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In this maze, you’ll be making your way through the sprawling

royal palace shown in the diagram on the cover Start in the

pantry (marked with an ivory star), then move from room to

room through the doors (indicated by lettered squares), and exit at

last through the door at the very bottom To enter a room, however,

you’ll need the right royal to escort you in—and royalty, busy as

they are, aren’t always available

To play, you’ll need three playing cards: a Jack, a Queen, and a

King, of any suit Before you begin, place the three cards face-up in

a horizontal row, in any order (You have six possible arrangements

to choose from: J-Q-K, J-K-Q, Q-J-K, Q-K-J, K-J-Q, or K-Q-J.) These

will be cards 1, 2, and 3, respectively, reading from left to right as

shown below; for example, if you place them in the order K-Q-J,

the King will be card 1, the Queen card 2, and the Jack card 3

You’re now ready to tackle the maze Each move consists of

two steps:

1 Move from the room you’re in through a door to an adjacent

room, but only if the card shown on the door is face-up So if, say,

the door has a J, and your Jack is currently face-down, that door is

blocked to you for now Doors with arrows through them are

one-way, and can only be passed through in the direction of the arrow

2 Each room besides the pantry contains a number: 1, 2, or 3

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by the new room’s number, regardless of whether the card is

face-up or face-down

You can reuse doors and revisit rooms as often as needed, and

you can even backtrack to the room you just left through the door

you just passed through if the right card is still face-up There is

one exception: If you revisit the pantry where you started, you

must enter through one door and leave through the other one

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card on that turn.)

We found an arrangement of cards that will allow you to escape

the palace in 10 moves Can you find it (or improve upon our

solution)? Good luck finding the path to freedom!

Our solution appears on page 74

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Each answer in this crossword variation has two clues leading to it, using different meanings of the word The clues are separated into Across and Down, but are otherwise ordered randomly.

When you find two Across or two Down clues that seem to have the same answer, add up their clue numbers to determine the place in the grid at which the answer should be entered For example, if the clue for 1-Across were “Metallic element” and the clue for 17-Across read “Starring role,” the answer would be LEAD, which would go in 18-Across (1 + 17) Tags

5 Just beats (out)

6 Mount Rushmore president

7 Court summons

8 Sharp parts of knife blades

9 Business’s general upkeep cost

10 Untamed strand of hair

11 Rankings in tournament brackets

12 Gardener’s purchases

13 Marriages

14 Take off in a plane

15 Egg dish served with hollandaise

16 Doctor who becomes The Hulk

1 Outdoor movie theater

2 Close the gap, in a race

3 Board game sometimes called Reversi

4 Platform between flights of stairs

5 Nickname for Alcatraz Island

6 Back-of-book reference lists

7 Dwayne Johnson, familiarly

8 Type of residential school

9 “Heart of Glass” band

There is one place for each letter of the alphabet in the 26 empty squares of each blank column in the diagram below Fill

in each letter so that a word of at least five letters is formed reading across only Not all of the letters to the left and right

of the empty box are used; it’s up to you to determine which ones are needed to complete familiar words Some letters may fit in more than one of the empty squares to complete words, but we only came up with one arrangement that would

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

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Toothed turner Spud

࢝ ࢝

Some reddish deer

optimist

Nope

director Jordan

avis (unique thing)

Like ZIP+4 codes

Film units

Ran off,

as out

of fear

Golden

(senior)

“Ouch, that hurts!”

Sicillian volcano Zilch

ࢣࢣ

a map

Part of SSN:

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250, in

Roman

Like villains

Zor-El (Super- girl)

Metal deposits Snowqueen in

Frozen

Truth, old-style Glimpse

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Letters after pis

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Texas border city

Rodeo ropes

Country east of Hungary

Pistons great Thomas

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Wrap in layers of cloth

often

Words

in an anaolgy

Bravo Uncle, in Spanish

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Sale caveat

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Very hard gems

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of a sort

Buffalo waterway

Albany-Adding a lime slice

to, e.g.

