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SOLITAIRE
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EACH OF THE TWELVE SECTIONS
OF THIS LUCKY WHEEL. TEN
SECTIONS ARE EACH MARKED WITH
A DIFFERENT NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10,
AND THE REMAINING TWO ARE
MARKED WITH STARS. FROM THE
CLUES GIVEN ON PAGE 2,
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FEATURING:
WHIST: A BRIEF HISTORY
THIS OLD GAME
SOLE SURVIVOR
AND MORE!
CONTENTS
PENCILWISE
IN THIS ISSUE
Rules Were Made to Be Adapted 34
When house rules rule
& when they dont
Whist: A Brief History 42
Learn about the origins of the
game and its role in modern times
PLUS...
Wild Cards: A potpourri of amusing 24
little puzzles for your solving pleasure
What's Happening 33
Previews of upcoming events
Your Word Against Mine: Scrabble
Happenings, Puzzles, and Tips 38
Proile of player Mack Meller
This Old Game 40
Vintage board games
from the collectors closet
Sole Survivor 41
A chess puzzle from computer
science expert Dennis Shasha
Contest: Coded Crisscross IV 44
Contest Results: 45
Crossword Haiku (from December)
Electronic Game Reviews 46
Churchill Solitaire, Tsuro
Traditional Game Reviews 47
6 nimmt!, Star Trek: Five-Year Mission
Game On! 48
Obeat news, trivia, and more from
today s world of games and puzzles
DIFFICULTY RATING
Easy
Hard
Medium
Mixed
COVER PUZZLE BASED ON A PUZZLE BY HENRY HOOK

COVER DESIGN REGIS MODESTA
500 Rummy
Around the Clock
Battleships
Born Out of Deadlock
Camoulage
Character Sketches
Code Crosswords
Combo Meals
Cryptic Crossword 1
Cryptic Crossword 2
Cryptolists
Double Cross
Double-Crossings
Eat Your Words!
Family Reunions
Fender Benders
Final Ts
Helter-Skelter
Juxtaposition
Kid Stuff
Mixed Doubles
Mixed Doubles:
Shades of Meaning
Multi Kakuro
Odd Letter Out
One, Two, Three
Paint by Numbers
Pencil Pointers 1
Pencil Pointers 2
Pseudocoup
Quote Boxes
Rising Before the Bread
Rite of Spring
Rowed Signs
Rows Garden
Siamese Twins
Solitaire Hangman
Some Assembly Required
Test Your Trivia I.Q.
The Spiral
Worlds Most Ornery Crossword
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THE EDITOR
Editor in Chief Janis Weiner

Senior Editor Jennifer Orehowsky
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CAMOUFLAGE
FROM THE GAMES LIBRARY
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; its 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 70
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MIXED DOUBLES
BY MIKE NOTHNAGEL
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
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ACROSS
1 Allows entrance
2 House Majority Leader from
20032005
3 Beer brewers staple
4 Rock with colorful bands
5 Conservative political
movement
6 Attorneys title
7 Ill take that bet!
8 Uses a keyboard
9 Fesses up to
10 Doing better than average,
in golf
11 Postponement period
12 Mad Hatters event
13 Without interruption
14 Percentage on a liquor bottle
15 Jumps on one foot
16 Boyfriend or girlfriend, to
a 1950s teen
27
17 Barnyard females
18 Nudge to a daydreaming
performer
19 Spreads seeds
20 Tiny type size
21 GQ competitor
22 Varieties
23 Like stock that sells for less than
face value
24 Evidence
DOWN
1 Made sense, logically
2 Infamous presidential assassin
3 Traverse, as a river
4 Hes a Rebel girl group
5 Logs off, as from a computer
6 Police officers route,
colloquially
7 Usual
8 Totally exhausted
9 Stop in for a brief visit

10 Produce photos via a
chemical process
11 Egyptian tomb
12 Light, flaky roll
13 Noughts opponent, in the
British version of tic-tac-toe
14 Put two and two
together, maybe
15 Borrows via writing ones
name on a list
16 Actor Patrick who was
knighted in 2001
17 Voting enclosure
18 Swarovski products
19 Cheers regular
20 Word-guessing game show
hosted by Dick Clark, to fans
21 The Police drummer
Copeland
22 Increase in complexity
PENCIL POINTERS 1
BY FRANK LONGO
In this crossword puzzle, the clues appear in the grid itself. Enter the answers in the direction of the pointers.
ANSWER, PAGE 70
Bent so
as to
warp
PriceHero
Most
matching that may peculiar
promise have
salami
Batting Ariapostures singing

star
Just for The

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of it
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Tiny
Dundee Quebec
biting ly denizens locale
Contains
Item on
a to-do
list
Kett of
old
comics
Ancient
natives
of Peru
Group of
genuine
works
Caution
Purple
lower
Dance in
3/4 time,
in Dijon
Major
port in
Japan
No
longer
sleeping
Politico
Ross
Flax
fabric
Lowbrow
art
trinkets
Fails to
keep
pace
Attack
felinestyle
Follower
of Nov.
Ciao!
Ghost,
Suddenly
angel, or rich sort
demon
Request
for a
smooch
Dir. from
Miss. to
Mich.
Boozer
With a
Make
deadpan into law
look
Baghdad
native
Empty a
suitcase
Grants
entry to
Habit
Some
highball Daytona
cocktails 500 org.
Hellion
Bobby of
hockey
It's bliss,
per an
adage
Lasso
New
staffer
Private
teachers
Fourfooted
friend
Street
waifs
Wane
Tennis
skirt
__-haw
(donkey
sound)
Related
Home
for mil.
jets
Scottish
refusal
Abbr.
for the
Blue Jays
No, No,
__ (old
musical)
Vision
while
asleep
L.A. Law
costar
Amanda
Searched
quickly
(through)
Avoider
of hightech stuff
Scold
Rip off
The old
__-ho
Key with
one
sharp
__ one's
time
(wait)
Service
charge
Maker
of the
irst
move
Part of
ACLU:
Abbr.
Rival of
Sony or
RCA
Watts of Concave
King
navel,
Kong
slangily
Related
to the
chest
Soft
French
cheese
Product
plugs
Soft,
gentle
breezes
Spanish
for
happy
Beast
Brown
Quick
pigment swim
Droops
down
``Lah-di__!''
Feline
Gregory
of tap
Fluff bits
Open-air
blazes
Chubby
Role as a
public
servant
Case's
key clue
collector
Picked
up on
Spring
Sunday
holidays
OF
SPRING
50 Becomes less
intense
53 Loses traction
54 Bed beautifiers:
2 wds.
57 Half of a laugh
60 ___ springs
eternal
61 Folk wisdom
62 Temperamental
64 Change for a five
65 Arboretum
specimen
66 1966 Michael
Caine title role
67 Eur. or Afr.: Abbr.
68 Ooze
69 Some punches
ACROSS
1 Stone in a setting
6 Finishes a cake
10 Willy Wonkas
creator
14 No longer sleeping
15 Lexicographer
Webster
16 Night author
Wiesel
17 Ticks off
18 Nimble
19 ___ colada
20 Hand holder?
21 Marketing gimmick
24 German sub: Hyph.
26 Separate wheat
from chaff
27 Not present
29 Golf shoe feature
31 Witnessed
32 Concert souvenir:
Hyph.
34 Dutch oven, e.g.
37 Jane Fondas first
Best Actress film
39 Two-time loser
to DDE
40 Instant replay
mode: Hyph.
42 Uncle on a U.S.
Army poster
43 Draws a bead
on: 2 wds.
46 Alda or Arkin
47 Moorehead of
Bewitched
48 Look up to
AROUND
BY NORMA STEINBERG
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10 Begin a journey
11 Share and
share ___
12 Tap dancer
Gregory
13 Dog walkers need
22 Electrical unit
23 ___ all, folks!
25 Twisted
27 Invites
28 Lugosi of old
horror flicks
63
47 Swear (to)
49 Depressing
50 Kind of committee:
2 wds.
51 Good, in Roma
52 Colorado ski town
53 Catch some zs
55 Golfers warning
56 Price-less?
58 Correct copy
59 Spud buds
63 Grand ___ Opry
29 Magnus
Carlsens game
30 Barts sis
33 Identical
34 Eat the whole
thing: 2 wds.
35 Actor Sharif
36 Sound quality
38 Rarin to go
41 Genies home
44 Slaps in the face
45 A ___ of Two Cities
CLOCK
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36
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BY M.A. SHEEN
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10
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6
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60
6:40 Tyrant
12:35 Beveled, in Britain
7:20 Luggage carrier
1:00 Kind of crab
8:05 Commotion
2:25 Glance through again
9:30 Swaps
3:45 Meditators chant
10:15 Tarzan, for one: 2 wds.
4:55 Hostage holder
11:10 Olympic swimmer Dara
5:50 Cocktail party snack
They always fall down on the job:
5
34
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Answers to the clues below are all six letters long. Write the first three letters of
the answer in the hour sector of the clock indicated by the clue; write the last
three letters in the minutes sector. For example, if the 12:10 clues answer
were FLOWER, youd place the FLO in the 12 sector and the WER in the 2 sector.
After youve filled in the whole clock, select one letter from each sector and
write it in its corresponding blank below. These letters will reveal the answer to
the given clue.
ANSWERS, PAGE 70
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DOWN
High-level
programming
language
Washstand
vessel
Madame
Tussauds
establishment:
2 wds.
___ out a living
Hour with the
piano teacher
Mini-map
Deal (with)
Tombstone
lawman Wyatt
Lawyer whos not
on the up and up
THE
ANSWER, PAGE 70
RITE
RISING BEFORE
THE
BREAD
BY MARGERY ALBIS
Nikki begins her shift at Kostass Bakery at 3:00 a.m., and shes always busy as soon as she steps through the door.
This morning, there are four big orders waiting for her, each for a different client. Each order must be ready to
go out the door at a different time (on the hour from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., inclusive). The orders are all for
different kinds of bread (one is for pumpernickel mini-loaves), in each case in a different batch size (15, 20, 25,
or 30 items). Deduce the time at which each client will pick up his or her order, his or her business, and the
number and type of baked goods he or she ordered.
ANSWER, PAGE 70
CLUES
Rolls
Mufins
Mini-loaves
Croissants
30
25
20
15
Wedding
Restaurant
Grocery
Caterer
Valerie
Millicent
Lars
Edgar
1. Millicent is due to show up for her order sometime before the person from the gourmet grocery store.
2. The person coming for the blueberry-orange muffins will arrive sometime after the person who ordered a
batch of 20 items and sometime before the caterer.
3. Edgars order is for either 10 more or 10 fewer items than the batch of croissants.
4. The batch that has to be ready at 6:00 has more items than the batch that the professional wedding planner
will pick up.
5. Lars ordered more items than the person who placed the order for the restaurant.
6. The order that will be picked up at 5:00 consists of more than 20 items.
7. Valerie ordered either the almond croissants or the sourdough rolls.
5:00
6:00
7:00
8:00
Croissants
Mini-loaves
Mufins
Rolls
15
20
25
30
Caterer
Grocery
Restaurant
Wedding
KID
STUFF:
CABIN HIDEAWAY
Can you find the following things hidden in and around this log cabin?
BOOK
COMB
GOLF TEE
LOLLIPOP
SCISSORS
BUTTERFLY
FIN (SWIMMING
HAMMER
PENCIL
SKI
CANE
FLIPPER)
HAT
PICKLE
SNAKE
CLOTHESPIN
FRYING PAN
JUG
RULER
UMBRELLA
ILLUSTRATION BY MARK MAZUT
ANSWER, PAGE 71
SQUARED AWAY
To complete this puzzle, place the words in the grids to make two 44 crosswords in which all 16 of the words appear. Weve
ANSWER, PAGE 70
filled in two of the words to start you off.
AREA
FACT
LEAN
ORAL
ASEA
FILL
LENT
PARE
CLAN
ISLE
NEAT
RAVE
EVEN
LAND
OPEN
TEND
BUILD-A-WORD
Listed below are two sets of three-letter words. Each word in column A can be combined with some word in column B, with
the column A word coming first, to form a new word. But be careful: One beginning may match more than one ending, but
ANSWER, PAGE 70
only one combination will use every word. Weve done one to get you started.
B
age
RATION
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per
bid
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man
did
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kit
her
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key
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pet
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son
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can
ten
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but
ton
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CHARACTER SKETCHES
An ability to sing the alphabet song is the only skill youll need to identify this batch of sketches. Each one incorporates a letter,
and the word it represents can be found by sounding out that letter. How? Well, a piece of canceled mail addressed to D
would stand for DESCENT (D sent, that is); a village green named A would represent PARQUET (park A). Two answers
are proper nouns; the rest are common English words. When youve igured them out, write em down in the blanks provided.
ANSWERS, PAGE 70
Get the picture?
PUZZLE BY A.W. SUNSETS/ILLUSTRATIONS BY RON BARRETT
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QUOTE BOXES
BY JENNIFER OREHOWSKY
To solve Quote Boxes, drop the letters from each vertical columnnot necessarily in the order in which they appearinto 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
1. Ann Landers
A N E T K W F F E H O P H O E A U N R N D O
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MULTI KAKURO
BY CONCEPTIS LTD.
www.conceptispuzzles.com
Your goal is to solve each individual 99 kakuro grid by filling each white square with a single digit from 1 to 9. The clue number
for a horizontal group of digits is to the left of a group and above the slash, and for a vertical group of digits it is above the
group and below the slash. This clue number represents the sum of the digits in its corresponding group. No zeroes are used
and no digit may be repeated within a group. Use information from overlapping grids to help you determine which digits to
place in the common areas.
ANSWER, PAGE 71
15
37
14
26
35
21
12
16
17
23
28
12
11
18
24
15
7
16
24
3
13
23
25
29
10
30
25
16
6
15
15
29
10
23
10
11
6
14
10
33
13
12
35
17
22
24
22
36
10
4
3
19
29
17
17
15
17
15
19
7
13
24
11
20
18
4
18
16
38
16
13
23
15
25
24
26
6
6
14
23
14
11
11
38
24
24
15
30
23
25
27
16
16
25
17
29
17
24
24
23
22
20
14
15
14
24
37
22
26
36
4
29
29
25
12
17
17
12
14
33
17
22
12
17
10
17
16
13
FINAL TS
BY RAYMOND YOUNG
Heres a novel T: All of the 48 words and phrases listed below end in T. Place them into the grid so that they interlock in
standard crossword fashion. If you do this correctly, each word and phrase will be used exactly once. Although this puzzle has
some subtle Ts, we believe youll solve it with little difficult T!
STARTING HINT, PAGE 78
ANSWER, PAGE 71
14
6 LETTERS
7 LETTERS
8 LETTERS
9 LETTERS
ABBOTT
AT NIGHT
BAR CHART
BERNHARDT
ATE OUT
CREW CUT
BROWBEAT
COFFEE SET
BORSHT
CROQUET
CLARINET
COTTON RAT
COHORT
DEFAULT
CO-PARENT
ENGLEBERT
ENDUST
DOGCART
HEARD OUT
ICE BUCKET
FERRET
ITS A BET
JOAN JETT
PUFFED OUT
INDUCT
NO SHIRT
NOT A HINT
RULING OUT
JESUIT
ONE PINT
PROTRACT
SHUT TIGHT
ONE-ACT
PLAY-ACT
STUDY ART
SMALL DEBT
PROMPT
PODCAST
SUBTRACT
TEXAS HEAT
PUT-PUT
POP-TART
SUPERJET
UP CURRENT
RELICT
SIT ON IT
WIPED OUT
WORD COUNT
FENDER BENDERS
BY RAYMOND YOUNG
When alphabetically consecutive letters get too close, they may have a fender bender. In the impact from these minor
mishaps, two letters bump up against each other. There have been several collisions like this in the grid below, for
example in places where you see AB, KL, ST, or any other pair of consecutive letters without a space between them. Find
all of the words and phrases listed below, considering each of these fender bender pairs as a unit. Words read
horizontally, vertically, and diagonally, always in a straight line. When youre done, the leftover letters, read left to right
and top to bottom, will complete the bumper sticker quip, If you can read this Drive carefully!
ANSWER, PAGE 71
S T
C LM N
H R
E
E A
S E P S
M Z TU I N S K W
HI E N H C A E P Y
T
W E E A E E CD M L
V
A R R N KL T N U FG R E N
N AB O Y N HI EF IJ C BC U G
O E KL ST I C R K T T C H
A S L R R S OP S C
P
E O O W J
DE CD
N L T O
I D O T
W B O OP O
HI OP
A F XY
I D E GH U
S N S T N
E O O I K
MN CD O I E
A N T E RS
H
BC
F M E
O R
AB O
C U
I D
D E
M OP H E A
I R O P V
R T S
H
P
TU
R
A
D
AC DUCT
FIVE B.C.
NYSTROM
SCHISM
AMNESIA
FOLKLORE
ON A WHIM
SEA BREEZE
ANSELM
NEPTUNE
PAC-DOT
SKI JUMP
BUNKER SHOT
FORCEFUL
PEACH NEHI
TOO PROUD
CABOODLE
GENE WILDER
PEDICAB
TOP ONION
CHANTERS
IM TOO SEXY
PHOTO CD
VERSION I
COPPICE
KOPJE
RIB CAGE
WEEKLY
DART UP
MOPHEAD
ROUGHED IT
WRINKLE
ETHICS
NERF GUN
SCARAB
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SOLITAIRE HANGMAN
As in the two-player version of Hangman, the object of this solitaire challenge is to guess a word before being hanged.
To begin, choose any letter that you think might appear in word I below. Suppose you pick E. Go to the Letter Chart on
the facing page and find the number listed in row E of Column I (because you are working on word I). The number is
8; you now look in box number 8 in the Position Chart (to the right of the Letter Chart) and locate the number 3. This
means the letter E occurs in the third position (and nowhere else) in word I. If a letter occurs more than once in a word,
the Position Chart will show all its locations.
If you find from the Position Chart that a letter appears in position 0, then that letter does not appear in the word.
As a penalty for an incorrect guess, you must draw part of a stick figure below the scaffold beside the blanks. On your
first incorrect guess, draw the head; on the second, the body; and on the next four, the arms and legs. If
you complete the figure (that is, make six incorrect guesses) before identifying the word, you are
hanged.
If you can identify 8 of the 12 words before being hanged, either youre psychic or you have a
remarkable gift for words.
ANSWERS, PAGE 71
Words To Be Guessed
Letters Missed
I.
1
II.
10
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
8
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
16
10
BY JENNIFER OREHOWSKY
II
III
IV
Letter Chart
V VI VII VIII IX
Position Chart
X
XI XII
A 49 91 34 47 53 95 72 74 26 46 11 21
B 76 72 21 71 63
C 69 23 67 44 99 75 97 29 91 24 92 19
D 26 74 52 74 17 71 92 94 27 92 40 94
71 17 88 76 37 19 55 21 54 47 66
89 60 26 72 54 59 18 72 31 57 27 35
67 84 23 23 54
91 98 37 67 85 59 37 67
H 40 22 85 26 67 85 45 89 94 31 93 50
12 96 74 22 41 16 48 76 83
53 59 65 19 29 61 27 44 42 18 91
G 96 53 76
30 29
4
K 46 89 27 98 60 20 53 18 40 94 67 54
43 18 16 38 10 74 51 60 74 50 44 75
M 98 25 61 56 32 42 98 63 63
98 85
N 61 58 82 21 35 76 33 37
78 76 56
O 37 13
29 17 65 72
65 63 40
Q 67 44 94 75 23 54 22 16 17 71 22 79
R 52 70 62 29 100 6
86 52 60 17
62 60 12 65 76 14 96
40 96 65 26
15 68 75 94 65 23 77 22
31
64 37 40 27
45 39 81 36 71 86 63 92 98 85 87
90 52 73 28 17 96 38 11 53 84
V 29 54 63 31 16 89 44 42 75 19 71 16
W 92 35 29 18 85 52 52 75 96 60 80 18
X 31 92 72 61 26 91 71 59 56 16 89 31
53 89 61 74 44
19 98 35 92 56 96 61 56 19 72 59 61
U 56
32 59 89 40 35
II
III
IV
VI VII VIII IX
1
7
6
5
11
7
16
0
21
6
26
0
31
0
36
7
41
5
46
2
51
1
56
0
61
0
66
2,5
71
0
76
0
81
1,9
86
7
91
0
96
0
2
5
7
1
12
6
17
0
22
0
27
0
32
10
37
0
42
1
47
5
52
0
57
1,6
62
3
67
0
72
0
77
6
82
4
87
4
92
0
97
4
3
3
8
3
13
3,5,8
18
0
23
0
28
2
33
3,8
38
2
43
9
48
2,7
53
0
58
6
63
0
68
1
73
2,7,9
78
3
83
4
88
1,3
93
2,9
98
0
4
0
9
4
14
8
19
0
24
4
29
0
34
5
39
7
44
0
49
8
54
0
59
0
64
1
69
7
74
0
79
3
84
4
89
0
94
0
99
1,6
5
7
10
8
15
4
20
4
25
4
30
3
35
0
40
0
45
5
50
8
55
2,7
60
0
65
0
70
2,9
75
0
80
1,6
85
0
90
2,8
95
6
100
3,4
XI XII
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PENCIL POINTERS 2
BY COREY KOSAK
In this crossword puzzle, the clues appear in the grid itself. Enter the answers in the direction of the pointers.
ANSWER, PAGE 71
1981
Kurt
Russell
ilm
Unusual
state of
affairs
Frigid
30 Rock
actor
Baldwin
Italian
violinist
Niccol
Wiped
Trafic
clean, as violators'
a board penalties
Word
before
while
The
North
Star
France,
Spain,
Italy, etc.
Graceful
Women's
shoe
retailer
Jewel
box for
music
Like
spoiled
oil
Part of
YMCA
Opposite German
of day,
painter
in Dijon Max
Maine's They
Dirigo, cross
for one aves.
Over the Loch __
short
Brando's
haul
Vito
Cause of Deviate
great
off
sorrow
course
Color
similar
to teal
Wine
bottle
stopper
QB VII
novelist
Uris
Short,
simple
tunes
Among
Prayer
enders
U.S. 1,
e.g.
Digitize
from an
LP, say
Put a
tear in
Corp.'s
top dog
Getting
tangled,
as hair
Preix
with car
Epoch
Fancy
vases
Offer for
returned
goods
French
Mrs.
Acidity- Arab
gauging bigwigs
device
Extreme
vandal
Points
Some
steaks
House of Nancy of
Charles I the
and II
House
Singer
Brings
Donny
in, as a
or Marie salary
MDs' gp.
__
vincit
amor
Deadend
work
position
Small city
French
for
here
Periodic
table
statistic
Basic
lessons
Having
digits, as
a keypad
Friend,
to
Franois
Lies at a
slant
18
Ability- Bill
gauging equal to
exam
two ins
2,000pound
unit
No __,
ands or
buts!
Begin
Clothed
__ Dame
Awful
smell
Eggy
brunch
dish
Ontario
border
lake
Roar
singer
Perry
Not
suitable
Creator
of funny
portraits
Lass
For
what __
worth...
Take a
break
Pigpen
Brian of
rock
People
Serious
Part of
imitating dificulty BTW
others
47-year
senator
Kennedy
Raw
metals
British
actor
Derek
Love
affair
Legal
Toodleclaim on oo!
property
Gavels,
e.g.
Auto
Are we
there
__?
That, in
Cdiz
Tree
houses?
Noonday
naps
THE SPIRAL
BY STUART CLELAND
This puzzle turns in two directions. The Spirals 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 youre
going, and have many happy returns.
ANSWER, PAGE 72
1
2
3
54
57
74
77
35
90
91
78
73
89
92
36
72
88
79
93
99
37
50
24
49
23
71
61
87
80
94
98
38
62
70
86
95
81
10
97
48
96
39
82
63
84
83
40
12
42
13
67
65
41
47
68
64
22
69
85
11
46
66
21
20
45
19
44
43
14
18
15
1-4
5-7
8-12
13-18
19-26
27-33
34-40
41-46
47-53
54-59
60-66
67-70
71-75
76-80
81-84
85-87
88-95
96-100
25
51
100
60
26
52
59
27
53
75
76
58
28
55
56
34
6
29
32
33
30
31
INWARD
Alien-seekers acronym
Countdown starter
Xbox enthusiast
I ___ tell a lie
Small glass disk in a stained glass window
August meteor shower
Oaklands county
Taxonomic subdivisions
From an ethical point of view
Two-time Oscar winner Wiest
Leading power
Four-time Cy Young Award winner Maddux
U.S. military base on Cuban soil, familiarly
Fictional creature in a Lewis Carroll poem
Brusque
Johnny ___ and Billy Yank
Large-eared ruminant of the American West: 2 wds.
Dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter
16
17
100-97
96-91
90-80
79-74
73-68
67-63
62-56
55-51
50-46
45-38
37-30
29-22
21-16
15-11
10-1
OUTWARD
Dry as a bone
Historic Colorado mining town
Vehicle loaded up at a sawmill: 2 wds.
1996 Mel Gibson/Rene Russo thriller
Poohs bouncy pal
Kitschy garden statue
Hellish abode
Pastoral poem
Bakery emanation
Traitor
Interpreter of ___ (2000 Pulitzer winner)
Drove away, as insects
Kramdens sidekick
Mother of pearl
Minerals that can become lodestones
19
CRYPTOLISTS
BY REGIS MODESTA
1. BOW TIE WEARERS
2. EDIBLE IDIOMS
Ex.: Spill the beans
Ex.: James Bond

