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IL eTTgHS
Familiar Packaging
When the June 10 issue of Time arrived, I
felt a sense of deja vu. Then I remembered
Games's strikingly similar "Foreign Corre
spondent" oover (April). I guess you oan't
keep a good Idea under wraps.
jf f.
• i r
Jill Dana
Abilene, TX
How Time Files
The "Baby Boomer" oover (July) showed
an alleged 1950 family plonio oomplete
with 40 props that oouldn't have existed
then. Better make that 49—the nine young
models (eight human and one oanlne)
oouldn't have been around In 1950. . . .
Thom Dunn
Vail, GO
... and what about that UPC oode? Those
now-famlllar bars and numbers would have
been useless In 1950, as optical readers
for computers did not appear until 1955.
Chad Jones
San Gabriel, CA
Carol Eastman
Chicago, IL
Best Seiier
With the Boy Scouts of America now cele
brating Its 75th anniversary, how Is It that
the Official Boy Scout Handbook didn't
make It Into your list of the 10 most widely
distributed books In the United States
("Book Revue," Wild Cards, June, page
55)? More than 31 million copies have
been distributed since 1910.
Bill Sparkman, Jr.
District Scout Executive
Port Charlotte, PL
Although figures vary, the "Official Boy
Scout Handbook" would rank around 8th
on our list, which was adapted from "The
Literary Life and Other Curiosities."—Ed.
6 SEPTEMBER 1985 GAMES
Siedgehammer Styie
I can scarcely contain my anger and disap
pointment with the detective parody "To
morrow Came Early" (June, page 15).
Under the guise of futuristic fantasy, GAMES
has trotted out every tired ollohS In exis
tence about homosexuality. Must readers
suffer through lisping Interior-decorator
types (even If the offending character Is a
talking robotic house) and fading-youth an
droids named Bruce?
Obviously the piece Is, at least In part.
Intended to satirize a rather asinine genre
of literature, but these characterizations
seem no more than gratuitous Insults at the
gay community. I doubt you would have
printed a parody of an antebellum novel
oomplete with foot-shuffling robots that say
" Ya s s u h l "
Joel Hess
Philadelphia, PA
S o i v i n g Ti p s
I've always found cryptic crosswords devil
ishly tricky—but they're also great fun.
Thanks for doubling their frequency to two
per Issue.
Helen Beatty
Orlando, FL
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Yo r k . N Y 1 0 0 2 2 . — E d .
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.
iNistakes: Juiy
★ Your answer to "Form a Single Line"
(Your Move, page 5) Is Incorrect. The rules
state that you must draw a line "that cross
es each line segment
once and only once," but
yours crosses one seg
ment twice and another
not at all. A correct solu
tion Is at right. _ City
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★ In "Mythology Zoo" (Your Move, page
5) you describe the Minotaur as having the
head and upper body of a man, and the
lower body and legs of a bull. That's topsy
turvy: A Minotaur has the head of a bull
and the body of a man.
Kathy HInkle
Olathe, KS
{Continued on page 63)
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—a photo of 0 fomilior object that is hard to
identify becouse the photo is token either at
very close range or from an unusual perspective
AND the answers to the Trivia Contest. EYEBALL
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prize of o MINOLTA MAXXUM 7000 outfit.
1. What MINOLTA camera is the
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2. What are MINOLTA Talker's three
voice reminders?
3. In addition to the five zooms, how
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MAXXUM SLR SYSTEM?
4. What three current MINOLTA
model names start with the letter "X"?
5. The MINOLTA MAXXUM is (a)
protected by how many patents and
b) establisned how many World's
■irsts in comero engineering?
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Miami Nice
"New York has a lady with a lamp.
San Francisco has a bridge. St. Louis
has an arch. China has a wall. We
don't have anything. Give South Flori
da something to put on its postcards."
An origami menagerie iooks good on
paper.
10 SEPTEMBER 1985 GAMES
Edited by Curtis Slepian
That was the plea made last spring
by Tropic, the Miami Herald's Sunday
magazine. More than 1,000 people re
sponded, sending in designs for such
landmarks as a "Golden Gator"
bridge in the shape of an alligator; a
giant mechanical dolphin programmed
to make hourly leaps out of Biscayne
Bay; and an amphitheater in the shape
Welcome to the Fold
Origami is in creasing. That's the mot
to of the more than 200 ardent follow
ers of the ancient art of paper folding,
who last spring flocked to the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History in New
York to attend a two-day convention—
the sixth such gathering of The
Friends of the Origami Center of
America.
The appeal of origami (a Japanese
word meaning "to fold paper") to the
artists, mathematicians, teachers, psy
chologists, and other folks who flexed
their fingers at the convention's work
shops is manifold. With a single sheet
of thin, square paper, an origamist can
create an elephant with tusks, Andres
Segovia playing a guitar, or a kanga
roo carrying a joey in her pouch.
Though some people occasionally cut
and paste here and there, purists pro
duce their miniature marvels by folding
alone.
Purists or not, those beginners who
tried their hands at duplicating origami
models under the guidance of work
shop leaders quickly discovered that
of a halved orange.
But the clear winner of the $1,000
first prize was Mark Binkiey, a 21-
year-oid artist, whose entry is seen
above. Considering the number of
transplanted New Yorkers in South
Florida, it's easy to see why Fioridians
would carry a torch for this statue.
— S a u l T. P r i n c e
monkey see is not necessarily monkey
do. As constructor Peter Engeis has
said, "There is enough geometry in a
single origami model to have kept
Pythagoras busy for weeks."
indeed, inventing such origami origi
nals as a stegosaurus or a Dutch girl
can be tricky. Although some original
models almost fold themselves and
are invented in minutes, others take
days or weeks. Akira Yoshizawa,
Japan's master folder, claims it took
him 30 years to get his paper cicada
just right.
At the convention, new models were
being invented during class breaks,
with promises by their creators that di
agrammed instructions would be forth
coming. But not ail origamists divulge
their secrets. Yoshizawa is so fearful
someone will steal his designs before
he publishes them, that he doesn't let
anyone look at his creations for more
than a few seconds.
However, there are plenty of models
still waiting to be invented, in the
words of Michael Shall, the executive
director of The Friends, "if you can
dream it, you can fold its likeness."
— T. G.

Chess Is Life
A match for the chess championship
of the world is about to begin. The
challenger is a Soviet defector, the de
fending champion a loyal son of Moth
er Russia. The Soviets would do
anything short of murder to teach the
traitor a lesson for fhe whole world fo
see. The fension is palpable.
Sound familiar? It should. It actually
happened in 1978, when Viktor Korch-
noi, who had defected in 1975, chal
lenged the darling of Soviet Russia,
World Champion Anatoly Karpov, for
the title.
But the scenario described above is
the opening of this year's Oscar-
winner for best foreign film, fhe Swiss-
made Dangerous Moves. Though the
film is fiction, the situations and many
of the details it depicts have been lift
ed straight out of recent chess history.
For instance: In mid-film, the Rus
sians are worried about the way the
match is going, and they decide to
help Liebskind, the champion, by
bringing in a parapsychologist to give
Fromm, the challenger, the evil eye
during the games—which is exactly
what Karpov's team did in 1978.
Fromm, like Korchnoi in that absurdist
match, dons sunglasses to protect
himself, and retaliates by hiring a reli
gious mystic to hex the champion.
And the celluloid Liebskind, emulating
Karpov's calculated insult to Korchnoi,
refuses the customary handshake be
fore and after each game.
Again recalling the absurdities of the
1978 match, Fromm suspects there's
a traitor in his camp and searches for
hidden microphones after one of his
specially prepared opening variations
is anticipated by Liebskind. In real life,
the defeated Korchnoi accused one of
his seconds of being a Karpov spy.
The search for microphones recalls
still another famous match. When Bob
by Fischer played Boris Spassky in
1972, Spassky, after making several
bad blunders, insisted that Fischer's
chair or the lighting fixture above the
chessboard contained chemical sub
stances or electronic devices. (Neither
did.)
The Fischer-Spassky match is re
flected in the film in other ways. For
example, the movie shows Fromm in
specting the playing site before the
match begins and demanding sound
proofing, heavier pieces, and stronger
lighting—just as Fischer had demand
ed larger pieces, stronger lighting, and
soundproof TV and filming equipment
in 1972. And like Fischer in a famous
phofograph, Fromm is shown in a
swimming pool analyzing moves on a
floafing chess set.
See the movie—it's better than at
tending three world championship
matches. Especially if they're anything
like the recent 48-game Karpov-
Kasparov match, which included 40
draws. In the film, 10 of the 12 games
are wins—and that's something to
cheer about. —B. Fl.
Crossword puzzler Stanley Newman:
Enough true grid to be a Wheaties
champion?
Contest of Champions
What does Peter Gagarin have in
common with Joe DiMaggio and Mary
Lou Retton? He has enough of the
right athletic stuff to appear on the
front of a Wheaties box.
If Gagarin's name doesn'f ring any
bells, it's because his specialty is the
esoteric sport of orienfeering. A road
rally on foot, in which competitors
must find their way through a forest
guided only by map and compass, ori
enteering is only slightly more popular
in the U.S. than polo. (For a full look
at the sport, see Games, May/June
1982.)
But Gagarin, who will appear on the
box in early 1986, is only one of 12
relative unknowns picked thus far for
breakfast immortality. Since 1983, as
part of Wheaties' "Search for Cham
pions" confest, buyers of the cereal
have been asked to send in ballots
nominating deserving amateur ath
letes. Each year, a panel of judges
(Walter Payton, Peggy Fleming, and
others) chooses six winners from the
top 50 nominees. Among those select
ed so far have been Jon Lugbill, a
white-water canoist, Doug Heir, a
record-holder in wheelchair track
events, and Jody Beerman, Indiana's
Miss Basketball in 1983.
Clearly there are no Reggie Jack
son-type superstars here. But even
more obscure athletes were nominat
ed, including a 76-year-old jogging
grandmother, a horseshoe pitcher, a
17-year-old female pool player, and a
swimming nun.
Whom would we nominafe? After
great deliberation, we officially submit
the name of Stanley Newman, winner
of the first GAMEs/Merriam-Webster
U.S. Open Crossword Championship
in 1982, and of virtually every other
crossword title in the U.S. in the last
five years. Maybe solving crosswords
isn't strictly an athletic event, but
we've seen many a serious puzzler
break into a sweat while facing a
brutal grid.
Are you listening, Wheaties? —C. S.
Going Batty
In perhaps the biggest teohnological
breakthrough since the invention of the
water-powered turbine, Spalding has
created the water-powered softball
bat. Called the "Tidal Wave," this hol
low aluminum bat unscrews at the
handle. Liquid is poured in, and when
a batter swings it quickly flows to the
head of the barrel, adding up to 10
percent more power to the stroke, ac
cording to the makers.
Spalding suggests ballplayers fill 'er
up with only about six ounces of wa
ter. But If you want to guzzle the con
tents of the bat after a hot seven
innings, a barrei full of beer just may
hit the spot. —C. S.
The Tidal Wave bat may sweep the
nation.
G A M E S S E P T E M B E R 1 9 8 5 11
MAG # C
Many magicians can read minds across
great distances. I can't. But I can read
cards across great distances—yes,
even ordinary playing cards. Get your
self a deck and I'll prove It to you.
Stiuffle the cards well. Holding them
face down, turn over the top card and
place it face up on the table. Imagine
that its face value represents the num
ber of cards in a stack, and deal face
up on top of it as many more cards as
needed to make a stack of 10. For in
stance, if it's a 3, deal seven cards on
top of it; if it's a 5, deal five cards. Face
★ by
cards count as 10, so no more cards
are needed. An ace counts as 1 and
needs nine more cards.
Continue making 10-stacks as
above, keeping the stacks separate,
until the deck is exhausted. If there are
not enough cards to complete a final
stack, keep that Incomplete stack In
your hand.
Now choose, at random, any three
stacks that contain at least four cards
each and turn these stacks face down.
Gather all the remaining cards in any
order and keep them in your hand. Pick
W t K i t fi
Dick Cavett
any two of the three face-down stacks
on the table, turn up the top card on
each of them, and add their values to
gether. Discard that many cards from
those In your hand, then discard 19
additional cards.
Count the number of cards remaining
In your hand. Now turn up the top card
on the third stack. Don't tell me what its
value Is, because I already know it. In
fact, I've written it down in the . . .
Answer Drawer, pageSO
In addition to being a humorist and a TV host, Dick
Cavett is an accompiished magician.
 L AY I N G
HOW TODAY'S ARTISTS MAKE FUNNY FACES
by Cynthia Nadeiman
rfomh
tehegihst ofarto
t
the depths of kitsch, from
the Mona Lisa to Andy
Warhol's Marilyn Monroe, the
portrait has proved an enduring
lure. What, after all, could be
more fascinating than the human
face? These days, though, artists
are finding new ways to play with
portraits. In experimenting with
style and form, they may aban
don brush and canvas altogether
for more whimsical materials,
more ingenious techniques.
At the outer limits of today's
portraiture is the computer,
which artist Nancy Burson uses
to generate likenesses of the im
possible and the nonexistent. In
her work Big Brother, for in
stance, she fused the faces of Hit
ler, Stalin, Khomeini, Mao, and
Mussolini to make a composite
portrait of the ultimate dictator.
B u r s o n fi r s t e x p l o r e d t h i s
hi-tech tool at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Collab
orating with scientists Richard
Carling and David Karmlich, she
programmed a computer to show
how a person might age. The pro
SEPTEMBER 1985 GAMES
cess was so convincing that the
FBI asked the team to produce
images of how long-missing chil
dren might look today.
For the aging process, Burson
combines the features of two or
more faces—the child's and that
of an older sibling or a parent.
The computer scans photos of the
individual faces and, after align
ing the various sets of eyes, ears,
noses, etc., it stretches the im
ages until the facial features av
erage out and a new composite
face is revealed. The result of
this "warping" is photographed
from the computer screen.
Soon Burson saw that this tech
nique could be put to more play
ful uses. She has created, for
example, a bizarre managerie, in
cluding a lion-lamb, a cat-dog, and
even Catwoman, in which her
own face is melded with a cat's.
Portrait of Baby William fused
the faces of Prince Charles and
Princess Diana to get a preview
of what the royal heir may look
like as an adult. Burson also com
bined the faces of Gary Grant,
Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper,
WIT
Humphrey Bogart, and Clark Ga
ble in one picture, and those of
Robert Redford, Christopher
Reeve, Mel Gibson, Warren Beat-
ty, and Richard Gere in another
to compare the Hollywood ideals
of male beauty in different eras.
Though Burson denies that her
work is political, she often por
trays world leaders. During the
last presidential campaign, for
example, she grafted a Reagan-
Mondale coalition. Stranger still
is a composite of the faces of the
last five chief executives. The re
sulting Average President bears
out Burson's assertion that "cha
risma is the ability to look like ev
eryone else."
PORTRAITS BY THE ARTISTS.
This page: Nancy Burson's comput
erized composites of actors past
(left) and present (right) show
handsome is as handsome does.
Opposite: Burson's "Catwoman,"
top left, melds heF own face with a
feline's. Chuck Close portrays his
daughter, Georgia, in fingerprints
(top right) and paper puip (lower
right), while David Hockney shows
motion via muitipie images in "Billy
Wilder Lighting His Cigar."
P O R T R A I T S