TV studio alert

What a goalie guards

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Place the words from the list into the boxes so that any pair connected by a line will form a compound word or familiar

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SODASTAGETABLETENNISTRAINEDWINEWORM

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ACROSS

1 Worms, to

an angler

5 Howls at the moon

9 Grimm bad guy

2 Lily or Tim

3 Nonsensical

4 Eavesdrop via bugs

5 Flowers

6 Solo

7 Luke Skywalker’s mentor

1 Holiday song with the lyric “What a bright time, it’s

the right time…”

2 Home of the Crunchwrap Supreme

3 Peter Pan’s fairy friend

4 Flared pants of the ’60s and ’70s

5 Clown on Howdy Doody

6 “Fractured” Philadelphia tourist attraction

7 Famous Hemingway novel

8 Statistical graph image

9 Cowboy’s meal call

10 Veggie that can be green, yellow, orange, or red

11 1969 hit for the 5th Dimension

12 End-of-trading signal at the New York Stock Exchange

13 Classic SNL skit with Christopher Walken and Will Ferrell

14 “Mr Watson—come here—I want to see you” utterer

9 Where honey is made B E

10 Another word for “under” B E

11 Very pretty B E

12 Jack climbs it in a famous fairy tale B E

BUILD-A-WORD

By Raymond Simon

Listed below are two sets of three-letter words Each word in column A can be combined with some word in column

B, with the column A word coming first, to form a new word But be careful: One beginning may match more than one ending, but only one combination will use every word We’ve done one to get you started ANSWERS, PAGE 70

SEASON’S GREETINGS

By Raymond Simon

Here’s a puzzle that’s sure to bring you good tidings Each clue below leads to a word or phrase related to the winter holidays Answer as many clues as you can, writing one letter in each box When you’re done, read down the shaded column to reveal a special message!

ANSWER, PAGE 71

2 Holiday candleholder

3 Where Santa lives

4 One of Santa’s reindeer

5 Snowman with a corncob pipe and a button nose

6 The Festival of Lights

7 A Christmas _ (story about Scrooge)

8 Santa’s helpers

9 Whoville holiday ruiner

10 Spinning top with four Hebrew letters

11 They're hung on the Christmas tree

12 Fancy name for the Christmas season

13 It gets stuffed with small presents

4 5

7

8 9

10 11

12 13 6

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To solve Quote Boxes, drop the letters from each vertical column—not necessarily in the order in which they appear—into the empty squares below them to spell a quotation reading from left to right, line by line Words may continue from one line to the next; black squares indicate ends of words The author of each quote is given above its grid ANSWERS, PAGE 71

Your goal in these puzzles is to fence off a part of the grid with a closed circuit Just draw a line from

dot to dot (horizontally or vertically—never diagonally), continuing until you return to your starting

dot Each digit indicates the number of fence segments you must draw along the sides of that

numbered square The example at right shows a solved puzzle

ANSWERS, PAGE 72

0 0

0

1

1 1

3 3 3 3

Fit all of the words and phrases listed below into the grid so that they interlock in standard crossword fashion Each

word should be used exactly once When you are done, the grid will contain four particular letters that appear five

times each in a different row of the grid Can you identify these letters? STARTING HINT, PAGE 74

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PAWNSPIZZAPO’BOY

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IT IS SO

JUST NOMADRES

MR SULU

MY HEROPARDONQANTAS

ROMIJN

SO HAZYSLEEVE

SNOOKISTOP AT

TV SETS

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ALL I ASK

END ZONE

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JUJITSUJUMANJIKUNG PAO

LEADOFFPATIENTQARA QUM

REVIVESSNORKELSORCERY

STINKERYUPPIESZIP PAST

8 LETTERSALCATRAZ

ANGELICA

BOX SIDES

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LESS PULPLONG JUMPMALT SHOP

MOD SQUADNEPOTISTNO-GO AREA

QABBALAH

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SHINDIG SHOUT IT OUT SOUTH PARK SPINNER STOUT MAN

in a bind, check out the answer on page 73

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C

C

C D D

E E E

E E

G

G G

G G

K

L

L L

N

N N

O

O O

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P P

P

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S S

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The object of this solitaire challenge is to guess a word before making six incorrect guesses, as in a familiar childhood game.

