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PETER GORDONMIKE SHENK

MAYME ALLENJANINE KELSCH

MARK DANNAJAMES RICHARD SUKACH

The DIAGRAM GROUP

fISterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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*• Published In 1999 by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.387 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10016

•• Material in this collection was adapted fromSSolitaire Battleships

S © Peter Gordon and Mike Shenk

Little Giant Encyclopedia of mazesV ©The Diagram Group

* 101 Word Games© Mayme Allen and Janine Kelsch

* Word Search Puzzles for Kids* © Mark Danna* and* Challenging Whodunit Puzzles

• ©0 James Richard Sukach

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LETTER PERFECT .............................. 13

SOLITAIRE BATTLESHIPS: SEAMAN ............................ 30

TRIC KY M AZES ........................................................... 49

W H O D U N ITS ............................................................. 67

WORD SEARCHES 1 ............................ 82

WORDWORKS .............................. 101

SOLITAIRE BATTLESHIPS: ENSIGN ............................. 114

M O RE M A ZES ............................................................. 125

W O RD SEARCH ES 2 ................................................... 137

GREAT BEGINNINGS .......................... 153

SAY IT AG A IN , SAM .................................................... 163

SOLITAIRE BATTLESHIPS: COMMODORE .................. 166:

CLEVER W HO DUNITS ............................................... 177

STORY BUILDERS ............................ 191

TA K E FIV E ................................................................... 196

SO LU T IO N S ............................................................... 207

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For the games that follow, list as many words as you can,using the designated letters in the sequence specified. Youcan use only one form of each word-for example, telegraphshouldn't also be listed as telegraphing. Words with differentmeanings, however, such as desertand desertion, can be used,even if they have the same root. No proper nouns allowed inthese games.

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1. Baked clay containers; dishes

2. Large, imposing building

3. Small group of musicians

4. Keep apart; remove

5. Cut or etch letters on object

6. Shaky natural disaster

7. Vivid, forceful speech or writing style

8. Steal

9. Count one by one; list

10. Something that proves an allegation

11. Walkway along shoreline

12. Drive out evil spirits

13. Treat as equal

14. Roof edge

15. Slip by; pass

16. Get away from; flee

17. Free from blame

18. Tasteful and dignified manner

19. One with discriminating taste in food or wine

20. Give hope or confidence

21. French sandal or shoe

22. Bubbles in beverages

23. Teach; train

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•Battleships puzzles are a solitaire version of the classic paper-and- 0Special game of the same name. The object of each puzzle is to find

the locations of the 10 ships in the fleet hidden in a section of 0*ocean represented by the 10-by-10 grid. The fleet consists of one 0

battleship (four grid squares in length), two cruisers (each three 0Squares long), three destroyers (each two squares long), and four

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•• the grid, but no two ships will occupy adjacent grid squares, even 0• ~diagonally. The digits along the side of and below the grid indicate

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* Water This square contains no ship.

* [Oi Submarine This square consists of a submarine, and thus must be sur-* rounded by water.

* [0 End of a ship This square can be oriented in any of four directions. It* indicates the end of either a destroyer, cruiser, or battleship. The square adja-* cent to the flat side must be occupied by a ship segment. All other surround- 0

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* L~JMiddle of a ship This is either the middle segment of a cruiser, or one* of the two middle segments of the battleship. Either it has the squares to the*• left and right occupied by ship segments and the ones above and below it 0

* empty or the squares above and below are occupied by ship segments and* the ones to the left and right are empty. In both cases, the diagonally adjacent* squares are filled with water. In fact, any time a square is occupied, all of the* diagonally adjacent squares must have water in them, because ships can't* touch diagonally. 0

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* 2. Fill in water in rows and columns that have all of the ship segments already* in place.* 3. Fill in ship segments in rows and columns that must have all of their remain-* ing empty spaces filled in order to equal the corresponding number.

* For the simplest Battleships, this is all that is needed to solve the puzzle. Take* a look at the puzzle in Figure 1.• Throughout this chapter, columns of the grid will be referred to with uppercase* letters A through J, while rows will be referred to with* letters K through T. In this way, any square in the grid Figure 1 0

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can only contain two ship segments. You can then fill inthe spaces surrounding the destroyer with water. The shipsegment at CT must be the middle part of a cruiser orone of the middle sections of the battleship. The shipmust be horizontal (if it were vertical, it would extendbelow the bottom edge of the grid), so the squares to theleft and right of CT (BT and DT) must have ship seg-ments in them. Since row T can only have a total of threeship segments in it, BT-CT-DT must be a cruiser. Thesquares surrounding it can be filled in with water. Thefilled-in square at EM is also the middle section of acruiser or one of the middle sections of the battleship.You don't know which yet, but you know that the foursquares that touch a ship segment diagonally must bewater, because ships never touch diagonally. Keep thisin mind at all times for easier solving. Your grid shouldnow look like Figure 2.

Now use strategy 2. Rows K, Q, and T, and col-umns D and G have all of their ship segments accountedfor, so you can fill all the blank squares in those rowsand columns with water. Your grid should now look likeFigure 3.

Now look at EM. It must be part of a ship that goesvertically because DM is water, and the ship can nolonger extend to the left. You could have figured this outusing strategy 3 instead, since column E has only threeblank spaces, all of which need to be filled with shipsegments to reach the five needed. Since four segmentsin a row in column E are filled, that must be the battle-ship. Row R also has to have all of its empty spaces filledwith ship segments. The left part, AR-BR must be a de-stroyer. The right part, HR and JR, must have ship seg-ments in them, too. Don't make the mistake of fillingthem in with submarines-although they may be sub-marines, each one could also be the top half of a de-stroyer. To indicate that it's filled in with an unidentifiedship segment, use a small dot in the middle of the square.Your grid should now look like Figure 4.

