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CROSSWORDS + LOGIC + contest + FEATURES

LETTER REBUSES

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Each array of letters and symbols above represents a familiar word, phrase, or expression. In #1, for example, the arrangement of letters shown stands for the word GRANDPARENTS (GR and P aren’t S). Clues are provided to help you out. ANSWERS, PAGE 78

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•CONTENTS•

PENCILWISE IN THIS ISSUE Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2016 16 Magnus Carlsen defends his Masters title Family Game Night Across the Globe 34 An informal survey of the games enjoyed by families worldwide World Puzzle Championships 56 How do you stack up against the world's top puzzlers?

PLUS...

What's Happening 33 Previews of upcoming events Your Word Against Mine: Scrabble Happenings, Puzzles, and Tips 38 Tools to improve your game This Old Game 40 Vintage board games from the collector’s closet MinMoves Puzzles 41 A logical game of musical chairs Wild Cards: A potpourri of amusing 42 little puzzles for your solving pleasure Contest: New Role-Playing Connections 44 Contest Results: 45 Coded Crisscross III (from October) Electronic Game Reviews 46 The Room Three, Fallout 4 Traditional Game Reviews 47 Hengist, Flip City Game On! 48 Offbeat news, trivia, and more from today s world of games and puzzles DIFFICULTY RATING

Easy Hard

Medium Mixed

COVER PUZZLE ¦ BASED ON A PUZZLE BY PHILIP COHEN COVER DESIGN ¦ REGIS MODESTA

500 Rummy Battleships Buried Gold Camoulage Chip Off the Old Block Cryptic Crossword 1 Cryptic Crossword 2 Crypto-Funnies Double Cross Dszquphsbnt!

Family Reunions Get in Gear Hashi Helter-Skelter Kid Stuff Lettur Perfekt Life of Ease Mixed Doubles Mixed Doubles: Shades of Meaning One, Two, Three Paint by Pairs Pencil Pointers 1 Pencil Pointers 2 Pentominoes: A Variety Cryptic Playing the Odds Playing the Half-Dozens Quint-Essential Quote Boxes Siamese Twins The Plus The Spiral Tough as Diamonds What Loose Lips Do Word Squares Crisscross Wordspair World’s Most Ornery Crossword You're on a Role!: A White House Movie Mini-Caper may 2016 | GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES

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... FROM

THE EDITOR

Editor in Chief Janis Weiner Senior Editor Jennifer Orehowsky Editor Raymond Simon Contributing Editors Scott Appel, Thomas L. McDonald

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here’s no question that we live in a digital age. We see evidence of this everywhere: Go into any waiting room, for example, and you’ll ind people passing the time on electronic devices—iPads, Kindles, smartphones, etc. They may be playing games, managing their bank accounts, or simply avoiding interacting with others—even members of their own family.

So naturally you might start to wonder if traditional family activities are becoming a thing of the past. Happily, the answer to that question is a resounding no. In fact, board games—one of the pastimes family and friends enjoy most—are experiencing a resurgence as of late in the United States. The board game industry saw a 10 percent rise in sales in 2014.

Classics like Monopoly and Scrabble are still going strong, while newer, more strategic games like Settlers of Catan have joined the ranks of top sellers.

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

It’s an entertaining and interesting piece that also delves into the history of some ancient games.

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

Finally, if you’re all about the puzzles, you’re in for a couple of treats.

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

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CRYPTO-FUNNIES

FROM THE GAMES LIBRARY

PUZZLE AND ILLUSTRATION BY PHIL SCHEUER

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

ANSWER, PAGE 70

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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 British coin with the Royal Shield on the reverse 2 Fur trader’s stock 3 On the trail of 4 Hoped-for guest at a seance 5 Like traveling salespeople 6 Eyewitnesses’ stories 7 “All Star” sneaker brand 8 Gets up from a chair 9 Checking and savings, e.g.

10 Hits repeatedly, as with snowballs 11 Bleachers 12 Hidden DVD content 13 Volume measurement equivalent to a cup 14 They’re dyed in the spring

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Subsequently Sixteen ounces “Short stuff” Pride in one’s school Full-service, as a shuttle Talk

DOWN 1 “More Than Meets the Eye” action figure 2 “Right this second,” in the ER 3 Agenda additions 4 Plant often used on the bottom of terrariums 5 Legally binding document 6 Met someone halfway, maybe 7 Takeoffs’ counterparts

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

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

Adage for the impatient

Craft '97 Peter Agt. like __ Fonda Eliot Ness d'oeuvre City on ilm the Ruhr

Ore-__ (food brand)

Eggy holiday drink

Striped Got African wind of antelope

Easily changing loyalties

Lawn growth

TV emcees, e.g.

Sierra Nevada lake

Trick Secret lover of play in Pyramus football

Put in a box

Tales for tots in pajamas

Old favorites

Emily Brontë novel Nearly inished

Native of Zagreb

Rips

Water, in Oaxaca

Perfume with smoke

Classic dancer Fred Silverhaired

Knish illing GIs' force China's __ Tsetung

Award for a TV show

“Hello!” tag info Give lip

Former Purina partner Attired

Post cereal Ova

Dr. Seuss character

Explorer of kids' TV

Actor Hanks Like mire

“Incidentally...”

Liquid part of blood

Minor quarrel

Thus far

Finetunes, as skills

It made the LP passé Cousin of a leotard

Bandit's Caravan drawnlayover out bout locale

Having the least rainfall

Sgt. maj., e.g.

Rock's __ Leppard

Notable time span

Norse mariner Leif

Workbench gripper

Ron who played Tarzan NHL footwear item “Can you explain this?”

Not as much

Foe

Took an airplane

Hurryscurry

One who's luring

Herb in pasta sauce

Sufix of ordinals

Tarnish

Some Gulf states

Pithy saying

Alliance between nations

Salad mixers, say

Most suficient

Dwell Tummy muscles

Port on Italy's “heel”

In and of itself Casino freebie Ike's ex

Sets (down)

Caverns “Keep this in”

Chooses

Coke's biggest rival

Turns off course

Colored eye part

Hardcore Pawn channel

Sesame Street resident

Former NBC host Jay

Lauder of perfume

Film critic, often

Dr. No star Connery

Relaxes

Smile on from on high

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ACROSS Fore’s opposite Serpent’s sound Pen brand Pub potable Neighbor of Serbia Golf club used for driving: 2 wds.

Pupil’s place Seasoned veterans: 2 wds.

Kid-oriented pizza chain: 3 wds.

Loosy-___ Sizzling Solidify Auditioner’s goal Charles in Charge star Scott Courageous Approved, briefly Round, for short Pops, as a balloon Jam-packed: Hyph.

Hidden stores Truant GI “The Racer’s Edge” Standoffish Mary Baker ___ Swedish furniture seller Cake Boss network Observe Inactive Place to log account transactions: 2 wds

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Slight yet significant advantage Mike Hammer portrayer Keach Smooth as ___ Mall lure Sob sound Fjord, e.g.

Give up Collars a criminal Most roomy USNA grad, briefly Mistreat Computer networking methods: Abbr.

State bird of Maine Miracle-___

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37 19th-century Apache chief 39 Biting bug, informally 40 Yorkie, e.g.

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46 Glide on ice 47 NBA great Thomas 49 Grab a bite 50 Applaud 51 Actress Annabeth 52 Notion 53 Stick out 55 Music lover’s collection, briefly

BY M.A. SHEEN

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

ANSWERS, PAGE 70

Puzzle 1 FELLOW FRIEND HEARTY LAYOUT NERVES NOODLE PERSON REPAIR REPEAT TRAVEL VOYAGE WORTHY

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Puzzle 2 BALLOT COTTON ENERGY FOREST GROWTH KNIGHT MONKEY ORIGIN OUTWIT PILLAR PRONTO SLIGHT

ANSWER, PAGE 70

CHIP OFF

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; it’s up to you to determine which ones are needed. Some letters may fit in more than one of the empty squares to form familiar words; however, only one arrangement of all the letters of the alphabet will complete a word in each row. Hyphenated words, proper nouns, and plurals are not used.

ANSWER, PAGE 71

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

L P W C B A M K W Q C F L S B F B H G S C D C W H K

O O H H L I E I H U H R I H I A I U R H R O H I E I

U L I A A S A N A A O E N A N L N N I A E S A N I N

M U S V S H R G P N U D D L D M D E F N E H P D R D

A D K E H I R A O G M R P L R E O R T N M E A E L O

R E E R O E E L C A I A I E E D I A M E S L I L O L

L I I I R D O U E E A E C U O U O L S I U O T N M A

E C D C A O R G T B G R E A V M N A C G D U H A A G

I E O T Y O T H U O E E N R E A E N L L Y N U T P U

F B U E O R A E N P P N C R P E Y M E E I N D C E A

F L N L N E S W T O O N H E E L O E P N L O E H R R

Y E T L T F S T Y R N S Y L N L T S E T T T L E E N

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KID

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FISH STORY

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

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

C O S A T H U N R G

D P E R C H I S L M O N A N N A

T R S P T F G U A U I I P R R R E S I B R N K P O M P A

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SALMON SARDINE CATFISH SMELT COD SNAPPER FLUKE SOLE GUPPY SPRAT MINNOW STURGEON PERCH TROUT PIRANHA TUNA POMPANO TURBOT

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FROM THE GAMES LIBRARY

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

He also wrote these clues on the back of the map: 1. An even number of squares marked X lie farther east than the treasure.

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

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

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

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

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

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FROM THE GAMES LIBRARY

This puzzle might seem a bit odd—not strange, mind you, just odd. Each illustration below represents a two-word phrase in which the irst word has seven letters and the second is composed of the four odd-numbered letters of the irst word, in order.

For example, given a picture of a ship sailing high in the water, the answer would be BUOYANT BOAT. We think these are pretty ANSWERS, PAGE 71 hard, but odds are you’ll get at least half.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY STEVE MELLOR

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QUOTE BOXES

BY JENNIFER OREHOWSKY

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

ANSWERS, PAGE 71

1. Vincent van Gogh

H I B U R Y I T H R S N I H E E O R A A H T F O T A M W T P A K E S G M K N O F E T O E N M T D W T A I Y M A Y S N G T S I N R T C T H E R

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BY CONCEPTIS LTD. www.conceptispuzzles.com

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

When adding bridges, you must follow these rules: 1. The number on each island tells you how many bridges are to be connected to that island.

2. There are at most two bridges between any pair of islands.

3. All bridges are placed horizontally or vertically.

4. A bridge never passes through an island.

5. Bridges do not intersect.

An example of a solved puzzle is shown at right.

The puzzles start out easy and get harder as you go.

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WORD SQUARES CRISSCROSS

BY RAYMOND YOUNG

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

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SQUATS START STRATA TIE-INS TROUTS UNLACE USING ZINNIA

WHAT LOOSE LIPS DO

BY RAYMOND YOUNG

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

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SEAMSTER

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JUSTICE SEAT

SEAN PENN

BERNICE

LOST AT SEA

SEAWARD

BLIND MICE

LOVE AFFAIR

SHIPSHAPE

CHELSEA LATELY

NICE JOB

SPACESHIP

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OLD CAIRO

TWICE A DAY

COMFY CHAIR

PAIR UP

VICE-ADMIRALSHIP

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PUT TO SEA

VOICE BOX

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REJOICE

VOLTAIRE

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RIME ICE

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•CHESS•

MAGNUS CARLSEN DEFENDS TATA STEEL MASTERS TITLE

F

or the second year in a row and the fifth time in his career, world chess champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway won the elite 14-player Tata Steel Masters chess tournament that was held in the Netherlands, mostly at Wijk aan Zee, in January. It was the 78th edition of this annual tournament, previously known under the names Corus and Hoogovens. Fourteen highly rated grandmasters took part, including the players ranked 1, 3, 5, and 10 through 13 in the world going into the event, as well as the highest-rated woman in the world, Hou Yifan.

Live commentary and interviews with players after some of their games were provided by four-time United States champion Yasser Seirawan at tatasteelchess.com.

Ongoing computer analysis by three of the best engines (Houdini, Komodo, and Stockfish) was available at chessdom.com.

As was the case last year, Carlsen started the tournament “carefully,” as he explained to Seirawan, drawing his first four games. He then won three games in a row to take the tournament lead—which he never relinquished, although he was only half a point ahead of Fabiano Caruana of the United States going into the final round.

Carlsen drew his last game to end up with 5 wins, 8 draws, and no losses, while Caruana lost his final game but still finished second on tiebreak over Ding Liren of China.

Wesley So of the United States finished fourth.

The youngest player,16-year-old Wei Yi of China, ended up with a very respectable 50 percent score. A true chess prodigy, Wei is notable for being the youngest player ever to achieve a rating of 2600, as well as being the youngest ever to reach 2700. He had qualified for the event by virtue of winning last year’s Tata Steel Challengers tournament.