To begin, choose any letter of the alphabet that you think might appear in word I below Suppose you pick E Go to the Letter Chart on the facing page and find the number listed in row E of column I (because you are working on word I) The number is 88; you now look at box number 88 in the Position Chart (to the right of the Letter Chart) and find the number 7 This means that the letter E occurs in the seventh position (and nowhere else) in word I If a letter occurs more than once in a word, the Position Chart will show all its locations

If you find from the Position Chart that a letter appears in position 0, then the letter does not appear in the word As

a penalty for an incorrect guess, write that letter in one the six boxes in the diagram beside the word blanks If you fill all the boxes (that is, make six incorrect guesses) before identifying the word, you’re knocked out

If you can win 8 of the 12 matches, either you’re psychic or you have a remarkable gift for words ANSWERS, PAGE 73

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Omelet maker's waste

Tin Tin (old

TV dog)

Brewery kiln Carryaround

Stuff in varnish Inuitdwelling ActorRobert

De Meeting period, slangily

Single toon frame

“Li’l ol’

me?!”

High playing card

Roth Reduced prices

-Pei Corp.

honcho

Year: Sp.

Sewing kit item

Skater Midori Heath Polenta

base Cues

Native of Glasgow

or Ayr

Comic actor Mayall

It lists items bought -Detoo WGMƤ

droid)

Secure again, as

a door

Dogs like Lassie

Last Greek letters

O’Neill’s

The Cometh

Govt.

health agency

1960s college protests

1950s Ford model

Always,

in poems Doing a charade

of

“Which person was it?”

Gillette razor brand

Muss,

as hair

Cousin

of a gator

Gas in garish signs

Ancient native of Peru

Just slightly The Planets

composer

The Piper of Hamelin

“Go team!”

Ocean east of Florida

Star of

Madam Secretary

Batches

of letters, maybe

Not cooked

at all

Pet (novelty gift)

More cagey

Blow one’s top

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1-6 Game with six five-letter guesses

7-12 Official language of Israel

13-17 Passion

18-22 Capital of Belarus

23-31 Underlying layer

32-35 Tibetan monk

36-40 Long lock of hair

41-46 Sense and Sensibility heroine

72-76 Knife brand touted in a classic infomercial

77-82 City in Ohio or Spain

83-87 Gymnast Comaneci

88-95 Part of PIN

96-100 Solitary sort

100-97 Nevada’s “Biggest Little City in the World”

96-91 South American grassy plains 90-85 Made good on a debt

84-80 Battery terminal 79-75 Sacred flower of Buddhism 74-70 Best time to see stars 69-64 Epic poem by Virgil

63-59 Largest artery in the human body 58-54 Black-and-white oceanic predators 53-49 Long prom night rides

48-43 Best-selling Italian beer 42-37 _ of two evils

36-31 Cornhusk-wrapped Mexican food 30-26 Miniature pies

25-21 Entertains on the street 20-15 Blockhead

14-10 Not as experienced, as recruits

3-1 Noisy quarrel

This puzzle turns in two directions The spiral’s Inward clues yield a sequence of words to be entered counterclockwise

in the spaces from 1 to 100 The Outward clues yield a different set of words to be entered clockwise from 100 to 1 Keep

1 2

3 4

29 30

31 32

33 34

55 56

57 58

74

75 76

88

89

90 91

100

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Below are seven messages—pithy sayings, fascinating facts, and a cartoon gag—that have been translated into simple cipher alphabets Letter substitutions remain constant throughout any one cipher, but change from one cipher to the next; the level of difficulty increases as you progress An asterisk (*) indicates a proper noun or title ANSWERS, PAGE 73

47 Use veto power

49 Saint Petersburg’s river

28 Gulps down a brewski

30 Shoppe sign adjective

This puzzle gives you two grids for the price of one And two sets of clues to go with them, so you can work both crosswords

at the same time What’s the catch? Each clue number is followed by two different clues to two different answers The puzzle is to figure out which answer goes with which grid 1-Across has been filled in for you ANSWERS, PAGE 74

ACROSS

1 MVP of Super Bowls

XVI, XIX, XXIV

.and his nickname:

2 wds

8 Is lacking

Malia Obama’s sister

13 Zima or Smirnoff Ice

Like fast, bouncy

Like the king in

The King and I

18 Vacate the premises

Very unruly tykes

Final Four org

4 Jack Ryan creator

Clancy Bit of cartoon art

10 Greets with a grin: 2 wds.

Pale bluish color: 2 wds

21 “Attack, mutt!”: 2 wds.