Whenever you fill in a ship segment, go back tostrategy 1. Here, you can put water in FM and FO, andIS, too, since it touches a ship segment diagonally. Andusing strategy 2, you can put water in what's left of col-umns A and B and rows L and N, to get Figure 5.

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thing bigger because it's surrounded by water), and rowM must have all four of its empty spaces filled with shipsegments, making a submarine on the left and a cruiseron the right. This gives you Figure 6.

When you return to strategy 1 this time, you'll findit doesn't help, but strategy 2 does: You can fill in theblank spaces of columns C, H, and I and row S withwater, since they already contain the required numberof ship segments. Your grid now looks like Figure 7.

The dots in row R are surrounded by water, so theymust be submarines. And since you need two more shipsegments in column J and have two spaces available,you can finish off the puzzle by filling those spaces witha destroyer. A quick double check verifies that you haveall the required ships, so you're done (Figure 8).

The three basic strategies, though certainly impor-tant, will take you only so far. When you've reached apoint at which the basic strategies provide no further help,the simplest advanced strategy is to try placing the larg-est ship that hasn't yet been located. If you haven't foundwhere the battleship goes, try finding a spot for it. If thebattleship is already in place, then look for spots for thecruisers. Here's an example (Figure 9).

First, of course, you should fill in what you canusing the basic strategies. Your grid should now look likeFigure 10.

Now, consider where the battleship can go. It mustgo in a row or column that has a four or higher. Onlytwo qualify: row L and column E. It can't fit in row L,though-that row already contains a ship that can't bethe battleship since there's only room for it to be a cruiseror destroyer, and the battleship can't go in the right partof the row since then there would be more than four

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spaces filled by ships. So the battleship must go in col-umn E. But where in the column? Its top can be at eitherEN, EO, EP, or EQ. You don't know which, but if youlook at those four possibilities, you'll notice that in ev-ery case EQ is filled with a ship segment. So you can puta dot in EQ. Any time you put a dot in a square, you canimmediately put water in the diagonally adjacent squares(since ships never touch diagonally), so fill in FP and FRwith water. And look at row Q. It has its three ship seg-ments, so the rest of it must be water-fill them in (Figure11, page 33).

When you've filled in all the spaces surrounding asquare that contains a dot, you can convert the dot to itsproper ship segment. Here, square IQ must be the rightend of a destroyer. Whenever you make a change usingan advanced strategy, go back to you basic strategies tosee if you can use them. Row R has only one empty space,and it has a one at the end of it, so that empty squaremust be filled with a ship segment. Since you don't yetknow what type it is, put a dot in it. That dot gives youwater in FS. Your grid should now look like Figure 12.

Now you'll need to think. Consider the four placesthe battleship can go. The first is EN-EO-EP-EQ. That'snot possible because to put it there, ER would have tocontain water, but it doesn't. The next possibility is EO-EP-EQ-ER. It fits, but putting it there would require waterin EN and ES, leaving only one more blank space in col-umn E, and two are needed to bring the total number ofship segments to six. So that possibility is out, too. Thenext possibility, EP-EQ-ER-ES, has the same problem-EO and ET would need to be water, leaving only oneblank space (at EN), when two are needed to bring thetotal to six. So the last possibility, with the battleship atEQ-ER-ES-ET, must be correct; fill it in. That allows youto put water at EP and FT (Figure 13).

Now go back to the basic strategies. Fill in squareBP with a dot (remember not to assume it's a subma-rine-it could extend upward!), and EN-EO with a de-stroyer. This puts water at FM, FN, and FO (Figure 14).

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Using the basic strategies, you can get to the pointshown in Figure 18.

Now try the advanced strategy of finding wherethe biggest remaining ship goes. In this case, the biggestship not yet placed is the battleship. It can only go incolumn I (the only row or column with a four or higher),at either IK-IL-IM-IN or IL-IM-IN-IO. In both cases, IL,IM, and IN have ship segments in them, so you can fillthose in. You can also put water in IT, since the battle-ship in the top of column I will use up all four allottedship segments (Figure 19).

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After using the basic strategies, the puzzle shouldlook like Figure 28.

The biggest ship not yet placed is the battleship.Where can it go? Plenty of places: It could fit in oneplace in row N, one place in column B, or in any of fourplaces in column J. You probably don't want to try thatmany possibilities. It's time for a different strategy: Lookaround the board for rows and columns that are almostdetermined. In particular, look for rows and columns inwhich the number of ship segments left to place is oneless than the number of empty spaces. In this puzzle,row N needs four ship segments and has only five emptyspaces. Row 0 needs three ship segments in the fourremaining empty spaces. You'll find a similar conditionin row Q, but for this puzzle you should concentrate onrows N and 0. Consider square CN. If it's filled with aship segment, then both BO and DO would have to con-tain water (since they're diagonally adjacent to CN). Butthat would leave only two empty spaces in row 0 forthree ship segments-an impossibility! So CN can't con-tain a ship segment; fill it in with water. After filling CNwith water, the basic strategies will take you a long way(Figure 29).

Now you go back to the first advanced strategy:Where can the biggest remaining ship go? In this case,you still need to place two destroyers. You can fit one ofthem in column C and the other in row K. They can't goanywhere else, so that'swhere they must be. The de-stroyer in row K must go at Figure 29FK-GK, so CK is water, leav-ing CS-CT for the other de-stroyer (Figure 30).