This year’s Tata Steel Challengers event was won by Baskaran Adhiban of India, who thereby qualifies for next year’s Tata Steel Masters group. Adhiban, Alexey Dreev of Russia, and Eltaj Safarli of Azerbaijan each finished with a score of 9–4, but Adhiban had defeated both Dreev and Safarli during the tournament and so won on tiebreak.

Top players are attracted to this event year in and year out because of its prestigious nature, but there are also modest cash prizes. For the Masters group, prizes ranged from €10,000 for first place down to €500 for seventh, while the top seven Challengers group players earned from €2,000 to €200.

Wei’s only loss came at the hands of Caruana in the 10th round. Wei met Caruana’s Ruy Lopez with the Open Defense, characterized by the move 5. …Nxe5. Caruana’s

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10. Bc2 was a bit unusual, 10. Nbd2 being the most common move in that position. The turning point of the game may have been when Wei used more than 40 minutes to decide how to answer 11. h3. By move 20, he only had eight minutes left on his clock, plus the 30 seconds of additional time that is added to a player’s time after each move is made, to make his next 20 moves.

Wei probably erred with 17. …c6, when he could have played Nxc3 to keep the center closed. After 18. Bxe4, Black could hardly recapture with the f pawn, which would allow White to play a cramping f5 and e6. But after 18. …dxe4 19. d5, White seemed to have an initiative.

Computer engines preferred 19. …cxd5 and 20. …Qxc6 to the moves Wei played, but Caruana let some of his advantage slip when he played 23. Bc5 instead of Re1.

Wei’s bishop retreat 26. …Be8 hastened the end; better was 26. …Bxf5, though White would still have stood significantly better.

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

Bxb4 Bxb4 30. Rxc6 Re8 (Of course Rxc6?? would allow e8Q+) 31. f6 Rd4 32. Re6, and Black resigned. White can improve the position of his other rook at his leisure, such as by moving it to the g file, while Black’s rook on e8 cannot afford to move at all. Q —R. Wayne Schmittberger

FABIANO CARUANA VS. WEI YI TATA STEEL MASTERS, ROUND 10

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•CHESS•

FINAL STANDINGS Finish

Score

Title

Player

Country

Rating

World Rank

Age

1

9.0

GM

Magnus Carlsen

NOR

2844

1

25

2

8.0

GM

Fabiano Caruana

USA

2787

5

23

3

8.0

GM

Ding Liren

CHN

2766

12

23

4

7.0

GM

Wesley So

USA

2773

10

22

5

7.0

GM

Anish Giri

NED

2798

3

21

6

7.0

GM

Pavel Eljanov

UKR

2760

13

32

7

6.5

GM

Wei Yi

CHN

2706

37

16

8

6.5

GM

Shakhryar Mamedyarov

AZE

2747

19

30

9

6.0

GM

Sergey Karjakin

RUS

2769

11

26

10

5.5

GM

David Navara

CZE

2730

25

30

11

5.5

GM

Evgeny Tomashevsky

RUS

2728

26

28

12

5.0

GM

Hou Yifan

CHN

2673

68

21

13

5.0

GM

Michael Adams

ENG

2744

20

44

14

5.0

GM

Loek Van Wely

NED

2640

126

43

Note: Players with the same score are ranked according to a tiebreak formula. Ratings and world rank are based on FIDE ratings of January 2016.

TATA STEEL MASTERS, ROUND 10 White: Fabiano Caruana Black: Wei Yi 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5 Be6 9. c3 Be7 10. Bc2 Bg4 11. h3 Bh5 12. g4 Bg6 13. Nd4 Qd7 14. f4 Nxd4 15. cxd4 f5 16. Be3 O-O 17. Nc3 c6 18. Bxe4 dxe4 19. d5 b4 20. dxc6 Qxd1 21. Nxd1 Rfd8 22. Rc1 Rd3 23. Bc5 Bd8 24. e6 Rc8 25. e7 Ba5 26. gxf5 Be8 27.

Nf2 Rd5 28. Nxe4 Bxc6 (Diagram 1) 29. Bxb4 Bxb4 30. Rxc6 Re8 31. f6 Rd4 32. Re6 1-0

DING LIREN VS. MICHAEL ADAMS TATA STEEL MASTERS, ROUND 1

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Diagram 2: This position arose in the game between Ding Liren (White) and Michael Adams (Black). Black has just played 60. … Re4 and is threatening to play Rg4 mate. If White takes the rook with the knight, the result will be a draw by stalemate, since Black will then have no legal move. How did White win the game?

ANSWER, PAGE 74

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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

Give a joyful screech

Ape's home Weird

Consort of King Louis XVI

Chevy Spoil a subsecret compact

Holds Idiot the deed boxes to

Not uniform

Spinal column units

Whiteplumed birds

Seacoast

“Upon my word!”

Adam Bede novelist

Swiss resort lake

Metal reinery

Bit of rain

Jogging jersey

Perfect places

Loud, confused noise

Short operatic solo

Verdi opera

Related to base 8

Ancient length units

Crafty British queen

McEntire of country

Great fear

NYC-toMiami dir.

Stay

Cutting into cubes

Hills or Sills preceder Gotten up

Sufix with slug or song Goop in a hair salon

Moniker Pupil for Clara coverer Bow

Showing no change

Sound from a stallion

Takes from veterans

Awards show presider

Lofty poem

“Hello” singer of 2015

Busied oneself with

Beatty Yale of movies student's moniker

Rio __ (U.S. river)

Made a new knot in “As to the inal point...”

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The “S” of CBS: Abbr.

Boats that inlate

Imbue, as with lavor

Spinal column bases

18

Ragamufin

Found potential enrollees Ancient Roman historian

Metal in pewter

Lion lair Put new cables in

Kumar's partner in ilm

Cold Lipton offering

Goose, grebe, or grackle

Pegs on driving ranges

Believers Insanity- 1999 in false feigning horror gods reporter thriller

Scratchyvoiced

Madison Ave. worker

Fish that may be shocking

Put up, as a picture

It's under a car hood

Dogs from Wales Mai tai liquor

Brother or sister Smile

Online Eying investing lustfully site

Sitcom “Last Apple or Theorem” actress carrot matheSwenson waste matician

LP player of old Midleg joint Chums

Villain's little chuckle

Arctic people

Ford's 1950s iasco

Shabby and squalid

THE SPIRAL

BY FRANK LONGO

This puzzle turns in two directions. The Spiral’s Inward clues yield a sequence of words to be entered counterclockwise in the spaces from 1 to 100. The Outward clues yield a different set of words to be entered clockwise from 100 to 1.

Fill in the answers, one letter per space, according to the numbers beside the clues. Keep track of which way you’re going, and have many happy returns.

ANSWER, PAGE 72 1

2 3

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31

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INWARD Second-place winner’s token: 2 wds.

Part of the Czech Republic La Mafia’s kind of music Artistically ornate Trade votes, in the legislature Tarzan, for one: Hyph.

Not e’en a single time Congressional hearing airer: Hyph.

Mexican restaurant meal: 2 wds.

Dusting cloth Fly catcher, often Batting game for junior: 2 wds.

Active Sicilian volcano Wearisome working life: 2 wds.

Released from a training program, e.g.

20

45

42

13

46

66

41

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26

52

35

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OUTWARD HP competitor Novelist Sarah ___ Jewett Motorcycle attachment Rapid, whirling Italian folk dance Really flushed: Hyph.

Teen idol of the 1970s: 2 wds.

Iams competitor Catch a few Z’s Online forum handle: 2 wds.

White-as-a-ghost look Flip out: 2 wds.

Ring around the sun “I love you,” in Le Havre: 2 wds.

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DSZQUPHSBNT!

BY SHAWN KENNEDY

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

ANSWERS, PAGE 72

1. CRYPTOON 4. FRONT-PAGE NEWS W

MQR

V YAW T B

VE

YGSQA

KOMNUY AMDLOB KTYHYSTUO IHYCG DTD HG YUPGFHFUO

QT OYBGTV XGRRQBG ORWTB RXEHG “FGSN!

RWBTQSR. XA

WV

VGTV

MQR,

WR

ET

LWYG!”

OUFMOBUO QUSHLGU MK ZTG LY S H Y YA H Q T I T B A B M H I P H A G C U I T W U O B Z U G S M M F.

5. FLEXIBLE PLANS AWFJXN ZVE AXODXL AOH LSQKKA PK JXSKFX S K U P K N P W K U W L P. B O N X U P L QODX TWYYWSVAPE HNOBBWUZ PQXWN QXOTL ONKVUT PQX TXSWLWKU.

2. CAREFREE “HI” WAY “VTI IDIOAGXA SZEGEIUU ML

6. CENTS AND SENSIBILITY

VTI KXPS OMXGU HMOI VTXE

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CBD HDZPCNZI XSONSL DT

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VT VZRHBF VTYZGWV VZKO. TIPS AND CLUES

Cipher 1: VGTV doesn’t stand for THAT in this instance, although V Cipher 5: A three-letter suffix after a doubled letter in a long word is does represent T. likely to be -ING. Can you find it here?

Cipher 2: Three-letter word VTI appears four times, making it likely to Cipher 6: The letter H doesn’t stand for A or I in this instance. This be AND or THE. Since it starts a sentence, try THE. puzzle’s title should serve as an additional hint.

Cipher 3: Compare DT and DTT. Both are common prepositions.

Cipher 7: Vowels A, E, I, O, and U are represented by G, K, R, T, and Y, Cipher 4: In LYSHYYA, the letter A ends a longish word after a doubled in some order. letter, so it’s likely to represent Y.

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26 27 28 29 30 33 36 39 40 43 44 45 46 48 49 50 51 52 53 56 58 62 63 65

66 68 71 72 73 74 75 76

OF

EASE

ACROSS Tea holder Microwave, slangily Pinnacle “___ miracle!”: 2 wds.

Reuters rival, briefly Supermarket chain initials Weighty book Rock guitarist Lofgren State of bewilderment Three times, to a pharmacist Fail to enunciate ___ B’rith Sunshine State archipelago: 2 wds.

Jelly fruit That femme Cinch Cotton pod “See ya!”: Hyph.

Gym session Welcome arrival on a hot day: 2 wds.

French article Traveled astride: 2 wds.

Trade show Capitol Hill worker Defeatist’s motto: 2 wds.

R2-D2, for one Mary-Kate or Ashley Part of GAO: Abbr.

Cause for alarm?

Laundromat appliances Record label letters Pollen transporters Bookkeeper’s books Relic of the past Just Spent bullet ___ Reader (alternative magazine) Beatnik’s cap Take a nap: 3 wds.

When Hamlet sees his father’s ghost: 2 wds.

Hoodlum Musical gift Early 11th-century date Baseball Hall-of-Famer Aparicio Maine/New Hampshire river

BY BILLIE TRUITT

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3

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5

6

7

8

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10

11

15

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49

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58

62

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65

68

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82

DOWN 1 Smorgasbord 2 Historic Harlem theater 3 American ___ (Richard Gere movie) 4 Pasta tubes 5 Ripened 6 Sun screen, of a kind 7 Between ports: 2 wds.

8 Sea anemone, for one 9 They’ll never get off the ground 10 Gen-___ (Boomer’s kid) 11 Economical way to buy: 2 wds.

61

51

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

60

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12 Bob Denver’s ‘60s costar: 2 wds.

13 Czech or Serb 14 Polo’s destination 24 Something of little value: 2 wds.

25 Door opener 26 An Inconvenient Truth author 29 Clown of renown 31 Stolen goods 32 Long, long time 33 Shed tears 34 Reporting to 35 Most new drivers 37 Insurgent 38 Prefix for skeleton 40 Orion’s left foot 41 “___ All Ye Faithful”: 2 wds.

42 Red Sox slugger nicknamed “Big Papi”: 2 wds.

44 Flowering ground cover 46 Edges

ANSWER, PAGE 72

LIFE

47 Poet’s peeper 48 Best-selling cookie of the 20th century 50 Unbridled rage 51 Cub Scout group 53 Suspenders alternative 54 Schooling, for short 55 Egotist’s problem: 2 wds.

57 Stratified metamorphic rock 59 Back to speed, in music: 2 wds.

60 Opens, as a jacket 61 Dwell 63 Soy or duck 64 No. 2 at the statehouse: 2 wds.

66 Like Ziggy 67 Quito’s country: Abbr.

68 Coffeehouse tea 69 Room in a casa 70 Paris airport 72 Sound of rebuke

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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 15

18

31

34

17

38

19

22

12

20

35

13

16

26

24

39

27

33

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22

ACROSS It’s mixed and then poured Political pamphlets Thing with a routing number Take the wheel Unrelenting Spice found in a shaker or grinder Showy stuntman Nun’s duds Inspect Anaheim or poblano, e.g.

