Stars and Stripes
by Don Henderson
Flag down your friends and show them this beautiful puzzle—or enjoy it all by yourself! The answers to each numbered clue pair below go in the 12 spaces surrounding the correspondingly numbered red star
Author: kappawp
August 2017
Welcome to the August issue of GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES. While it goes without saying that every issue is a puzzle lovers’ delight, this issue in particular will appeal to wordplay aficionados. This month’s feature article, “Trips: Mr. Wizard’s Code,” …
Read moreJune 2017 Correction: Impasse
In “Impasse” (June, page 50), the diagram was mistakenly printed without arrows, making the puzzle impossible to solve. Here is the corrected diagram. Our apologies for the oversight.
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Persona 5
THE PREMISE:
You play as a second-year Japanese high school student who transfers to a new school in Tokyo after a brush with the law. On your first day, you stumble into a mysterious alternate reality filled with monstrous shadows,
June 2017: Swimming with Sharks
Swimming with Sharks
by Mark Harris
Welcome aboard the Atlantis salvage team. One of your fellow divers brought this map up from the Lost Continent below. It shows the plan of the Temple of the Nereids, which contains vast riches.
June 2017: Swimming with Sharks Answer
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May 26: POTC Sequel Premiers
2 Clever 4 Words
by Craig Wilson
Not all movie sequels take the easy route by tacking on a “II” at the end or a “Return of” at the beginning. Can you name the creatively titled sequels to the following
May 26: POTC Sequel Premiers Answers
- Aliens
- Beethoven’s 2nd
- Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey
- A Very Brady Sequel
- Dumb and Dumber: When Harry Met Lloyd
- 2 Fast 2 Furious
- Funny Lady
- Grumpier Old Men
- Hot Shots! Part Deux
- I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
May 25: Emerson’s Birthday
Bull's-Eye 20 Questions
by Frank Carchia
Here’s a test of your verbal marksmanship. The answer to each of the 20 questions below is one of the 25 words in the bull’s-eye target. Each correct answer scores a hit, which you
May 25: Emerson’s Birthday Answers
- Squawk
- Notable (not able)
- Deliver (reviled)
- Tense (tenth)
- Madam
- Last
- Salad (Dallas)
- Parental (paternal, prenatal)
- Outing (out, in)
- Protein (pointer)
- Checkbook
- Knight (night)
- Quart (adding a Z makes quartz)
- Poet (Poe)
- Chance
- Spices (Pisces)
- Mainland
- Lessee (“…all my troubLES SEEmed..”)