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Now you'll need some deep thought. Where canthe battleship go? Only in row M or row N. But you canbe even more specific than that. It can't go at BM-CM-DM-EM because then AN, BN, CN, DN, EN, and FNwould contain water, not leaving enough spaces for fourship segments in row N. Similarly, it can't go at BN-CN-DN-EN, because then row M would be impossible. Soeither the battleship goes at ABCD in one of these rows(M or N) with F and HIJ occupied in the other or it goesat CDEF in one of these rows with A and HIJ occupied inthe other. In either case, the one at the bottom of col-umn A is filled in row M or N, as is the one of column Dand the one of column I. So you can put water in all theempty spaces in columns A, D, and I other than those inrows M and N (Figure 34).

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You already know the battleship and one of thecruisers will go somewhere in rows M and N. Wherewill the other cruiser go? The only possibility is columnB. Row Q and column E can be ruled out for obviousreasons. Columns C, H, and J are out because, as dis-cussed above, at least one square in each of those col-umns will be part of a horizontal ship in row M or N.The cruiser in column B will account for all three hits inthe column, so the battleship must go at CDEF of eitherrow M or N, and either AM or AN must be a submarine.You can now place the cruiser in column B. Since it mustinclude BP, its top is at BN, BO, or BP. If it were at BN or

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Now look at column C. Three of those four squaresmust have ship segments. The battleship fits horizontallyinto either row M or N, taking up one of those threespaces. If it went in row M, then CL and CN would bothcontain water, making column C impossible. So thebattleship goes at CN-DN-EN-FN. With basic strategies,you'll get Figure 37.

Check out the submarines-they've all been placed.That means the dot at JP can't be a submarine, so it mustbe part of a destroyer. And that gives you enough infor-mation to finish the puzzle (Figure 38).

One more puzzle (Figure 39) and then you're onyour own to discover new, more advanced strategies.

Basic strategies don't help much (Figure 40).Our advanced strategies don't help much either.

The battleship can go in a number of places, and noneof the rows or columns are within one of being filled.Sometimes solving the really hard puzzle requires trialand error.

The battleship can go in two places in column Gand in six places in column I. Try them until one works.As soon as one works you can stop, because all Battle-ships have unique answers. Try the first of two locationsin column G, namely GP-GQ-GR-GS. After surroundingthe battleship with water, and completing column G withwater, the next step is to complete column H with acruiser at HL-HM-HN and complete column F with aship segment at LF. But wait! Now row L has two ship


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You now know the battleship is in column I. Tryplacing it next to the top, at IL-IM-IN-lO. (It can't start atIK since row K has no ship segments.) Surround the shipwith water, and complete column I with water. Com-plete rows L, M, and N with water, and complete row 0with a destroyer at CO-DO. Fill in the water surround-ing the destroyer and complete row P with a submarineat AP and a destroyer at FP-GR Surround that destroyerwith water, and complete columns A and F with water.Now row Q must have a destroyer at CQ-DQ and a sub-marine at JQ. Surround the destroyer with water and com-plete columns C, D, and J with water. At last, there is animpossibility. Row R must have another destroyer in it,but there are none left. Also, columns G and H mustboth have cruisers in them adjacent to each other (Fig-ure 43).

Onward you go, to IM-IN-IO-IR Start by surround-ing the battleship with water and completing its columnwith water. Next, complete column H with a cruiser atHR-HS-HT and surround it with water. This makes col-umn G impossible (Figure 44).

Next up is IN-IO-IP-IQ. Start by surrounding thebattleship with water and completing its column withwater. Next, complete column H with a submarine atHL and a destroyer at HS-HT. Complete row L with wa-ter and surround the destroyer with water and column Gbecomes impossible (Figure 45).

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The next possibility is IP-IQ-IR-IS. This one doesn'tlast long at all. After surrounding the battleship with waterand completing its column, there's an impossibility inrow 0 (Figure 47).

So you are left with only one possibility, namelyIQ-IR-IS-IT. It had better work! Basic strategies don't takeyou too far (Figure 48).

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Using basic strategies now, you get Figure 50 (page 41).Now, if GP were empty, then column G would need a battleship to fill it. But

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From here you can use basic strategies (starting off with water in HO since it'sdiagonally adjacent to GP, which has a ship segment in it) to finish up (Figure 52,page 41).

So there you have it. There are plenty of other strategies to use, depend-ing on the puzzle. For example, if all the submarines are already in place,then every remaining ship segment must be a part of a longer ship, and ifthere's a column with a one that crosses a row with a one then it must containwater, since if it contained a ship, it would be a fifth submarine. Similarly, ifthree submarines are in place and there's a row with a two that has bothadjacent rows filled with water, then you know the row with the two has tobe a destroyer, not two submarines, since only one submarine is left to place.And then there's the case when ... well, you get the idea. Part of the fun isdiscovering new strategies.

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Dr. Jeffrey Lynn Quicksolve, professor of criminology, retiredfrom the police force as a detective at a very young age. Nowhe works with various police agencies and private detectivesas a consultant when he isn't teaching at the university.

He certainly knows his business, solving crimes. Manypeople are amazed at how he solves so many crimes so quickly.He says, "The more you know about people and the worldwe live in, the easier it is to solve a problem."

His son, Junior, enjoys learning too, and he solves a fewmysteries himself.

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The apartment building was an old house near the university. Ithad been divided into four apartments. The owner of the building,Gracious Host, lived in a large apartment downstairs. She rentedout the three apartments upstairs. Dr. J. L. Quicksolve had heardthe call over the police radio and arrived before the officers.

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Gracious described her tenants to Dr. Quicksolve. She saidTweeter Woofer was a young "hippie type" who sometimes playedher music too loudly. "I told her, one more complaint and shewould be out on the street." Baby Blossom was hearing impaired,but "she reads lips." Terry Cloth was dead.

