KIDS BIG BOOK OF GAMES

5After you solve this crossword, find the one BIG BAD TOUGHIES • 153
letter that can go in the center square to form
nine-letter words reading across and down. 6Color in the shapes with dots in them to re-
veal a letter. The letter may be upper or lower
case, and turned in any direction.

ACROSS DOWN

1 Room for a sheik's 1 Possessed 7Answer the clues and put the answers on the
wives 2 Honest (Lincoln) numbered dashes. Then, fill in the blanks
3 Burglarize below the clues, transferring each letter to the
6 Taxi 4 Fit for eating blank above its number, to discover a sentence
9 Dwelling place 5 Measure (out) that will reveal the answer letter.
10 Ginger (soft 6 Prickly desert 1. The highest temperature

drink) plants
11 Negative item on an 7 Creature from outer

accounting sheet space
12 102, in Roman 8 Human (person)
14 Tarzan, the : 2
numerals
13 All whipped up, as words
15 Makes progress
eggs 16 in the bucket
15 Nerve
18 -pong (table (insignificant
amount): 2 words
tennis) 17 apso (small
19 Stick (to) terrier)
21 Money put away 20 Religious ceremony
23 Likely
for retirement: 24 -whiz!
Abbr. 25 Make aboo-boo
22 Spitting (exact
likeness)
26 Opposite of yeses
27 Narrow to a point
28 Health resort
29 Use a door marked
"in" I F I F I F I F ~24 "TF ~"F~

2. Excess

' 31 6 1 19 25

3. Dr. Seuss's Butter _ Book

I F "IT TT I F I F ~T~

4. Incisors and molars

7 15 3 12 23

5. Autumn

21 29 10 14

6. It can be touch-tone or rotary

I F T ~~9~ ~T~ Is

~T ~2 3~ ~ ~5~ ~~6~ ~T~ ~S~ ~9~

"To" TT "IF I T l 4 ~ i r i 6 " T r i 8 " l 9 " 15" 21

I F I T 15" l F ! 6 " ! T ! F ! < r i o " ~ 3 T l F

Final answer:



156 • ALL THE ANSWERS

10 SOUNDING OFF 13 HIDE AND PEEK 16 CHAIR AND CHAIR
1. KAPWEEEE! BLIP! BLIP! 1. Four kids were hiding. ALIKE
2. Junior was holding a cookie
ZZAP! 1. B (director, director's chair)
2. KTCH SPSSSSH! from the plate on the table. 2. F (baby, high chair)
3. CRINCH CRUNCH CRINCH 3. There were two giraffes on 3. D (moviegoer, theater seat)
4. dzzzt! dzzzt! dzzzt! 4. C (woman with new hairdo,
5. SPLAT! the mantelpiece.
6. AAKTSHOO!! 4. Tennis and baseball (or soft- beauty parlor seat)
7. BIPPITA BOPPITA BIPPITA 5.1 (airline passenger, airplane
ball)
BOPPITA 5. A pair of slippers seat)
8. GLUGG GLUGG GLUGG 6. 6. G (old woman, rocking chair)
9. SPLOOSH! 7. A (king, throne)
8. H (student, school chair)
11 MATCH-UP 1 9. J (man drinking ice cream
Music groups B and F are alike.
The places where the others are soda, ice cream parlor bar
different are circled below. stool)
10. E (lifeguard, lifeguard's chair)

18 TRIANGLE
TANGLE 1

14 EYEBALL BENDERS
1. Water pistol
2. Domino
3. Jacks
4. Cabbage Patch doll
5. Checker on checkerboard

15 MATCH-UP 2
Gremlins C and E are exactly
alike.

CONNECT-THE-DOTS

19 HIGHWAY MAZE

20 S IS FOR SATURDAY ALL THE ANSWERS * 157] H
We found 44 things beginning
with S in the picture. How about 26 F IS FOR FARM
you? We found 48 things beginning
with F in the picture. How about
Sailboat, sailor, sandal, sand- you?
wich, scarf, scout, see-saw,
Seven-up, sheriff, shirts, shoes, Faces, falcon (on weather-
shorts, shoulders, skateboard, vane), family, fan, farm, farmer,
skates, skis, sky, skyline (and father, faucet, fawn, feather,
skyscrapers), smiles, snail, fence, fender,! fern,fields,fin(on
sneakers, soccer ball, socks, fish),fingers,fire,firtrees, fish,
soda, soldier, sombrero, spoon, fisherman, fist, five (on mailbox),
spot (on dog), squirrel, stairs, flag, flame, flashlight, flowers,
star, statue, steps, stickers (on flies, foal, food, foot, football,
suitcase), straw, strings (on Ford, forelegs, forehead, forest,
guitar), stripe (on shirt), stroller, fork, forklift, fox, frame, frank-
suitcase, sun, sunglasses, furter, Franklin stove, freezer,
suspenders, swings, sword. fringe (on jacket), Frisbee, frog,
fruit, fur (on animals), furniture.
21 MIXTURE PICTURES
1. dart cart
2. bear chair
3. car jar
4. corn horn
5. bread bed
6. tail pail
7. hose nose
8. snail scale
9. lamp stamp