QK W RY CW
B KRP UZ
L Q M
DIK J
UCA
Y N WH S
M C E W K
W K L X NNA
K AFASVI YCAK
D E B
H XS P UW S
Y CRKYCXNN
F E N B
F W S I NF
E A A
S J
A Q D
BO D
D E C BO
E VR
NX SY WNS
P S Z P O
A S BE BS
P C D E I
S J
X S
UCA
C I U
IPUIX K A
E N I Z VW Z
V RSSZ
3. STARRING S
F D N N
L E R
S J
F BQ P X
A Q D P D
YIU
OK A F
O Z I L N D
CAK DI S
H AA
U C A
BC E Q V
P E C C S B
F RY B
I VK I CID
P O D D F D
P E XD
BO D
N Q XD
P C S A
O S BP E XD F
D M M
4. MYSTERY LIST
Ex.: Silver screen
What do they all have in common?
M G Z P U
Q S YBRBA N Y
MIQM
M A G E EY K Q
MAPEY
Q N BT
S V
C RS A O BD I C
C W VVLT LT C
M P R GIA
MY RX KGJQ
A S YH
M Y M I ZY
MY Y F M
A S KKW RLT
M D I U
M Y I
MPUV
MIAJ
M D YY J
M P S J
MPIE
M O YAA
M G Z E AY
20
MGW JY YU
MOPR T
MX V IK
A N D H BH N RL
H G L H
A S KQ W RLT
XN RLT
R T N BD
I N T KL D R
D L XC Q N Q LT
D S C L
H W T BD I
XN C U BD I
N T RBAYL
Q T S I T N K
VN WA L R
KN T N RU S D
Q N T RBA BQ N D R
A S D R T N M N D H
C KW I I YLT
ILLUSTRATIONS BY MEREDITH MORIARTY
Below are four lists of related words and phrases that have been translated into simple cipher alphabets. The letter substitutions
remain constant within any one group of words (for instance, if V represents G in one word, it will represent G in all the words
in that list), but change from one list to the next. A tip to new solvers: Start by thinking of answers that might fit one of the
categories; then see if any enciphered words in the list have the same letter pattern.The fourth list has been left untitled. Solve
the code to determine what the items have in common.
ANSWERS, PAGE 72
JUXTAPOSITION
2
11
12
18
19
20
21
28
23
29
30
32
35
36
39
40
47
51
60
61
33
42
49
53
57
67
64
68
76
69
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
75
65
77
58
59
60
64
66
67
69
70
71
74
59
71
48
50
51
53
55
56
45
55
58
70
ACROSS
Certain meter reader
Leftover
Carry out
Not easily sussed out
Sum of the parts
Mascara maker
Nancys comic-strip pal
Ushers beat
Word with miss
or future
Choice of elixirs?:
2 wds.
Wild about
Fond du ___, Wisconsin
Suture
MTM actress Georgia
Puts in place
Seekers of asylum
Elvis Presley, to many
Height: Abbr.
Picasso model Maar
Takes shape
Hotter under the collar
Take a ___ (run away)
Vallettas republic
44
50
54
63
66
43
34
41
62
15
38
48
56
14
27
37
52
13
24
26
31
46
24
25
26
27
28
33
35
36
38
39
40
42
46
10
17
25
22
16
22
1
7
12
16
17
18
19
20
21
Knight shirt
Sound asleep?
Say okay
Like Rambo
Makes furious
Horse of different
colors
Vichyssoise veggie
Not naughty
58-Across kin
Put on the back burner
Chefs cap
Ungainly ship
Tranes instrument
Birds in the bush?
Ode to resistance?:
2 wds.
Give off
Virgo follower
Eyepiece
Aggravate
Lethargic
39.37-inch units
Blacken
Shreks kinfolk
Declare under oath
72
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
23
27
28
29
30
31
32
73
DOWN
Surprise reaction
Woodys son
Cottontails tail
Crche trio
Luandas land
Newborns
Give and take
IOUs
More sanguine
Within the rules
Hammer part
Shrinking source of
shade?: 2 wds.
Settle a score
Vandyke relative
Becomes a member
Mexican wildcat
Continental
bucks
Frat letter
Abstractions
Turnpike fees
Splendor of Northern
Ireland?: 2 wds.
Blood component
ANSWER, PAGE 72
BY ED KARASEK
34
37
41
43
44
45
47
49
52
54
57
60
61
62
63
65
68
71
72
73
74
75
76
Dandy
Amenable to bribery
Kitchen gadget
Andrea ___
(ill-fated liner)
Upright
View anew
American chameleon
Fondue goo
Mai follower
Rodgers & Hammerstein
musical
Whats in a vacuum
Takes the helm
McCarthy-era epithet
Eagle in the night sky
Part of SSN
French anti-ship
missile
Dancers support
Hodgepodge
Gangsters weapons
AKC outcast
Out of the wind
Needlefishes
Formerly, formerly
21
MIXED DOUBLES:
SHADES OF MEANING
BY MIKE NOTHNAGEL
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
28
20
40
29
31
18
16
17
21
15
33
34
23
22
25
24
13
11
30
27
19
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
22
ACROSS
Bowling tournament groups
Get detached
Connected by a familial bond
Ornamental plant often associated
with Christmas
Tooth deposit
Ice cream serving
Begs for change, maybe
Use a crib sheet to pass a test, say
Features of Texas, Oklahoma,
and Florida
Vacation at sea
Go as planned
Told, as a story
Mission: Impossible star
Evade by sidestepping
Reporters exclusive
16 Relocate frequently
17 Commemorative sign
18 Measurements in a Jules
Verne title
19 Famous presidential dog
20 Rock-and-roll musician Buddy
21 Two-time
DOWN
Subordinate to
Gave a higher position
Attempted
Special duty for a police officer
Poker players cards
Get wool from a sheep
One of an ellipses
defining points
8 Put to the test
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
Fire department bosses

Say it louder!
Rim
Facebook connections
Particular
Structural strain
Precede
U2 guitarist, with the
Out, at the dentists office
Camera adjustment
Game also called draughts
Hyped, as a product
Express ones opinion
Long-running
NBC comedy
23 Clock part
24 Kansas City footballers
25 Plead ones case in front of
BATTLESHIPS
BY CONCEPTIS LTD.
WWW.CONCEPTISPUZZLES.COM
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 grids
perimeter indicate the number of cells in the corresponding rows and columns that are occupied by vessels.
Youll 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 72
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)
1SEAMAN
2PETTY OFFICER
3ENSIGN
Battleship
Battleship
Battleship
Cruisers
Cruisers
Cruisers
Destroyers
Destroyers
Destroyers
Submarines
Submarines
Submarines
4CAPTAIN
5COMMODORE
6ADMIRAL
1
1
1
5
4
3
Battleship
Battleship
Battleship
Cruisers
Cruisers
Cruisers
Destroyers
Destroyers
Destroyers
Submarines
Submarines
Submarines
23
W I L D CA R D S
FOR THE RECORD
IMPROPER MEANINGS
Proper names are generally
disallowed in the game of
Scrabble, but the following 10
words have other meanings that
make them legal to play. Can you
match each word (110) to its
improper meaning (aj)?
MAPPIT
GO WITH THE FLOW
Can you match these rivers (115),
all of which are found at least
partially within the United States,
with the bodies of water into
which they flow (ao)?
1. Bighorn
2. Cape Fear
3. Colorado
4. Columbia
5. Connecticut
6. Hudson
7. Niagara
8. Ohio
9. Red River of the North
10. Rio Grande
11. Saint Louis
12. Snake
13. Susquehanna
14. Yellowstone
15. Yukon
1. alaska
2. brazil
3. congo
4. erica
5. japan
6. matilda
7. maxwell
8. newton
9. texas
10. zaire
a. a dyewood
b. a former monetary unit
c. a heavy fabric
d. a hobos bundle
e. an eellike amphibian
f. a shrub of the heath
family
g. a unit of force
h. a unit of magnetic flux
i. the uppermost structure
on a steamboat
j. to coat with a glossy
black lacquer
a. Atlantic Ocean
b. Bering Sea
c. Chesapeake Bay
d. Columbia River
e. Gulf of California
f. Gulf of Mexico
g. Lake Ontario
h. Lake Superior
i. Lake Winnipeg
j. Long Island Sound
k. Mississippi River
l. Missouri River
m. Pacific Ocean
n. Upper New York Bay
o. Yellowstone River
R. WAYNE SCHMITTBERGER
WORDPLAY
EITHER WAY
What do all of these words have
in common?
PADDY SMITH
RAYMOND LOVE
24
ILLUSTRATION BY MEREDITH MORIARTY
NUMBER PLAY
GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY
What is the smallest whole
number to be squared that yields
a 7 somewhere in its product?
PANEL
DIARY
FETA
MOCHA
LIES
GYRO
PESO
TRIAL
TONER
REPO
PERU
LIAR
CASTOR
ARGON
FRANK SARIDAKIS
FOR THE RECORD

NEED A LIFT?
TV characters often need to get
from one place to another, and
their shows creators have devised
some very memorable ways for
them to travel. Can you match
each TV show (116) with the
means of transportation featured
in it (ap)?
1. Doctor Who
2. The Dukes of Hazzard
3. Firefly
4. Gilligans Island
5. The Green Hornet
6. Knight Rider
7. The Lone Ranger
8. Lost in Space
9. The Love Boat
10. McHales Navy
11. Petticoat Junction
12. The Roy Rogers Show
13. Scooby-Doo:
Where Are You?
14. Speed Racer
15. Star Trek
16. Voyage to the Bottom
of the Sea
a. Black Beauty
b. General Lee
c. Hooterville Cannonball
d. Jupiter 2
e. KITT
f. Mach 5
g. Mystery Machine
h. Pacific Princess
i. PT-73
j. Seaview
k. Serenity
l. Silver
m. SS Minnow
n. TARDIS
o. Trigger
p. USS Enterprise
DOUGLAS MARTIN
WORDPLAY
AUNT HILDEGARDE
The last time I saw Aunt Hildegarde, she was crazy about shoes
but not socks, stripes but not polka
dots, pottery but not knitting.
When I asked her why, she replied
that she liked words that dropped
their first and last letters to make
new words (s-hoe-s, s-tripe-s, etc.).
Thats why shed traded in her pet
parrot for a hyena (h-yen-a). Well,
shes been hanging around with
Uncle Mort a lot this month, and
she has a whole new set of likes
and dislikes. Can you tell what
principle is guiding her new tastes?
This month Aunt Hildegarde likes
ABBOTT but not COSTELLO. She
likes EGGS, but not BACON. She
likes to KNOW, but not to LEARN.
She prefers COPS to ROBBERS.
She has purchased a pet CHIMP,
and has given away her HYENA.
She likes EELS, cant abide
SNAKES. She likes a BELT, not
SUSPENDERS. FILMS please her,
but not the THEATER. Shed
rather be EMPTY than FULL.
Shed rather be FIRST than LAST.
She enjoys playing the word
game GHOST, but she does not
enjoy HANGMAN.
DAVID DIEFENDORF
TEASERS
WALKERS
Dick, Jane, and Sallyall siblings
who live togetherleft school
at the same time and walked
home. Dick walked at four miles
an hour, Jane walked at three
miles an hour, and Sally walked at
two miles an hour. Dick got home
at 3 p.m. and Jane got home at
3:10 p.m. What time were they
dismissed from school, how far
did they walk, and when did Sally
get home?
AT FIRST I WAS
EMBARRASSED. ME,
A CAT, LIVING WITH
A SINGLE GUY. BUT
WHEN I WATCH HIM
PICK SOMETHING UP
WITH HIS HANDS AND
EAT IT, I CANT HELP
BUT LOVE HIM.
MARU
adopted 01-10-10
SIDNEY KRAVITZ
ANSWERS, PAGE 73
25
TEST YOUR TRIVIA I.Q.
BY R. WAYNE SCHMITTBERGER
This quiz features three types of questions: true-false, worth 1 point for each correct answer; multiple choice with three
choices, worth 2 points per correct answer; and multiple choice with four choices, worth 3 points each. Incorrect answers for
all three types of questions lose 1 point each. Skipping a question is allowed, and scores no points. Following the quiz is a
ratings chart.
ANSWERS, PAGE 74
TRUE-FALSE (1 POINT EACH)

1. In area, Yellowstone is the largest National Park
in the United States.
2. Novelist John le Carr, noted for spy novels, was
himself in the British Secret Service.
3. Coffee was introduced to Europe from America.
4. Harvard once won the Rose Bowl football game.
7. More than 20 years before starring in the TV

series Revenge, Madeleine Stowe starred in a
film titled Revenge.
8. In lunch-counter slang, a CB means
coffee, black.
9. In tennis, a player who throws the racket at the
ball automatically loses the point.
5. The O in OPEC stands for Oil.

6. Some fish do not lay eggs, but instead give
birth to live fish.
10. Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to

ride in an automobile.
MULTIPLE CHOICE (2 POINTS EACH)

11. Which of the following contains the
fewest calories?
a. 5 ounces of beer
b. 5 ounces of whole milk
c. 5 teaspoons of sugar
16. At first, Walt Disneys mouse creation wasnt

called Mickey. What was his original name?
a. Melvin
b. Mortimer
c. Murgatroyd
12. The annual Outland Trophy is awarded

to what collegiate athlete?
a. the best all-around athlete in
track and field
b. the outstanding interior lineman
in football
c. the outstanding female basketball player
17. In the 1960s a group of businessmen bought

London Bridge for $2.5 million and moved
it where?
a. Lake Havasu City, Arizona
b. Peoria, Illinois
c. Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
13. In standard darts, what is the most points that

can be scored with a single dart?
a. 50
b. 60
c. 100
18. Between 2008 and 2013, the approximate

number of articles at Wikipedia grew
by how much?
a. from 1 million to 5 million
b. from 5 million to 10 million
c. from 10 million to 30 million
14. The line All is for the best in the best of all
possible worlds is from what?
a. Becketts Waiting for Godot
b. Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice
c. Voltaires Candide
19. According to theory, what kinds of quarks form

the protons and neutrons of ordinary matter?
a. strange and charmed
b. top and bottom
c. up and down
15. Which of these three wise men died before

the other two were born?
a. Confucius
b. Plato
c. Solomon
20. In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, who is the

supreme leader of the First Order?
a. General Hux
b. Kylo Ren
c. Snoke
26
MULTIPLE CHOICE (3 POINTS EACH)

21. In which movie did Clint
Eastwood give us the famous
line, Go aheadmake
my day.?
a. Dirty Harry
b. Magnum Force
c. Sudden Impact
d. Tightrope
22. How many of the five Great
Lakes border only one state?
a. 0
b. 1
c. 2
d. 3
25. Which of these events did not

take place in the year 1876?
a. Alexander Graham Bell
invented the telephone.
b. Baseballs National League
was founded.
c. Colorado became
a state.
d. Stanley found Livingstone.
26. What is the main ingredient in
the manufacture of pewter?
a. copper
b. iron
c. lead
d. tin
23. Whose autobiography was

titled Back in the Saddle Again? 27. East of the Mississippi River,
a. Gene Autry
which state has the
b. Hopalong Cassidy
largest area?
c. Roy Rogers
a. Florida
d. Tom Mix
b. Georgia
c. Illinois
24. George Washingtons face is
d. Michigan
carved in granite at Mount
Rushmore National Memorial,
28. For which film did Jennifer
along with the faces of all but
Lawrence receive an Oscar
which of the following
nomination in the category of
presidents?
Best Supporting Actress?
a. Abraham Lincoln
a. Winters Bone
b. Andrew Jackson
b. Silver Linings Playbook
c. Theodore Roosevelt
c. American Hustle
d. Thomas Jefferson
d. Joy
29. In the Australian song

Waltzing Matilda, who
or what is Matilda?
a. a boat
b. a girlfriend
c. a kangaroo
d. a knapsack
30. Which team appeared in the
most Super Bowls during
the last 10 years (20072016)?
a. Denver Broncos
b. New England Patriots
c. Pittsburgh Steelers
d. Seattle Seahawks
Rate Your Trivia Game
(Remember to deduct 1 point
for each incorrect answer.)
below 0:
014:
1520:
2130:
3140:
4150:
Worst guesser ever.

