2022-10-01 Reader's Digest Canada

Number Maze 253331
Medium In this maze, start at

the 2 in the top-left corner and 424445

move horizontally or vertically

(but never diagonally) to reach

the star in the bottom-right

5 2 4 4 2 1corner. At each move, travel the

same number of squares as the

number in the cell you are 213143
currently on. Since you are

starting on a cell containing

2, your next move is either 523224
two squares to the right or two

squares down. The next move

will be based on your new cell’s

4 2 3 5 4 +number. Can you find the
correct path?

NUMBER MAZE BY FRASER SIMPSON; CRYPTOGRAM: SCARY STUFF BY BARB OLSON Cryptogram: Scary Stuff
Difficult In this random substitution cipher, each letter in the phrase has been
replaced by a different letter. Try to decode the message!

——— ——————— ——— ————
A T F I G L Q F L M P C K K WM A

—— ——— ————— ——— ———
Y C A T F F GWM F P N F C G Q

—————————
T P B BGQF F C

———————————
K F I GNP A Y GCM

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TRIVIA 11. With English, Tok
Pisin and Hiri Motu as
BY Beth Shillibeer official languages, what
Oceanic country is the
most linguistically
diverse in the world?

1. Sheryl Crow, Sting 6. What kind of measur- 12. Some children use
and Gene Simmons all ing device might make coloured buckets when
had what job before use of sand, shadows, trick-or-treating to sig-
becoming celebrities? candles and hands? nify particular needs.
What does a teal bucket
2. A group of music 7. The Exorcist was the first indicate?
experts and computer horror film to be nomi-
scientists finally com- nated for Best Picture at 13. What does the
pleted Beethoven’s unfin- the Oscars, but which imaginary Wallace Line,
ished 10th symphony was the first to win? located in the Indonesian
using what tool? Archipelago, separate?
8. After a nine-year career
3. What Thanksgiving as leader of roughly 14. Match, Team and
centrepiece was once 80,000 men, Ching Shih Twilight are races in what
worshipped as a god in retired from what occu- sport?
Mayan culture? pation in 1810?

4. What is the only 9. Which two countries 15. Which famous ISTOCK.COM/LJUPCO
land mammal native to have a smaller land area magician, who died on
New Zealand? than New York City’s October 31, 1926, was
Central Park? born Erik Weisz?
5. Known as the Trem-
bling Giant, what is the 10. The Greek national
oldest and largest known anthem is based on
organism on earth, cover- which 158-verse poem
ing over 100 acres? by Dionysios Solomos?

Answers: 1. Teacher. 2. Artificial intelligence. 3. Turkey. 4. Bats. 5. The Pando Aspen clone in
Utah. 6. A clock. 7. The Silence of the Lambs. 8. Piracy. 9. Vatican City and Monaco. 10. “Hymn to
Liberty.” 11. Papua New Guinea. 12. Food allergies. 13. Asian and Australasian fauna. 14. Sailing.
15. Harry Houdini.

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WORD POWER

As nights lengthen and a chill sets in, C: something that signals
the time is ripe to share scary stories. a future event.
Create a spooky atmosphere with these
10. phantasm—
words—if you dare! A: illusion or ghost.
B: malicious spirit.
BY Samantha Rideout C: misguided wish.

1. grimoire— leader. C: headless horse- 11. eldritch—
A: cup made from a skull. man of Irish folklore. A: weird and frightening.
B: book of magic spells. B: ancient. C: in disrepair.
C: haunted wardrobe. 6. shroud—
A: mummy’s coffin. 12. caliginous—
2. curdle— B: burial cloth. C: seem- A: dark and misty.
A: turn mouldy. B: bleed. ingly bottomless pit. B: zombified.
C: separate into lumps. C: causing spine tingles.
7. baleful—
3. ephialtes— A: unnaturally pale. 13. astral—
A: madness. B: night- B: terrified and inconsol- A: fated. B: of a supposed
mare. C: clairvoyance. able. C: threatening evil. non-physical realm of
existence. C: taking place
at nighttime.

4. Samhain— 8. dirge— 14. triskaidekaphobia—
A: pagan festival that A: mournful song. fear of A: curses.
evolved into Halloween. B: dagger used in rituals. B: the number 13.
B: mischievous entity C: werewolf in a human C: coincidences.
that inhabits dolls. C: for- state.
mal gathering of witches. 15. revenant—
9. harbinger— A: witch’s pet black cat.
5. dullahan— A: decorative tombstone B: eerie sense of déjà vu.
A: type of demon found statue. B: obsessive hor- C: person returned from
in the Bible. B: vampire ror-movie fan. the dead.

