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 F e AT U R e s
1 4 Penn & Teiier's iManic Magic Two Prestidigitators Are Up to Some New Tricks Trish and Dick Schaap

2 0 What Next? Find the Logical Thread Connecting These Images Scott Marley

2 2 The Jade Excaiibur An Archeological Hidden Image Puzzle Alex Murawski

4 3 Odd Jobs Can You Obey the Laws of Probability? Saul Jay Singer

4 4 Where the Boys Are Meet microCHIP and the Guys: An All-Male Collage John Craig

4 6 Strange Societies Call Our Bluff Joins the Club Randl Hacker

Find the Fake Ad Which of the Pitches is Fuii of Hitches? (Answer Drawer, pagesi)

p e M C t L w t s e
25 The Spirai 31 Movie Game: Crossword 36 Doubie-Crostic

26 Symboi Minded: Word Search 32 Mutant Robots 37 Where in the Whori?

28 Soiitaire Hangman From Outer Space 40 Saies Figures

30 Find the Moie 35 Cryptic Crosswords ... and other pencii puzzies

C O N T E S T S
12 Word Geography Map Out a Strategy to Unite the States

38 U.S. Open Crossword Championship First Round of the $3,750 Chaiienge

D e P A R T M S M T S
4 Yo u r Move 48 Games & Books 54 Wiid Cards

6 Letters/Laundry 51 Eyebaii Benders 58 Answer Drawer

7 Events 52 Card Games: 62 Eureka

10 Gamebits Triad

Difficulty Ratings Smooth Sailing it U p h i l l C l i m b ★ ★ P r o c e e d a t Yo u r O w n R i s k ★ ★ ★ M i x e d B a g i t i t

Cover Photograph Walter Wick Puzzle Walter Wick and Mike Shenk

2 MARCH 1986 GAMES

 YOUR move

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Articles Editor Curtis Slepian
A designer I know keeps five pens in In Roman numerals, adding LIX (59) Game & Contest Editor Burt Hochberg
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Envelope of the Month
Bonnie Wood
Naples, FL
Ye a r l y C h e c k u p
We all feel that great new-yearly time warp,
also known as the length of time one con
tinues to write the old year on everything
from checks to term papers. Apparently,
It's got the GAMES staff too—the top of
your contents page (January, page 1) says
January 1985!
P a t r i c k Wa t t s
Richardson, TX
Yo u Said A Mouthful
I greatly enjoyed Paul Dickson's essay on
names ("On the Appellation Trail," Decem
ber, page 16), but I thought his examples
were much too provincial. What one place,
f o r I n s t a n c e , w o u l d M r. D i c k s o n h a v e t o
visit to find areas named Hell, Parrot, Rabbi
Levy, and Ulugh Beigh?
Jim Bollinger
Hamilton, NY
Answer Drawer, page 58
The sidebar to "On the Appellation Trail"
listed many anagrammed names, but left
out a famous anagramming mystery. In
Shakespeare's Love's Labor Lost, the word
"honorlflcabllltudlnltatlbus" appears. The
Shakespeare critic Sir E. Durnlng-Lawrence
suggests that this word Is an anagram for
Hi Ludi F. Baconis nati tuiti orbi ("These
plays, the offspring of F. Bacon, are pre
served for the world"). According to Sir
Durnlng-Lawrence, this anagram supposed
ly proves that Francis Bacon, not Shake
speare, wrote the plays we have been
attributing to the Bard.
Michael de la Maza
Irvine, CA
We'll award a T-shirt for a witty anagram of
"Sir E. Durnlng-Lawrence."—Ed.
The Eyes Have It
After staring Intently at the pattern recogni
tion puzzles ("Eye-Q Test," January, page
32), I've come to two conclusions: I'm not
as good at these things as I was In grade
school, and my eyes are not as good as
they were back then either. If I wasn't see
ing spots before I opened that page, I cer
tainly am now.
Brendan Flore
B o u l d e r, C O
6 MARCH 1986 GAMES
And the Winner Is ...
Bob Fosse Is Indeed most associated with
the Tony award for theater, having won
eight of them (Wild Cards, January, page
56). But It's interesting to note that. In the
1972-'73 season. Fosse not only won two
Tonys as director and choreographer of
Pippin, but also earned an Oscar for direct
ing the movie Cabaret, and three Emmies,
for producing, directing, and choreograph
ing the television special "Liza With a 'Z.' "
In that one season he became, and re
mains, the only Individual to win the "Triple
Crown"—an Oscar, a Tony, and an Emmy
In the same year.
Jim Jewell
Peru, IL
How's That Again?
I got a kick out of "Indian Givers" (Your
Move, January, page 4) which traced
Indian roots to many of our states'
names. But not all derivations are so
easily pinned down; I live in Ontongon,
a city In Michigan, whose name comes
from the Ojibway Indian word onagan.
This has been translated variously as "a
place for finding game," "In God's
hand," or, of all things, "I've lost my
bowl."
Jeff Sowedo
Ontongon, Ml
if a reader finds a significant error of fact
or a mistake that affects the play of a
game, and we agree the slip needs to be
laundered, we'll print the first or best tetter
and send the writer a Games T-shirt.
Mistakes: January
★Your picture of Pete Rose In "Year In Re
view" (page 20) Isn't of his tIe-breakIng
4,192nd hit against the San Diego Padres,
but of his tIe-makIng 4,191st hit against the
Chicago Cubs. The picture shows Rose
with Cubs catcher Jody Davis and Rose's
t e a m m a t e E d d i e M l l n e r.
Tom Kayser
Santa Barbara, CA
You've mixed up the royal heirs In "Year In
Review." That's Prince Harry you've trans
formed Into a girl—not William (his brother),
as you say In the Answer Drawer.
Lydia K. Armstrong
N e w Yo r k , N Y
★In the Ornery Crossword (page 37), your
Easy Clue for 139-Across gives the
Smuckers slogan as "... It's got to be
good." In fact, the slogan Is "... it has to
be good."
R o b e r t P. Wa l s h
FItchburg, MA
Guest List
I had such a good time with the punny an
swers to "Do You Know ...?" (Wild
Cards, December, page 58) that I've made
up a few myself:
Do you know Thomas Edison?
That guy really turns me on.
Do you know Albert Einstein?
He's relatively complex.
Do you know George Burns?
God—he's funny!
Do you know Harry Houdlnl?
Yes, but his purpose In life escapes me.
Hope Roblczek
Brooklyn, NY
The Cryptographic Mind
The first time I saw the "Dszquphsbntl" al
phabet code puzzles, I thought someone
had to be kidding. But after much work and
plenty of erasing, I've gotten the hang of
them, and now I'm an addict who turns to
them first every Issue.
I know this probably sounds silly, but I
can't help noticing that very often the sub
stitution letters and their counterparts go to
gether to form common two-letter combina
tions, such as E-Z, D-J, F-M, and so on.
Is this just coincidence? Or does our lan
guage have so many such abbreviations
that some of these matchups are
Inevitable?
Judy Anne Rider
Kearns, UT
XPUUN, VG'TG UGTGJ UBEQWGM ERLE
CGXBJG.—GM.
Answer Drawer, page 58
D e c e m b e r
★In "Making Connections" (page 32), both
Ds In "Academy Award," not just one,
should have been connected to the D In
the next answer, "college degree," just to
be consistent. Everywhere else you show
all the shared letters between answers,
even If they are duplicates.
Tiffany Miller
West Lafayette, IN
Clean Linen
• Many readers sent us an alternative
answer to "Sticky Problem" (Wild
Cards, January, page 55), but in this
case we disagree. Their solution is one
22y stamp, three 14y stamps, 36 quar
ters, and 36 pennies, which add up to
$10 as required. But the problem asks
for "some 22y stamps," which rules out
buying only one.
• One reader questioned our answer to
clue 49-Across, "Call from the Titanic"
("Drop Me a Letter," December, page
42), saying that the international distress
signal in those days was not SOS, but
COD, for Come Quick—Danger, inter
estingly, according to "The Super Trivia
Encyclopedia" by Fred Worth, COD was
used only until 1911, and the first ship
to use the new signal SOS was the Ti
tanic itself

E V E N T S
If you plan to attend any of these events,
write or call to check entry fees, dates,
sites, eligibility, etc. Include a stamped,
self-addressed envelope with your request,
if you know of other events suitable for this
column, write to Events, c/o GAMES.
Chess Strategy and glitter mix at ttie 1986
National Ctiess Open, at ttie Imperial Pal
ace Hotel in Las Vegas, March 14-16.
Open to all players, the tournament has a
championship section for grandmasters
game enrollment fee is $30. Contact: The
Society for Interactive Literature, 130 Morri
s o n A v e . , # 2 , W. S o m e r v i l l e , M A 0 2 1 4 4 -
2113, or call (617) 623-0133.
Scrabble Players who dabble and hard
core veterans are welcome at the Scotts-
dale Scrabble Players Open Tournament, in
Scottsdale, Arizona, March 22-23. Five
games are scheduled each day, with no
eliminations. Contact: Doug Nohren, City of
Scottsdale, 3939 Civic Center Plaza,Scotts
dale, AZ 85251, or call (602) 994-2375.
Travai/Play Tour Interested parties
should apply early for the 1986 World
Peace Tour to China, a sports-oriented ex
cursion, May 3-18, leaving from San Fran
cisco and landing in Beijing, China. A tour
guide will escort the group to the Forbid
den City, the Great Wall, the Ming Tombs,
and other sights. Shanghai, China's largest
city. Is only one of the places where travel
ers can participate in Frisbee, skateboard
ing, and other activities with children and
adults from the area. After visiting Hong
Kong, where goods may be purchased
duty free, the group will attend a farewell
banquet to wind up the tour before return
ing to San Francisco. Full payment
($2,995) is due 60 days prior to departure.
Contact: World Peace Tours, 7608 Girard
Ave., La Jolla, CA 92037, or call (619)
456-2884.

and experts, and a reserve division for

lower-rated and unrated players. Gash
prizes total $17,000. Special hotel rates are
available, and the package deal includes
many extras. Contact: National Open, c/o
Fred Gruenberg, 10926 S. Western Ave.,
Chicago, IL 60643, or call (312) 779-3360.
Conch Shell Blowing An oldtime blow
out, the Annual Conch Shell Blowing Con
test takes place March 22 in Key West,
Florida, at the Community Center, Mallory
Square, and is open to anyone with an
urge to mussel in on the competition. Calls
are judged on duration, clarity of tone, and
range. Contact: Old Island Restoration, Box
689, Key West, FL 33041, or call (305)
294-9501.
C r o s s w o r d To u r n a m e n t B a l t i m o r e ' s
First Annual Crossword Open will be held
February 28-March 2. The three top con
testants earn automatic entry to the finals of
the GAMES/Merriam-Webster U.S. Open
Crossword Championship in August (see
page 38). The tournament package in
cludes a cocktail dinner and a tour of Balti
more. Contact: Baltimore's First Annual
Crossword Open, 803 S. Charles St., Balti
more, MD 21230, or call (301) 539-1344.
Game and Toy Exhibition Two collec
tions will be on display at the Cooper-
Hewitt Museum in New York City this
month:
• From the Spielzeugmuseum of Nurem
berg (an important center of toy manufac
turing in Germany), over 75 toys will be
shown from March 3 through May 11, in
cluding dolls, dollhouses, miniature shop
interiors, model railroads, and toy theaters.
• Early types of exotic playing cards,
such as art and souvenir packs, tarot and
Oriental cards, plus many cards made of
materials such as leather, plastic, alumi
num, ivory, and steel will be displayed
March 18-May 25. Contact: The Cooper-
Hewitt Museum, 2 E. 91st St., New York,
NY 10128, or call (212) 860-6868.
Role-Playing Convention SILICON I, to
be held March 21-23 at the Holiday Inn, in
Woburn, Massachusetts, will be devoted
mainly to live role-playing games in six cat
egories. Participants will assume a charac
ter role, to be maintained throughout the
weekend, from scenarios such as Shadows
of Sundown (fallen earth civilization), Road
to the Future (a growing hole in time), and
See Jane Run (internal streptococcus, IfyouVe outgrown the sugar,but not the fun.
parasympathetic nerve, gallbladder attack, © NoDisco Brands, Inc 1985

etc.). Films and a costume party will also a

be part of the fun. Club membership and

Ta l e o f f t h e C o m e t
It's been called Halley's hype. Even
before Halley's Comet was a speck in
the sky, products attempting to cash in
on this once-in-a-iifetime celestial
event—from "special" telescopes and
star charts to comet posters and Hal-
ley calendars—have been showering
Earth. Not wanting to miss out on a
good thing, the Games product division
has worked overtime to develop its
own Halley's Comet items. They
should be available to consumers no
later than the Comet's next appear
ance, in 2061.
• Halley Super Binoculars With
these unique, not-to-be-believed
80 X 10 power binoculars, you always
have a perfect view of Halley's Comet.
Look through them and the comet im
mediately swims into view, even in
overcast skies and during the daytime.
The secret? We've painted the comet
to scale, right on the lens!
• Celestial Snowball Owning this
plastic-wrapped "dirty snowball" is
like having a piece of Halley's Comet.
Made of pure Alaskan snow, the Ce
lestial Snowball is so similar in com
position to the head of Halley's Comet
you'll swear it's the real thing! Will last
all year it refrigerated.
• Halley E-Z Spotter Finding the
comet in the sky Is no cinch—unless
you own this lightweight aluminum
"sky pointer." Simply hold it in your
hand as instructed and the arrow will
always point up, thus directing even
the novice astronomer in the right di
rection. The versatile instrument can
10 MARCH 1986 GAMES
Edited by Curtis Slepian
be used in both the Northern and
Southern Hemispheres.
• Build-Your-Own-Halley's-Comet
Book With this cut-and-assembie
book, all you need to make your own
full-scale model of Halley's Comet are
scissors and glue. When constructed,
the sturdy paper comet stretches 800
feet. The head alone is as big as a
baseball diamond!
• Tar City Comet Tours No need to
spend a fortune climbing the Himala
yas to get a good look at the magnifi
cent cosmic phenomenon. Our trained
guides will accompany you via eleva
tor to the roots of the tallest buildings
in many major U.S. cities. To make
the breathtaking view more enjoyable,
beach chairs will be provided at a
nominal tee. —C.
Slice off Liffe
Early one Sunday last tali in Fort Lee,
New Jersey, a goiter holding a chip
ping iron climbed into the back of an
ambulance parked in the middle of a
street and prepared to strike a large
whittle ball toward the first hole, a fu
neral parlor, it you guessed this wasn't
a PGA-sanctioned event, go to the
head of the class. It was, in tact, the
opening of the Fort Lee Whittle Golf
Classic, a lighthearted team tourna
ment held as part of a tour-day festival
sponsored by the town.
Swatting.the ball were teams made
up of local service groups and busi
nessmen. Although they were allowed
to use woods and irons, most flailed
away with more exotic clubs, including
hockey sticks, paint rollers, brooms,
crutches, tire axes, guitars, foghorns,
croquet mallets, plumber's helpers,
a n d e v e n a v a c u u m c l e a n e r.
The course was equally unusual,
winding in and out of the side streets
and alleys of Fort Lee's Main Street.
The "holes," 18 designated wails and
doors, were made more challenging
by such obstacles as tire hydrants,
garbage cans, moving cars, and any
thing else that happened to be on the
streets.
For this tournament, scoring and
penalty interpretations were liberal.
When Bill Leahy completely missed
the bail and said, "Uh, it was a prac
tice swing," no one argued—perhaps
because he is Fort Lee's Deputy Chief
of Police.
On the fourth hole, goiters had to
tee oft near a flagpole and hit the bail
over a AV2 -toot wail at the Hudson
City Savings Bank. When a teammate
tailed to clear it, Linda Caiabrese of
Murphy Realty scooped the bail over
the wall using a "For Sale" sign as a
club. Appropriately enough, she works
tor Murphy's "Relocation Division."
The niftiest hoie-in-one of the day
belonged to Bill Yeutter, representing
the Elks. With a clean sweep of his
broom he popped the bail oft a rock,
across Main Street, into a driveway,
and against a narrow wail near a flo
rist shop.
S.
Joe Bochenko, of the police depart
ment, managed the worst shot, sailing
a 5-iron 40 yards onto the top of a
welding service building. The police,
playing tor keeps, considered getting
a tire truck with a ladder to let Joe
play it oft the root. They didn't, but
won anyway, posting a soore of 43 on
the par 72 course. Rich Gato, of the
winning team, explained the victory:
"We had the edge; we knew the traffic
patterns." —Mark Danna
Murphy Realty tried to ice the competi
tion with hockey sticks.