urson's computer produces

mm portraits of imaginary peo-
pie; a camera produces por
traits of real ones. After all, a
camera never lies. Or does it?
Consider the theories of the En
glish painter David Hockney, one
of the founders of Pop Art in the
1950s. According to Hockney,
photography can't sustain our in

terest for more than a glance, photograph, Wilder is seen light

since the length of time the shut ing a match, raising it to his
ter stays open to make a photo is cigar, and finally looking up con
itself so brief. Photos, says Hock tentedly to take a puff.
ney, artificially compress time While many photographers
and space. show motion as a blur, Hockney
One of Hockney's grandest at does it in what he believes is a
tempts at overcoming what he more psychologically realistic
considers photography's fatal manner: by capturing a series of
flaw is a panoramic view of the
Grand Canyon. Rather than rely
ing on a wide-angle lens to cap
ture the vista in a single shot,
Hockney took many slightly over
lapping pictures of the canyon,
then pasted them together to
form a sort of photocollage.
These numerous photographic
"glances" provide an experience
close to the way our eyes actually
scan a landscape.
But portraits have always been
Hockney's real love. One of his
simplest and most expressive is
Billy Wilder Lighting His Cigar.
It consists of six overlapping pho
tos taken in rapid succession with
a tiny Pentax 110. In this multi-

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would. The unusual shape of the
photocollage is Hockney's at
tempt to reproduce the meander
ing way we normally focus.
^^huck Close uses photographs
■ in his portraiture too, but in
quite another way. Close
came to prominence in the art
world in the late 1960s as a result
of a series of large-scale portraits
that were based on photos on
which he drew grid lines. To
make the paintings, he divided his
canvases into identical but over
size grids, tben, working back
and forth between photo and
painting, colored the sections in
one at a time, sometimes leaving
the grid lines visible in the fin
ished works.
Close's magnum opus invites
comparison with the great Mi
chelangelo's working method.
SEPTEMBER 1985 GAMES
But whereas Michelangelo paint
Hiram ed the ceiling of the Sistine Cha
pel while lying on his back. Close
created his masterpiece on his
stomach. To make his eight-foot
portrait of his daughter, Georgia,
Close rigged a special scaffold
that allowed him to roll around on
his belly just above the canvas set
o u t o n h i s s t u d i o fl o o r .
.
The model for the portrait was
a black and white photograph of variety of affordable and uncon
-xiiB-.-. Georgia taken at age seven. To ventional ways to immortalize
• XII render her. Close used 34 shades yourself.
• • -.m
of gray and six of white. But he Consider, for example, domi
didn't just use paint—he also noes. Based on the principle of
used paper pulp. For "two very dot patterns by which black and
long, arduous days," he says, he white newspaper photographs
squeezed big wads of mushy pulp are printed, computer researcher
into place on the canvas. The Ken Knowlton has invented Dom
i n o - F i x . Yo u r f a c e i s a s s e m b l e d
from six complete sets of double-
nine white-on-black dominoes. Re
sults can be framed or scrambled
for re-use. Personal portraits cost
$390; ready-made pictures of such
notables as George Washington,
Albert Einstein, and Groucbo
Marx cost up to $100 assembled;
do-it-yourself kits cost $28. Me-
tron Studios, Box 27103, Oak
land, CA 94602.
Jellybean artist Peter Rocha
pulp, which at first "looked like also makes large portaits from
cottage cheese," came already small units, but his are more col-
beaten from a mill, then was
mixed with pigment in separate
buckets in the studio. "With as
sistants running around in the in
credibly sloppy mess, it was like
making a big pizza," says Close,
who would regularly bark out
such orders as "warm gray, num
ber eight."
The drying process, speeded up
with electric fans, took about two
days. "If you don't get tbe water
out, the pulp starts growing bad
things." But to Close, the results
were worth the muss: Pulp not
only adds texture, it sinks into
the canvas and conveys an un
precedented feeling of depth.
With Georgia still on his mind.
Close went on to do another
quirky portrait of his daughter—
this time composing it from his
own fingerprints dipped in paint.
■ ■ nless you're very rich, it's
■ ■ unlikely that Close, Hock-
ney, or Burson will do your
portrait. There are, however, a

THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE.
Opposite page: For dotty types, a
portrait In dominoes, like Grou-
cho's (top left); for sweeter sorts,
jellybeans, like MIcfiael Jackson's
(bottom left). Puzzled? How about
a photo puzzle cube (center)?
Stuck on someone? Send for a
sheet of photographic stamps.
This page: If you're in over your
head, an underwater shot (below)
might be in order; should smoke
get in your eyes, commission a
pipe (above). Sweet hearts will eat
up 24 chocolate portraits like la-
cocca's (near right); and the young
at heart can place a face on a doll
(far right), stuffed or paper, from
Practically Perfect People (Box 375,
Tenafly, NJ 07670; from $20 to $160).
orful—and taste better, too. Us
ing up to 30 pounds of jelly beans
per portrait, in a spectrum of fla
vors, Roeba makes Michael Jack
son, Margaret Thatcher, and any
number of other celebrities look
good enough to eat. You, too, can
get beaned: Rocha charges $200
to $250 per square foot, with the
minimum-size portrait measuring
30 X 24 inches. Peter Rocha, 820
Mission St., San Francisco, CA
94103.
■ ■fancy Denney-Phelps turns
JU portraits into cube puzzles.
mm Put every block in place
and every side of the cube will re
veal a complete and different im
age. Denney-Phelps can
custom-make block puzzles from
personal photos. The cubes are
different sizes, the biggest being
six inches; it costs $150. Lone
Star Puzzle Company, 1390 33rd
Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122;
(415) 681-3189.
T i r e d o f t h e U . S . P o s t O f fi c e
commemorating everyone else on
stamps? Then let Sas Colby put
you on one. The large of ego need
only send a photo to her company.
Double Image, and personal post
age-type stamps will follow. A
sheet of 25 gummed, perforated
stamps (black-and-white or color)
costs $16. Double Image, Box
3970G, Berkeley, CA 94703.
In the swimming-pool state of
California, it was just a matter of
time before underwater portraits
were devised. For those who fan
cy themselves or their water
babies posing in a bubbly, blue-
green atmosphere, Nathanson's
team of photographers will strap
on weights and stay on the pool
bottom until they snap the right
shot. Setting up the shot costs
$75; print prices are extra. Nath
anson's Photography Inc., 1620
Colorado Ave., Santa Monica,
CA 90404.
Along homier lines, a crafts
man in Vermont makes pipes fea
turing carved portrait bowls. In
w a r m c o l o r s o f n a t u r a l b r i a r,
w o o d c a r v e r J a m e s T. C o o k e h a s
fashioned the likes of Abraham
Lincoln, Sherlock Holmes, and
Richard Nixon. He is open to sug
gestions, famous or not, on com
mission. Cost is approximately
$500. North Wind Pipes, R.D. 2,
East Fairfield, VT 05448.
For chocoholics, the portraits
from Chocolate Photos should
prove irresistible. Your photo will
be converted into 24 one-inch
square pieces of dark or milk
chocolate bearing your face in re
lief. The only problem with these
foil-wrapped portraits is they nev
er last long. A 24-piece box costs
$35. Chocolate Photos, 200 West
57th St., New York, NY 10019.
From plaster sculptures to pa
per dolls, the list of unusual por
traiture could go on. Seemingly,
there's no limit to the imagina
tive, distinctive, playful ways art
ists and craftsmen can render
faces. But the portrait we're hop
ing we never see is the one sug
gested in a famous menu
malapropism: Steaks done to your
likeness.
Prices and addresses were ac
curate at presstime, but write to
the companies for up-to-date
information.
Cynthia Nadelman is a writer and art critic.
GAMES SEPTEMBER 1985
 4. In TV's early days, spon BWABBBTANICE

H
sors had complete con
trol of program content, HAWAIIAN PBNCH?

ANDNOW so much so that on the

private-eye series Man

Against Crime, the spon
sor, Camel cigarettes,
The Morton Salt sellers
used the phrase "When it
rains, it pours" to turn their
household product into a

AWORDFROM
decreed that
household name. Can you
a. only the good guys match the slogan (1-9)
were permitted to with the product or
smoke
service (a-i) so cunningly
b. only the good guys

ODRSPONSORS
and punningly described?
were permitted to 1. "We do wonders for your
smoke Camels
spirits."
0. no one was permitted 2. "Our boring experience
to cough leaves you totally
THE GREAT AMERICAN 5. The earliest advertisers drained."
ADVERTISING QUIZ were street peddlers cry 3. "Best legs in town."
ing cockles and mussels 4. "Swallow our pride."
BY TOM PEELER o r w h a t e v e r . T h e fi r s t 5. "We go to a lot of
known printed ad was for pains,"
a. the recovery of a 6. "Stop driving yourself."
Advertising is everywhere. It shouts out from billboards, talks Theban slave circa 7. "Get off your cans. Get
and sings from TVs and radios, pops off the pages of maga 1000 B.C. on the stick."
zines and newspapers, and even rides with us on buses and b. a Roman gladiator 8 . " S w a l l o w t h e l e a d e r. "
trains. This constant clamoring for attention is brought to you matoh around a.d. 100 9. "It's slow good."
by the American advertising industry. Here's a quiz to deter c. Infallible Preventive a. Bayer aspirin
mine if you've been saluting while they've been running it up Pills Against the b. Lucky Lager beer
the fl a g p o l e . A n s w e r Drawer, page 60 Plague in 1665 c. Heinz ketchup
d. the Franklin Stove, ad d. Mennen Speed Stick
vertised in Benjamin
ODD VIBRATIONS OU'VECOMEA Franklin's Pennsylva
deodorant

G Y
e. Holland House cocktail
LONG WAY,BABY! nia Gazette in 1729
mixes
• They're not writing jin A d s n a u s e a m a n d i n fi 6. The following characters f. Skippy peanut butter
gles like they used to. In nitum—how much do you made their debuts long g. Kentucky Fried Chicken
h. North Central Airlines
fact, more and more adver know about these advertis before the invention of
tisers are appropriating, and the picture tube. Can you i. Roto-Rooter
ing landmarks?
sometimes altering, estab 1. Who said, "Early to bed, put them in the order of
lished hit tunes to help ped early to rise, work like their appearances on the
dle their wares. Can you hell and advertise"? advertising scene? ■RYIIYBB'LL
match the song (1-10) with a . D r. W i l l i a m S c h o l l LIKE IT!
the product (a-j)? b. Levi Strauss
1. "Barbara Ann" c. J. Walter Thompson The Village Voice once
2. "Why Do Fools Fall in called TV commercials "the
2 . W h a t w a s t h e fi r s t c o n
Love?" greatest stories ever sold."
sumer product to appear See if you can name the
3. "I'm a Woman"
on the cover of Time
4. "You Ain't Got a Thing products that were being
I f Yo u A i n ' t G o t T h a t magazine (the week of advertised between the
May 15, 1950)? lines of these conversations.
Swing" a. a Dumont television 1. Woman's voice:
5. "Lemon Tree"
set "Oh, look, Morris.
6. "Helpl"
b. a bottle of Coca-Cola
7. "I Just Galled to Say I Puppies! Aren't they
c. a Volkswagen cute?"
L o v e Yo u "
Beetle
8. "9 to 5" Morris: "Silly, stupid,
9. "Walk on the Wild sloppy, maybe, but
3. The U.S. advertising in
Side" not cute. Cats are
dustry spends $75 billion cute."
10. "Billie Jean"
a year, and these five ad
a. Mercury cars vertisers account for 2 . S t o m a c h : " Yo u s h o u l d
b. Handiwrap more than 10 percent of see the way he stuffs
c. American Greetings that figure. Can you rank himself at his mother's!
d. Pepsi them according to dollars And the pepperoni
e. Enjoli perfume spent? pizzas!"
f. Sprint H.J. Heinz Man: "I like pepperoni
g. Honda Scooters General Motors pizza!"
h. Emery Air Freight Proctor and Gamble Stomach: "Do you like
i. Quaker Oats Granola Dip Sears, Roebuck heartburn? Well, you're
j. Lemon Pledge The U.S. Government going to get it!"