Fruit preparation tool

22 Ending for Gator

Administers an oath of office: 2 wds

35 Opinion pieces: Hyph.

Some sounds from R2-D2

39 Sci-fi dark warrior Ren

Lane who sang with Xavier Cugat

40 Planted “pet”

Stick in a makeup kit: Hyph

Paper Mate rival

47 Homer Simpson’s dad

Water End of ship (will continue in the direction of the flat side)Submarine Middle of a ship (will continue either left and right or up and down)

BATTLESHIP CRUISERS DESTROYERS SUBMARINES

BATTLESHIP CRUISERS DESTROYERS SUBMARINES

BATTLESHIP CRUISERS DESTROYERS SUBMARINES

4–CAPTAIN

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2 1 1 2 2 3 3 0 6 0

1–SEAMAN

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4 0 1 1 2 4 1 3 4 0

5–COMMODORE

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1 5 1 5 2 2 0 2 1 1

2–PETTY OFFICER

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2 1 2 3 2 3 0 2 3 2

6–ADMIRAL

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3 0 5 1 1 4 3 1 2 0

3–ENSIGN

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2 1 2 1 1 1 2 3 1 6

The six puzzles on this page are solitaire versions of the classic paper-and-pencil game of Battleships Each grid represents

a section of ocean in which a fleet is hiding This fleet consists of one battleship (four grid cells in length), two cruisers (three cells each), three destroyers (two cells each), and four submarines (one cell each) The ships may be oriented either horizontally or vertically, and no two ships can occupy adjacent grid cells, not even diagonally The digits along the grid’s perimeter indicate the number of cells in the corresponding rows and columns that are occupied by vessels

You’ll notice that some “shots” have been taken to start you off These may show water (indicated by wavy lines), a complete sub (a circle), the bow or stern of a ship (a rounded-off square), or a midsection of a battleship or cruiser (a square) The puzzles get harder as you go Can you reach the rank of admiral by locating all six fleets? ANSWERS, PAGE 72

A5

A7

I1 B6

F3 E5 G4

C4

D1

A2 B1

A4

I4 B2 C3

I3

G6

H4 B4

F4

H5 C6

E1

H7

G7 F2 I6

LOGIC

SOCCER IN ATLANTIS

According to legend, the lost

continent of Atlantis held soccer

tournaments with a similar format

to today’s World Cup Teams are

initially divided into groups of four,

and within each group every team

plays each of the others once After

that, the two teams with the best

records advance to an elimination

round The way the round robin

matches are scored is that a team

earns 3 points for a win, 1 point

for a draw, and 0 points for a loss

One group consisted of the

countries of Elysia, Halcyonna,

Shalomar, and Wyvernia From the

clues below, can you determine the

order in which the teams finished?

1 Elysia earned 1 more point

than Halcyonna

2 Shalomar earned exactly

half as many points

as Wyvernia

3 Halcyonna had no draws

in any of its games

4 Elysia and Wyvernia played

to a draw

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TEASERS THE WORD’S GETTING AROUND…

The two words below are made up

of the same six letters The first word you might see on a sign, and the second word describes what you’ll be if you do what the sign says

Each number represents the same letter throughout both words

123456 62645321

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TEASERS TOP $40?

What #1 song does this rebus represent?

$40

The answer pattern is (5,3,7)

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TEASERS WHAT’S HIS NAME?

A certain Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback has the same name, except for the first letter, as a landlocked European nation Can you name them both?

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TEASERS CODE NAME

Name the small African nation whose name consists of three syllables: The first syllable is the postal abbreviation for a New England state; the second is that

of a Southern state; and the third is that of a Midwestern state

TOUGH NUTS HOLDING PATTERN

What 9-letter word contains the name of a state, a country, a body part, a plant, and a device, where the letters of each remain

in their original sequential order (although they are not necessarily consecutive)?