Trivia-Phone
Question: What do a push-button
phone, cash prizes, and a talking
computer that asks trivia questions
have in common?
Answer: They're all elements of
Cashpot Trivia, a new telephone trivia
game. Launched in October, Cashpot
Trivia seems like The Price Is Right
and Trivial Pursuit rolled into one. "It's
an Intelligent Lotto," says Steven Wes-
sel, founder of the game and presi
dent of Prizeline Communications
Corporation, Cashpot's Virginia-based
designers.
This is how it works: Players (who
must be at least 18 years old) call
l-BOO-CASHPOT to test their knowl
edge of sports, show biz, people and
places, science and nature, arts and
literature, and history. After punching
in a MasterCard or Visa number on a
push-button phone, the player has 30
seconds to answer three questions
chosen by computer from a single cat
egory, asked by an electronic voice
t h a t s o u n d s l i k e B o b B a r k e r. A n s w e r
all three questions correctly and the
computer offers three more questions
from a different category. A perfect
score on a total of 18 questions from
all six categories earns a trip to the
playoff round—and six more toughies.
T for Two
These T-shirts may not be for the fash-
ion-conscious, but they're the right
move for the game-conscious. Called
Play-Me T-shirts, each sports a full-
size game board on its front. Though
their designs are contemporary, the 12
different games available are based
on classics. For example, in the Play-
Me T-shirts shown above (left to right).
Answer them correctly and you win
the weekly payoff, which usually varies
from $1,000 to $3,000. It costs $2 to
play each level (each group of three
questions), but the playoff questions
are free. Thus, the least you can pay
to reach the playoffs is $12.
But It isn't necessary to answer ev
ery question right to be a winner. Cor
rect answers are also worth "prize
points," which are redeemable for
merchandise featured in the game's
"Cashpot Catalogue." Prize points can
also be converted into cash at the rate
of 10 cents a point.
Can Prizeline make money at this?
"I think we can," says Wessel, adding
that he's banking on the difficulty of
the questions and the genuine fun of
the game to make it a winner. Wessel
projects that only 5 percent of players
will answer all three questions cor
rectly at a given time.
To tide you over until you can reach
a phone, we've put together a quick
Cashpot sampler. Remember, you
have only 30 seconds to answer. To a d s i n L o v e
—Monlka Maeckle
1. What was the name of the St. Ber Frogger should only have it so good.
Each spring, in England, thousands of
nard in the TV series ToppeiR
amorous toads are squashed by pass
a. Nelson b. Neal c. Kosmo
2. The earth and sun rotate in oppo ing cars when they try to hop across
rural roads on their way to mating
site directions on their axes—true
or false?
grounds. And each spring, conserva
tion-minded Britons leap into action to
3. How many laps are there in the In
save the croaking critters. In addition
dianapolis 500? Answer Drawer, page 58 to putting up "Toad Crossing" signs
to warn motorists as they approach
spawning grounds, teams of amateur
naturalists armed with buckets volun
teer to tote toads across roads during
rush hours. Unlike players of the video
game Frogger, who guide frogs
across a highway to gain points, these
folks do it as a labor of love.
"You can hear them calling to one
another from different buckets," says
72-year-old Bruce Campbell, one of
the volunteers. "It's a most appealing
little noise. It almost makes my daugh
ters weep."
The volunteers take to the streets at
dusk, when the toads begin their
nightly rnigration. It's difficult to find
and catch the toads in the dark, but
"Space Traveller" Is a variation of the number of rescued amphibians is
Snakes and Ladders; "Neptune's impressive. Campbell estimates that
Nemesis" is really Chinese checkers; he alone has carried 1,500 lovestruck
and "Free Me" is Agon. toads to safety. He isn't sure how
Doubly portable, each T-shirt (sold many of those were repeat customers.
In department stores for around $25) Sometimes the leaping Lotharios,
and sweatshirt (around $30) comes in carried away by passion, mate in the
a carrying case that Includes game in middle of the highway, a guarantee of
structions and playing pieces. So you a doomed romance. "Most motorists
can use these playful garments as ac don't stop," sighs Campbell. "They
tual game boards, even while they're aren't aware of what the little brown
being worn—giving new meaning to triangles in their headlights really
"a friendly game of chess." —C. S. are." —Fran Severn
GAMES MARCH 1986 1 1

Thro wthrough
trip away ythe
our United
road atStates,
las. In ththe
is
only map you'll need is the one you see
here.
The Idea is to spell words by traveling
from state to adjacent state, taking one
letter from the name of each. You may
start each word with a letter from any of
the 50 states, taking each successive
letter in the word from a state that bor
ders on the last state used. The Illustra
tion below shows how the word chair
can be spelled out using five states,
starting with new Mexico.
Example: CHAIR
The object Is to make the fewest
words you can while using each state
exactly once. No state may be left out
or reused. Your list of words will there
fore contain exactly 50 letters.
12 MARCH 1986 GAMES
UNITE THE STATES WITH
THE FEWEST POSSIBLE WORDS
The map shown Is the sole authority
for the names and boundaries of the
states. States are considered adjacent
if their borders (shown as heavy rules)
touch at any point. Thus, Utah and New
Mexico are adjacent, as are Arizona
and Colorado. New Jersey and Dela
ware are also considered adjacent,
and, for this contest, Alaska is consid
ered adjacent to Hawaii and Washing
ton, and Hawaii adjacent to Alaska,
California, Oregon, and Washington.
Acceptable words To be acceptable,
a word must be recognized by Web
ster's Third New International Dictionary
(Unabridged), where the word must ei
ther be listed In boldface or be an in
fl e c t e d f o r m o f a b o l d f a c e e n t r y.
Comparative and superlative forms of
adjectives are acceptable only if speci
fied after a boldface entry; but noun plu
rals and verb forms are acceptable If
clearly implied by the Inflectional pat
terns of related words. Words may con
tain .accent marks. A word is
unacceptable if it (1) Is composed of
two or more component parts separat
ed by a space, or appears only as such
a component part; (2) contains an
apostrophe, hyphen, or period; (3) is
designated only as capitalized or usual
ly capitalized; (4) is listed only as an ab
breviation or symbol; (5) appears only
In the Addenda.
Winning The entry with the fewest
words wins. Ties, If any, will be broken
in favor of the entry with the longest
word. Further ties will be broken in fa
vor of the entry with the second longest
word, and so forth. Any remaining ties
will be broken by random draw.
Entering Write your words in a list
along with your name and address on a
sheet of paper or a postcard. After each
word, write the names of the states It
uses In the order they are used. You
may enter as many times as you wish,
but each entry must be mailed sepa
rately. IMPORTANT; If you mail your en
try In an envelope, you must write the
number of words In your list on the back
of the envelope and circle It.
— T. G . M I d d l e t o n
Mail your entry to: Word Geography,
Games Magazine, 515 Madison Ave.,
New York, NY 10022. Entries must
be received by April 1, 1986.
 The
.Manic Magic
"^FENN
&TELLER
Combining comedy and
the macabre^ this pair of
prestidigitators is up to
some new tricks.

PENN & TELLER PLAY GAMES NO OTHER PEOPLE PLAY.

They play with words and with silence, with minds and
with menace. They swallow needles and chew fire, jug
gle knives and shed straitjackets. They make you shud
der with laughter. They scare you to life.
Penn & Teller are ... The temptation is to say "is."
Penn & Teller is ... Because Penn & Teller are definitely
singular. They is unique. Penn & Teller are ... a phe
nomenon, a magic-comic-mystery act, a blend of levity
and levitation that stormed off-Broadway last spring
and was snapped up for regular appearances on both the
Disney Channel (in one-hour specials) and Saturday
Night Live (in six-minute chunks). They also performed
"Penn & Teller Go Public" for the Public Broadcasting
System, giving them full run
of the cultural gamut. Has any other
act followed in the (sometimes
webbed) footsteps of Alistair Cooke,
John Belushi, and Donald Duck?
Penn & Teller—the act, that is, not
the individuals—defy description. The
BYTRISH ANDDICKSCHAAP individuals inspire description, even
GAMES MARCH 1986 15
demand it. Penn Jillette, true name, is
six-foot-six, 30 years old, a graceful
bear of a man with a bold crop of
curly hair advancing down his fore
head; he seems to know every perti
nent fact, and many impertinent ones.
Teller, first name long discarded, his
less courageous strands of hair re
treating from his forehead, is almost a
foot shorter and seven years older, an
imp of a man who affects an air of de
monic sanity. Their perfectly contrast
ing physical appearances are a
wonderful disguise for perfectly
matched psyches.
Penn & Teller are what they do, yet
to tell what they do does not quite tell
what they are. Their theater act be Penn says he learned to eat fire because ^"It's cool.
gins with Penn cheerfully talking non
stop while Teller waits silently on the
brink of disaster, and continues in the
same stunningly rich (and perhaps Teller, no dummy, attempts to wrig ed, he offers a poignant soliloquy on
jugular) vein for more than two hours. gle free of his straitjacket so that the sideshows of the circus, analyzes
In their opening number, Penn sits when Casey expires, he doesn't. The the appeal and vulnerability of freaks,
on a chair, which is attached to a pul race ends, invariably, in a photo and explains how he learned to eat
ley, which is attached to Teller, who finish, with Teller always leaping to fire (painfully) and, more important,
hangs, upside down, strapped firmly his feet before Penn does—at least up why (because, in a contradiction in
into a straitjacket, the top of his head until the time of this writing. (The terms, "it's cool").
aimed at a bed of six-inch metal fi r s t t i m e Te l l e r fi n i s h e s s e c o n d w i l l Teller performs "Shadow," perhaps
spikes. Only Penn's weight on the probably be the last.) Neither Penn's the show's most baffling and moving
chair is keeping Teller from plunging, frenzied reading, his words as clear as number. In it, a rose standing in a
Louganis-like, into the apparently fa machine-gun bursts, nor Teller's con vase on a table toward the front of the
tal bed. trolled gyrations while he is threat stage casts its shadow on a back
Penn explains that he is going to ened by verse and worse, can be ground screen, and the shadow takes
read a poem, and when he completes captured adequately in words. on a hauntingly beautiful life (and
the poem, he will rise to acknowledge Nor can so much of their spectacu death) of its own. The thin line be
the cheers of the crowd. And it goes lar performance. Penn, for instance, tween shadow and substance blurs, as
without saying that when Penn rises. tosses off marvelous ad libs that he Teller magically prunes the real rose
Teller, if he is still attached to the pul insists have been meticulously script by cutting its shadow. This draws
ley, will fall. Penn then starts to recite ed ("This isn't a very good piece," he oohs and aahs and, eventually, blood.
"Casey at the Bat," and his delivery, allows, shrugging during his juggling He also enacts the ancient "East Indi
precise and measured at first, eventu number, "but I bothered to learn it, an Needle Mystery," in which he swal
ally becomes swifter than Dwight and you're certainly going to watch lows 100 embroidery needles in three
Gooden's. it"). Later, his brashness finally mut or four large gulps, then ingests a

We take a wimpy piece of card magic and add a little class to it," boasts Penn.

16 MARCH 1986 GAMES

strand of thread, and finally pulls
from his throat the 100 needles all
neatly strung out on the thread.
Together, Penn & Teller stage a
fairly prosaic card trick that ends in
unexpected horror when Teller seem
ingly plunges a knife through Penn's
hand. "We take a wimpy piece of card
magic and add a little class to it," says
Penn, who pointedly puts down presti
digitation with self-deprecating pat
t e r. F r o m t h i s , t h e y w o r k u p t o
"MOFO the Psychic Gorilla," in which
Teller, for the only time in the show,
speaks as the voice of the all-knowing
head of a disembodied gorilla. MOFO,
by reading the minds of audience
members, makes monkeys out of the
"psychics" who perform similar pieces
seriously. The show is considerably
more magical than magic, an energet
ic spoof of other performers, other
disciplines.
greatest trick is the unani
"Lenny Bruce was an absolute idol
of mine," says Penn, who was barely
into his teens when Bruce died with
an overdose of heroin in his veins.
"I personalized drugs and blamed
them for killing Lenny Bruce," Penn
says. "It was like a murder rap."
Penn kicked drugs and alcohol before
he even tried them. "I have never
smoked marijuana," he says. "I have
never even had a beer."
Penn is, however, permanently
high—on curiosity and on talent. He is
a rock musician, a jazz freak, a
trained circus clown, a gifted juggler,
a reader of anything scientific, a
Greenfield, Massachusetts, high
school graduate who decided college
would be a waste of time—his and the
school's—even though one college,
known as both progressive and expen
sive, teased him with the promise that |
he could major in Lenny Bruce.
Instead, at 19, fresh out of school—
fresh in school, too, having been ban
ished to independent study because of
his independent attitude—the rebel

Ph
ea
rpsPenns&
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el
mously favorable critical
reaction they have con
jured up. "The acts are
mind-stretching, mind-
bending, mind-boggling
and mind-reading—al
ways astounding, often hilarious and
sometimes creepy," wrote New York
magazine's John Simon, usually the
harshest of critics.
Reviews like that make Penn &
Teller a tough act to follow, and an
even tougher act to duplicate. They
may be the only success in any medi
um in the United States that is not
spawning instant imitators. "If there
are any," Penn says, during a dinner
break between two Sunday shows,
"just give us a call, and we'll break
their legs."
"How can you be Penn & Teller?"
says Teller, who can be perfectly ar
ticulate off-stage. "It's too complicat
ed." He doesn't mean just the physical
complexity. "Who else is obsessed
with death and horror and does come
dy?" he asks.
"Not obsessed," Penn suggests.
"Fascinated"'
" I h a d t w o b i g i n fl u e n c e s a s a
child," Teller says. "Alfred Hitchcock
and Edgar Allen Poe. You can see
what kind of kid I was. I always loved
amazing things."
lious Penn teamed up witb Teller, an
Amherst graduate who was then, of
all things, a high school Latin teacher.
They met through a mutual friend,
and found theirs was a marriage of
true minds. Both were trained magi
cians who scorned conventional magic
shows. "There's an implied insult in
going out on stage and saying, T can
do this, and you can't,'" Penn says,
"especially when you have in your au
dience heart surgeons and people who
can repair cars."
Teller loved the way Penn con
sumed knowledge and spat it out. "He
was incredibly energetic, and very,
very, very brilliant," Teller says, "and
I was surprised by how much I had to
learn from him. He knows about
things that no one else in the world
does."
Penn loved the way Teller con
sumed needles and spat them out. "I
was really completely blown away by
the needles," Penn says. "It was such
a cool thing to do."
The teacher and the teenager spent
several nights talking all night. "We
would come up with ideas that were
better than ideas I would have by my
self," Teller says. They decided to
team up eleven years ago.
To work together, on street corners
^^Who else is obsessed
with death and horror
and does comedy?"
a s k s Te l l e r .
and in less profitable places. Teller
had to give up teaching Latin in Law
rence Township, New Jersey, Penn
had to give up washing dishes at a
Howard Johnson's in New York City,
and both had to give up eating regu
larly and sleeping in familiar beds.
They took their act on the road and
not only polished it, but also expanded
it. They added a third man named
Wier Chrisener, the son of a minister.
(Penn was the son of a former prison
guard. Teller the son of an artist.)
As a team, "Penn & Teller & Wier"
would have looked (and sounded)
weird, so they called themselves the
Asparagus Valley Cultural Society.
The AVCS put in three years in the
late 1970s stalking one theater in San
Francisco, eating regularly and sleep
ing in familiar beds.
"We were asked then to audition
for Saturday Night Live, Penn re-