20 SEPTEMBER 1986 GAMES

3. Woman customer:
E TRY HARDER lOKE IS IT!

w
"Madge, I really dig
rock!"

Madge: "These hands Some advertisers try 1 Coca-Cola Is the most

took like you've been
digging rock."
Wo m a n : " I t ' s d i s h w a s h
ing. What'll I try?"
4. Mr. Spleen: "Congratula-
tlonsonyourdealinDen-
verDavld.I'mputtingyou
downtodealinDallas.
Donlsitadeal?Dowehave
adeal?lt'sadeal.lhaveacall
comingln . . .
5. Man on phone: "Hello?"
W o m a n ' s v o i c e : " Yo u
snore."
Man: "And you steal the ,
covers."
6. Dick: "And tomorrow
we're going to try our
hand at water polo."
Bubba: "Yeah, I sure
hope those horses can
swim."
Dick: "Me too."
l-YO PIZZA ROLL!
harder than others. From a familiar consumer product
Chevy perched on a pinnacle In the world, and the follow
1,500 feet above the desert ing slogans are at least
floor, to Ann Miller dancing partly responsible. Can you
atop a giant can of Great fi l l i n t h e b l a n k s ?
American Soup, nothing seems 1. The that refreshes.
beyond the scope or Imagina 2. The best friend a
tion of the ad biz. ever had.
See if you can Identify the 3. It's the thing.
products that employed these 4. I'd like to buy the a
other imaginative attention- Coke.
getters. 5. Have a Coke and a
T
IRONGER
THAN DIRT
It's a dirty job, but
somebody has to do It.
Match the product (1-7)
with the evil It was made to
combat (a-g).
1. Wisk
2. Lifebuoy
3. Clairol Condition
4. Bardahl
5. Bounce

H ICelebrlty endorsement
has long been one of ad
6. Agree
7. Milk-Bone dog biscuits

a.
b.
The greasies
Static cling
vertising's favorite ways to
push a product. Amelia Ear- 3. Where did Spam get its c. Sticky valves
hart hawked Lucky Strike YROLOGNAHAS name? d. Flabby hair
cigarettes, and John Wayne AFIRSTIIIAME... a. It stands for "sau e. Bad breath in dogs
did his bit for Whitman's f. B.C.
Sometimes a catchy sage, pork and
Samplers. brand name can be the best
more." g. Ring around the collar
Can you match these oth b. It's a contraction for
form of advertising. Though
er hucksters (1-10) with the "spiced ham."
Biibber Blubber, the first
products (a-j) they've en bubble gum, has been lost c. It's "Maps" spelled HERES
' THE REEF?
dorsed over the years?
1. Joan Collins
2. Julius Erving
3. John Houseman
to posterity. Bazooka and
Dubble Bubble are still syn
onymous with the pink
chewy stuff.
backward, in honor of
Wendel G. Maps,
then-president of fhe
Hormel Packing
w The following slo
gans were designed to lure
4. King Edward VII of How much do you know Company. hungry diners into the
crowded parking lots of
England about these brand names? 4. All but one of the follow
fast-food establishments.
5. Orson Welles 1. Who was the original Dr. ing cosmetics makers Where would you head if
6. Cher Pepper? was a real person. Name
7. President William a. Dr. Wllhelm von Pep the impostor. you heard and heeded the
following?
McKlnley per, the scientist who a. Helena Rubenstein
1 . Yo u d e s e r v e a b r e a k
8. Eleanor Roosevelt invented the formula b. Max Factor
9. Tony Randall for the soft drink c. Elizabeth Arden
today.
2. Let yourself go.
10. Ernest Hemingway b. the company d. Prince Matchabelll
3. The one meal you can't
founder's pet goat
a. Smith Barney 5. Where did the Fig New make at home.
c. the father of the com
b. Parkay margarine ton get its name? 4. We do chicken right.
pany founder's ex-
c. Paul Masson wines a. from Sir Isaac 5. Have It your way.
sweetheart
d. Waterman fountain pens Newton 6. When you get tired of the
e. Easy-Off oven cleaner 2. What does the "S.O.S." b. from Myrtle Ruth burger wars, is the
f. Angelas player pianos stand for in S.O.S. soap Newton, who originat place to go.
g. Ballantlne Ale pads? ed the recipe 7. Slow down . ..
h. Jack LaLanne spas a. Stamp out smudge c. from the town of
Tom Peeler is a Texas lawyer and
I. Chapstick b. Soap of superiority Newton, freelance writer who still has an Oval-
j. Scoundrel perfume c. Save our saucepans Massachusetts tine mug.

GAMES SEPTEMBER 1985 21

A TIME-WARP SEQUENCE PUZZLE
BY STEPHANIE SPADACCINI
A N D W A LT E R W I C K ★ ★ ★
PHOTOGRAPHED BY WALTER WICK

Sdcue
imsosinswerCap
n
ati Rocky
Cragg's specialty, and this qualified as
one—in spades. At first it didn't sound
so risky: The Nova Ore Corporation wanted
Cragg to collect samples of glowing crystals
from the planet Verdanta and perform experi
ments on them before they faded. The crystals
lose their glow outside the planet's atmosphere,
and the NOC wanted to know why.
But that "why" had cost the lives of 12 men
on eight failed missions. Those who had made it
past Verdanta's radioactive quasar rings and
survived its flesh-melting teflon storms had to
deal with the Verdantians. And nobody in his
right mind wanted to deal with the Verdantians.
Except Rocky Cragg. He volunteered.
Cragg made the voyage in his rusty space-
bucket, the S.S. Doberman, and he lived to tell
about it. But the trip had taken its toll on pilot
and ship. When Cragg landed at the Cleveland
Spaceport, he was suffering from such a bad
case of space lag that he refused to leave the
Dobeman's sick hay. And since he had neglect
ed to keep a ship's log (again), the job of re
constructing the mission fell (again) to Ground
Commander "Ground" Chuck Jones. Usually
Jones based the log on tape recordings of in
flight radio transmissions. But on this trip, the
radio had gone dead right after Cragg reported
activating the ship's cooling system because of
an overheated engine.
So the only record of the trip was the com
posite photograph seen here which, by means of
warp-drive photography, recorded various prob
lems Cragg encountered along the way. Each
section of the cockpit window represents a dif
ferent time period during the round trip be
tween Earth and Verdanta, and thus the photo
enabled "Ground" Chuck to logically reconstruct
the entire journey. Can you do the same?

Arrange the sections of the cockpit

window (labeled A-J in the diagram)
in chronological order to discover what
took place aboard the S.S. Doberman.
Answer Drawer, page 58

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Edited by Will Shortz

N u m b e r, P l e a s e ! ★ ★ by Mary Ellen Slate

Simple arithmetic—and a little knowledge of trivia—are all it
takes to solve this numerical puzzle. Each clue is in the form
of a two-part equation. When you know the answers to both
parts, perform the calculation indicated by the arithmetic
symbol (addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division) and
write the result in the box corresponding to the letter of the
clue. When all the boxes have been correctly filled in, each
horizontal and vertical row and both corner-to-corner diago
nals will total the same key number. Note: Once you've de
termined the key number by completing one row, you'll have
an additional clue to finishing the others. Some numbers ap
pear more than once in the puzzle.

a m A B c D E
A. Legs on a spider x Legs on a stool
B. Days in a fortnight — Deadly Sins
C. Members of the Supreme Court -j- Members of the
F G H 1 J
Supremes
D. RPM of a "single" -r- The Stooges
E. Minutes -h- Years Before the Mast
F. Karats in pure gold - Hills of Rome
K L M N 0
G. Cards in a pinochle deck — Contiguous U.S. states
H. Kellogg's Product -i- VHP channels
I. Innings in a baseball game -- Easy Pieces
J. Points on a Star of David x Points in a touchdown P 0 R S T
K. Ali Baba's Thieves — __ Candies

L. Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins ^ U.S. Senators

M . Heinz varieties Men in a tub
U V W X Y
N. Lives of a cat x Mittenless kittens

0. Disney's dalmatians - Piano keys

P. King Henrys of England + Nixon's "Crises"
Q. Route — Winks in a nap Answer Drawer, page 62

R. Days in June -:- Blind mice

S. Baskin-Robbins flavors -j- Feet in a fathom W. Beethoven's symphonies -t- Stars in the Big Dipper
X. Dimes in a dollar ^ Lights "if by sea"
T . Olympic rings — The Seasons
U. "Kings of Orient Are" x —-Mile Island Y. Beatles' "When I'm " -=- Beatles' " Days a
V. "Little Indians" x "Little Peppers" Week"

GAMES SEPTEMBER 1985 25

A Spate of Eights by Octavia Toufours

A Games Anniversary Word Search

Within in this grid are hidden, straight,
Some 20 words that terminate
Quite aptly with the sound of "eight." j ——
The pictures given illustrate ' *

The words that you'll investigate.

To start you cT, we've circled bait.
Word List, page 64 Answer Drawer, page 61

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1 E T A T S R E T N 1 K E

B ■T T 0 B E U N H D E R T

0 E H E S E T A G L L 0 T

0 E E T A R T S 1 G A M A

1 K N A N 0 C T N E 0 P D U S

G P C A R D S M E W N S K A T

T L H R E S A T H Y A D E L T

R A E 1 A T C F R V R 0 M A T

H T H T E T A M Y A L P R T R

E E P A P E R W E 1 G H T

B C E A L T L E H S G E A

L B K U M S A B B 1 B H E

P R 1 M A T E Y E R R 0 T

A A D R A

26 SEPTEMBER 1985 GAMES

Tooling Along ^ by Lois Sidway

r r r r m 43 Shop teacher?: 10 "Quiet down!": 1 2 3 '1 . 11 12 13

1 Longing
5 Thick slices
48 ■■
2 wds.

Wiedersehen"
2 wds.
11 O a f
12 Aware of: 2 wds.
14 II .

10 Lump of dirt 49 Simplicity 13 Dashes, in Morse 17 19

14 Academic, as a .<50 "Is that 9" code

point ("Really?"): 2 wds. 18 Santa's laugh 20 22

1 5 A c t r e s s Tu r n e r 53 Puts a stop to 19 Baseball great

and namesakes 55 Wedding vow: Roger
16 Mrs. Charlie 2 wds. 23 "The the
27
Chaplin 58 Multi-use tool?: limit"
17 Tool held while 4 wds. 24 Got off the ground
33
the hands are 61 Comic Johnson 25 Blanched
full?: 4 wds. 62 Comedy's 26 " America
36
20 View counterpart Singing" (Walt
2 1 F o o t n o t e a b b r. : 63 Gallup Whitman poem): 40
2 wds. undertaking 2 wds.
22 Choir voices 64 Optimistic 27 Reuben Reuben 43
23 Oxford or loafer 65 Gotten out of bed s t a r To m
24 Payday, often: 66 Medley 28 Hell
A b b r. 29 Conceit
25 Discarded tool?: 3 0 " R a i n b o w " fi s h 50 51 52

4 wds. 31 Keep an the

33 Sailor's "hello" 1 Baseball judges ground: 2 wds. 58

34 "Rock of 2 Profligate one 32 Bit of hearsay

■
(hymn) 3 "Going, going. 37 Homeless 61

1"
3 5 Wr i t e r S a n t h a tyke

1
64
Rama 4 And the like: 3 8 Ta v e r n
36 Camera's eye A b b r. 39 facts (be
37 Black 5 the tongue: realistic) Answer Drawer, page 60
(deadly spider) 2 wds. 41 Ninth planet
39 Shape 6 Small surgical 44 Servile follower 47 USA rival 53 Mata (famed 57 Norway's capital
40 Grab a bite knife 45 " Why" 50 Slightly open spy) 59 President before
41 Canvas for Jack 7 Opposed to (Belmonts song): 51 Gambling 54 Voiced sigh HST
Frost, perhaps 8 Thai monetary unit 2 wds. game 55 Matinee hero 60 Part of
42 Mazda or 9 Direction opposite 46 Wickerwork 5 2 N e w Te s t a m e n t 56 Sandwich some G.l.s'
BMW N N W material book shop addresses

Original Sin by Andrea Carlo Michaels

Net stockings are a bit nauglity, and giant fudge sundaes are the answer sinuous, while "Plot summary" would yield
indulgent, but ttiis quiz is positively sinful. That's because the SYNOPSIS. Word experts should find the remaining examples
answer to each clue is a word or name beginning with the a cinch.
sound "sin." For example, the clue "Curving" would lead to Answer Drawer, page 61

1. Fabled sailor 10. King Features or NBA.

2. House of worship. 11. Glass slipper wearer _

3. Evilly threatening _ 1 2 . Te n d o n

4. Breakfast roll flavor. 13. Sarcastic person,

5. Word of the same meaning 14. Sparkling

6. Letter writer's closing 15. Modern keyboard instrument.

7. Home of the Reds 16. The movies

8. Man-made 17. The Jungle author Upton.

9. "New York, New York" singer. 18. Grammatical arrangement.

