUT

PRICE: $28

AGES: 7+

PLAYERS: 2

PLAY TIME: 20 MIN.

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Uwe Rosenberg has designed some of the best games on the

market, including Agricola, Le Havre, and Bohnanza. Not long ago, he teamed with Mayfair to produce an excellent two-player game called Patchwork. With Hengist, their attempt to recapture that two-player magic seems to have gone somewhat awry.

Hengist and Horsa were Saxon brothers hired by King Vortigern in the 5th century to defend Britain from ma-rauding Picts. They liked the

island so much they decided to stick around and create the Anglo-Saxons.

The game is based on the themes of sailing and raid-ing. A nifty little cardboard ship carries pawns (three red and three blue) representing the raiding parties for each side. The board is composed of three double-sided tiles that form a continuous map leading from the beach land-ing, to the hinterland, to the villages. Just above each village are crossroad tiles placed facedown. Dotted

lines lead from the hinter-land to villages worth vari-ous amount of treasure. The actual paths to the villages, however, are concealed be-neath the crossroad tiles, so you either have to spend an explorer card to peek at the tile, or take a chance of pos-sibly getting a lower-value village. In order to travel these roads, you have to collect and spend cards with particular symbols.

When an explorer card is played, the boat moves. Each six moves it sails off the

edge; the game board then needs to be reconfigured to expand the map. When this is done three times the game is over and the loot markers totaled, with high total winning.

There is a flaw in the rules that allows you to take “1 action with each of your Raiding groups.” This means that on the first turn, the first player can move all three pawns out of the boat and effectively block the landing zone so that his opponent can do nothing. This is a seri-ous flaw that points to poor design and play-testing, but it can be partially rectified by alternating turns and then drawing cards after all six pawns have moved. Once the rules are adapted, it plays fairly well, but gamers should beware.

CATEGORY: DECK-BUILDING

FLIP CITY

PUBLISHER:

TASTY MINSTREL GAMES

PRICE: $20

AGES: 8+

PLAYERS: 1–4

PLAY TIME: 30–50 MIN.

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Take the mechanics of Dominion, a dash of SimCity, compress it

into a tight little package, and you get Flip City, a card-flipping, deck-building, city-making game designed by Chen Zhifan and trans-lated into English by Tasty Minstrel Games. TMG bills it as a “deceptively simple microdeckbuilder,” which is an apt description.

In Flip City you collect cards representing build-ings to build a deck. Each card has a starting side with one building and a flip side with another; different buildings have benefits, disadvantages, and some-times both.

Players begin with a small

deck of these cards faceup in front of them. One by one, you play a card and reap its rewards or punish-ments. These are measured out in coins (good), sad faces (bad), and victory points. There’s a push-your-luck element here, as play-ers can opt to play as many cards as they like, but risk losing all if they get three sad faces, thus ending the turn and negating any gains

for that round.The goal is to play enough

buildings with enough coin values to buy better cards from the general supply. Every player begins with one each of convenience store, central park, factory, hospital, and apartment cards, plus four residential area cards. The residential cards each bear a sad face, so you want to lessen the odds of drawing one by

filling a deck with more valuable cards.

Money can be spent to buy cards or flip them. Flip sides offer different build-ings, values, and abilities. For example, flip a conve-nience store (which gives you 1 coin) to turn it into a shopping mall (which gives you 2 coins and a victory point).

Victory is achieved by playing 8 victory points or 18 cards plus one conve-nience store in a single turn. As decks grow and cards are flipped, these both become valid victory conditions.

Flip City is a tight, en-tertaining, well-designed game that plays best with two people or using a single-player variant. Al-though its simplicity is part of its appeal, it would ben-efit from greater card vari-ety, so let’s hope it becomes successful enough for TMG to put out add-on sets.

BY THOMAS L. MCDONALD

Good choice for fans of: Patchwork COVERALL RATING

Good choice for fans of: Dominion AOVERALL RATING


Jolly RancherSlime Rancher, icky title notwithstanding, is totally

adorbs! Seriously. The video game, the first from Monomi Park, is set in

the distant future on a planet known simply as the Far, Far Range. The landscape, filled with buttes and mesas, is reminiscent of the Road Runner’s, except that it’s more colorful and less hazardous.

That is where our heroine, Beatrix LeBeau, goes to make her fortune. Out yonder, slime are more akin to valuable agricultural animals than to, well, mucus. But before you reach for your hand sanitizer, let us assure you these vaguely anthropomorphic globs of goo are absurdly cute, especially the li’l pink ones, which smile and coo.

In this single-player game, you see everything from Beatrix’s perspective. After staking her claim, she heads out into the wide open spaces with her vacpack, which she uses to wrangle some free-range slime; then, back at the ponderosa, she shoots them into her corral.

Feeding these critters is a full-time job. Beatrix also uses

her vacpack to harvest victuals—carrots, beets, and chick-ens—so she can collect the slimes’ Plort, which is the real commodity in these here places. (We suggest you think of Plort as organic fertilizer.)

It’s not all fun and games, though. Bea also has to protect her livestock from the Tarr, basically slime gone loco.

Wanna play a spell, pardner? Just mosey on over to www.slimerancher.com.

•GAME ON!• BY RAYMOND SIMON

Three Moves AheadGame lovers who don’t like leaving

anything to chance will appreciate ”Three Moves Ahead,” a weekly podcast focusing on strategy and war games.

Each week, host Rob Zacny, a frequent contributor to the monthly magazine PC Gamer, and a panel of well-informed guests engage in a thoughtful, lively dis-cussion of video games that emphasize long-term planning, allocating resources, and outmaneuvering one’s opponent.

Troy Goodfellow, a game developer, started the podcast about six years ago, and it's been going strong ever

since. New episodes are posted each Wednesday and last roughly 60 minutes, although they are occasionally longer. Topics run the gamut from old favorites like Sid Meier’s Civilization IV to more recent titles like Endless Legend, Am-plitude Studios’ turn-based, 4X game.

Regular contributors include Fraser Brown and Rowan Kaiser. In a typical podcast, they make detailed observa-tions, defend passionate opinions, and offer tangential asides.

These strategy game mavens are also frequently funny. As Brown noted in

a recent discussion of Blood Bowl 2, a gory take on “fantasy” football, “When an ogre smashes into an elf, it’s fun to watch even if you’ve seen it happen a dozen times.”

Listeners can tune in to the podcast for free. ”Three Moves Ahead” is part of the Idle Thumbs network. Its other shows, like ”Idle Weekend,” a pop cul-ture program with Zacny and cohost Danielle Riendeau, are also well worth a listen.

To join the conversation, visit www.threemovesahead.net.

Off the Bookshelf: Game PlayPaul Booth can thank his parents.

Their subscription to GAMES magazine instilled in him an early love of games. He still regularly plays board games; Dead of Winter and Eldritch Horror are two current faves.

Booth is also a professor at DePaul University, where he studies fandom, technology, and—yes!—games. Game Play, his latest book, is a sustained analy-sis of licensed board games. In the past, these were slapdash affairs designed to make a quick buck off of popular TV shows or movies.

Booth bypasses earlier games in this genre, focusing instead on more recent examples adapted from “texts” beloved by geeks like The Walking Dead and The Hunger Games. This is, he notes, a complicated media environment where comic books, TV shows, movies, and

board games overlap and interconnect.It’s also quite sophisticated. For ex-

ample, when Battlestar Galactica fans gather to play the board game based on it, they bring their prior knowledge of the original series, its reboot, and the prequel, as well as an emotional attachment to its characters. And com-plex game mechanics enable them, in a sense, to “author” their own scripts and “perform” meaning in their gameplay.

This is pretty highfalutin stuff. Al-though Game Play is an academic book, Booth hopes that fellow board game fans will learn something from it, too.

So don’t be put off by the footnotes, and use the helpful glossary to look up unfamiliar terms. Above all, have fun with it.

To learn more, visit www.mcsdepaul.com/paul-booth.html.


Add some variety to your puzzle repertoire! This puzzle has answers going in two different directions: The Path answers (1–25) start at square 1 and travel clockwise around the grid twice (with no spaces between them), following the heavy outline, then proceed down the center. The Down answers (A–S) go vertically down their respective paths, through the pink area. Note that paths H-L each have three answers. When you’ve solved the puzzle correctly, a punny piece of advice related to the title of this puzzle will appear in the pink squares. ANSWER, PAGE 77

BY RAYMOND YOUNGTHE PLUS

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Can you score 500 or more points in Word Rummy hands from the card layout at right?

s How to Play

Find as many common seven-letter words as

you can whose cards form Word Rummy

hands. A Word Rummy hand is a seven-

letter word whose letters appear on cards

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however, may be repeated in other words.