18 MARCH 1986 GAMES


calls. "We said no. We were very
frightened of TV. People were getting
burned out and destroyed on TV,
some literally, some figuratively. I
just didn't want to go crazy and die."
T h e AV C S d i e d . W i e r w a n t e d o u t .
"He was a classical musician with a
wonderful sense of humor, one of the
funniest people I've ever seen on
stage," Penn says. "But we had very
different goals. One of the differences
was that he wanted to have a life out
side the show, and Teller and I didn't.
He was a more well-rounded human
On a PBS special, Penn & Teller teach
a trick anyone can perform at home.
First, while your eyes are cfosed, have
a friend choose a card from a deck,
look at it, and return it to the deck.
By a certain trick, you secretly know
the card he picks is the three of clubs.
(You'll have to see the PBS show to
know how that's done.) Next, you in
correctly guess his card and feign dis
appointment. Then, pretend to turn on
the TV, but instead turn on a prere
corded tape on your VCR (oh, yes, you
need one of those). On the tape, a
newsman, in the middle of a broadcast,
will hold up a three of clubs and say,
"Is this your card?" Your friend will
be astonished.
being, which was his major fault."
The last Penn heard, Wier was work
ing with computers in Trenton.
Reduced to Penn & Teller, the pair
resisted all attempts, and temptations,
to be pigeon-holed. "Everybody al
ways thought it would be much easier
to sell us if we would be one thing,"
Penn says. "A comedy act. Or a magic
act. And I firmly believe that if we
had done that six or seven years ago,
we would have done much better six
or seven years ago. But now we've
Do you know
the secret
yel?
enn & Tellei like to play a
■ game called "The Secret
Yet," which was inspired by Wier
C h r i s e n e r, t h e t h i r d m e m b e r o f
their old group, the Asparagus
Valley Cultural Society. One day
several years ago, Chrisener's fa
ther said to him, "A guy told me
the weirdest joke. It made no
sense. He came up to me and said,
'Where he makes his liquor is a se
cret yet.' Then he laughed and
walked away."
Chrisener thought about the sen
tence for an hour, then turned to
his father and said, "Dad. Still.
Where he makes his liquor is a se
cret still."
To create a "Secret Yet," start
with a humorous sentence or
thought and replace a word or a
phrase with a synonym so that the
humor is lost.
For example: The sign said, "Be
Careful, the Camel Spits," and I
was."
Readers are invited to play The
Secret Yet by sending their exam
ples to Games. Any Secret Yets
that we print in the magazine will
be rewarded with a MOFO the Psy
c h i c G o r i l l a T- s h i r t .
*The sign said, "Beware [Be
where ...], the Camel Spits," and I
was. — T. S. and D. S.
got ourselves in a position where if
people want to see Penn & Teller,
they've got to come see Penn & Teller.
There's no competition. The name of
t h e s h o w i s P e n n & Te l l e r . T h e d e
scription of the show is Penn &
Te l l e r . "
Penn & Teller, as Penn says on
stage, are "just a couple of eccentric
guys who happen to know how to do a
couple of cool things," but they have
their own trademarks. Penn, for in
stance, has one fingernail painted a fi
ery red; he has given up the eye
makeup he wore as a teenager. Teller,
who won't talk on stage (except as
MOFO), also won't tell his first name;
he says he has forgotten it. Teller also
says, despite his expressive silences,
that he doesn't like mime. "There is no
one on the planet who likes mime,"
Penn suggests.
They dress in conventional, almost
staid isusiness suits to perform their
unconventional act, during which they
violate one magician's convention by
revealing the secret of some of their
numbers, including the cup-and-ball
trick (the act of demystification
proves even more mystifying than the
trick). Nor do they fiaunt a female as
sistant in a revealing costume (which
P e n n & Te l l e r & m o s t w o m e n fi n d o f
fensive). They work the lobby be
tween shows, hawking MOFO T-shirts
and mingling with the customers, who
vary remarkably in age, outfit, and
attitude.
T h a t i s P e n n & Te l l e r ' s r e a l t r a d e
mark: The way they interact with
their diverse audiences, bringing spec
tators into the act, making them ac
complices, never foils; involving them,
never embarrassing them. "If I get a
real hard-core punk with a blue Mo
hawk to throw a dart in the Bible
number," Penn says, "I will not say a
word about how he looks. One of the
things I'm proud of is that nobody is
insulted." This way. Teller says, "a lot
of the audience become players. It's
not competitive. Everybody wins."
Penn & Teller are, clearly, the big
winners, their careers soaring to the
point where Penn (who, like Teller,
has never taken an acting lesson or
appeared in a play) this season was of
fered a role on Miami Vice—a neat
trick that a lot of actors would love to
learn.
Trish and Dick Schaap have collaborated on sever
al articles and two children. He Is the author of 24
books, Including, most recently, "Distant Replay,"
with former football player Jerry Kramer.
W H AT N E m BY SCOTT MARLEY

The people and objects in each of the five rows at right are arranged in a logical
sequence. Can you figure out each pattern and pick the item below that would cor
rectly continue the sequence? Careful: Two of the items in the answer group are
red herrings. Answer Drawer, page 58

From the pictures below, pick the image that

completes each of the five sequences at right.
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the famed Jade Excalibur has at last been discovered ber. The excavators are about to find the 28 additional
after existing for centuries in darkness. But the huge, objects listed below. Can you locate them all?
stone-carved sword is not the only treasure concealed Answer Drawer, page 62

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frog prince

snake's head

king's face

crossbow and
shaft

three knight's
shields

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instruments

GAMES MARCH 1986

 Edited by Will Shortz

The Spiral * ★
by Will Shortz

This puzzle turns in two directions. The spiral's Inward clues in the answers, one letter per space, according to the num
yield a sequence of words to be entered counterclockwise in bers beside the clues. Keep track of which way you're going
the spaces from 1 to 100. The Outward clues yield a different and have many happy returns.
set of words to be entered clockwise from 100 back to 1. Fill Answer Drawer, page 61

1 - 7 Go back over, as steps

8 - 1 2 Religious headdress, in
Britain
1 3 - 1 8 1 9 6 6 fi l m F a n t a s t i c
1 9 - 2 4 Mozart composition
2 5 - 2 9 Kind of candle or numeral
3 0 - 3 6 Strike a match
3 6 - 4 2 Near, in effect
4 3 - 4 8 Relative of the clam
4 9 - 5 5 Overwhelmed, as by a
fl o o d
5 6 - 6 3 Shirley, of Terms of
Endearment
64-69 Spotted gamepiece
7 0 - 8 0 Much to be lamented
8 1 - 8 7 Studied, at the last minute
8 8 - 9 6 Military assistant (hyph.,
var.)
97-100 Shopping haven

100-96 Hobo
9 5 - 9 1 Sprayed, as demonstrators
90-85 Jeweled headband
84-79 Mime Marceau
" up!" (umpire's cry)
78-73
7 2 - 6 5 Parachutist's opening?
6 4 - 5 9 Repudiation
5 8 - 5 3 New Jersey city near
Philadelphia
52-45 Uncaptioned
44-39 German vowel mark
38-31 Spellbinding, as a book
30-22 Female lover
21-15 Bouquet
14-7 Extra play period
6-1 Reagan's predecessor

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a correspondingly spelled symbol. Thus, the word random abandon has been circled to get you started. Finding the rest
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26 MARCH 1986 GAMES

 by Stanley Newman
Calling Mr. Fixit
43 Owns 9 Skin problem
c m 9 44 Stuck-up person 10 Very much In love

m
1 start of a play: 45 Conclude logically 11 Needing Mr. FIxIt:
2 wds. 46 Alternative to 2 wds.
5 Comment of a daugfiter 1 2 Major (Big
boredom 47 Hullabaloo Dipper)
10 Social sllgtit dancers 13 Item on an Indian
14 Great blessing 48 Ready, as beer In necklace
15 Actress Massey a barrel: 2 wds. 18 Wriggly fishes
16 Additional 50 Did ttie butterfly
52 Autfior Agatfia
22 The (Dutch
2 6 2 7 2 8 l l j j K|29g 303 0 ■■p i
17 Needing Mr. FIxIt; city)
2 wds. 55 Clears the board 24 Needing liniment 34 ■■ 3 5
19 " Long 59 City near Warsaw 2 6 Gras
Long Way to 60 Needing Mr. FIxIt: 27 Hunter 3 77
3 ■■ ■■
8 8 39 |||B
l l j4K0o ~
TIpperary": 2 wds I 3 wds. constellation
20 Low sock 6 2 To w a r d h a r b o r 28 Needing Mr. FIxIt:
21 Miser 6 3 -the-moon 3 wds.
23 Bergman's 64 May auto race, for 3 0 " l a u g h s
Casablanca role short last ...": 2 wds.
25 Former treaty 65 Actor Bruce of 32 "Same here!":
2 wds.
group, for sfiort
26 Jupiter's lo and
Coming Home
66 Dark bluish-gray 33 Knife wounds ^ 5^ 1^15^58
Europa, e.g. 67 Times of one's life 35 Down In the
29 Guevara dumps
31 Bacteria 36 Kin of srs.

m
62
34 "Snug as a bug 38 Male deer
In 2 wds. 1 Swedish pop 39 Scottish Johns
65
35 "Ttiar group 42 Inhabitant
blows!" 2 It grows on ears 44 Neighbor of
3 Seized Answer Drawer, page 61
36 Pleasure trip Ethiopia
37 Slower, In music: 4 The slightest Idea 46 1984 film This Is
A b b r. 5 TIpoffs Tap 52 Clothed 56 Participate In a 58 "The. . the
38 Needing Mr. FIxIt 6 Adjective for 47 Clothes 53 Part of a choir limit!"
40 Gall day: Methuselah 49 Parts of doughnut 57 Author of The 61 Batter's or
2 wds. 7 Owl's cry molecules 54 Sicilian Neverending songwriter's
41 Ttilngamajig 8 Ill-advised 51 Teeny- volcano Story goal

Ywein One by John Roberls

It takes a bit of doublethink to complete this quiz. The answer answer double vision, while "Tennis blunder" would be a
to each clue below is a word, phrase, or name beginning with double fault. When you're finished, you can double-check
DOUBLE. For example, the clue "Seeing disorder" leads to the your answers with the Answer Drawer, pagess

1. London bus. 10. Chewing gum brand.

2. Photographer's goof. 11 . B a c k - t o - b a c k m o v i e s .

3. Betray 12. Outing for two couples.

4. Pair of baseball games. 13. Baseball fielding coup _

5. Baseball creator Abner. 14. Pun, especially if risqu6.

6. Type on every other line. 15. Old $20 gold piece

7. Duplicitous spy 16. Reason for a windshield ticket.

8. Gobbledegook 17. Subjection to a second trial

9. Illegal basketball action. 18. DNA shape

GAMES MARCH 1986 27

 SollfCill^ Hcm^mCIII by R. Wayne Schmittberger
As in the two-player version of Hangman, the object of this solitaire
challenge Is to guess the Identity of a word before being "hanged." LETTER CHART
To begin, choose any letter of the alphabet you think might be In
word 1. Suppose you pick n. Go to the letter chart on the right and 1 II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
find the number listed in row n of column 1 (because you are working
on word 1). The number Is 10; you now look In box number 10 In the a 1 3 3 9 11 63 1 9 31 14 3 7 41 4 2
Position Chart at the bottom of the page and find the number 4. This
means the letter n occurs In the fourth position (and nowhere else) In B 6 0 21 4 2 5 7 4 3 5 7 4 51 43 2 0
word 1. If a letter occurs more than once In a word, the Position Chart
will show all Its locations. C 23 3 7 6 9 52 35 15 32 3 5 37 4 7
If you find a 0 In the Position Chart, then that letter does not appear
I \ In the word. As a penalty for an Incorrect guess, you must D 7 2 2 3 5 8 3 0 21 74 39 7 64 78
draw part of a stick figure below the scaffold beside the
6 5 11 4 5 4 3 1 5 12 4 2 8 61 4
^ word blsecond,
anks. On your first Incorrect guess, draw the head; ^
/\^ on-Lthe the body; and on the next four, the arms
legs. If you complete the figure (that Is, make six Incorrect
and p 4 7 6 7 51 15 23 53 78 62 76 39
guesses) before Identifying the word, you are "hanged." q 7 6 54 53 4 7 28 76 6 4 76 6 6 4 3
If you can Identify seven of the 10 words below before being
hanged, you're a real pro. Answer Drawer, page62 H 21 27 3 39 56 58 8 0 4 78 6 6
1 62 6 2 7 3 6 3 4 3 9 41 5 3 51 63
1. '
A/ *
^
J 2 5 1 5 4 3 51 2 5 33 72 4 3 39 25
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
r - T

K 7 5 8 7 6 9 6 2 69 4 8 0 22 80
I I

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 L 51 4 9 5 3 7 6 6 6 11 2 5 58 15

M 3 8 29 54 2 7 33 19 3 3 7 0 4 2 3
III
1 2 3 4 5 6 N 1 0 5 2 4 7 21 66 29 17 39 23 9

0 49 36 75 75 9 43 47 30 6 2 7 4
IV
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 P 4 31 6 2 48 2 7 4 7 9 7 2 9
•—S

V Q
I 3 9 4 7 7 2 6 2 4 7 51 5 8 6 4 6 9 21
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R 31 7 3 5 3 7 3 9 2 3 4 3 1 3 19 7 2

VI 8 7 4 4 3 1 5 4 6 51 64 9 2 6 72 30
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
T 9 2 2 21 23 2 2 7 5 5 11 21 76
VII
U 29 7 64 54 4 3 9 25 7 2 74 69
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
V 5 3 3 3 3 2 2 9 2 9 7 2 1 5 21 25 27
VIII. 1
l/V 11 7 4 2 72 53 78 27 4 7 2 76
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1—1

X 1 5 51 74 64 4 80 62 54 9 33
IX.
Y 6 4 7 8 3 9 31 6 7 54 8 7 3 47 44
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 _>
'

z 2 7 8 0 7 6 5 8 7 8 2 4 21 2 3 5 4 7
X
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 II III IV V VI VII VIII I X X

POSITION CHART

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2 0 21 2 2 23 2 4 25 2 6 2 7
1 2 3
0 7 0 8 0 4 0 1,4,8 7 4 0 8 3 8 2 1,3 0 5 0 5,6 0 1 0
2.8 1 2 3,6
3 8 39 4 0 41 4 2 43 44 45 46 47 4 8 4 9 50 51 52 5 3 5 4
28 2 9 30 31 3 2 3 3 3 4 35 3 6 37
4 0 3 6 2 0 4 4,6 1 0 2 2,3 1 0 8 0 0
8 0 6 0 5 0 6 3 7 1.8
6 9 7 0 71 72 73 74 75 7 6 77 78 79 8 0 81
55 56 57 58 59 6 0 61 8 2 6 3 6 4 6 5 6 6 6 7 6 8

0 5 0 - 6 7 1 7 0 5 6 0 2 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 2
1,7 4 4 0 7 5 3,8

A book of all-new Solitaire Hangman puzzles is now available from Gamss. See Answer Drawer for ordering information.