GAMES SEPTEMBER 1986 27

 I

written and illustrated by Robert Leighton

Crypto-Funnies
The words in the three comic strips below, like those in regu sent G throughout both panels of that strip), but change from
lar cryptograms, have been translated into simple cipher al one comic to the next. Look for distinctive letter patterns and
phabets. Letter substitutions remain constant within each common short words (a, i, in, to, the, etc.) to help you get
strip (for example, if v represents G in one word, it will repre- started. Answer Drawer, page 64

N E V E R S AY D I E T

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Get tke Point? ★ ★ by Dorothea Shipp
44 Military men. 8 Orch, section
collectively 9 Colonists
1 Pang 45 Handle roughly 10 Secure,
6 Back talk 48 Tupelo legend In a way:
10 Pina colada 52 It's often a 2 wds.
need goody 11 He sniggles
12 Bachelor's 53 Some fraternity 12 Motocycle
counterpart m e n adjunct
14 Show annoyance 5 5 K i d d e r fi l m r o l e 13 Theater areas
15 Motion denied? 56 Part of 16 Missing
17 Flight board R , S , V, P, 19 "Hail, Caesarl"
a b b r. 57 Chemist's tube 22 Tight position?
18 Light lunches in 59 Store tor the 24 Anger
Lyon winter 26 Removes
20 Restaurant 60 Bos'ns some of
total 62 Diamondbacks, the hassle
21 Spy-wrlting e.g. 28 Bonnie's
23 Cut in halt , 64 Acme beau
24 Maladies 65 It's golden 30 Body of eau
25 Scandinavian 66 Botanist Asa 32 Century
coin 6 7 U n d e r, 33 Not this way
27 Play room to bards 34 Boris Godunov's
28 Minoan land
portrayer
2 9 H o o v e r, t o r o n e 35 Mail-order
31 Wing part surcharge
33 "Mein Gott!" 1 Fright 37 Malign
36 Black, White, or 2 Bob is one 41 Shade of
Ye l l o w 3 Speed rate: blue
38 Humorist Abbr, 43 Bygone British
Blount, Jr, 4 Chooses m e a s u r e Answer Drawer, page 61
3 9 Tr a n s a t l a n t i c 5 Raines and 46 Corroded
speedster Fitzgerald 47 District of Los 51 Have a feeling 57 Raton, 61 Roman
40 Drinks after 6 Kids' game 53 Big and Florida t i o u s e fi o l d
Angeles
drinks equipment 49 To let r o u g fi 58 First god
42 Poem to a 7 Enzyme 50 It hard-pressed: 54 A l e fi O u s e name in 63 New Deal
nightingale s u f fi x e s 3 wds. vessel mysteries program

Building Blocks by A. Broine

The first three letters in each line in this puzzle are already in blocks will be used exactly once, so you may cross them off
place. To solve, insert the "blocks" at the side into the re as you proceed. When all the squares have been filled, two of
maining squares—without rearranging any letters—to com the columns reading down will spell a pair of additional, relat
plete eight nine-letter words reading across. Each of the ed words. Answer Drawer, page 58

BLOCKS
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Figure Eights
A Twisty Word Puzzle
Each answer in this puzzle is an eight-letter word that is to be
entered in the grid in the shape of a figure eight, crossing
itself at the appropriately numbered box. All answers pro
ceed in the same direction (see at left), but the start
ing point is up to you to determine. The first answer,
INTERNAL, has been filled in as an example; it starts
at the I, proceeds diagonally downward to the i, and then
by Will Shortz
curls back and up to the l. Note that the letter n is used twice,
and that its two appearances are separated by exactly three
other letters. Each of the other 31 words will have a similarly
repeated letter, which will go in the shaded box (although this
letter will not always appear in the second and sixth positions
of the answer word). Be sure you have your balance before
beginning . . . and happy skating! Answer Drawer, page 58

10 Covers, as a 19 Playing "Turkey in 27 Sensation of

G O D sword the Straw," for excitement
1 The "I" of IRS 11 W o r t h l e s s b u m example 28 Monotonously
2 Adherent to the 12 Hiawatha's father, 20 Female devil rhythmic, as a
. old regime or a sign of a 21 Sends by special voice
3 Wallet storm? (2 wds.) post (hyph.) 29 Makes rough
4 Coin In a Spanish 13 Circumnavigators 22 Bowling game 30 Witty reply
treasure chest 14 Natural tendency 23 Daydreams 31 Principal division
5 Befuddle 15 Trespass (upon) 24 Reduce as much of a symphony
6 Diabolical 16 Shaking, as a as possible 32 Where
7 Sweat pillow 25 Cuspid touchdowns
8 More Idiosyncratic 17 Somewhat pale 26 Personal guidance are scored
9 Loony bin 18 Airplane's body and instruction (2 wds.)

GAMES SEPTEMBER 1985 31

 Hoist the Jolly Roger! ★ ★★
A Seafaring Logic Puzzle
Avast, ye landlubbing logicians! Down at the Rose & Crown
pub, a rowdy bunch of buccaneers is gathered. And now that
they've downed a few bottles of rum, they're beginning to
brag about their booty. Each one has plundered a different
town on the Spanish Main, and has seized a certain number
of doubloons plus a fortune In precious stones. Each pirate's
treasure chest is buried on a different uninhabited Caribbean
island at a latitude somewhere between 68° and 64°W, and a
longitude between 16° and 12°N (see chart below). No two
G O D
1. "Next to my ship the Revenge, your Rogue Merchant
looks like a skiff!" brags Long John Silver to one potted
pirate.
2. "Mateys," boasts another buccaneer, "my treasure chest
is overflowing with rubies!"
3. The treasure from the Adventure Galley is buried on an
island east of the two Islands with the pearls and the booty
from Cartagena, and west of the two islands with Black-
beard's treasure and the booty from Maracaibo.
4. No two of the five treasure islands have the same longi
tude or latitude, nor are any two directly northeast, northwest,
southeast, or southwest of one another.
5. Henry Morgan boasts that his treasure includes 200 gold 10. The number of doubloons that were stolen from Tortuga
doubloons. "Bilge water!" shouts another pirate. "My chest Is equal to the number of doubloons carried on the Salty Jack
holds 300 doubloons and a man's weight in diamonds!"
32 SEPTEMBER 1985 GAMES
by Susan Zivich
pirates have seized the same number of doubloons, nor have
any two seized the same type of gem. If you stay out of sight
and listen very carefully, you'll hear the drunken revelers re
veal enough data for you to locate all their treasures. Can you
determine the name of each pirate's ship; the town or island
that each pirate plundered; what each man's treasure chest
contains; and the latitude and longitude of the island where
each treasure chest is buried?
Answer Drawer, page 62
6 . T h e i s l a n d w i t h J e a n L a fi t t e ' s t r e a s u r e i s n o r t h o f t h e t w o
islands with 400 gold doubloons and the booty from Hlspanl-
ola, and south of the two islands with emeralds and the trea
sure from the Sea Vagabond.
7. "I have more than 500 doubloons—more than any of
you I" yells one pirate as he swaggers to the bar. He doesn't
reveal the specific amount, but he somehow lets slip that his
treasure is buried at 65°W and 15°N.
8. The island with Jean Lafitte's treasure is east of the island
with 500 gold doubloons. *
9. Captain William Kidd and his bloodthirsty buccaneers
looted Portobelo.
plus the number of doubloons burled with the opals.
 by Charles Debar
c n m
, 1 Necklace part
6 Pocketed bread
10 Comedian Sahl
14 Ways and
m e a n s

19 Where's ?
(George Segal
film)
20 In current
condition
21 Copycat
22 Tom T. Hall hit
23 Listener's loan?
24 "See ya!"
25 Helsinki
Olympiad
26 Meryl's
SUkwood
role
27 * = G
30 Houses of
Lords?
31 OH- e.g.
3 2 R e c t i fi e d
34 Mao follower
35 * = H
39 Sports execs.
40 Methuselah's old
m a n

42 Farming prefix
43 "Homeliest gal"
Hawkins
45 Zodiac animal
47 Lacks
permission,
briefly
50 City on the Firth
of lay
53 Shamir's state
55 Mary Hartman,
Mary Hartman
star
56 ♦ = C
59 At some future Answer Drawer, page 58
time 9 3 Wa s n ' t c o l o r f a s t 124 Knob or nub 18 Rhyme or reason 52 Joins up 8 9 Te n n i s c a l l
60 Armee member 94 Singer Patsy 125 Fiddler on the 28 Walking tree. In 54 Pharoah's 91 Gathered
61 Pay homage, 96 Drops in the lawn Roof daughter To l k i e n emblem 92 Heal
perhaps 97 * = S 29 Ansel Adams 55 Nabokov's 95 Frequent art
63 Giant Mel 100 Cunning apparatus nymphet and prefix
64 Overwhelm 102 Fisherman's 30 Playing pieces others 96 Bit of plankton
67 Use semaphore catch? 1 I.R.S. experts 33 Rep.'s foe 57 Advantage 98 Day, in Durango
69 Scottish dish 105 Sink 2 WKRPs Jennifer 35 Shane star 58 Fled 9 9 S u d d e n fl o w
71 Sticky gunk 1 0 6 Tr i n i d a d ' s 3 Summit 36 Fever fit 62 Actor Richard 100 Alamogordo
72 Stout of Nero partner 4 Tiff 37 Fancy vases 64 City on the event
Wolfe fame 108 * = J 5 Outcast 38 "As my Rhone 101 Calgary
73 "From 114 Of Nantes, for 6 Pushovers witness ..." 65 Drive while
Stampede, e.g.
shining . . ." o n e 7 Dancer Duncan 39 Lillian of Way drunk 103 1982 bestseller,
74 Rickety autos 11 5 B a r b e c u e 8 Saturn's largest Down East 66 * = D with The
76 What's 41 Six-pack's big
accessory m o o n 68 Folk tales 1 0 4 " G o fl y ^ 1 "
fashionable, with 11 6 B l o o d v e s s e l : 9 Slippery eel brother 70 Dispatched 105 "Well done!"
"the" P r e fi x 10 Saws 44 Mussolini and Idi 75 -Croatian 107 Reason for
79 * = N 11 7 C i r c u s M a x i m u s 11 Sound off Amin 77 Environmental Alka-Seltzer
85 Kicks out on the bears 12 We a r t h e c r o w n 45 Played it again ist's study: Abbr. 109 Neck and neck
street 11 8 P r e fi x f o r c o m i c 13 Part of TNT 46 Fleet, in a suite 78 * = Y 110 Venetian vigor
86 Cactus pit 119 Newspaper 14 * = K 48 "Boss!" 80 College lecturer 111 Previously
87 Filter section 15 The Good Earth 49 81 Did in owned
88 Mister, south of 120 At all Remember"
w o m a n 82 After-bath powder 112 Mammoth, for
the border 121 Colander's kin 16 * = T 83 Row
(Fantasticks tune) o n e
89 Fleur-de- 122 Hot nightcap 1 7 Ti n k e r - C h a n c e 51 They may be » 84 The Neverending 113 Hull part
90 Aromatic wood 123 Gossip tidbit boosted or bruised
go-between Story author 11 5 Lanka