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Gracious said she was sure only her three tenants were in thebuilding when she heard the shots and discovered the body.

The hall was quiet when Dr. Quicksolve walked upstairs. Thewoman in the bathrobe lay against the wall, as if she were taking

* a nap. The three red stains told him the nap would last forever.* Dr. Quicksolve heard music in the back of the apartment and

smelled burning incense when Tweeter Woofer opened her apart-ment door to let him enter. Miss Woofer was shocked when heexplained what had happened. As they stood inside the door, shesaid, "This is so upsetting. Who would shoot Terry?" She said shedid not hear anything and did not see anything.

* Dr. Quicksolve knocked quietly on Baby Blossom's door. Sheand her dog, a yellow Labrador, came to the door. He explainedwhat happened. "I was a little afraid to open the door because Ithought I heard shots," she said. "I guess I was right."

When Dr. Quicksolve went back downstairs, the policemenhad arrived. "I have a good suspect," he told them.

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"A small turtle sundae, please," Dr. J. L. Quicksolve told the wait-ress. He was the last to order. His friend, Fred Fraudstop, had in-vited Dr. Quicksolve and his son, Junior, for an ice cream treat tocelebrate Fred's move into town. Fred ordered a chocolate-marsh-mallow sundae, and Junior ordered a "freight train"-two bananasplits in separate glass bowls pulled by a glass train engine. If youate the whole thing, you got to keep the glass engine. Junior hadfive of them at home.

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* "Did you find anybody?" Junior asked, reaching for his spoon.* "They found us, " Fred said, "which wasn't surprising consid-

ering the money they stood to inherit. I've narrowed it down totwo people. The rest are obviously just pretending to be relatives,hoping to get the money."

"Who are they?" Junior asked."One is a niece from Chicago, and the other is a cousin from

* North Dakota. They're the only ones who don't have a previousrecord of fraud of some sort or another. I still have to check outtheir claims, though. Would you like to talk to them with me?" heasked Dr. Quicksolve.

"Sure; it sounds interesting," the detective answered. "Let'sstart with the one from North Dakota."

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Dr. J. L. Quicksolve and Junior were meeting Fred Fraudstop forlunch. Fred said he had to stop and question a man about a bur-glary at the Strikeout Sportscard Shop. Dr. Quicksolve decided togo with him because Junior was a baseball card collector andwould be interested in the shop, not to mention Quicksolve's cu-riosity about the burglary.

"We were broken into overnight," Homer Hitter, the shopowner, told them. "They took a bunch of cards, but mostly money,"he said, showing them the back door that had been jimmied openand the empty moneybox. "We close late, so I usually take themoney to the bank in the morning," he said.

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"No, my clerk, Art Dunn, closed up last night. He always closesup. He bolts the back door and goes out the front. I let him havehis own key. I don'tthink he would do anything like this." Then henoticed Junior looking at the cards. "You like Mickey Mantle?" heasked Junior. He reached below the counter and brought out acard that showed Mantle standing at the left side of the plate as ifhe were waiting for a pitch. "Without all those injuries he wouldhave been the Home Run King."

"What do you think of the Strikeout Sportscard Shop?" Fredasked Junior as they walked out onto the sidewalk.

* "I don't think I'd buy anything from that guy," Junior said,"and you probably should doubt what he tells you about the rob-bery."

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Three college coeds rented the house next to Dr. J. L. Quicksolve.Brenda Broadcloth and Cherry Ripple, two of them, ran up to Dr.Quicksolve in front of his house just as he was saying goodbye toSergeant Rebekah Shurshot. Brenda said they had been robbed.

The three roommates had shopped together. They had boughttheir groceries, including cod for that night's dinner because HollyMackeral loved fish. Brenda chose asparagus for the vegetable,and Cherry chose vanilla ice cream for dessert.

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"I had the money, but I put it back in the cookie jar when wegot home," Brenda said. "Then I went upstairs to call my boy-friend. That was about three o'clock."to gI fed the cat and went out to work in the backyard. I decidedto get bananas for the ice cream," Cherry said, "so I went to thecookie jar for the money around four-thirty. The money was gone.I guess someone came into the house and took it."

* Holly came walking up with their dog Furball on a leash.* Brenda told her about the robbery. Sergeant Shurshot asked Holly

what she did after they came back from shopping.* "I unwrapped the fish and put it on the counter to thaw a

little. Then I went to the basement to read. Shortly after four I putthe fish in the oven and took the dog for a walk. I didn't see any-body," she said.

* "Will you check the cookie jar for fingerprints?" Brenda askedSergeant Shurshot.

"I don't think that will be necessary. This was an inside job,"Sergeant Shurshot responded.

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Dr. J. L. Quicksolve and Junior sat in the airport waiting for Cap-tain Reelumin's plane to arrive. Junior liked to watch the peoplegoing by. He liked to guess things about who they might be andwhere they were going.

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"Yes," Junior said, noticing that his father was staring at thetwo men by the phones. The one in the jacket walked away, andthe other man suddenly hung up his phone. Then he held it to hisear again and began making another call, talking into the phoneas he looked down at his notepad.

"Get that man," Dr. Quicksolve said quietly, pointing to theman in the jacket who had just walked by them. Dr. Quicksolvewalked up behind the man on the telephone and looked over hisshoulder.

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"That's Ben Boinkt out there on the couch," Officer Longarmsaid to Dr. Quicksolve.

A woman sat at the table. She had so much makeup on, Dr.Quicksolve wondered what she really looked like. Then, throughthe doorway that led to the kitchen, he saw the body of a woman.

"Mrs. Boinkt is dead," Officer Longarm said, answering theunspoken question. "This is Miss Glenda Cheatenheart," he said,indicating the woman at the table. "She lives next door. She foundthe Boinkts lying on the floor in the kitchen."