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c Ratings

Knock: 500 points (good game)

Gin: 750 points (winning game)

Gin-off: 1,189 points (our best score)

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39 40 41 42

43 44 45 46

47 48

49 50

ACROSS

1 One of two wives on The Flintstones...

...and the other 6 Aristotle from Greece 1971 title track by the

Doors: 2 wds. 13 Love Story Oscar nominee Yale who endowed Yale 14 Aggressive little stinger: 2 wds. Before a marathon, say 15 Ivan of the court Lou Grant star 16 One of the Leewards,

informally: 2 wds. Starts liking: 2 wds. 17 ___ acid (fuming liquid) Workweek ender 19 Very pale Enlarged map detail 20 Sicilian erupter Rural assent to a lady 21 Puts away Astronaut Shepard 24 Ending for orange Ending for opal 25 Archipelago bits Jet boat brand: Hyph. 27 HMO figures Mauna ___ 28 In the film The Flintstones,

actor who plays Fred

Flintstone...: 2 wds. ...and Barney Rubble:

2 wds. 31 Alley hisser Gin joint 32 Baby food brand Cause of aberrant

weather: 2 wds. 33 Clause connector Wichita-to-Akron dir. 34 Baby blues, e.g. Realty statistic 35 Briefly hot things Arlo Guthrie’s genre 39 Really regretting Use elbow grease on 41 He played Batman

and Birdman Very motivated 43 The Martian actor Jeff Longtime doo-wop group:

3 wds. 46 Moscow money Lime, silica, or rust 47 Eulogy, e.g. Irritated 48 Go on a spree French ice cream 49 Pupil surrounders Advil alternative 50 Sword stuff Aquatic frolicker

DOWN

1 Tom who wrote The Bonfire of the Vanities

Cecil’s cartoon pal 2 Cow of ads Like neon or xenon 3 Bolshevik leader Colors lightly 4 Relating to heat Frantic scramble: 2 wds. 5 Cosmonaut Gagarin In the style of, on

Italian menus 6 Many times o’er Hi-fi buys 7 Actress Vardalos Matisse’s mastery 8 Online TV show installment Little Rock resident 9 Realizes Algerian port 10 Sicilian wine Japanese raw fish 11 Heeded, as advice: 2 wds. Means (to) 12 AriZona rival Slingshot ammo 18 Without panicking Test pilot Chuck 22 Sierra ___ Be very fond of

23 “What a shame”: 2 wds. In jeopardy: 2 wds. 26 Classic carnival

game: Hyph. Be occupied with:

2 wds. 28 Year opener Many a Stetson hat sporter 29 Say over and over Number like “10th” 30 Hand guy: 2 wds. Regardless of liability, as

insurance: Hyph. 31 Private plane

producer Brigitte of film 36 Like ewes Turn to hit: Hyph. 37 Edifice projection Sweetly, in music 38 Pose to propose Villainous look 40 Evening, informally “Woe ___ you!” 42 Hence Rips off 44 British lav Three R’s gp. 45 Mag revenue sources Show that inspired 30

Rock, briefly

B E T T Y

W I L M A


ACROSS

1 Tavern keeper’s drinking binge takes creativity (9) 6 Rita sports a crown (5) 9 Bring back Mr. French and turn down test (7) 10 Size of bit of dust in puff of air (7) 11 Sounded similar to a camera (5)

12 Tenor bears left at club for card game (6-3) 13 Chicken order is handled badly (5,6,3) 16 Elegant Mr. Burns ruins a Louisiana poultry dish (7,7) 21 Slimy creature chewing the marrow (9)

23 Island helps to make music a priority (5) 25 Consumed by terrible scorn, I’m red (7) 26 Book of mad love penned by National League player from Oakland (7) 27 Gets rid of storage areas (5)

28 Regarding hole in Sen. Thurmond’s facilities (9)

DOWN

1 Piece of birch lumber tossed by clumsy guy (7) 2 Run commercial on two lines (5) 3 Raise levee at rocks (7) 4 Unfinished essay on deadline? Come around for cup of espresso (9) 5 Bumpkin accepts large coin from Russia (5) 6 The heartless, kept in step, picked up the tab (7) 7 District attorney supports city below and galaxy above (9) 8 A cold speed run makes you more sore (6) 14 He swore, “It changes, or else!” (9) 15 Mean smart bombs! (9) 17 For example, Michael and Kelly's fees include 25% of holidays (7) 18 Recreation done—get back to normal (7) 19 Creatures collide during first of alpine climbs (7) 20 Charges around North Carolina’s barriers (6) 22 Person who has Valium, maybe, loses face (5) 24 FDR had this oil operation set up (5)

For tips on solving cryptic crosswords, send a stamped return envelope to “Cryptic Solving Guide,” GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES, P.O. Box 184, Fort Washington, PA 19034.

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 BY ADAM FROMM

Each clue in a cryptic crossword has two parts: a definition of the answer and an indication of the answer’s literal makeup via wordplay. Either half may come first; finding the dividing point between the two parts is the key to solving. On page 55, eight common methods by which hints are given via wordplay are described; any combination of these gimmicks may be used.

Expect to see references to abbreviations (doctor for DR, Hawaii for HI, or university for U), chemical symbols (iron for Fe), Roman numerals (five for V), and parts of words (end of year for R, head of cabbage for C, or heart of stone for O). A clue with an exclamation point may be what’s called an & lit. clue, in which the two halves overlap, so the whole clue is both a definition and a cryptic indication of the answer, as in Terribly angered! for ENRAGED (see “anagrams” on page 55). Give these puzzles a try! ANSWERS, PAGE 78

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 10

11 12

13 14 15

16 17 18 19

20

21 22 23 24

25 26

27 28


Anagrams: The answer appears in anagrammed form, preceded or followed by a word or phrase that suggests the mixing, as in Changing times for ITEMS.Deletions: Deletions come in three varieties: beheadments, curtailments, and internal deletions. The clue always contains a word or phrase indicating the deletion. Examples: Uncovered bent charm for

ENCHANT, a beheadment of PENCHANT; Fiery bird without a tail for FLAMING, a curtailment of FLAMINGO; and Heartless miserly bloke for CHAP, an internal deletion of CHEAP.Charades: The answer is broken into smaller words that are clued individually, as in Auto animal for

CARPET.Containers: A word such as PATIENTS “contains” TIE

inside PANTS, so it might be clued as Hospital residents make knots in trousers.Hidden answers: The answer may appear intact, albeit camouflaged, in the clue. Example: Myopic colonel clutches flute for PICCOLO (myopic colonel).Homophones: A word that sounds like the answer indicated by use of a giveaway phrase such as “We hear” or “as they say.” Example: Counted frozen chicken out loud for NUMBERED (“numb bird”).Reversals: A synonym for “backward” or “overturn” in a clue may indicate a reversal, as in Returned beer fit for a king (LAGER reversed) for REGAL.Double definitions: This type of clue has no wordplay half; instead, it has two definition halves. Example: Scooter was blue for MOPED. ANSWERS, PAGE 78

BY PAM WYLDER

ACROSS

1 European Union never sent back income from taxes (7) 5 Melting ice originally covered by brownish- purple volcanic rock (6) 8 Oddly, I clam up in public (9) 9 Be overly frugal and fail to report income partner’s capital (5)

11 Chunks of egg left among almonds and pecans (7) 12 Sailing canoe by myself across part of the Pacific (7) 13 Some decadent or temptingly rich dessert (5) 15 Adam Sandler movie is disrupted, hassling about start of production (9)

16 Pointed out parts as two contrary things (9) 20 Part of a flight heading to Rome is evacuated earlier (5) 22 Speech or a lecture about musical composition (7) 23 Very old article, one taken by Penny (7) 25 Dark brown endless abyss in large body of water (5)

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8 9 10

11 12

13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24

25 26

27 28

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2

26 Buggy got ruined taking the back roads (9) 27 Monica to Joey, “Chandler ultimately is possessed by Satan” (6) 28 Bit of lanolin in Tegrin straightened curly hair (7)

DOWN

1 Complaints of rambling sermon leading to stupors (13) 2 Ill-tempered character heading to Vegas in westbound Fury (7) 3 Hospital located in pleasing, suitable place (5) 4 Error by lawmen switching last two reports (7) 5 Dad holds a search for a fighter who’s easily beatable (7) 6 He delivers telegrams, military rations, and green bananas (9) 7 Italian wine in China? It bombed (7) 10 Try age-old path: when smitten, act indifferent (4,4,2,3) 14 Cities plan a development having open space for walking (9) 17 Written account upset engaging university theater company member (7) 18 Fearfully expected poor grade and studied the Iliad, finally (7) 19 Short, light tapping sounds strike, as raindrops do (7) 21 Some houses are built on this island, almost all for a particular purpose (7) 24 Fervidly shake church vessel (5)


Each year the USA sends teams to the World Puzzle Championship and World Sudoku Championship, both sanctioned by the World Puzzle Federation. In October of last year, we traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, to join 230 competitors from 32 countries for a week of camaraderie and competitive puzzle solving.