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WORD POWER 6. shroud—B: burial caliginous evening, it was
ANSWERS cloth; as, The figure wore easy for Marlo to lose his
a shroud and had no skin way in the woods.
1. grimoire—B: book of on its legs.
magic spells; as, The 13. astral—B: of a sup-
dusty grimoire contained 7. baleful—C: threaten- posed non-physical realm
an incantation for reveal- ing evil; as, The vampire’s of existence; as, The clair-
ing any unseen spirits in baleful eyes settled on the voyant said she would
the room. neck of her next victim. create a bridge between
the seance participants
2. curdle—C: separate 8. dirge—A: mournful and the astral plane.
into lumps; as, Jamille song; as, A dirge sounded
interviewed village elders from the organ, but there 14. triskaidekaphobia—
in the hopes of collecting was no player in sight. fear of: B: the number 13;
some blood-curdling local as, Kia’s triskaidekaphobia
ghost stories. 9. harbinger—C: some- had her on edge on the
thing that signals a future 13th of each month.
3. ephialtes—B: night- event; as, Some consider
mare; as, Although Fadil’s sightings of the Moth- 15. revenant—C: person
eyes were open, he was in man—a large, winged, returned from the dead;
the grips of an ephialtes. red-eyed creature—to be as, The revenant looked
harbingers of disaster. like a regular man except
4. Samhain—A: pagan for his unblinking eyes.
festival that evolved into 10. phantasm—A: illu-
Halloween; as, Ancient sion or ghost; as, A phan- CROSSWORD
Celts believed other- tasm appeared on the ANSWERS
worldly beings could pass waves when the fog took
into this dimension the shape of a sailing ship. FROM PAGE 104
during Samhain.
11. eldritch—A: weird HABS J US T I N
5. dullahan—C: headless and frightening; as, It was
horseman of Irish folklore; impossible to pinpoint AB L E ANYONE
as, Legend has it that if the the source of the eldritch
dullahan pauses his ride cackling heard through- S H AWNM E N D E S
near a house, somebody out the house.
there will die. TOR SO COR T
12. caliginous—A: dark
and misty; as, On that OR E HONE S T

SOL I D

MC EWE N OHO

BAHT J UNOS

ALESS I ACARA

B I EBER L I NK

YAKYAK AREA

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BRAINTEASERS SUDOKU
ANSWERS

FROM PAGE 98 BY Jeff Widderich

IN-TILE-IGENCE Test 5 97
The purple “N” shape. 35

One Too Many Cooks 81 69
Yuta made the gravy. 4
Emilio made the corn- 17
bread. Divya made the 3 2
mac and cheese. Jasmine 98
made the mashed pota- 1
toes. Larry made the 48
green bean casserole, so 9
that is the dish you’ll
want to avoid. SOLUTION

Number Maze 84 625839714
The correct sequence of 95 819247635
moves is: down 2, right 5, 473156892
left 1, down 2, left 2, up 3, 46 567381429
down 4, right 3. 298564173
To Solve This Puzzle 341972586
253331 782495361
424445 Put a number from 1 to 9 in 956713248
524421 each empty square so that: 134628957
213143
523224 ) every horizontal row and
4 2 3 5 4+ vertical column contains all
nine numbers (1-9) without
Cryptogram: Scary repeating any of them;
Stuff
THE COBWEBS AND ) each of the outlined 3 x 3
DUST IN THE HOUSE ARE boxes has all nine numbers,
NOW HALLOWEEN none repeated.
DECORATIONS.

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CROSSWORD

Top of the Pops

BY Derek Bowman

1 234 5 6 7 8 9 10 30 *“Scars to Your Beauti-
ful” singer-songwriter
11 12
33 See 5-Across
13 14 34 Join in a network
35 Blah blah
15 16 36 Field of expertise

17 18 19 20 DOWN
1 Simply must
21 2 Really detest
3 Trumpet sound
22 23 24 25 26 4 Works with a needle
5 Copier concern
27 28 29 6 Encore ___ fois
7 Coordinated
30 31 32 8 Tasks
9 Chemically non-reactive
33 34
10 Hatchling’s home
35 36 14 “No way ___!”
19 Grand ___ Opry
ACROSS based in Korea 20 Quiet assassin
1 Rivals of the Leafs 17 Mineral deposit 21 Puts aside for later
5 *With 33-Across, singer 18 Plain-spoken 22 Sasha Obama’s sister
with a Tim Hortons deal 21 Like a rock 23 Rosy part of the face
22 Mike or Dawn of curling 24 Broadcasting
11 Competent 24 “What have we here?” 25 Singer Lena or Marilyn
12 Nobody specific 27 Thai currency 26 Japanese port city
13 *He voices Lyle in Lyle, 28 Awards granted in recent 27 “___ Shark” (kids’ tune)
29 Sch. near Beverly Hills
Lyle Crocodile years to the clues with 31 Beaufort or Bering
15 Sculpted middle asterisks 32 Rub the wrong way
16 Major guitar maker
For answers, turn to PAGE 102

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