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"I heard the crash of the door in the kitchen," Mr. Boinkt saidas he stood in the dining-room doorway holding the icepack tohis head. Then I heard my wife falling down when the thugs hither from behind. There were two of them. They never said a wordand they wore masks. I turned to run, but they caught me frombehind and knocked me out cold. They went upstairs to the wallsafe in our bedroom. They took my wife's jewels and about $200in cash."nex" 1 saw what happened in the kitchen through my windownext door," Glenda said. "I called the police right away and ranover here with my gun, but they were gone."

0*Dr. Quicksolve looked at Ben and Glenda. He walked up thestairs without saying a word. When he came down, he said, "Ithink Mr. Boinkt needs his head examined."

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0 Bobby Socks looked menacing sitting in Mr. Paddlebottom's of- •fice when Junior and Kimberly Kay walked into the principal'soffice. Bobby wore his jeans tucked into baseball socks just belowhis knees. Most kids thought it looked funny. That suited Bobbyfine because he used every excuse he could think of to start afight. He had beaten up almost every boy in school at one time oranother over some imagined insult. Junior was one of the few boysBobby would not mess with, though. Junior figured Bobby wasafraid to pick on the son of the famous Dr. J. L. Quicksolve. It wasas if he had something to hide and was afraid Junior would figureit out. He was right.

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Kimberly's new skateboard had been stolen from her garageyesterday afternoon. She was sure she had seen Bobby in his base-ball uniform pushing her bike away. Mr. Paddlebottom wanted totalk to Kimberly and Bobby before he called Bobby's parents orthe police. Kimberly had asked Junior to go with her to the officefor moral support.

"It was seven o'clock," Kimberly said when the principal askedher the time she thought she saw Bobby taking her bike. "I waslooking out the front door for my girlfriend. Her dad was going totake us shopping," she said.

"I was playing baseball in the park at seven," Bobby said."We were playing those bums from Jackson. We were just gettingour last bats. We were ahead five to nothing when I hit my secondhome run of the game. Then I walked home with Michael Tho-mas. You can ask him."

""You can't believe Bobby's story, Mr. Paddlebottom," Juniorsaid to the principal.

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Welcome to the wonderful world of word searches. (Say thatthree times fast!) Sure, words are used primarily to communi-cate, but let's face it-they're a lot of fun to play with, too.And there are lots of ways to play with them.

A word search puzzle is like a game of hide-and-seek.We hide the words-you go seek them. If you've never solveda word search, no problem. We'll explain all the rules shortly.If you have done word searches, keep reading. You'll learnabout the twists we've added for some extra fun.

A word search puzzle is made up of two main parts: agrid and a word list. The usually rectangular-shaped grid isfilled with what looks to be a meaningless jumble of letters.Actually, that jumble hides all the words and phrases given in

the word list, which appears on the same page.Hidden words and phrases always go in a straight line,

but may run horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Horizontalwords (words that go across) may run forward or backward.Vertical words may go down or up. Diagonal words (top leftto lower right, or top right to lower left) may run up or downalong their angle. So words may run in any of eight possibledirections. Also, be aware that the same letter may be usedmore than once when words cross it in two or more direc-tions. Furthermore, ignore all punctuation and spaces in theword list when searching in the grid. For example, "That's all,


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words containing less common letters such as Q, Z, X, or J. Still others• begin at the top of the word list and methodically work their way to the

bottom. Whatever works for you is fine.The same holds true for marking the grid. You can loop the hidden

words, draw a straight line through them, or circle each individual let-ter. Whatever you choose, we recommend you cross off the words on

* the word list as you find them in the grid.* Each of these puzzles has a different theme and about the same• level of difficulty. All but three of the grids are in the shape of a rect-•* angle with 11 letters across and 15 letters down. (That's useful to know.• If a word or phrase is more than 11 letters long, it is too long to go• across or diagonally and so it must run vertically.) Each word list, ex-

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To make things a bit trickier, the theme and the word list ofthree puzzles are a secret. It's up to you to figure out what the20 items hidden in the grid are and what they have in com-mon. To get you started, we'll tell you the first letter of eachword or phrase and give you the appropriate number of blanks.For example, if the item were APPLE TREE, the hint would beA

After you loop an item in the grid, fill in the appropriateblanks below the grid to help you with the word list. If youfind a word that doesn't fit in any of the blanks, ignore it: it'snot part of the list. You may also find that more than one wordwill fit a particular set of blanks. If it doesn't have somethingin common with all the other entries, ignore it, too. To helpyou, the clue list, when completed, will be in alphabeticalorder. There is just one correct overall puzzle solution.

When you're done looping, read the unused letters fromleft to right, row by row, from top to bottom. They will spellout a message that reveals the theme.


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1. Stimulus; motive2. True identity concealed or disguised3. Reliable; never wrong4. Establishment providing food and

lodging

5. Itemized list of goods6. Unafraid; bold; fearless7. Person who meddles in others' affairs8. Abnormal inability to sleep9. To receive as an heir

10. Person confined to an institution orasylum

11. Feebleness; weakness12. Measure of length; equal to '/12 foot

13. To hurt or inflict physical harm

14. Inactive; without power to move15. To examine by formal questioning16. Very young child; baby17. To sit on and hatch, as in eggs18. Raging fire; hellish19. Deep violet-blue20. The Hoosier state21. Group of foot soldiers22. Legally charge with a crime23. Colored liquid used for writing

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1. To dismiss; to from school

2. The way out

3. Free from obligation; excused

4. "Bill and Ted's Adventure"

5. Overstate; make something better thanit is

6. More or better than normal

7. Test or quiz

8. Process to discover something unknown

9. Facial movement that reveals thoughts

10. Minimize; apologize

11. Second book of the Old Testament

12. Costly; high priced

13. Prolonged banishment

14. Precise; accurate

15. King Arthur's sword

16. E.T. is one; alien being

17. Enlarge; grow

18. Great fatigue or weariness

19. Highway for high-speed traffic

20. One who carries out death penalty

21. To send goods from one country toanother

22. Not an introvert

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Using the definitions listed below, identify these words that beginwith QU.