28 MARCH 1986 GAMES

«niaft"New"?
43 Cook, as potato 8 Location
C S > chips 9 Kiss
1 Employ UPS 48 Mikado character 10 Floly fish?
5 Stockpile 49 "There oughta be 11 Actress Massey
10 Modern missile, I": 2 wds. 12 Wisconsin city or
for short 50 Singer Fitzgerald college
14 Zhivago's love 51 Covered walk 13 Opinions
15 Saw 5 4 A b s t a i n e r ' s c h o i c e 21 Gin and
16 Others, In the 58 See puzzle title: 22 Candle feature
Forum 4 wds. 28 Small quantity
17 Mrs. Osiris 80 " Anything" 27 Kitchen utensils:
18 " a (Ollverl song): 2 wds.
customer": 2 wds. 2 wds. 28 Upstairs,
19 Deal with a 81 Use jumper cables Downstairs role
problem 8 2 Ti m e a n d t i m e 29 " hollers, let
20 See puzzle title: again? him go": 2 wds.
4 wds. 83 Fleavyweight 30 "Rule, Britannia"
23 Pulsating composer
■ 84 Spinks
Bounty or
24 Wins big, with "up' 32 Butter serving
2 5 Ta k e P i n a f o r e ' . A b b r. 34 Mausoleum
(snooze): 2 wds. 8 5 Va u l t e d r o o f 35 Samoan port
27 Singe 38 Solldarno§6
28 "Moon Over l e a d e r Wa l e s a
38 Richthofen and
31 Anti-smog grp. Mickey to RIckenbacker:
33 Steel or strontium (drug): 2 wds. 2 wds.
37 See puzzle title: 2 Attacks: 2 wds. 3 9 feet
2 wds. 3 Dublin natives (dancer's
40 Him In Fleidelberg 4 Dell meat Ineptitude): 2 wds
41 Following behind: 5 Microscopic 4 4 1 9 7 0 O s c a r fi l m Answer Drawer, page 61
2 wds. creature 45 Dart about 5 1 S a n d c a s t l e r ' s 5 3 Ta k e I t f r o m t h e 57 Upward trend
42 " see you 8 Jazz flutist Flerble 47 Miscellaneous need top 59 Punch sound,
real soon ..." 7 X and Y, on a collection 52 Word In many 55 Long lunch? In comic
48 Misanthropy "shoppe" names 58 Class action? books
(old TV phrase) graph

Word Stairs by N. M. Meyer

Each set of six-letter words below has some letters missing. into the first set you form rumble, grumpy, strums, and quo
Complete the words by inserting the same three-ietter word rum. How many of the others can you get?
into the four blanks in the set. For example, by inserting rum Answer Drawer, page 60

Ex. A B L E 3. V E 6. A L D

G P Y T 0 N 0 R Y

S T A A A S A G A S P E

Q u n R U M A S C R A T

1. G E T 4. T S Y 7. 0 I L

S V E S R Y O E R

R 0 Y S E E E X D
G U 1 0 0 N H A P

2. D L E 5. L E R 8. A C T

B G E W 0 N D L E
S T E S C Y S K Y
F L 0 I N F S H R ,

GAMES MARCH 1986 29

 Find the Mole ★ ★ by Denys Parsons
A Secret Message Cipher
Sir Horace Smithers, the British Ambassador in Moscow, perfectly well we're expecting news from London. MIS has
was apoplectic. got wind of a mole in the embassy here. This cable should
"It's a scandal," he shouted at the cipher clerk. "You know give us his name, but it's quite unreadable. What's wrong?"

B - S E E

S P

H V I - S M
0 R M

T S S - - E ■

"It's the new computer-decoder. Sir Horace," the cipher "Well, I could probably retrieve them from a remote corner
cierk stammered. "Bugs in it still." of the computer's memory—but they'd only print out in alpha
"Computer-decoder? What was wrong with the mechani b e t i c a l o r d e r. "
cal decoder we've been using since the days of Queen Vic "Get cracking and give me that printout. Maybe I can re
toria? Never gave us any trouble." construct the message."
"It was a bit slow, you know." Indeed, the Ambassador was successful. Here are the let
"Better slow but sure. What's happened to the letters the ters the computer had filtered out. What was the name of the
computer has filtered out?" mole?

A A A A A A C D D E E E E E E . E F

F G G H H I I I I I J L L M M M N

N N N N N N N 0 0 0 0 0 0 D P R R

R R S S T T T T T T T T U U Y Y Y

Answer Drawer, page 61

Cube Routes by Keith Ringkamp

In this puzzle it actually helps to have a mental block. Below identically constructed but oriented differently. Can you pick
are three cubes made from arrows. Two of the cubes are them out? Answer Drawer, page 58

30 MARCH 1986 GAMES

Movie Game by Merl Reagle

csin>
1 N o t e d Va n B u r e n
S Part of an auto,
for short
9 Scale items:
Abbr.
12 Certain bows
19 Eurytus's
daughter
20 Supt.'s home,
often
21 Hebrew judge
22 Snared
23 Film starring
Sarah Miles, not
latum O'Neal
26 Dodgers' Tommy
27 Fido reproach
28 Film starring
Humphrey
Bogart, not
Jimmy Connors
30 Poet's
preposition
31 Make of
(botch)
33 Medieval guild:
Va r.
34 Hiii-dweiier
35 Welsh valley
36 Encircled
37 Pianist Myra
38 Fountain order
40 "Apologize
" (Beatles

lyric)
42 Bear genus
44 Richard's veep
4 6 of Good
Feeling
47 Male relative
49 Film starring
Peter Sellers, not
Ansel Adams
■Answer Drawer, page 62
5 2 R e e d , S u m m e r,
etc. 83 Edit 109 Private address? 13 "Literature ... 45 Travel reports? 77 Change for a
53 The rest of 84 Reporter's 11 0 L a b a i d e ' s n a m e half a trade and 48 Part of 7W7W7W fi v e
Mexico? badge word 111 N o t c a r e half ": Inge 47 Bonanza son 7 8 To l l e r
54 Graceless one 8 5 R a c c o o n r e l a t i v e 112 Leases again 14 Bonny girl 48 Used up 80 Atomic theorist
55 Redhead's 86 Doc's request 11 3 Suture 15 From Z 4 9 G o f e r s : A b b r. Arthur
secret? 87 Trendy "without" 11 4 Actor Bruce 18 Film starring 50 Emphatic 81 Pain In the neck
56 Lay (bomb) 88 Swiss capital 11 5 T V T- m a n Charlton Heston, a fi r m a t i v a 85 God
57 Plus 90 Concerning not Steve Martin 51 Play prizes 87 Shoe leathers
58 Following along 93 Henri's his or her 17 Reveled 57 as the hills 88 18-year-old, to
60 Singer Haggard 94 Astronaut 18 Ring warm-up 5 8 W r i t e r Wa l t o n an 8-year-old
61 Film starring Grissom 1 Car safety Item 24 Some pops: Abbr. 5 9 F o r m a l 89 Betroth
G e n e W i l d e r, n o t 95 Ship to 2 Jack Horner's 2 5 E l e v a t i o n s : A b b r. requirement? 91 Braking rockets
Julia Child remember last words 29 Card wastepile 82 Viking symbols 92 Uris bestseller
64 Made a new 97 Urgent message, 3 Film starring 32 Kind of hold 83 Actor Guinness 94 1814 treaty site
offer perhaps Harrison Ford, 35 Like some dorms 85 Film starring 95 Cat's cry
68 Early satellites 98 Some toothpaste not Eric Helden 37 Shades Richard Pryor, 98 Sister of
70 Large halls 99 Film starring 4 Itch 38 Baking glove not Dolly Parton 1-Across

7 1 Loa Tony Randall, 5 Arp's movement 39 Price cut? 88 Arrow poison 97 S.E. HInton novel
7 2 N a v a l r a n k : A b b r. not Bobby 8 Cochise's cohorts 40 Film starring 87 June honorees 9 8 gum (food
75 Slick material? Fischer 7 German bombers Marlon Brando, 89 Reminder additive)
76 Pupil's cover 103 Oklahoma tribe 8 Actresses Uta not Baby LeRoy 72 Japanese exports 99 1982 Disney flick
78 Puckered 104 Not attracted '(by) and Jean 41 Croupier's tool 73 Actor Donald 100 Science org.
79 Film starring Pat 108 Film starring 9 Ignore 43 Film starring 74 Film starring 101 This Is set

Boone, not Robert Taylor, 10 Type of cheese John Wayne, not Tommy Kirk, not 102 Daybreak
Charles Goren not Thorn McAn 11 " D e a r " o n e s Lee Strasberg Billy Martin 105 Salt Lake player
82 Thrills 108 Paint solvent 12 Dormant 44 Like negligees 78 Hee Haw humor 107 Avid attender

GAMES MARCH 1986 31

Mutant Robots From Outer Space
A Timed Observation Puzzle
Jeez, / wish I were the foreman of a toaster factory. When one
of them suckers is defective, it just burns some toast. But
when a faulty robot on this assembly line gets shipped to
earth, it has a tendency to go on a kiiiing rampage. And i get
blamed, i swear, I'm shipping off this lousy space station be
fore i get an ulcer.
Now that foreman Callisto has quit, it's up to you to discov
er the defects in the robots on the conveyor belt. Advance
sensors indicate that 22 of the machines are faulty—that is,
h a v e d i f f e r e n c e s w i t h t h e m o d e l s o n t h e l e f t . Yo u h a v e 2 0
minutes to find them. If you miss any, hundreds of earthiings
will be killed ... and you can forget that vacation on Altair 4.
Answer Drawer, page 62

M o d e l

1.

2 .

3.

32 MARCH 1986 GAMES,

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U L L L L U L I J l J L J U J
L L L U L . L . J J D J J J
L U L i L L U w i J U L U J
u l l l l l j l
L L L L L L L J J J J J
L U L L L U L I J J L J J
L U L j L L L L I J J J J
L L L L L L J J J L J J
6u!^0)| Al||D)| Xq
L L L L L L J J J J U J L L L L L L a u a j U J U U L D L L L l J J J a J
c L L L L u a a a L j a j L L L L L L J J J J J J G l ^ U L L L J J J U U J
L L U U L L J J J U Q J L U L ; C ( - L . a a u u a j c u c i J C C L i a j a a a L L U L L L J J J J U J
j j l i j : - □L : t j U L J L : ^ j ^ u u : . L^CCLJLJLJaaQGaL. ^ L i L C L J U J U L J U U L - □ U U L L C a J J U U a
L L C L L C j a a a u a a C j u c L L L a a j a a j u L i L i u c ; L a a u a G j
U L L L U G a a u a a a C J L L t J U L i J J L J a a J L I U L J I J C L I J J G U G J
U L L J C C L L i a a j j j L L L L - c i j j a a u a j c u c u L L a a j j a j c : t J L : t : L ; L J j G U J a
u c i U C L - L a a a a a a L L L L : i : . L J D u a j a u L L L i L c a a a a a j L l L U U U U J G G U a j
L L C L L C j a a a a a j U L j L C C G a a a j J L ] L D L L L L J J J J G J
L L i L L L C . J J j a a J L L C c j u L L i a a a a a u u D C L i j a a u Q j j L t J L L L L J J J G G J
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 Dszquphsbnt! ** by Sally Porter

Below are seven messages—consisting of pithy sayings, fas to the next, and the level of difficulty increases as you pro
cinating facts, and a cartoon gag—that have been translated gress. An asterisk {*) indicates a proper noun.
into simple code alphabets. Letter substitutions remain con Clues are given at the bottom of the page to provide assis
stant throughout any one cipher, but change from one cipher t a n c e i f y o u n e e d i t . A n s w e r D r a w e r, p a g e 6 1

1. CRYPTOON 4. TIP NOT INCLUDED

BAI LEODO EXN D AM

BYUCWON, COFZXCOT VR EUH

DA VO LANDOT XJ

DUPXBUVN, WXGON BZNDAIOC

"MUCO" HUCJXJW.

5 . TO U R I S T AT T R A C T I O N ?

XEBWUI ZTDCT-FTQIN UNITCID

DPEZZL DCTUQ EV XIAPL-

JTQIS ZWID, HWBWXH NWDI

CE PITXWXH CEAIN EV Z W K K T.

6. FRENCH TWIST

L B M D P Y V M Y J B L F

MCWTVYPYPCG XCB

ZVNPRGPGR *TLBPN ALB

WCGJWVGY WPRDY DLKV

TBCZJMVZ "LBMD" BPKLFN.

7 . C AV E AT E M P TO R

PRLGVDVYVBL MVCK NVWP

US ESF FOD HSAF HSJBER

YVDP SVBM FBHVCM

HSHDEFA SP SZW CBJDA

YVHXPCN YCPVL TQVBTP VL

PBEU ZA MCC YBFOSZF

TCVTXPK ZWVLPN VBK

YSWUA? — *HMWXDC
F B S V LT Q P K TFZN.

* H M W X D M Z
TIPS AND CLUES
Cipher 1: The one-letter word is I and the eighth word ends with the
3 . B I G M I S TA K E c o n t r a c t i o n - N ' T.

Cipher 2: Compare ciphertext US and SP. A letter that appears in

ZXVTIA PXAB RTFOA: "CTI both the first and second positions of two-letter words is often O.
Cipher 3: The commonest word in English is THE. It appears twice in
WXD BLPP EB'A DTB X this cryptogram.
Cipher 4: Ciphertext 0, which is the last or next-to-last letter of eight
WTFXP ADXSL. BML CLPPTR words, is likely to be an E.
Cipher 5: See hints #2 and #4.
Cipher 6: Compare word endings -PCG and -PGR. Try suffixes -ION
HXDOA XFL REOLF BMXD BML and -ING.

Cipher 7: Two of the common vowels, I and 0, do not appear In this

H P X W S , " cryptogram.

34 MARCH 1986 GAMES

Cryptic Crosswords
Each clue In a cryptic crossword contains two parts: a defini to solving. Watch for anagrams, hidden words, charades of
tion of the answer and a second description of it through two or more smaller words, and other language tricks. Puzzle
wordplay. Finding the dividing point between parts is the key 2 i s h a r d e r t h a n P u z z l e 1 . A n s w e r D r a w e r, p a g e 6 0

Puzxle 1 by Scott Mar ley 7

19 No faction 3 Expert in a ■
J
■
c m s backing inventor department (5)
1 Gale Storm upset (6) 4 Dividend-earning
by pollution
warning (4,5)
22 Guru did
breaststroke near
stocks win
affection (6) 12
■ ■
6 Small, heated India's capital (5) 5 Insert ad.
group of 24 Repair 1 do on rewritten, for used
bees (5) taxi for rusting (9) appliances (5-3)
9 Magazine's use is 2 6 Bandit's road 6 Street, river, and 16

unusual (5) speed varied (9) so on, he'd made

10 Doctor one 27 Float aimlessly at longer (9)
charms in speed start of day, then 7 A man from 18

competitions split (5) Edinburgh at

(4, 5) 28 Sounds like horserace in
11 Excellent pastries authors giving England (5) 1
brought back in ceremonies (5) 8 Deceive lunatic 22

flames (5-4) 29 Habitual behavior about island (7)

12 It's in the
donation
of silly, silly feet
(9)
14 Hearers tying up
telephone wires.
■ ■
26

(5) being ahead of

13 Paint in the name time (9)
"Lewis" (6) 16 Lack of urbanity ■ H 1
15 Stopped sailing. 1 Sprite with creating corrosion 28

and is holding job

(8)
flippers coming
up at sign of cold
at one metropolis
(9)
1
18 Speaking device (7) 17 On or in mail mixed (7) 21 Argument about state at place (5)
needing no metric 2 On the lookout for 20 Tan teen dancing post office sign 25 Sedan breaking
train, of a sort (8)
conversion job not begun by 18 One who knows a with Miss Fabray (3-3) down in
(8) maid (9) secret resin I'd (7) 23 Holding a head of mountains (5)

Puzzle 2 by loin Turvey

17 In fairy tales, 2 French state
ciim> wicked woman saved up-
1 Special treatment tempts hero into spelling ruin (9)
to bring up pet trouble (10) 3 Skillful? For a
around 18 It's bound not to d o c t o r, t h e r e ' s
Washington (3,6) be heard (4) nothing to it (6)
6 Send payment for 21 Picnicked between 4 Cult member
clock that's lake and river, holding inhabitant,
returned (5) down the road (5) concerned with
9 Not like frogmen 23 Single van world leader (9,6)
at middle of smashed up 5 Scatter the ghosts
ocean (7) getting to work (9) unless being
10 Having spoken 24 Crowd clutching inconsiderate (15)
a b o u t n o i s e fi r s t , at a mail-order 6 Light engineer
for example (7) offering (7) and I entering
11 Breathing in when 25 Food expert to marathon (8)
t h e fl o w e r s a r e cook pie and 7 Make small
out around one prepare meat (7) pieces out of
(9) 26 Start of trouble: them in
12 It's caught by Mom left Dad in celebration (5)
dealer treading on Florida city (5) 8 Russian author
one's toes (5) 27 Assents, in rioting, rewriting "lost"
13 Listen to cad ■ to form unpleasant play (7)
make sound state (9) 15 Doctor led outing
(4) to find geographic
14 "Very enthralling position (9) 17 Ask in order to be one grand (7) 22 Child and me,
time," I cry out, 16 Raging bull, mare allowed (7) 20 At turning, run into coming up with
going up and 1 Rosy caviar, for in shelter from 19 Predatory female one tropical island symbol
down (10) example? (7) storm (8) put lock around (6) (5)

For tips on solving cryptic crosswords, send a stamped return envelope to: "Cryptic Solving Guide," Games, 515 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10022.

