WACKY WORDIES
What three two-word phrases can be found
in this box? 
ANSWER...

What is this object?
ANSWER...

EQUATION
ANALYSIS TEST

26 = L. of the A.
What are L. and A.?
 

 
 

Previous issue: February 2011

2012 Games of the Year
(from the December 2011 issue)

March 2012 issue
(on sale January 3)

Features
Pub Play
A look at the English pub’s rich legacy of gaming.
Thomas L. McDonald


Jeepers, Peepers!
How many of these celebrities can you identify just by gazing into their eyes? Jeff Moran

Deduchi

A colorful set of abstract logic puzzles. Francesco Rotta

Compass

It’s tricky to keep your bearings in this original strategy game (with puzzles). Stephen Sniderman

Mazematics

Simple arithmetic is the basis for these not-so-simple mazes.
Adrian Fisher

GameViews

New in Mechanical Puzzles
Mini-reviews of Tetraxis, Instant Insanity II, Double Disk, and Jerry Slocum’s The World’s Best Paper Puzzles.
Tom Cutrofello

Electronic Game Reviews
Rage
FIFA Soccer 12
Solatorobo: Red the Hunter
Edited by Thomas L. McDonald

Traditional Game Reviews
Eruption
Martian Dice
Vintage
Gyges
K2
Vampires of the Night

State of Play: A Gaming Blog

GAME OF THE YEAR
AND OTHER AWARDS

 

Three Flask Task
Make a series of three-step moves, beginning by moving onto the START flask and continuing until you end a three-step move on the GOAL. Each step consists of moving horizontally or vertically between flasks containing liquids of the same color. After each three-step move, you must switch to a new color.

Cover Maze: Andrea Gilbert and
     Robert Abbott

Cover Design: Kevin Boone

Pencilwise
Labyrinth
Talent Is Latent
Core Values
Pictograffix
Pencil Pointers
Dszquphsbnt!
Kid Stuff
Hashi

PuzzleCraft #77:
   Spot the Differences
500 Rummy
Going, Going, Gong
Paint by Numbers
PUZLN 1-9®
Shooting Locations
Motley Stew
Double Cross
Super Sudoku
Logic Tiles
Battleships
It Coulda Been Worse

World’s Most Ornery
   Crossword
and other pencil puzzles

Wild Cards
A potpourri of little puzzles we couldn’t fit anywhere else.

Selected Features: Links

November 1983
Good Knight, Suite Prints
A Homophone Story by Mary Ellen Slate.

December 2006
Starry Night
Solve an interactive version of our December issue’s cover maze by Robert Abbott (Logic Mazes). Cover design by Jim Malloy.

October 2005
The Looney Labs Experiment
How a kinder, gentler game company got its groove on.
Read article.

September 2005
Canned Wonders
Charitable competitions produce remarkable feats of Canstruction®.

Games Online Contest #36

Orion’s Crystal

The all-but-invisible puzzle
that’s sweeping the country!


Eight puzzle pieces fit together to form a sphere. Not too tough…if you could see the pieces! Now just $14.99 plus shipping. Order.
 

Games World of Puzzles

March 2012 issue
on sale January 17

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