1. Wet, boggy ground QU

2. A group of four QU

3. Bedcover stitched in patterns QU

4. Sound a duck makes QU

5. Shake; tremble QU6. Not noisy; hushed QU

7. Angry dispute OU8. Wet, deep sand deposit QU

9. Most powerful chess piece QU10. State of uncertainty; dilemma QU

11. Society of Friends member QU12. Imposed isolation QU

13. Small game bird QU

14. Stone or slate is excavated from this QU

15. Nazi collaborator; traitor QU

16. Drink deeply and heartily QU

17. Peculiarity QU18. Question; inquiry QU

19. Line up QU

20. Pleasingly odd and old-fashioned QU

21. Subdue;allay QU

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23. Yellowish apple-shaped fruit QU

24. Football team leader QU

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2. Thin, crisp cracker WA

3. Apple, celery, and walnut mixture WA

4. Carry or propel lightly WA

5. Female who serves restaurant patrons WA

6. Four-wheeled vehicle WA

7. Child without home or friends WA

8. Massive sea animal of the seal family WA

9. Small kangaroo WA

10. Roundish nut with two-lobed shell WA

11. Unchaste; lewd WA

12. Person looking on at a dance WA

13. Yellow substance secreted by bees WA

14. Fleshy flap of skin hanging from throat WA

15. Person's supply of clothes WA16. Frame with ridged metal used for

cleaning WA

17. Sing like a bird WA

18. Path taken by North American Indianson warlike expedition WA

19. First U.S. president WA

20. Sorcerer; wizard WA

21. Longing or urge to travel WA

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Using the definitions listed below, identify these words that beginwith SH.

1. Darkness cast upon a surface SH

2. Frozen watered fruit juice and sugar SH

3. English dramatist and poet; bard of Avon SH

4. Onionlike plant used for flavoring SH

5. Person who uses unethical or trickymethods SH

6. Fragment; broken piece SH

7. Cloth used to wrap corpse for burial SH

8. Neglect; evade an obligation SH

9. Shell fragments scattered by explosion SH

10. Fraud; imitation or counterfeit SH

11. Tomb of saint or revered person SH

12. British silver coin SH

13. Gesture indicating indifference SH

14. County's chief law enforcement officer SH

15. Plant; bush SH

16. Bunch of cut stalks of grain SH

17. Young pig SH

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THE REAL McCOY

The men were in the den sipping coffee or root beer. Dr.J. L. Quicksolve had invited several friends for dinner.Since Benjamin Clayborn Blowhard was making his neston Sergeant Rebekah Shurshot's couch for the week, hewas also invited. As usual, Blowhard was doing the talk-ing-this time about his ancestors.

"The men on my father's side were nomadic adven-turers like I am," he said. He had spoken of that side ofhis family before. According to him, his family spreadacross the globe, meeting and aiding, instructing, or en-couraging more famous people than are found in a seriesof John Jakes novels.

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Dr. Quicksolve almost choked on his coffee. He sat next toJunior, who smiled and winked knowingly. Captain Reelumin, Lieu-tenant Rootumont, and Fred Fraudstop listened attentively. Fredwas hoping for the chance to talk about his ancestors. His chanceswere slim. Blowhard seemed to have an endless supply of air andcontinued talking without the usual necessity of taking a breath.

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Itwas Benjamin Clayborn Blowhard's last night in town. He wouldbe off to "the East" in the morning. For "government reasons" hecould not say exactly where he was going. Also "for governmentreasons" he could not say what he did for the government.

Sergeant Rebekah Shurshot had invited Blowhard and Dr.Quicksolve out to dinner. Dr. Quicksolve reluctantly accepted, toavoid hurting her feelings. As they listened to the end of another ofBlowhard's stories, Rebekah said, "You certainly are a man of ad-

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"He drew his Colt 45s and shot the gun out of the bad guy'shand. They both mounted their horses, and the chase began. Great-great-grandfather caught up with the killer and dove out of hissaddle, bringing the man down off his horse and to the ground.The fistfight lasted 20 minutes before that outlaw gave up becausehe just could not swing his arms any more. Both his eyes were soswollen from receiving punches that he could not see what hewas swinging at!"

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The snowing had just begun, but the bitter winter wind forced Dr.* J. L. Quicksolve to grab his hat with one hand and hold his collar

closed with the other as he got out of his VW Beetle and walkedpast the ice-frosted car in the driveway. He walked carefully upthe icy steps to the door of the house.

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said as he took off his coat. Miss Forkton took his coat and laid iton top of her own fur coat on a chair next to the phone table.

"Well, I just got home a few minutes ago. When I came in thedoor and saw my safe open," she said, pointing to an open wallsafe, "I went straight to the phone and called you. I am glad youcould get here so fast."

"Yes, we may have a hot trail for such a cold night," Quicksolvemused.

"I had a fortune in jewels stolen, Dr. Quicksolve. I don't thinkthis is a good time for jokes!" she said.

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It was not the first time Dr. J. L. Quicksolve had received a threat-ening leter. This one, though, seemed a litle more menacing thanthe usual prank. It contained a small piece of plastic that was a bitof casing from a cylinder of dynamite.