FOR THE RECORD

GIMME FIVE!

Not all French artistes have five-letter surnames, but many do Can you

match each French artist, author, or composer (1–10) with the title of one

of their most famous works (a–j)? Most of the works are very well-known,

so their titles are given in French for an extra challenge

i Les Trois Mousquetaires

j Voyage au centre de la Terre

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The crisscross grid below isn’t quite finished The 15 letters beneath it can be inserted to form a pattern

of common words reading across and down Can you find the unique solution?

]]h]rough ]yore]]]e ]]n]very] keener]]] ]]]]range ]]]]t]]]] glasses]] ]]w]]]ebb toll]ate]

FOR THE RECORD

’TIS THE SEASON

The answers to all of these clues share something in common; it’s up

to you to ascertain exactly what that is

9 Some Amazon warehouse workers _ _ _ _ _ _ _

15 Senior Catholic officials _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

19 They rank below

Captains in the Navy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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FOR THE RECORD

TO COIN A PHRASE

Change is the name of the game—specifically, the kind you find in your

purse or pocket The answer to each of these clues is a word, name,

or phrase featuring a U.S coin If you answer everything correctly, you

should have $1.95 in change for your piggy bank

1 Cheap, tawdry paperback

2 Bruce Wayne’s butler’s surname

3 Don’t take one of these

4 Equine that excels at short sprints

5 Rat on, in gangster-speak

6 Typical asking price for your thoughts

7 Very common and of little value

8 Tom Brady or Peyton Manning, e.g

9 “How You Remind Me” band

10 Stephen King clown

11 McDonald’s burger offering since 1971

12 Laverne & Shirley costar

13 Army supply officer

14 SpongeBob SquarePants channel

15 Marilyn McCoo’s group

16 Street in Liverpool immortalized in song

17 Brake quickly and accurately

18 Section of Paris on the south side of the Seine

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

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

P E

P E

1 5 1 2

2

5 5

1 3 1 5

2

5 1

4

5

5 4

2

2 3 4 1

5

2 4

3 1

1

In these puzzles, each square must contain a digit A one-square block contains only a 1, a two-square block contains 1 and 2, a three-square block contains 1, 2, and 3, and so forth The same digit cannot appear in neighboring squares—even diagonally These puzzles start out easy and get progressively harder The first puzzle has been solved as an example

In each of these puzzles, you are given a word and a grid

of letters Starting at any letter, move one square horizontally

or vertically to the next letter Then move two squares to

the next letter, then 3 squares to the next, and so on until

1 Find the word PUZZLE

2 Find the word HIDDEN

ACROSS

1 Display showily

4 Lead singer on 15-Across: 2 wds

9 Mary J with nine Grammys

12 Amending

13 Like terrains that are fit for cycling

14 Say “I do” anew

15 1982 hit for Men at Work: 5 wds.

17 Tarzan, for one: Hyph

18 Cologne’s river

19 Request put in for an item that’s

temporarily out of stock: 2 wds

20 Brand of reddish-brown

topical antiseptic

22 2017 hit for Pink: 3 wds.

26 Actor Sim who played Scrooge

28 Former Nissan brand

29 Billy Budd star Stamp

30 1977 hit for Leo Sayer: 4 wds

32 Little finger or toe, to an anatomist

35 Singer Carter with the #1 country

hit “Strawberry Wine”

54 Name of the first pope, in Latin

55 It beats a leaner in horseshoes

56 Name of many a software

4 Kurt who co-founded Nirvana

5 Back in pristine condition: 2 wds

6 Be a resident of

7 Barkley who was Truman’s vice president

8 “Ouch, that hurts!”

9 Escape from prison: 2 wds

10 South American capital: 2 wds

11 Election ploys related to division

of districts

16 Holder of tools, toys, or treasure

19 Meat often eaten with eggs

20 Implement for mixing eggs

21 Story

23 Was tone-deaf: 4 wds

24 Zapped with a stunning weapon

25 Part of LBO

27 Established routes followed by planes

31 Decorative tattoo dye

32 1948’s European Recovery Program,

38 “ _ you like it or not!”