The week started out with the two-day World Sudoku Championship. The team from Japan edged out China to win for the second year in a row. Team USA, with members Will Blatt, Jason Zuffraneiri, Chris Narrikkattu, and Wei-Hwa Huang, finished in 7th place.

Between championships, participants from both events had a day off to tour Sofia. Some members of the U.S. team took the opportunity to insert a puzzling component to the sightseeing, and visited four of the many escape rooms that were within walking distance of the city center.

Next up was the grueling three-day World Puzzle Championship, where language- and culture-neutral puzzles of all types are fair game. The team results were a carbon copy of the year before, with Germany winning ahead of Japan, and Team USA in 3rd place. Palmer Mebane led the USA, finishing in 3rd place individually; other team members were Will Blatt, Wei-Hwa Huang, and Roger Barkan.

The competition included numerous new and innovative variations of classic puzzles, such 6-color Akari and Tapa, and a round that raised the bar for team cooperation—a set of eight familiar puzzles intertwined with a single set of 26 encrypted clues. Sadly we cannot share these due to space constraints; but what follows are some of the team’s other favorites that we know you’ll enjoy.

Soon, the U.S. team will be running its annual online qualifying tests to select members for the 2016 teams, to travel to Slovakia in October for the 11th World Sudoku Championship and 25th World Puzzle Championship. Please visit our website, wpc.puzzles.com, for more information on timing and registration for these events. Even casual solvers will enjoy taking the tests and seeing how they stack up against some of the world’s top solvers! —Nick Baxter, Captain, U.S. Puzzle Team

ANSWERS, PAGE 79

WORLD PUZZLE CHAMPIONSHIPS

CONTESTANTS AWAIT THE START OF THE TEAM DOMINO ROUND


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2 1

2

2 4

1 1 1 2

3 1 1 2

2 1

2 3

2 1

4 1

1

5

2 1

2 1

4 1

1

5

2 1

2 3

2 1

3 1 1 2 2 4

1 1 1 2 2

S F S F

3

2

1 5

1 24

2

2

2 2

1 2

32 1

2 2

2

2

2

4

2 2

2 2

2

2

3 1

1 4

4 3

S F

MISSING LABYRINTH

Create a labyrinth in the grid. The clues outside the grid identify how many consecutive segments of grid lines are to be marked as borders in the corresponding row or column. Multiple clues represent multiple borders, given in the order encountered, and with a gap of at least one segment between adjacent borders on a line. When the labyrinth is complete there should be a route between the Start and Finish cells which passes through each cell exactly once. The route is one-cell wide at all points, and moves between cell centers in a horizontal or vertical direction only.

EXAMPLE


SNAKE

Draw a snake in the grid, one cell wide and 45 cells long. Its head and tail are given by the black dots and its center is given by the white dot. The numbers outside the grid indicate the total number of the squares occupied by the snake in the corresponding row or column. The body of the snake cannot touch itself, not even diagonally. Each shaded area must have a different combination of cells used by the snake.

4

3

3

4

4

4

3

3

4

4

443 2 2 443 2 2

3

7

2

1

7

6

552755

EXAMPLE


CARDS

Place the 12 given cards into the grid. A card is a 2×3 rectangle having a suit in one of the corners and a value in the opposite corner. Cards can be rotated and/or reflected, but cannot overlap. All suite and rank markings included in each row and column are showed outside the grid.

♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ ♥ K K ♥ ♥ K

♠ A ♠ A ♠ A

A A A A Q Q K Q Q K Q Q K

♦ ♦ Q ♦ Q ♦ ♦ ♦ Q

♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ ♥ K ♥ K ♥ K

♠ ♣ K ♠ ♣ K ♠ ♣ K

K K K K ♣ ♥ ♣ ♥ ♣ ♥

♦ A A A A ♦ ♦ A A

♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ A Q Q A A Q

♠ ♣ ♠ ♣ ♠ ♣

Q Q Q Q ♠ ♥ ♦ ♠ A ♣ ♥ ♣ ♦ ♠ ♥ ♦ ♠ A ♣ ♥ ♣ ♦

Q A K ♠ Q A ♥ ♦ K Q A K ♠ Q A ♥ ♦ K

Q ♣ K Q A Q ♣ K Q A

K K

♣ ♠ ♠

K A

♥ K K K

♥ ♥

♦ Q

♦ ♣ A

♦ Q

Q Q

♣ A

♠ A

♦ ♥ K ♦ ♥ Q ♥ ♦ ♠

♠ K K ♣ ♣ Q A Q ♠

A A ♣ A K

Q

♠ ♣ ♦ ♥

A A A A

♠ ♣ ♦ ♥

K K K K

♠ ♣ ♦ ♥

Q Q Q Q

EXAMPLE


GAPPED KAKURO

Place the digits from 1 to 9 into some white cells. Digits cannot repeat in continuous vertical or horizontal blocks of white cells. The sum of the digits in these blocks are given to the left or above the block. Empty cells cannot share an edge.

36

2 3

2

4 7

16

4 14

5

12

9 4 2 6

2 1

11

3 9

1 9

8 2 1

3

14

6 4

113

20

13 8 6 6 7

7 8

12

8

1 5

8

3

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14

6

36

16

4 14

13

2 3

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7

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28

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3

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9 7

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13

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1110

23 43 27

5

EXAMPLE


DOMINO YIN-YANG

Two standard domino sets from 0:0 to 6:6 are used (28 tiles); one set is red and one set is black. Place all domino tiles except for one into the grid, so that: 1. Domino tiles of the same color form an orthogonally connected area following domino rules (tiles touch only with the same number) 2. There are no 2×2 areas of the same color 3. Half dominoes with the same value but different color cannot touch, not even diagonally 4. The shaded cells show the position of the doubles (tiles with two of the same number): every double must cover exactly one shaded square.

3

1 5 4 1

4

1 2

3

1 4 4 0

2

1 3 3 3 5 2 3 3 3 5

1 0 4 1 5 4 4 1 2 5

4 0 0 0 5 0 2 1 2 0

4 4 2 5 5 3 2 5 2 0

4 1 2 0 3 3 1 5 3 4

0 1 0 0 3 1 1 5 3 4

0 1 1 4 4 4 1 0 0 5

2 2 5 5 1 2 2 2 2 5

EXAMPLE: 5:5 set, two missing dominoes


PLAYING THE HALF-DOZENS BY BOB STIGGER

Every answer in this variety cryptic is six letters long. Every clue is actually two clues presented side by side (without overlapping or using “connector” words), yielding two six-letter answers. Answers to lettered clues are to be entered in normal Across-clue fashion, one six-letter answer followed by the other. In the case of numbered clues, one answer runs to the northeast and the other to the southeast, always starting in the correspondingly numbered square. For all clues, either six-letter answer may be clued first.