GAMES SEPTEMBER 1985 33

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

Puzzle 1 by Emily Cox and Henry Rothvon ,5 6 7 8

c i m 9
19 Give new
weapons back to
3 Giant ant: it's
mutation (5)
■ ■ ■
1 Begin to have a military's leader (5) 4 Plead animatedly
r
■ ■ ■
meal, eating pie 20 Pest tossed rock for bicycle (5)
(5,2) into carriage (9) 5 Perfume from
5 Cargo for French 23 Indian city European country
octet (7) delicatessen covering dust
9 Supposed stocks bit of ham cloth (9)
grass-covered (5) 6 Oriental money
place (7) 24 Land camera 1 maker holds
1 0 Soothe with mended (7) disordered set (9)
chopped 25 Kennedy, taking 7 $1000 price for
sausage (7) s h o w e r, t r a v e l e d grill (5)
11 Religious book by rail (7) 8 Lock In Sartre's
shows cuckoo on 26 March 6: turned stories (5)
ark (5) 1000 to socialist 14 Egyptian queen in 20 21

1 2 Size of green philosophy (7) fetter 1 fashioned

■ ■ ■
bananas gulped 27 Outstanding cast (9)
by girl (9) all rest (7) 15 Farm keeps one
24
1 3 Instrument making actual warning in
awful groan (5) case of blazes
15 Money man
brings more 1 Republican
(4,5)
16 Tennis player has 26
■ ■ ■
stylish clothing in (Eisenhower) truck to give
(9) •embraced by fat temporarily in
18 Special troops fan (6,3) Illinois (4,5) 20 Spell "March" excellent 2 3 Do yard
during breakfast 2 Snake on a sweet 17 Memory-jogger wrong (5) ovation (5) work after
ask for cereal climbing about a leftover 21 Mask actress 22 Dislikes foolish beginning of
(4,5) vegetable (9) (9) accepts haste (5) Donald Duck (5)

Puzzle 2 by Merl Reogie

21 Time in office held 4 Garden spot Is
C H 9 by Walter nothing in its
2 Well-known Greek Mondale (4) present form (5)
joint with post 22 Patriotic writer is 5 Rugged quality of
office boxes (11) surprisingly at Crazy Horse's
8 Odor absorbed by home covering gun (9)
Cigar-O-Matic (5) Iberian country 6 Diet cola was first
9 Nuclear sub, (6,5) to be shelved (6)
veering east. Is 25 Cook makes us 7 Material was
beyond saving eat nervously (5) convincing to
(11) 26 Arrange wig and audience (5)
10 Dinner includes strip out of secre 8. Place to relax
bit of thiamine tary's things (7,4) after stirring
and iron (5) 27 One nut's loony march melody (8)
11 S e e s S i s c h e w relatives (5) 13 Mutant aims my
grilled sandwich 28 Developing gun at sports hall
ingredient (5,6) country made a (9)
12 Mixture contains film (11) 14 Ace airman

hydrogen (4) transported U.S.

13 Stern expert's goods (9)
scowl (7) 15 Heads of state
16 Country laity 1 Wa t e r s n e a r right in the midst
Amsterdam of unstable
congregated (5)
17 Backing sports Sheraton must be empires (8)
o f fi c i a l a s " m o r e cleaned up (5,3) 18 Constant worry
conservative" (5) 2 Conveys lively about heartless from astroiogy 23 He doesn't 24 Report of
19 Plays Mozart's hulas (5) queen (8) chart! (6) believe choppy seas
First on piano's 3 Role: It precedes 20 Turn up one 22 Carried to be Dad raised at end of
ivories (7) one on screen (9) dozen headings married (5) badger (5) February (5)

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

34 SEPTEMBER 1985 GAMES • '

Cross Examination * ★
A Mystery with a Double-Crostic Solution
InsGoodrich,
pector Crothe
ss femanager
lt noting bofut sSpiffany's
ympathydowntown
for Sam
store. The fabled jewelry firm had opened the branch
only a month ago, with some misgivings about profit
ability. Goodrich knew that his job hinged on its suc
cess, and the last thing he needed was an increase in
insurance rates.
But that increase was bound to come, following the
recent theft of a diamond worth almost a hundred thou
sand dollars.
"I blame myself," Goodrich moaned. "I spotted
those two as trouble the minute they walked in, the
bearded man with dirty jeans, his gum-chewing girl
friend with bushy hair . . . especially when they asked
to see the most expensive stones in the store."
"You couldn't very well refuse them beoause of their
looks," the Inspector said soothingly.
"No," the manager moaned. "I couldn't. And some
times," he said hopefully, "millionaires come in wear
ing T-shirts and denims. For all I knew, those two had a
Rolls-Royce parked outside. . . ."
"No such luck," Sergeant Kingsley said grimly.
"Joey Moss and Sally Phalen don't even own a jalopy.
They live in a condemned building and scrounge for
every dime."
"The problem," Goodrich said, "is that I can't prove
He 'accidentally' dropped his umbrella on the glass. And In that moment the girl lifted the diamond.
by Henry Slesar
they took the diamond! But it was there one minute and
gone the next!"
"Did your clerk keep an eye on them all the time?"
"No," Goodrich said miserably. "He was distracted,
and I think the distraction was deliberate. While the
woman looked at the diamonds on the tray, the man
walked to the other end of the counter. He 'accidental
ly' dropped his umbrella on the glass. Naturally, the
clerk went to see if there was any breakage."
"And in that moment," Gross said, "the girl lifted the
diamond."
"No doubt about it," Goodrich said. "But the ques
tion is, what did she do with it?"
Gross looked at Sergeant Kingsley, who answered
the question in his eyes.
"They were stopped right outside the door. Inspec
tor. We're sure they didn't pass the diamond to a con
federate. We searched their umbrella, their clothes, we
even looked in their mouths. There was absolutely
nothing. Then we took them to headquarters, gave
them a strip search, even an X-ray to make sure they
hadn't swallowed the^ diamond. We found nothing."
"Ah," the Inspector said. "If you found nothing then
I've got a good idea where the diamond is."
What was Inspector Cross's answer? Solve the
puzzle on the next page to find out.
GAMES SEPTEMBER 1985 35
(Continued from page 39)

Cross Examination (Part 2)

To discover the solution to the mystery on the previous page, Black squares separate words In the message. Work back
solve the double-crostic below. First answer the clues for and forth between the grid and word list to complete the puz-
words to be entered on the numbered dashes. Then transfer zle. When you're done, the initial letters of the words In the
the letters on the dashes to the correspondingly numbered word list will spell the title of the case,
squares In the puzzle grid to spell the solution to the case. Answer Drawer, page 58

35

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A. Seafood dish M. Somerset

184 a 59 23 133 170 48 11 3 231 152
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(3 wds.)
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novel (3 wds.) 165 62 121 40 83 143 187 202 200

N. Lack of an
160 25 132 74 2 11 183 103 14 129 exit (3 wds.) 34 141 92 173 11 5 135 226

C. ■ Black, tropical O. Marx Brothers

105 63 11 6 176 167 53 194 60 223 3 11 9 204 39
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D. Away on P. Help (Brit.)

151 81 42 168 190 125 203 209 18 49 11 2 222 181 69 169 61
business
(3 wds.)
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E. Old-fashioned, declaration 12 50 79 186 179 126 197 4 107

conservative 131 144 13 106 68 188 98 177 196 54

(5 wds.)
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F. Novel by Walter . R. Robbery at
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gunpoint
Clark, Henry
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a famous duel 82 64 145 157 17 174 210 41
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r a c e
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X. Death on the
K. Inquisition — 37 29 228 99
9 122 229 163 94 (Agatha
ceremony (hyph.) 60 140 Christie novel)

L. Civil War Y. [Dorothy Sayers

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c n ^ 68 151, Romanized Asner 2 wds. 4 3 Schnozzola of Athens
1 Go to bed: 71 IBM computers 115 Hard candy 4 4 The Hope 104 Political
3 wds. 74 Bull, In a bullfight fl a v o r (Pulitzer-winning contributors:

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3 wds. speechless": ROLE anag.) Rudolf regions: Abbr. 122 Scoundrel

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6 Patti LuPone role 32 Oliver Barrett Grey like lemon 11 8 C e r t a i n 137 1964 Hitchcock
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action button you choose to kick or punch while using the
stick to aim high, middle, or low.
Below the horizontally scrolling display are two sets of ar
Karateka by Jordan Mechner (Broderbund, on disk rows that indicate the energy levels of the respective fighters,
for 48K Apple computers; $34.95) red for your guy, blue for the enemy. Each landed blow costs
The evil Akuma throws Princess Mariko into a cell. As you the recipient some of his energy, which is in time replen
watch the voluptuous blonde sink weeping to the floor, you ished—so the idea is to land as many blows as possible in
know you will risk anything to free her, even if that means the shortest time while trying to keep away from the oppo
doing battle against the best of Akuma's karate masters. nent's flying hands and feet.
It takes quite a program to live up to the promise of that A fighter dies when his energy is depleted. If that happens
strikingiy cinematic opening, and this stupendous one-player to be you, the game is over. But if you defeat Akuma's fighter,
action/strategy game does just that. Karateka is a software you advance farther into the castle and confront one new op
landmark that thrusts the player into the heart of a martial arts ponent after another, each tougher than the last.
movie, as it were, to fight against almost overwhelming odds. The artwork and animation are the best yet produced for an
Your character begins by scaling a cliff to reach a road Apple disk, and rival those of Saturday morning TV cartoon
leading to Akuma's shows. A typical touch is the "starburst" that appears at the
castle. One of Aku point of impact when a blow has landed, color-coded to show
ma's minions (con who landed it. This makes it easy to tell, without moving your
trolled by the eye to the arrows, which side is getting the upper hand (or
computer) enters foot).
from the right and The player's best friend is the escape key, which pauses
assumes a fighting the action. Although timing is more important than speed in
stance. Using either achieving victory, throwing all those kicks and punches in
a joystick or the volves a lot of button-pushing. Calling time out to let your fin
keyboard, you ger muscles unkink is a prime survival tactic.
move your charac This is a wonderful game in virtually every respect. The at
ter left (retreat) or mospheric scenario is a perfect background to the martial
right (advance), arts mayhem, resulting in an altogether satisfying experience.
and by pressing the —Arnie Katz and Bill Kunkel

friendly spaces. Attacks are voluntary, with an army capable

of making assaults (to destroy enemy strength points) or ad
vances (to gain new territory).
Hitler's War (Avaion hiii, $i6) The first scenario in the game, Barbarossa (the invasion of
In the late 1970s a controversial book about World War II ap Russia), uses only these basic rules, while later scenarios
peared. Entitled Hitler's War, it took a somewhat temperate add amphibious invasions, paratroop drops, U-boats, strate
view of Der Fuhrer, while using primary sources to study the gic bombing, and weapons research. Thus, players can ease
strategic ebb and flow of the war from the German perspec their way into the full rules gradually, after which they will be
tive. Not surprisingly, such kindly treatment of the Third Reich able to play the campaign game that runs from the winter of
did not sit well with many critics. 1939 to the "Gdtterdammerung" of summer 1945.
Hitler's War, the game, has no apparent connection with This is a remarkable wargame that lets you replay the light
the book, even though it too portrays the war from the Ger ning triumphs and ultimate downfall of the powerful German
man side. Originally released by Metagaming in 1981, the a r m y. —Matthew J. Gostello
game has been improved by Avaion Hill's rule revisions and
high-quality playing equipment. Unlike many wargames, it's
easy to play, fast moving, and consistently exciting.
The brightly colored mapboard depicts the German areas
of operations and includes all the tables—from "units capa
bility" to "terrain effects"—that are used in the game. Each
country is marked with "production points," used to buy in
fantry, mechanized units, amphibious capability, and forts.
Counters represent armies that have no fixed strength. In
stead, the Axis, Allied, and Soviet players keep an off-the-
board record of each army's strength. Hence, while an army
weakens after attack or is reinforced to full strength, it contin
ues to be represented by the same counter on the board.
Play is very fluid. Each turn (which represents a season), a
player may move and reorganize all his strength points over
an unlimited distance, so long as they move to and through

