Games Magazine

THE MAGAZINE FOR CREATIVE MINDS AT PLAY®

February 2009 Contest Correction
In the “TV” Movie Contest in the February 2009 issue of GAMES, the first pair of numbers under Title B should be (4,5) instead of (3,5). We apologize for the error.

December Cover
It has come to our attention that some copies of our December 2008 issue were mailed without their cover, which contains a contest. To see an image of that cover, click here.

WACKY WORDIES
What three two-word phrases can be found
in this box?
ANSWER...

What is this object?
ANSWER...

February 2009 issue

March 2009 issue
(on sale now)

Features

The New and Future Queens
Kosteniuk and Hou battle for the Women’s World Chess Championship—and beyond.
Jennifer Shahade

Jola Sigmond’s BrainBoosters
A visual IQ test from Scandinavia’s most intelligent man. Jola Sigmond

Alfred Hitchcock Film Festival
Match the titles of some classic Hitchcock films to their scenes.
Jeff Moran

Caravaneers
Both players control the same pieces in this unusual new board game. Andrew Perkis

Punch Lines
Just for laughs, unscramble these cartoon captions. Walter Klis

Game Views

Inside the Box
Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG

Electronic Game Reviews
de Blob
Far Cry 2
Fallout 3
Valkyria Chronicles

Traditional Game Reviews
Monastery
Gisborne: Die Ersten Kartographen (The First Cartographers)
Igor: The Monster Making Game
Igor: The Life of the Party Game
Control Tower

An Interview with Raf Peeters
Meet the highly successful Belgian puzzle designer.

Three-Stop Metro Maze
The subways are only stopping at every third stop today—can you find a way to go from Home to the Office?
Andrea Gilbert

Contests

Octagonal States
Fit as many U.S. states as possible into a grid of octagons and diamonds.

Contest Results
Stars Crossed II from October

Pencilwise
Quote Block
Risky Business
Put a Lid On It!
Dszquphsbnt!
KenDoku
Misconstrewn Words
Chain Letters
Paint by Numbers
Double Cross
Number Slide
Cryptic Categories
World’s Most Ornery
Crossword

Recent Features: Links

December 2006
Starry Night
Solve an interactive version of our December issue’s cover maze by Robert Abbott (Logic Mazes). Cover design by Jim Malloy.

October 2005
The Looney Labs Experiment
How a kinder, gentler game company got its groove on.
Read article.

September 2005
Canned Wonders
Charitable competitions produce remarkable feats of Canstruction®.

GAME OF THE YEAR
AND OTHER AWARDS

Games Online Contest #21

Orion’s Crystal
The all-but-invisible puzzle
that’s sweeping the country!

Eight puzzle pieces fit together to form a sphere. Not too tough…if you could see the pieces! Now just $14.99 plus shipping. Order.

Games World of Puzzles

January 2009 issue
on sale now

NOTE: There is an error in the Number, What’s My Operator? contest in the January 2009 issue of World of Puzzles. In the right-hand puzzle grid on page 71, two blocks have already been placed. In the block in the center of the top row, the square under the equal sign should be black (instead of white as printed) so that the block matches the one below the grid that has been crossed off. We apologize for any confusion caused by this error.
Please also note that the leftover characters from the bars below each grid can combine with “2”, “3,” and “=” to form two different equations; either of these equations is an acceptable solution to the contest.

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