The grid’s unclued central Across row contains an alternate title for this puzzle. Nine answers are capitalized, several others consist of two words, and one answer is a two-word proper name. ANSWERS, PAGE 78

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E

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A. Precipitates of iron compounds set back Farmer Wood, we hear B. Talent of a sort, bagging one buck outside the French POW camp C. A bright teaching assistant rejected barbarian war and changed country D. A corrupt person with a pipe circling second-rate gym outside of older Iowa city E. Sir Brad’s called revenue enhancement critic, the leader of Democrats, “in nouveau riche’s thrall” F. Getting hot, Woods triples score—Cobb’s getting passed

1. Taunts Oakland players wearing shirts perfectly describing politically correct Hanna-Barbera feline 2. “Babe Ruth’s right before slugger Mel? That is a big laugh, eh? Ha!” we exploded 3. Household-hint lady loses head for resident of Plaza Hotel property occupying prettiest atelier 4. Judge, annoyed with incarcerated basketball great Rivers, grabs rod 5. Recently damaged tire is stored in empty office; tire on convertible is set right 6. Lindy’s behind first annual test pilot assembly, extremely enthusiastic 7. Sawbones’s ignoring operating hazards associated with electricity: a group of small entangled tubes 8. Novelist George Gold carefully edited Huron’s Flood

9. Weird, if rare and better-looking, groom-to-be worked in cafe 10. Geriatric oracle’s last dramatic words recalled understated text appearing in foreign film Losing It

11. Lodge avoided pronounced draft running through office, a genuinely glacial period 12. Persian king photocopies, tosses out adults-only collection, keeping sixth of Hustlers for gift-giving occasions


PENTOMINOES: A VARIETY CRYPTIC BY MIKE SHENK

A pentomino is an arrangement of five squares, and there are exactly 12 possible pentomino shapes, as illustrated in the grid on the left. These 12 pentominoes can be used to cover the 6×10 grid in more than 3,000 ways. The right-hand (answer) grid will be divided in a completely different way into the 12 pentominoes, which may be rotated or otherwise shifted from their position in the left-hand grid. Three sets of clues are provided: Across, given in the usual order, each yielding a 6-letter word; Down, yielding two words (each of 4, 5, or 6 letters) per column; and Pentominoes, each yielding a 5-letter word whose letters are entered in mixed order into a particular pentomino shape. The shape of each pentomino is indicated by a letter from A–L, corresponding to the pentominoes in the left-hand diagram. Each Down answer is clued by a letter from A–L, matching it with one pentonimo it crosses; in other words, you know that Down word A crosses at least one word of pentomino shape A, and so forth. Your ultimate challenge is to discover the placement of all 12 pentominoes. ANSWERS, PAGE 78

ACROSS

1 Group of squares ultimately

reveals answer

2 Rent out rather wide dish

3 Look into “horses around” as phrase

4 Porter is taken in by explosive gift

5 Mailed about 100 introductory

sample colognes

6 Reston mistaken for wise old man

7 Flower shows among Gaza leafage

8 Coma is strange hodgepodge

9 Central Avenue drain is undamaged

10 Blushing bears are bred

DOWN

A Resting place for bottom of

ball bearing

B Lake rises in European land

C Lion circling colonist’s shack

D Chopped cedar and stepped on it?

E The last undivided district

F Wriggling eel can weave in and out

G Lounges about alleys

H Wraps bottom of one’s feet around

tightrope’s surface

I Sat around with a dog in the movies

J Upset about male caller

K After 10:00, holy man spun big tops

L College fellow has right to be critical

PENTOMINOES

A Initially cultists rush to sect

B Time gets unsound tips

C Music for nine or ten running around

D Wildly declaims, “The General’s

beheaded”

E Heated one degree

F Drive cattle

G Capone hiding in Junior’s Boutique

H 100 tens changed into coins

I Saw wood, tin, and copper, perhaps

J Electrify a network

K Ending of love story turned to delight

L Dog’s final rule, when

ordered, “Mush”

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1 3 1

5 3 1 3 2 2

4 2 2

4

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6 2 2

7 7 2 2

6 1

6 5

3 1 3 2 2 3 2 2

1 3 1

5 3 1 3 2 2

4 2 2

4

6 1 3 3 1

6 2 2

7 7 2 2

6 1

6 5

3 1 3 2 2 3 2 2

1 3 1

5 3 1 3 2 2

4 2 2

4

6 1 3 3 1

6 2 2

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4

PAINT BY PAIRS In this Paint by Numbers variant, a picture has been hidden in each grid by scattering pairs of matching numbers throughout. To solve a puzzle, you must first determine which pairs of numbers go together and then connect them in such a way that the number of squares in the connecting path is equal to the value of each of the connected numbers. (Include the numbered end-squares when counting the number of squares in a path.)

Paths may be made in any combination of horizontal and vertical directions, but may not cross other paths. Once a path’s location is known, all of its squares may be filled in.

Squares containing a 1 are special; they are not part of a pair, but simply represent “paths” that are one square long. They can be filled in immediately, as shown in Figure 2 in the example. Next, it’s advisable to pair up the 2’s and 3’s before tackling the higher numbers (Figure 3).

Compared to Paint by Numbers, Paint by Pairs puzzles are easier to begin, since the lowest numbers can be filled in without much thought. Also, Paint by Pairs puzzles can be worked on one area at a time, since numbers only relate to their local areas. However, Paint by Pairs puzzles that contain clusters of identical higher numbers can be extremely challenging.

Each puzzle has a unique solution. Knowing this fact allows you to make certain useful deductions; for example, if a pair of numbers seems to be able to be connected by more than one route, you can be sure that other paths will eventually block all but one of those routes. Get the picture? ANSWERS, PAGE 80


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8

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3

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FAMILY REUNIONS BY REGIS MODESTA

Change each group of 10 words below into a “family” of different words (words or proper names that have something in common) by dropping one letter from each word and then rearranging the remaining letters. For example, given the entries HAUNT, HAIRDO, and ADVANCE, you could drop the N from HAUNT to get UTAH, drop the R from HAIRDO for IDAHO, and drop the C from ADVANCE to get NEVADA, all in the category “U.S. states.” Can you reunite each family by determining the category for each and unscrambling the 10 entries? Answers are all single words or names. If you need help getting started, a list of the four categories appears on page 72.

ANSWERS, PAGE 80

FAMILY ONE

Category: _______________________

1. JOG _______________________

2. SMIRK _______________________

3. UNCLE _______________________

4. CHASES _______________________

5. ROSARY _______________________

6. BOLTHOLE _______________________

7. WARTIEST _______________________

8. BARBICELS _______________________

9. PRECHECKS _______________________

10. TETRAGONS _______________________

FAMILY TWO

Category: _______________________

1. DAME _______________________

2. PROSE _______________________

3. SCOURS _______________________

4. SEPTUM _______________________

5. WAITER _______________________

6. CHIEFER _______________________

7. MUFFING _______________________

8. UNDERAGE _______________________

9. DESINENCE _______________________

10. INUNDATING _______________________

FAMILY THREE

Category: _______________________

1. WEIRD _______________________

2. CRAFTY _______________________

3. FLOWER _______________________

4. PAUSED _______________________

5. BINDERY _______________________

6. PHLOEMS _______________________

7. PORTICO _______________________

8. SAMPLER _______________________

9. CLUBROOM _______________________

10. LEAFWORM _______________________

FAMILY FOUR

Category: _______________________

1. OGRE _______________________

2. BALSA _______________________

3. SHANK _______________________

4. SLEDGE _______________________

5. ROOSTED _______________________

6. UNHOODS _______________________

7. UNSMART _______________________

8. MARBLIER _______________________

9. OPTICIAN _______________________

10. TRACKPAD _______________________


Your tools are a pair of words and a 4×4 grid. Your mission is to place letters into the grid so that both of the given words can be spelled out in a chain of connected squares, traveling horizontally or vertically. Diagonal movement is not allowed. These little head-scratchers are not as simple as they look! ANSWERS, PAGE 80

WORDSPAIR

BY OLGA LEONTIEVA

EXAMPLE

ACROSS

1 Liverpudlian rockers8 Normandy town

12 Longtime Shatner role16 Is faithful23 Mediterranean shipwreck

ind24 Nappy wearer's transport25 ___ about26 Oft-baked cheese27 Galileo, to the Inquisition28 Opera that opens in

Memphis29 Composer Bartok30 Turned red, maybe31 Yankees star, to fans32 Hungry baby bird, e.g.34 Book after Lamentations36 Inits. on a relief worker's

jacket37 Compacter than compact38 Author of The

Phenomenology of Spirit39 King of The Jerk40 Overlook41 Addled43 Performer who's charged46 Gushed48 Shipper's box49 Passive protests

51 Levitates52 One awaited by Vladimir

and Estragon53 Erstwhile Brooklyn athlete54 Q trailers56 It lies north of the

Aleutians58 Ecstatic movie critic59 Drew out62 Sundae topping63 In the future66 Ming and others68 Hirschfeld hidings69 Person from a

Republican stronghold70 Joule fractions71 Join in a contest73 ___ Jose74 Similar: Preix75 “Tell ___ the Marines”76 It's under layers77 Scandinavian loor

covering79 Melting together80 “I took the one ___

traveled by...”