39 Listening to again, as a court case

49 From days long past: 2 wds

50 Arms of the sea

51 Employing too much

Solve this puzzle as you would a regular crossword, except that each space may hold one, two, or three letters The number of letters in a space is for you to determine, using logic and the crossing of words The answer to 1-Across,

BY ANDREW PARR

In this ninth instalment of Discovering Japanese Logic Puzzles, I’d like to present an original creation It’s a loop-type puzzle that combines elements of two other puzzles, Paint by Numbers and Tapa Nekkuresu translates to “necklace,” which is what the completed grid will look like due

to its unique hexagonal shape Please join our Facebook group, Games Magazine Enthusiasts, where we discuss everything and everything about this magazine, past and present And that is where I will post a walkthrough video of the hardest puzzle in this column, just in case you need

a nudge in the right direction.

GOAL:

Shade some cells to create a continuous path that doesn’t diverge or touch itself.

RULES:

• The path can proceed straight or make 60-degree turns (not 120 degrees)

• A number inside a cell indicates the length of consecutive shaded blocks in neighboring cells If there is more than one number in a cell, there must be at least one unshaded cell between the shaded cell groups Numbered cells cannot be shaded

• Numbers outside the grid indicate how many groups of shaded cells are in the row indicated

by the arrow, and, in order, how many consecutive shaded cells are in each group For example, 3, 1, 1 indicates there will be three groups in the row that contain, in order, three shaded cells, one shaded cell, and one shaded cell Groups are separated by at least one unshaded cell, and there may be unshaded cells at either end of the row.

EXAMPLE

1, 3, 1

4 4

3 1 1 1

1

1

5 5

1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

2, 2

2 2

1, 3, 1

4 4

1

1

1

5 5

1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

2, 2

3 1 1

2 2

SOLVING HINTS

1 Try solving clues at the edges of the grid first

2 Determining where the path can’t go will help you deduce where it can go

3 Don’t try to work linearly; discover segments of the path at several places in the grid and then link them together

4 Buy yourself a fresh eraser You’ve earned it!

1 1

1 1 1

1 5

1 1

2, 2

2 2

4

3 3

1, 3, 2

2, 1, 1, 1

1, 3

1 3

1

3

1 3

4

4

4

4 3

4, 1

5 4

1 1 1 1

1, 2, 2, 1

1, 2

1 1

2 2

2 2

2 2 1

1 1

1 2 2

2, 2, 2

1, 1

1 1

5 4

1

1 1

3 1

1 1

2 2 1

1 2

2 2

2, 2

BATTLESHIP’S ORIGINS

Several theories exist about the origins of Battleship One

idea is that it was derived from a game called Basilinda

that was developed in the 1890s by E.I Horsman

Basil-inda was not based on naval combat, but its gameplay

was similar to Battleship: Opponents sat across from

each other with a partition between them and hid their

playing pieces as they moved them around

Another possible forerunner to Battleship was L’Attaque,

a French game played on a square board Each player

had 36 pieces; every piece had a numeric value, which

was concealed from the opponent and revealed when

an enemy piece moved onto an occupied square This

game became popular among French soldiers during

World War I

Game historians also note that, during the latter years

of World War I, Russian soldiers played a guessing game

on paper similar to these forerunners Grids drawn on

paper represented the various spaces on the board

Players shaded those areas on the grid where their

battleships were located and placed an “X” on spaces

their opponents guessed

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commercial version was published by Starex, a U.S

based company This paper-based game for two players

was released under the name Salvo—a term referring

to the simultaneous discharge of bombs or artillery

Salvo was billed as “The Game of Wits.” It consisted

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to remember where their previous shots were located.Several other pencil-and-paper versions were pro-duced in subsequent years These included Combat: The Battleship Game by the Strathmore Company and Warfare Naval Combat by Maurice L Freedman

MILTON BRADLEY SCORES A HIT

Another paper version called Broadsides: A Game of Naval Strategy was published in the ’30s and ’40s by the Milton Bradley Company At the time, Milton Bradley was

a well-established American game company known for The Game of Life; it would go on to manufacture such classics as Yahtzee and Twister