GAMES MARCH 1986 35

 Double Cross by Michael Ashley

Answer the clues for words to be entered on the numbered words In the quotation. Work back and forth between grid
dashes. Then transfer the letters on the dashes to the corre- and word list to complete the puzzle. When you are done, the
spondingly numbered squares in the puzzle grid to spell a initial letters of the words in the word list will spell the author's
quotation reading from left to right. Black squares separate name and the source of the quotation. Answer Drawer, pageei

A. Faithfulness L. Troops, as a
12 25 76 11 2 11 7 184 166 10 60 78 98 11 3 127 169 181
group

B. Cast light
upon 4 11 21 35 53 116 126 143 154 190 M. Heroine Of A
Thousand and 65 1 150 22 97 59 102 29 40
C. West Side One Nights
103 70 48 64 80 179 167 92 125
Story actress 31 135 49

(2 wds.)
160 57 N. Bees' "pantry"
46 86 144 69 94 51 106 9 75
D. Conductor
Otto, the "72 T52 ~2 "58 ~34 T34 17 TTT ~85 O. Sprites
39 137 173 122
f a t h e r, o r
a c t o r W e r n e r, p. Poker variant
the son 105 73 161 3 47 26 14 177 36 87
(2 wds.)

Q. Shabby,
E. Syria, Lebanon, 28 178 91 101 172 11 5 11 4
and Israel, 176 136 19 77 50 100 unkempt
collectively R. Capital of
20 165 99 138 71 121 130 168 175 187
F. Site of the Ethiopia
8 3 2 6 2 6 6 111 1 2 4 1 5 7 1 4 6 1 6 4 1 8 8 (2 wds.)
English Derby
(2 wds.) S. Changeless
18 54 11 8 174 189 163 132 139 147
G . Dramatic basis
for Kiss Me 108 95 41 155 55 24 131 67 182 T. Thick, as heads
Kate (with Word or trees 23 90 56 109 79

"H"; 3 wds.) 171 44

U. Tattles (on)
H. See "G" 61 96 133 140 170
4 5 9 3 1 0 4 11 9 1 2 8 1 4 8 1 5 3 1 8 6
(2 wds.) V. A w k w a r d
74 43
'• situation, 159 183 83 7 16 151 33
Lady sheep often described
13 63 129 145
as "fine" (hyph.)
J. Debris
42 107 6 120 81 27 W. Get entry to,
as computer 37 68 123 142 162
K. Merchant
data
Frank W., 149 82 185 5 156 52 38 180 15

chain store X. The best

founder 158 11 0 84 30

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Calling dom drawing from among the correct entries. To be eligible
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It's time to pick up your pencils for 18, 1986. Complete rules for entering appear beneath the
thie fiftti Games Magazine/Merriam-Web-
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The First Step ★★★ by Mike Shenk

51 Cne Deadly 94 Kind of dust or 141 Resident of 36 Sirocco's 87 Kin of
c n m Sin ray London's s o u r c e doughnuts
1 Ferrari, e.g. 5 3 F o r m s f o r fi a t s 96 Pragmatic one theater district 38 Brewing need. 89 Superlative
10 Have back 54 Dressing aide 97 Mole, perhaps 142 "Suddenly perhaps s u f fi x e s
trouble, of a 55 Crganic 98 Monticello part Last Summer" 39 Voices one's 91 Computer
sort sugars 99 Like the moors rock group disapproval comment to a
1 9 " Yo u c a n 57 Dune rarity at night 40 Mans the helm bad typist
to ..." 59 Basketball 100 Pam, of Mork 42 Used a toaster 93 Printer's tool
20 Paper Moon player and MIndy o v e n 94 Egypt's ..
actress 61 Shook a tail? 103 Daytime show 1 Individuals 43 Cola bottle Church
22 Porch props 62 Noteworthy 105 Hall-of-Famer 2 20 (duel inscription 95 Seize
23 From time to 66 Curve cutter Muslal ers' distance) 46 Matador's foe 98 Recorder
time 68" Heart 106 Did testi 3 Bouquet 48 Showed up button
25 Counterfeit ache" (Bonnie monials for 4 Merlin CIsen, 50 Turfs 100 Cooper role of
passer Tyler hit) 11 0 C h o w 1962-76 52 Catchphrase 1936
26 1970 Beatles 69 What some 11 2 B a n a n a s 5 Mormons of the 1900s 101 Shrewd
hit caretakers 11 4 L o o s e n 6 In due time 56 What a stitch! 102 Autumn apple
28 Grandson, to mind 116 Penna. 7 Wizard 58 Cupids 104 Rating scale,
Gretei 70 Dreamy sleep. neighbor Island's setting 59 Leaves often
29 iVIaj.'s superior for short 11 7 P e r e n n i a l 8 Wine city of 60 Poll topic 107 Girlfriend
31 Sharpens 71 Martini extras puzzle birds Italy 62 Yale's bulldog. 108 Song classic
32 Commanded 72 The Wild 11 8 M a k e s t h e 9 T a k e fi v e e.g. "Gome Down
33 Book Swans at score even 10 Imbued (in) 63 Close's co-star M a

supplement Coole poet 1 2 1 A f fi x e d o n e ' s 11 W. C . in Jagged Star"

36 Actress 7 4 M r. B a n d l e a d e r John Hancock 1 2 M i n e r a l s u f fi x Edge 109 Inferno author
Thompson of 76 Moviehouse 122 Envisioned 13 Virtuous quality 64 Far from strict 111 Be surprised
Family 77 Boobytrapped, 123 Active fellow 14 Actress Blake 65 Arab chieftains by
37 Horned as a harbor 124 "The circular 15 Famed boxing 66 Drive 11 3 Wa r e h o u s e
Egyptian 78 Sioux Indian fi l e " promoter 67 Moved in and worker
goddess 79 Miracle on 125 Big to-do 16 Last volume. o u t o f t r a f fi c 115 Long, for short
38 Turkic 34th Street 126 Bloodhound's often 69 Word with 11 9 "God
language setting trail 17 Mark of square or oat John 4:8
39 "... sailed 80 Shady lady of 127 Pop's girl approval 73 Iron and BronZe120 Actress Merkel
blue" Rain 128 Danny 18 Give the axe 75 Red-white- 122 Scrawny critters
40 Became 81 Receipt stamp Thomas's 19 Like the king and-blue 124 CId river of
attentive 82 Mary Poppins daughter of the jungle 76 Discoverer of Nicaragua
41 Wrestling c r e a t o r P. L . 129 Province- 21 Pinpoints the St. 126 Love Story
victory 84 Serf town's site 22 What's-his-name Lawrence author
42 She "got a 85 Little Big Man 132 Drew 24 Small bump 78 Hymn 128 Nothing more
new pair of author Barrymore's 25 PInta and accompaniment than
* shoes" in a 8 6 i n fl a t a b l e £7. role Pinafore 80 Zoo barker 130 H.S. exam
'58 song item? 133 Reprimanded 27 Cry to Cratchit 82 "I've had it up 131 Delineate
44 Bombshell 87 Hobgoblins 137 Have a profit 30 Murmansk 132 Horror movie
Diana 88 Give auditions coming natives 83 Restaurateur offering
45 See a shrink 90 Gives an 139 Part of classy 32 Swinging, fellows To o t s 134 Plains Indian
47 Suety salt ultimatum New Yo r k 34 Combined, as 84 Cveract 135 Additionally
49 Aardvark's 92 Cffer addresses investments 85 Like some 136 Take to court
supper assistance 140 "Behave!" 35 Eggy colors circus ladies 138 "The Boy King"

38 MARCH 1986 GAMES

 Answer in the July issue

How to Enter Mail your Qualifying Puzzle solution to and from the tournament, and for their lodging, drawn at random, and a prize of $500 awarded to
(on either this sheet or a fascimile) to: Games Maga- but there wiil be no registration fee for the finals. t h e w i n n e r.
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Madison Ave., New York, NY 10022. If you are en to New York for the finals may enter their solutions "Participant" if you would like to be eligible for the
tering in the Participant Category, piease inciude a to the Qualifying Puzzle in the Nonparticipant Cate August finals, or "Nonparticipant" if you would like
check or money order (payabie to Games) for $5 to gory. One correct Nonparticipant's solution will be your entry to go into the $500 drawing.
cover the printing and processing of Tiebreaker
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18, 1986. Name
Tiebreaker Puzzles In the first week of May, Par
(please print)
ticipants who have correctly solved the Qualifying
P u z z i e w i i l b e m a i l e d f o u r Ti e b r e a k e r s . E a c h c o n Street
testant wiii have two weeks from the date of the
mailing to complete and postmark the Tiebreaker State ZIP
solutions.
City
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 Sales Figures by Robert Leighton

We went to the 7-11 on Route 55 in our Saab Turbo 2000 ... were looking for—but better shoppers will see that we were
and by the time we got there, we were so numb to numbers at sixes and sevens. Can you restore order in the market-
that we couldn't write our shopping list. Here are 12 items we place by reassigning to each product its original number?
Answer Drawer, page 62

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A couple has two children, at least

one of whom is a boy. What are the
odds that the older of the two is a
girl? Since the older child can only'
be one sex or the other, the odds
must be 50-50, right?
Wrong, if the stated conditions
were that the younger child is a boy,
then it would indeed be a 50-50
proposition that the older is a girl,
since there would be only two possi
ble combinations—either two boys or
a girl and a boy. But since it's un
known whether the younger child is
; JCI3S Paradoxical probability problems
like this one can usually be solved by
looking beneath the obvious and an
alyzing the actual possibilities. In the
five puzzles below, you are asked to
CAN YOU OBEY do just that. In each case, you are of
.THE LAWS OF PROBABILITY? fered an even-money bet. There's no
tricky wording, loaded dice, marked
•W BY SAUL JAY SINGER
cards, or any other form of decep
tion. Just make sure you understand
boys; two, that the older is a boy, the the terms before deciding whether or
younger a girl; three, that the older is not to take the bet. Get them all right,
a girl, the younger a boy (they can't and you're a real wizard of odds.
both be girls). So the chances are Answer Drawer, page 58

male or female, there are three pos only one in three that the older child Saul Jay Singer is a free-iance writer and an actuary
sibilities: one, that both children are is a girl—that is, 2 to 1 against. in Maryland.

TMIiDII: IS CAST M AT S O I = l = Y C U T. I . I = I . I P 0

'ou and an ■you and a friend

I remove your I fact that if you flip a
opponent al
ternate throwing a hats, and a third coin enough times, it will,
pair of dice until person places in on average, land heads up
one of you loses. each of them seven .. half the time. The more

Yo u r o p p o n e n t playing cards, ace times it's flipped, the closer

loses if he throws through 7. (Suits the probability comes to
either a 7 or a 12. are irrelevant; only the numbers matter). exactly 50 percent. Sup
You lose if you You and your friend turn your backs pose somebody offers to
throw a 7. He of while the third person mixes the cards in bet you even money that
fers to bet you each hat and then randomly picks five in at least one of three

even money that cards from your friend's hat and three s e t s o f 2 0 fl i p s
he will win, and he oards from yours. each, the results
lets you throw Now you must each guess out loud will be exactly 10
first. Should yoy which cards were heads and 10 tails.
take the bet? removed from Are you game?
your own hat (irre
spective of the or
COUNT US IN der in which they DUIELINGDIECKS
were picked). The
whole process will
^Nnehundred ballots are thrown into a
hat andthoroughlymixed up. Seven tbe repeated until
#one of you guess-
I^lerIcretly
es' a sarrange
imple pro
ap ositon: Y52-card
regular ou se-
ty-seven of the ballots are marked deck any way you like. Someone else
• es all the removed
"Jack" and the other 23 are marked shuffles another deck in the usual way.
"Jill." One at a time, the ballots are taken . c a r d s c o r r e c t l y. Both of you simultaneously deal cards
* Although your
out of the hat and tallied. If someone bets one at a time from the
friend has to guess five cards while you
you even money that as the tally mounts. tops of your respective
have to guess only three, he nevertheless
Jack will always be ahead, would you ac- decks, face up.
I ^ cept? It is under offers you even money Would you be will
s t o o d t h a t i f t h e fi r s t that he will correctly
ing to bet even
ballot says Jill, or if guess all the cards re money that the
moved from
the first says Jack two of you wi
and the second his hat before never turn u
you guess all identical cards?
says Jill (producing
the cards re
a tie), you win
moved from
immediately.
yours. What do
you say—is it a ■ .

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 CALL OUR
STRANGE
The Society for the
Restoration and Preservation
of Red M & Ms
While Vislne struggles valiantly to "get
the red out," this organization devotes it
self to getting the red in—in plain and
peanut M & Ms, that is. The society was
founded by Paul Hethmon In 1982, but its
members have, in fact, been outraged
since 1976, the year tfie M & M/Mars
Company stopped making the red can
dies because of the red-dye health scare.
Clearly, to this organization, health mat
ters become secondary when they Inter
fere with hedonistic and aesthetic
pleasures. "The rest of the colors are
pretty dull," says Hethmon. "We need
red In there to liven up the mixture." To
this end, Hethmon and the other 184
members started what he calls a "mild
letter-writing campaign." Which has ap
parently worked because M & M/Mars
has reportedly begun testing red dyes
again. It costs only $2.97 to become a
lifetime member, for which you receive
fi v e s h e e t s o f
o f fi c i a l s t a t i o
nery, one offi
cial wallet-sized
membership
card, and four
issues of The
Red M&M
n e w s l e t t e r.
The Society for the Protection of Old Fishes (S. P. O. O. F.)
Contrary to what you may think, this is
not a group of people dedicated to mak
ing fish comfortable in their sunset years.
No, this is a different kind of old—the
m e m b e r s o f S . P. 0 . O . F. a r e i n t e r e s t e d
in preserving primitive fishes. Their favor
ite old fish is the coelacanth, thought to
be extinct for 60 or 70 million years, until
some fishermen caught one In Michigan
46 MARCH 1986 GAMES
BLUFF JOINS
SOCIETIES
The Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society
The 5,000 members of this group believe
that the Wright brothers' first flight was a
fraud, and every December on that avia
tion anniversary, they gather at Kitty
Hawk in North Carolina to commemor
ate the hoax. They know "deep down in
side that no machine made of tons of
metal is going to 'fly.' " Their motto re
flects the sentiment on which the society
The Diastematic
Club of
A m e r i c a
Here's a club
you can really
sink your teeth
into, but only if
you've got teeth
that don't meet in
front. Membership in this society is re
stricted to those who have a diastema,
the technical term for a gap between the
front teeth. But not just any gap will do.
To become a member, you've got to be
the proud possessor of the mother of all
gaps—one that is at least two millimeters
wide. Club founder Dale Hemple, of Mo
ses Lake, Washington, says that the
group is "not really that serious although
the local paper did do a story on us
once." Still, It claims 350 members, all of
whom signed The Diastematic Code,
which states, in part, that they:
"Never try to hide [their] gap with
[their] hand or other appendage.
"Promise never to completely clear the
kernels from an ear of corn.
"Enter all spitting contests, liquid or
seed.
"Remember that what [they] have Is
God-given and that no orthodontist
should ever take it away."
Their meetings are held in Union Gap,
Washington.
in 1938. Fourteen years later, another
was caught by Professor J. L. B. Smith,
a n d n o w fi s h e r m e n c a t c h t h e m w i t h a
regularity that is, to say the least, unusual
for an extinct species. And thus a society
was spawned. Most of the 200 members
of 8. P. 0. 0. F. are ichthyologists, bio
chemists, and others interested in ancient
life forms. Animal behavlorlst Jane Goo-
THE CLUB ★lir
is founded: "Birds fly. Men drink."
To further their cause, the society be
stows two anti-aviation awards at its an
nual revel. The Orvllle Proxmire Trophy, a
takeoff on Senator William Proxmire's
Golden Fleece Award, Is given to a pub
lic figure who has, in some way, impeded
the progress of aviation. Recent recipi
ents have included the past four U.S.
International Dull Folks
Unlimited (IDFUN)
In 1983, IDFUN broke away from Its par
ent organization, the Dull Men's Club, be
cause, as Chairman of the Bored J. D.
"Dull" Stewart explains, "To the people
In San Francisco (once considered the
seat of International dulldom), dullness
was a joke. We take dullness very seri
ously here in Rochester, New York." Ad
ditionally, says Stewart, because of flak
from dull women, "we called ourselves
Dull Folks rather than having a Dull Wom
en's Auxiliary." According to IDFUN's
definition, 95 percent of the world Is dull.
Members believe in marriage, not rela-
The Society for the
Preservation of Urban Litter
Take away a-city's garbage and you
might as well take away Its very Identity,
say the members of this organization.
Their goal is to preserve and protect that
aspect of garbage that is "the essence of
city." While they are. In fact. In favor bf
regular garbage collection on the streets,
they do feel that certain types of litter and
garbage are so quintessentlally urban
that they ought to be protected in some
way. Examples of detritus worthy of sav
ing are graffiti, quaintly rotting piers, large
trash bags as Impressively piled as Ma
yan ruins, and discarded mattresses that
dall is a member, as is the curator of the
American Museum of Natural History.
S. P. 0. O. F. Investigates and obtains
samples of all sorts of old fishes ("alive,
frozen, or preserved"), among them lung
fishes, sharks, rays, and sturgeons, its
newsletter keeps members up to date on
the latest old fish news. Loch Ness mon
ster investigations, and the like.
 B Y RANDI HACKER