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procrastinator89 Belief that a system is

more than the sum of itsparts

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96 Old Greek theater97 Drives getaway, say98 Midwest state, briely

101 Roots character102 Sports org. for smaller

schools103 John Hancock105 Singer Laine and others107 With sincere conviction109 Control tower accessories110 It means “spewing” in

Hawaiian112 Trellises113 Prizes for Titanic and

Spamalot114 Heir to the throne,

typically116 Vile Bodies novelist

Evelyn117 Suggestion box contents,

mostly119 Plant with sword-shaped

leaves120 Sousaphone122 Towels, sheets, etc.125 Fighter's opposite?126 Blue Bonnet rival127 Eastern European

language129 Water balloon sound130 Part of AARP: Abbr.131 Where hex signs hang132 Diameter components134 Not ___ snuff135 Tabula ___136 Recklessly foolish139 “__ Earth...”141 Bear's home142 First144 Guitar gadget145 Insurable item146 Last148 Chad's neighbor149 While lead-in150 Acht's successor151 Villain created by Craven

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Hard Clues

The World's MostOrnery Crossword

BY JOEL NANNI

CLUE STEW

The crossword on this and the next two pages has two

independent sets of clues: "Hard" and "Easy." First, fold

the page back on the dashed line so the clues below face

the solving grid on page 69. If you use only the Hard Clues

(appearing below and continuing under the grid), you'll

ind the puzzle uncommonly challenging. If you want

help, or prefer a less severe challenge, open to the Easy

Clues (tucked in beneath your fold on page 68).

UNDERGRADUATE

RECLUSE

MISDEMEANOUR

DIPLOMA

GLORIFICATION

FOOTING

AMBIDEXTROUS

BIRTHDAY

AUTOBIOGRAPHIC

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DON’T PEEK

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Easy Clues

ACROSS1 “Yellow Submarine” group8 WWII battle site in

Normandy: 2 wds.12 Actor Douglas of

Spartacus16 Clings (to)23 Ancient Greek jar for

wine or olive oil24 British baby buggy25 ___ about

(approximately): 2 wds.26 Cheese used for fondues27 Religious dissenter28 Verdi opera set in Egypt29 Dracula player Lugosi30 Became ready to pick31 Yankees star, to fans:

Hyph.32 Noisy bird34 Hebrew prophet36 Disaster-relief group, for

short37 Start for skirt or van38 German idealist

philosopher GeorgWilhelm Friedrich

39 Old-time actress Normand40 Fail to mention41 Bewildered: 2 wds.43 Matador46 Hammed it up48 Slatted shipping container49 Peaceful protests: Hyph.51 Gets up52 Waiting for ___ (Beckett

play)53 Los Angeles ballplayer54 Q trailers56 Water between Russia

and Alaska: 2 wds.58 Wild talker59 Drew forth, as an answer62 Stuff in a Milky Way63 One of these days66 Teams that dominate for

years68 Singer Simone and

namesakes69 Citizen of a Republican

stronghold: 2 wds.70 Units of work71 Go inside73 ___ Diego74 Start for stasis or pathy75 “Tell ___ the judge!”:

2 wds.76 Oriole's home

77 Scandinavian-style loorcovering: 2 wds.

79 Atomic process80 More or ___81 Spring lower82 Tennis great Stefi83 Phnom ___, Cambodia87 Tomorrow, in Tijuana89 Principle that systems

are greater than the sumof their parts

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colleges: Abbr.103 It goes on the dotted line105 Singer Laine et al.107 In a sincere way109 Telephone operator's

accessory110 Active Hawaiian volcano112 Frameworks of crossed

strips113 Randall and Curtis114 Eldest116 Brideshead Revisited

novelist Evelyn117 Complaints119 State lower of New

Mexico120 Marching band

instruments122 Bed sheets125 Adorer126 Country Crock competitor127 Certain Eastern European129 Sound of a thrown tomato130 The “A” in U.S.A.: Abbr.131 Cattle sheds132 Circle segments134 ___ no good: 2 wds.135 Tabula ___136 Madman139 Upon which141 Dragon's abode142 Monogram component144 Mob VIP145 Garage occupant146 Make it through148 West African nation149 Formerly, once150 Eins more than acht151 Scary Freddie of A

Nightmare on Elm Street152 Quick looks

153 Holy French women,briely

154 Salinger girl155 Female visionary

DOWN

1 Vacation islands2 Retired professors3 Mama's boy's ties: 2 wds.4 “There's no turning

back”: 4 wds.5 Land parcel6 Legendary actor/director

von Stroheim7 Closet freshener8 Barbecue serving9 Orange-lavored liqueur

used in margaritas:2 wds.

10 Do dock work11 Actor Epps of House12 Lakers star Bryant13 “Mama __” (Desi Arnaz

hit)14 Someone to look up to:

2 wds.15 Indonesian island that

exploded in 188316 Came to terms17 Dentist's tool18 Marcher's sound19 Ability to notice minutia:

3 wds.20 Belgian surrealist who

painted The Son of Man21 Religious recluse22 More serene33 Frankenstein's helper35 “Oh, sure!”: 2 wds.42 Opposers44 Showed again45 Isis's brother/husband46 “I Am the Walrus”

character47 Receiver of the Ten

Commandments48 Crave jealously50 John whose mill was an

early gold rush site53 Plum type55 Variegated, as marble57 What some call Grandma58 Cowboys' contest59 Genesis garden60 Ancient harp61 Police, to some suspects63 Competition stage64 2000 Subway Series

participants

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interest74 Music impresario Sol78 Fed. property overseer:

Abbr.79 Letters between E and I83 Elegant84 Nurse Jackie star Falco85 It appears in front of very

cold temperatures: 2 wds.86 Like a machine with a

crank: Hyph.87 Fellow crew members, to

a pirate88 Adjoins90 Panama hat material91 Relating to the mind92 Jack Lemmon's Mister

Roberts role: 2 wds.93 Pitching great of the

Negro Leagues: 2 wds.94 Bunch of raked leaves95 Vocal oppositions98 “And how!”: 2 wds.99 Organized

100 Uncertainties104 Lou Grant star105 About, to a historian106 South Korean capital108 Small decorative cases110 Get a project going via

crowdfunding111 Botanical garden

devoted to trees114 Heating devices115 The Guns of ___ (1961

war ilm)117 Looking angry118 Bucharest's country119 Crocheter's need121 “Smooth Operator” singer123 Local inhabitants124 Larder keepers126 Abdul and Deen128 Mini-shops at the mall131 Actress Selma133 Habituate137 ___ dixit138 No-frills beds139 Grow faint140 Tinges143 Wrath147 Regret deeply


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crossing phrase5 Man with a salty wife6 Psychoanalyst Fromm7 Fragrant packet8 Barbecue bit9 Kamikaze ingredient

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presentation45 Typhon's victim46 “I Am the Walrus” guy47 Centenarian artist48 Break the Tenth

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temps86 Like non-automatic

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debut in the major leagues94 Nuclear reactor95 Negative votes98 “Amen!”99 Undiluted

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Elf105 Word used in dating

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147 Bemoan

Hard Clues (continued)ANSWER, PAGE 80


ANSWERS4 MIXED DOUBLES

Clue pairs:

Across: 1/16, 2/10, 3/15, 4/18, 5/19, 6/9, 7/20, 8/11, 9/6, 10/2, 11/8, 12/14,

13/17, 14/12, 15/3, 16/1, 17/13, 18/4, 19/5, 20/7

Down: 1/15, 2/19, 3/22, 4/10, 5/8, 6/14, 7/21, 8/5, 9/13, 10/4, 11/20, 12/17,

13/9, 14/6, 15/1, 16/18, 17/12, 18/16, 19/2, 20/11, 21/7, 22/3

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O H S N A M E D R E S S E DE G G S S A M I A M BD O R A T O M B Y T H E B YP L A S M A Y O H O N E S

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3 CRYPTO-FUNNIES

Panel 1: Pharaoh: How is the work proceeding on

my pyramid, Royal Architect?

Panel 2: Architect: All the stone-carvers are working

their hardest every day, your highness. They’re the

inest craftsmen in all of Egypt.

Pharaoh: Good. We need every man available to

complete my monument on time!

Panel 3: Architect: But there is one worker who’s

giving us some trouble.

Pharaoh: Why is that?

Panel 4: Architect: I’m afraid he sees himself as more

of an artist than a craftsman.

6 CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK

A F T S S S B I C A L E

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9 KID STUFF: A LOGICAL TREASURE HUNT

The X that marks the treasure is the one labeled H.

From clue 1, you can rule out points A and G.

From clue 2, you caneliminate C.

From clue 3, you can eliminate E and I, which have even numbers of X’s to their north but are on the big island.