48 SEPTEMBER 1986 GAMES

Megiddo Global Games, $18, plus $2.50 postage In
U.S., available from Global Games, E. 8112 Sprague Ave.,
Spokane, WA 99212)
Tfils fiandsome ne\w strategy game, winner of tfie 1985 Best
Game award at tfie British Toy & Hobby Fair, bears some
similarities to both Rente and Othello. Stones are provided for
up to three players, but the two-player game Is best.
The board depicts five concentric circles crossed by six
spokes, and a sixth circle formed by the points of a center
star. Each player in turn places a stone of his color on any of
the board's 36 Intersections. When a placement causes ex
actly two opposing stones to be "bracketed" between two of
the player's stones along any circle, spoke, or spiral (spirals
are like curved idlagonals), with no spaces Intervening, the
two stones are captured. Instead of simply being removed
from the board (as in Rente), captured stones are replaced
by stones of the capturing player, as In Othello. If these re
placements cause other opposing stones to be bracketed,
further captures are made, all as part of the same turn.
A player wins either by getting a "Megiddo"—six stones in
a row along any circle, spoke, or spiral —or by capturing
three pairs of opposing stones. RIayers may also use a scor
ing system that awards points for each "Megiddo" and
capture.
If both players use defensive strategies, such as securing
positions along the inner or outer circle and then gradually
Strategy Books
Chinese Chess by H.T. Lau (Charles E. Tuttle, 1985,
248 pages hardcover, $11.50)
The Treasure Chest Enigma by Norlyuki Na-
kayama, translated by John Rower and Richard Dolen (IshI
Rress 1984, 191 pages hardcover, $21.50)
Chinese chess, or xiang qi, Is played by tens of millions of
people In China, and Is hundreds of years older than Western
chess. Though slightly simpler than Western chess, It Is a
quite Interesting game of a very different flavor. Rawns and
pieces are generally much weaker, but this reduced firepow
er is counterbalanced by the increased vulnerability of the
kings, each of which Is confined to a 3 x 3 fortress.
Chinese Chess is by far the most comprehensive book
Upper Hand (Orda Industries, around $8)
This three-dimensional strategy game Is so elegantly simple
that at first you might think that three or four games will ex
haust Its possibilities. Happily, this Is not the case.
The plastic board Is made up of a 5 x 5 array of indenta
tions. Each of two players starts with 27 red or yellow mar
bles, and a single black marble is placed in the center
Indentation. In turn, each player places a marble of his color
In any empty Indentation or atop the midpoint of four adjacent
marbles that form a square. When a marble completes a
square of which at least three marbles are the same color,
the player of that color Immediately places a marble atop that
square. This does not count as a turn; and It is quite possible
for one such "free,placement" to allow one or more addition
al free placements to be made.
The first player to play all his marbles wins. (There are just
enough marbles to make a five-level pyramid, which in actual
spreading out, a game can sometimes end up as a dull draw.
New editions will contain two important variations that avoid
this problem. The first treats spokes as though their ends
were connected—changing the board's geometry from a cy-
clinder into a kind of torus. Rieces on the inner and outer cir
cles can then be captured by bracketing them along the
spokes, though not along spirals. The second variation al
lows captures to be made either by bracketing, as usual, or
by placing a stone Into a bracketed position—In which case
the outer bracketing stones are themselves captured. Since
this variation leads to wild play, six pairs must be captured to
win.
In all variations, Megiddo never takes more than 18 moves
per player. It should certainly appeal to Rente players, as well
as to anyone who likes very quick strategy games. —R. W. S.
on the game ever to appear in English, and should help to
bring it some of the recognition it deserves. The book ex
plains all the rules (including the esoteric rule against certain
repetitions of moves), and covers openings and basic strate
gy. Eighty middlegame and endgame studies are presented,
and more than 50 games are reprinted from two classic 17th-
century works. And for anyone who has trouble finding a set
(available at many Chinese Import stores), a paper board and
pieces are bound Into the front of the book.
The Treasure Chest Enigma, subtitled "A Go Miscel
lany," Is a collection of anecdotal essays, annotated go
games, and go problems with unusual pictorial properties,
such as a position in which the black stones are arranged In
the shape of Japan. While sometimes instructive, the essays
are primarily designed to amuse. However, they also reveal a
great deal about the spirit of go, as reflected In the characters
o f t h e g a m e ' s l e a d i n g p r o f e s s i o n a l s . — R . W. S .
play is never quite completed.) Going first is an advantage,
so we recommend the following scoring system: The winner
of a game scores five points plus the number of unplayed
marbles belonging to his opponent. After an agreed even
number of games, the player with the higher total wins.
—Sid Sackson
4
GAM^^EPTEMBER 1985 49
 by Steve and Caren Armstrong

When a computer goes to the movies, y

what does It see? Perhaps the Images here. ^ ^
These six frames are scenes from film classics
reduced to near abstraction by computer processing. ,
Can you name the films? .ritflnOfliHBi&i'
Answer Drawer, page 60
COMPUTER GAMES
Beyond Bugs
Fortasyland
weeksy2041ouv'eba.een
d. p
alynijoystick-
(a gFan-
controlled adventure game published in
1981 by the now-defunct Crystalware),
trying to save Sir Lancelot or Queen
Guinevere from the clutches of the
Prince of Darkness.
You've trudged through African jun-
gies, slogged across the Arabian des
ert, made your way to Camelot, paid
your respects to the gods on Mount
Olympus, sailed on the Argos to the lost
continent of Aflantis, endured a subma
rine voyage with Captain Nemo, and
even survived Dante's Inferno. It's been
an arduous, hazardous trek, but at long
last you've reached the City of Dis,
clutching the mystic ring you've gone to
so much trouble to obtain. The end of
your struggle Is in sight.
There's just one little problem, pres
ent in most copies of this game: Al
though you possess the ring with which
to free Satan's prisoner, the program
refuses to acknowledge that you have
iti And so, frustrated and furious, you're
consigned to Hell by the unrelenting
c o m p u t e r.
You have been the victim of a bug. A
bug is a programming error that effec
tively makes a game or other program
unusable. Computers don't make er
rors, of course; they merely carry out,
with perfect accuracy, the instructions
that programmers give them. But if
these instructions contain an error,
even one so slight as a missing or mis-
52 SEPTEMBER 1986 GAMES
piaced comma, the computer wiil carry
out the program anyway, often resulting
in cruel and unusual output.
Some bugs are glitches—teeny little
fellows that don't completely mess up a
program but merely give computer
gamers who find them an unexpected
advantage, or at least a good laugh.
One of the most famous glitches is in
the Atari 2600 version of Space Invad
ers, one of the all-time classic video
games. If the player presses the ON/
OFF and RESET buttons simultaneous
ly, his cannon will fire two missiles at a
time instead of one, allowing him to
wipe those marching monsters off the
screen twice as fast. Another glitch is
found in the Commodore 64 version of
Sfar Trek. Normally, an intricate and
dangerous docking maneuver must be
performed to replenish your starship's
warp energy, which makes it virtually
invulnerable to enemy fire. But pressing
the / and M keys simultaneousiy re
stores fuil warp energy without your
having to dicker about docking.
Then there's Summer Games, a
much-lauded sports simulation from
Epyx, which includes an extra sporting
chance for underachieving video pole
vaulters. Can't get over the bar at 6.2
meters? Not to worry. Just sail under it
and you get credit for the vault anyway.
For players who consider this tactic be
neath their dignity, there's Decathlon,
by Activision for the Atari 2600. Press
ing the action button several times just
as the pole vaulter starts his jump
sends him soaring high over the bar.
As a rule, programmers hate bugs.
But some game designers were in
trigued by the idea of making bugs
work for rather than against them. What
if a bug could be made to do tricks?
Enter the intentionai glitch. One of the
best examples was designed to make a
sales rep look good when demonstrat
ing a game for buyers. It isn't easy to
talk prices and delivery schedules while
shooting aliens out of the sky. Creative
Software, publisher of Save New York,
came up with a creative solution: They
made for a company vice-president a
custom copy of the game in which he
had twice the usual number of lives and
immunity to both missiles and colli
sions. "It's wonderful," admifted the
veep after a successful pitch. "I don't
even have to hold the joystick."
Programmers soon found anofher
way to amuse themselves and the com
puter cognoscenti. Until recently few
software publishers credited their elec
tronic authors, so some game writers
decided to "brand" their programs by
hiding their initials somewhere in the
software, unbeknown to the publishers.
These hidden initials—and anything
else deliberately hidden in a program-
were dubbed "Easter eggs," because
they could be found only if one knew
where to look.
The best-known example of a buried
byline is in the Atari 2600 version of
Missile Command. On the 11th screen
(assuming you're good enough to get
that far), if you sit back and let the mis
siles rain down until all your cities are
destroyed, the letters RF will appear on
the screen—the initials of the game's
writer, Rob Fuiop.
But now that game designers are
credited up front, they no longer have to
resort to hiding initials. Instead they
hide other secret messages or extra
screens or unexpected behavior by a
game character. The Faberge of elec
tronic Easter eggs is in the otherwise
undistinguished game Smurf Rescue,
for Colecovision/Adam. The Smurf is
supposed to rescue the Smurfette from
a castle by leaping onto a giant skull
and then onto Ms. Smurf's perch,
where he kisses her to end the game.
Should the player decide, for reasons
impossible to fathom, to back off in
stead of making the final leap, fhe
Smurfette has been programmed to
provide a little encouragement: She
throws off all her clothes. That usually
gets him up on the perch. But if he now
 by Arnie Katz and Bill Kunkel

grows bashful and declines to smooch,

she socks him.
Broderbund has displayed its corpo
rate sense of humor with a couple of in
ventive eggs. Anyone who tries to
illegally copy its Bank Street Writer
word-processing program is in for a
nasty shock. As soon as the copying
procedure starts, the word ZAPPO ap
pears on the screen accompanied by a
dazzling light show. While the would-be
pirate watches the pyrotechnics, his
master disk wipes itself clean.
The prize for the largest Easter egg
belongs to Broderbund's Karateka (re
viewed in this issue, pagers), a martial-
arts simulation, if the player mistakenly
(or deliberately) inserts the disk wrong
side up, he is treated to a complete ver
sion of the game when he turns on the
computer—but upside down and in mir
ror image. "We thought that if the disk
is upside down, the game should be,
too," deadpans Broderbund's presi
dent, Doug Cariston.
Not all companies are so easy-going,
however, and many designers live in
fear that a publisher will discover a par
ticularly juicy Easter egg and fail to ap
preciate the yolk.
One of the gems in this category is
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C O M Te S T R E S U L T S
W H AT A R E T H E R U L E S O F
THIS CONTEST?
From April
In this unconventional and very Aprii-
fooiisti contest, the challenge was to
figure out how to submit a valid entry,
which had to include a specific two-digit
number and also state the "real" title of
the contest. The deliberately convoluted
rules were full of self-reference, irrele
vant passages, and apparent contradic
tions, including this key paradoxical
excerpt: "if two sentences in the same
paragraph contradict one another, fol
low the one that comes last. But if two
sentences in the same paragraph con
tradict one another, follow the one that
c o m e s fi r s t . "
To resolve this paradox, it was nec
essary to determine, by careful reading,
that the six paragraphs of rules were to
be considered numbered, in order of
appearance, as follows: 3, 2, 5, 6, 1,
4. Paragraph 1 (ail paragraph num
bers here refer to the numbers
above) stated, "The last sen
tence in the next-to-iast para
graph of these rules is to be
ignored," and also made it
clear that "next-to-iast para
graph" for this purpose
meant paragraph number 5
(rather than paragraph 1,
which appeared next-to-iast
on the page). Still with us?The
sentence to be ignored was
therefore the second one in the
paradoxical excerpt quoted earli
er; so whenever two statements
within a paragraph were contradic
tory, the second statement was to take
precedence.
Once deduced, this rule made it pos
sible to determine that the correct con
test name was "What Are the Rules of
This Contest?" and that the correct
number to send in was 24 (obtained by
multiplying the numbers of paragraphs
4 and 6).
Sorting ail this out was none too
easy, yet the great majority of the 7,700
entries we received were completely
correct. The winner, chosen by random
draw from among the correct entries, is
John Dahi, of Grand Forks, North Dako
ta. Fie will receive the grand prize of an
IBM PCjr and color monitor.
Runner-up prizes of a Games T-shirt
go to the following: T. Andrews, Nor
folk, GT; John Bruning, Lansdaie, PA;
Mario Garcia, Delano, OA; Susan Roth-
berg, Westbury, NY; and Rod Stout,
Salt Lake City, UT.
— R . W. S .
54 SEPTEMBER 1986 GAMES
HIDDEN CONTEST
From April
Around 7,000 readers of the April issue
spotted the Fiidden Contest formed by
the four-line "belt" girding the grid of
"Look Around," the circular word
search on page 30. The message read
Y O U H AV E F O U N D T H E A P R I L H I D D E N
C O N T E S T. S E N D U S S O M E T H I N G R O U N D B Y
M AY T E N T H . T W E N T Y E N T R I E S C H O S E N AT
R A N D O M W I N G A M E S T- S H I R T S ,
Fiundreds of readers showed their
common cents by sending pennies
(also nickels, dimes, quarters, and a sil
ver dollar, as well as pesos, shekels,
An assortment of Hidden Contest en
tries prove that the world goes round.
^ M c C i a i n , M a n c h e s t e r , C T;
UPDATE:
t/.5. CROSSWORD OPEN
More than 9,100 solutions to the quali
fying puzzle were entered in this year's
Games Magazine/Merriam-Webster
U.S. Open Crossword Championship.
The puzzle, which appeared on page
38 of the March issue, caused relatively
few problems. The most frequent error
occurred at 105-Across, where the clue
"1980 Chrysler offering" was some
times answered g-car rather than the
correct k-car (erroneously making the
crossing entry—"White House's hotline
connection"—gremlin rather than Krem
lin). The solution to the puzzle ap
peared last month).
The number of solvers in the partici
pence, lire, drachmas, and a pocketful
of good-luck tokens from the North
Shore Animal League, on Long island).
Almost as many entrants showed they
were pn the bail, especially the Super-
bail , not to mention the tennis, golf,
beach, Nerf, and Ping-Pong bails.
A few entries had us going around in
circles. Fiaving waded through the but
tons, bracelets, plaques, pearls, mar
bles, Frisbees, records, coasters, tu-its
(as in "get a round tu-it"—get it?), and
an authentic former wedding ring from
someone newly divorced, we chanced
upon a few samples of coffee, corn-
meal, soil, and Astroturf. Accompany
ing letters straightened us out: Some of
you had read the message as . . . send
us SOME THIN GROUND. We shouid have
expected that—some people just can't
help fooling around. The 20 T-shirt win
ners, chosen at random, are Alicia Al
ien, Concord, MA; Mary Beal,
Newburgh, NY; Blaine Buhier, Sel
kirk, Manitoba; Sara Eiinson, To-
S ronto, Ontario; Randi Enkin,
Toronto, Ontario; Sonni Flow
ers, Miami, FL; Ellen Hiobe,
Haniey Hills, MO; Penina
iseroff-Levin, R'anana, Isra
el; Janet Kobren, Brooklyn,
N Y; Ta n i a K r e p i a k e v i c h ,
Winnipeg, Manitoba; Ann
A Karen Meadows, Belvidere,
CT; Ed Murphy, Rockviile, MD;
Greg Reber, Rosweii, GA; Emily
Ricketts, Lincoln, NE; Chris
Roche, Hudson, OH; Jeremy Spei-
gei, Plainview, NY; Nancy Swiniarski,
Dracut, MA; Sue Throckmorton,
Waynesburg, PA; D.R. Wiikins,
Broomaii, PA . —L. P.
pant category this year rose to 2,500.
Those with perfect qualifying answers
received a set of four tiebreaker puz
zles in May. Based on these, the 250
highest scorers have been invited to the
finals in New York City on August 17 to
compete for $3,250 and other prizes.
Results will appear in a future issue.
in the nonparticipant category (6,600
solvers), one correct solution was
d r a w n a t r a n d o m f o r t h e $ 5 0 0 fi r s t
prize. The winner is Chester Hood, of
B r e n t w o o d , Te n n e s s e e .
if you would like to try this year's tie
breaker puzzles for fun, send $5 (check
or money order payable to Games) and
a stamped return envelope to Tourna
ment Tiebreakers, Games, 515 Madison
Ave., New York, NY 10022. —W. S.
 W(Le @AROS
Edited by Stephanie Spadaccini

