Railroading games have been popular from the early days of PC gaming. Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon is the granddaddy of the genre, but it’s Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon—which merged road, rail, air, and water networks—that developed a cult following. Revived …
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Below are four lists of related words and phrases that have been translated into simple cipher alphabets. The letter substitutions remain constant within any one group of words (for instance, if V represents G in one
Packed with puzzles, brimming with brainteasers, chock-full of challenges—this issue truly has something for every puzzle fan. We’ve got a feeling you’ll welcome this news, especially if the February doldrums are setting in. A host of puzzles, from the visual …
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Fresh from winning the prestigious Spiel des Jahres Game of the Year for Codenames, Czech Games Edition has reinvented its signature title as Codenames: Pictures—and improved it in the process.
The basics of the two games remain largely the same. …
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Greek gods and goddesses
Synonyms for “look at”
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.
As we kick off a new year with this issue of GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES, we look forward to bringing you a variety of cerebral challenges in 2017. And you have something to look forward to if you’ve got a …
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Every cryptic clue has two parts: a definition of the answer and an indication of the answer’s literal makeup through wordplay. Either half may come first, but there will always be a point at which the clue can be divided