You get an A for effort.
Not bad.
Quite good.
Really excellent.
No one plays Trivial
Pursuit with you anymore,
do they?
5160: Admit it, you
used Wikipedia!
ILLUSTRATION BY MEREDITH MORIARTY
R. Wayne Schmittberger is the former editor in chief of GAMES. Additional trivia questions,
as well as articles on games and other subjects, can be found at wayneschmittberger.com.
27
CODE CROSSWORDS
BY JOEL NANNI
In the puzzles below, the numbers in the grid squares stand for letters of the alphabet; your task is to crack the code. Once
you've figured out the letter that matches a certain number, place that letter in every square containing the same number and
in the chart beside the grid. Every letter of the alphabet will appear at least once in the completed grids.
ANSWERS, PAGE 74
1
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
10
23
11
24
12
25
13
26
23
22
17
18
23
17
23
16
12
H U
25
15
J W
K X
L Y
26
25
18
16
23
17
17
15
10
12
10
10
26
23
23
23
13
3
15
10
26
19
26
10
21
17
18
10
14
10
17
19
23
26
9
3
22
10
26
20
10
10
15
10
10
25
26
8
23
16
25
26
15
2
15
11
19
13
25
12
15
11
20
23
C A
23
25
23
25
25
10
24
17
25
12
18
12
10
10
18
2
7
3
12
10
17
10
19
10
26
16
10
25
19
3
15
11
21
A N
25
C P
D Q
E R
23
G T
H U
V
16
25
J W
23
K X
21
L Y
15
11
15
19
19
25
5
5
26
26
10
M Z
15
10
10
14
1
19
12
22
15
19
19
10
25
22
12
21
21
10
23
B O
25
10
22
12
10
26
11
15
6
10
12
24
17
24
17
10
25
1
26
10
21
16
26
20
10
21
17
15
18
21
10
25
26
23
18
21
18
12
22
25
17
25
10
20
17
O P
15
8
10
15
11
22
10
21
23
6
12
11
22
12
16
15
26
9
18
18
23
28
11
23
21
23
21
E R
22
12
26
10
25
23
20
D Q
21
26
9
M Z
18
C P
G T
2
8
17
B O
15
9
A N
10
12
26
25
25
24
10
12
10
12
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
10
23
11
24
12
25
13
26
EAT YOUR WORDS!
BY STEPHEN SNIDERMAN
In these puzzles, each word in the left-hand column can eat a word in the right-hand column to produce a new word without
any rearrangement of letters. In Puzzle 1, for example, the word RELIC can swallow PUB to form REPUBLIC, which has been
written in the blanks next to PUB (with some blanks left over). When all the words on the left have eaten the words on the right
and the new words have been placed next to the eaten words, the letters reading down the third column will spell out a word.
Write this word on the correspondingly numbered space provided in the left-hand column of Puzzle 8. When all seven words
have been filled into Puzzle 8, each of them can in turn devour one of the words in the right-hand column. Write these words
on the dashes, and the letters in the shaded spaces will spell out your reward.
ANSWERS, PAGE 74
PUZZLE 1
PUZZLE 2
RELIC
NET ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
PIQUE
END ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
THEM
RAY ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
ANY
VARY
AFAR ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
EIGHT KNOT ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
SEER
SPEND ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
SWING CARES ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
R ___
E ___
P ___
U ___
B ___
L ___
I ___
C ___ ___ ___
MAGIC PUB ___
DEFER LIMO ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
SUED
ORE ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
FORD
YES ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
PORTAL SIT ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
BANE
WAR ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
ALLOW ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
PUZZLE 3
PUZZLE 4
BUT
APT ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
SLING SCONCE___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
HOSE
ACT ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
SPECIES TAP ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
ONSIDE ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
CAROL NOR ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
TIP
PRICE THOU ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
DIRT
CURE
HOARY
URN ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
CRATE YOU ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
DIME ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
IF
SENT
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
USE ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
PUZZLE 5
PUZZLE 6
SEATED CAR ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
FLOCK STAR ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
PROSE
TOP ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
PANAMA KEN ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
COAL
MINI ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
ARTERY RIG ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
INNATE PAR ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
WEED AMEN ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
CASTE LOSS ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
IRATE
BREAD RIM ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
CANE
DISH
MUD
THE ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
SLIGHT SET ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
OR
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
LINT ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
ILL
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
PREDICT YEN ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
PUZZLE 7
PUZZLE 8
SPORT GAME ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
1. ___ LAMA ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
CRY
RANT ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
2. ___ EXIT
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
ORAL
PACE ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
3. ___ DIP
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
LINT
ANGER ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
4. ___ SHOP ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
FORTY
DIN ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
5. ___ IN
WARY
HER ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
6. ___ MOTH ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
TINE
IF
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
7. ___ AGE
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
29
HELTER-SKELTER
BY FRANK LONGO
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 towardand if necessary, beyondthe
next consecutive number. The first answer, ON EDGE, has been entered in Helter-Skelter #1 as an example. ANSWERS, PAGE 75
HELTER-SKELTER #1
11
20
19
6
12
HELTER-SKELTER #2
17
16
23
16
13
20
15
Jittery: 2 wds.
Animated gaiety
Ireland, lyrically
Land rover
Kind of device in Dr. Strangelove
Cains victim
Tolkien trilogy title word
Befitting a queen
___-ran
Portugals capital
Vague and indistinct
Like a Rolling Stone singer: 2 wds.
Race for sprinters
Shut with a bang
Plaid fabric famous for bleeding
Extra-sappy sentimentality
Cuttingly witty insult
Apparel
Shelleys housemate in Switzerland
Hicks from the sticks
Give me your tired... poet Lazarus
Feel nostalgic for
Theyre vacated during a standing ovation
12
21
7
18
19
2
9
5
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
30
14
10
11
17
18
10
5
21
22
13
14
3
15
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
Very soon: 3 wds.

Jolly laughter
Took care of some wrinkles
Where youre heading when you sail with
a spinnaker
Flinch
Personify, as the spirit of an age
On the ___ (healing)
Sagging
Thingamajig
Unlike a rolling stone?
Steal, informally
Needy
Get more luscious, as mangoes
Honeymooner
Beats the heck out of me!: 2 wds.
Fixing a squeak
Complaint
Wharfs
Any day now
Begins a Broadway run
Frighten
ROWED SIGNS
BY PATRICK BERRY
To solve each of the Rowed Signs below, youll need to fill two consecutive words into each row of the grid. These Row
Words, with a total of 10 letters for each pair, are indicated in order by the clues for each row. Then look for an Inner
Word straddling the two Row Words. For example, a row might hold the words DRAGON and YEAR, with the Inner
Word AGONY reading between them. The Inner Words are clued in random order for each puzzle; its up to you to
determine which clue goes with which row. As you solve each row, cross out the letters of the Inner Word. When you
have completed the puzzle, the remaining letters (reading from left to right by rows) will spell out a sign that might be
found at the location specified by the puzzles heading.
ANSWERS, PAGE 72
AT AN EXPLOSIVES FACTORY
IN THE WINDOW OF A BURGLAR ALARM STORE
ROW WORDS
1 Acquires, as a debt
Killer whale
2 Choose
Bridal shower?
3 Counterbalance
Garr of Young Frankenstein
4 Prepare leftovers
Parsley, sage, rosemary, or thyme
5 Brings in the wheat
Atlanta cagers
6 ___ duck (crispy-skinned dish)
Air freshener scent
7 Shortage
Harps ancestor
8 Shaped like a dunce cap
Grazing groups
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
INNER WORDS
Expression of disbelief
Secular
Hunting dog
Part of GE
Mob chieftain
Blinking prompt
Place for a statue
Flowering plant of the Highlands
9
ROW WORDS
1 Stole stuff?
RoboCop star Peter
2 What must go above the bar in a proper pull-up
Islamic ruler
3 Track-meet projectile
Unabridged dictionary, for one
4 Notion
Deliberately loses
5 Suitable
Catchers need
6 Corn unit
Made into law
7 Sew loosely
Fraught with peril
8 Clickable mouse target
Spoils
9 Issue forth, as light
Polar worker
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
INNER WORDS
Paper for a hunter or a would-be driver
Slap in the face
Normal practice
Sea cow
Footnote indicator
Concert venue
Where quills get dunked
The Green Mile setting: 2 wds.
Hold
31
ONE, TWO, THREE
BY FRANK LONGO
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, L-AM-ARR, has
been filled in as an example.
ANSWER, PAGE 75
1
AM ARR
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13
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16
21
30
23
31
32
35
36
37
38
39
41
42
44
52
24
25
26
49
50
33
34
51
11
20
22
29
40
10
17
19
28
14
18
27
45
53
54
46
43
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48
55
56
57
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59
60
61
1
4
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12
13
14
15
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40
42
32
ACROSS
Tortilla Flat costar Hedy
Aglow with happiness
Eight Is Enough family name
Springs in dry stretches
Loch monster moniker
Fix deeply and firmly
Longtime reference for
definitions: 2 wds.
Go from reverse to drive, say: 2 wds.
Sheets and pillowcases sold as a
unit: 2 wds.
Ernie and Berts street
Imitative in a silly way
Made dermal designs on
Wish to receive: 2 wds.
1984 film that won eight Oscars
Spreading throughout all parts
Longtime reference for
citations: 3 wds.
Hind end of the body
Two-time Oscar winner Wiest
Most proficient
Inferior to: 2 wds.
March 17 honoree, for
short: 2 wds.
44 Perform off-the-cuff: 2 wds.

47 Guaranteed to get: 2 wds.
51 Film in which Newman and Redford
play con men: 2 wds.
54 Longtime reference for
synonyms: 2 wds.
56 Uncle Sams declaration: 3 wds.
57 In essence: 2 wds.
58 Pulsates
59 Most pricey
60 Least long-winded
61 Dark and dirty
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
16
DOWN
Point of decline: 2 wds.
Gathered up
Ones slapping on handcuffs
Sixth-century pope: 2 wds.
Sparkling wine town near Turin
Combat operations
Town criers cry: 2 wds.
Disgrace: 3 wds.
Floating freely
Go food-hunting
Iraqi currency units
Wharf settings
20
22
24
25
26
27
28
29
31
32
35
36
41
43
45
46
48
49
50
51
52
53
55
The way things currently are: 2 wds.

Illness-curing magician
Do surgery
Indirect answers
Deprive of power
Walks with a limp
Sources of Anjous and
Boscs: 2 wds.
Bounty mutiny leader Christian
Submit via the postal
system: 2 wds.
Quaint love letter opening
Growing dim
Musical notations for guitarists
Defrosting: 2 wds.
Demonstrate sufficient skill: 3 wds.
Furious
In collaboration
Painted unskillfully
Speaking before a crowd
Fastidious
Believer in a personal God
River in a Stephen Foster tune
Photos made on enamel-coated
metal plates
Old Russian autocrats
W H AT ' S H A P P E N I N G
COMPILED BY JASON ELMER

Whats Happening:
COLOSSALCON 15
When: June 25, 2016

Where: Kalahari Resort and Conference
Center; Sandusky, OH
Details: Colossalcon is, first and foremost,
a Japanese anime convention. Attendees
will have a plethora of activities to
choose from: costume contests, dances,
discussions featuring special guests from
the anime industry, game shows, and a
variety of panels. There will be a Dealers
Room for anime shopping, an Artist Alley
selling handcrafted goods and art, and a
flea market.
For more info: www.colossalcon.com
Whats Happening:
CONCAROLINAS 2016
When: June 35, 2016
Where: Embassy
Suites; Concord, NC
Details: ConCarolinas
is for fans of science fiction, fantasy,
and horror. It offers a range of activities
including gaming, discussion panels,
costume events, music events like SciFi
Karaoke and concerts, a charity auction,
a short film festival, and more. This con
also plays host to fan groups celebrating
Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, and
many others. Theres a Dealer Room with
vendors selling unique fandom-related
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Whats Happening:
THE INDIE 500 CROSSWORD TOURNAMENT
When: June 4, 2016
Where: Marvin Center, George Washington
University; Washington, D.C.
Details: The Indie 500 is returning for
its sophomore year this June. Some
of Crossworlds best constructors have
banded together to write five unique
crosswords of varying difficulty. All
entrants will solve these puzzles, and
the top three solvers in the expert and
novice divisionswillsolve a final playoff
puzzle for glory and medals. Prizes are
awarded not only for solving but also for
best (and worst) handwriting, funniest

wrong answers, and indie spirit.And if
that werent enough, solvers are treated
topie.
For more info: www.theindie500.com
Special events will include gaming

tournaments, exhibitors, artists, and
industry guests, along with plenty of
interactive entertainment.
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Whats Happening:
LOS ANGELES OPEN
BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENT
When: June 1012, 2016
Where: Hilton LAX; Los Angeles, CA
Details: Brought to you by Gammon
Associates, this event is part of the 2016
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include the Super-32 (high equity, single
elimination, all matches clocked) and the
Paul Dingwell Amateur (high equity, open
to players not of high championship level,
single elimination). In addition, there are
competitions in such categories as Open
(open to all players), Advanced, Limited,
Doubles, Seniors (50 years and older),
and Blitz.
For more info:
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Whats Happening:
DENVER COMIC CON 2016
When: June 1719, 2016
Where: Colorado Con2016
vention Center; Denver, CO
Details: This con offers three days of familyfriendly pop culture fun, representing
the worlds of comic books, film, and
related media. The DCC is brought to
you by Colorados nonprofit Pop Culture
Classroom, whose mission is to inspire
a love of learning, to increase literacy,
celebrate diversity and build community
through pop culture education.
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Whats Happening:
ROLL20CON
When: June 3, 2016
Where: Online only
Details: The online
gaming site Roll20 will host its first onlineonly tabletop gaming convention. During
the 24-hour event, gamers will be able to
access an organized schedule of tabletop
games as well as a selection of panels and
demonstrations. All of these events will
be streamed via Twitch. Participants will
be encouraged to play their own games
and to try out special features normally
reserved for members of the site. Roll20
will work with participants and sponsors
during the event to raise money for
Cybersmile, an anti-bullying group.
For more info: blog.roll20.net
Whats Happening:
MAGMA CON
When: June 1112, 2016
Where: Smoky Mountain Convention
Center; Pigeon Forge, TN
Details: Although the primary focus of
Magma Con is gaming and multimedia,
there will be something for everyone.
Whats Happening:
21ST ANNUAL
NOREASTER SCRABBLE TOURNAMENT
When: June 30July 4, 2016
Where: Marriott Hotel; Albany, NY
Details: This annual tournament, featuring
34 TWL and Collins games, is open
to NASPA members only. Twenty-one
NASPA-rated games with the Gibson
Rule in effect will be played from July
14, preceded by two Early Bird events
with a total of 13 games between them.
Players most current rating will be used
to seed divisions in the Main Events. On
July 2, players can take a break from the
competition with a festive barbecue and
fireworks.
For more info: www.cross-tables.com/
download/2016/06/albany.pdf
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2016 ACC HUNT FOR CRIBBAGE TREASURE
When: July 810, 2016
Where: Daytona Beach Hampton Inn;
Daytona Beach, FL
Details: This pirate-themed cribbage
tournament will feature three days of
events, running from Friday evening until
Sunday. In addition, there will be door
prizes and a raffle.
For more info: www.cribbage.org/
sched/2016_07_08_Hunt.pdf
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RULES WERE MADE TO BE ADAPTED:

WHEN HOUSE RULES RULE & WHEN THEY DONT
By Donna Talarico
nake eyes! my cousin Aaron would shout, rubbing his palms together in anticipation of the hefty
payout: one of every bill. From the orange $500 down to the white $1, the banker would fork over a
paper slip of each denomination from the Monopoly money stash. Anyone who would roll a double
one would get this $676 reward. When funds were low and risk of landing on an opponents hotel was high, my
cousins and I would repeat, hopefully, as we shook up the dice: Snake eyes! Snake eyes! Come on, snake eyes!
I graduated from playing this classic boardwalk-themed game around my grandmoms marble coffee table to moving
the shoe and thimble around the square path with high school and college friends. Whenever Id roll a two, just as my
cousin had, Id get excited and reach over to claim my cash. Id usually be greeted with a What the heck are you doing?
This was my introduction to the notion of house rulesthe idea that not everyone played games in the same way, despite
each box containing the same set of instructions. Over time, as I packed up board games and brought them across town
or across the miles to play with different groups of friends or other peoples families, Id discover a variety of house rules.
Some I willingly accepted; others I begrudgingly agreed to. (When in Rome, right?)
Why do we change the rules? When is it okay, and when is it a bad idea? Curious, I reached out to a few game experts
hailing from academia, game development, and the tournament world. I also took to social mediaIm connected to a
lot of board game geeksto find out what goes down at other peoples game nights.
HOUSE RULES: A NEW STRATEGY?