In 1967, Milton Bradley decided to forgo paper and leased a version of Battleship with plastic components The game box contained the following items: two fold-able game boards (10×10 grids containing holes and labeled with numbers vertically and letters horizontally) ERHWLMTWŪX[SWLMTƥIIXWGSRWMWXMRKSJGEVVMIVWbattleships, cruisers, submarines, and destroyers Those ships had respective sizes of 5,4,3,3,2, where the size indicated the number of squares the ships occupied on the grid (Over the years, ships have varied in size in dif-ferent editions.) Additionally, the set included 168 white TIKWERHVIHTIKWXLEXƤXMRXSXLILSPIWSRXLIFSEVHthese were used to record hits and misses on the grid.The original Battleship game offered players three different ways to play: the standard game, in which players take one shot at a time; an advanced Salvo ZEVMERXMR[LMGLTPE]IVWXEOIƤZIWLSXWEXEXMQIERHthe opponent must report where hits were made; and EWIGSRH]IXQSVIEHZERGIHƤZIWLSX7EPZSKEQIwhere the opponent only had to report how many hits were made without telling what shots were hits or what ships were hit

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Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, Milton Bradley continued

to expand and acquire new contracts, but by the early

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In 1984, the Hasbro Company acquired Milton Bradley.Today, Milton Bradley is no more However, Hasbro continues to produce Battleship Over the years, Battle-ship’s popularity has grown Hasbro manufactures upwards of 150 million pieces for Battleship games each year, which is undoubtedly an indication of the game’s success

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captured the attention of board game enthusiasts in the early 1930s The appeal of this classic naval combat game is timeless; it puts

you at the center of a battle where you

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while trying to protect your own ships from

being annihilated No ship is safe during this

game full of suspense, strategic moves, and

excitement Through the decades, Battleship

has undergone several incarnations, from

its pencil-and-paper days to mass market

success Even after all these years, fans still

enjoy hearing the game’s trademark line:

“You sank my battleship!”

BATTLESHIP VARIATIONS

Battleship has spawned countless variations over the

years that employ different themes and rules that add

a spin to the original game In 1977, Electronic

Battle-ship became available on home computer This version

was a precursor for later electronic Battleship games

In 1989, Electronic Talking Battleship was introduced;

this game added sound effects that made play more

realistic and exciting

In 2008, an updated version of Battleship was released

In this game, islands were added to each grid, and ships

could only be placed around them Eventually, Battleship

reverted to its original style, but the 2008 version is still

sold under the name Battleship Islands

On the video game end, Hasbro has offered options

ranging from apps for mobile devices to an online

ver-sion where players compete with others During the

2000s, video games made for the Sony PlayStation 2

and Nintendo Wii added some alternatives, including a

variety of missiles and ships not found in other editions

And if you still prefer to play with pencil and paper,

single-player Battleship puzzles have been available since

1982 (See page 23 of this magazine for an example!) In

order to provide more of a challenge, the game can be

played on a grid that is larger than the standard 10×10

size With a larger grid, players can choose more hiding

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Even life-size versions of the game have been played—for

example, at schools and summer camps In these sions, a large physical board and wall separate a player from the opponent In addition to being fun, this type of play also enables children to learn about numbers and strategic thinking

ver-Some Battleship editions include sets that are based

on movie themes, such as Battleship: Pirates of the Caribbean, which incorporates a pirate theme with ships and characters from the Disney movie Another game called Battleship: Star Wars Advanced Mission

incorporates a twist on the Star Wars movies You shoot

a spaceship into outer space; one hit from your opponent can destroy the entire ship

Even Hollywood has gotten in on the game: The 2012

movie Battleship HITMGXIHEƥIIXSJWLMTWXLEXEVIJSVGIH

to battle an extraterrestrial enemy armada The cast included some big names, like Liam Neeson, Rihanna, and Alexander Skarsgård

THE LEGACY OF BATTLESHIP

What is it about Battleship that continues to engage players after all these decades? The game is unique in that it brings players together in competitive action that

is full of suspense and excitement You call the shots

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of ships You’ll know you’ve succeeded when you hear that familiar cry: “You sank my battleship!”

Even Hollywood has gotten

in on the game: The 2012 movie

Battleship depicted a fleet of ships

that are forced to battle an extraterrestrial enemy armada