W O R D P L AY
TEASERS
Food for Thought Born to Be Wilde?
All the words below may be eat Some people actually end up in
en, If they're properly prepared. professions that bear a relation
We've disguised the names of
ship to the names they were born
various foods and drinks by using with. Can you match these real
a different form of wordplay In
people (1-8) with their jobs (a-h)?
each group. Can you figure out 1. Lee Lawless
how to make them all edible? 2. Tom Armstrong
1. M AY 4. PA R E 3. Morris Wax
KEEL MUSCLE 4. Scott Payne
STUN BIER 5. Candy Cumming
WETS MEET 6. Edward Goodbody
MADE C A R AT 7. Judy Ogle
2. C O AT 5. STREAK 8. Kenneth Herron
VOILE BURN
AUNT BRIDE a. Nutritionist
MILE PILE b. Dentist
LUMP SHAM c. Builder/contractor
3 . R AV I S H 6 . R A N G E d. Mortuary manager
PA N T RY OODLES
e. Janitorial supplier
BUTLER ICE f. Attorney
EGO EAOH
g. Veterinarian
MANGY RUFFLE
h. Dolly Barton's assistant
— L . P.
—Barbara Stein
Answer Drawer, page 62
Answer Drawer, page 62

N U M B E R P L AY L O O K TRIVIA

Fill in the Banks The Center Card Boo, Part Two

Nine cards are arranged like this:

Of all film genres, the horror mov

ie Is most likely to return to haunt
Each of the six teams in the Wap- us. Oan you give the full name of
pingers floopball league plays ev the sequel to each of the follow
ery other team twice. At the end ing classic horror films?
of the season, the teams are 1. The Exorcist (1973)
ranked according to the number 2. Frankenstein (1931)
of games won. This year there 1. Every ace borders (horizontal 3. The Rocky Horror Picture
were no tied games, and no ly or vertically in all cases) on Show (1975)
teams tied in the standings. a king and on a queen. 4. The Fiy (1958)
The Poets won twice as many 2. Every king borders on a queen 5. Wiiiard {AQl})
games as the Invlncibles. The and a jack. 6. Hailoween II (1980)
Daisies won four more games 3. Every queen borders on a 7. The Creature From the Black
than the next-ranked Conquerors. jack. Lagoon (1954)
The Tiptoes finished ahead of the 4. There are at least two aces, 8. Night of the Living Dead
C r u s h e r s , b u t w e r e n o t i n fi r s t two kings, two queens, and
(1968)
place. two jacks. 9. The Abominable Dr. Phibes
How many games did each What kind of card is in the
(1971)
team win? center? 10. Village of the Damned
—Frank Rubin —George J. Summers —James H. Burns
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Working through the night. Chuck was finally able
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G: The whiskey bottle has been opened and is par
1. I n t e r n a l 17. Lightish
tially empty, and Cragg Is smoking his first cigar
2. Loyalist 18. Fuselage
(the ashtray is empty, except for a single match). It niEBIM BIBBIiD
3 . Billfold 19. Fiddling
looks to Chuck as If the captain's had a rough
4. Doubloon 20. Demoness The key to solving the starred («) clues lay In the
5. C o n f o u n d 21. Air-mails flight.
F: There are a couple of cigar butts in the ashtray. puzzle's title. Substituting the letter Indicated In the
6. Fiendish 22. Ninepins clue for the asterisks In the title yields a synonym of
Cragg is cutting the gas-mask hose.
7. Perspire 23. Reveries the answer. For example, 27-Across Is « = G,
D: A segment of hose has been used to fix the
8. Quirkier 24. Minimize which translates as GOGO, leading to the answer,
overhead pipe. Chuck chuckles, remembering that
9. Nuthouse 25. Dogtooth SIXTIES DANCING.
the water pipe leaks every time Cragg takes a hot
10. S h e a t h e s 26. Tutelage
shower in orbit.
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34 Cryptic Crossword 1 1^ And Mow a, Word From Our„i^ilMI.....

ACROSS Good Vibrations H i - Yo P i z z a R o l i l
1 Start up (sup + tart) 1. (i) "Barbara Ann": Quaker Oats Granola Dip 1. (j) Joan Collins (Scoundrel)
5 Freigtit (Fr. + eight) ("Dip dip dip, dip dip da dip . . .") 2. (i) Julius Erving (Chapstick)
9 Reputed (reed + put) 2. (c) "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?": American 3. (a) John Flouseman (Smith Barney)
10 Assuage (sausage) Greetings 4. (f) King Edward VII (Angelus player pianos)
11 Koran (on ark) 3. (e) "I'm a Woman": Enjoli perfume 5. (c) Orson Welles (Paul Masson)
12 Largeness (green + lass) 4. (b) "You Ain't Got a Thing If You Ain't Got That 6. (h) Cher (Jack LaLanne spas)
13 Organ (groan) Swing": Flandiwrap (".. . if you ain't got that 7. (d) President McKinley (Waterman pens)
15 Financier (fancier + in) cling") 8. (b) Eleanor Roosevelt (Parkay margarine)
18 Task force (breakfasT ASK FOR CEreal) 5. (]) "Lemon Tree": Lemon Pledge 9. (e) Tony Randall (Easy-Off)
19 Rearm (rear + m) 6. (a) "Flelpl": Mercury cars 10. (g) Ernest Flemingway (Ballantine Ale)
20 Cockroach (rock + coach) 7. (f) "I Just Called to Say I Love You": Sprint We Try Harder
23 Delhi (deli + h) telephone service 1. State Farm insurance
24 America (camera I) 8. (h) "9 to 5": Emery Air Freight 2. Old Gold cigarettes
25 Trained (Ted + rain) 9. (g) "Walk on the Wild Side": Flonda Scooters 3. Fruit of fhe Loom
26 Marxism (Mar. + six + M) 10. (d) "Billie Jean": Pepsi 4. Flertz Rent A Car
27 Stellar (all rest) You've Come a Long Way, Baby! 5. Gladwrap
1. (a) Dr. Scholl 6. Purina Dog Chow
D O W N 2. (b) The cover story was based on Coke's phe My Bologna Has a First Name ...
1 Strike out (R + Ike + stout) nomenal worldwide success. 1. (c) The drink was named for Dr. Charles Pep
2 Asparagus (asp + a + sugar) 3. Proctor and Gamble; Sears, Roebuck; General per, a 19th-century physician and pharmacist in
3 Titan (ant it) Motors; the U.S. Government; and FI.J. Fleinz. Rural Retreat, Virginia. The company founder,
4 Pedal (plead) 4. (c) No one was permitted to cough. On some Charles C. Alderton, had been sweet on Dr.
5 Fragrance (France + rag) other shows of fhe era, the villains had to smoke Pepper's daughter before starting the firm.
6 Easterner (earner + set) nonfilter cigarettes if the advertiser was a filter 2. (c) Save our saucepans
7 Grate (G + rate) cigarette, and vice versa. 3. (b) Spiced ham
8 Tress (SarTRE'S Stories) 5. (a) was the first such ad, though all the others 4. (c) Florence Nightingale Graham, the founder of
14 Nefertiti (in fetter I) described actually appeared at the times fhe Elizabeth Arden firm, gof fhe idea for the
15 Fire alarm (farm + I + real) mentioned. name from Tennyson's poem "Enoch Arden."
16 Ivan Lendl (van + lend + IL) 6. The Democratic donkey first appeared in 1870, 5. (c) The planf manager at Kennedy Biscuit Works
17 Remainder (reminder + a) and the Republican elephant in 1874, in the car in Camtjridgeport, Mass., liked to name oompa-
20 Charm (March) toons of Thomas Nast. The donkey, however, ny products for surrounding towns. The Fig
21 Cheer (Cher + E) had been associated with the Democratic Party Newton has been the most enduring of the lot.
22 Flates (haste) since 1828, when some wag called Andrew Coke is it!
23 Drake (rake + D) Jackson an ass. The Quaker Oats man ap 1. pause 3. real 5. smile
peared sometime in the 1880s, the Campbell 2. thirst 4. world

Soup Kids in 1904, and Mr. Peanut in 1916. Stronger Tlian Dirt
How About a Nice Hawaiian Punch? 1. (g) Wisk (ring around the collar)
i 34 Cryptic Crossword 2 1. (e) "We do wonders for your spirifs." (Flolland 2. (f) Lifebuoy (B.C.)
Flouse cocktail mixes) 3. (d) Clairol Condition (flabby hair)
ACROSS 2. (i) "Our boring experience leaves you totally 4. (c) Bardahl (sficky valves)
2 Flippocrates (hip + P.O. + crates) drained." (Roto-Rooter) 5. (b) Bounce (static cling)
8 Aroma (oigAR-O-MAtic) 3. (g) "Best legs in town." (Kentucky Fried 6. (a) Agree (the greasies)
9 Unrescuable (nuclear sub + E) Chicken) 7. (e) Milk-Bone dog biscuits (bad breath in dogs)
10 Metal (meal + t) 4. (b) "Swallow our pride." (Lucky Lager beer) Wliere's tlie Beef?
11 Swiss cheese (sees sis chew) 5. (a) "We go to a lot of pains." (Bayer aspirin) 1. McDonald's 4. Kentucky Fried Chicken
12 Flash (has + Fl) 6. (h) "Sfop driving yourself." (North Central 2. Pizza Flut 5. Burger King
13 Grimace (grim + ace) 3. Arthur Treacher's 6. Jack in the Box
Airlines)
16 Italy (laity) 7. (d) "Get off your cans. Get on the stick." (Men- Fish and Chips 7. Roy Rogers Restaurants
17 Safer (ref as) nen Speed Stick deodorant)
19 Monkeys (M + on + keys) 8. (f) "Swallow the leader." (Skippy peanut butter) Photo credits "You've Come a Long Way, Baby":
21 Term (WalTER Mondale) 9. (c) "It's slow good." (Fleinz ketchup) Quaker Oats Man ® Quaker Oats Co.; Mr. Pea
22 Thomas Paine (at home + Spain) nut* ® Planters Peanuts; Campbell Soup Kids ®
Try It, You'ii Like it!
25 Saute (us eat) 1. Nine Lives cat food Campbell Soup Co.; "We Try Flarder": 1. courtesy
26 Writing pads (wig and strip) 2. Alka-Seltzer of Needham Flarper Worldwide, Inc.; 2. courfesy
27 Aunts (a + nut's) 3. Palmolive liquid of MCA Advertising; 3. courtesy of Gray Advertis
28 Documentary (country made) 4. Federal Express ing; 4. courtesy of Scali, McCabe, Sieves, Inc.;
5. Paco Rabanne cologne 5. courfesy of Union Carbide; 6. courtesy of Gard
DOWN 6. Miller Life beer ner Advertising.
1 North Sea (Sheraton)
2 Flauls (hulas)
50 lyeball Benders 27 Tooling Along
3 Partition (part + it + I + on)
4 Oasis (0 + as is)
Before reading the answers to any photos you C L 0 D
5 Roughness (Florse's gun) u R G E S L A B S
couldn't identify, you might try viewing the pictures
6
7
Tabled (tab + led)
Suede (swayed)
from several feet away for better resolution. M 0 0 T L A N A s
p 0 N A
T H
8 Armchair (march + air)
1. King Kong (original version; Kong on Empire P U N cFi 1 N T H E\M 0 u