Paul Booth, Ph.D., associate professor of media and cinema
studies at DePaul University and author of Game Play, said
in a phone interview that house rules can certainly add a bit
of variety to board game play. However, when it
comes to strategy games, where the rule books
can be upwards of 30 pages long, Booth believes
that the official guide is part of the fun.
That sounds lame, but the idea of following
the rules is that youre participating in the way
that youre supposed to be participating, he said.
Booth adds that in those intense strategy
games, the rules sometimes seem to bump up
against one another. In these instances, people
might agree to adapt the rules as a way to get
through inter-game conflict. With no clear-cut answers,
players try to make sense of confusing or difficult game
situations as best they can.
Andrew Looney, founder of Looney Labs and designer of
the popular card game Fluxx, says that when rules clash, its
a reminder to him that designs are never as finished as you
might think.
He adds that discovering the house rules players adopt allows
creators like him a chance to cut our game design teeth.
Looney theorizes that house rules are so popular because they
can turn any game into a sandbox for a novice game designer.
The basic idea behind Fluxxwhich offers many themed
variations beyond its original deckis that the rules always
change; no two games are the same. This design actually
encourages house rule creation more than most games,
according to Looney.
I love the fact that people like my game so much that they
want to add in their own ways, and I always like to encourage
creativity, he says.
And creative board game fans are. Nearly every game is

likely to have a variation or two, some unique to inner circles
and others widespread. In fact, in 2014 Hasbro released a
house rules version of Monopoly that included
five fan-favorite adaptions. This decision was
fueled by survey results that revealed that 34
percent of Monopoly players admit to making
up a rule and that 70 percent never read the
instructions in their entirety.
RULES
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THE WILD WEST &

THE SHERIFF OF GAMES
I admit that I can be a rule tyrant. But I also
admit that Im a hypocrite of sorts. Some house
rules are part of the fabric of my life, but I like to consider
those as grandfathered in. New games, I like to play by the
book. I consider the constraints a challenge.
Looney agrees. When people ask him about house rules,
hes quick to say that people are free to play with the tools
his company creates in whatever way they find most fun.
But inside I do also cringe, thinking, Ugh! Theyre playing
it wrong, he said, adding that when players take the law
into their own hands and change the rules to a game which a
designer has, in theory, carefully crafted, they risk breaking
that game.
Looney explains that tampering with the
balance of the designed and play-tested
rules can sometimes be problematic.
That great idea of making
the game more fun may
instead mess things up in ways
they dont even understand,
he said.
Take one of the most common Monopoly house rules, for

instance. The game begins with a $500 bill in the middle of
the board (and, in some variations, depositing all of the
tax or Community Chest payments there instead of into
the bank). When someone lands on Free Parking, they
get the pot in the middle. While this is a welcome
windfall for some players, others arent fond of
this variation.
Booth paints this scenario: Moms got half
the bank and the rest of us just keep circling the
board until she wins. Thats frustrating.
Looney agrees. The Free Parking rule is famous for the
unintended consequence of prolonging the agony. It screws
up the economic balance, providing random returns that can
keep people on life-support when they would otherwise be
knocked out of the game.
You could say a modification of the fast-paced Uno could
also give one player the upper hand. Lisa Catto, who works in
public relations and social media for a university in Oregon,
subscribes to the house rule that you can play as many action
cards in one turn as you can.
If you have a Draw Two, then you can put down Draw Twos
until youre out. Some people really hate playing that way,
she said. Like the Free Parking rule in Monopoly, this action
card idea can give one player a seemingly unfair advantage,
although some players may see this as added excitement.
(UN)CHALLENGING GAMES:
HOW WE LEARN TO PLAY
Theres nothing like being relegated to the kids table with
Chutes and Ladders when you feel youre mature enough to
sit with the adults and take in a good game of pinochle.
When I was a kid, my grandmother, parents, aunts,
and uncles always taught us kids how to play the
more adult games. In retrospect, they may have
helped us alongbut just so we could learn. Then
they got tough.
Booth says this example highlights a common
reason for the creation of house rules. You can
make it easier to learn to play by adjusting the difficulty
settings, he says of adapting rules for players of different
ages or skill level.
Sven Aas, a higher education web developer from South
Hadley, Massachusetts, did this with his family as they learned
Settlers of Catan together. We played Settlers with open
handsresources faceupfor long enough that we almost
forgot we werent supposed to. We were trying to help the
kidsand ourselvesthink about potential trades, he said.
Its not always about age when it comes to making games
a learning experience. When teacher and Tunkhannock,
Pennsylvania, native Mary Zbegner and her husband play
Scrabble, they agree beforehand that they can use the
dictionary before making a play.
We allow this bending of the rule because it makes for
friendlier playfewer fightsand it helps us improve
our lexiconrationalizing our almost cheating, she

said, adding that its understood that they cant surf for
possible words.
Daniel Nephin, a newspaper reporter from Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, has a similar agreement with his wife,
only they allow just one lookup per game.
Deferring to the dictionarywithout an
official challengeis one house rule related to
definitions. But, on the flip side, some Scrabble
players insist that you must know what a word
means before you play it. Thats standard operating
procedure for Gabriel Welsch, a communications vice
president from Juniata, Pennsylvania, and Chris Barrows,
a podcaster from Sleepy Hollow, New York. I needed to know
what a professional player thought of this, so I reached out
to one via Skype.
Britains Craig Beevers, the 2014 World Scrabble Champion
and author of Word Addict, challenges this variation.
If I could draw comparisons to other games, he said, I
dont think David Beckham has to know about the physics of
a football and why it swerves when he takes a free kick. In
tournaments, especially, this concept would not be practical.
For top players, words are their tools; you just need to know
how to use them.
I agree with Beevers sentiment. To
me, the definition rule inhibits
growth. I see nothing wrong with
an educated guess. I inherited by
moms love of Scrabble; she was
queen of seven-letter wordsand
obscure two-letter words. At a
young age, I learned words from
watching her skillfully play the game. I didnt
know what they meant, but I was developing
my own repertoire of letter combinations that
would allow me to knock down any opponent
other than her, of course. And these were
transferable skills; Scrabble success led to Boggle
triumphs, too.
NEW AND OLD TRADITIONS

House rules can make for a bit of bonding, says Looney.
There can be joy of a shared discovery in the passing along
of a great new house rule. Hey, you might say to your Hearts
group. Ive heard of this crazy new rule Even if you didnt
create the idea, youll get Cool Points for sharing this new
breakthrough, he said.
Its often true that we dont even know were playing
a game by modified rules. I came across a Tweet, dated
February 5, from Brendan Keogh
(@BRKeogh) that said: Just looked
at the Guess Who? rule book
and I guess the rule no asking
gender on the 1st turn was a
house rule made by my folks.
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Getting hit with a sudden realization

like this was my experience when I
discovered my mom had made up a
Scrabble rule: You could actually steal
an in-play blank off the board and
replace it with its corresponding tile if
you had that letter in your hand.
House rules also allow for a bit of family
tradition, carried on from generation
to generation. Digital marketer
Ben Donahower of Elizabethtown,
Pennsylvania, says that, in his family,
they use the little mammal rule named
for his great-grandmother. If you get
three of one letter, you can throw one
back and pick another, he explained.
(Mammal has three ms, in case you
didnt make the connection.)
So what about those snake eyes? While
the term snake eyes already referred to
rolling two ones, the Monopoly rule
sharing its name seemed unheard of by
everyone I asked. Could this be a piece of
family history? In January, I visited four
of six of the aforementioned cousins
in Oklahoma. I asked Shawn, the third
oldest, if he recalled our snake eyes
rule. One of every bill! he shouted,
guessing that their oldest
brother, Aaron, created it.
Zack, the second oldest and
my age, pondered
for a moment if
their dad, to whom
they affectionately
referred by first name, concocted the
rule. You know, I could see Pat making
that up on the fly if one of us lost all their
money, Zack speculated.
Still unsure of its origins, I gave
Aaron, who now resides in New
Jersey, a call. After some thought, he
pieced together a fuzzy recollection
of someone rolling two ones multiple
times in the game and complaining
that he wasnt able to get around
the board. This player declared: Im
getting cheated. I deserve something
for this. Aaron remembered, vaguely,
that it started with a $5 bill, but then
playing off the one it grew to one
of these, one of thoseone of every
bill. Aaron couldnt recall which of
his younger brothers was upset, but he
believes everyone agreed to the house
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rulewhich I, at some
point, learned.
After Aaron talked
me through the decadesearlier thought process he paused for a
long moment before
saying, Wow. I havent
thought of that in years. Now all these
memories are coming back.
I wondered if he was thinking about
Grandmoms two-tiered marble table,
about rubbing his hands together
briskly. Perhaps thats it. Even if we cant
remember exactly how or why they came
about, shared memories are part of the
allure of house rules: They keep family
folklore alive, sustain camaraderie, and
preserve customs.
As weve learned, we might not even
know were playing by house rules until
we encounter new opponentsweve
only played the way we were taught,
without ever reading the entire rule
book ourselves. Sometimes we invent
house rules out of necessity, other times
we implement them due to personal
preference, taking creative liberty with
the provided instructions. Or maybe we
use them to give the younger generation
a head start on a family favorite. While
house rules might technically be wrong,
you could say theres really no right or
wrong way to play a gameas long as
all players are on board. Q
Donna Talarico is a writer, content
consultant, and speaker with past lives
in higher ed, e-commerce, and radio.
She lives for word puzzles, board games,
cheese, greasy-spoon breakfasts, quirky
roadside attractions, and national
parks. Donna, who also founded
the literary journal Hippocampus
Magazine, lives in Lancaster, PA, with her
husband and cat.
SIDEBAR: THE DIRECTORS CUT

Some players enjoy house rules
and others are against them. Here
are a few more examples of house
rules, and thoughts on the topic, that
didnt make it into the article.
AT OUR HOUSE
When playing Monopoly, my
brother and I put all the money in the
middle instead of the bank. When
the bank is drained, we declare a
winner.
Sarah Pugh, San Diego, CA
In Apples to Apples, we use Tom
Hanks as a wild card.
Jessi Teevan, Scranton, PA
In Scrabble, the person who has
the longest word in initial draw
goes first.
Tabitha Grace Smith,
Los Angeles, CA
In rummy, if the dealer flips that
first card of the draw pile and its an
ace, the dealer gets an automatic 15
points.
Nichole Kanney, Richmond, IL
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
Winner puts the game away.
Alan Brocovich, Philadelphia, PA
When playing Settlers of Catan,
whoever won the previous game
builds the board for the next game.
Randy Brzoska, Wilkes-Barre, PA
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
Dirk Swart of Ithaca, NY, shares
two of The Swart House Rules:
1) You must play to winyou
cant deliberately lose or team up.
2) No off game dealsprevents
couples from offering rewards to
each other.
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Allison Williams, now living in Dubai,
says matter-of-factly: The rules are
in the box.
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YOUR
WORD AGAINST MINE: SCRABBLE HAPPENINGS, PUZZLES,
AND
TIPS
PLAYER PROFILE: MACK MELLER, BEDFORD, NY
still remember my longtime Scrabble

friend, Debbie Stegman, first telling me
about Mack just over three years
ago. We were playing one in a string of
perhaps a zillion games of Scrabble via a
Facebook app and she typed in the chat
window, I played a twelve-year old in this
tournament I went to this weekend.
Intriguing. Younger players do play
tournaments from time to time, but Debbie
is an expert, and its very rare that youngsters
make it up to top-level play so quickly.
Wow.Any good?
Well, he won the event.
What?No way.
Way.He dominated.21-5 record.And
it was a crazy good field.
So I quickly went to cross-tables.com to
see the carnage.And it was astounding. A
field with two former National champs in
it. And various other top-notch
competition. Mack even put together a
14-game winning streak in the middle of
the tournament. Thats hard to do against
any field.
What did you think? I mean, I guess
with those kind of results, its not luck
Her response was instant. Its not
luck.The kid is good.
That was the 2013 Albany New Years
tournament. That win brought Mack all the
way up to 15th on the North American
rating list.
Debbie then added, Hes also, like, the
sweetest.So friendly and just happy to be
playing.
Three years later, Mack is a sophomore
in high school, and hes ranked number 4
on that same rating list. Hes played in two
National Scrabble Championships, and
impressively won a cash prize in each (he
finished 7th both times), and hes won 7 of
the last 13 tournaments in which hes
played. I recently asked him if hed be willing
to chat about his rise to the Scrabble elite.
What are your earliest memories of
Scrabble?
Ive been playing Scrabble casually since
I was about 4 with my parents, so I
remember playing with them a lot (and
getting crushed, usually!).
Do you recall whether those games
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were competitive or friendly? Some

families really take their games
seriously
Haha, no, it was totally friendly! If I recall
we often looked up words in the dictionary
before playing them.
And what was your next step?
My aunt showed me ISC when I was
about 9, and then I had been playing there
for about a year when we heard about a
local kids Scrabble club, so I tried that one
day. I had a great time. Then the director
told me about tournaments, so I tried a local
one-day later that year and won the bottom
division! [Note: www.isc.ro is a popular site
for Scrabble players looking for live, timed
games online.]
MACK MELLER, 16-YEAR-OLD SCRABBLE PHENOM
Excellent to have an aunt like that.

Is she a tournament player?
Shes a casual player. But who knows
where Id be if she never showed it to me!
So after that, you found your way
to the top division rather quickly. Do
you remember your first expert level
tournaments? Youre an 11-year-old
going up against some of the big
names...
Yeah, I remember I was definitely quite
intimidated the first time I played some of
them, especially [Joel] Sherman who Id of
course heard of and knew was a National
Champion.
I remember feeling that way too
about Joel, and unlike you, I am
actually taller than him. Is it safe to
assume everyone was nice to you?
Yep, everyone was always very nice,
which Im grateful for, since I would have
likely gotten discouraged if I wasnt

respected.
How do you study for Scrabble?
At first I didnt know about Zyzzyva, so
I studied from Scrabble study books. (BrowRaisers and Bobs Bible were the ones I used
the most). As I played more tournaments I
learned about Zyzzyva and ever since use
that almost exclusively. [Note: www.
zyzzyva.net is a wonderful free tool, but
currently the North American word list is
protected and only downloadable for
members of the North American Scrabble
Players Association.] How much I study
depends a ton on the circumstances. If its
right before a big tournament like Albany
or Nationals and I dont have school, I might
study 3 or 4 hours a day in the week leading
up to the tournament, but in the middle of
the school year I generally can only get in
half an hour per day.
What classes at school do you most
enjoy?
My favorites are math and physics. Ill
likely study one of those in college.
Do you have specific goals going
forward?
At this point I tend to do more review of
previously learned words than trying to
memorize new words, so my main goals
are to keep up with that as much as possible
and try to practice against the computer or
on ISC to stay in shape for any tournaments
I am able to play.
How do you stay even-keeled at
tournaments?
Losing several games in a row can
definitely be demoralizing, especially if the
losses were due to mistakes on my end
rather than luckboxing [one of our insider
terms for losing due to ones opponent
being very lucky and drawing all the good
tiles]. But the most important thing to
remember is that what happened last game,
or five rounds ago, has no impact on the
best move on your current turn. So I try to
just stare intently at my rack and the board
in front of me to forget about blunders from
hours ago.
What are your favorite parts of the
Scrabble world?
Id say my favorite part at this point is the
BY SCOTT APPEL
A
l ar ge num be r o f fri e n d s I h a ve
accumulatedI really enjoy playing and
chatting with other Scrabblers on ISC, and
as much as playing Scrabble at tournaments
is fun, hanging out with friends at afterhours Scrabble or other activities is just as
large an element of the fun for me.
What advice do you have for
someone who is considering coming
out to a club or tournament for the
first time?
My main advice would be to not be
intimidated by the tournament scenethe
Scrabble crowd is quite friendly and
accepting of new players, and even if you
dont do well, youll still have a great time
playing the game against other people who
enjoy it as much as you do.
Finally, what advice do you have
for someone who is looking to get
better at Scrabble or Words With
Friends?
The most important words to learn are
the 2- and 3-letter words. They are
absolutely essential for making highscoring overlap plays and I still remember
how much pleasure I got when I played QI
for 62 points for the first time. And besides
that, playing real games against other
people or the computer is very helpful in
improving board vision.
Thanks so much, Mack!
Thank you! And see you in Fort Wayne,
if not before! [Fort Wayne, Indiana, for the
National Championship in August 2016.]
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GAME BOARD FROM MACK MELLER VS. JOEY MALLICK, 2016 ALBANY, NY, NEW YEARS TOURNAMENT
of the way, and who had the chance to

clinch a tournament with a win in Round
23, if he could defeat Joey Mallick, a
resident of Maine and former star-at-ayoung-age himself.
This was a great battle. The game board
is shown above. If youd like to experience
the game from the players perspective, go
to www.cross-tables.com/annotated.
php?u=22759#0#, where Mack and Joey
ALBANY, NY
2016 NEW YEARS TOURNAMENT provide commentary about some of their
key decisions.
24 GAMES
Mack threw the first big punch on his
The annual New Years tournament in
Albany always attracts an impressive group second turn, creating a scoring play out of
of talented players, who realize that being a seemingly gaudy rack. From a rack of
in Times Square or at a local tavern has BBEMOQU, he found BIMBO through an
nothing on 24 games of Scrabble. This past I, forming four two-letter words as well for
year was no different, with two former a surprising 47 points. Joey responded
National champions and the current immediately with his first bingo, using a
reigning champ jockeying to win the blank as an N to form MAnGIER for 71.
tournament. But it was Mack who led most Mack responded with the lovely EXEQUY
for 45, and then Joey played GLADIER as

a double double (a word spanning two
double word scores) for 36. The play
continued, with neither player really being
able to get far ahead of the other until
Mack jumped up by 76 points late. But
Joeys immediate response of tALIONS
using the second blank netted Joey a
4-point lead.
Mack then used his superior tiles to score
27 with READD, going back on top by 23.
He was figuring hed either be able to then
perform what we call an out in two,
where a player uses his last seven tiles across
two turns, ultimately trapping the opponent
with several unplayed tiles, or that Joey
would use his tiles to go out first but simply
not be able to score enough.Sure enough,
this is what occurred; Mack won by 3 points
and was once again the New Years
Tournament champ! Q
Scott Appel has been playing tournament Scrabble for nearly 20 years. Hell 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.
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THIS OLD GAME
BY JONATHAN SCHMALZBACH
QUIZZICAL QUESTIONS BY RADIOS ONE

& ONLY THE ORIGINAL PROFESSOR QUIZ
rofessor Quiz, which debuted in May 1936 on the

CBS radio network, is considered to be the first radio
quiz show. Contestants who asked a question that
stumped Professor Quiz won $25 in silver dollars.
The program featured Professor Quiz, his wife Betty, and his
son, Professor Quiz Jr. Professor Quiz used the name Dr. Craig
Earl on the show, which ran for over a dozen years.
What was not known until 1942 is that Dr. Craig Earl was a
pseudonym for Arthur Baird. The professor claimed to have a
theology degree from Tufts University, but in reality left Tufts
without earning a diploma. It seems he also left his first wife
in the lurch in 1935, before surfacing the next year in New
York as Dr. Earl/Professor Quiz.
His catchphrase on the show was an alert mind means an
alert life, and clearly the professor was alert to the possibilities life offered.
The popular radio show spawned a board game with the
bombastic title of Quizzical Questions by Radios One & Only
the Original Professor Quiz. The Jaymar Company produced
the game, which featured over 500 questions in a host of
categories such as American History, Riddles, Astronomy, and
Clear Thinkers (a math or logic problem).
The play is straightforward. One player takes on the role of
Professor Quiz and turns the dial of a large wheel that reveals
questions and answers.
To start play, the Professor turns the dial to question number 1 for the first contestant, number 2 for the second, etc.
Each correct answer is worth 100 points, while the more difficult Clear Thinker questions garner 200 points. Partially
answered questions can be given points at the Professors
discretion. The number of questions and categories is decided
prior to play.
The questions are generally tough and fun, and, surprisingly,
very few are dated. Here are some examples:
Flowers and Plants: What color flowers have the strongest
odor? (White)
Riddles: It has its steps, its windows and doors; pretty lights
all around. A pretty dome; its spacious from its roof down
to its floor. And yet we cannot call it home sweet home.
(Automobile)
Clear Thinkers: I have a complete normal set of teeth. I
am obliged to lose all but six. One half of the extractions are
replaced by bridgework at a cost of $100. The other half are
on a partial plate costing $10 per tooth. What is the cost of
my artificial teeth? ($230)
Professor Quiz was a figure of cultural currency. He played
himself in the 1938 movie Start Cheering, which starred comedian Jimmy Durante. In 1940, he appeared in Action Comics
#22 when Superman tells a ships captain, Consult Professor
Quizright now Ive a little errand to fulfill!
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The game is obtainable for a reasonable price on eBay. If

youre a game collector or trivia lover, it would be a nice addition to your library.
One of the radio shows sponsors was the skin cleanser
Noxzema. Like Noxzema, the Professor will be sure to clear
things up. Q
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This Old Game is a regular feature by GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES
contributor and board game collector Jonathan Schmalzbach. Each column will profile a game from his collection.
SOME QUESTIONS FROM THE ASTRONOMY CATEGORY
CHESS
BY DENNIS SHASHA
SOLE SURVIVOR
n these puzzles, you are presented a chess configuration

that may or may not include kings. Each piece moves as
it normally moves in chess. Its up to you to determine
whether White or Black moves first. Every move must
eliminate a piece of the opposing color. At the end, there
must be only one piece remainingthe sole survivor. Q
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7
As a warmup, here is the puzzle from the April issue.
At right is the initial configuration:
6
5
Here is the solution:

Black starts: Be5xc3, Bg7xc3, Qa5xc3,
Qc7xc3, Rg5xg3, Qc3xg3
4
3
2
1
a
Now here is the problem for this issue.
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7
6
Dennis Shasha is a professor

of computer science at New
York Universitys Courant Institute. 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 written puzzle columns for Scientific
American and Dr. Dobbs Journal.
5
4
3
2
1
a
ANSWER, PAGE 75
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WHIST:
A BRIEF HISTORY
Condensed andupdated by Joseph D. Andrews
This article is adapted from The Complete Win at Whist by
Joseph D. Andrews. A revised and updated version of the
book was released on April 1. For more information, go to
www.booksbyjoeandrews.com.
hist is one of the original classic card games,

predating Bridge, Spades, and Hearts. Its fascinating
history has been the subject of a number of books,
articles, and short stories. Whist has its roots in two card games
from the early 17th centurythe English game of Ruff and
Honors and the French game of Trump (Triomphe). Several card
historians have documented a direct connection between Whist
and now-obsolete games such as Hombre and Vint, too. Edmond
Hoyle, (16721769), whose name is synonymous with the rules
of all card games (According to Hoyle), wrote a pamphlet
entitled A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist in 1742. James
Clay (18041873), who was the leading card game authority in
the mid-1800s, pennedhis own Treatise on Whist in 1864.
This extremely rare booklet is generally considered the first
comprehensive work on the game of Whist; it exploredbidding
systems and play of the hand.
Throughout the 1800s, Whist continued to evolve in the U.S.
and was played in the regions east of the Mississippi River. The
United States Playing Card Company (USPC) in Cincinnati, Ohio,
promoted Whist with special decks of cards and instructional
pamphlets. By the late 1880s, it was the second most popular
partnership card game in the U.S., surpassed only by Euchre.
By the early 1900s, the game of Bridge, which evolved from
Whist, had begun to eclipse it; however, Whist stillmaintained
its loyal following. Many years passed, and in themid 1930s
the original Straight Whist (bottom card determining trump/
no kitty) was gradually replaced by a variation with a four-card
kitty and one round of bidding.
The modern Bid Whist game, with a five- or six-card kitty and
theintroduction of one or two Jokers,began as a fad in the late
1940s. This variation became very popular on college campuses,
PUBLISHED BY BARON BARCLAY BRIDGE SUPPLY (LOUISVILLE, KY)
especially in the Midwest and in the South. The two-Jokergame

(Big Joker and Small Joker) with a six-card kitty soonbecame
the standard. The African-American community promoted Bid
Whist in a big way in the 1950s and 60s. Rent parties were a
delightful form of entertainment, and often helped to defray
some of the living expenses of families in many cities. Now, in
addition to being fun and competitive, Whist also helped pay
the bills.
One of the largest Whist organizations in the United
States is Card Sharks, Inc., founded by Dennis Barmore and
featuring a series of regional events, culminating in a National
Championship. Another well-directed Whist organization is
the Columbus (Ohio) Whist Players Society,founded by Phyllis
Cornute. It features Straight (no kitty) Whist, as well as traditional
Bid Whist. There is also a Duplicate Whist Club, directed by John
Gouveia, which conductsregional tournaments in the Taunton,
Massachusetts, area. The Duplicate format, popular with Bridge
players as well, has a loyal and enthusiastic following.
Today, thanks to the Internet, there are plenty of online programs that card players curious about Whist can use to learn, and
play, the game. Anyone with a computer or smartphone can now find a Whist app at their fingertips! Live and online tournaments
have also introduced Bid Whist to a whole new generation. Straight and Four Card Kitty versions of Whist are also on the
rebound. And the best is yet to come, as more and more people from all walks of life discover a truly great and traditional card
game.
Here is an illustrative hand featured inThe Complete Win At Whist. The game variation is Straight Whist, No Kitty, Opening
Bid to left of Dealer.
Note: s = Spades; 1 = Hearts; 2 = Diamonds; c = Clubs
WEST
sK87
1A92
2J4
c K 10 8 7 2
NORTH
s 10 4 3
1 10 7 6 5
2 10 7 5
cAQ9
SOUTH (Dealer)
sAQ965
1KQJ4
2A98
c6
EAST
sJ2
183
2KQ632
cJ543
THE BIDDING:
WEST (pass) / NORTH (pass) / EAST (3 Low) / SOUTH (4 High)
Spades are declared as trump. Note: Low is the same as Special or Downtown.
THE PLAY:
West and North pass, and East bids 3 Low. South, who holds nine cards in the two major suits (Spades and Clubs), as well
as a side Ace and a singleton Club, decides to overcall and take a chance on 4 Spades. The hand will be a challenge, and
South will need some help from his partner.
South leads the lone club in his hand, and plans to trump Clubs after the first round of that suit. There is also the chance
that North will have a winner or two. West plays low, and North pauses for thought and boldly decides to finesse (play)
the Queen. It wins, as the King of Clubs is in the West hand. (East had bid low). The Ace of Clubs is now cashed, as South
is thrilled to unload the Diamond eight-spot. North now shifts to the ten of Spades. East covers with the Jack, as South
plays the Queen. West wins the King. (Had East ducked the ten of Spades lead, South would have also played low, passing
the trick around to West.)
The Ace of Hearts is now led, followed by a small Heart, won by Souths King. Trumps are extracted by the Ace and
the nine. The Hearts are now winners, and the nine of Diamonds is cheerfully conceded at the end of the hand. Four
Spadesbid and made. Here is a prime example of the power of the finesse! As a matter of fact, the bid cannot be made
without the Club finesse. Q
CONTEST
CODED CRISSCROSS IV
By R. Wayne Schmittberger
his contest is similar to previous Coded Crisscross contests

(the most recent of which appeared in the October 2015
issue). The grid below, if decoded properly, contains a
set of 13 items (including two five-letter items) reading across
and down. Weve replaced each letter of the alphabet with
a number. A number stands for the same letter throughout
the grid.
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The items are related and form a complete set. They may
be single words, phrases, or a combination of both. They may
be proper names. If there are items consisting of two or more
words, any spaces between words have been removed, as well
as any punctuation.
To enter, send the two decoded five-letter items, along with
your name and address, to: Coded Crisscross IV Contest, GAMES
WORLD OF PUZZLES, P.O. Box 184, Fort Washington, PA 19034.
Entries must be received by June 20, 2016. The winner of the
first prize and the runners-up will be selected by random draw
from among the correct entries. Q
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C O N T E S T R E S U LT S
CROSSWORD HAIKU
FROM DECEMBER
his contest challenged participants to create a sensible,

PG-rated haiku using the clues and/or answers that appeared inone of the designated crossword puzzles in the
December issue. The puzzles that you could use were Peanuts
Gallery (page 6), One Too Many (page 21), Self-Explanatory
(page 52), or the Worlds Most Ornery Crossword (page 67). If
you chose the Worlds Most Ornery Crossword, you had to create
your haiku from either the Hard or the Easy cluesyou were
not permitted to combine them.
A haiku is a non-rhyming poem that has three lines. The first
line has five syllables, the second seven, and the third five.Your
haiku could be about any subjectwithin reason.
The rules of the contest stated that the wordsand names in
your haiku had to come from a singlepuzzle, butthey could be
part of aclue ora grid entry. However, you were not allowed
to cherry-pick partial words, nor could you break a hyphenated word into its component parts. If an entry contained
anyword or name that did not appear in the clues or in the
grid,it was disqualified.
All contest submissions were required to include the haiku
itself and an expanded version indicating which clues and/or
entries each word, phrase,or namecame from. Entries were
judged on their originality, cleverness, naturalness, and insight.
Our judges were quite impressed with the 137 entries we
received. Creating a good haiku with the given constraints was
certainly a challenge, but our entrants rose to the occasion.
Without further ado, here is the haiku that we chose as the
winner of the $100 first prize, by Richard Dinkin of Forest Hills,
NY. The haikus words are taken from The Worlds Most Ornery
Crossword Easy Clues. The expanded version is also shown.
a faded army
entourage of rust and sighs
peace made from neglect
a (18A clue) faded (132A clue) army (173A clue)
entourage (101D clue) of (37A clue) rust (165D entry) and (40A clue) sighs (104A clue)
peace (135A entry) made (28A clue) from (156D clue) neglect (165D clue)
Stephen Sniderman, a longtime contributor to GAMES and
GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES, created this contest and served
as one of its judges. Of the winning entry, he writes: Dinkins
poem shows original use of language, especially in the second
line. He takes the abstract word entourage and concretizes it
with rust (visual)and sighs (aural),an unlikely but appropriate
A fencers delight,
Most ethereal heart throb,
That swashbuckler Flynn
pair. The subtle irony of the whole poemthat peace can arise
only from neglectis anunexpected and sophisticatedinsight.
The five runners-up will each receive a years subscription to
GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES (or an additional year for current
subscribers). Their haiku, which also display a remarkable flair
for combining words, are shown below in no particular order.
Lelah Marie, Ardmore, PA

(Worlds Most Ornery CrosswordEasy Clues)
Creepy black spider

With the afternoon munchies
Bad time for termite.
Warren Fraser, Brighton, Ontario
(Worlds Most Ornery CrosswordHard Clues)
Who dines on love with

The greatest vampire ever?
Not I, sighs Buffy.
Daniel R. Mack, Half Moon Bay, CA
(Worlds Most Ornery CrosswordEasy Clues)
Looking for a bone,

Chihuahua on adventure
Sounds larger-than-life
William Hampl, Fort Washington, MD
(Peanuts Gallery)
Sounds of a frenzied
scream rock the old, hideous,
medieval castle.
Barb Plum, Uniontown, OH
(Peanuts Gallery)
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ELECTRONIC GAMEVIEWS
CARDS
CHURCHILL SOLITAIRE
ANDROID/IOS: FREE/$5 ALL
FEATURES
AGE RANGE: E (EVERYONE)
PLAY TIME: UNLIMITED
-----------------------------------------------------------------------uring World War II,
Winston Churchill
used to steady his
nerves and sharpen his mind
by playing cards. Solitaire,
or patience as its called
in England, was a particular
passion of his. The story
goes that, in 1943, a young
Belgian diplomat named Andre de Staercke was driven
into exile by Nazi forces. He
met Churchill, and the two
became friends. Eventually,
Churchill taught de Staercke his version of solitaire,
which he created because
he found conventional versions unchallenging. Decades
later, de Staercke taught
it to another young diplomat: Donald Rumsfeld, who
would become Secretary of
BY THOMAS L. MCDONALD
STRATEGY
TSURO
THUNDERBOX,
IOS/ANDROID: $4,
BOARDGAME: $30
AGE RANGE: EVERYONE
PLAY TIME: 10 MINUTES
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------suro is an elegant game,
both in its original tabletop version and in
the new electronic version
from Thunderbox. The design uses an Asian visual motif that nicely complements
the zen-like simplicity of the
game itself. These elements
have made an effective jump
from tabletop to handheld,
with the developers keeping
all the little details intact,
including an effective use of
3D visuals to convey tactility.
Gameplay is quite interesting despite the simplicity of
the rules. A board is divided
into 66 squares, with each
outer square marked with
two notches. These notches
are the start points for a path
Defense under Gerald Ford

and G.W. Bush.
And now Rumsfeld brings
this grueling version of solitaire to the masses as an
app for Android and Apple
devices.
The combination of rules
is unique and doesnt appear in any of the standard
reference works. Its a kind
of variant on Seven Devils,
already regarded as one of
the most difficult solitaire
variations. It requires good
strategy and planning, and

the odds of a winning deal
are below average.
The tableau is built in a
line with cards increasing
toward the center and then
decreasing again. So, left to
right, the cards stacks have 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 cards,
with the top card faceup.
The game is played with two
combined decks, and eight
foundations are built from
Ace to King. New cards are
drawn from stock and placed
Good choice for fans of: Klondike
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that unfolds by laying tiles.

Each player chooses a stone
and places it on any starting
point. Tiles are drawn three
at a time and laid faceup at
the edge of the board. During a players turn, he can
place any of these tiles on
the board, starting at his own
stone and moving outward.
Tiles are marked with
paths in various configurations, with two lines traveling
from each edge of a tile to
another edge. The lines may
be straight, curved, or wavy.
They might connect directly

to another tile, turn right,
cross to another side, or simply loop around. The point is
to use them to draw paths,
with each line leading to
another line on the next tile.
As players lay tiles, paths
inevitably cross the tiles of
other players; some eventually run right off the board.
The goal is to keep laying tiles
that keep your path from
running off the edge, which
stops the game. Its also possible to play tiles in such a
Good choice for fans of: Carcassonne
at the bottom of the tableau

columns in batches. Columns
are built down in alternating
red/black suits.
The challenge comes from
the use of a six-card reserve
called the Devils Six. These
are fanned out with all faces
visible, but only the top one
available to play, and only to
the foundations. Its wholly
possible to order the tableau
properly only to lose by mismanaging the reserve.
The mobile version is exceptionally well made, with
a free version that allows a
few hands and a $5 unlock
for unlimited deals and a
progressive campaign combining video and text about
Churchill. Be warned, however: Expect one of the most
serious challenges youre
likely to find. Im an experienced solitaire player and I
averaged one win for perhaps every 50 deals. Q
OVERALL RATING
way that you drive another

player off the board.
There are several kinds of
victory conditions. Players can
vie for the longest continual
path, attempt to have the last
stone on the board, or make
the most loops. Loops are
created when a path crosses
back over itself, forming a
closed loop. Theyre key to
keeping your stone alive and
getting ahead.
The controls and visuals
are extremely well designed.
Theres a social media leaderboard for comparing scores,
but the lack of an online
multiplayer mode is a missed
opportunity. Right now, players can only match wits with
another human via passand-play.
Theres more to Tsuro than
its simple elements suggest,
with room for subtle strategies, both offensive and
defensive. Q
OVERALL RATING
TRADITIONAL GAMEVIEWS
BY THOMAS L. MCDONALD
CATEGORY: CARDS
6 NIMMT!
PUBLISHER: MAYFAIR
GAMES
PRICE: $13
AGES: 10+
PLAYERS: 210
-----------------------------------------------------------------------ayfair has brought
b a c k Wo l f g a n g
K r a m e r s 1 9 9 4
Spiel des Jahres nominee 6
nimmt! so people can argue
about it all over again. Is it a
pointlessly random game, or
is there real strategy to it?
6 nimmt! means, roughly,
take six, which makes the
previous American name
(Take 5) kind of confusing.
More confusing: You really
do only take 5 cards. Let me
explain: In 6 nimmt! you
have a deck of 104 cards
numbered 1 to 104. Each
has a bulls head on it; some
have colors and a series of
CATEGORY: DICE
STAR TREK:
FIVE-YEAR MISSION
PUBLISHER: MAYFAIR
GAMES
PRICE: $35
AGES: 10+
PLAYERS: 37 (14)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------tar Trek: Five-Year
Mission is a dicerolling cooperative
game that uses characters
and illustrations from The
Original Series and The Next
Generation. Players choose
the ship and characters from
either series, and although
the rules discourage mixing
characters from different
series, theres no apparent
problem with it.
Each player gets a character with some ability. Captain
Kirk can re-roll all of one
color dice, while Lt. Worf
allows you to change the
value of one die to match the
value of another. The game
develops part of its co-op
strategy from the way these
smaller bull heads. A double

number (like 77) is worth
five bull heads, tens (70, 80,
etc.) are worth three, fives
(75, 85) are worth two, and
55 (at the center of the deck)
is worth seven.
A vertical column of four
cards is placed at the center
of the table and each player
is dealt 10 cards. Everyone
turns over one card simultaneously. Whoever draws the
lowest card goes first. The

object is to place cards to
form a row next to the nearest, lowest card on the table.
For example, you draw a 15,
and the four faceup cards
are 47, 96, 23, and 13. The 15
goes in the row next to the
13. The next card placed in
that row will have to be 16
or higher.
Once there are five cards
in a row, no more cards can
Good choice for fans of: Sushi Go!
character abilities interact,

and the way players help
each other complete alerts.
Each player begins with
five dice: 1 yellow, 2 blue,
and 2 red. To start, a marker
is placed on a track that
measures the damage level
of your ship. Specific dice
rolls lower the damage, and
as the track moves to the
right, the pool of alert cards
narrows.
Alert cards are the heart
of the game. There are blue,
yellow, and red alerts, which
provide low, medium, and
high challenges. During your
turn, draw a card from any
alert pile you want. Draw
more than three of any alert
card without clearing one,
and the alerts begin to count
against you.
Lets say someone draws
the yellow alert card The
Picard Maneuver. The Enterprise suffers 2 points of
damage and the mission is
placed faceup below the
deck. To clear this mission,

players need to roll one
yellow 6 and two 6s of any
other color. When these dice
are rolled, theyre placed
on the card. If the current
player cannot complete the
mission, another player may.
When all dice are placed on
a card, the mission is cleared
and the card is added to the
scoring pile. Depending on
what level youre playing,
Good choice for fans of: Roll For It!
be placed in that row. If you

play a card that can only
be placed in that row, then
you take all five cards into a
scoring pile (not your hand)
and start a new row with
the card you just played. The
bull heads are added up at
games end; low score wins.
There is definitely strategy
here in the pace of card play,
and this is enhanced by variants. The tactics version
uses a short deck so you
know the precise distribution of all cards. The logic
variant uses a short deck
spread out faceup so everyone chooses their hands.
6 nimmt! is that rare
game that actually plays
well with large numbers
of players, its suspenseful,
and its quick. This is a nice
warmup game. Its great
to have it back in print. Q
OVERALL RATING
the victory score ranges from

10 to 20 points. Several alerts
have a symbol that requires
them to be completed before an egg timer (included)
runs out.
This is a decent dice game
that makes fair use of the
Star Trek theme. People who
dont like dice games arent
going to be converted by this
one, but its a fun change of
pace for those who do. Q
OVERALL RATING
C
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GAME ON!
BY RAYMOND SIMON
OFF THE BOOKSHELF: HELLHOLE

Max Kilgore, the protagonist of Gina
Damicos YA novel Hellhole, isnt a bad
kid. He does his homework, looks after
his ailing mom, and regularly puts in
double shifts at the local convenience
store. Sure, Maxs Jurassic Park wristwatch and book of crosswords brand
him as a geek, but they dont prevent
him from being best friends with Audie,
one of the popular kids.
But when Max swipes a kitschy
bobblehead figurine all hell breaks
looseliterally. That trivial transgression releases a minor minion of Hell,
Burgundy Cluttermuck. Burg, as he prefers to be known, commandeers Maxs
basement, wasting hours playing Xbox
and gorging on Cheetos.
Burg describes himself as an Associate Imp in charge of Salty Snacks, but
hes still capable of mayhem, which hell
unleash unless Max finds him a sweet

crib with a hot tub. Max agrees, on the
condition that Burg cure his mom. To
keep his end of the bargain, Max enlists
the aid of Lore Nedry, a fellow outcast
whos way tougher than he is.
At first, Maxs beloved crosswords
appear to be peripheral, but they provide order in an otherwise chaotic teen
world. Damico even divides the novel
into Across and Down sections. Besides,
Max is soon confronted with the kind
of problems that dont fit neatly into
a grid.
Hellhole has dark moments, but its
chock-full of snarky dialogue and pop
culture references. Max eventually triumphs over evil. He just has to do a few
disagreeable things first.
To learn more, visit:
www.ginadami.co. Q
CRAPPED OUT
Game designer Blaise Sewell has
created a new card game that is really
crappy. Literally. POOP: The Game is all
about excrement.
The basic deck, appropriately packaged in a brown box, includes 11 toilet cards, three sets of poop cards
(red, yellow, and blue), and assorted
wild cards.
Gameplay is straightforwardunless
youre a big doo-doo head! The object
of this variation on Uno is to avoid
clogging the toilet. The first player to
eliminate all her cards wins.
Toilet cards are placed facedown in
a pile and each player is dealt five cards.
Players flip the top toilet card, note its
number, and then take turns pooping,
i.e., laying down cards of various values.