From clue 4, you can eliminate D and J. The distance from I to J is the same as the distance from the pirate hut to the sunken ship, and the distance from D to F is even less.

You now know that the treasure must be buried at either B, F, or H. Of these, only H has buildings both to its north and to its west.

6 GET IN GEAR


ANSWERS

13 HASHI

12 QUOTE BOXES

1. For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. (Vincent van Gogh)

2. The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. (Meryl Streep)

3. The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold ofyour mind. (Khalil Gibran)

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Riddle answer: IN RIVER BANKS

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5. Leopard load

6. Protest poet

7. Beatnik bank

8. Bargain bran

9. Booklet bolt

10. Cookout coot

11. Galleon glen

12. Heavier hair

7 CAMOUFLAGE 8 KID STUFF: FISH STORY

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1. CRYPTOON. I was trying to relay an urgent message using smoke signals. It was, “Help! My tent is on ire!”

2. CAREFREE “HI” WAY. “The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.” —Charles Kuralt

3. PULLING THE PLUG. Consumer mag from decades ago contains review of newly invented cordless phone, calling the innovation “totally off the hook.”

4. FRONT-PAGE NEWS. Frozen yogurt inancier lands gig as newspaper reporter because of his uncanny ability to always deliver the scoop.

5. FLEXIBLE PLANS. Limber guy leaves law school to become contortionist. Parents have dificulty wrapping their heads around the decision.

6. CENTS AND SENSIBILITY. Before the mottos “e pluribus unum” and “in God we trust,” the penny bore the slogan “mind your business.”

7. IN THE ZONES. Tricky Toronto tour troop touts time traveling trip. Transforms trek transversing territories to trendy tourist trap.

B A G Z A P A P E X I T S A

U P I I G A T O M E N I L S

F O G T E R S L U R B N A I

F L O R I D A K E Y S G U A V A

E L L E S N A P B O L L

T O O D L E O O W O R K O U T

C O O L B R E E Z E U N E

R O D E O N E X P O A I D E

I C A N T R O B O T O L S E N

G O V T F I R E D R Y E R S

E M I B U M B L E B E E S

L E D G E R S D I N O S A U R

O N L Y S L U G U T N E

B E R E T C A T C H S O M E Z S

A C T I T H U G E A R M I I

L U I S S A C O A L L P P D

D A Z S K I E V D A Y O S E

66 FAMILY REUNIONS CATEGORIES

Family One: Classic board games

Family Two: “Angry” synonyms

Family Three: Fictional detectives

Family Four: Defunct autos


ANSWERS23 BATTLESHIPS❶ SEAMAN

❷ PETTY OFFICER

❸ ENSIGN

❺ COMMODORE

❹ CAPTAIN

❻ ADMIRAL

22 MIXED DOUBLES: SHADES OF MEANING

24 YOU'RE ON A ROLE

Clue pairs:Across: 1/19, 2/24, 3/9, 4/21, 5/14, 6/10, 7/20, 8/23, 9/3, 10/6, 11/18, 12/25, 13/22, 14/5, 8/23, 13/22, 16/17, 17/16, 18/11, 19/1, 20/7, 21/4, 22/13, 23/8, 24/2, 25/12

Down: 1/16, 2/20, 3/10, 4/19, 5/13, 6/18, 7/8, 8/7, 9/17, 10/3, 11/21, 12/22, 13/5, 15/23, 16/1, 17/9, 18/6, 19/4, 20/2, 21/11, 22/12, 23/15

Extra clues: 15-Across, 14-Down Bonus word: EXERCISES

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BBB 18: Bed Bath & Beyond 24: Better Business Bureau

FDR 10: Flight Data Recorder 14: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

MLP 11: Mary-Louise Parker 15: My Little Pony

SMB 17: Steve Miller Band 23: Saving Mr. Banks

CIA 7: Central Intelligence Agency20: Culinary Institute of America

GWB 8: George Washington Bridge 30: George Walker Bush

MPH 1: Mr. Potato Head 3: Miles Per Hour

SNF 21: Saturday Night Fever 27: Skilled Nursing Facility

CPK 25: Cabbage Patch Kids

GWS 9: Get Well Soon 29: Great White Shark

MSG 4: Monosodium glutamate 31: Madison Square Garden

TMI 13: Too Much Information 22: Three Mile Island

ERA 5: Earned Run Average 26: Equal Rights Amendment

HRC 6: Hillary Rodham Clinton 12: Hard Rock Café

SLC 2: Salt Lake City 28: St. Louis Cardinals

TOC 16: Table of Contents 19: Truth or Consequences

TRUE CLUE letter = C

PUZZLE 2: ATTACK OF THE TLAs (OMG!)

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TRUE CLUE letter: E

PUZZLE 1: THE TRY-FECTA


ANSWERS

29 QUINT-ESSENTIAL

E H A L C

A B Y A R P S R I A

M H R M J O G U A O R T

G R A N U L E O B C C N I

W L V Z L R A S E R A S C V

C O L E E C E D E N N S B E

G S E L L E C K V E O C E S O

N E L A F B S I L I Z A R D L

M A C B A E L R R M L N R E G

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R D A I R Y M E W N D I W L

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“ABUNDANT” SYNONYMS: ample, generous, liberal, myriad, profuse

“B” OCCUPATIONS: baker, barber, beautician, brewer, butler

EXCLAMATIONS: Bingo!, Bravo!, Hallelujah!, Yippee!, Zounds!

FAMOUS TOMS: Berenger, Seaver, Selleck, Swift, Wolfe

MOVIE MUSICALS: Can-Can, Evita, Grease, Hairspray, Oliver!

“PROHIBIT” SYNONYMS: banish, blackball, debar, outlaw, taboo

“RECONDITE” SYNONYMS: abstruse, arcane, enigmatic, esoteric, obscure

REPTILES: chameleon, gecko, lizard, snake, turtle

SHADES OF BROWN: auburn, chocolate, hazel, tawny, umber

TINY THINGS: crumb, grain, granule, modicum, sliver, snippet

BONUS GROUP (NEW MEXICO CITIES):

Alamogordo, Las Cruces, Los Alamos, Roswell, Santa Fe

30 HELTER-SKELTER

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28 TOUGH AS DIAMONDS

PUZZLE 3: WHITEOUT!

1. Garield 1. Grant 2. Harding 2. Hoover 3. Johnson 3. Jackson 4. Arthur 5. Taylor 6. Abe 7. Hayes 8. Tyler 9. Ike 10. Bush 11. Coolidge 11. Cleveland 12. Adams 13. Bubba

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TRUE CLUE letter = T

PUZZLE 4: REEL FUN(From left to right)PAPILLONSUPERMANHIGH NOONFinal answer = PAPER MOONTRUE CLUE letter = R

MINI-CAPER FINAL ANSWERAfter following the directions for True Clues E + C + R + T, there

are only two names remaining in the Presidential Grid: HARRISON & FORD = Actor HARRISON FORD

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16 DING LIREN VS. MICHAEL ADAMS

TATA STEEL MASTERS, ROUND 1

White sacrificed his rook with 61. Rh8+. Black resigned at once, since after Kxh8 (forced), White plays Nxe4 and is

a full piece ahead.