Insult Tilt Like an overestimate Without a layover Lifts weights, perhaps Crowd scene actor Additional

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Set on the ground Ensure, as a victory Popular ballpark snack Member of a herd on a ranch On a top shelf, say It can be hard to break Large parcels of land Without much fat

DOWN 1 Irish musical film that became a Broadway hit 2 Increasing in activity 3 Virus variations 4 Home to Coors Field 5 Mrs. Dalloway author Woolf 6 Juts out 7 Understand after much thinking

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8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Sailor’s measure of depth Sends a 140-character message Muscle ailments Biblical pronoun Ignored the doorbell State nicknamed “Old Dominion” Takes advantage of, as a right Creator of Professor Van Helsing A single time Sounds from small birds Major undertakings “Take Me Home, Country Roads” singer Taking hold of and lifting 10 Benjamins Ended a game of gin rummy Device that fuel’s a locomotive’s steambox

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 grid’s perimeter indicate the number of cells in the corresponding rows and columns that are occupied by vessels.

You’ll notice that some “shots” have been taken to start you off. These may show water (indicated by wavy lines), a complete sub (a circle), the bow or stern of a ship (a rounded-off square), or a midsection of a battleship or cruiser (a square). The puzzles get harder as you go. Can you reach the rank of admiral by locating all six fleets? ANSWERS, PAGE 73 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)

1–SEAMAN

3

0

1

0

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2

0

2–PETTY OFFICER

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2

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3

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2

4

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2

3

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3

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0

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1

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Battleship

Battleship

Cruisers

Cruisers

Cruisers

Destroyers

Destroyers

Destroyers

Submarines

Submarines

Submarines

4–CAPTAIN

5–COMMODORE

4

2

2

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1

6

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2

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Battleship

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Cruisers

Cruisers

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Destroyers

Destroyers

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Submarines

Submarines

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YOU’RE

ON A

ROLE!

BY CHRISTOPHER MAGAN

A WHITE HOUSE MOVIE MINI-CAPER

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

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

ANSWERS, PAGES 73 & 74

PRESIDENTIAL GRID NO.

LAST NAME

FIRST NAME

PARTY

NO.

LAST NAME

FIRST NAME

PARTY

1

WASHINGTON

George

Federalist

23

HARRISON

Benjamin

Republican

2

ADAMS

John

Federalist

24

CLEVELAND

Grover

Democrat

3

JEFFERSON

Thomas

Democrat-Republican

25

MCKINLEY

William

Republican

4

MADISON

James

Democrat-Republican

26

ROOSEVELT

Theodore

Republican

5

MONROE

James

Democrat-Republican

27

TAFT

William

Republican

6

ADAMS

John Quincy

Democrat-Republican

28

WILSON

Woodrow

Democrat

7

JACKSON

Andrew

Democrat

29

HARDING

Warren G.

Republican

8

VAN BUREN

Martin

Democrat

30

COOLIDGE

Calvin

Republican

9

HARRISON

William Henry

Whig

31

HOOVER

Herbert

Republican

10

TYLER

John

Whig

32

ROOSEVELT

Franklin D.

Democrat

11

POLK

James K.

Democrat

33

TRUMAN

Harry S.

Democrat

12

TAYLOR

Zachary

Whig

34

EISENHOWER

Dwight D.

Republican

13

FILLMORE

Millard

Whig

35

KENNEDY

John F.

Democrat

14

PIERCE

Franklin

Democrat

36

JOHNSON

Lyndon B.

Democrat

15

BUCHANAN

James

Democrat

37

NIXON

Richard

Republican

16

LINCOLN

Abraham

Republican

38

FORD

Gerald

Republican

17

JOHNSON

Andrew

Union

39

CARTER

Jimmy

Democrat

18

GRANT

Ulysses S.

Republican

40

REAGAN

Ronald

Republican

19

HAYES

Rutherford B.

Republican

41

BUSH

George H. W.

Republican

20

GARFIELD

James A.

Republican

42

CLINTON

Bill

Democrat

21

ARTHUR

Chester

Republican

43

BUSH

George W.

Republican

22

CLEVELAND

Grover

Democrat

44

OBAMA

Barack

Democrat

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

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

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Cross out any president whose last name has exactly two syllables

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

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

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

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

PUZZLE 1: THE TRY-FECTA Each of the 12 clues below has at least three correct answers that each have the same number of letters (indicated in brackets).

For example, three answers to the clue “First word of a two-word U.S. state [5]” would be NORTH, SOUTH, and RHODE. Your mission is to identify the three intended correct answers for each clue and enter them into the appropriate grid in such a way that the three highlighted columns in the grids spell out three correct responses to the Common Theme clue. An E in each grid has been filled in for you. Omit any spaces and punctuation.

TRUE CLUE letter #1 is the most commonly used letter in all three highlighted Common Theme columns.

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Planet in our solar system [7] Four-letter U.S. state [4] One of Santa’s reindeer [5] Color of the rainbow [6] First name of one of the six TV Friends [6] California major league baseball team [6] Number less than 15 [3] Base hit in baseball [6] Season of the year [6] One of the top 10 most populous cities in the U.S. [7] Sign of the Zodiac [5] One of the first four letters of the Greek alphabet [5]

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PUZZLE 2: ATTACK OF THE TLAs (OMG!) Each of the red boxes in the puzzle grid contains a three-letter acronym. All but one of these acronyms has two clue answers associated with it. For example, the acronym TLC could represent “Tender Loving Care” and “Tastes Like Chicken.” Note that only one of the acronyms has just one clue answer associated with it.

TRUE CLUE letter #2 is the first letter of the acronym that has only one clue answer associated with it.

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

2 U.S. state capital

18 Retail chain whose name includes an ampersand

3 Radar gun reading

19 New Mexico town named after a radio quiz show

4 Salty flavor enhancer

20 American college for aspiring chefs

5 Baseball pitcher’s statistic

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

6 2016 presidential contender

22 Site of a major nuclear accident in 1979

7 U.S. espionage organization

23 2013 Emma Thompson film about Mary Poppins

8 One way to cross the Hudson

24 Consumer complaint intermediary organization

9 “Here’s to a speedy recovery!”

25 Fad dolls “born” at Babyland General Hospital

10 One of two airliner “black boxes”

26 Proposed gender-parity Constitutional add-on

11 Award-winning Weeds actress

27 Site that provides long-term health care

12 Music-themed restaurant chain

28 Major League team with a bird logo

13 “Your oversharing is awkward”

29 Its only natural predator is the orca

14 Longest-serving U.S. president

30 41: A Portrait of My Father author

15 Hasbro’s colorful equestrian franchise

31 Famous arena atop Penn Station

16 Chapter list in the front of a book

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PUZZLE 3: WHITEOUT!

PUZZLE 4: REEL FUN

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

TRUE CLUE letter #3 can be found in the center square (highlighted in red) when the grid is completed correctly.

Below are three shaded “reels” that represent the titles of three 8-letter films. Using the randomly ordered clues provided, enter each film’s title in the correct reel (clockwise or counterclockwise, omitting any spaces).

When this is done correctly, the name of a nine-letter 1970s comedy—starring two relatives—will be revealed in the highlighted red row. A vowel in each of the three reel titles has been filled in for you.

TRUE CLUE letter #4 is the letter in the highlighted red row that comes last alphabetically.

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1952 Western for which Gary Cooper won his second Best Actor Academy Award 11

1973 “great escape” movie starring Steve McQueen 12

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1978 sequel-spawning blockbuster based on a DC Comics character 1 Four-legged comic strip character named after the cartoonist’s grandfather 1 Bestow

FINAL ANSWER

2 Kerrigan rival 2 Competitor of Dyson and Oreck 3 Name repeated in the makers of Band-Aids 3 Southern U.S. capital that sits atop an extinct volcano

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

4 1981 Dudley Moore comedy 5 Burton’s two-time divorcée 6 Boxer Attell or actor Vigoda 7 Surname of “The First Lady of the American Theatre” 8 Mr. Perry who created and portrays Madea in the movies 9 Tina’s “Proud Mary” collaborator

HOLLYWOOD INSIDER EXCLUSIVE!

10 ___ baby (galago) 11 “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” singer Rita 11 Largest city along Lake Erie 12 ___ apple (neck feature) 13 First word in the name of a shrimp-themed

Actor _________ _________ chosen to play first president in big-budget ”WASHINGTON: The Movie”

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TOUGH

DIAMONDS

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BY STEVE COUGHLAN

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

8 When solving, start with lines having high or low totals. Intersections are helpful, but so are 5 9 5 non-intersecting totals—there are fewer ways to 6 produce two totals if the same number cannot 3 2 1 6 appear in both lines. Keep in mind that the 20 20 numbers 1 through 9 add up to 45. You will 4 7 discover other solving techniques as you work 18 18 through the puzzles.

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QUINT-ESSENTIAL

BY DON HENDERSON

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

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

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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 toward—and if necessary, beyond—the next consecutive number. The first answer, ALTAR, has been entered in Helter-Skelter #1 as an example.

ANSWERS, PAGE 74

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Ran, as dye Jostled in jest Drops a line Great scholar ”___ Mr. Nice Guy!”: 2 wds.

Jeopardy! creator Griffin It’s often added to milk: 2 wds.

Kate’s sitcom friend Not nearly as cordial Carmaker Olds’s first name Caught in a trap More ghostly Hang around Plenty: 2 wds.

Lock of hair Where the beach crowd is at: 2 wds.

Olin who played Irina on Alias Leontyne Price solo Instead (of): 2 wds.

Anderson or Armstrong Make into law

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Volkswagen’s luxury brand Of standard quality: 3 wds.

Feast fit for a filly Deprive (of) Betrays, in a way: 2 wds.

Conical quarters Piano-practice piece Cass of The Mamas & the Papas ”Clock-wise” global section: 2 wds.

Conditionally free: 2 wds.

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As an alternative “Thing” word On its second owner Throw out Doubloon, e.g.

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LETTUR PERFEKT

BY STEPHEN SNIDERMAN

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

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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, B-RA-VER, has been filled in as an example.

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Tony Bennett hit with a city in its title: 7 wds.

Put on a detour Twist into a knot Giant ape of film, for short Gloomy donkey of kid-lit Elevating CD album’s ancestor: 2 wds.

Campbell of the Scream films Jan & Dean hit with a city in its title: 6 wds.

Part of a procedure The Jeffersons actress Sanford Soda bottle sizes Hamlet and King Lear, for two First-string athletic group: Hyph.

Yiddish writer Aleichem or Asch Grants entry to: 2 wds.

50 Dionne Warwick hit with a city in its title: 8 wds.

54 Earnest requests 55 Creators of detailed directories 56 Raised, as livestock 57 Small bag for scenting clothes 58 Picks in a classroom: 2 wds.

59 Dormant DOWN 1 One dumping water overboard 2 Pursued speedily: 2 wds.

3 Artistic realism, as in late 19th-century Italian opera 4 Uselessly old-fashioned: Hyph.

5 Earthy pigment 6 Making rigorous demands 7 Desperately Seeking Susan costar Arquette 8 Nurturing, protective, and kind 9 Giant of Greek myth 10 Points of convergence 11 Big name in food service products 16 Yellow-fleshed potato variety: 2 wds.

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21 Knight who sang with the Pips 23 At the location itself, as training: Hyph.

24 Library patron 25 At the very same time that: 2 wds.

26 Most limber 27 Move quickly and seemingly randomly 28 Part of a book’s front matter: 2 wds.

30 Factory-cut home 31 Establish a mutual connection between 34 Stays in hiding: 2 wds.

35 State trees of Florida and South Carolina 40 Deceitful 42 American Pie actress Hannigan 44 Concerning right and wrong 45 Genetics pioneer Gregor 47 TV’s teenage witch 48 Deliver with a hypodermic needle 49 Sharp decline 50 Groups’ senior members 51 Community service program 52 Newswoman Couric 53 People shining floors

• W H AT ' S H A P P E N I N G •

BY JASON ELMER What’s Happening: ANIMINNEAPOLIS

When: May 6–8, 2016 Where: Hyatt Regency Minneapolis; Minneapolis, MN Details: This con provides a safe and fun place to make friends with people who share similar interests. Anime fans will gather together for “three days of anime, video games, and music in Minneapolis.” You can cosplay (optional); attend concerts, dances, and contests; play video games; and shop for anime items.

Autograph sessions and entertaining panels will also be featured.

For more info: www.animinneapolis.com

What’s Happening: XCON

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

For more info: www.xconworld.info What’s Happening: GAME-O-RAMA When: May 26–30, 2016 Where: Atlanta Marriott Perimeter Center; Atlanta, GA Details: Get together with other enthusiasts to enjoy board and card games, miniatures, and RPGs. There will be tournaments, as well as opportunities to play certain games with their designers. Special events include a room devoted to the Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator, and a flea market where attendees can sell, buy, and trade games.