Unlike Groucho Marx, Jeremy Plltdown, our flimflam man-ln-residence, would \o\n any organization that would
admit him as a member. In his search for just such an improbable society, he came upon several that piqued
his interest. Can you separate the authentic associations from the ones Jeremy made up to fool us?
Answer Drawer, page 58

Mikes of America The Society for

Presidents, who have completely ignored
the honor. The Aviation Hall of Infamy
Statue has been awarded over the years
to "Right Stuff" test pilot Chuck Yeager,
who, the society claims, "apologized for
being so clumsy as to be the first person
to break the sound barrier," and to
Snoopy, for crashing more Sopwith Gam-
els than were ever built.
tlonshlps. They use sugar, not honey.
They eat hamburgers, not bean sprouts.
They believe in spreading dullness every
where via bowling parties, home-movie
the Revival of
What's in a name? Plenty, to this group,
Smoke Signals
whose objective is to unite all people
named Michael and make them aware of Tired of high and
(a) the great and glorious heritage of unintelligible phone
their name and (b) just how many others bills? Tired of figur
share the same great and glorious heri ing out whether
tage. The president and founder, Michael something is or isn't
Nelson, started the society after noticing a toll call? Tired of
"at a pretty early age that there were an dialing "1" before
awful lot of Mikes around." What started everything? Then
out as a small club has spread "by word perhaps you're a
of Mike" to become a society with about
12,000 members, male and female, all
named Michael. Mike Wallace is a mem
ber, and so is David Letterman. (No, this
candidate for this

society. Its 347

members believe
that smoke can be a
m
soirees, and the like. Each year IDFUN is not an example of Letterman's off-the- viable alternative to
compiles a list of the Ten Dullest Ameri wall humor—his middle name Is, In fact, the phone. Accord
cans. Some of the recent honorees in Michael.) The group's newsletter, Mike's ing to president
clude Michael Doonesbury (Mikes of World, is loaded with Mike statistics Charles Herman,
America take note), Rodney Dangerfleld (such as the fact that, since 1970, Mi there are many rea
(who, it appears, is the Dull Man's Dull chael has been the most popular name sons for going back
Man), and Bo Derek, who "made the se for boys In the United States) and letters to this form of com
rious mistake of thinking that people from Mikes all over the U.S. and Canada. munication. "In the
wanted to see her act with her clothes A one-time initiation fee of $15 gets any first place," he says,
on." The annual dues of $5 will entitle Mike an official club T-shirt, a plastic "phones are noisy
you to membership and a lot of dull membership card, a club certificate, and and often ring at in
future newsletters.
paraphernalia. opportune times.
Smoke signals don't
ring at all. Phones
reveal "the outlines of quotidian life." In are expensive.
their effort to save what others would pre Smoke signals don't
fer to throw away, the 175 members are require any costly In
trying to establish a city-funded Trash stallation or mainte
Museum in New York City. "The Preser nance after the initial
vation of the actual garbage mound or investment in a blan
car chassis as It Is found on the side of ket." Herman also
the road is preferred but, failing that, pho stresses the fact that

tographs of it are acceptable," says smoke signals are a

Gwyneth Halburton, the president and clean and natural
founder. Their quarterly newsletter. The means of communi
Waste Paper ($4 for a year's subscrip cation, requiring
tion), keeps members up to date on the no unsightly l
latest garbage finds and announoes tours telephone poles
of areas that are particularly rich In the or wires. A $5
folk art of urban trash. fee entitles
members to a
subscription to
The Smoke Sig
nal (the soci
ety's quarterly
newsletter) and
a pamphlet on
smoke-slgnaling
techniques. You
supply the
blanket.

GAMES MARCH 1986 47

 Edited by Burt Hochberg

PlCtionary (available from Angel Games, P.O. Box

19421, Seattle, WA 98109; $29.95 plus $3.50 postage)
Tfiis lively identification game, for two to four teams, plays
like cfiarades on paper. Instead of acting out the word to be
identified, one team member franticaily scribbles pictures on
a pad (letters and numbers are taboo, as is any other kind of
oommunication) while his or her teammates try to guess the
word being illustrated within a one-minute time limit:
"snake!" "road!" "box!" "WINDOW!"
The game oonsists of a board, playing pieoes, pads and
pencils, a timer, and 500 cards, each containing five words.
Letters on the board spaces indicate word categories—Per-
son/Place/Animai, Object, Action words. Difficult words, and
All Play words (explained below)—and every card has one
word in each category. As each team takes its turn moving
around the board according to the roll of the die, the team's
illustrator for that round picks a card (not letting his team
mates see it), sets the timer, and immediately starts drawing
the word in the category landed on. If the word is guessed
within the time limit (there's no penalty for a wrong guess),
the team advances on the board and takes another turn with
a different team member illustrating the next word. Otherwise The well-chosen list of words has the effect of virtually elim
play passes to the next team. The first team to reach the final inating the advantage of artistic talent. To create an instantly
board space and win the final All Play round wins the game. identifiable image, ingenuity is worth much more than drafts
An All Play word is played by all teams simultaneously. In manship. For example, try illustrating the idea of many or
addition to the words in the All Play category, many words in SECEDE in less than a minute. Much of the pleasure of playing
other categories are identified as All Play words by symbols this game is in trying to find pithy shortcuts, like illustrating
on fhe cards. All Play rounds are the most exciting, since NOSE DIVE by showing a giant nose jumping off a diving board.
players race not only against the timer but also against the The sketches shown above are two approaches to the
other teams. Regardless of whose turn it was, the winner of same word, both shown at the point when the word was cor
an Ali Play round gains control of the die, which can mean a rectly identified. Can you identify it? —R. L.
sudden change in a team's fortunes. Answer Drawer, page61

Jet by Charles Guy and Bruce Artwick (SubLogic; IBM
$49.95, C-64 $39.95)
Jet, the sequel to SubLogic's earlier, much-admired Flight
Simulator II, presents an assortment of exciting missions for
would-be F-16 pilots. Forget the hours of grueling study
needed to master the theory of aerodynamics. The player will
be climbing through
unfriendly skies
within seconds af
ter booting the disk.
Underlining this
game's streamlined
approach is an il
lustrated 40-page
booklet with large
type, rather than a
w e i g h t y " fl i g h t
manual." Yo u ' l l
want to read it
e v e n t u a l l y, b u t i f
you can't wait to strap yourself into the cockpit, just put the
quick-reference command card where you can see it and en
ter the practice mode (where there are no crashes or enemy
fire to distract you).
Five scenarios are offered: dogfight, target strike, free
flight, demo mode, or any of the optional "scenery disks"
(available separately) that provide various backgrounds.
Once a scenario has been chosen, another menu lets the pi
lot select from a wide choice of armaments in a well-stocked
arsenal, and then allows him to decide whether to launch
from a landing strip or an aircraft carrier.
Jet's clever graphic design provides a better view from the
cockpit than in Flight Simulator II. Around the edges of the
screen are gauges and meters that inform the pilot of the con
dition of his aircraft: altimeter, airspeed, magnetic heading,
thrust, afterburners, ordnance, fuel, and landing-gear indica
tors. A radar screen is available at the press of a key. The
pilot oan look out of several oookpit windows and can even
see his aircraft from the viewpoint of the launch tower or car
rier. Landings are not realistio, but they sure are pretty.
Jet is a masterpiece of its genre. Its graphics, concept, and
user-friendliness are superior to those of any other flight sim
ulator. —Bill Kunkel and Arnie Katz

48 MARCH 1986 GAMES

Star Trek: The Enterprise Encounter
by Bill Eberle, Jack KIttredge, and Peter Olotka (West End
Games, around $17)
Ttils game, by the inventors of Cosmic Encounter, is a must
for trekkies, and even someone w/ho has never seen a Star
Trek TV episode will find the play rewarding.
Two to four players attempt to assemble six counters rep
resenting a complete crew, one counter for each of the six
crew functions ("specialties"). Each counter bears the name
of a specific crew member and his or her specialty—for ex
ample, Sulu, Navigation; or Uhura, Communications. For
each specialty there are three specific crew members, any
one of whom can be part of a crew. All the specialties except
Command also include an anonymous "cadet" counter that
may not be part of a final crew. The single "starfleet" counter
is "wild" and can represent any crew member.
Each player places his starship on one of the four "base
worlds" on the board, then randomly chooses two of the 18
crew counters (three if there are only two players) and three
"battle cards" (representing weapons, shields, etc.), all of
which are kept hidden from the other players. The remaining
crew counters are distributed on the board's 20 "adventure
spaces."
Players move their ships around the board according to die
rolls and pick up the counters as they land on them. As part
of a turn, each player must also "have an adventure"; i.e.,
follow the instructions on an "adventure card." At first, these
cards are drawn from a deck. A player completing his adven
Twilight: 2000 (Game Designers' Workshop; $18)
World War III began five years ago, in 1995, and by now
chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons have reduced Eu
rope to a state of chaos. You're a member of the U.S. 5th
Division (Mechanized) fighting your way through Poland.
Your division has already been through hell, and things look,
to put It mildly, very grim. Troops must carry their own alcohol
with which to make cheap fuel, tanks break down and spare
parts are hard to come by, and getting home is a distant
dream for the stranded soldiers.
But the situation isn't hopeless. The military is still an orga
nized force, just about the only coherent organization in a
ravaged countryside dotted with smali but dangerous bands
of enemy troops, local warlords, and savage marauders
preying on the weak.
This is the premise of GDW's new role-playing game,
which is extremely well designed and, for all its complexity.
W h e e l Tr o u b l e ( B e d f o r d
Hills Publishing Co., P.O. Box
581, Bedford Hills, NY 10507;
$4.95 plus $1 postage) is a 3y2-
E T C E T E R A
inch-diameter wheel made up
of four independently rotating
concentric rings on one side, four
others on the reverse, with each
ring containing 10 letters and 10
numbers. Rules are provided for
10 tantalizing puzzles and games
(e.g., align the letters to form 10
words reading radially, or make
each radial set of four numbers
equal the same total), or you can
invent your own.
ture leaves the card on his landing space; later, it wiil be used
by any player who lands on it. Some adventures are helpful,
others harmful. For instance, you may demand a crew
counter or one or more battle cards from another player, or
you may have to give something up.
A piayer landing on a "tractor zone" space must do battle
with another player, both using their battle cards, on the
"vortex" path that leads from opposite directions toward the
"mind-meld" space in the center. The winner of a battle
gains a crew member from the loser. When a player an
nounces a completed crew, each opponent has the right to a
last-ditch battle, which could reduce the would-be winner's
crew and prolong the game.
The 50 adventures on the adventure cards are named for
actual Star Trek TV episodes. Although the adventures have
nothing to do with those episodes, the names should fill trek
kies with pleasant memories. —Sid Sackson
not difficult to play. Each player takes the part of one of the
surviving members of the U.S. 5th Division. Characters have
varying degrees of such attributes as fitness, agility, and intel
ligence, and of such skills as melee combat and driving.
Combats are resolved by dice throws, the results of which,
when computed with the players' attributes and skills, deter
mine whether a target was hit, where it was hit, and how
much damage was done.
The possibilities are almost limitless. The members of your
squad could decide, depending on circumstances, to contin
ue fighting a guerrilla war, to become marauders whose only
goal is survival, or to seek out a "free city," Independent of
any country, where food, weapons, or simply time for rest
and recuperation may be found.
The game includes a detailed beginning adventure. Es
cape from Kalisz, plus a Referee's Manual and a Players'
Manual. The manuals provide extensive background on radi
ation, disease, weapons, and other matters, a campaign
map, top-secret intelligence, and a fascinating narrative of
the war. —Matthew J. Costello
UFOs That Fly (Dover
Publications, $2.95) is a book
whose pages are to be cut up
and folded to make 8 colorful
spaceships. The clear instruc
tions make them a breeze to con
struct, using only scissors and
glue, and they really do fly,
though some experimenting with
paper clips may be necessary to
improve performance.
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addition, certain melds and combina

tions of melds—shown in the "Dou
bles" chart at right—double and
redouble the players' scores. Howev
er, no hand may score more than 250
points. Hands that go over 250 points
(called "over-the-limit" hands) count

Tr i a d as 250. A hand with no melds scores

zero, even if it qualifies for doubling.
A STRATEGIC MELDING GAME FOR 2,3, OR 4 PLAYERS Example: A player draws his first dis
card of the deal to complete the fol
by Sid Sackson lowing three melds ; <|k4-V4-A4-4»4,
A5-A&¥5-¥5,GA-G2-A7^8. First, the
Triad is inspired by the classic Orien same discard, preference is given to a values of the melds are added up. The
tal game of Mah-jongg, but is played player who can complete his hand (i.e., first is a "Sub in Fours," worth 2
with ordinary playing cards instead of form his third meld) with that card. In points; the second is a Plain in Fours,
tiles. Players try to fill their hands case of tie, it goes to the player whose worth 4 points; and the third is an
with various four-card sets, known as t u r n w o u l d h a v e c o m e fi r s t . Honor in Suits, worth 8 points. The to
"melds," and extra points are scored tal value of the melds is 14 points.
for special combinations. Scoring Two doubles are added for completing
When a player completes his hand by the hand with no previous discards
Equipment getting three melds, all players show taken, and two more for a Balanced
Two or three players use two decks of their hands and score the value of Hand, for a total of four doubles. The
cards; four players use three decks. In t h e i r fi n i s h e d m e l d s . M e l d s o n t h e t a value of the melds is doubled four
either case, only the aces through ble score the same as melds in the t i m e s , f o r a t o t a l o fl 4 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2
eights are used; the nines through hand. = 224 points.
kings are removed. There are three types of melds, as
shown in the chart. Melds may score Winning
Dealing 2, 4, or 8 points. Some melds—the Players can agree to play to any total.
One player is chosen to he the dealer, "Doubling Melds" in the chart be For a scoring system that makes spe
w h o s h u f fl e s a n d d e a l s 1 2 c a r d s f a c e low—not only score points, but double cial use of "over-the-limit" hands, see
down to each player. The rest of the the value of the entire hand as well. In the Answer Drawer, page 58.
deck is placed face down on the table.
The top card is turned face up and TYPES OF MELDS:
placed next to it, starting a discard
pile. (In subsequent hands, the deal SUITS PAIRS FOURS
rotates to the left.) (Four cards of the (Two pairs adding (Four cards of the
same suit, in one of up to nine, with same rank, either
Play the combinations suits in one of the four different suits
VALUES
Players take turns in clockwise order, beiow) patterns beiow) or two naturai pairs)
OF MELDS:
beginning with the player to the deal
er's left. In turn, each player either SUB A234 Mixed Pairs: Each Ail Four Suits
draws a card from the deck or takes (2 points) 3456 pair has the same (Example:
the top card of the discard pile. The 5678 two suits (Exampie: A6-V6-A6-A6)
A248 - (♦) ♦ 2-V 2-A 7-¥ 7 or
player then ends his turn by discard
*4-V4-A5-¥5)
ing a card face up on the discard pile.
Discards are overlapped so that all
PLAIN A 2 5 6 Tw o N a t u r a l P a i r s , Tw o N a t u r a l P a i r s ,
previous discards can be seen. Howev 3478
(4 points) Red and Biack: A Red and Black
er, only the top discard is still in play. " naturai pair" is
A 3 5 7 (Example:
A player may only take a discard if 2468 two identicai cards. A2-A2-A2-A2)
it completes a meld (as described in A248 - (A or¥ ) (Example:
the chart at right), and then must im VA - VA - A 8 - A 8 )
mediately lay the meld face up on the
table. Once exposed, a meld may not H O N O R A278 Tw o N a t u r a i P a i r s , Tw o N a t u r a l P a i r s ,
be changed. A player may claim a dis (8 points) A248 - (A) Same Color Same Color
card even if it is not his turn. When (Example: (Example:
this happens, it becomes that player's ♦ 3-43-¥6-¥6) ♦ 7-A7-A7-A7)
turn, and any players who are skipped
lose their turns. The player then dis DOUBLING A248 (any suit) Tw o N a t u r a l P a i r s , Any Fours meld of
cards as usual, and play continues MELDS all the same suit aces or 8's
clockwise.
If two or three players want the Note: Aces are low and count as 1 's.

