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PENCIL PUZZLES, PART 2 Mazes Mazes are like word finds without the literacy requirement. The question with your basic maze is not whether you have the keen insight and raw pulsating intelligence to get to the end, it's whether you're going to be able to fend off sleep and the distractions of cable television. The proof of this is that there are a number of screen savers available that create mazes. Any puzzle created by an idling computer isn't worth completing. D Crostics These are the little puzzles where you answer questions, enter letters into a numbered grid, and end up with a quote that's usually from Winston Churchill or Harlan Ellison. These just seemed like too much work to me. Once I come up with an answer to a clue, I'm done. My directive is complete. If I were a cigar-smoking, bevested capitalist from a forties-era political cartoon, I'd have underpaid, possibly illegal servants to cross-enter my clues. But, against all reason, I'm not. C+ Picture Find These are those "Can you find a picture of a duck, a violin, Warren G. Harding, and a collection of Grateful Dead bootleg tapes in this picture of a boy at a fishing hole?" puzzles. My main problem with them is too much imagination. You can find Warren G. Harding's face in a bowl of Dinty Moore beef stew if you look hard enough. And vice versa. So it wasn't a matter of finding a violin. It was finding the violin the man wants you to find. C Jumble After a couple dozen Jumbles, thirty tops, you start to develop an eerie sixth sense for what the belabored pun at the end is going to be. Of course the twin buglars are a PAIR of "SNEAKERS," and the angry man from Copenhagen is a CHEESED DANISH. You don't even need to unscramble DORIEP to find out. And after another six or ten you just don't care. C- Which is Different? As far as I'm concerned, if two cowboys are dressed exactly alike except for the shape of their spurs, it's close enough. I don't feel it's my place to criticize people in period garb for minor inconsistencies. I went through enough of that the one time I went to a Rennaisance Fair, I don't wish it on anyone else, even cartoony cowboy sextuplets. C
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