The first player to exceed that number
clogs the toilet and must take all the
cards into her hand.
Before leaving this scatological subject, we must mention Mr. Sewells son
Emery. During game-testing, the proud
papa told us, Emery, then just six years
old, insisted on adding sound effects,
inspiring the wild cards that up the
games fecal factor.
Wanna flush your hard-earned dollars
down the toilet? Order the Brown Bag
combo, which comes with the awesome
Party Pooper edition or get the CACA: El
Juego version to improve your Spanish.
To learn more, visit
www.poopthegame.com. Q
NATIONAL VIDEOGAME MUSEUM OPENS

Given that its now been more than four decades since
Pong introduced ordinary people to the pleasures of videogames, its high time that these entertaining electronic
artifacts got a museum of their own.
John Hardie, Sean Kelly, and Joe Santulli certainly think
so. Theyre not just avid gamers, theyre also serious collectors. Over the last 30 years, theyve amassed more
than 100,000 cartridges, consoles, joysticks, and assorted
memorabilia related to video games.
This past April their treasure trove of videogame swag
got a permanent home when the National Videogame
Museum opened in Frisco, Texas, a burgeoning suburb in
the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The NVM, which is housed inside the Frisco Discovery
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Center, features 20 exhibits, including

Pixel Dreams and the Timeline of
Consoles. Rare items, like the prototype of Sega Neptune, are on
display, but much of the NVM is
interactivejust the way it ought
to be.
Whether youre a fan of Game
Boy or Grand Theft Auto, youre
sure to enjoy a visit. Heck, you
can even play Giant Pong on an
enormous replica of a 1970s TV.
To learn more,
visit: www.nvmusa.org. Q
THE NVM MASCOT: BLIP!
ROWS GARDEN
BY PATRICK BERRY
Words fit into this flower garden in two ways. The Rows answers stretch horizontally from the lettered markers; each
row takes two consecutive answers reading left to right (except A and L, which each have one answer reading across
the nine protruding spaces). Each Rows two answers are clued in order.
The Blooms are six-letter words or phrases that fill the colored hexagons, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise
you decide. Bloom clues are divided into three lists: White, Pink, and Gray. Place answers to the White clues in the white
hexagons, Pink in the pink, and Gray in the gray. All three Bloom lists are in random order, so you must use the Row
answers to figure out where to plant each Bloom.
ANSWER, PAGE 75
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
ROWS
A Big name in hands-free
communication
B Fights that everyone gets
in on: Hyph.
Like beer in unmarked
bottles, maybe: Hyph.
C Jocks woe: 2 wds.
Lively alternative to
stripes or plaid: 2 wds.
D Hard-to-find area in a
mysterious old
mansion: 2 wds.
Piano ballad that was the
first song on Billy Joels
first album: 4 wds.
E Menus that teetotalers
dont need to see: 2 wds.
She played Maggie
OConnell on Northern
Exposure: 2 wds.
F Kissinger, Kennedy, or
Khrushchev, e.g.: 2 wds.
Hollywoods nickname
G They prompt
homeowners to break
out their shovels
What a fat wallet is
probably bulging with,
nowadays: 2 wds.
H It causes the rich to get
richer and the poor to
get poorer: 2 wds.
Pungent chip
accompaniment: 2 wds.
I Lawn weeds
Handy soccer players?
J Song thats playing during
the potters-wheel scene
in Ghost: 2 wds.
Body of water between
Africa and Asia: 2 wds.
K Neverending source of
wealth unless the owner
gets too greedy: 2 wds.
Like windshields with a lot
of curvature
L Blood cell
WHITE BLOOMS
___, Will Robinson!
Sizeable citrus fruit
Loud electric horn
Cried bitterly
Fixes a tear: 2 wds.
Priests address
Delphic soothsayer
Placed under ones
seat, say
What LASIK improves
Little Miss Muffets
frightener
___ beef (Reuben meat)
USC athlete
Warning lights
Loggerhead, e.g.
PINK BLOOMS
Reacts to a sour note
Former baseball pitcher
Dwight
Takes by force
Dull show, slangily
Business conference sites

Use Drano on
Lamp denizens
Humorous take-off
Make filthy
Shipping boxes
Cherry-topped dessert
Birds perches
Hassle
Directors shout
GRAY BLOOMS
Monsters of Jewish
folklore
Sheltered
Gets rid of ones sorrows
U.S. territory divided
in 1889
Ratio indicators
Flagged down a cab
Varsity members prize
Looked intently
Snow White prop
Velvety
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500 RUMMY
BY JACK SCHNEIDER
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 sevenletter word whose letters appear on cards
that make up one set (three or four cards of
a kind, like 7 7 7 or K K K K) and one
sequence (three or four cards of the same
suit in numerical order, like s A 2 3 or c 9
10 J Q). Either the set or the sequence may
come first, but one of each must be used in
each hand, and the two parts must not be
mixed together. The letters of a set may be
used in any order; the letters of a sequence
must be used in the left-to-right order given
in the grid. The same card cannot be used
twice in the same hand. Sets and sequences,
however, may be repeated in other words.
Proper names and foreign words are not
allowed, but plurals are fine.
s
1
2
c
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R
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A
A
D
E
S
S
H
W
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CARDS & WORDS
S I M I L A R
2 3 4 A A A A
POINTS
CARDS & WORDS
13
yScoring
Each card in a Word Rummy hand scores its
face value. A 6 scores 6 points, for example.
Aces are low and count 1 point each. Jacks,
queens, and kings count 10 points each.
xExample
In the puzzle at right the word SIMILAR
forms a Word Rummy hand. The c2 3 4 are
a sequence with the letters S-I-M; the 1A
2A cA sA are a set with the letters I-L-A-R;
The cards used have values of 2 3 4 1 1 1 1,
for a total of 13 points.
COLUMN 2 TOTAL
c Ratings
COLUMN 1 TOTAL
Knock: 350 points (good game)

Gin: 500 points (winning game)
Gin-off: 833 points (our best score)
ANSWERS, PAGE 75
50
COLUMN 1 TOTAL
TOTAL SCORE
s
1
2
c
POINTS
DOUBLE CROSS
BY MICHAEL ASHLEY
Answer the clues on the numbered dashes, one letter per dash. Then transfer the letters on the dashes to the correspondingly
numbered squares in the puzzle grid to reveal a quotation reading from left to right. (Black squares separate words.) When
youre done, read down the list of answers; their initial letters will spell the authors name and the source of the quotation.
2N
3U
4V
21 B
22 R
23 E
24 C
25 L
26 I
27 F
28 M
41 A
42 N
43 F
44 K
45 R
46 U
47 N
48 J
64 B
65 J
68 F
69 I
70 B
71 U
87 O
88 V
89 I
110 J
84 W
103 R
104 A
125 W
126 I
146 C
166 W
167 B
187 B
188 D
66 M
5S
67 C
6V
7I
85 L
86 V
105 D
106 L
107 N
108 U
109 P
127 R
128 U
129 T
130 J
148 N
149 D
150 O
168 T
169 U
170 N
171 V
190 J
191 F
192 R
193 C
147 W
189 A
8U
9O
10M
29 D
30 Q
31 S
50 S
51 D
52 B
53 O
72 A
73 G
74 L
90 Q
91 K
92 J
93 U
111 J
112 E
113 U
131 I
132 R
133 O
151 W
152 R
153 U
172 O
173 K
174 D
194 Q
195 A
49 I
12 J
13 U
14 V
15 T
16 P
32 H
33 L
54 G
55 W
56 T
75 V
76 A
77 B
78 P
94 A
95 Q
96 P
97K
17 U
34 M
35 D
36 H
37 P
57 W
58 C
59 V
60 O
80 I
81 F
98L
99 R
100 B
101M
121 J
122 B
123 S
124 R
143 I
144 P
145 W
79 C
18 F
19 P
20 H
38 C
39 D
40 M
61 Q
62 P
63 S
82 Q
83 I
102 V
114 E
115 I
116 Q
117 G
118 W
119 C
120 G
134 G
135 M
136 A
137 C
138 D
139 W 140 R
141 N
142 U
154 A
155 C
156 J
157 R
158 P
159 E
160 D
161 J
162 K
163 H
164 U
165 T
175 L
176 A
177 O
178 F
179 U
180 K
181 A
182 I
183 C
184 B
185 N
186 S
197 F
198 E
199 J
200 I
202 S
203 C
196 C
201 R
K. Kitchen hangers
A. Three-time Emmy
winner for 3rd
Rock From the
Sun: 2 wds.
11W
72
104 195 136
41
189 181
94
97
91
162
44
173 180
25
106 175
33
85
98
74
40
135
34
66
28
101
10
42
107
47
141 185 148 170
154
L. Bongo relatives:
Hyph.
176
76
M. Allegiance
B. Weakened
77
70
184
64
100 187 122 167
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N. Constituent parts
21
O. Fervid
C. Star of 2015s
The Longest
Ride: 2 wds.
193
38
155
24
79
177 172 150 133
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60
87
62
109 158
78
19
37
96
144
16
90
30
116 194
61
95
152 157 127
99
140
45
132
196 183 119 137
P. Traveling from
place to place
146 203
58
67
Q. Author of the
D. Mob rule
novella Gigi
39
51
160 174
35
82
149 188 138 105
R. Donna Tartts
29
Pulitzer-winning
novel: 2 wds.
201 103 192 124
22
E. Maker of
Sweethearts
Conversation
Hearts
23
159 114 112 198
S. Threatening
202
63
123
50
186
31
168 129 165
56
15
179 142
46
108 153
17
169
13
164 113 128
71
59
102
88
F. Disturbingly
morbid
43
191
81
68
27
178 197
T. Way to go
18
U. History Channel
G. Sharp as a tack
117 134
73
120
hit since 2007:

3 wds.
54
93
H. Chinese
currency unit
20
36
32
163
V. Austrian
I. Movement
created to foster
experimental
drama: 2 wds.
69
83
131
80
200
26
143
126 182
7
115
49
14
86
171
75
57
125 151
55
145 147 166
139
118
84
11
89
W. Creator of Greys
J. Current home of
the Dead Sea
Scrolls: 2 wds.
physicist with
an eponymous
number: 2 wds.
111
65
121 161 110 156 130
92
190
12
199
48
Anatomy and
Scandal: 2 wds.
51
ANSWERS, PAGE 77
1W
ACROSS
1 Equinoctial mo.
4 Premium channel,
in listings
7 Tack relative
14 Knockers reply
19 Bully, at times
21 Phoenician fertility goddess
22 Give up, with off
23 How an all-night poker
player might end up?
25 Im walking here!
speaker
26 Dont ___ soul!
27 Jeff Daviss gp.
28 Utility bill encl., often
29 Dances to Hernandos
Hideaway
30 Pastoral work
31 Risky waterfront real
estate project?
35 Some winds
36 Actor Bana
37 Inbox fillers
38 Washington Square sch.
39 They, in Calais
41 Ambition
44 Nonverbal
communication sys.
45 Folk singer Williams
48 Gossip maven Barrett
50 Longtime Disney chief
53 Bailiffs directive
56 unto us ___ is given
58 Latrine digging skill?
61 Some bridge players
62 Francis Gary Powerss plane
63 Spillanes ___ Jury
64 It may be dull
65 Slangy segue
66 Veep after George
67 Edit
69 Some bargain
clothing, briefly
71 Suffix for peace or wonder
72 Many low-budget films
74 Soir follower
76 Rio flow
77 Havoc in Hollywood
78 Designer Bill
79 My parents went to
bankruptcy court and all
I got was this?
81 Honorary legal degs.
82 The Beatles final
studio album
84 Plaza Hotel girl
85 Riot
87 It fits in a socket
88 Diagnostic test, for short
90 Some 45s, briefly
91 Salon offering
92 Medical ins. offering
95 Sound investment?
98 Robert of The Sopranos
101 Gertrude ___, 1988
Medicine Nobelist
103 www.coming-out.com,
for example?
108 Keating Five benefactor,
for short
109 College bud
52
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OF
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DOWN
Radio outfit
Passed carefully
Rickshaw rental slogan?
Enters secretly
With it
Answer sources
Spitzers predecessor
Find seats for, slangily
Arthurian transport
I ___ idea!
Advance look, informally
Spanish suffix
La Bestia ___ Cuore (Oscarnominated 2005 drama)
14 Zion
15 Banjo-picking sounds
16 Ready, ___!
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108
113
20% of MMDLV
Mariners dir.
The best way to sing
Certain pitchers
Newspaper for bold ladies?
Postpone
Moral principle
Corroded
Somebody ___ problem
Pinocchio swallower
Iota
Atlanta sch.
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Trowel wielder
Irregularly notched
Ronald Reagans mother
Bygone despot
CD alternative
Online commerce funds
Today rival, for short
Tackles
Door sign
Son of the Sun
Danke, in some cantons
Hoping to get new
dinnerware?
Take ones breath away
Extends a shoes life
Plastic ___ Band
Fuel gas
Bar rock
Cheers from the
sidelines
Light bender
Hope measure
Easily heard
Coveted cup
___ be my pleasure!
Big Girls Dont Cry
singer
First name in mystery
novelists
Whats left
Challengers quest
117
124
70 Locale of Lux.
73 Woe ___ (classic
grammar guide)
75 Vette choice
77 Shades of Blue star,
familiarly
79 Plow pioneer
80 Emphatic OKs,
in Crdoba
83 78-Across competitor
86 Biased
89 Come by
91 Arboreal rodent
93 Tin Lizzies
94 1955 doo-wop hit
95 Mother of Dionysus
96 Threesomes
97 Out guys
99 Led astray
100 View from Catania
102 Pineapple isle
103 Seething
104 Situated near a junction
105 Resting places
106 Suits
107 IQ name
114 Typing speed measure,
for short
115 Oaxaca gold
116 Bud time, briefly
117 Hellenic H
ANSWER, PAGE 77
BORN OUT
SIAMESE TWINS
BY FRANK LONGO
This puzzle gives you two grids for the price of one. And two sets of clues to go with them, so you can work both
crosswords at the same time. Whats the catch? Each clue number is followed by two different clues to two different
answers. The puzzle is to figure out which answer goes with which grid. 1-Across has been filled in for you. ANSWERS, PAGE 77
ACROSS
1 Star Trek Vulcan...
...and the actor who
played him
6 Proved false
Shows through the door:
2 wds.
13 It merged with BP
Not at all rural
14 Singer Joan or Jeffrey
See in the mind
15 G.I. Jane star
Devout
16 Of the womb
Rapper with the 1990 hit
Rico Suave
17 Unwrapped
Bucks weapon
19 Trio times three
Hello singer of 2015
20 In store
Out of kilter
22 Female zebra
Buenos ___ (Spanish
greeting)
24 With 34-Across, captain
portrayer on Star Trek...
With 34-Across, ...and on
Star Trek: The Next
Generation
27 Like forks and rakes
Ninotchka title
role player
1
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28
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28 Undivided
Prior to, in odes
29 Along ___ lines...
Thin porridge
31 Ending for pay
Chinas Chiang ___-shek
32 Humiliate
Virtual currency: Hyph.
34 See 24-Across
See 24-Across
36 Cowboys quarterback Tony
10th grader, for short
37 Its capital is Accra
Musical dexterity improver
38 Carveys costar in
Waynes World
Find a new purpose for
40 Comedies counterparts
Leaf producer
44 Retired professors
Envelope info
46 Bolero, for one
Not together
47 Former cable channel
devoted to sudsers
Tap water providers
48 He defeated Romney
Reached: 2 wds.
49 Ready to be proofed
Causes to fume
50 Big-cat hybrid
Sharply inclined
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DOWN
1 Giant in auto parts
Sport of a rikishi
2 Object on stage
Sign me up!: 2 wds.
3 Purely academic
It uses a double reed
4 Fleshly
Eye-related
5 Like some long
socks: Hyph.
El Capitans park
6 Rocks Reed
Fix illegally
7 Improve, as text
Cmo ___? (Spanish
greeting)
8 Old casino card game
Sacked out
9 Scale start: 3 wds.
Its capital is Kampala
10 Its capital is Colombo:
2 wds.
Car trunk tool: 2 wds.
11 Sofa adjoiner: 2 wds.
Cochlea site: 2 wds.
12 Once surnamed
...in excelsis ___
18 Much-loved
Rolling in dough
21 Teeny bit
Something not to be
missed: 2 wds.
42
23 Perfect prose
Skyrocket
24 Adversities
Schnapps flavor
25 Of joint interest: 2 wds.
Plant a tree time:
2 wds.
26 2016, for one: 2 wds.
Joined forces: 2 wds.
27 Minor celebrity?: 2 wds.
Sunday best: 2 wds.
30 Lee of Marvel
Barak of Israel
33 Fountainhead
Himalayan guide
35 Infusion vessel
Sushi bar condiment
37 Lauder of fragrances
Beau ___
39 Nuptial symbol
Gets the picture
41 Hiccup
Spouse
42 Very top
Jester Johnson
43 Go no further
Within easy reach
44 Suffix with Senegal
or Siam
Sternward
45 JFK arrival of old
___ true!
53
ODD LETTER OUT

Once solved, each of the grids below will contain 25 of the 26 letters of the alphabet, one letter per square; its up to you to
use the accompanying clues to fill in each grid and determine which letter is not used. The odd letter out may or may not be
different from grid to grid. Some letters have already been inserted in their correct spots as a starting aid. The grids become
increasingly difficult to solve as they progress; can you solve them all?
ANSWERS, PAGE 77
PUZZLE ONE
1. The white squares contain letters from the first half of the
alphabet (AM) and the gray squares contain letters from the
second half of the alphabet (NZ).
2. The words ARK, LOG, and WHY appear in various places in
the grid, reading left to right in consecutive squares.
3. Z is in the same row as Q and in the same column as S.
4. The nine central squares contain nine consecutive letters of
the alphabet.
5. The letters in MIND all appear in the same row or column, in
some order.
6. The letters in DUETS all appear in the same row or column, in

some order.
7. The letters in BUX all appear in the same row or column, in
some order.
PUZZLE TWO
1. The gray squares contain letters from the first half of the
alphabet (AM) and the white squares contain letters from the
second half of the alphabet (NZ).
2. All five vowels (A, E, I, O, U) appear in the grid, but no vowel

is adjacent to any other vowel, not even diagonally.
3. One column contains the letters in QUILT, in some order.
4. One row contains the letters in GRIPY, in some order.
5. The letters in PVC appear in consecutive adjacent squares in

the same row or column (though not necessarily in that order).
6. The letters in FRESH, in that order, form a string of adjacent
letters, moving from square to fully or diagonally adjacent square.
7. The letters in ZONK, in that order, form a string of adjacent
letters, moving from square to fully or diagonally adjacent square.
8. The letter N diagonally or fully touches T, W, and D.
9. J is in the same column as B and the same row as M.
54
BY DALLAS FLETCHER
PUZZLE THREE
In this hourglass shape, youll notice that instead of rows and columns, this grid has rows and diagonals that run both
northwest/southeast and northeast/southwest. All the same rules still apply. Can you complete the grid and discover the
Odd Letter Out before time runs out?
1. No two consecutive letters of the alphabet are adjacent.
2. The letters in SANDTIMER (though not necessarily in that order) trickle from the top row to the bottom, one letter per
row, in a connected string of adjacent letters.
3. The letters in BACK all appear in one row, in some order.
4. The letters in WHIG all appear in one row, in some order.
5. The words FUR, JOT, SPY, and VEX appear in various rows in the grid with the letters exactly in the order given.
6. L appears in the grid, but is not in the same diagonal as I.
55
PAINT
BY
NUMBERS
These eight puzzles feature a unique blend of logic and art. The numbers are all you need to determine which squares should
be filled in to form a picture. Heres how its done:
The numbers outside each row and column tell you how many groups of black squares there are in that line and, in order,
how many consecutive black squares there are in each group. For example, 4 5 9 2 tells you that there will be four groups
that will contain, in order, 4, 5, 9, and 2 consecutive black squares. The fact that the numbers are separated tells you that
there is at least one empty square between them. (There may also be empty squares at the ends of lines.) The trick is to figure
out how many empty squares come between the black ones.
Heres a starting hint: When theres a single number in a row and that number is greater than half the number of squares
in the row, you can fill in one or more center squares. For example, in the sample below (Figure 1), which is 10 squares wide,
the sixth and seventh rows each have the number 8. No matter how you place eight consecutive black squares in a row, the
middle six squares will be filled in (Figure 2). Similar logic can be used to start a line that has more than one number in it. In
the sample, the third column contains the numbers 1 6. The single black square and the following empty square must take
up at least two squares above the 6. No matter how they get placed, the fifth through eighth squares of the column will be
black (Figure 3). Figure 4 shows the completed picture.
ANSWERS, PAGE 78
1
1 2 6 9 6 5 5 4 3 4
2
1 1
4
2 1
3 1
8
8
7
5
3
Figure 1
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Figure 2
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59
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1
BY BOB STIGGER
Each clue in a cryptic crossword has two parts: a definition of the answer and an indication of the answers literal makeup via
wordplay. Either half may come first; finding the dividing point between the two parts is the key to solving. On page 61, 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 whats 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 61). Give
these puzzles a try!
ANSWERS, PAGE 78
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ACROSS
1 Celebrity endorsers
desire: a piece of market
in kitchenware (8)
5 Litigators 5th Circuit
ploy (6)
9 Actress Cruz and a writer
run off to marry (8)
10 A Mexican chicken
god (6)
12 Review reconnaissance
team food
allotment (15)
13 Astronomer Carl doesnt
finish epic (4)
15 Detective Charlies rent
covers one retail
outlet (5,5)
17 A nice legal ground for
devotion to country (10)
18 Fine water source (4)