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31 LETTUR PERFEKT

PUZZLE A

1. DIVORCE (V)

2. ANTIQUE (Q)

3. SPECIAL (I)

4. STANDARD (D)

5. BENEFIT (B)

6. GENUINE (U)

7. MARTIAL (A)

8. TROPHY (T)

9. TRUMPET (M)

10. FRIEND (F)

11. BIGAMY (Y)

12. TRAPEZE (Z)

13. JALOPY (J)

14. CHORUS (H)

15. SARCASM (S)

16. ASEXUAL (X)

17. COLONEL (O)

18. SALMON (L)

19. VETERAN (E)

20. PENCIL (C)

21. AWKWARD (W)

22. PREGNANT (G)

23. NICKEL (K)

24. HARPOON (R)

25. AGNOSTIC (N)

26. DIPLOMA (P)

PUZZLE B

1. SPRITZ (P)

2. TOREADOR (A)

3. DESIRE (I)

4. MILIEU (E)

5. TOWARD (W)

6. BROGUE (U)

7. SUBTLE (T)

8. BALLET (L)

9. GALAXY (X)

10. SOLEMN (N)

11. BOBCAT (C)

12. GARGOYLE (Y)

13. WISDOM (D)

14. JURIST (S)

15. IMAGINE (G)

16. SOFTENER (F)

17. BUSINESS (B)

18. MNEMONIC (M)

19. THEORY (O)

20. TORQUE (Q)

21. ASTHMA (H)

22. STANZA (Z)

23. LOGJAM (J)

24. DOSSIER (R)

25. CHEVRON (V)

26. JACKAL (K)

PUZZLE C

1. HAIRDO (R)

2. INSTINCT (C)

3. THOUGH (G)

4. TRANSFER (F)

5. BULWARK (W)

6. PYRAMID (Y)

7. FELINE (E)

8. ANXIETY (X)

9. ALBINO (O)

10. ROUTINE (U)

11. LATERAL (L)

12. HEIGHT (H)

13. SUPPLY (P)

14. ACUMEN (A)

15. FAMILIAR (I)

16. FROZEN (Z)

17. COLUMN (M)

18. OPAQUE (Q)

19. ADVANCE (V)

20. ABDOMEN (D)

21. OBLIGED (B)

22. PERJURY (J)

23. ALKALI (K)

24. SCHOOL (S)

25. DEBTOR (T)

26. TORNADO (N)

PUZZLE D

1. SHOEHORN (E)

2. BAGPIPE (P)

3. BISHOP (B)

4. TAWDRY (R)

5. BAZAAR (Z)

6. WOMEN (N)

7. SCENARIO (A)

8. SOOTHE (H)

9. ENSEMBLE (M)

10. CHOIR (I)

11. PURSUIT (U)

12. ENAMEL (L)

13. ANECDOTE (D)

14. ANCHOVY (V)

15. PLAYPEN (Y)

16. SORCERY (C)

17. TOMBOY (O)

18. CROQUET (Q)

19. BANJOIST (J)

20. GIMMICK (K)

21. UNUSUAL (S)

22. STIGMA (G)

23. PREVIEW (W)

24. ACTUAL (T)

25. INFERNO (F)

26. AXIOM (X)

41 MINMOVES PUZZLES

A moves from 7 to 4

D moves from 3 to 7

C moves from 6 to 3

F moves from 2 to 6

B moves from 5 to 2

E moves from 1 to 5

A moves from 4 to 1

D moves from 7 to 4

38 YOUR WORD AGAINST MINE: SCRABBLE

HAPPENINGS, PUZZLES, AND TIPS

IT HAD TO BE U (OR V OR W, ETC.)

6-LETTER WORDS

Length

Shrimp

Aerate

Evolve

Joyful

Hubcap

7-LETTER WORDS

Preview

Baptize

Complex

Apology

Sequoia

Upchuck

8-LETTER WORDS

Watching

Flabbier

Dolphins

Handicap

Fulcrums

Adequacy

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HOOKS AND EXTENSIONS AND PARALLELS, OH MY!

First board:

Rack 1: ZIG, 33 pts.

Rack 2: JUGGLERS, 54 pts.

Rack 3: PRETEXT, 93 pts. This also plays as a hook, forming PEON.

Rack 4: EQUINE, also forming NEON, 41 pts.

Second board:

Rack 1: ZOO 10J or 6F, hook, 37 pts.

Rack 2: EQUITIES E5, perpendicular, 118 pts.

Rack 3: ARCHIVED O8, extension, 54 pts.

Rack 4: DEFEAT 9C, parallel, 37 pts.


ANSWERS

50 500 RUMMY

C A V E M E N J J J 7 8 9 10 64

H A S T I L Y A A A A 2 3 4 13

I N S U L A R 3 4 5 6 8 8 8 42

M A R B L E D 8 8 8 7 8 9 10 58

M A R L I N S 8 8 8 8 3 4 5 44

M I L E A G E 3 3 3 3 5 6 7 30

M O R D A N T 6 7 8 10 10 10 10 61

M U G W U M P 6 6 6 6 2 3 4 33

P A G E A N T 4 5 6 7 10 10 10 52

P L A C E B O J Q K 7 7 7 7 58

P L A Y P E N J Q K 4 4 4 4 46

R A M P A G E 8 8 8 4 5 6 7 46

R A P P O R T K K K K 7 8 9 64

S A N C T U M 5 5 5 5 A 2 3 26

S C A N D A L 5 5 5 5 10 J Q 50

S P I L L E D A 2 3 Q Q Q Q 46

S P I N D L E A 2 3 4 Q Q Q 40

S T A B L E D A A A 7 8 9 10 37

S U B L I M E 5 6 7 8 3 3 3 35

S U B T E E N 5 6 7 9 9 9 9 54

T E E N A G E 9 9 9 9 5 6 7 54

T E N P I N S 9 9 9 2 3 4 5 41

U M P T E E N 2 3 4 9 9 9 9 45

U P R I V E R 2 2 2 2 J Q K 38

V E R D A N T J Q K 10 10 10 10 70

V E R M E I L J Q K 3 3 3 3 42

TOTAL: 1,189

WILD CARDS

42 COVER-UP

42 PREFIX AFFIXATION

The missing nine letters are SCRIPTION (ASCRIPTION, DESCRIPTION, INSCRIPTION,

CONSCRIPTION, PRESCRIPTION, PROSCRIPTION, SUBSCRIPTION, TRANSCRIPTION,

SUPERSCRIPTION, CIRCUMSCRIPTION).

42 TRADING PLACES

Move the Copper to the right, then move the Gold twice so that it is above the Silver, then

move the Silver twice diagonally to the lower right corner, then move the Gold to the lower left

corner and the Copper back to its starting square. The move order can vary slightly. Suggested

by a puzzle that appeared (without an answer) in Shogi magazine No. 35 (January 1982).

42 LATITUDINAL THINKING

From north to south:

9. (60°N. to 70°N.) Fairbanks,

Helsinki, Reykjavik

8. (50°N. to 60°N.) Dublin,

Edmonton, Moscow

12. (40°N. to 50°N.) Montreal, Paris, Rome

6. (30°N. to 40°N.) Casablanca,

Tehran, Tokyo

1. (20°N. to 30°N.) Abu Dhabi,

Hong Kong, Honolulu

2. (10°N. to 20°N.) Bangkok,

Manila, Mumbai

3. (0° to 10°N.) Bogota,

Kuala Lumpur, Monrovia

11. (0°N. to 10°S.) Jakarta,

Nairobi, Recife

7. (10°N. to 20°S.) Darwin, Harare, Lima

4. (20°N. to 30°S.) Brisbane,

Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro

5. (30°N. to 40°S.) Cape Town,

Santiago, Sydney

10. (40°N. to 50°S.) Hobart, Puerto Montt

(Chile), Wellington

43 MATCH GAME

One item from each list can be represented by the same abbreviation or symbol.

1–h, OT: the 61st minute of a football game (overtime); longer portion of the King

James Bible (Old Testament)

2–f, AC: climate control device in a house or car (air conditioning); form of electric power

delivered to residences (alternating current)

3–j, BA: common college degree (Bachelor of Arts); Ted Williams’s was .406 in 1941

(batting average)

4–b, R: irst-year MLB player (rookie); chess piece often resembling a castle (rook)

5–d, ST: Gibraltar or Hormuz, e.g. (strait); Easy or Wall, e.g. (street)

6–g, PI: Jessica Jones’s occupation (private investigator); group that includes Luzon

and Mindanao (Philippine Islands)

7–k, PT: one-eighth of a gallon (pint); type of employee who works only two days

a week (part-time)

8–c, NE: one of the eight main compass directions (northeast); the Cornhusker

state (Nebraska)

9–e, C: speed of light (physics symbol); football lineman between the guards (center)

10–a, K: strikeout (baseball scoring symbol); chemical element number 19, used in

many fertilizers (potassium)

11–l, CO: what a general is to a colonel (commanding oficer); what Orange or Alameda is

in California (county)

12–i, TM: what Cheerios or Wheaties is to General Mills (trademark); practice based

on ancient Hindu texts and involving mantras (transcendental meditation)

43 AUNT HILDEGARDE

Aunt Hildegarde likes words that shed their irst and last letters to become new words:

S-TRIPE-S, S-HOE-S, W-HIS-T, etc.

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42 MIDDLE GROUND

Each word can be both preceded and followed by the same

letter to form a new word: ELOPE, ERODE, MODEM, DARED,

RACER, LAPEL, PRIMP, TABLET, RAIDER.