For more info: www.game-o-rama.com What’s Happening: NORFOLK ANIME EXPLOSION When: May 26–29, 2016 Where: Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel

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

For more info: www.norfolkanime.com What’s Happening: MOBICON XIX

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

For more info: www.mobicon.org What’s Happening: BGG.CON SPRING When: May 27–30, 2016 Where: Hyatt Regency DFW; DFW Airport, TX Details: Come and enjoy BGG. CON’s vast game library, where attendees can borrow games and try them out in the open gaming area. There are also special rooms where new games will be taught, as well as special events such as tournaments and puzzle hunts.

For more info: www.boardgamegeek.com/ wiki/page/BGGCON_Spring What’s Happening: KUBLACON

When: May 27–30, 2016 Where: Hyatt Regency SFO; Burlingame, CA Details: This “Khan of Cons” is the West Coast’s largest gaming convention, with a huge selection of board games, RPGs, CCGs, and more. Special programs for teens and younger players will be offered. Other events include miniatures painting, a flea market, and a dealers’ room.

For more info: www.kublacon.com

What’s Happening: STUNFEST 2016

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

For more info: www.stunfest.fr/english-informations What’s Happening: EVERGREEN TABLETOP EXPO When: May 27–29, 2016 Where: Greater Tacoma Convention Center; Tacoma, WA Details: Evergreen Tabletop Expo, or ETX, is the Pacific Northwest’s home for tabletop gaming; hence its slogan “A game for every player and a table for every game.” Attendees will enjoy guest appearances and organized gaming events. Game publishers will also be on hand to answer questions.

For more info: etxwa.com What’s Happening: GEEKWAY TO THE WEST When: May 19–22, 2016 Where: Westport Sheraton Chalet; St. Louis, MO Details: Geekway boasts “Four Days of Peace, Love, and Board Games!”

Attendees can visit the game library and participate in open gaming the whole time, or they may sample the scheduled and informal events. “Official” Geekway events include a Game Prototype Lab, Game Design Competition, daily door prizes, and a Game Market. One of the many perks that makes this con special is that every registered guest will take home a free game.

For more info: www.geekwaytothewest.com

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FAMILY GAME NIGHT ACROSS THE GLOBE

By Jonathan Schmalzbach Family game night, my favorite night of the month. Just me, my family, and my ‘jama pants.—Cory Matthews On the Disney Channel show Girl Meets World, family game night is a sacred monthly tradition. Dad Cory Matthews giddily looks forward to playing board games; his favorite, aptly, is called the Family Game.

Many of today’s adults grew up with a similar tradition in which board and card games would bring families together— when taunting and fighting weren’t tearing them apart.

Baby Boomers and Gen Xers alike fondly remember playing games like Chutes and Ladders, Candy Land, Parcheesi, and Trouble, which are long on luck but short on strategy. As they grew from kids to teens, their games became more sophisticated,

tactical, or knowledge-based. Today, bloggers write nostalgically about family time spent competing in such popular games as Monopoly, Scrabble, Connect Four, and Trivial Pursuit.

This gives rise to some interesting questions: Is family game night a global phenomenon, embraced by the rest of the world?

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

In search of answers, I conducted a spot survey of friends and family living around the globe and also did some research of my own. While not being able to stop in all countries, I did learn that many nations have an equivalent of game night. Plenty of American board games enjoy international popularity and, conversely, quite a few board games popular in the States have their roots abroad.

The Netherlands

India

According to my stepsister, Beth, who lives in Amsterdam with her Dutch husband, Marcel, family game night in the Netherlands includes many of the same board games played in the United States. Marcel grew up playing American games such as Rummikub, Scrabble, and Monopoly with his family. A more recent favorite, according to Beth, is Settlers of Catan, created by German game designer Klaus Teuber.

Speaking of Parcheesi, it is the national game of India, where it is known as Pachisi. According to 19th-century game historian Edward Falkener, the game dates back as early as 500 A.D. Pachisi is also called the Royal Game of India because royalty used servants of the royal household adorned in colored costumes as game pieces on large outdoor boards.

A traditional board is shaped like a symmetrical cross and players move pieces around the board based on a throw of cowrie shells. The name Pachisi derives from the Hindi word meaning “twenty-five,” which is the highest number that can be thrown with cowrie shells.

Other popular games originated in India, where they have been played for centuries. Chess, for instance, is believed to have originated in India in the sixth century. The game of Chutes and Ladders can be traced back to a game called Moksha Patam that originated in 13th-century India.

Moksha Patam was associated with traditional Hindu philosophy that contrasts karma and kama, or destiny and desire. Blogger Ruma Chakravarti writes that the original game squares were associated with virtues and vices. As she notes, “the 12th square was faith, the 51st square was reliability, [and] the 57th square was generosity.” These were the squares where the ladders

The website dutchcommunity.com confirms the popularity of the American classics but adds that “old-fashioned board games are still passionately played in Dutch living rooms up and down the country.” One popular game they point out is Mens Erger Je Niet, t which translates roughly as “Don’t get worked up, guys!” The game is Parcheesi-esque and is known for infuriating the players, as the cover of the game shown above suggests.

And just like in the States, munchies figure prominently in family game night here, where players indulge in such typical Dutch noshes as borrelnootjess (cocktail nuts), Hollandse kaasblokjess (Dutch cheese cubes), and bitterballen (deep-fried meatballs).

CLOTH PACHISI BOARD

and Ladders, and the board was adapted to reflect Victorian values. Victorian virtues included Penitence (8) and pity (54), whereas vices included depravity (64), pride (95), and unpunctuality (48).

Milton Bradley created a U.S. version called Chutes and Ladders in 1943. A playground setting replaced the snakes, which elicited negative reactions from children of that period, according to an article in The New York Times. In a particularly American twist, virtues and vices were nowhere to be seen.

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were found and one could move ahead faster.

Vices—including disobedience, arrogance, vulgarity, drunkenness, anger, greed, pride, and lust—were associated with other squares. “These were the squares where the snake waited with its mouth open,” Chakravarti writes. Note that the vices outnumber the virtues. Likely this was meant as a reminder that a path of good is much more difficult to tread than a path of sins.

Fortunately, the final square represented Nirvana or Moksha. The moral lesson of the game is that a person can attain salvation, or Moksha, through being virtuous. But if one does evil he will slide down the snakes and be reborn as a lower form of life.

In the 1890s, the British rechristened the game as Snakes CHUTES AND LADDERS

MOKSHA PATAM BOARD, 19th-CENTURY INDIA

Japan An ex-pat buddy of mine, Dave, moved to Japan to teach after graduating from college and never came back. His Japanese wife Sayuri remembers playing board games with her family such as Go and Othello. Likewise, many bloggers from Japan report playing Go, the ancient territory-acquisition game, with their families.

Sayuri also mentioned a traditional card game that people often play at New Year’s called Hanafuda. Literally translated, Hanafuda means “flower cards” in Japanese.

Its development was influenced by the arrival of Portuguese traders in Japan in the 16th century. Incredibly, Nintendo, one of the world’s most successful video game companies, was originally founded with the sole purpose of creating and printing Hanafuda cards. The company still produces TRADITIONAL HANAFUDA CARDS

DELIVER RAW MATERIALS TO FACTORIES, A SOVIET-ERA BOARD GAME

these cards today, mainly to honor its history.

Another friend, Kathie, who lived in Japan as a young adult, fondly recalls Uta-garuta, a card game based on the Hyakunin Isshu (100 waka poems by 100 poets). These 100 waka are very famous and widely studied in Japanese schools.

All waka poems have five lines. The last two lines appear on the cards facing players. When the reader starts reading the first three lines of the poem, players race to grab the card with the two lines that complete the poem.

According to Kathie, brainy kids in Japan play Uta-garuta, which she described as “kind of a nerdy, literary Name That Tune.”

Several Japanese bloggers mention playing Jinsei, which translates literally as “life game.” This is apt as it’s modeled on The Game of Life, an American favorite.

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The website BoardGameGeek describes Jinsei as Life with “an additional game board, the ‘Junior Stage’ board, which lays over top of the standard board and roulette spinner wheel.” The Junior Stage variant, which was made for children but can be played by anyone, has large, easy-to-read print and follows players from birth until they begin to look for their first job.

Russia When asked about games in Russia, my cousin Ella, who was born there, mentions Preferans, the country’s national card game. This trick-taking card game has been popular since the 1830s and is enjoyed by serious and casual players alike.

But Yelena, who posts for the Russian language blog “Transparent Language,” offers an interesting perspective on the differences between board games in the U.S. and her native country.

“Do you like playing board games?” she asks. “Let me tell you, board game fans in the U.S. are absolutely spoiled. Unlike Russia, in the U.S. there’s such a variety of board games there for all ages and for every taste.”

Growing up in Russia, Yelena remembers playing just a few classic board games such as chess, checkers, and dominoes. She recalls a more fun strategy game called Battle Ships, although

Africa The next stop on our tour of games from around the globe is Africa, the likely birthplace of mancala, one of the oldest games in the world, dating back thousands of years. Mancala boards have been found carved into the roofs of ancient Egyptian tombs in Luxor and Thebes.

A mancala board has holes arranged in either two or four rows. Small stones or seeds were used in earlier mancala sets; today, marbles are common. The name mancala literally means “to transfer” in Arabic, so the aim is to move your stones around so that you can capture more than your opponent. The game is played by both children and adults; many families report playing the game together in a family setting.

Anouk Zijlma, who writes for the website About Travel, grew up playing mancala, which is known as bao in Malawi.

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

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

most of the time she made do with hand-drawn “boards” in the backs of grid notebooks.

It does not appear that family game night was a popular tradition in Russia. Yelena writes that adults generally scorned game playing as a frivolous way of spending one’s leisure time.

This was not always the case. As Ross Wolfe writes in his blog “The Charnel-House,” comrades in the 1920s and 1930s could keep sharp fighting the forces of capitalism by playing revolutionary board games. A company called A.V. Kuklin issued “a whole batch of revolutionary boardgames, featuring such riveting class-conscious titles as Electrification, Revolution, Reds vs. Whites, and Maneuvers: A Game for Young Pioneers.” As he notes, drily, these were “games for the whole family, even though the family form of property-relations must eventually be abolished.”

To these Yelena adds board games from the same era that can be roughly translated as: Deliver Raw Materials to Factories, Lenin Is Walking to Smolny, and Chemical Warfare.

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

oware, ayo, omweso, enkeshui, or aweet. There are in fact more than 200 versions of this ‘count and capture’ game, played throughout Africa, all with slightly different rules.”

My friend Kathie, whom I mentioned earlier, also spent several years in Uganda, where mancala is called omweso.

“We played it with rocks or beans in the dirt because we usually didn’t have the wooden board,” she said. “We would dig 14 holes and play that way.”

So what did I learn from my informal survey of games around the world? At first glance, family game night appears to be a primarily American phenomenon, but families in other areas of the world often come together to enjoy their favorite board games, too. Of course, the Golden Age of board games predates the current video game era. Yet, board games continue to endure. Classics such as Monopoly, Sorry, and Clue are still big sellers, while newer games such as Taboo and Pie Face are making the top-10 lists. When I can pull my 10-year-old daughter Rose away from her video screens, she’ll play Rummikub or Uno—she even taught her folks mancala!

Mens Erger Je Niet, anyone? Q

19th-CENTURY MANCALA BOARD, BROOKLYN MUSEUM

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• YOUR

WORD AGAINST MINE: SCRABBLE HAPPENINGS, PUZZLES,

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1. FAQ ABOUT NORTH AMERICAN SCRABBLE CLUBS Can anyone come to Scrabble clubs or do you first have to be a member of NASPA (North American Scrabble Players Association)?

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

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

What else should a new player know before attending?

It’s helpful to know the basics, like the rules of the game and rules of challenging opponents’ words. But again, club What is it like at a Scrabble club?

In general, clubs are very welcoming to veterans will be happy to teach you what

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

If I already can beat my family and friends regularly, should I skip club and go right to tournament play?

You certainly could, but I’d recommend at least one or two club sessions just to get the feel of organized play and playing on a clock.

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

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

Scott Appel has been playing tournament Scrabble for nearly 20 years. He’ll be at several tournaments this year, including the North American Scrabble Championship (in Fort Wayne, Indiana, starting on August 6). See www.cross-tables.com for more info regarding all upcoming tournaments.

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BY SCOTT APPEL

3. HOOKS AND EXTENSIONS AND PARALLELS, OH MY! In Scrabble, there are four types of plays you can make on any given turn. Here is a description and example of each: Board 1: WIG is on the board, play MIGHT through the G. This is called playing perpendicular to a word. This is the style of play newer players generally find easiest to see.

Board 3: WIG is on the board, play KENO under WIG, forming WE/IN/GO as well. This is called playing parallel to a word.

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

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

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•THIS OLD GAME•

BY JONATHAN SCHMALZBACH

SHENANIGANS

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ome one, come all. Step right up to play Shenanigans, the ‘Carnival of Fun Game.’

Would you like your palm read? Visit the snake charmer—if you dare. Step right up!”

