AHA!
By Tom Parker
Puzzle This By Bob Harris
MAKE’s favorite puzzles. (When you’re ready to check your answers, visit makezine.com/24/aha.)
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Circular Reasoning: Planet Earth You’re an astronaut from the Andromeda Galaxy, lounging about the Intergalactic Space Station. Another astronaut from the Boötes Dwarf Galaxy has just returned from Earth. Instead of lecturing about the geography, music, sports, politics, literature, history, and food of Earth, she decides to debrief her colleagues by presenting them with a puzzle about the small Milky Way Galaxy planet. Each question refers to the answer to the previous question. But this puzzle’s solution is a final large anagram for the first and last letters of all 15 responses, which reveals the astronaut’s most important discovery. Take the first and last letters of all 15 answers and anagram them here to fill in the 30 blanks, spelling a six-word sentence describing the expertise of this magazine’s readers:
. Make:
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