52 MARCH 1986 GAMES

 ADVERTISEMENT

DOUBLES
M I N # LTA
PHOTO-TRIVIA CONTEST
Completing the hand
• With one or two melds already face Announcement of Winners
up—1 double. In a MtNOLTA-sponsored contest thot oppeared in Billings, Montono. She will receive a MINOLTA
• With no discards taken except to the July and September 1985 issues of Games, MAXXUM 7000 outfit. Runner-up prizes of a
complete final meld—2 doubles. MINOLTA challenged readers to a two-part contest. MINOLTA T-shirt and MINOLTA Hat go to Steve Lash
• With no discards taken, not even to The first part required entrants to answer five trivia of Birmingham, Michigan, and Brian Young of Toron
questions about MINOLTA products. The second part to, Ontario. The three prize-winning photos are shown
complete the final meld—3 doubles. asked entrants to submit a photo of a familiar object, below. If you have trouble identifying them, answers
Contents of the hand made hard to identify by either the close range at are given at the bottom of the page.
• All red—1 double. which the photo was token or by the photo's unusual The winner of the trivia-only portion of the contest,
• All black—2 doubles. perspective. Contestants could enter both parts, or chosen by random draw from among the entries that
• All one suit—4 doubles (don't also could choose to enter only the first part. Hundreds of were correct, is Michele Moore of Charlottetown,
entries of each type were received. P r i n c e E d w a r d I s l a n d . S h e w i l l r e c e i v e a M I N O LTA
count doubles for all red or all black). The winner of the trivia/photo portion of the con Talker. The questions and their correct answers are
• All low (aces through 4's)—1 test, chosen by a panel of judges, is Ginger Louden of given below.
double.
• All high (5's through 8's)—2
doubles.
• All odd—1 double.
• All even—2 doubles.
• All of two ranks (such as all 2's and
5's)—2 doubles.
• Eight cards of the same rank—4
doubles if two or three are playing; if
four are playing, 2 doubles plus 1 dou
ble for each additional matching card.
• 6 Natural Pairs—3 doubles (Note:
Two identical Suit melds count as four
natural pairs toward this bonus).
1-Meld Doubles
• Each doubling meld (as listed in
chart)—1 double.
2-Meld Doubles
• Twins (two melds with the same
ranks of cards, regardless of suit)—1
double.
1. Grand Prize (submitted by Ginger Louden)
• String (two Suit melds containing
all ranks from ace to 8)—1 double.
• Perfect String (a String all of one
suit)—2 doubles.
3-Meld Doubles
• All melds of the same type (all
Suits, Pairs, or Fours)—1 double.
• All melds of the same value (all
Sub, Plain, or Honor)—1 double.
• All Doubling melds—1 extra
double.
• Assortment (one meld of each type:
Suits, Pairs, and Fours)—2 doubles. 2. Runner-Up (submitted by Steve Lash) 3. Runner-Up (submitted by Brian Young)
• Grand Assortment (one meld of
each type and one of each value)—4 1. What MINOLTA camera is the world's only built in outofocus SLR?
doubles. MAXXUM 7000.
• Super Assortment (a Sub in Suits, a 2 . W h a t o r e M I N O LTA Ta l k e r ' s t h r e e v o i c e r e m i n d e r s ?
Plain in Pairs, and an Honor in
( a ) L o a d fi l m ( b ) To o d a r k , u s e fl a s h ( c ) C h e c k d i s t a n c e .
Fours)—6 doubles.
• Balanced Hand (12 cards that can 3. In addition to the five zooms, how many outofocus lenses ore
in the MAXXUM SLR SYSTEM?
be arranged in 6 pairs each adding up
to nine)—2 doubles, less one double Seven

for each Pairs meld. 4 . W h a t t h r e e c u r r e n t M I N O LTA m o d e l n a m e s s t a r t w i t h t h e l e t t e r " X " ?

• Triplets (three melds with the same (a) 370 (b) 570 (c) 700.
ranks of cards, regardless of suits)—4 5. The MINOLTA MAXXUM (a) is protected by how many patents and
doubles (do not count Twins). (b) established how many World's Firsts in engineering?
• Fours in Sequence (three Fours
(a) Over 300 (b) 30.
melds of successive ranks)—1 double. Answers
3D3ldJ03 3UO^d3|31 '£ pD3J( 3J!i 'J SSO|6 D Ul Sl|3ldlft001

GAMES MARCH 1986 53

 Edited by Mike Shenk

TRIVIA FOR THE RECORD

The Birds Letters from Europe

This little quiz should be duck

soup for birdwatchers: How many
movie titles can you think of that Most European license plates
contain birds' names? Twenty of don't indicate their country of ori
our favorites appear in the An gin. Instead, autos sport an oval
swer Drawer. sticker with an abbreviation indi
—Susan Bronson cating the country in whioh the
Answer Drawer, page 60 car is registered. Can you matoh
each sticker beiow with the nation
it represents?

W O R D P L AY 1. D a . Denmark
2. D D R b. East Germany
Spanish 101 3. D K c . Finland
You don't need to know Spanish 4. E d. G r e e c e
to take this test—just match the 5. G R e. Hungary
15 Spanish words (1-15) with 6. H f. Luxembourg
their English translations (a-o), 7. L g- T h e N e t h e r l a n d s
and see if you aren't surprised at 8. NL h. S a n M a r i n o
just how much Spanish you 9. R S M i. Spain
know. 10. S F j- West Germany
1. abreviatura —Josh Pachter
2. aerofumigacidn Answer Drawer, page 60
3. bolfgrafo
4. bote de pasa
5. boxibaton
6. coche bar LOGIC

1. cura de urgencia Men of Letters

,8. dentadura artificial
9. escaiera de saivamento
10. impresion digital
11 . l i n t e r n a e i e c t r i c a Jan, John, Jacob, and Joshua have belongs to neither Bok nor Jan, and
12. ntnfa marina the middle names Cai, Carl, Clyde, none of Jacob's names has six
13. refugio antiatomico and Claude, and the last names Bok, letters.
14. seriai iacrimogeno Bach, Block, and Brooks (though What is the full name of each
'15. terremoto not, of course, in that order). Each man?
a. ballpoint pen has a different number of letters in —Virginia McCarthy
b. club car each of his names. The name Carl Answer Drawer, page 60
c. crop dusting
d. earthquake
e. fallout shelter
NUMBER P L AY
f. false teeth
g. ferry The Magic Pentagon
h. fingerprint
i. fire escape
j. first aid
k. flashlight Can you place the numbers from 1
I. mermaid to 10 in the circles of the pentagon
m punching bag so that the total of the three numbers
n. shorthand on each side is 14? One number has
0. soap opera been placed to get you started.
—Ruth Freedman —E.J. Ulrich
Answer Drawer, page 60 Answer Drawer, page 60

54 MARCH 1986 GAMES

 * ★
v1«l*!LL!BERry
Thanks to the donations of gen
erous Americans, Lady Liberty is
nearly rejuvenated. But the task
of restoring her isn't finished.
For that final step, the Statue
of Liberty Renovation Fund,
under the auspices of the Depart
ment of the Interior, is again ap
pealing to the American people
for assistance.
How should Lady Liberty's
gown be painted, as we apply
fresh coats to her copper exteri
or? Patriotic red, white, and blue
stripes? Or pure white, to sym
bolize the new start found by
millions of immigrants who ar
rived on these shores?
about multicolored paisley, to re
flect the melting pot that is our
nation?
We want you, the American
people, to submit your own ideas.
For it is fitting that, in a demo
cratic republic, every citizen has
the opportunity to create the
look of Liberty. The winning de
sign will be chosen by a panel of
distinguished fashion designers
and will be unveiled to the world
when the Statue's scaffolding is
removed in July.
Play a part in this historic oc
c a s i o n . T o r e c e i v e a n o f fi c i a l e n
try form, send a stamped, self-
addressed envelope to:
Dress Liberty
Base, Liberty Island
N e w Yo r k H a r b o r , N Y 0 0 0 0 0 1
56 MARCH 1986 GAMES
UNCLE JACK
The Historian?
"No doubt you boys are learning
some history at school," said Uncle
Jack to his great-nephews, Roger
and Peter, "but what are you going
to remember? What i remember of
school history lessons could be writ
ten on a single sheet." A knowing
look passed between the two boys.
How many mistakes would their
dear uncle make this time?
"Of course, as a Canadian, i re
member the British general James
Wolfe, who took Quebec from the
French in 1759, and went on to be
come governor of the province.
"We were told a number of curi
ous stories about George Washing
ton. One was that as soon as he
moved into the White House, his
children ran wild and his wife hung
up washing in the ballroom. And
talking of the White House, the Brit
ish must have thought they were go
How
ing to win the War of 1812 when they
burned it down.
"Who could forget Paul Revere's
famous ride from Lexington to give
warning of the approach of British
troops from Boston? He's supposed
to have arranged a signal of one or
two lanterns: 'One if by land, two if
by " sea.'
'WhatThere's drama for you! New
happened in Buffalo,
York, in 19017' was an exam ques
tion i once had. i knew that one—
President William McKiniey was as
sassinated at an exposition by a
young drifter named Feodor Chaiia-
pin. Theodore Roosevelt was iVicKin-
iey's vice-president at the time, and
that's how he became president at
the age of 42.
"But i remember more about Eu
ropean history, Hannibal, the great
Carthaginian general, led some
30,000 men and a number of ele
phants over the snow-covered Alps
and went from victory to victory. Why
elephants? No motorized transport
in those days, so the elephants were
needed to draw the guns and heavy
stores and equipment. They were
also used as weapons—they could
be stampeded toward an opponent's
position.
"The whole world knows of Joan
of Arc, who led the English to victory
at Agincourt, but was later behead
ed. Then there was Henry Viii and
his six wives. His daughter by Anne
Boieyn, Elizabeth i, was known as
'Good Queen Bess' and the 'Virgin
Queen.' i suppose we learned about
Napoleon, but ail i remember is the
B a t t l e o f Wa t e r l o o , w h e r e h e w a s
routed by the Anglo-Dutch forces un
der the Duke of Marlborough assist
ed by the Prussians under Marshall
Bieeker. Napoleon was exiled to the
island of Corsica, i think.
"I'm just old enough to remember
World War i, you know, it consisted
of trench warfare, mostly, but the
primitive aircraft played their part
and the Germans had to endure the
bombing of Berlin by British airships
known as 'zeppelins.' I was ..."
At this point, Peter interrupted to
say, "Uncle Jack, we think perhaps
you should enroll at our school and
brush up on your history."
What were Uncle Jack's 14 mis
takes? Score one point for each one
you spot, but take off three points for
each correct fact you thought was
wrong.
—Denys Parsons
Answer Drawer, page 60
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L4 Your Move 10 Gauieblts 46 Call Our Bluff

Guess Hue Trivia-Ptione The phony societies are The Society tor the Revival
The order of pens is, from left to right: blue, orange, 1. (b) Neal of Smoke Signals and The Society tor the Preser
black, red, and green. 2 . Tr u e vation of Urban Litter. It any of the real organiza
Deadlier Tlian the Male 3.200 tions strike your fancy, here's where you can write:
1-i, Macbeth The Society tor the Restoration and Preservation of
2-e, historical (French Revolution)
3-t, Frank Flerbert's Dune
16 Letters Red M & Ms
P. O . B o x 8 7 7 7
4-a, The Bible, Matt. 14 (daughter of Flerodias) Yo u S a i d a M o u t h f u l Knoxville, TN 37996-4800
5-b, Puccini's opera Tosca All are names tor craters on the moon.
6-g, Thomas Flardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles Mikes of America
The Cryptographic Mind
7-h, historical P. O . B o x 6 7 6
Funny, we've never noticed thai before.—Ed.
8-j, William March's The Bad Seed Minneapolis, MN 55440
9-c, Robert Graves's /, Claudius
The Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society
10-d, Dashieil Flammett's The Maltese Falcon 43 Odd Jobs P. O . D r a w e r 1 9 0 3
When in Rome Kill Devil Hills, NO 27948
The Die is Cast
4 5 3
Don't take the bet. Your chance of throwing a 7 on International Dull Folks Unlimited
+ 485
a single roll is one in six; his chance of rolling either Box 23584
9 3 8 a 7 or a 12 is about one in five. But this difference
Rochester, NY 14692
Fill Er Up Is not enough to make up tor the tact that you have
I . S M O R G A S B O R D ; 2 . V U L C A N I Z AT I O N ; an extra chance to lose by going first. The overall The Diastematic Club of America
3. SINEWY; 4. QUIXOTIC; 5. JAVELIN; 6. KER odds against you are about 51-49. P. O . B o x 1 0 7 5
PLUNK; 7. FACILITATOR; 8. HALIBUT Count Us In Moses Lake, WA 98837
Don't take the bet. According to an established sta
"Of The" i Sing S. P. 0. 0. F. / College of Fisheries WH-10
tistical theorem, it A gets n votes and B gets N
1. Call of the Wild University of Washington
2. run of the mill votes, the probability that A is never behind or tied Seattle, WA 98195
is given by (n — A/) -h (n + A/). That is, in this case,
3. Eye of the Needle
4. Ark of the Covenant (77 — 23) + 100 = .54; so you would have a 54
5. man of the cloth percent chance of losing. i 27 Two in One
Hats Off
6. out of the blue 1. Double-decker 10. D o u b l e m i n t
Not at even money. He will mentally guess not the
7. "Flight of the Bumblebee" 2. Double exposure 11. Double feature
five cards picked from his hat, but the two remain
8. tip of the iceberg 3. Double-cross 12. D o u b l e d a t e
9. head of the class ing. Meanwhile, you are guessing three cards. 4 . Doubleheader 13. Double play
10. Enemy of the People Thus, while you are attempting to guess one of 35 5. Double entendre
Doubleday 14.
II. changing of the guard possible three-card combinations, he needs only to 6. Double-space 15. Double eagle
guess one of only 21 possible two-card combina
12. Return of the Native 7 . Double agent 16. Double parking
tions. The odds are 5 to 3 against you.
13. Order of the Garter 8. Double-talk 1 7 . Double jeopardy
You'll Flip
14. pick of the litter 9. Double dribble 18. D o u b l e h e l i x
You should be game, since the chance of flipping
The message: CREAM OF THE CROP.
exactly 10 heads and ID tails in 20 flips is only
about 18 percent (derived by dividing the number 26 Synnboriliniiei
130 Cube Boutes of different ways exactly 10 heads and 10 tails can
come up by the total number of possible permuta
Cubes A and B are the same.
tions of 20 flips). In three tries of 20 flips each, the
odds of succeeding at least once are still only
20 What Next? about 45 percent, so the bet is roughly 11 to 9 in
your favor.
1-C: Easter egg (the pictures represent people and
Dueling Decks
things with the same first and last initials, from Don't do it. Although most people think a match is
A through E: Arthur Ashe, Big Ben, candy
unlikely, at least one will occur about 63 percent of
corn, Donald Duck) the time. The odds are 8 to 5 against you.
2-D: 50-cent piece (the numbers 10 through 50: 10
toes, 20 Mule Team Borax, 30 days on the
calendar. Top 40 Trivia) 152 Triad
3-E: Eight Days a Week (increasing units of time:
Thirty Seconds. Sixty Minutes, 48 MRS., Hap Official Scoring System
py Days) Each hand, players keep track of their running
4-F: Marilyn Monroe (the names of the first five point totals. They also keep track, separately, of the
U.S. Presidents: Washington Monument, Edie values of any over-the-limit hands (hands that
Adams, Sherman Hemsiey as George Jeffer would have scored more than 250 points it there
son, Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison in The were no limit on points tor a single deal).
Odd Couple) With two players, game is 1,000 points; howev
5-B: Box office (overlapping words and phrases: er, a player must win by at least 500 points. A play
Caspian Sea, sea horse, horseshoe, shoe er who so tar has obtained the highest
box) over-the-limit hand in the game, though , only
needs to win by 250 points.
Photo credits: Arthur Ashe: Richard Pilling/Focus With three players, game is 700 points, and a
on Sports; Big Ben: Laurence Smith/Photo Re player must win by 300 (over the next closest play
searchers; Washington Monument; Will Mclntyre/ er), which is reduced to 150 it the player has made
Photo Researchers; sea horse; Tom McHugh/Pho- the highest over-the-limit hand.
to Researchers; map; © John Bartholomew and With tour players, game is 500 points, and a
Son, Ltd.; 60 Minutes, © CBS; toes, Easter egg, player must win by 200, or 100 it he has made the
box ottice: Debra Kagan; Jack Klugman, Happy highest over-the-limit hand,
Days: Paramount Pictures, Inc.; Sherman Hemsiey; A game continues until one player meets the re
Embassy Telecommunications quirements of both point total and margin of victory.