The 1964 board game Shenanigans looks like a colorful carnival and features several midway-type games. The board has a third dimension—a cardboard wall— that shows the games, several of which have definitive ’60s-sounding names such as Bowlaganza and Balloono.

The object of the game is to collect the most Shenaniganzas (Shenanigans money) while traveling through the “carnival”— that is, moving along the board the number of squares indicated by the roll of a die.

Milton Bradley produced the board game, which was based on an ABC TV show called Shenanigans. On the show, children played a life-size version of the game.

Hosted by Broadway mainstay Stubby Kaye, the TV game show had a boardwalk-meets-carnival vibe. There was a haunted house, Skee-Ball, and Pie in the Eye, where contestants threw a pie into a big plastic eye that would open and close. It had to be timed just right to get it into the hole, which was the eye’s pupil.

It also featured the prototype for the classic board game Operation, where a kid had to pull a bone out of a life-size model.

Pie in the Eye and Bowlaganza are two games that made it into the board game. Pie in the Eye is a tiddlywinks variant where the challenge is to flip a tiddlywink through a hole in the wall.

Players are awarded $50 Shenaniganzas for each successful shot.

Bowlaganza also requires some skill. Here, a player bowls marbles into a cutout and, depending on where they land, is awarded Shenaniganzas.

The rest of the games are solely luck-oriented. In Dog House, for instance, a player has to guess whether the drawn card is a cat, dog, or cow, by imitating its voice with a meow, bowwow, or moo. Get it right, and add to your Shenaniganzas. In Balloono and Hold Everything, players draw a card with an amount of Shenaniganzas on it. Players can continue drawing—but if they draw a losing card, they suffer a penalty. You can really rack up the Shenaniganzas in these games!

However, in Guess the Weight, a player essentially has a onein-six chance of guessing correctly. With only a $50 Shenaniganzas reward for guessing right, the payoff seems a little paltry.

The player who finishes first gets a bonus of $50 Shenaniganzas, and whoever has the most money wins.

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

It’s recommended for ages 5 to 12, but most kids today would likely find the game a little slow and silly. My 10-year-old wanted nothing to do with it. Nostalgic adults on the other hand—particularly those who watched the TV show— may get a kick out of playing.

As Stubby Kaye sang in the TV show theme, “Shenanigans— have some fun and play Shenanigans…” Q This Old Game is a new feature by GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES contributor and board game collector Jonathan Schmalzbach. Each column will profile a game from his collection.

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•LOGIC•

BY DENNIS SHASHA

MINMOVES PUZZLES

WARMUP Below is the starting arrangement. Use at most two moves to get to a sorted order.

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n MinMoves puzzles you are given a set of chairs around a table with a person whose name begins with the letter shown. You want to rearrange the people in the chairs to be sorted in alphabetical order in a clockwise fashion, with one empty chair just to the left of the person whose name begins with A. For this month’s puzzle, in each move, you are allowed to move a person from one chair to an empty chair three away in either direction. The goal is to minimize the number of moves. Q ANSWER, PAGE 75

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Dennis Shasha is a professor of computer science at New York University’s 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. Dobb’s Journal. may 2016 | GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES

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• W I L D CA R D S • LOGIC SPORTING COMPANIONS Fred had invited three friends to his home for an afternoon of games. At one point in the afternoon the following lively conversation took place:

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

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

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

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Mr. Beacham: In golf, the chef beats me but I beat Jim. The engineer: Yes—and you, Mr. Beacham, beat me in tennis, where I beat Karl.

Karl: True, I can beat the engineer only in golf, not in tennis. However, Mr. Harkness beats me in golf.

Jim: Mr. Harkness beats me in tennis, where I beat the lawyer.

Irv: In tennis I beat Mr. Dodge, but I lose to the accountant.

Mr. Grant: Well, I beat the accountant at golf, where I lose to you, Irv. From the information imparted above, can you identify all the men by full name and occupation, and tell their relative skills in both games?

—JOSEPH APPEL

—PAUL R. MCCLENON

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

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

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1. Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Honolulu 2. Bangkok, Manila, Mumbai 3. Bogota, Kuala Lumpur, Monrovia 4. Brisbane, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro 5. Cape Town, Santiago, Sydney 6. Casablanca, Tehran, Tokyo 7. Darwin, Harare, Lima 8. Dublin, Edmonton, Moscow 9. Fairbanks, Helsinki, Reykjavik 10. Hobart, Puerto Montt (Chile), Wellington 11. Jakarta, Nairobi, Recife 12. Montreal, Paris, Rome —PADDY SMITH ANSWERS, PAGE 76

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• W I L D CA R D S • ODDS & ENDS MATCH GAME Each item in the first list below (1–12) can be paired with one of the items in the second list (a–l) according to a particular criterion that is the same for all 12 pairs. Can you determine the criterion and match up the items?

1. 61st minute of a football game 2. Climate control device in a house or car 3. Common college degree 4. First-year MLB player 5. Gibraltar or Hormuz, e.g.

6. Jessica Jones’s occupation 7. One-eighth of a gallon 8. One of the eight main compass directions 9. Speed of light 10. Strikeout 11. What a general is to a colonel 12. What Cheerios or Wheaties is to General Mills a. Chemical element number 19, used in many fertilizers b. Chess piece often resembling a castle c. Cornhusker State d. Easy or Wall, e.g. e. Football lineman between the guards f. Form of electric power delivered to residences g. Group that includes Luzon and Mindanao h. Longer portion of the King James Bible i. Practice based on ancient Hindu texts and involving mantras j. Ted Williams’s was .406 in 1941 k. Type of employee who works only two days a week l. What Orange or Alameda is in California —R. WAYNE SCHMITTBERGER

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

This month Aunt Hildegarde likes to dress in STRIPES, not in POLKA DOTS. She’s wearing SHOES, but not SOCKS. She enjoys WHIST, but not BRIDGE. She goes to the RACES, but she doesn’t like HORSES. She’s taken up POTTERY, and she’s given up KNITTING. She’s fond of her new pet HYENA, but she’s lost interest in her PARROT. She likes TRUTH but not LIES. She likes an ORANGE but not an APPLE. She’ll get DRUNK but not SMASHED. She plans to vacation in ATHENS, even though she hates GREECE. —DAVID DIEFENDORF

•CONTEST•

NEW ROLE-PLAYING CONNECTIONS

By R. Wayne Schmittberger

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his edition of our Role Playing contest, found most recently in the February 2016 issue, comes with two new twists. As usual, each orange square in the diagram represents a film and each yellow circle represents an actor, who may be male or female. None of the films are shorts or documentaries, but some may have been shown only at film festivals. None of them were released prior to 1990.

As in previous Role Playing contests, a line may connect an actor to a film, indicating that the actor had a role in that film. But—here are the twists—a line may also connect two films, indicating that they had the same director, or two actors, indicating that the actors are either siblings or are parent and child.

The numbers in each circle indicate how many letters are in the first and last names of the actor, while the numbers in each square tell you the number of letters in each word of the film’s title, in order. Punctuation in titles has been omitted, and hyphenated words are treated as separate words (i.e., the hyphen is replaced by a space). For example, “6,5” in a circle indicates an actor with a six-letter first name and a five-letter last name, while “3,8” in a square indicates a two-word title with three letters in the first word and eight letters in the second word.

The nine circles and squares near the center of the diagram have question marks instead of enumerations. The object of the contest is to determine what four films and five actors or actresses are represented by these question marks.

To enter, send your nine answers (in any order) to: New Role-Playing Connections Contest, GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES, P.O. Box 184, Fort Washington, PA 19034.

Entries must be received by May 31, 2016.

You may enter as many times as you like, but each entry must be mailed separately.

The winner will be chosen by random draw from among the correct entries—or, if necessary, from among the entries with the most correct answers. Q

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n this contest, you were presented with a grid that, when correctly decoded, contained a set of seven items reading across and down in the white squares. The two shaded columns named the category to which all the other items belong. We replaced each letter of the alphabet with a number.

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Oops! Our judges regret to report that we made an error regarding a runner-up entry in August’s Initial Definitions contest, the results of which appeared in the February 2016 issue.

The entry in question didn’t quite follow the contest rules: Instead of using the four chosen letters (A, E, G, S) to begin each of the four words to be defined, the entry used the G three times and the S once, thereby violating the rules.

What can we say? We momentarily lost our heads—all of the judges were amused by this entry and missed the fact that it fudged the rules a bit.

The results of the contest will stand, but our editorial staff will renew its efforts to review contest entries more scrupulously in the future. Q

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•ELECTRONIC GAMEVIEWS• PUZZLE THE ROOM THREE FIREPROOF GAMES IOS: $5 AGE RANGE: 9+ PLAY TIME: 3 HOURS -----------------------------------------------------------------------s The Room series has developed, it’s also become oddly conventional. That’s not a bad thing, because what’s there is still very good. But the tight focus of the original has been diffused over two iterations until the game is now merely a skilled variation of other puzzle adventures, albeit with some of the more appealing core mechanics of the first game.

That first game was dazzling, but it’s easy to see how its structure could be limiting for a game designer.

The original Room gave the player nothing but a box on a table. This particular box could be explored from different angles, and its faces

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were masterpieces of mechanical puzzling. As each face was unlocked, the box opened like a flower, revealing layer upon layer of mystery without ever directing the gamer beyond the box itself. The puzzles were fresh and interesting, and the entire experience was unique.

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

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

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

Good choice for fans of: Myst

Boston, Massachusetts, now simply referred to as The Commonwealth. It remains faithful to its predecessors, combining narrative roleplaying with first-person combat and plenty of customization options. Various gameplay mechanics have been added, the most notable being a settlement creation system. Players can scavenge materials during their travels, then later use those materials to create settlements among the ruins.

These outposts slowly evolve into small towns completely under the player’s control.

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

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

The game takes you through monster-riddled subways, irradiated deserts, and ruined city streets, each offering its own deadly hazard. Along the way, players develop a personalized store of weapons.

Some equipment is found naturally, while other items require the completion of side quests.

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

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

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

—THOMAS L. MCDONALD

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Fallout 4 improves upon its predecessors, providing more variety in both play style and narrative than either of the prior Fallout games.

The open world allows for nearly limitless exploration, while the branching narrative allows gamers to replay its main story several times for new experiences. One of the most eagerly anticipated games of 2015, it lives up to the hype and is an excellent addition to the franchise. Q

—BRENDAN R. MCDONALD

OVERALL RATING

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•TRADITIONAL GAMEVIEWS•

BY THOMAS L. MCDONALD CATEGORY: SET COLLECTION HENGIST PUBLISHER: MAYFAIR/LOOKOUT PRICE: $28 AGES: 7+ PLAYERS: 2 PLAY TIME: 20 MIN. -----------------------------------------------------------------------we Rosenberg has designed some of the best games on the market, including Agricola, Le Havre, and Bohnanza.

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

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

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CATEGORY: DECK-BUILDING FLIP CITY PUBLISHER: TASTY MINSTREL GAMES PRICE: $20 AGES: 8+ PLAYERS: 1–4 PLAY TIME: 30–50 MIN. -----------------------------------------------------------------------ake the mechanics of Dominion, a dash of SimCity, compress it into a tight little package, and you get Flip City, a cardflipping, deck-building, city-making game designed

by Chen Zhifan and translated into English by Tasty Minstrel Games. TMG bills it as a “deceptively simple microdeckbuilder,” which is an apt description.

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

Players begin with a small

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

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

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

When an explorer card is played, the boat moves.

Each six moves it sails off the

Good choice for fans of: Patchwork

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

for that round.

The goal is to play enough buildings with enough coin values to buy better cards from the general supply.

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

Good choice for fans of: Dominion

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

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

OVERALL RATING

C

filling a deck with more valuable cards.

Money can be spent to buy cards or flip them. Flip sides offer different buildings, values, and abilities.

For example, flip a convenience store (which gives you 1 coin) to turn it into a shopping mall (which gives you 2 coins and a victory point).

Victory is achieved by playing 8 victory points or 18 cards plus one convenience store in a single turn.

As decks grow and cards are flipped, these both become valid victory conditions.

Flip City is a tight, entertaining, well-designed game that plays best with two people or using a single-player variant. Although its simplicity is part of its appeal, it would benefit from greater card variety, so let’s hope it becomes successful enough for TMG to put out add-on sets. Q

OVERALL RATING

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•GAME ON!•

BY RAYMOND SIMON

Off the Bookshelf: Game Play Paul Booth can thank his parents.

Their subscription to GAMES magazine instilled in him an early love of games.

He still regularly plays board games; Dead of Winter and Eldritch Horror are two current faves.

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

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

board games overlap and interconnect.

It’s also quite sophisticated. For example, when Battlestar Galactica fans gather to play the board game based on it, they bring their prior knowledge of the original series, its reboot, and the prequel, as well as an emotional attachment to its characters. And complex game mechanics enable them, in a sense, to “author” their own scripts and “perform” meaning in their gameplay.