42 SPORTING COMPANIONS

Tennis: Fred Beacham, accountant, 1st; Irv Harkness, chef, 2nd;

Jim Dodge, engineer, 3rd; Karl Grant, lawyer, 4th

Golf: Harkness, 1st; Grant, 2nd; Beacham, 3rd; Dodge, 4th


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49 THE PLUS

L E N I E

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51 DOUBLE CROSS

A. CARDIFF B. AUTOBOT C. RUNNING START D. RIGHT E. INTEGRITY F. EMANATION G. FELICITY HUFFMAN H. IAN MCEWAN I. SWEET TOOTH J. HOTPOT K. ELECTRIFIED

L. RIOTOUS M. STUTTER STEP N. HOLLYWOOD BOWL O. OWNING P. CHIFFON Q. KNIGHTHOOD R. ATTACHMENT S. HUMOR T. OBTUSE U. LIFER V. IBIS W. CHITTAGONG

When I got the part of a princess in this goofy little science iction ilm, I thought,…I’ll go hang out with a bunch of robots for a few months and then return to my life and try to igure out what I want to do…But…it tricked me into becoming a star. —Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic

S A L A A M I N A J A M L E F T O F F

G U S T A N O D U L E A P R I O R I

T O S S E R C R A N E D C O T H O R

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S A Y S W H O H T B O Y E N O C H

N A S H U A E L L T I S S U E

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A M A N A C A D E T Z I O N W O R D

G O T A T T O M A K I N G M A R I E

O N A L E A S H X I N G P A I N E D

L A D E T H I N G S O O T

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H I N D K N I T B O Y A R C O M M A

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M I L D E W I S O E N T R E E

A S T E R I N T A C T N T I E E M

A P I N G F A W C E T T C A V E

A W A R E O F M R E E N I M A G E S

C O R I N N E A L B E D O C A M E R A

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52 BURIED GOLD

53 SIAMESE TWINS

29 QUINT-ESSENTIAL CATEGORIES

“Abundant” synonyms

“B” occupations

Exclamations

Famous Toms

Movie musicals

“Prohibit” synonyms

“Recondite” synonyms

Reptiles

Shades of brown

Tiny things


ANSWERS

54 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1

ACROSS: 1. Bartender (bender + art); 6. Tiara (Rita + a); 9. Midterm (Mr. + et + dim); 10. Breadth (d + breath); 11. Leica (like a); 12. Twenty-one (tone + went + Y); 13. Rhode Island Red (order is handled); 16. Chicken marsala (chic + Ken + mars + a + LA); 21. Earthworm (the marrow); 23. Capri (musiC A PRIority); 25. Crimson (scorn + I’m); 26. Novella (love + NL + A); 27. Sheds (two meanings); 28. Restrooms (re + Strom’s + O) DOWN: 1. Bumbler (b + lumber); 2. Radii (R + ad + II); 3. Elevate (levee at); 4. Demitasse (essay - y + timed); 5. Ruble (rube + L); 6. Treated (the – h + tread); 7. Andromeda (DA + Rome + and); 8. Achier (a + C + hie + R); 14. Otherwise (he swore it);15. Armaments (mean smart, & lit.); 17. Cohosts (costs + ho); 18. Recover (rec + over); 19. Animals (slam + in + a);20. Fences (fees + NC); 22. Owner (downer – d); 24. Polio (oil op)

55 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2

ACROSS: 1. Revenue (EU + never); 5. Pumice (m + i + puce); 8. Municipal (I clam up in); 9. Skimp (skim + p); 11. Nuggets (egg + nuts); 12. Oceania (canoe + I + A); 13. Torte (decadenT OR TEmptingly); 15. Spanglish (hassling + p); 16. Antipodes (pointed + as); 20. Riser (R + is + e,r); 22. Chorale (speeCH OR A LEcture); 23. Ancient (an + I + cent); 25. Sepia (pit – t + sea); 26. Detouring (got ruined); 27. Friend (r + iend); 28. Ringlet (l + Tegrin)

DOWN: 1. Remonstrances (sermon + trances); 2. Vinegar (V + in + rage); 3. Niche (H + nice); 4. Exposes (E + X + posse); 5. Palooka (pa + a look); 6. Messenger (mess + green); 7. Chianti (China it); 10. Play hard to get (try age-old path); 14. Esplanade (citiES PLAN A DEvelopment); 17. Trouper (report + U); 18. Dreaded (D + read + e,d); 19. Spatter (S + patter); 21. Special (spec + I + all – l); 24. Churn (ch. + urn)

62 PLAYING THE HALF-DOZENS

63 PENTOMINOES: A VARIETY CRYPTIC

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PENTOMINOES

A Creed (c + reed) B Tails (T + ails) C Nonet (ten + on) D Rants (Grant’s – G) E Irate (I + rate) F Steer (two meanings) G Salon (Al + son) H Cents (C + tens) I Snore (Sn + ore) J Amaze (a + maze) K Elate (e + tale) L Gruel (g + rule)

A. Sleets (steels); seeder (cedar) B. Genius (genus + I); stalag (stag + la) C. Attila (a + lit + T.A.); Rwanda (war and) D. Briber (brier + B); Peoria (P.E. + o,r + IA) E. Surtax (sir tack’s); chider (D + riche) F. Threes (H + trees); twenty (Ty + went) 1. Teases (A’s + tees); Top Cat (to a T + P.C.) 2. Hottie (h + Ott + i.e.); heehaw (eh Ha we) 3. Eloise (Heloise – H); estate (prettiEST ATElier) 4. Jailed (J + ailed); Jordan (Joan + rd.) 5. Of late (�at + o,e); orient (tire on) 6. Yearly (y + early); Yeager (y + eager) 7. Surges (surgeon’s – on); subset (S + tubes) 8. Orwell (or + well); onrush (Huron’s) 9. Fairer (if rare); iance (in café) 10. Senile (e + lines); subtle (subtitle – it) 11. Induct (inn ducked); ice age (offICE A GEnuinely) 12. Xerxes (Xeroxes – O); Xmases (X + mass + e)

COVER LETTER REBUSES

1 Grandparents (G, R, and P aren’t S)

2 Condone (C on D on E)

3 Colonial period (colon IAL period)

4 Candy cane (C and Y, C, an E)

5 Right of way (Right of W a Y)

6 Coupons (CO upon S)

7 Apple turnover (a PPLE turn over)

8 Concentric (C on cent, RIC)

9 Poverty-stricken (P over T, Y stricken)

10 Spring cleaning (SP ring, C leaning)

11 Undercover agents (under C, over a G, ENTS)

12 Skedaddled (SKED addled)


ANSWERS

59 CARDS

Puzzle by Olga Leontyeva

61 DOMINO YIN-YANG

Puzzle by Vladimir Portugalov

Black 1:4 is the missing domino.

60 GAPPED KAKURO

Puzzle by Andrey Bogdanov

58 SNAKE

Puzzle by Vladimir Portugalov57 MISSING LABYRINTH

Puzzle by Gabriele Simionato

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ANSWERS

67 CLUE STEW67 WORDSPAIR

B E A T L E S S T L O K I R K A D H E R E S

A M P H O R A P R A M O N O R G R U Y E R E

H E R E T I C A I D A B E L A R I P E N E D

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H E A D S E T S K I L A U E A L A T T I C E S

T O N Y S F I R S T B O R N W A U G H

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64 PAINT BY PAIRS

66 FAMILY REUNIONS

FAMILY ONE

Classic board games

1. Go

2. Risk

3. Clue

4. Chess

5. Sorry

6. Othello

7. Twister

8. Scrabble

9. Checkers

10. Stratego

FAMILY TWO

“Angry” synonyms

1. Mad

2. Sore

3. Cross

4. Upset

5. Irate

6. Fierce

7. Fuming

8. Enraged

9. Incensed

10. Indignant

FAMILY THREE

Fictional detectives

1. Drew

2. Tracy

3. Wolfe

4. Spade

5. Drebin

6. Holmes

7. Poirot

8. Marple

9. Columbo

10. Marlowe

FAMILY FOUR

Defunct autos

1. Geo (or REO)

2. Saab

3. Nash

4. Edsel

5. DeSoto

6. Hudson

7. Saturn

8. Rambler

9. Pontiac

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4

4

4

4

6

4

9

9

2

2

3

4

7

5

4

3

2

2

3

6

3

5

5

4

4

3

4

3

5

4

12

8

7

7

12

10

10

8

10

1

2

2

4

2

2

6

1

1

8

9

9

1

1

1

8

4

3

4

3

3

2

2

5

1

3

3

4

1

4

4

1

1

3

10

1

1

1

5

3

3

1

1

6

8

2

2

1

2

3

3

8

8

7

7

2

6

8

1

1 HORSE

3 SIX-SIDED DIE

2 WORKING

4 CHICK

5 WEDDING CAKE

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