13 Gymnasium (aims my gun)

State Building) S E
a
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2. Casablanca (Flumphrey Bogart)
14 Americana (ace airman) H 0 E R 1
15 Premiers (r + empires)
3. The Birds (Tippi Fledren in jungle-gym scene) p
18 Frequent (fret + queen — e)
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Devil's P 1 c K 0 F T\H E L 1 UT E R
Tower) A H 0 Y A G E S R A U
20 Zodiac (I + doz. + a + c, & lit.)
5. Star Wars (the robot C-3P0) E N 1 D 0 W 0 R M
22 Towed (to + wed)
6. Gone With the Wind (Clark Gable and Vivien
L p
23 Pagan (pa + nag) E A T A N E A u T 0
Leigh) r
24 Essay (seas + y)
To create these pictures, the Armstrongs freeze a
D R P L 1 N SjT R u c T 0 R
A U F E A s E
frame of a videotaped movie. That image is then
fed to a digitizer, which "reads" the picture's areas
of contrast and converts the image to a binary
A F A C T
F A L T s
p
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code. The code is fed to a computer, which dis
J A C K 0]F A L L T RjA
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The value of the top card on the third stack is the plays it as pixels, or dots, which are reproduced by P
same as the number of cards in your hand. the printer. R 0 S Y R 1 S E N
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5. (V) Carve 18. (L) World
6. (B) Table 19. (G) Linger registration number
7. (T) Vital 20. (D) Deduce on the back label of your bottle of
8. (W) Dwell 21. (Q) Squint Beefeater Gin. If it were the one on the
9. (N) Arena 22. (K) Liken
10. (A) Grain 23. (U) Faucet left, it would tell you that your Beefeater
11. (E) Derive 24. (M) Comma was distilled Thursday, January 7,1982,
12. (S) Psalm 25. (R) Grasp under the supervision of Thomas
13. (Z) Hazy 26. (H) Threat
Bowman, Master Stillman, and that the
distillation was approved personally
27 Original Sin by Mr. Norman Burrough, a direct
1. SInbad 10. Syndicate descendant of our founder, before it was
2 . S y n a g o g u e 11 . C i n d e r e l l a allowed to leave the distillery.
3. Sinister 12. Sinew
4. Cinnamon 13. Cynic Does it help to know all this? Yes.That
5. Synonym 14. Scintillating number is a vital part of Beefeater Gin's
6. Sincerely 15. Synthesizer
7. Cincinnati 16. Cinema
quality control.
8. Synthetic 17. Sinclair Because the number is Mr. Bowman's
9. Sinatra 18. Syntax
personal signature. And Mr. Burrough's,
as well.
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has to sign his work.

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26 A Spate of Eights

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 FINALLY 32 Hoist the Jolly Roger!
Pirate Ship Island Doubloons Jewels Location of Chest

The game
Biackbeard Rogue f/terchant Tortuga 700 Emeralds 65-W IS-N
Kidd Sea Vagabond Portobelo 500 Pearls 68-W 16°N
L a fl t t e Salty Jack Cartagena 300 Diamonds 67'W 14°N
Morgan Adventure Galley Hispaniola 200 Rubies 66°W 12''N
Silver Maracaibo 400 Opals 64''W IS'N

crossword Revenge

N u m b e r, P l e a s e !

puzzle fans *7 frzl'rsl'so

The key number is ! i. 9-5 = 4 R. 30 4- 3 = 10
A. 8 X 3 = 24 J. 6 X 6 = 36 8. 31 4- 6 = 37
'z.
* h [• 1i j
B. 14 - 7 = 7 K. 40 - 16 = 24 T. 5 - 4 = 1 36
T 7 0 31 4
0. 9 4- 3 = 12 L. 500 4- 100 = 5 U. 3X3 = 9 6

have been
I" "
D. 45 4- 3 = 15 M. 57 4- 3 = 19 V. 10 X 5 = 50 2 4 5 19 27 13

E. 60 4- 2 = 30 N. 9 X 3 = 27 W. 9 4- 7 = 16 4 1
F. 24 - 7 = 17 0. 101 - 88 = 13 X. 10 4- 2 = 5
1 4 26 "io '37 1

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G. 48 - 48 = 0 P. 8 4- 6 = 14 Y. 64 4- 8 = 8

waiting for!
9 5 0 16 5 8
H. 19 4- 12 = 31 0. 66 - 40 = 26

Food For Thought Born to Be Wilde?

Ail are foods spelled backward: yam, leek, 1. (f) Lee Lawless (attorney)
n u t s , s t e w, a n d e d a m . 2. (c) Tom Armstrong (builder/contractor)
Ail the words are anagrams; rearranging 3. (e) Morris Wax (janitorial supplier; Mr. Wax's
the letters produces taco, olive, tuna, lime, supply business Is known as "Waxie's")
and plum. 4. (b) Scott Payne (dentist)
Replacing one letter in each word produces 5. (a) Candy Cumming (nutritionist)
radish, pastry, butter, egg, ahd mango. 6. (d) Edward Goodbody (mortuary manager)
All are homophones: pear, mussel, beer, 7. (h) Judy Ogle (Dolly Parton's assistant)
meat, and carrot. 8. (g) Kenneth Herron (veterinarian)
Removing one letter from each word pro
duces steak, bun, brie, pie, and ham. Boo, Part Two
Crossword puzzle fans everywhere Adding a letter at the beginning of each 1. Exorcist H: The Heretic
word produces orange, noodles, rice,
will no longer have to face the formid peach, and truffle.
2. Bride of Frankenstein
3. Shock Treatment
able challengts of the Sbcym JJorkSimfs 4. The Return of the Fly
Crossword Puzzle alone! They can Fill In the Ranks 5. Ben
now share their frustrations and tri These are the final standings: Daisies 10, Con 6. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
7. Revenge of the Creature
umphs with as many as three other querors 6, Tiptoes 5, Poets 4, Crushers 3, and
8. Dawn of the Dead
Invincibies 2.
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in the puzzle. the two remaining teams is in first place is 10, A Visit to Uncle George's
The numbers that appear on the roll 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2.
Aunt Hiidegarde prefers things that repeat the
of four 10-sided dice determine the same two-letter combination (fORIORn, ERas-
across and down clues that players The Center Card ERs, etc.)
can answer. The center card is a jack. The following solu
Included in the game are ICQ tion can be rotated: End Play
The words are hazardous, horrendous, stupen
SjticJtcuiJlorkElmfs crossword puzzle dous, and tremendous.
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 26 A Spate of Eights Ceiebreight! Cover Maze '39 Word Mosaic
Word List (in aiphabeticai order) The correct path Is shown below:
BAIT I N T E R S TAT E
B O O K P L AT E M A G I S T R AT E
C H E C K M AT E PA P E R W E I G H T
C R AT E P L AY M AT E
D AT E P R I M AT E
D E B AT E S K AT E
FREIGHT S L AT E
G R AT E STRAIGHT
H E AV Y W E I G H T T O L L G AT E
I N M AT E V E R T E B R AT E

40 Special Delivery
1. Dracula, Byte
2. Mikhail Gorbachev, Redbook
3. Tip O'Neill, Good Housekeeping
4. Christopher Columbus, The Atlantic
5. Thomas Jefferson, The New Republic
6. SIgmund Freud, Self
7. Scarlett O'Hara, Yankee (canceled)
8. You, Games
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o u r c i r c u l a t i o n fi l e s . I t a l s o a c c o u n t s f o r t h e their way to a better, more elegant, or more com
printing of your name and address directly on plete solution than one previously given in the
this month's cover, instead of on the usual ad A n s w e r D r a w e r.
dress label. To our knowledge, both are firsts In 30 Think Under Pressure? ★ The Scientist? (Wild Cards, July, page 58). Un
consumer magazine publishing. cle Jack-watchers have once again caught this
1. The capital H should be underlined in the first self-proclaimed expert-on-everything in a few more
sentence. errors. The subject this time was general science.
28 Crypto-Funnies 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Jim Throne, of Napervllie, IL, wrote to correct an
3. The words "strike," "out," "baseball," and error in Uncle Jack's terminology: The sound pro
NEVER SAY DIET. Man: This Is the first noticeable
"bat" should be crossed out. duced by a supersonic aircraft is a sonic boom, not
change I've had in weeksl Woman: You lost some
4. "Africa" should be circled (It's a continent; the
weight? Man: No ... I can no longer see the scale supersonic as the old boy claimed. While discuss
others are countries). ing the subject of the human eye, Uncle Jack
over my stomach.
5. The four center matches should be crossed claimed that light is transmitted from the retina to
CLASS ASSIGNMENT. Father: I hear you devel
out, leaving a single square. the optic nerve. Not so, said Sandy Oliver, of St.
oped an Inflatable metal for your science project.
6. The next space should be empty. Louis, MO. Light is transmitted from the retina to
Son: That's right. Father: How did It go over? Son:
Like a lead balloon.
7. A wavy line should appear under "8/18." the fovea centralis—the optic nerve has no sensi
8. Four of the following states should appear in tivity to light.
OUT OF LUOK. Lone Ranger: I'd like to help, but I
oan't even lend you a dime. I'm sorry. Man: And he the blanks: Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Mon ★ Made in Hoiiywood (June, page 22). This mov
has the nerve to call himself the "loan arranger." tana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, New ie trivia quiz brought reels and reels of Eurekas.
York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine. One question asked for film titles consisting of a
9. A circle should be drawn In the square. single letter. Wendell Wagner, Jr., of Laurel, MD,
46 Time Out 1 0 . 11 . added 0 and W to our answer of Z or M. As for
11 . " F o r e h a n d " s h o u l d b e c i r c l e d . films whose titles contain asterisks, Mike Indursky,
Break Time
12. 8. of Bronx, NY, added S'P'Y'S and Everything You
There are four pieces, adding up to 18, 19, 20, and 13. The two jacks and two eights should be Always Wanted to Know About Sex' . . . 'But Were
21, as shown. crossed out. Afraid to Ask lo the answers M'A'S'H and S'H'E.
14. The next space should contain the word ACE. In the category "The Oscar," our answer to ques
15. The queen of clubs should be circled. tion 1 stated that One Flew Ovet the Cuckoo's Nest
16. MISSPELL should be spelled correctly In the was the longest title among best-film Oscar win
space (or spelled incorrectly somewhere other ners. Richard A. Schutz, of Philadelphia, PA, noted
than in the space), that the same number of letters (25) are contained
17. 16. In All Quiet on the Western Front, the 1929-1930
Flibberty-Digits
The clock is upside-down. 18. 6. O s c a r w i n n e r.
Double Trouble 19. 6.

It's 3:15. The correct time can be determined by 20. Italy, Turkey, Hungary, Paraguay. (Other an COMING DISTRACTIONS
swers are also possible.)
adding the two clocks' times together (and, if nec
21. The next space should be empty. October
essary, subtracting 12 from the total), since the 22. GORE WRECKED should be written In the right
time lost by the backward-running clock will offset Boy George Is on Fire ... And some
the time gained by the double-speed clock. Thus, margin.
other famous folks are acting up on the
8:45 plus 6:30 equals 14:75, which would be 15:15 Scoring Count 1 point for eaoh correct answer.
Maximum score: 22. c o v e r. C a n y o u s o l v e t h e c e l e b r i t y
on the clock. This reduces to 3:15.
Ratings rebuses?
A Sticky Situation
The numbers were placed as shown. 22 points—Whiz. You stay cool and think logically Special International Contest Enter a
under stress. Your co-workers probably hate you. cross-cultural competition that pits North
19-21 points—Excellent. You are well-suited for,
American puzzlers against their Eastern
f e say, directing rush hour traffic in Hong Kong.
16-18 points—Very good. Assembling a bicycle European counterparts in the interests of
bilingual wordplay.
on Christmas Eve is a snap for you.
Plus Call Our Bluff Makes a Federal
13-15 points—Good. You can usually complete
Minute Mystery your jigsaw puzzles. Case, a Hippie Word Search, The Crys
The butler did It. The numbers on the clocks are set 10-12 points—Fair. When the going gets tough, tal, Columbus Day Logic and Mappit, and
to 5:14, 7:12, 9:19, 8:13, and 1:14. Using the code you go home. Mix-and-Match Family Photos.
A=1, B=2, etc., down to Z = 26, the clocks spell Under 10 points—You consistently make wrong On sale at newsstands
out ENGLISHMAN. None of the lord's guests was decisions in tense situations. A successful career in
September 10
British, and the maid was a woman. government awaits you.

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