Dr. Quicksolve had taken steps to protect himself. He left hisVW Beetle parked on the street as a temptation for the would-bebomber. He set up a video camera in his upstairs window to watchhis car through the night and keep a taped record.

Others were watching too. Sergeant Rebekah Shurshot drovethe unmarked police car through the dark neighborhood. OfficerLongarm sat beside her. They were going to drive by Dr.Quicksolve's house "just to see if anything looked suspicious."They knew about the threat and were worried about their friend.

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* "Let's check this out," Sergeant Shurshot said, pulling up infront of the parked car.

* She approached the driver's door. Officer Longarm wentaround to the other side. The driver's window came down. The"smiling, mustached driver spoke. "Hi. We're lost, and we stoppedto look at our map," he said, holding a map up to prove his point."Could you help us out?"

"Sergeant Shurshot was not smiling when she said, "Please getout of the car slowly with your hands up."ddThe two men looked at the officers and their drawn guns anddid what they were told.

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Dr. J. L. Quicksolve got out of his car. He pulled his hat downtighter on his head to avoid losing it to the icy wind on anothersnowy winter morning. He walked between the two police cars tothe front door of Plunger and Snake's Plumbing Supplies. He pulledthe front door open and walked in.

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"Did he take anything?" Lieutenant Rootumout asked."I don't know. We don't keep any money here overnight, if

that is what you mean. Maybe that is why he killed Stan-becausehe could not give him any money. The killer would not know oursecretary, Miss Supplewrist, takes the day's earnings to the bankafter we close. She brings money for petty cash when she comesto work every morning. She has not come in yet today," Mr. Plungerexplained, giving his mustache a final tug.

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"We can check the bikes at school," Junior said as he pushedhis bike down the sidewalk beside Shortstop.

Prissy Powers, the cutest girl on the cheerleading squad, wasstanding by the long row of bikes behind the school. "Hi, Junior.

* Hi, Shortstop. How come you're walking?"* "My bike was stolen yesterday," Shortstop said.* "I think we'll find it," Junior said confidently as he walked

down the long row of bikes, stroking the crossbar of the first one ofmany that looked like Shortstop's.

* "But there are so many that are just alike, even yours," Prissysaid to Junior.

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"The ringmaster insisted Claude Viciously use that new lion in his

act because he was so big and aggressive-a crowd pleaser," Mrs.* Viciously told Dr. J. L. Quicksolve as they sat in her trailer discuss-

ing her husband's death. "The lion wasn't trained. Claude wasafraid of him. Claude hadn't been afraid in years, but this scaredhim. He sat right there, barely two hours ago at breakfast, anddecided he wouldn't go in with the new lion unless he had his gunloaded. He was always proud that he could work with the big catswithout even the blank pistol some

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"I should not have insisted he use that new lion," the ringmas-ter said, clearly shaken by the death.

* Lieutenant Rootumout held up a clear plastic bag as Dr.Quicksolve approached. It contained a large revolver. "It's empty,"he said to Dr. Quicksolve.

"I can't believe he forgot the bullets," Stretch Prettitight said.* "He was afraid of that lion."* Dr. Quicksolve bent down and lifted the edge of the blanket

to look at the body. "Looks like murder," he said.* "Lions can't be charged with murder," Stretch scoffed.* "You can," Dr. Quicklove replied.

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S"_1 T really is a shame to T - - around and feel that life is over

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2 "oxY",

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5 "AZI"

A score of 10 is terrific; 12, great; 15, tops!

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6 "OQU"

A score of 8 is par; 10, a birdie; 14, an eagle!

baroque, coquette, coquille, coquina, coquito, croquet, croquette, croquinole,eloquent, hydroquinone, loquacious, loquat, moquette, roque, roquelaure, toque

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* Locating 6 words is fantastic; 7, stupendous; 8, absolutely colossal!

* alpha, alphabet, alphanumeric, alphosis, delphinium, dolphin, phenolphthalein,* ralph, sulphur, sylph, telpher* 9 "EME"

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Dr.Quicksolve wanted to talk to the cousin from North Dakota because he hadalready eliminated the niece. The deceased, an only child and a bachelor, couldnot have a niece.

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Junior thinks Homer should not be trusted because he sells counterfeit baseballcards. Mickey Mantle played for the Yankees in 1951, so there cannot be a 1953rookie card.

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Sergeant Shurshot believes Holly took the money. She thinks Holly made up aquick alibi because no one with a cat in the house would leave unwrapped fishon the counter.

TELEPHONE RING

He expected to see a phone or credit card number on the pad that would matchthe number belonging to the man in the jacket. Dr. Quicksolve knew that thievesstand around open phones to listen while people say their card numbers into thephone. Then these criminals use the numbers to make calls or charge things. Thistime, the crook did not get away.

BEN BOINKT

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* CLAUDE VICIOUSLY

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* 2 "FAVORITE"* (4 letters)* aver, fair, fare, fate, fear, feat, feta, fiat, fire, five, fore, fort, frat, iota, over, rate,* rave, reft, rife, rift, riot, rite, rive, rota, rote, rove, tare, taro, tear, tier, tire, tiro, tore,* trio, vert, veto, vote

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* 3 "BETROTHAL"* (4 letters)* abet, able, alto, bale, bare, bate, bath, bear, beat, belt, beta, blat, blot, boar, boat,* bola, bolt, bone, bore, both, brat, earl, hale, halo, halt, hart, heal, hear, heat, herb,• hero, hoar, hoer, hole, hora, late, lath, lobe, lore, oath, oral, rale, rate, real, robe,• role, rota, rote, tale, teal, that, tole, tort, tote, tret, trot

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* (8 letters)* polarity

* 7 "HISTORICAL"

