12-page custom puzzle book

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Table of Contents Crosswords, Number Puzzles, Word Games, Logic Puzzles and Trivia Wuzzles..........................................................................2, 7, 9 Stickelers............................................................................2, 3 Point and Solve......................................................................3 Cryptoquip.........................................................................3, 8 Sheffer Crossword..................................................................3 Sudoku...................................................................................4 Super Quiz.........................................................................4, 8 Premier Crossword.................................................................5 Challenger..............................................................................6 Hocus Focus...........................................................................6 Word Sleuth...........................................................................6 Cryptoquote............................................................................6 Wishing Well..........................................................................7 Joseph Crossword..................................................................7 Multi-Sudoku 2x2..................................................................8 Battleships..............................................................................9 Scramblers..............................................................................9 Solutions................................................................................10, 11

All puzzles are syndicated by King Features Syndicate Inc. and have been previously published.

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See how many anagrams you can find for the following words.

1) stimulate 2) percussion 3) aligned 4) gander

Point and Solve

Cryptoquip

In this crossword puzzle variety, the clues appear in the diagram itself.

Simply enter the answers in the directions indicated by the arrows.

G DRFS’M FNURVGSC RLTOM MXRM

PRKCU, FDRZNQ PRVU TOMPUM SURK

ZU. G ZURSM MXU LRQTO LQ QTO. Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: Z equals M

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error.

Crossword

by Eugene Sheffer

Answers on page 10

ACROSS 1 Eastern bigwig (Var.) 5 One-on-one battle 9 Scoundrel 12 Rice-A- — 13 Paquin or Faris 14 Raw rock 15 Over 17 Pen point 18 Vagrant 19 Ticket 21 Aspect 24 Idea that spreads on the Web 25 48-Across’ counterparts 26 Room-to-room accesses

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Here’s an alphametic where each letter has a positive integer value. No word can begin with zero. In this puzzle, let W = 1 and V = 0. There is no 2.

30 Convent dweller 31 Great praise 32 Old card game 33 Wine pourer 35 Existed, Biblically 36 Do as you’re told 37 Exposes 38 Cease-fire 40 Noble title 42 Melody 43 Ecclesiastical compact 48 See 25-Across 49 Soon, in verse 50 “Do — others ...”

51 Shelter 52 Sit for a photo 53 Unaltered

THREE THREE + THREE ELEVEN TWENTY

DOWN 1 Joan of — 2 Cattle call?

3 Hostel 4 Wealth 5 Paint amateurishly 6 Ruin 7 Compass pt.

8 Firetruck gear 9 Skin-tone cosmetic 10 Operatic solo 11 Credit card user’s problem 16 Parcel of land 20 Coal diggers’ org.

21 Ward (off) 22 Chills and fever 23 Open area at a terminal

24 Othello, for one 26 Responsibility 27 Praise in verse 28 Days gone by 29 Drunkards 31 Patella 34 Jimmy Kimmel’s network 35 Tusked mammal 37 Buddy 38 Party-game pin-on 39 Go by train 40 Son of Seth 41 Pimples 44 Yoko of music 45 “CSI” evidence 46 $ dispenser 47 Pirouette pivot

Sudoku

Super Quiz

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once.

Take this Super Quiz to the Ph. D. Level. 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph. D. Level.

Answers on page 10

Premier Crossword by Frank A. Longo

Answer on page 10

Challenger

Hocus Focus

Answers on page 11

Cryptoquote

AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for the three L’s, X for the two O’s, etc.

SISZX

GZKRHK

FRH

NET

NET

TGKYZS

—

FSTZX

HNYO,

URBH

GTU

RTKN

EGZU

FRH

AZYHF

BGRTKH

FRH

ASSDFSZ

RT

FRH

BRDKYZSH.

Wishing Well HERE IS A PLEASANT LITTLE GAME that will give you a message every day. It’s a numerical puzzle designed to spell out your fortune. Count the letters in your first name. If the number of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number is less than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. Start at the upper lefthand corner and check each of your key numbers, left to right.

Then read the message the letters under the checked figures give you.

Answers on page 11

Crossword ACROSS 1 Locked up 7 José’s home 11 Wear roughly 12 Weary word 13 “Empress of the Blues” 15 Bra part 16 Speaker’s stand 18 Verdant 21 Hydrant attachment 22 Sermon giver 24 Louvre fill 25 Concealed 26 Low number 27 January birthstone 29 Like Vassar since 1969 30 Thug

by Thomas Joseph 1 Dad, in slang 3 32 City-based 34 “Downton Abbey” star 40 Opera highlight 41 Sound system 42 Camp home 43 Blotto DOWN 1 Quick punch 2 Playwright Burrows 3 Tax agcy.

4 Famed collie 5 Fixes copy 6 Forest grazer 7 College grounds 8 Boxing great 9 Plopped down 10 Bat wood

4 Light lunch 1 16 Rapper’s head covering 17 Texas player 19 Small porch 20 Sharpens 21 Old crone 22 Deep hole 23 Warning color 25 Painter Matisse 28 Chewy candy 29 Swindlers 31 Lasagna or linguine 33 Top-rated 34 Porch sight 35 Verb for you 36 Martini ingredient 37 Bother 38 Golf need 39 Brick carrier

Multi-Sudoku

Super Quiz

Each puzzle consists of two or more Sudoku grids overlapping each other in various configurations. Overlapping areas must comply with the rules of more than one grid.

Take this Super Quiz to the Ph. D. Level. 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph. D. Level.

Answers on page 11

Cryptoquip The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error.

Battleships Each Battleship puzzle represents an ocean with a hidden fleet of ships, which may be oriented horizontally or vertically within the grid such that no ship touches another, not even diagonally. The numbers on the right and on the bottom of the grid show how many squares in the corresponding row and column are occupied by ship segments. Occasionally some squares may contain given ship or water segments to help start the puzzle.

The object is to discover where all ships are located.

Answers on page 11

Wuzzles - Page 2

Point & Solve - Page 3

Cryptoquip - Easy - Page 3 I WASN’T SPEAKING ABOUT THAT LARGE, SWAMPY LAKE OUTLET NEAR ME. I MEANT THE BAYOU BY YOU.

Stickelers - Page 2 Here’s what we found: 1) stimulate — ultimates, mutilates 2) percussion — supersonic 3) aligned — leading, dealing 4) gander — garden, ranged, danger

Stickelers - Page 3

Sheffer Crossword - Page 3

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Sudokus - Page 4

Premier Crossword - Page 5

Challenger - Page 6

Word Sleuth - Page 6

Wuzzles - Page 7

Joseph Crossword - Page 7

Cryptoquote - Page 6 EVERY ARTIST DIPS HIS BRUSH IN HIS OWN SOUL, AND PAINTS HIS OWN NATURE INTO HIS PICTURES. — HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cryptoquip Hard - Page 8 Multi-Sudoku - Easy - Page 8 Battleships - Page 9

Wuzzles - Page 9

Scramblers - Page 9