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

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

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

Three Moves Ahead Game lovers who don’t like leaving anything to chance will appreciate ”Three Moves Ahead,” a weekly podcast focusing on strategy and war games.

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

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

since. New episodes are posted each Wednesday and last roughly 60 minutes, although they are occasionally longer.

Topics run the gamut from old favorites like Sid Meier’s Civilization IV to more recent titles like Endless Legend, Amplitude Studios’ turn-based, 4X game.

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

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

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

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

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

Jolly Rancher Slime Rancher, icky title notwithstanding, is totally adorbs! Seriously.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE PLUS

BY RAYMOND YOUNG

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

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Common vipers Actor Morales Fantasy role-playing game, for short: 3 wds.

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Group of trained leaders Chilean chain Buddhist doctrine of Tibet and Mongolia Paté ingredient

Skipper I Went astray Mosquito-eating bugs Unfavorable J Front of a plane Completed in every way: 3 wds.

Congregant’s response K Yucky quality Timetable abbr.

Big name in bananas L Menu section One giving the cold shoulder U-Haul competitor M Like the smell of burning plastic N Rodeo shout: Hyph.

O ___ Gardens (theme park in answer Q) P Quilters’ cases Q St. Petersburg neighbor R Yawning gap S Must: 2 wds.

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500 RUMMY

BY PAM WYLDER

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.

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x Example In the puzzle at right the word HASTILY forms a Word Rummy hand. The cA 2A sA 1A are a sequence with the letters H-A-S-T; the c2 3 4 are a set with the letters I-L-Y; The cards used have values of 1 1 1 1 2 3 4, for a total of 13 points.

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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 you’re done, read down the list of answers; their initial letters will spell the author’s name and the source of the quotation.

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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. What’s 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 One of two wives on The Flintstones... ...and the other 6 Aristotle from Greece 1971 title track by the Doors: 2 wds.

13 Love Story Oscar nominee Yale who endowed Yale 14 Aggressive little stinger: 2 wds.

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37 Edifice projection Sweetly, in music 38 Pose to propose Villainous look 40 Evening, informally “Woe ___ you!”

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1

BY ADAM FROMM

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

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

ANSWERS, PAGE 78

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2

3

4

9

5

6

7

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10

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20 21

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

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

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

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

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

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2

BY PAM WYLDER inside PANTS, so it might be clued as Hospital residents make knots in trousers.

Hidden answers: The answer may appear intact, albeit camouflaged, in the clue. Example: Myopic colonel clutches flute for PICCOLO (myopic colonel).

Homophones: A word that sounds like the answer indicated by use of a giveaway phrase such as “We hear” or “as they say.” Example: Counted frozen chicken out loud for NUMBERED (“numb bird”).

Reversals: A synonym for “backward” or “overturn” in a clue may indicate a reversal, as in Returned beer fit for a king (LAGER reversed) for REGAL. Double definitions: This type of clue has no wordplay half; instead, it has two definition halves.

Example: Scooter was blue for MOPED. ANSWERS, PAGE 78

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

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25

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

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

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

26 Buggy got ruined taking the back roads (9) 27 Monica to Joey, “Chandler ultimately is possessed by Satan” (6) 28 Bit of lanolin in Tegrin straightened curly hair (7) DOWN 1 Complaints of rambling sermon leading to stupors (13) 2 Ill-tempered character heading to Vegas in westbound Fury (7) 3 Hospital located in pleasing, suitable place (5) 4 Error by lawmen switching last two reports (7) 5 Dad holds a search for a fighter who’s easily beatable (7) 6 He delivers telegrams, military rations, and green bananas (9) 7 Italian wine in China?

It bombed (7) 10 Try age-old path: when smitten, act indifferent (4,4,2,3) 14 Cities plan a development having open space for walking (9) 17 Written account upset engaging university theater company member (7) 18 Fearfully expected poor grade and studied the Iliad, finally (7) 19 Short, light tapping sounds strike, as raindrops do (7) 21 Some houses are built on this island, almost all for a particular purpose (7) 24 Fervidly shake church vessel (5)

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

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

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

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

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

Soon, the U.S. team will be running its annual online qualifying tests to select members for the 2016 teams, to travel to Slovakia in October for the 11th World Sudoku Championship and 25th World Puzzle Championship. Please visit our website, wpc.puzzles.com, for more information on timing and registration for these events. Even casual solvers will enjoy taking the tests and seeing how they stack up against some of the world’s top solvers! —Nick Baxter, Captain, U.S. Puzzle Team ANSWERS, PAGE 79

CONTESTANTS AWAIT THE START OF THE TEAM DOMINO ROUND

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

EXAMPLE

2 1

1

1

1

2

2

3

1

1

2

2

S

4

1

1

1

2

2

3

1

1

2

2

S

F

F

2 1

2 3

2 3

2 1

2 1

4 1

4 1

1

1

5

5

2 1

2 1

2 1

2 1

4

3 2

S

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2

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3

1

5

1

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2

F

2 2 2 2 2 2 3 1 4 2 2 2 2 2 2

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

EXAMPLE

3 2

2

4

4 3

4 3

3

3

4

4

4

4

4

3 2

2

4 3 7 2 1

7 6 5

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5

5

4

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

EXAMPLE

♠ A

♦

♣ A

♠

A

♣

K

K

♠

A

♦ K

♣

♥ ♠

♥

♦ ♦ ♥ K ♠♣ ♣♥ ♦ A

♠

K

♥

Q

♥

K

Q

Q

♠ ♥ ♦ ♠ Q A K ♠ Q ♣

Q

A

♣

Q

K

♥

A

♦

A

Q

A

♠ ♥ ♦ ♠ Q A K ♠ Q ♣

K Q A

K

♣ A Q

K

A

A Q

♠

♣♥♣♦ A ♥ ♦ K

♥ ♠♣ ♣♥ ♦ A

Q

K

♣ A

♦ ♦ ♦

Q

♠

A Q

K A

Q Q K

♦

♠♣ Q

A Q K

Q

K

♥ ♠

♥

K

Q Q K

♥

♦

K A

♠♣

♣♥♣♦ A ♥ ♦ K K Q A

K

♣♠ ♠ K A

♥ K ♥♥ ♦ Q ♦♣ ♦ Q

K K

♠ A

A

♣ ♠ ♦ ♥ ♠ K A A

K K

♦ ♥ ♣♣ ♣

Q Q

♥ ♦ ♠ A Q ♠ A

A

A

♠

Q Q K

A

A

K

A

K

♥ K

♦

♣ Q

♥

♦

♣

♠ Q

♦

♣

Q

♥ Q

K

Q

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GAPPED KAKURO Place the digits from 1 to 9 into some white cells. Digits cannot repeat in continuous vertical or horizontal blocks of white cells.

The sum of the digits in these blocks are given to the left or above the block. Empty cells cannot share an edge.

EXAMPLE 13

8

6

6

7

13

8 36

36

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2

3 12

8

7

6

8 11 14

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6

13

1

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16 14

4

4

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23

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43

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27

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22

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2

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11 17

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3 3

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10

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4 6

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

EXAMPLE: 5:5 set, two missing dominoes

1 4

5 4

3 1

1 2 1 4

4 2

3 0

1 1 4 4 4 0 0 2

3 0 0 4 1 1 1 2

3 4 0 2 2 0 1 5

3 1 0 5 0 0 4 5

5 5 5 5 3 3 4 1

2 4 0 3 3 1 4 2

3 4 2 2 1 1 1 2

3 1 1 5 5 5 0 2

3 2 2 2 3 3 0 2

5 5 0 0 4 4 5 5

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PLAYING

THE

HALF-DOZENS

BY BOB STIGGER

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

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

ANSWERS, PAGE 78

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B C

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F

A. Precipitates of iron compounds set back Farmer Wood, we hear B. Talent of a sort, bagging one buck outside the French POW camp C. A bright teaching assistant rejected barbarian war and changed country D. A corrupt person with a pipe circling second-rate gym outside of older Iowa city E. Sir Brad’s called revenue enhancement critic, the leader of Democrats, “in nouveau riche’s thrall” F. Getting hot, Woods triples score—Cobb’s getting passed 1. Taunts Oakland players wearing shirts perfectly describing politically correct Hanna-Barbera feline 2. “Babe Ruth’s right before slugger Mel? That is a big laugh, eh? Ha!” we exploded 3. Household-hint lady loses head for resident of Plaza Hotel property occupying prettiest atelier 4. Judge, annoyed with incarcerated basketball great Rivers, grabs rod 5. Recently damaged tire is stored in empty office; tire on convertible is set right 6. Lindy’s behind first annual test pilot assembly, extremely enthusiastic 7. Sawbones’s ignoring operating hazards associated with electricity: a group of small entangled tubes 8. Novelist George Gold carefully edited Huron’s Flood 9. Weird, if rare and better-looking, groom-to-be worked in cafe 10. Geriatric oracle’s last dramatic words recalled understated text appearing in foreign film Losing It 11. Lodge avoided pronounced draft running through office, a genuinely glacial period 12. Persian king photocopies, tosses out adults-only collection, keeping sixth of Hustlers for gift-giving occasions

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PENTOMINOES: A VARIETY CRYPTIC

BY MIKE SHENK

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

ANSWERS, PAGE 78

A B C

1

D E

2 3

F

4

G

H

5 6

I

J

7

K L

8 9 10

ACROSS 1 Group of squares ultimately reveals answer 2 Rent out rather wide dish 3 Look into “horses around” as phrase 4 Porter is taken in by explosive gift 5 Mailed about 100 introductory sample colognes 6 Reston mistaken for wise old man 7 Flower shows among Gaza leafage 8 Coma is strange hodgepodge 9 Central Avenue drain is undamaged 10 Blushing bears are bred

DOWN A Resting place for bottom of ball bearing B Lake rises in European land C Lion circling colonist’s shack D Chopped cedar and stepped on it?

E The last undivided district F Wriggling eel can weave in and out G Lounges about alleys H Wraps bottom of one’s feet around tightrope’s surface I Sat around with a dog in the movies J Upset about male caller K After 10:00, holy man spun big tops L College fellow has right to be critical

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

PENTOMINOES Initially cultists rush to sect Time gets unsound tips Music for nine or ten running around Wildly declaims, “The General’s beheaded” Heated one degree Drive cattle Capone hiding in Junior’s Boutique 100 tens changed into coins Saw wood, tin, and copper, perhaps Electrify a network Ending of love story turned to delight Dog’s final rule, when ordered, “Mush”

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PAINT

BY

PAIRS

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

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

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

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

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

ANSWERS, PAGE 80

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7 6

2 2 1

6 5

7

7

7

2 2 1

6 6 5

3 1 3 2 2 3 2 1 3 5 3 1 3 2 2 4 2 2 4 6 1 3 3 6 2

2 1

1 2

7

2 2 1

6 6 5

3 1 3 2 2 3 2 1 3 5 3 1 3 2 2 4 2 2 4 3 3 6 1 6 2

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1 5 4 4

3 1 3 2 2 3 2 2 3 1 3 1 3 2 2 2 2

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1 2

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3

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1 3

4 1 16 2 2

1 14 1 2 14 2 4 4 2 2 1 4 4

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4

14 4 4

11 6 14 6

6

2 3 1 2 2 1 12 10 2 10 2 16 2 2 5 4 5 2 2 2 2 9 4 8 4 6 3 12 3 12 3 6 12 2 2 6 12

7

1

7

4

13 6

2 4 2 2

12 7 14

7

13

5 3

6

12

2 1 2 2 2 1 3 5 12 3 1 1 2 2 8 6 8 4 14 2 2 2 2 3 6 1 9 2 2 5 9 8 3 3 3 8 3 8 8

3

2 7 2 7

❷ 7 6

6 6

7 7 6

4 4 9

5

5 4

3 4 3

7

5

1 3

8 7 10

7 1 2 2

3 2 2 1

3

4 9

1 8 7

4 1 4 1

4

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7

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3 3 12

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2 2 1

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3

3 3 5 4 2 1 2 2 5 2 2 5

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3 1

2 2 4 2 2

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5

17 7

17 4 4

6

3 8

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2 2 4

6

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3 2 2 4 4 3 4 4 1 15 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 3 5 2 2 1 2 16 3 3 2 2 2 9 17 3 6 3 4 6 3 6 4 3 4 16 10 3 3 2 2 6 16 4 8 9 8 5 4 3 4 9 3 1 9 6 3 3 2 6 4 15 15 2 1 2 5 5 1 2 3 5 3 18 5 2 2 2 10 4 4 2 2 4 6 4 4 6 4 6 6 6 3 1 17 3 2 6 10 1 8 2 2 1 4 16 1 4 17 1 2 3 4 2 3 4 8 17 2 3 3 1 4 4 1 3 4 16 1 16 3 5 6 6 5 12 1 3 3 6 4 6 4 4 10 17 16 3 2 1 4 4 5 6 17 5 1 4 16 5 2 5 3 4 4 5 18 6 2 4 3 3 3 2 1 4 1 7 2 2 3 3 6 6 7 2 7 2 17 6 19 7 6 18 2 2 10 6 2 2 2 2 2 2