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* (5 letters)* actor, ascot, chart, chili, choir, clash, cloth, coast, coral, crash, hoist, latch, loath,* loris, ratio, roach, roast, salic, shirt, shoat, short, sloth, stoic, torch, trail, trash,* trial, triol S

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* (7 letters)* cartoon, conceit, concern, concert, connect, connote, contact, contain, content, 5

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* (11 letters)* contraction

* 9 "XYLOPHONE"* (4 letters)* help, hole, holp, holy, hone, hood, hope, hypo, lone, loon, loop, lope, lynx, nope,* only, onyx, open, oxen, peon, ploy, pole, polo, pone, pony, pooh, pool

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* wish, wisp

* (5 letters)* gripe, hinge, pries, prise, reign, resin, rinse, ripen, risen, shine, shire, shrew, sinew,* singe, spine, spire, sprig, swine, swing, weigh, whine, wring

* (6 letters)* hewing, hiring, perish, resign, sewing, shiner, shrine, signer, singer, siring, spring,* whiner, wiping, wiring

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* (9 letters)* perishing

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* alit, alto, anil, anti, cant, capo, clan, clap, clip, clop, clot, coal, coat, coil, coin,* cola, colt, copt, icon, laic, lain, lint, lion, loan, loin, nail, opal, otic, pact, pail,* pant, pica, pint, pion, pita, plan, plat, plot, taco, tail, talc, toil, topi

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* (7 letters)* capitol, caption, initial, pinitol, politic, topical

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f• X Page references to solutions are in italics.

AAt the Mall, 87, 231At the Movies, 92, 233

BBand We'd Like to Hear, 97,

234Battleships.

See Solitaire BattleshipsBeachy-Keen, 146, 237Ben Again, 1 79-1 80, 229Ben Boinkt, 78-79, 228Betrothal, 104, 239By the Numbers, 152, 238

CCamp Sights, 99, 234Career Oriented, 193, 247Casual Dress, 148, 237Charles Darwin, Phone Home,

193,247Check This Out, 85, 231Circling the Bases, 90, 232Claude Viciously, 1 89-190, 229Clever Whodunits, 1 77-190,

229Coddled Coed, 74-75, 228Concentration, 109, 241

DDevelopment, 105, 240Dog and Cat Scan, 143, 236Dr. J. L. Quicksolve, 67

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FFather's Day, 86, 231Favorite, 103, 239Feeling Lucky, 140, 235Food for Thought, 194, 247"Fo-" puzzles, 161, 245

GGamester, 1 02, 239Getting Started, 84, 231Great Beginnings, 153-1 62, 244-

245Guess the Theme, 138, 142, 147,

235-237word list for, 230

HHard One to Follow, 194, 247Hinky Pinky, 100, 235Historical, 108, 241

IIn Deep Water, 195,247"In- " puzzles, 1 54, 244Inheritance, 70-71, 228It's About Time, 91, 232It's Elementary, 141, 236

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LLegend of Arthur, 139, 235Legend in His Own Mind, 192,

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M"Ma-" puzzles, 160, 245Mazes

More, 125-136, 224-227Tricky, 49-66, 220-224

Monopoly Game, 96, 234Murder Between Friends, 68-69,

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NNasturtium, 111,242"No-" puzzles, 162, 245

0Oh-Oh, 145,237

PPiece a Pizza, 95, 233Plunger and Snake, 185-186,

229"Po- " puzzles, 159, 244Politician, 113,243Popularity, 107, 240

Q"Qu- " puzzles, 156, 244

RReal McCoy, 1 77-1 78, 229Rest Is Up to You, 192, 247

SSay It Again, Sam, 163-1 65, 246School Supplies, 151,238"Sh--" puzzles, 158, 244Shortstop's Bike, 187-188, 229Simpsons, 89, 232Socks, 80-81, 229Solitaire Battleships

advanced strategy for, 33basic strategy for, 31Commodore, 166-176,

216-219Ensign, 114-124, 213-216Seaman, 30-48, 211-212

Star Wars, 144, 236Story Builders, 191-195, 247Strikeout, 72-73, 228Surfing the Web, 93, 233

TTake Five, 196-206, 248-252Telephone Ring, 76-77, 228Things That Spin, 98, 234Threat, 183-184, 229Tricky Mazes, 49-66, 220-224Tricky Trios, 5-12, 207-209

@"Wa-" puzzles, 157, 244What You See Is What You Get,

192,247Whispering, 112, 243Who Are We to Judge, 194, 247

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Pencil in time for these challenging puzzles!Sharpen your pencil and your wits as you work on all kinds of mindstumpers. Here's what's in store:

*Join famed Professor of Criminology Dr.J.L. Quicksolve and his son Juniorin solving devious crimes. Each whodunit puzzle includes clues, butyou'll need to think like a detective to crack the case.

*Do you belong in the dictionary hall of fame? See if you're up to the testwith these word games. Come up with all the words you can think of

/ with a certain three-letter sequence, and more!

*Maneuver your way through some of the most tricky and detailed mazesyou'll ever see. Don't worry if you hit a dead end--the answers are easyto look up!

*Let the ships sink where they may in solitaire battleship puzzles. Insidean "ocean," represented by a grid, a fleet containing one battleship, twocruisers, three destroyers, and four submarines waits.The ships can moveeither horizontally or vertically--but they never occupy adjacentsquares. Most of the puzzles start you off by revealing the contents of a

-~ few squares.Then, using the number hints and the given ship segments,you can figure out where the entire enemy fleet is and destroy it.

*If you know about movies, monopoly, and other subjects,K'prove it with fun word search puzzles. Look for the hidden

words that are written left to right, right to left, up, down,and diagonally.

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