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35 Cryptic Crossword 1
ACROSS
1 Smog alert (Gale Storm)
6 Swarm (s + warm)
9 Issue (use is)
10 Drag races (Dr. + a + graces) The Birds Letters from Europe
11 First-rate (tarts fire) The Maltese Falcon
12 Tithe (it -I- the) 1-j, West Germany (Deutschiand); 2-b, East
Duck Soup
13 Enamel (thE NAME Lewis) Germany (Deutsche Demokratlsche Republik);
The Sandpiper 3-a, Denmark; 4-i, Spain (Esparia); 5-d,
15 Anchored (and + chore) Robin Hood
Greece; 6-e, Hungary; 7-f, Luxembourg; 8-g,
18 intercom (no metric) The Falcon and the Snowman The Netherlands; 9-h, (Republic of) San Marl-
19 Edison (no side) To Kill a Mockingbird no; 10-c, Finland (SuomI, i.e. Republic of,
22 Swami (swam -|- I) The Fallen Sparrow Finland)
24 Oxidation (I do on taxi) T h e G h o s t a n d M r. C h i c k e n
26 Desperado (road speed) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
27 Drift (d -I- rift) The Eagle Has Landed
28 Rites (writes) The Cardinal
29 Lifestyle (sliiy feet) The Sea Hawk The Historian?
Where Eagles Dare 1 . Wo l f e w a s k i l l e d i n t h e b a t t l e .
D O W N Three Days of the Condor 2 . Wa s h i n g t o n n e v e r l i v e d I n t h e W h i t e
1 Sniffle (eif + fins) Jonathan Livingston Seagull House. John Adams and his family were
2 Observant (Job — j + servant) Father Goose the first occupants, after Its construction In
3 Adept (a -F dept.) The Raven 1792.
4 Endear (dIvidEND-EARnIng) My Little Chickadee 3. Washington had no children, only step
5 Trade-ins (Insert ad) Flamingo Road children.
6 Stretched (St. -f R. -F etc. -F he'd) The Owl and the Pussycat 4. it was Abigail Adams who hung up the
7 Ascot (a -F Scot)
washing In the ballroom.
8 Mislead (mad + Isle)
5. Paul Revere rode to Lexington.
14 Earliness (ears -F lines)
6. Feodor Chailapin was a famous Russian
16 Rusticity (rust -F I -F city)
17 Monorail (on -f or -F mail) s i n g e r. T h e d r i f t e r ' s n a m e w a s L e o n
Spanish 101 Czoigosz,
18 insider (resin I'd)
1-n, shorthand 7. There were no guns In Hannibal's day.
20 Nanette (tan teen)
2-c, crop dusting 8. Joan of Arc led the French troops against
21 Tip-off (tiff -F P.O.)
23 Asset (a -F s -F set) 3-a, ballpoint pen England.
4-g, ferry 9. She was four years old at the time of the
25 Andes (sedan)
5-m, punching bag battle of Agincourt. Her troops defeated the
6-b, dub car English at Patay.
35 Cryptic Crossword 2 7-i fi r s t a i d 10. She was burned at the stake, not
8-f, false teeth beheaded.
ACROSS 11. The Duke of Wellington, not Marlborough.
9-i, fire escape
1 Red carpet (rear -f pet -f D.C.) 12. Marshall Blucher, not Bieeker.
tO-h, fingerprint
6 Remit (timer) 13. Napoleon was born in Corsica. His Islands
tt-k, flashlight
9 Diverse (divers -F e) of exile were Elba and St. Helena.
12-1, mermaid
10 Ordinal (oral + din) 14. German zeppelins bombed London in
13-e, fallout shelter
11 inspiring (In spring -F I) WWI.
14-0, soap opera
12 Alert (deALER Treading)
15-d, earthquake
13 Fieal (heel)
14 Vertically (very -F t -F I -F call) Adapted from Words, Ltd., Moiokai, Hi 96742
17 Stepmother (tempts hero)
18 Knot (not) Authorized Editions
21 Later (ate -F L. -F R.) SWELL—H. G. WELLS
23 Enslaving (single van)
VIRGIN—Washington IRVING
24 Catalog (clog -F at -F a) Men of Letters U N S E AT — J a n e A U S T E N
25 Epicure (pie -F cure) S K AT E — J o h n K E AT S
26 Tampa (t -F ma -f pa) The four men are: Jan Clyde Brooks, John
YODEL—Arthur Conan DOYLE
27 Nastlness (assents in) Claude Bok, Jacob Cai Bach, Joshua Carl
BALM—Charles LAMB
Block.
NERVE—Jules VERNE
DOWN WASH—George Bernard SHAW
1 Reddish (Red dish) EARTH—Bret HARTE
2 Devastate (etat + saved) SUMAC—Albert CAMUS
3 Adroit (a -F Dr. -F 0 -F It) STUPOR—Marcel PROUST
4 President Reagan (pagan -f resident -f re) The Magic Pentagon WILES—Sinclair LEWIS
5 Thoughtlessness (the ghosts unless)
6 Radiance (and i -f race)
7 Mince (theM IN CEIebratlon)
8 Tolstoy (lost -F toy)
15 Longitude (led outing) Different Strokes
16 Umbrella (bull mare) The word is "jack-in-the-box," with crossed t
17 Solicit (so -F licit) and x and dotted j and i:
19 Tigress (tress -F I -F G)
20 Tahiti (at -F hit -F i)
22 Totem (tot.-F me)

29 Word Stairs
Red Square
1. TARget, sTARve, roTARy, gulTAR
2. RiDdie, bRIDge, stRiDe, fioRID 904
3. ENDIve, tENDon, agENDa, ascEND 904
4. CURtsy, sCURry, seCURe, conCUR 3616
5. ANTier, wANTon, scANTy, infANT 8136
(An alternative solution Is the mirror image of
6. FiERald, cFiERry, spEiERe, rathlER
this diagram.) 817216
7. PENcii, oPENer, exPENd, hapPEN
8. IMPact, dlMPie, skiMPy, shriMP

60 MARCH 1986 GAMES

 ANSWER DRAWER

[MwMrothe.®!®! Are 29 What's "Mew"? 130 Double Cross

Left, roughly from left to right and top to bottom: A . L O YA LT Y M.SCHEHERAZADE
C U R Ta i n B . I L L U M I N AT E N. HONEYCOMB

MACK truck C . N ATA L I E W O O D 0. IMPS

X - R AY D. KLEMPERER P. D E U C E S W I L D
GHESTERfield cigarettes E . L E VA N T Q. SCRUFFY
F. E P S O M D O W N S R. ADDIS ABABA
Sloppy JOE (can of Hunt's Manwich)
RCA VICTOR victrola G . T H E TA M I N G O F S . I M M U TA B L E

JOCKey H. THE SHREW T. D E N S E

St. BERNARD 1. EWES U. TELLS
MORTON Salt J. RUBBLE V. H O W - D O - Y O U - D O
FRANKfurter K . W O O LW O R T H W. A C C E S S
LEE jeans L . I N FA N T RY X. TOPS

Center:
Cecil B. DeMille, who rivaled Moses as a populariz-
Super MARKet (sign) er of the Ten Commandments, was once asked by
MicroCHIP (on sign) a fellow producer why he had turned out so many
TEDDY bear
films based on the Bible. DeMille's answer: "Why
REXail sign let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?"
BUCK — (Art) Linkletter, (!) Wish i'd Said That
DEL MONTE (on green can; counts as two names)
BOBBY (Englisfi policeman)
ART (painting)
WILLYS jeep
Dasniiphslmtt
B l u e J AY
ROBIN 1. CRYPTOON. "I have bad news: Our insurance
Games said Charles A.
TERRYclotti plan doesn't cover any prescriptions other than eye Ducrr's !00 Double Acrostics "con
TAB (can of soda) of newt and wing of bat." tains some of the most interesting,
JOHN (toilet) 2. LEFT SPEECHLESS. Do not the most moving literate, and hard double acrostics
SCOTTIe dog m o m e n t s o f o u r l i v e s fi n d u s a l l w i t h o u t w o r d s ? that we've seen anywhere. " Now
— Marcel Marceau
JACK o'lantern presenting Volume 2!
CLARK bar 3 . B I G M I S TA K E . F a m o u s l a s t w o r d s : " Yo u c a n S6.95 ai b(K)kslt)rcs. or use coupon.
GRAHAM crackers .tell it's not a coral snake. The yellow bands are
wider than the black."
Y HARMOIVY BOOKS ^
A dis isitin ol < row n I'tihlislu rs Iik'
SKIPpy peanut butter
PHILadelphia cream cheese 4. TIP NOT INCLUDED. Complete list of charges, CROWN PUBLISHERS, Inc., Dept. 710
required by law to be posted In taxicabs, gives cus 34 Engelhard Ave., Avenel, N.J. 07001
Right: tomer "fare" warning. Please send me 100 DOUBLE ACROSTICS: Vol. 2.1
St. LOUIS Arch enclose my check or money order for $6.95 plus $1.00
5. TOURIST ATTRACTION? Novice pasta-maker
Big BEN postage and handling. 10-day money back guarantee.
creates sloppy stack of newly-baked pies, giving
SIMON (electronic memory game) Name
rise to leaning tower of pizza.
VA N Address
6. FRENCH TWIST. Architectural competition for
OSCAR City State Zip
designing Paris war monument might have pro
CHUCKwagon N.Y. and N.J, residents, add sales tax.
duced "arch" rivals.
MIKE (microphone) 7. CAVEAT EMPTOR. Extravagant yard sale gave
BILLboard
many unwary gawkers great chance at cracked
MAXwell House Coffee (on billboard)
plates and unmatched cups.
LANCE
Debbie HARRY (of Blondie)
RoseBUD
M AT T r e s s
LIONEL train set M-60's
Brandy ALEXANDER (drink recipe) FOUNTAMS
• MISStLES
• FMECMCKERS
Fake Ad
• POWER ROCKETS
T h e F a k e A d v e r t i s e m e n t a n n o u n c e d I n t h e Ta b l e
of Contents was for The Look of Liberty, and
LARGEST SELECTION OF
appeared on page 56.
CLASS C FIREWORKS
... IN AMERICA ...
25 The Spiral

A
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T 1 E E R A 8 E 8
N T H E B L 1 N K
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48 Games & Books

Pictionary
The drawings represent the word COUNTRY.

30 Pind the Mole

The reconstructed message reads;
EMBASSY EMPLOYEE JOHN TAYLOR IS SUS
P E C T E D O F H AV I N G T R A N S M I T T E D I N F O R M A
T I O N T O T H E R U S S I A N G O V E R N M E N T.

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32 Mutant Robots 31 Movie Game Paradoxical Box Cover

The defective robots are:
By exchanging the three-striped blue ball (bottom
1. A. (eyes), C (lower buttons), E (body lines)
compartment) with the two-striped red ball (left
2. A (lines above mouth), C (lower border), D
compartment), the number of stripes in each com
(mouth) partment—taking doubling into account—will be
3. A (number of circles on upper chest), B (mouth), 19.
D (pattern in upper part of central display)
4. A (knees), B (feet)
5. B (eye), D (corners of central display)
6. C (stripes on feet), E (length of arms)
7. B (lower legs), D (stripe between legs)
8. A (eyes), B (top of head), C (hands)
9. B (feet), D (pattern of central display) Eureka is dedicated to those venturesome spirits
who, never settling for a ready answer, have fought
40 Sales Figures their way to a belter, more elegant, or more com
plete solution than one previously given in the
Formula 409 cleaner 16 Magazine A n s w e r D r a w e r.
Kellogg's Product 19 Phillips 66 ■k Party Favors (January, page 22). Given the ar
Colt 45 V-8 vegetable juice F 0 R D rangement of nine champagne glasses in "Double
VIoks Formula 44 A S 0 LL
Century 21 Real Bubbly," shown below left, readers were chal
E S
Estate Levi's 501 jeans N, lenged to redistribute the contents, by touching
Baskin-Robbins 31 Alberto VO 5 only two of the glasses, so that all three rows would
Flavors Heinz 57 sauce have equal amounts of pink champagne and equal
37 Where in the Whorl? amounts of gold champagne.
The solution we presented, shown In the center,
51 Eyeball Benders
was accomplished by pouring the contents of the
1. Pipe wrench 5. Rubber glove lower right glass into the empty glass, pouring half
2. Circular saw blade 6, Tape dispenser the contents of the topmost gold glass into the new
3. Stapler 7, Egg ly emptied giass, and then replacing both half-full
4. Honey 8. Clock glasses in their original spots. This produced two
Photo credits-. 1 and 3 by Alfred Gescheidt, 2 by glasses of pink champagne and one and one-half
Suely PIraIno Sinto, 4 and 6 by Jack Abraham, 5 glasses of gold champagne in each row.
and 8 by Keith Glasgow, 7 by Debra Kagan Bette Mclntire, of Bowie, MD, and Nancy Wiser,
of Alexandria, VA, produced the same mathemati
cal result with a different configuration (below right)
28 Solitaire Hangman by taking the topmost gold glass, pouring half Its
contents Into the empty glass, and then switching it
I. MOONBEAM VI. EMBEZZLE
with one of the two center glasses of pink cham
II. FRICTION VII. TENACITY
III. WHOEVER VIII. SYCAMORE pagne in the bottom row.
I V. S P O R A D I C IX. WRECKAGE
V. YA C H T I N G X. BABYISH
To order Solitaire Hangman (96 pages, 450 words
to solve), send your check or money order for
$4.95 plus 50y P&H per copy to:
2? ff ft
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P. O . B o x 1 3 2 5
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Please be sure to Include your name, address and
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22 The Jade Excalibur

The hidden images are found according to the key below:
1. wizard's cap 6. jester's head 10. chalice 19, 20, 21. knight's shields
2. frog prince ( u p s i d e - d o w n ) 11 . d a g g e r 22, 23, 24. crowns
3. snake's head 7. knight's helmet 12, 13. lances 25, 26, 27, 28. musical
4. king's face 8. throne 14, 15. castles instruments
5. crossbow and shaft 9. pearl ring 16, 17, 18. swords

April Fool! The Joker on the cover is a

real card. All decked out In his April fin
ery, he's hiding another April Fool—but
where? Only the Joker knows for sure.
The April Papers "Brooke Shields's
Party Games" and "Snowmobile Polo"
will not appear In this Issue. Learn why In
a behind-the-scenes story of one maga
zine's quest for a feature article.
Desperate? Seeking the results of The
Gaivies 100, National Quirk Index, and
Foreign Intrigue contests? Look no
f u r t h e r.
Pius A Runny Thing Happened, Steal
Tr a p m u s e u m c a p e r. R i d d l e M a z e ,
Impossible Puzzles, and the usual April
Foolery.
On saie at newsstands
iMarch 10

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