21 E-endeavors tried
recycled paper
alternative to
e-publication (4-4,7)
23 Transportation firm gains
by backing demand (6)
24 Command eliminates
one branch of the
army (8)
25 Shrewdest solution for

washing inside of
SST (6)
26 Heroic king rejected
Sues marginally
snotty note (8)
DOWN
1 Doctored-up spray,
something Egyptians
once used (7)
2 Some rotgut on ice with
quinine water (5)
3 Couples from Hermosa
lease nary a home to
Montanans (6)
4 Auditorium sound
system componenta
murder weapon! (12)
6 Assess a very quiet
poker action (8)
7 East Coast city
replaced Artmobile (9)
8 Decisively defeat
recount moves (7)
11 Is a sheltered bay
between ports
found anew? (12)
14 Sinclair Lewiss Elmer
accepts everything with
heroic bravery (9)
16 GOP tries stupid,
self-gratifying
conduct (3,5)
17 Actress Julie wanders all
over the lot (7)
19 NASA probes advice
columnist (7)
20 Royal-sounding
photos (6)
22 First off, Mickeys
sweetheart is a
member of a
fashionable group (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.
60
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2
BY PAM WYLDER
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
1
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 79
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ACROSS
1 Runs into deadbeats
hanging around
piano (5)
4 Most of crew takes off
with soothsayers
supplies (3,6)
9 Editors embarrassed
performers (9)
10 Poplar border
surrounds area
shaded by trees (5)
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11 Starts to eat like

someone expecting
more (4)
12 Globe authors
originally employed
identical password (4,6)
14 Loose garment has
contributed to
mishap on
chopper (6)
15 Crete has dancing
instructors (8)
18 Substitute team
members in gridiron
plays, swapping #3
and #6 (8)
20 Silly swallows start to
scurry off the wall (6)
23 Levels Jewels plots (10)
24 On the way back,
secure space in
a hotel (4)
26 Decorated pilot running
back with tart (5)
27 Overcome, at home
without a sweetheart? (9)
28 Indignation dogs first of
his junior followers (7-2)
29 Soak, asking an
exorbitant price (5)
DOWN
1 Tavern owner with short
sword taking on game
show host (9)
2 Bricklayer outside of
501 New York
Avenue (7)
3 Kansas City is written up
in a bad way (4)
4 Famous Olympians
article about turning
pro (6)
5 Type of ballot submitted
in a competition (8)
6 Fading actress Dale Shields
heading to England
with Penny (10)
7 Waver in struggle
involving problem child (7)
8 Observe Bears public
relations bash (5)
13 Kind of unfinished
blueprint I put off (10)
16 Mistreated pet made
us angry (7,2)
17 Enclose pieces about
island birds (8)
19 Rise, supported by
doctor (7)
21 A guy from
Warsaw hugs
street evangelist (7)
22 Challenge lousy
umping (6)
23 Break piece of metal
in window frame (5)
25 Tacks on commercials for
the audience (4)
61
COMBO MEALS
BY BOB STIGGER
In this variety cryptic, the 12 unnumbered grid entries contain Ingredients. The Ingredients form six common pairs connected
by the word and. Paired Ingredients intersect in the grid. For example, SPAGHETTI and MEATBALLS would intersect at the
letter A, E, S, or T. Ingredients are clued in alphabetical order; enumerations are withheld. Letters are assigned to Ingredients
solely for ease of reference.
ANSWERS, PAGE 79
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INGREDIENTS
A Breakfast food sack beside golfer Ernie
B Revolutionary actress Witherspoon eats
grub from the East, a grilled treat
C Monkeys ignoring a sample of
monkey snack food
D I may be described by fresh-cut!
E Kind of rummy liquor
F A piece of jerky Lyle minced
for a spread
G Meat deliverymans inside
H Salmon rivers may have these, we hear
I Is noon better for pungent food?
J Peter carries containercanned fish
around for a lunchtime treat
K Spicy sauce a lass whipped up
L Mixer spilled into cup
ACROSS
1 Throw out refuse after the 1st (5)
4 One Vegas casino rejected
professors handouts (7)
9 Mr. Newton is a marginal academic (5)
10 100 laps is more than one
kilometer? (6)
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11 Ill doing consumes excellent

Biblical judge (6)
12 College officials give highest grade
to studies (5)
15 Hot dog topping excited Shirley
no end (6)
18 We climb oddly overlooked tree (3)
19 Date entered in Dads PalmPilot,
for example (3)
20 Exterior finish price reductions set
back company (6)
27 Counter Trotters heartless, severe
reply (6)
28 Retro surrealist capturing the essence
of ancient Greek classic (5)
29 Shorten shot for pro basketball
team (7)
30 Very French short hair braid (5)
DOWN
1 Sue Price cooked for gourmets (8)
2 Somewhat offbeat item, a
Weird Al video (3,2)
3 Tuts holding up elephant-hunt
souvenirs (5)
4 Hide the remains of a fire beneath

street (5)
5 For the most part, good fortune I had
is obvious (5)
6 A brewed beverage containing bit
of salt. Perplexed? (2,3)
7 Country overrun by piranhas (4)
8 Trace time since Christ was born (3)
13 Rejoice in the unorthodox, you
call out at last (5)
14 Noisy sleepers interrupted by one of
those pigs sometimes (8)
16 Spirit worlds ultimate antelope (5)
17 Very well, collecting Social Security
is a bother (6)
21 Herb is an e-novel (5)
22 Places to store grain or cold cuts
of meat (5)
23 Call a Montana city something
remarkable (5)
24 Former V.P. guarding Grand
Canyon (5)
25 Pat loses facethats painful (4)
26 Have debts? You could say Im
surprised (3)
DOUBLE-CROSSINGS
BY MIKE SHENK
Several answer words in this variety cryptic crossword are one letter too long for the appropriate spot in the grid. In each case,
two letters will have to double up in one square. Which two letters these are can be determined by the crossings. When the
grid is completed, these double-crossings, when read from left to right (regardless of position up or down), will spell out an
appropriate term.
ANSWERS, PAGE 79
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ACROSS
After wager, revolutionary ready to be double-crossed
Cast tearing hems in Ring opera
Attraction left in Southern accent
Victory ritual is mysterious in effect
Lunatic put back a fish
Auto originally called back for lurch
Horn in taxi ultimately turned bad
Mr. Fleming is returning from Mideast region
Denominations in deposits including 100
Sawbuck holds no part of a wood joint
See me returning, carrying head of cabbage for hosts
Wait on customers, including western deviate
I go astray in South American mountain range
Was unprepared to come back from Polish city
Trains circling 1000 trees
More sinister doctor suppresses anger
Wicked one left this side of the grave?
Complex fellow provided with antique
Drunken trances from sweet drinks
Perversely seize empty flatboat
Hectic once department stores make admissions
Circular file damaged by janitor finally
Come in middle place, losing head
Busts excited starers
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DOWN
Raised issue with society girl about when to retire
Part of car is, in short run, kaput
Prize givers battle amid wild dares
Commercial breaks in times before escapes
Oversees the filming of Rocky credits
In France, very top of safety lock
New nurse has bit of novocaine for tan seeker
Californias one new star lover
A large evergreen from the Swiss mountains
Frolic playfully in act
Addict rues trips
Quite bad to be susceptible to rips, we hear
Factoryone scheduled to make a lot of money
Alert but shabby, you say?
Look around a North Carolina occult session
Famous entertainers debut in Tin Men blasted
Fleet includes most of ark Biblical man set up
We are right with one in clothes
Hunt for game shows starta remote one
Iron workers with senior members
Hes trying to lose one in bar
Write up or understand man of words?
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SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
Heres a real piece of work for you: a 1414 grid of letters has been chopped up into puzzle pieces, and its up to you to
reassemble it. The answer to each numbered clue should be placed in the corresponding numbered piece, one letter per
square, starting in the numbered square. Each row (A-N) in the tray contains the answers to two clues, placed side by
side. (The clues are given in order, but its up to you to determine the dividing point between answers.) Use the Row
answers and the pieces unique shapes to determine the proper location of each piece within the tray. You wont need to
overlap or rotate any of the pieces. Correctly placed, the 23 pieces will completely fill the tray.
ANSWERS, PAGE 80
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3
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BY PATRICK BERRY
PIECES
1 ___ Berry Farm (California
theme park)
2 Bunch of angry bees
3 Rock thats soft enough to be
cut with a knife
4 Sardonically funny writers
5 Pull up stakes suddenly
6 Render obsolete
7 Is relevant to: 2 wds.
8 Praises effusively
9 Radio that automatically sends a
signal upon receiving one
10 Rabbit-sized marsupial from
Down Under: Hyph.
11 Argue in protest
12 Load in the hold
13 Comes noisily to a halt
14 Double, on the diamond:
2 wds., Hyph.
15 Over ones head: 3 wds.
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17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Flowers for ___ (Daniel Keyes novel)

Tony Hawks transport
Leads, as a campaign
Florentine sculptor who created
Magdalene Penitent and David
Bit of buckshot
___ tube (carburetor part)
Legal document blather
Not qualified
ROWS
A Weeper of Greek myth
Graciously acknowledges the
audiences applause: 3 wds.
B Sink-unclogging product
Get a dead car going: Hyph.
C More avant-garde
Robs, as a bank: 2 wds.
D Anesthetic of yore
Label on some egg cartons: Hyph.
E Winter resort in Florida: 2 wds.
Doughnut coating
F Parts of a pioneer train
1991 film in which Val Kilmer did some
singing: 2 wds.
G Canned stuff carried by backpackers
Fill the air
H Assumed roles
Got hold of
I Famous name in American aviation
Apostolic letter
J Dispelled a curse?
Connecticut city on Long Island Sound
K Technique of applying paint thickly
Particle found in an atoms nucleus
L Like most modern engines: Hyph.
Musical speed
M Became suitable for skating on,
maybe: 2 wds.
___-doux (love letter, in Lille)
N October Revolution supporter
Most wise
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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 71.
ANSWERS, PAGE 80
FAMILY ONE
FAMILY TWO
Category:
_______________________
Category:
1. KNIT
_______________________
1. KOBOS
_______________________
2. IDEAL
_______________________
2. LOTTO
_______________________
3. LODGE
_______________________
3. NADIR
_______________________
4. RHINO
_______________________
4. WHOSE
_______________________
5. CRINKLE
_______________________
5. ESCAPE
_______________________
6. PRECOUP
_______________________
6. SENIOR
_______________________
7. REVISAL
_______________________
7. YEOMEN
_______________________
8. HUMILITY
_______________________
8. CORBEIL
_______________________
9. UNSETTING
_______________________
9. OFFENCE
_______________________
10. PENULTIMA
_______________________
10. INCUBATE
_______________________
FAMILY THREE
_______________________
FAMILY FOUR
Category:
_______________________
Category:
_______________________
1. TOOT
_______________________
1. BENE
_______________________
2. CABOB
_______________________
2. CANDLE
_______________________
3. HURTS
_______________________
3. RAPTLY
_______________________
4. SEAMY
_______________________
4. CLEANSE
_______________________
5. ANORAK
_______________________
5. EROSIVE
_______________________
6. MAGPIE
_______________________
6. HOWLERS
_______________________
7. ALIMENT
_______________________
7. PURPOSE
_______________________
8. CHIGGER
_______________________
8. NEURONIC
_______________________
9. DUALISM
_______________________
9. REGIMENT
_______________________
10. SELECTMEN
_______________________
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10. NONRECEIPT _______________________
FOLD THIS PAGE
PSEUDOCOUP
BY DOUGLAS TENCH
This is a variation on the popular Sudoku number puzzle.
To solve, ill each grid, using letters from the given word, so
that each of the eight different letters appears exactly once
in every row, column, and red-bordered zone. The puzzles
get harder as you go; the last one is a real toughie.
ANSWERS, PAGE 80
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THE WORLDS MOST

ORNERY CROSSWORD
BY HARVEY ESTES
TRUE GRID
The crossword on this and the next two pages has two
independent sets of clues: Hard and Easy. First, fold
this 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),
youll find 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).
Hard Clues
ACROSS
1 Lean cuisine
lover
6 German-born
violinist Busch
11 Pepys, for one
18 Bloodsucker
23 Cut off
24 Nile Valley
region
25 Canine neighbor
26 It may be
golden
27 War planner
29 Draw with dots
30 Piece of cake
31 Entire length
32 Flight that
always arrives
early?
34 Star born
Frederick
Austerlitz
35 Traditional letter
closer
37 Theyre
concerned with
classes
38 Its served
in spots
39 More, to Duran
42 Some elevator
buttons
43 Cost-of-living
meas.
46 Sci-fi princess
47 Political
pundit Bill
50 Twin in
Cooperstown
52 Siege deterrents
54 Ivy League digs
57 Steamed
58 Take back
59 Automotive
engineer
Ferdinand
61 March
Madness org.
62 Deflation
sound
63 Provided
65 Scruggs of C&W
66 Lid attachment

67 River into Korea
Bay
68 Sweetheart
69 Works at the
Louvre
70 PA county
71 Sonora sayonara
73 Kerenskys
successor
76 Idyll setting
77 Civil War
monogram
78 Tourney type
79 Making no
progress
81 Refs wear
83 Cons quest
85 Painless Parker,
for one
87 Biting
89 Puts on a wall,
maybe
94 Roads scholars?
96 Scarlet singer
98 Present
99 Selling point?
103 Farm sound
104 Poll no.
105 Add spice to
107 Oprahs role in
The Color Purple
108 Not recorded
109 Holy follower
110 Stat intro
112 Interesting
114 Shoemakers
strip
115 K2 stat.
116 Glare-reducing
eyewear
120 Chapter in
20th-cent.
history
121 ___ Nol (French
158-Across)
122 Monica Seles,
by birth
123 Roof supports
124 Confusion
125 Leaders before
73-Across
127 Valleys
128 Purifies, in
a way
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134
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136
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141
145
149
153
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___ cake
Gymnasts perch
Real knockout
Like protons:
Abbr.
Legal matter
Dis opposite
Ditch
Henhouse
feature
With the
longest face
One of Bergens
dummies
Place for playing
poker?
Natashas
partner in crime
Uncrunched
numbers
African republic
Words before
a time
Was loath to
experience
Comets guide
Vicarage
Cheers
Georgy Girl
group,
with The
Rival of Helena
Long range?
DOWN
1 Guacamole
alternative
2 Novel thickeners
3 Writers
reference
4 Film festival
category
5 More likely
to snap
6 Parsley family
member
7 It brings tears to
your eyes
8 Tonys cousin
9 Yarn spinner
10 Bottom
11 Throw into
chaos
12 Buries
THE WORLDS MOST ORNERY CROSSWORD (CONTINUED)

Easy Clues
DONT PEEK
UNTIL YOU
READ
PAGE 67!
ACROSS
1 Jack who could eat
no fat
6 German chemistry
Nobelist Windaus
11 Anne Frank, for one
18 Moocher
23 All by oneself
24 Desert region of
the Sudan
25 Tooth for cutting
26 My Girl or My
Guy, for example
27 Military supplier
29 Paint with dots
30 Cheese chunk
31 Completely: 3 wds.
32 Wee-hours flight:
3 wds.
34 Top Hat star
35 Whats mine
is ___
37 Post office machines
38 Oolong, e.g.
39 Pas mates
42 FedEx rival: Abbr.
43 Inflation measure,
for short
46 Lukes sister in
Star Wars
47 Real Time with
Bill ___
50 Former Minnesota
Twins star Kirby
52 Castle ditches
54 Coeds lodgings
57 Plenty angry
58 Annul
59 Boxster maker
61 College sports
group, briefly
62 ___-boom-bah
63 If: 3 wds.
65 Warren of the
Supreme Court
66 Mascara target
67 River on the
Korean border
68 Raggedy Ann,
for one
69 Greases
70 A Great Lake
71 Guadalajara
goodbye
68
73 Russian
Revolution leader
76 Grazing ground
77 Family member,
briefly
78 Golf tourney
format: Hyph.
79 Bogged down by
the same old
routine: 3 wds.
81 Zebras markings
83 One way out
of prison
85 Cavity filler
87 Sardonic
89 Attaches to a
bulletin board, say:
2 wds.
94 Hoboes
96 Brightly colored bird
98 Give to charity
99 Boutique
103 Cry from
Bo-Peeps flock
104 %: Abbr.
105 Give some zing to:
2 wds.
107 Bulgarias capital
108 In person
109 Holy ___!
110 Prefix meaning
flow
112 Got it: 2 wds.
114 Whipping mark
115 Height, for short
116 Brand-name shades:
2 wds.
120 Intl. conflict of
1939-45
121 Pierres pop
122 Belgrade resident
123 Whitewater boaters
124 Cause of low
visibility
125 Ivan the Terrible
et al.
127 Evans and Carnegie
128 Purifies seawater
129 Paint coat
130 Smile from ear
to ear
132 Commandments
number
133 Not negative: Abbr.
134 High-___ graphics

135 Cant Help Lovin
___ Man
136 Leave in the lurch
139 Barnyard perch
141 Most gloomy
145 Charlie McCarthys
counterpart: 2 wds.
149 Reception room
153 Yeltsin of
Russian politics
154 Unanalyzed info:
2 wds.
155 Neighbor of Liberia
and Guinea: 2 wds.
156 ___ a time (singly):
2 wds.
157 Greatly feared
158 Father Christmas
159 Parsons house
160 Hollers
161 Folks on a quest
162 Cosmetician Lauder
163 South American
range
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DOWN
Spicy chip dip
Story lines
Thesaurus author
SpongeBob episode,
say: 2 wds.
More crotchety
Licorice flavoring
Air passage
Stage actors award
Word repeated
before pants
on fire
Funny Girl Brice
Interfere with
Lays to rest
Etching fluids
Ready to be picked
Kids guessing
game: 2 wds.
Shoe bottom
Lock of hair
Discounted, as
a price
Work for a
candidate
Jockey who rode
Citation: 2 wds.
21 Prop for
Groucho Marx
22 Shoes not designed
for comfort
28 One-third of a war
movie title
33 Capitol Hill figure,
informally
36 One-upped
39 Abs and pecs
40 Money owed by one
business to another:
2 wds.
41 Dermatologists
concern
43 Succotash ingredient
44 Either letter to
Timothy, in the
Bible: 2 wds.
45 More restless
47 Placed out of place
48 Daughter of
King Minos
49 Revolutionary
War mercenary
50 Serving to punish
51 Bring to a halt
52 Cash, slangily
53 Scallion cousin
55 West Side Story
heroine
56 Oregons capital
58 Judge Bean of
the Old West
59 Enters en masse:
2 wds.
60 UFO pilots
64 Stomached
72 Deluxe hotel
accommodation
74 Gershwin and Levin
75 Baby louse
78 Legendary cowboy
___ Bill
80 Game co. that
originated
Dungeons &
Dragons
82 Lend a hand: 2 wds.
83 Congressional
messenger
84 Young chap
86 Declared off-limits
88 Beret or beanie
90 Catch my drift?:
4 wds.
91 U.S. supermarket
chain
92 Take advantage of
93 More like
some moss
95 Shopping mecca
regular: 2 wds.
97 Winter apples
99 Got some shuteye
100 Scrabble pieces
101 In an awkward
position: 3 wds.
102 Worshipful
104 Indonesian
outriggers
106 Equals
109 They round up
AWOLs: Abbr.
111 Feared fairy-tale
female
113 Snaky curve
117 Nothing, in Nice
118 Viva ___ Vegas
119 Many miles away
126 Cruel folks
128 Gizmos
129 One of the Canary
Islands: 2 wds.
131 Marge, to Bart
133 Luggage carrier
135 Qatars capital
136 Perth ___,
New Jersey
137 Singer Debby or Pat
138 Social outcasts
139 The Cloister and the
Hearth author
Charles
140 Caf cup
141 Jazz great Carmen
142 Govt. savings
purchase: 2 wds.
143 Sight, for one
144 Hammock supports
146 Uncommon
147 ___ Pea
(Popeye tot)
148 Fargos state, briefly
150 Long and Peeples
151 Campout shelter
152 Noted Art Deco
designer
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135
140
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149
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161
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163
ANSWER, PAGE 80
Hard Clues (continued)
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154
Tummy troublers
Rank
Game of observation
Pump part
Ringlet
Let down
Support a 33-Down
Rider of six Preakness
winners
Perfecto, e.g.
Height adders
Part of a battle cry
Campaign pro
Beat
Herculean assets
Ledger heading
Pelt
Toe woe
The New Testaments
I or II Timothy
Less able to sit still
Lost
143
107
153
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
142
98
106
111
118
90
128
147
93
84
123
146
92
78
83
117
145
91
70
77
104
138
56
65
96
132
55
61
69
110
131
22
54
60
76
127
21
46
53
88
103
109
44
52
82
95
108
43
87
94
125
42
75
20
37
68
86
102
36
64
74
19
33
59
73
85
101
41
18
25
51
80
100
40
50
57
99
13
32
34
47
12
48
49
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51
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Theseuss helper
Mercenary soldier of 76
Disciplinary
Bring down the curtain
Greenbacks
Mild-tasting onion
They Call the Wind ___
1692 trial site
Artist Lichtenstein
Enters en masse
French connections?
Stood for
Afterparty locale
S&L offerings
Something to pick
River near Roswell
Original D&D producer
Contribute
Patti or Jimmy
Youth
Deemed socially
unacceptable
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90
91
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93
95
97
99
100
101
102
104
106
109
111
113
117
118
119
126
128
Lens protector
Conversational filler
Market chain
Put to work
More boglike, maybe
Character in a 95 Kevin
Smith comedy
Autumn fruit
Was dormant
Inlaid items
Without choices
Adoring
Swift sailboats
Pressure source
Base cops, briefly
Feared female
Three dots, in Morse code
Tout opposite
Much of Deck the Halls
___ cry
Cruel bunch
Junk drawer items
129 City in SW California

