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: December 2011

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

February 2012 issue
(on sale November 29)

Features
Fascinated by Fascination
An arcade game that combines the luck of bingo with the skill of Skee-Ball. Tricia Vita

All Presidents Accounted For
Test your knowledge of presidents past and present. Gunnar Johnson

It’s Not in the Cards

This matching puzzle tests whether a sense of humor is your Hallmark. Mark Danna

High-Low Quiz

Our classic trivia game returns with a philatelic flavor.
Paddy Smith


foldit: Puzzle Solving
for Science

Gamers succeed where scientists had not in a real-life problem in medical research.
Thomas L. McDonald

Change of Art

Can you find the 10 differences between these illustrated scenes?
Mrcela Mladen

GameViews

Puzzles of Note
Mini-reviews of ChooChooLoops, Hexdominoes, Solitaire Chess, Chicken Shuffle, Zig-Zag Knot, and Digits in a Box.
Robin H. King

Electronic Game Reviews
Gesundheit!
Warhammer 40,000:
   Space Marine
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Edited by Thomas L. McDonald

Traditional Game Reviews
Matter
Olympos
King of Tokyo
Yggdrasil
Freefall
Wiraqocha
Pairamid
Grimoire

State of Play: A Gaming Blog

GAME OF THE YEAR
AND OTHER AWARDS

 

Eyeball Benders
What are these objects?

Cover Photos: Randy Centner
Cover Design: Kevin Boone

Pencilwise
Correction: Chain Letters Puzzle 5 (page 35) contains an error that makes it impossible to completely solve the puzzle. The two final lines are missing from the list of letters. The lines should read as follows:

V -> E
W -> I

Seeking Chemistry at
   a Singles Bar
Valentine’s Candy Box
The O-Zone
Nicked Names
Pencil Pointers
Dszquphsbnt!
Kid Stuff
Multi Kakuro

PuzzleCraft #76:
   Letter Cross
Cat-and-Dog Game
Rosetta
Show Me Love
Paint by Pairs
Pivotal People
Motley Stew
Double Cross
Tours de Force
Battleships
Purloined Letters

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 #35

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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