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2 2

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2 2 6 3 4 6 3 5 10 8 6 3 3 5 8 7 4 5 10 4 10

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10

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5

10

5

6 6

3

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1 6

3

3

5

3

2 2

3

3

3

1

3

2 2

1

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7 3

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FAMILY REUNIONS

BY REGIS MODESTA

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

ANSWERS, PAGE 80

FAMILY ONE

FAMILY TWO

Category:

_______________________

Category:

_______________________

1. JOG

_______________________

1. DAME

_______________________

2. SMIRK

_______________________

2. PROSE

_______________________

3. UNCLE

_______________________

3. SCOURS

_______________________

4. CHASES

_______________________

4. SEPTUM

_______________________

5. ROSARY

_______________________

5. WAITER

_______________________

6. BOLTHOLE

_______________________

6. CHIEFER

_______________________

7. WARTIEST

_______________________

7. MUFFING

_______________________

8. BARBICELS

_______________________

8. UNDERAGE

_______________________

9. PRECHECKS

_______________________

9. DESINENCE

_______________________

10. TETRAGONS _______________________

10. INUNDATING _______________________

FAMILY THREE

FAMILY FOUR

Category:

_______________________

Category:

_______________________

1. WEIRD

_______________________

1. OGRE

_______________________

2. CRAFTY

_______________________

2. BALSA

_______________________

3. FLOWER

_______________________

3. SHANK

_______________________

4. PAUSED

_______________________

4. SLEDGE

_______________________

5. BINDERY

_______________________

5. ROOSTED

_______________________

6. PHLOEMS

_______________________

6. UNHOODS

_______________________

7. PORTICO

_______________________

7. UNSMART

_______________________

8. SAMPLER

_______________________

8. MARBLIER

_______________________

9. CLUBROOM _______________________

9. OPTICIAN

_______________________

10. LEAFWORM _______________________

10. TRACKPAD

_______________________

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WORDSPAIR

The World's Most Ornery Crossword

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

ANSWERS, PAGE 80 EXAMPLE ALTERNATIVE VOLUNTEER

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BY JOEL NANNI CLUE STEW The crossword on this and the next two pages has two independent sets of clues: "Hard" and "Easy." First, fold the page back on the dashed line so the clues below face the solving grid on page 69. If you use only the Hard Clues (appearing below and continuing under the grid), you'll ind the puzzle uncommonly challenging. If you want help, or prefer a less severe challenge, open to the Easy Clues (tucked in beneath your fold on page 68).

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THE WORLD’S MOST ORNERY CROSSWORD (CONTINUED) Easy Clues DON’T PEEK UNTIL YOU READ PAGE 67!

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Hard Clues (continued) 152 Goslings' dads 153 Jeanne et Joan: Abbr.

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ANSWERS 3 CRYPTO-FUNNIES

4 MIXED DOUBLES

Panel 1: Pharaoh: How is the work proceeding on my pyramid, Royal Architect?

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Panel 3: Architect: But there is one worker who’s giving us some trouble.

Pharaoh: Why is that?

Panel 4: Architect: I’m afraid he sees himself as more of an artist than a craftsman.

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

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

ANSWERS 7 CAMOUFLAGE M A D W H I S K V E

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

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ANSWERS 14 WORD SQUARES CRISSCROSS S Q U P U N H O L E T A R E C E D E

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

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

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

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

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

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

66 FAMILY REUNIONS CATEGORIES Family One: Classic board games Family Two: “Angry” synonyms Family Three: Fictional detectives Family Four: Defunct autos

ANSWERS 23 BATTLESHIPS

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M E R C U R Y I O W A C U P I V I O P H O E B E G I A T W O T R I A U T U M N C H I G A G O A R I E S A L P H

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U N E T E A L N G E X I L

C H E L S

❹ CAPTAIN

L E R B R A T A

The names of three Tom Hanks films can be found in the shaded columns.

TRUE CLUE letter: E

PUZZLE 2: ATTACK OF THE TLAs (OMG!) CIA BBB 7: Central 18: Bed Bath & Intelligence Beyond Agency 24: Better Business 20: Culinary Institute Bureau of America FDR GWB 10: Flight Data 8: George Recorder Washington 14: Franklin Delano Bridge Roosevelt 30: George Walker Bush MLP 11: Mary-Louise MPH Parker 1: Mr. Potato Head 15: My Little 3: Miles Per Hour Pony SMB 17: Steve Miller Band 23: Saving Mr. Banks

SNF 21: Saturday Night Fever 27: Skilled Nursing Facility

CPK 25: Cabbage Patch Kids GWS 9: Get Well Soon 29: Great White Shark

ERA 5: Earned Run Average 26: Equal Rights Amendment

❺ COMMODORE

HRC 6: Hillary Rodham Clinton 12: Hard Rock Café

MSG 4: Monosodium glutamate 31: Madison Square Garden

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

TMI 13: Too Much Information 22: Three Mile Island

TOC 16: Table of Contents 19: Truth or Consequences

❻ ADMIRAL

TRUE CLUE letter = C

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

G N A R R E F L I Y E T

I D R T H U A B E Y N N L S T

O I L N R B D N A L S M A D

A H J R O A H O C A V K Y E S

E G

D I L E R O O S H N O V E L C B B U B

K U E A

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TRUE CLUE letter = T

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

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

FAMOUS TOMS: Berenger, Seaver, Selleck, Swift, Wolfe MOVIE MUSICALS: Can-Can, Evita, Grease, Hairspray, Oliver!

30 HELTER-SKELTER

U E I L N I R T

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29 QUINT-ESSENTIAL

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MINI-CAPER FINAL ANSWER After following the directions for True Clues E + C + R + T, there are only two names remaining in the Presidential Grid: HARRISON & FORD = Actor HARRISON FORD

28 TOUGH AS DIAMONDS

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L

PUZZLE 4: REEL FUN I (From left to right) PAPILLON P A SUPERMAN HIGH NOON Final answer = PAPER MOON TRUE CLUE letter = R

R I V B M U E A

E A C P O E I N

S E T I R W R E

S E A L E V E L

M O S N A R E D

E N O Z E M I T

V D N E A C D O

R A P O T P U I

A E A N N U A L

T T R U I F D L

S S O S N O A E

O N L E J E C T

N I E D A R T Y

“PROHIBIT” SYNONYMS: banish, blackball, debar, outlaw, taboo “RECONDITE” SYNONYMS: abstruse, arcane, enigmatic, esoteric, obscure REPTILES: chameleon, gecko, lizard, snake, turtle SHADES OF BROWN: auburn, chocolate, hazel, tawny, umber TINY THINGS: crumb, grain, granule, modicum, sliver, snippet

BONUS GROUP (NEW MEXICO CITIES): Alamogordo, Las Cruces, Los Alamos, Roswell, Santa Fe

16 DING LIREN VS. MICHAEL ADAMS TATA STEEL MASTERS, ROUND 1 White sacrificed his rook with 61. Rh8+. Black resigned at once, since after Kxh8 (forced), White plays Nxe4 and is a full piece ahead.

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N E VE PRE COR D S ADE NA R OM PA THE LIT TLE OLD L ADY F S L ITE R S TE P S AB EL I M ATE A T R AGE DI ES S I N ET L SHO L E M DOY OU K N OW TH E WA Y TOS A NJ OSE BR E D EN TRE ATI ES I NDE XER S LI

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INA CT

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IVE

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A moves from 7 to 4

A 7

D moves from 3 to 7 C moves from 6 to 3 F moves from 2 to 6

6

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E

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D

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C

5

PUZZLE D 1. SHOEHORN (E) 2. BAGPIPE (P) 3. BISHOP (B) 4. TAWDRY (R) 5. BAZAAR (Z) 6. WOMEN (N) 7. SCENARIO (A) 8. SOOTHE (H) 9. ENSEMBLE (M) 10. CHOIR (I) 11. PURSUIT (U) 12. ENAMEL (L) 13. ANECDOTE (D) 14. ANCHOVY (V) 15. PLAYPEN (Y) 16. SORCERY (C) 17. TOMBOY (O) 18. CROQUET (Q) 19. BANJOIST (J) 20. GIMMICK (K) 21. UNUSUAL (S) 22. STIGMA (G) 23. PREVIEW (W) 24. ACTUAL (T) 25. INFERNO (F) 26. AXIOM (X)

B

3

PUZZLE C 1. HAIRDO (R) 2. INSTINCT (C) 3. THOUGH (G) 4. TRANSFER (F) 5. BULWARK (W) 6. PYRAMID (Y) 7. FELINE (E) 8. ANXIETY (X) 9. ALBINO (O) 10. ROUTINE (U) 11. LATERAL (L) 12. HEIGHT (H) 13. SUPPLY (P) 14. ACUMEN (A) 15. FAMILIAR (I) 16. FROZEN (Z) 17. COLUMN (M) 18. OPAQUE (Q) 19. ADVANCE (V) 20. ABDOMEN (D) 21. OBLIGED (B) 22. PERJURY (J) 23. ALKALI (K) 24. SCHOOL (S) 25. DEBTOR (T) 26. TORNADO (N)

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PUZZLE B 1. SPRITZ (P) 2. TOREADOR (A) 3. DESIRE (I) 4. MILIEU (E) 5. TOWARD (W) 6. BROGUE (U) 7. SUBTLE (T) 8. BALLET (L) 9. GALAXY (X) 10. SOLEMN (N) 11. BOBCAT (C) 12. GARGOYLE (Y) 13. WISDOM (D) 14. JURIST (S) 15. IMAGINE (G) 16. SOFTENER (F) 17. BUSINESS (B) 18. MNEMONIC (M) 19. THEORY (O) 20. TORQUE (Q) 21. ASTHMA (H) 22. STANZA (Z) 23. LOGJAM (J) 24. DOSSIER (R) 25. CHEVRON (V) 26. JACKAL (K)

2

PUZZLE A 1. DIVORCE (V) 2. ANTIQUE (Q) 3. SPECIAL (I) 4. STANDARD (D) 5. BENEFIT (B) 6. GENUINE (U) 7. MARTIAL (A) 8. TROPHY (T) 9. TRUMPET (M) 10. FRIEND (F) 11. BIGAMY (Y) 12. TRAPEZE (Z) 13. JALOPY (J) 14. CHORUS (H) 15. SARCASM (S) 16. ASEXUAL (X) 17. COLONEL (O) 18. SALMON (L) 19. VETERAN (E) 20. PENCIL (C) 21. AWKWARD (W) 22. PREGNANT (G) 23. NICKEL (K) 24. HARPOON (R) 25. AGNOSTIC (N) 26. DIPLOMA (P)

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31 LETTUR PERFEKT

38 YOUR WORD AGAINST MINE: SCRABBLE HAPPENINGS, PUZZLES, AND TIPS IT HAD TO BE U (OR V OR W, ETC.)

6-LETTER WORDS

7-LETTER WORDS

8-LETTER WORDS

Length

Preview

Watching

Shrimp

Baptize

Flabbier

Aerate

Complex

Dolphins

Evolve

Apology

Handicap

Joyful

Sequoia

Fulcrums

Hubcap

Upchuck

Adequacy

HOOKS AND EXTENSIONS AND PARALLELS, OH MY! First board: Rack 1: ZIG, 33 pts.

Rack 2: JUGGLERS, 54 pts.

Rack 3: PRETEXT, 93 pts. This also plays as a hook, forming PEON. Rack 4: EQUINE, also forming NEON, 41 pts.

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

Rack 2: EQUITIES E5, perpendicular, 118 pts.

Rack 3: ARCHIVED O8, extension, 54 pts.

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

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42 MIDDLE GROUND

50 500 RUMMY C J

A J

V J

E 7

M 8

E 9

N 10

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H A

A A

S A

T A

I 2

L 3

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R 8

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D 10

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The missing nine letters are SCRIPTION (ASCRIPTION, DESCRIPTION, INSCRIPTION, CONSCRIPTION, PRESCRIPTION, PROSCRIPTION, SUBSCRIPTION, TRANSCRIPTION, SUPERSCRIPTION, CIRCUMSCRIPTION).