131 Tattoo word
133 William Sydney ___
(O. Henry)
135 Arabian Peninsula capital
136 Former Ted Nugent band
The ___ Dukes
137 Daniel or Pat
138 Squares
139 Griffith Gaunt author
140 Cup, in Quebec
141 Jazz singer Carmen
142 U.S. investment option
143 Meaning
144 Elders, e.g.
146 Medium alternative
147 ___ Pea
148 Peace Garden State: Abbr.
150 Long and others
151 Pegged-down digs
152 Romain de Tirtoff,
familiarly
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ANSWERS
3 CAMOUFLAGE
4 MIXED DOUBLES
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11/2, 12/5, 13/16, 14/24, 15/3, 16/13, 17/19, 18/7, 19/17, 20/4,
21/6, 22/8, 23/10, 24/14
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11/20, 12/9, 13/3, 14/1, 15/5, 16/21, 17/2, 18/4, 19/7, 20/11,
21/16, 22/10
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A batch of more than 20 items has to be ready by 5:00 (clue 6), so this order will have 25 or 30 items (intro). The batch
of 20 items has to be ready before at least two others (clue 2), so it needs to be done by 6:00, the muffins have to be
ready by 7:00, and the batch for the caterer by 8:00 (2). The wedding planner ordered fewer items than are in the 6:00
order (4), which is for 20 items (see above); thus a batch of 15 items (intro) is going to the wedding. This has to be
ready at 7:00, since either number of items or type of client rules out all other possibilities. The batch for the gourmet
grocery isnt scheduled for the 5:00 pickup (1), so its scheduled for 6:00 and Millicents order is for 5:00 (1). By
elimination, she works for the restaurant. Her order doesnt have the most items (5), so it has 25 and Larss order has
30 (5 and above). By elimination, Lars is the caterer. Valerie ordered either the croissants or the sourdough rolls (7), so
her order has to be ready by 6:00. By elimination, Edgar will be the person picking up the 7:00 order. This is a batch of
15 muffins (see above), so the batch of croissants numbers 25 (3); this is for Millicent (see above). Valerie ordered the
sourdough rolls, and, by elimination, Lars ordered the pumpernickel mini-loaves.
IN SUMMARY:
5:00, Millicent, restaurant, 25 croissants
6:00, Valerie, grocery, 20 rolls
7:00, Edgar, wedding, 15 muffins
8:00, Lars, caterer, 30 mini-loaves
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6 AROUND
THE CLOCK
12:35
1:00
2:25
3:45
4:55
5:50
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7:20
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9:30
10:15
11:10
Mitred
Hermit
Rescan
Mantra
Captor
Canape
Despot
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They always fall down

on the job:
PARATROOPERS
9 KID STUFF:
SQUARED AWAY
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BUILD-A-WORD
The new words are:
ration, person, manage,
kitten, forbid, father,
donkey, carpet, candid,
button.
10 CHARACTER
SKETCHES
LEFT TO RIGHT AND
TOP TO BOTTOM:
Page 10: AJAX (A jacks),
ENCHANT (N chant),
FRIDAY (fried A), ZEBRA
(Z bra), ARDENT (R
dent), ESCAPE (S cape),
DEPOT (deep O), CANDY
(canned E), CAPER (K
purr), SEESAW (C saw),
ARTICLE (R tickle).
Page 11: EXPECT (X
pecked), TEETOTALER (T
totaler), CUTIE (Q tee),
OPEN (O pen), UNIT (U
knit), DEBATE (D bait),
EMBARK (M bark),
EYELINER (I liner),
BEHOLD (B holed),
DETAIL (D tail), SONAR
(sewn R).
ANSWERS
12 QUOTE BOXES
8 KID STUFF: CABIN HIDEAWAY
1. Even when opportunity knocks, a person has to get off his rear end
and answer the door. (Ann Landers)
2. If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either ind new
ones or see what we can salvage from the old. (Rosalynn Carter)
3. That which we have not been forced to decipher, to clarify by our own
personal effort, that which was made clear before, is not ours.
(Marcel Proust)
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66 FAMILY REUNIONS CATEGORIES

Family One: Metals
Family Two: Maker preceders
Family Three: Baseball greats
Family Four: Types of gatherings
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PETTY OFFICER
2. Edible Idioms
Big cheese
Gravy train
Eat humble pie
Salt of the earth
Carrot and stick
Piece of cake
Couch potato
Cream of the crop
Sell like hotcakes
Bad egg
ENSIGN
3. Starring S
Simon says
Slippery slope
Social Security
Sesame seeds
Swan song
Sea salt
Sweet sixteen
Soft soap
Shell shock
Simple sugar
21 JUXTAPOSITION
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23 BATTLESHIPS
20 CRYPTOLISTS
1. Bow Tie Wearers
Groucho Marx
Krusty the Clown
Orville Redenbacher
Winston Churchill
Donald Duck
Pee Wee Herman
Abraham Lincoln
The Cat in the Hat
Fred Astaire
Playboy Bunny
CAPTAIN
4. Mystery List
(Things that run)
Political candidate
Pair of stockings
Cold sufferers nose
Commuter train
Dyed garment during washing
Newspaper article
Computer program
Water faucet
Marathon participant
Contraband smuggler
COMMODORE
31 ROWED SIGNS
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22 MIXED DOUBLES: SHADES OF MEANING
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Across: 1/18, 2/11, 3/12, 4/20, 5/17, 6/15, 7/9, 8/21, 9/7, 10/13,
11/2, 12/3, 13/10, 14/16, 15/6, 16/4, 17/5, 18/1, 20/4, 21/8
Down: 1/17, 2/20, 3/8, 4/13, 5/23, 6/14, 7/18, 8/3, 9/24, 10/21,
11/16, 12/22, 13/4, 14/6, 15/25, 16/11, 17/1, 18/7, 20/2, 21/10,
22/12, 23/5, 24/9, 25/15
Extra clues: 19-Across, 19-Down
Bonus word: CHECKERS
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WILD CARDS
24 GO WITH THE FLOW
1o (Yellowstone River)
2a (Atlantic Ocean)
3e (Gulf of California)
4m (Paciic Ocean)
5j (Long Island Sound)
6n (Upper New York Bay)
7g (Lake Ontario)
8k (Mississippi River)
9i (Lake Winnipeg)
10f (Gulf of Mexico)
11h (Lake Superior)
12d (Columbia River)
13c (Chesapeake Bay)
14l (Missouri River
15b (Bering Sea)
24 GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY
24
24 EITHER WAY
The vowels of each word can be

exchanged to form another word
(panel/ plane, diary/dairy, feta/
fate, etc.)
24 IMPROPER MEANINGS
1c (a heavy fabric)
2a (a dyewood)
3e (an eellike amphibian)
4f ( a shrub of the heath family)
5j (to coat with a glossy
black lacquer)
6d (a hobos bundle)
7h (a unit of magnetic flux)
8g (a unit of force)
9i (the uppermost structure on
a steamboat)
10b (a former monetary unit)
25 NEED A LIFT?
1. Doctor Who, n (TARDIS)

2. The Dukes of Hazzard, b
(General Lee)
3. Firely, k (Serenity)
4. Gilligans Island, m (SS Minnow)
5. The Green Hornet, a
(Black Beauty)
6. Knight Rider, e (KITT)
7. The Lone Ranger, l (Silver)
8. Lost in Space, d (Jupiter 2)
9. The Love Boat, h
(Pacific Princess)
25 AUNT HILDEGARDE
10. McHales Navy, i (PT-73)

11. Petticoat Junction, c
(Hooterville Cannonball)
12. The Roy Rogers Show, o
(Trigger)
13. Scooby-Doo: Where Are You?
g (Mystery Machine)
14. Speed Racer, f (Mach 5)
15. Star Trek, p (USS Enterprise)
16. Voyage to the Bottom
of the Sea, j (Seaview)
25 WALKERS
Aunt Hildegarde likes words

whose letters are in alphabetical
order (ABBOTT, EGGS, KNOW,
etc.).
They were dismissed from school

at 2:30 p.m. and walked two
miles. Sally got home at
3:30 p.m.
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ANSWERS
26 TEST YOUR TRIVIA I.Q.
True-False (1 point each)
1. FALSE (The largest, Wrangell-St. Elias in
Alaska, is more than ive times larger
than Yellowstones 2.2 million acres.)
Multiple Choice (2 points each)

11. A (about 6065 calories, compared
with 80 for the sugar and 100 for
the milk)
2. TRUE (His book A Perfect Spy is partly

autobiographical.)
12. B
3. FALSE (Coffee came to Europe from

Turkey in the 16th century; it had long
been cultivated in Ethiopia and Arabia.
It was introduced to Brazil in 1727.)
4. TRUE (a 76 victory over Oregon
in 1920)
Multiple Choice (3 points each)

21. C
22. C (Lake Ontario borders only New
York, and Lake Huron only Michigan.)
23. A
13. B (by hitting the triple 20)
24. B
14. C
25. D (Stanley found Livingstone in 1871.)
15. C (King of ancient Israel in the 10th

century B.C.E.; Confucius lived in
the 6th and 5th centuries B.C.E.,
and Plato a century later.)
26. D
27. B
5. FALSE (It stands for Organization, in

Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries.)
16. B
28. C (She received Best Actress nomi

nations for the other three ilms.)
17. C
29. D (in Australian slang)
18. C
6. TRUE (Offspring of guppies,

surf-perches, and certain other ish
hatch inside the mother.)
19. C (The others are also types of

quarks but are found in cosmic
rays and particle accelerators.)
30. B (3; the other three teams each

appeared in 2 during this time period.)
7. TRUE (The ilm was released in 1990;

the TV series ran from 201115.)
20. C
8. FALSE (It means cheeseburger.)

9. TRUE
29 EAT YOUR WORDS!
10. TRUE (in 1902)
28 CODE CROSSWORDS
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Suspended
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Republic (relic, pub)
Theorem (them, ore)
Varsity (vary, sit)
EXTRA WORD: GRASPER
2. Defender (defer, end)
Swallowing
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Banknote (bane, knot)
Picaresque
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Alimony (any, limo)
Eyesight (eight, yes)
Forward (ford, war)
EXTRA WORD: FANCIER
3. Capture (cure, apt)
Practice (price, act)
Considerate
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Hothouse (hose, thou)
Turnip (tip, urn)
Buyout (but, you)
EXTRA WORD: PANTRY
4. Disconcert
(dirt, sconce)
Stapling (sling, tap)
Honorary (hoary, nor)
Sediment (sent, dime)
Speciies (species, if)
Carousel (carol, use)
EXTRA WORD: SANDER
7. Ligament (lint, game)

Warranty (wary, rant)
Spaceport (sport, pace)
Tangerine (tine, anger)
Ordinal (oral, din)
Cherry (cry, her)
Fortify (forty, if)
EXTRA WORD: GRANDER
5. Incarnate (innate, car)

Stoplight (slight, top)
Diminish (dish, mini)
Separated (seated, par)
Colossal (coal, loss)
Primrose (prose, rim)
Breathed (bread, the)
Cassette (caste, set)
EXTRA WORD: COMPLIES
8. Salamander
(sander, lama)
Complexities
(complies, exit)
Serendipity
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Grasshopper
(grasper, shop)
Financier (fancier, in)
Grandmother
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Pageantry (pantry, age)
FINAL WORD: DESSERT
6. Mustard (mud, star)

Weekend (weed, ken)
Irrigate (irate, rig)
Predicament
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Panorama (panama, or)
Flintlock (flock, lint)
Artillery (artery, ill)
Cayenne (cane, yen)
EXTRA WORD: SERENITY
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ANSWERS
51 DOUBLE CROSS
52 BORN OUT OF DEADLOCK

L. TOM-TOMS
M. LOYALTY
N. ELEMENTS
O. VEHEMENT
P. ITINERANT
Q. COLETTE
R. THE GOLDFINCH
S. OMINOUS
T. ROUTE
U. ICE ROAD TRUCKERS
V. ERNST MACH
W. SHONDA RHIMES
A. JOHN LITHGOW
B. ATTENUATED
C. SCOTT EASTWOOD
D. OCHLOCRACY
E. NECCO
F. GHOULISH
G. ACUTE
H. YUANS
I. LITTLE THEATRE
J. ISRAEL MUSEUM
K. TOWEL
Heres a tiny secret they dont tell you at your college

commencement: Sometimes adults just want to lie on the
couch, eat mint chocolate ice cream straight from the
container and watch old Goldie Hawn-Kurt Russell movies.
That nourishes the soul too.Jason Gay, Little Victories
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ANSWERS
56 PAINT BY NUMBERS
WOMAN
BASEBALL
ROOSTER
CHERRIES
SKATEBOARDING
SNAIL
DOG
BALLOONS
60 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1
ACROSS: 1. Pitchman (itch + m + pan); 5. Gambit (g +
ambit); 9. Penelope (pen + elope); 10. Apollo (A +
pollo); 12. Reconsideration (recon + side + ration);
13. Saga (Sagan n); 15. Chain store (Chans + tore +
I); 17. Allegiance (a nice legal); 18. Well (two meanings);
21. Dead-tree version (E-endeavors tried); 23. Entail (line
+ at); 24. Ordnance (ordinance I); 25. Slyest (lye +
SST); 26. Odysseus (Sues + s,y + do)
DOWN: 1. Papyrus (up spray); 2. Tonic (rotguT ON ICe);
3. Helena (He + le + na); 4. Amphitheater (amp + hit +
heater); 6. Appraise (a + pp + raise); 7. Baltimore
(Artmobile); 8. Trounce (recount); 11. Rediscovered (Is +
cove + red, red); 14. Gallantry (Gantry + all); 16. Ego
trips (GOP tries); 17. Andrews (wanders); 19. Landers
(two meanings); 20. Prints (prince); 22. Innie
(Minnie M)
14 FINAL TS STARTING HINT
The irst entry across is POP-TART.
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61 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2
ACROSS: 1. Bumps (bums + p); 4. Tea leaves (team m + leaves); 9. Redactors (red + actors); 10. Arbor (poplAR BORder);
11. Else (acronym); 12. Open sesame (O + pens + e + same); 14. Poncho (mishaP ON CHOpper); 15. Teachers (Crete has);
18. Reserves (reVerSes); 20. Insane (inane + s); 23. Stratagems (strata + gems); 24. Room (moor); 26. Acerb (ace + RB);
27. Inundated (in + undated); 28. Hangers-on (anger + h + son); 29. Steep (two meanings)
DOWN: 1. Barkeeper (Barker + epee e); 2. Madison (mason + DI); 3. Sick (KC is); 4. Thorpe (the + pro); 5. Absentee (a bee +
sent); 6. Evanescent (Evans + E + cent); 7. Vibrate (vie + brat); 8. Spree (see + PR); 13. Charitable (chart t + I + table);
16. Steamed up (pet made us); 17. Penguins (pen + guns + I); 19. Surgeon (surge + on); 21. Apostle (a Pole + st.);
22. Impugn (umping); 23. Smash (sash + m); 25. Adds (ads)
62 COMBO MEALS
PAIRS
Cheeseburger and fries
Chips and salsa
Gin and tonic
Liver and onions
Lox and bagels
Peanut butter and jelly
INGREDIENTS: A. Bagels (bag + Els); B. Cheeseburger (Che
+ Reese + grub); C. Chips (chimps m); D. Fries (I + fresh
h, & lit.); E. Gin (two meanings); F. Jelly (j + Lyle); G. Liver
(deLIVERyman); H. Lox (locks); I. Onions (is noon); J. Peanut
butter (Peter + tub + tuna); K. Salsa (a lass); L. Tonic (into +
c.);
ACROSS: 1. Eject (reject r); 4. Syllabi (I + Ballys); 9. Isaac (is
+ a + a,c); 10. Clicks (C + licks); 11. Gideon (doing + E);
12. Deans (A + dens 15. Relish (Shirley y) 18. Elm (wE
cLiMb); 19. PDA (d. + Pa); 20. Stucco (cuts + co.); 27 Retort
(Trotter t) 28. Iliad (Dali + i) 29. Hornets (shorten) 30. Tress
(trs + S)
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6. At sea (a + tea + s); 7. Iran (pIRANhas); 8. Tad (t + A.D.); 13. Exult (last letters); 14. Snorters (snorers + t); 16. Eland (elan + d);
17. Hassle (hale + S.S.); 21. Anise (is an e); 22. Cribs (C + ribs); 23. Beaut (Butte); 24. Gorge (Gore + G); 25. Ouch (touch t);
26. Owe (oh)
63 DOUBLE-CROSSINGS
ACROSS: 1. Betrayed (bet + ready); 6. Tosca (cast + O);
10. Drawl (draw + L); 12. Virtual (V + ritual); 13. Tuna (nut +
a) ; 14. Careen (car + nee); 15. Intrude (i + turned); 17. Sinai
(Ian + is); 18. Sects (sets + C); 19. Tenon (ten + no);
20. Emcees (see me + c); 22. Swerve (serve + W); 24. Sierra
(I + err + S.A.); 27. Warsaw (was + raw); 30. Elms (els + M);
31. Direr (Dr. + ire); 33. Alive (evil + a); 34. Manifold (man + if
+ old); 35. Nectars (trances); 36. Barge (grab + E);
37. Concede (hectiC ONCE DEpartment); 38. Flier (ile + r);
39. Enter (center c); 40. Arrests (starers)
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DOWN: 1. Bedtime (emit + deb); 2. Trunk (shorT RUN Kaput);

3. Awarders (war + dares); 4. Evades (ad + eves); 5. Directs
(credits); 6. Tress (tres + s); 7. Sunner (nurse + n); 8. Casanova
(CAs + a + nova); 9. Alpine (A + L + pine); 11. Antic (in act);
16. User (rues); 19. Terrible (tearable); 21. Million (mill + I +
on); 23. Warn (worn); 24. Sance (see + a + NC); 25. Eminent
(e + Tin Men); 26. Armada (ark k + Adam); 27. Wearer
(we + are + R); 28. Safari (s + a + far + I); 29. Welders
(w + elders); 31. Dieter (I + deter); 32. Roget (or get)
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66 FAMILY REUNIONS
FAMILY ONE
FAMILY TWO
64 SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
Metals
Maker preceders
1. Tin
2. Lead
3. Gold
4. Iron
5. Nickel
6. Copper
7. Silver
8. Lithium
9. Tungsten
10. Platinum
1. Book
2. Tool
3. Rain
4. Shoe
5. Peace
6. Noise
7. Money
8. Boiler
9. Coffee
10. Cabinet
FAMILY THREE
FAMILY FOUR
Baseball greats
Types of gatherings
1. Ott
2. Cobb
3. Ruth
4. Mays
5. Aaron
6. Paige
7. Mantle
8. Gehrig
9. Musial
10. Clemente
1. Bee
2. Dance
3. Party
4. Seance
5. Soiree
6. Shower
7. Supper
8. Reunion
9. Meeting
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