Games World of Puzzles January 2019

There is one place for each letter of the alphabet in the 26 empty squares of each blank column in the diagram below. Fill in each letter so that a word of at least five letters is formed reading across only. Not all of the letters to the left and right of the empty box are used; it’s up to you to determine which ones are needed to complete familiar words. Some letters may fit in more than one of the empty squares to complete words, but we only came up with one arrangement that would complete a word in each row. Maybe you’ll find a better solution. Proper names are not allowed. ANSWER…

The answer to each Syllabism clue is a word or words made up of some of the syllables listed above the clues. The number of syllables in each answer is in parentheses following the clue. The dashes indicate the number of letters in the answer. After you use a syllable, cross it off; each syllable will be used only once and every syllable will be used in one of the answers. When you are through, read down the first letters of the answer words and then the last letters and you will discover the name of a person followed by a quotation by that person. ANSWERS 1. Recover 2. Orlando 3. Sheriff 4. Egotism 5. Kiwi 6. Eternal 7. Novice 8. Nervous 9. Efficient 10. Diego 11. Yucatan 12. Legislate 13. Impedes…

FROM THE GAMES LIBRARY Keep your ABCs in mind as you look at these 26 pictures—each item shown begins with a different letter of the alphabet. Here’s the hitch: You can’t be sure which letter starts the name of any object without looking at the other pictures. For example, is that item just below a chest, trunk, or a footlocker? The answer depends on which other items might need to begin with C, T, or F. By process of elimination, you’ll find that there’s just one way to match these 26 pictures to the 26 letters of the alphabet if you use only common single words. Think you can do it? ANSWERS The 26 items, in alphabetical order, are: Automobile, Bow, Couch, Derby, Envelope, Frankfurter, Goatee, Handbag, Insect, Jet, Knife, Loaf, Marionette, Noodles, Operator,…

To solve Quote Boxes, drop the letters from each vertical column—not necessarily in the order in which they appear—into the empty squares below them to spell a quotation reading from left to right, line by line. Words may continue from one line to the next; black squares indicate ends of words. The author of each quote is given above its grid. 1. ART BUCHWALD 2. DANIEL DEFOE 3. EDNA FERBER ANSWERS 1. This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are. (Art Buchwald) 2. The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. (Daniel Defoe) 3. I am not belittling the brave pioneer men, but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to…

As in the two-player version of Hangman, the object of this solitaire challenge is to guess a word before being “hanged.” To begin, choose any letter that you think might appear in word I below. Suppose you pick E. Go to the Letter Chart on the facing page and find the number listed in row E of Column I (because you are working on word I). The number is 72; you now look in box number 72 in the Position Chart (to the right of the Letter Chart) and locate the number 10. This means the letter E occurs in the tenth position (and nowhere else) in word I. If a letter occurs more than once in a word, the Position Chart will show all its locations. If you find from…

ACROSS 1 Gem State capital 6 Mulder and Scully’s cases: Hyph. 12 Radio buffs 16 Lodge member 17 Whodunit plot element 18 Jay Gould’s railroad 19 Part 1 of an observation: 3 wds. 22 Go after legally 23 Opie’s portrayer 24 Scold severely, slangily: 2 wds. 25 Pipe cleaner 26 Pinball no-no 29 Adversary of U.S. Grant: 3 wds. 30 Thanksgiving dessert 32 Identical 33 El Greco’s birthplace 34 Observation, part 2: 3 wds. 39 Impart, as values 40 It’s sold in bars 41 Talk back to 45 More opportune 47 Invite trouble: 3 wds. 49 Excellent server 50 Eve’s grandson 52 Nobody doesn’t like her: 2 wds. 53 Observation, part 3: 4 wds. 55 Apple desktops 59 Panache 60 Bambi aunt 61 Variable twinklers 62 Sow chow 63 Preserves preserver 65 Fairly divided: 2 wds. 67 One who’s quick with a quip 68 Ending for moon or sun 71 End of the observation: 3 wds. 76 Navigational hazard 77 When many do lunch: 2 wds. 78 Toodles, in…