M 3

I 3

L 3

E 3

A 5

G 6

E 7

30

M 6

O 7

R 8

D A N T 10 10 10 10

61

42 TRADING PLACES

M 6

U 6

G 6

W 6

U 2

P 4

33

P 4

A 5

G 6

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A N T 10 10 10

52

P J

L Q

A K

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E 7

B 7

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P J

L Q

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P 4

E 4

N 4

46

R 8

A 8

M 8

P 4

A 5

G 6

E 7

46

R K

A K

P K

P K

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R 8

T 9

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S 5

A 5

N 5

C 5

T A

U 2

M 3

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C 5

A 5

N 5

D 10

A J

L Q

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S A

P 2

I 3

L Q

L Q

E Q

D Q

46

S A

P 2

I 3

N 4

D Q

L Q

E Q

40

S A

T A

A A

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L 8

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D 10

37

S 5

U 6

B 7

L 8

I 3

M 3

E 3

35

S 5

U 6

B 7

T 9

E 9

E 9

N 9

54

T 9

E 9

E 9

N 9

A 5

G 6

E 7

54

T 9

E 9

N 9

P 2

I 3

N 4

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U 2

M 3

P 4

T 9

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U 2

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V J

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Each word can be both preceded and followed by the same letter to form a new word: ELOPE, ERODE, MODEM, DARED, RACER, LAPEL, PRIMP, TABLET, RAIDER.

42 SPORTING COMPANIONS Tennis: Fred Beacham, accountant, 1st; Irv Harkness, chef, 2nd; Jim Dodge, engineer, 3rd; Karl Grant, lawyer, 4th Golf: Harkness, 1st; Grant, 2nd; Beacham, 3rd; Dodge, 4th

42 PREFIX AFFIXATION

Move the Copper to the right, then move the Gold twice so that it is above the Silver, then move the Silver twice diagonally to the lower right corner, then move the Gold to the lower left corner and the Copper back to its starting square. The move order can vary slightly. Suggested by a puzzle that appeared (without an answer) in Shogi magazine No. 35 (January 1982).

42 LATITUDINAL THINKING From north to south: 9. (60°N. to 70°N.) Fairbanks, Helsinki, Reykjavik 8. (50°N. to 60°N.) Dublin, Edmonton, Moscow 12. (40°N. to 50°N.) Montreal, Paris, Rome 6. (30°N. to 40°N.) Casablanca, Tehran, Tokyo 1. (20°N. to 30°N.) Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Honolulu 2. (10°N. to 20°N.) Bangkok, Manila, Mumbai

3. (0° to 10°N.) Bogota, Kuala Lumpur, Monrovia 11. (0°N. to 10°S.) Jakarta, Nairobi, Recife 7. (10°N. to 20°S.) Darwin, Harare, Lima 4. (20°N. to 30°S.) Brisbane, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro 5. (30°N. to 40°S.) Cape Town, Santiago, Sydney 10. (40°N. to 50°S.) Hobart, Puerto Montt (Chile), Wellington

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

1–h, OT: the 61st minute of a football game (overtime); longer portion of the King James Bible (Old Testament) 2–f, AC: climate control device in a house or car (air conditioning); form of electric power delivered to residences (alternating current) 3–j, BA: common college degree (Bachelor of Arts); Ted Williams’s was .406 in 1941 (batting average) 4–b, R: irst-year MLB player (rookie); chess piece often resembling a castle (rook) 5–d, ST: Gibraltar or Hormuz, e.g. (strait); Easy or Wall, e.g. (street) 6–g, PI: Jessica Jones’s occupation (private investigator); group that includes Luzon and Mindanao (Philippine Islands) 7–k, PT: one-eighth of a gallon (pint); type of employee who works only two days a week (part-time) 8–c, NE: one of the eight main compass directions (northeast); the Cornhusker state (Nebraska) 9–e, C: speed of light (physics symbol); football lineman between the guards (center) 10–a, K: strikeout (baseball scoring symbol); chemical element number 19, used in many fertilizers (potassium) 11–l, CO: what a general is to a colonel (commanding oficer); what Orange or Alameda is in California (county) 12–i, TM: what Cheerios or Wheaties is to General Mills (trademark); practice based on ancient Hindu texts and involving mantras (transcendental meditation)

43 AUNT HILDEGARDE Aunt Hildegarde likes words that shed their irst and last letters to become new words: S-TRIPE-S, S-HOE-S, W-HIS-T, etc.

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ANSWERS 49 THE PLUS

S P I R E

A G A R S

W E B E R

B R E V E

E M A E L

51 DOUBLE CROSS

C A D R E

A N D E S

L A M A I S M L I V E R O M I T T E R

E R R E D D A M S E L F L I E S B A D

N O S E S A I D A N D D O N E A M E N

I C K I N E S S E T A C H I Q U I T A

E N T R E E S S N U B B E R R Y D E R

A J D U A N M E H AU U A N D D E T O M A X T H I R I C I S A T B E T S O T A C F A M AU R A L B S T O

A L E R T E D

M E D

A C R I D

Y E E H A

B U S C H

E T U I S

T A M P A

C H A S M

H A S T O

A G O R A

L U S T Y

S A G O

C M O N

R A T A

A S S E S

U N A L L S C R I C R E E H I N D E S AU M I L D A S T E A A W A R C O R I T W E E

A M I T A N E R C S L A W H O N A S H B T E A C A T AU T E A S H A D E AU M S S I D K N I S E S T E W I R I N P I N G E O F N N E T E R

N O R M

K I N G O B E T W E E N

L A C T E B O Y L L A L T Z I O I N G N G G S R AU R E E Y A R A C K N T R AU C E T E N D O E S

29 QUINT-ESSENTIAL CATEGORIES “Abundant” synonyms “B” occupations Exclamations Famous Toms Movie musicals “Prohibit” synonyms “Recondite” synonyms Reptiles Shades of brown Tiny things

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

—Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic 53 SIAMESE TWINS

52 BURIED GOLD S AU T E S

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

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

E P O S

F R AU L E T I O N N M P A O O L J A C K E E N T T I M C A E X

T I T A N S

O F F O R I H O R

O S B W O A R I N T U L P A O M N E

C U R R I E

H E A D E D

I R M A

A T A D

I C A M E

E V E R T

M E S A S

E A G E R

W I L M A L O N E A L P S L E N D L F R I D A Y E T N A E A S E A D J O H N G G E B A R A N D A R R U I N G D A N I E L

E N E S C R S H A

A N C E T S E T

D E O O L O A O O D M A N R B E R E A F O L K D R I V E N S O X I D E

O R A T I O N T Y L E N O L

B E T T Y E L I H U A S N E R N I T R I Y E S M I S R I C K C A T E

A W O M R E R A T B A R I N S T S A

B I N G E S T E E L

O N A F I R T A K C A A L A N L E T S

S S I S E A N T E S T S H E I N M D

M O R A N I S L N I N O E Y E S F A D U B K E A T O N A N A R U B L G L A C T L E D

N E T A R E O L A S

O N E S

S N E E

O T T E R

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ANSWERS 54 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 ACROSS: 1. Bartender (bender + art); 6. Tiara (Rita + a); 9. Midterm (Mr. + et + dim); 10. Breadth (d + breath); 11. Leica (like a); 12. Twenty-one (tone + went + Y); 13. Rhode Island Red (order is handled); 16. Chicken marsala (chic + Ken + mars + a + LA); 21. Earthworm (the marrow); 23. Capri (musiC A PRIority); 25. Crimson (scorn + I’m); 26. Novella (love + NL + A); 27. Sheds (two meanings); 28. Restrooms (re + Strom’s + O) DOWN: 1. Bumbler (b + lumber); 2. Radii (R + ad + II); 3. Elevate (levee at); 4. Demitasse (essay - y + timed); 5. Ruble (rube + L); 6. Treated (the – h + tread); 7. Andromeda (DA + Rome + and); 8. Achier (a + C + hie + R); 14. Otherwise (he swore it); 15. Armaments (mean smart, & lit.); 17. Cohosts (costs + ho); 18. Recover (rec + over); 19. Animals (slam + in + a); 20. Fences (fees + NC); 22. Owner (downer – d); 24. Polio (oil op) 55 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2 ACROSS: 1. Revenue (EU + never); 5. Pumice (m + i + puce); 8. Municipal (I clam up in); 9. Skimp (skim + p); 11. Nuggets (egg + nuts); 12. Oceania (canoe + I + A); 13. Torte (decadenT OR TEmptingly); 15. Spanglish (hassling + p); 16. Antipodes (pointed + as); 20. Riser (R + is + e,r); 22. Chorale (speeCH OR A LEcture); 23. Ancient (an + I + cent); 25. Sepia (pit – t + sea); 26. Detouring (got ruined); 27. Friend (r + iend); 28. Ringlet (l + Tegrin) DOWN: 1. Remonstrances (sermon + trances); 2. Vinegar (V + in + rage); 3. Niche (H + nice); 4. Exposes (E + X + posse); 5. Palooka (pa + a look); 6. Messenger (mess + green); 7. Chianti (China it); 10. Play hard to get (try age-old path); 14. Esplanade (citiES PLAN A DEvelopment); 17. Trouper (report + U); 18. Dreaded (D + read + e,d); 19. Spatter (S + patter); 21. Special (spec + I + all – l); 24. Churn (ch. + urn) 62 PLAYING THE HALF-DOZENS

S E E D E R S L E E T S E I T E T E E L C L C E S T A L A G G E N I U S A T T I L A R W A N D A E O S A F E U R I E N M T H E J O Y S O F S I X O E L O R E U N A U C E P E O R I A B R I B E R C H I D E R S U R T A X A A S A N L E S E L G E T W E N T Y T H R E E S 63 PENTOMINOES: A VARIETY CRYPTIC ACROSS 1 Result (squaRES R E S U L T ULTimately) 2 Entrée (rent + EE) E N T R E E 3 Slogan (lo + nags) Talent (ale + TNT) S L O G A N 54 Scents (sent + C + s) 6 Nestor (Reston) T A L E N T 7 Azalea (gAZA LEAfage) 8 Mosaic (Coma is) S C E N T S 9 Entire (en + tire) 10 Reared (red + are)

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

DOWN Lair (l + air) Eire (Erie) Lean-to (Leo + ant) Raced (cedar) Zone (Z + one) Enlace (eel can) Rests (re + sts.)

Stoles (soles + t) Asta (sat + a) Namer (re + man) Tents (ten + st.)

Urgent (U + gent + R)

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

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

COVER LETTER REBUSES 1 Grandparents (G, R, and P aren’t S) 7 Apple turnover (a PPLE turn over) 8 Concentric (C on cent, RIC) 2 Condone (C on D on E) 9 Poverty-stricken (P over T, Y stricken) 3 Colonial period (colon IAL period) 10 Spring cleaning (SP ring, C leaning) 4 Candy cane (C and Y, C, an E) 11 Undercover agents (under C, over a G, ENTS) 5 Right of way (Right of W a Y) 12 Skedaddled (SKED addled) 6 Coupons (CO upon S)

GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES | may 2016

ANSWERS WORLD PUZZLE CHAMPIONSHIPS 57 MISSING LABYRINTH Puzzle by Gabriele Simionato

2

2

58 SNAKE Puzzle by Vladimir Portugalov

3

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2

2

4

3

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1

3

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5

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2

2

4

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2

S

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2 2 2 2 2 3 1 4

60 GAPPED KAKURO Puzzle by Andrey Bogdanov

2 2

23

2 2

45 9

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43

8

4 3 3 6 2 6 5 3 8 9 1 5 3 9 4 8 4 7 5 2 7 1 6 9

2

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61 DOMINO YIN-YANG Puzzle by Vladimir Portugalov

3 12

3 4 1 1 2 2 4 4 5 5

3 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 2

6 0 3 3 6 3 2 2 6 2

6 5 5 6 6 3 2 6 6 3

6 4 4 6 1 1 0 0 3 3

1 4 3 6 2 4 0 5 5 3

Black 1:4 is the missing domino.

1 4 2 5 2 2 5 5 1 3

1 3 2 5 2 3 6 4 4 3

1 0 0 1 2 4 6 1 6 5

1 4 1 1 1 4 6 2 6 5

5 5 0 0 4 4 0 0 5 5

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59 CARDS Puzzle by Olga Leontyeva

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ANSWERS 64 PAINT BY PAIRS 1 HORSE 4

2 WORKING 1 3

4 1 16 2 2

1 14 1 3

2 14 2 4

3 3 3

4 2 2 1 4 4

4 11 9 4 8 4

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5 WEDDING CAKE 5 4

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FAMILY THREE

FAMILY FOUR

“Angry” synonyms

Fictional detectives

Defunct autos

67 WORDSPAIR

1. Geo (or REO) 2. Saab 3. Nash 4. Edsel 5. DeSoto

6. Holmes 7. Poirot 8. Marple 9. Columbo 10. Marlowe

6. Hudson 7. Saturn 8. Rambler 9. Pontiac 10. Packard

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1. Drew 2. Tracy 3. Wolfe 4. Spade 5. Drebin

6. Fierce 7. Fuming 8. Enraged 9. Incensed 10. Indignant

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FAMILY TWO 1. Mad 2. Sore 3. Cross 4. Upset 5. Irate

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Classic board games

6. Othello 7. Twister 8. Scrabble 9. Checkers 10. Stratego

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66 FAMILY REUNIONS FAMILY ONE 1. Go 2. Risk 3. Clue 4. Chess 5. Sorry

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