Games World of Puzzles

Welcome to the May issue of GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES. This month we’ve got a special treat for you: “Call Me Steve” by Andrew Parr (page 33). So what’s the big deal? Parr, our “uncontested Games historian,” spoke to world-famous Broadway composer and l

Editor in Chief Janis Weiner Senior Editor Jennifer Orehowsky Editor Raymond Simon Contributing Editors Scott Appel, Thomas L. McDonald, Jonathan Schmalzbach Supporting Players Gabrielle Fabioneri, Joel Nanni Email Address games@kappapublishing.com S

We all know that vegetables are chock-full of vitamins and minerals; we also know that we should eat more of them. So take a walk with us through the produce section of your local market, and load up your shopping cart with 50 varieties of good-for-y

Here’s a quiz that answers some burning questions. The answer to each clue below is a word, phrase, or title containing the word FIRE. For example, the clue “Computer security measure” would lead to the answer FIREWALL, while “1985 Brat Pack movie” w

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 th

WWW.CONCEPTISPUZZLES.COM In these puzzles, you are given an arrangement of numbered islands. Your goal is to add bridges (lines) between islands so that the islands form a single connected group. When adding bridges, you must follow these rules: 1. T

Each of the puzzles below represents a minefield, so watch your step as you try to determine where the bombs are. The numbers in the grid tell you how many of the adjacent squares (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) contain bombs, and that shou

In these puzzles, the completed diagrams will include each of the numbers from 1 to 9 in the squares of every row and column. Your only clues are provided in the little rectangles within the diagram. They indicate the sum of the digits they contain.

Games has been widely recognized as a groundbreaking, one-of-a-kind publication. Many enthusiasts point to the Fake Ad, the Hidden Contest, and the incomparable Pencilwise section as hallmark features. But there have also been times when individual p

FROM SEPTEMBER In this contest, you were presented with a series of posts from Fakebook, a fictitious social media platform. Your challenge was to determine how many of each reaction type (like, love, sad, haha, angry, and wow) were used in the threa

The only clues in this crossword are the letter pairs provided in the grid. Each answer across and down consists of two words that share the letters you’ll enter in the empty squares. In the example below, S, E, and W fill the empty squares to make S

This puzzle gives you two grids for the price of one. And two sets of clues to go with them, so you can work both crosswords at the same time. What’s the catch? Each clue number is followed by two different clues to two different answers. The puzzle

www.innoludic.com The goal of these puzzles is simple: In order to reach the next station, a train must find the path starting at one arrow and finishing at the other. Your goal is to complete the path by placing pieces of track on the grid in such a

www.conceptispuzzles.com These eight puzzles feature a unique blend of logic and art. The numbers are all you need to determine which squares should be filled in to form a picture. Here’s how it’s done: The numbers outside each row and column tell yo

Each clue in a cryptic crossword has two parts: a definition of the answer and an indication of the answer’s literal makeup via wordplay. Either half may come first; finding the dividing point between the two parts is the key to solving. On page 61,

The elite 14-player round-robin 83rd Tata Steel Masters chess tournament in January was the first live event many of the players had been able to attend in many months, due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. There were no spectators and the city of Wij

Change each group of 10 words below into a “family” of different words (words or proper names that have something in common) by dropping one letter from each word and then rearranging the remaining letters. For example, given the entries HAUNT, HAIRD

In this puzzle, all of the answers are the first (or last) halves of a word or phrase made up of two identical syllables or words. For example, “Sweet treat” would be BONBON, so you would enter BON in the grid. Proper nouns are allowed. Once you dete