158 • ALL THE ANSWERS

24 HATS OFF! 10. The footprints in the sand 30 MATCH-UP 3
The correct matches are as trap are too large. B and E are exactly alike.
follows: A-6 (fireman, farmer);
B-8 (clown, nurse); C-5 (baseball 11. The woman is hitting a 32 J IS FOR JUNIOR'S
player, miner); D-7 (graduate, bowling ball. ROOM
lumberjack); E-4 (chef, snake
charmer); F-2 (sailor, magician); 12. There is a 19th hole. We found 28 items beginning
G-l (astronaut, cowboy); H-3 13. The man is putting with a with J in the picture. How about
(king, boy). you?
baseball bat.
27 TRIANGLE TANGLE 2 14. A squirrel is golfing. Jacks, jacket, jack-in-the-box,
29 CONNECT-THE-DOTS 3 jackknife, jack-o-lantern, jack
rabbit, January, Japan, jar,
javelin, Jaws (the movie on TV),
jeans, jeep, jelly beans, jellyfish,
jet, jewelry, jigsaw puzzle,
jockey, joke book, joker, Jolly
Roger, joy stick, jug, juice, juke-
box, jump rope, Junior himself
(who is a juvenile and has a jaw,
if you want to be very complete).

28 WHAT'S WRONG? 1 In order, the pictures are: apple, 33 MIDNIGHT MUNCHIES
We found 14 errors: baseball, camel, die, elephant, The yogurt, gouda cheese,
frog, giraffe, hat, igloo, judge, salami, grapes, chicken, orange,
1. Two trees are growing kangaroo, leaf, magician, note, and raisins are in the refrigera-
together. octopus, pencil, queen, robot, tor. The apple juice, bagel, and
scissors, turtle, umbrella, vest, banana are not.
2. There is a snowplow shovel watch, xylophone, yo-yo, and
on the golf cart. zebra. 34 HEY DIDDLE RIDDLE
31 BACK TO SCHOOL Why does a hen lay an egg?
3. There is a traffic light on Because she can't lay a brick.
the course.
35 WHAT'S WRONG? 2
4. The man is swinging with We found 11 errors:
two clubs.
1. The hammock is attached to
5. There is a miniature golf a tree that is too far away.
windmill on the green.
2. The bird feeder is coin-
6. The tee and the green for operated.
the 13th hole are next to
each other. 3. The chef's apron says "St.
Louis Yankees" (the Yankees
7. The man's reflection in the are in New York).
pond is backward.
4. The chef is using a shovel
8. There is a diving board by on the grill.
the pond.
5. The badminton net is a
9. There is a pail and shovel in spider's web.
the sand trap.
6. The girl is using a fly swat-
ter as a racket.

7. The suntan lotion is labeled
"cooking oil."

ALL THE ANSWERS * 1591 B

8. The boy has on a shirt with 39 P IS FOR PET SHOP 40 CLASSROOM CAPER
one long sleeve and one We found 35 things beginning We found 13 errors:
short one. with P in the picture. How abou
you? 1. The addition on the black-
9. The title of the woman's board is incorrect.
book is written as a mirror Pad (of paper), paddle, pail,
image. palm trees, panda, pants, paper- 2. The United States map is
weight, parachute, parents, upside down.
10. There is no back support on parka, parrot, party hat, paw
the lounge chair. prints, peanuts, pear, pearl, 3. The teacher is pointing with
pebbles (at bottoms of aquari- an umbrella.
11. The front right table leg ums), pencil, penguin, perch,
goes behind the bar connect- pirate ship, piggy bank, plaid 4. The S and the T in the al-
ing the left and right legs. (hat), plants (in tanks), polka phabet banner are reversed.
dots (on boy's shirt), pompom
36 HEADS OR TAILS? (on panda's hat), ponytail, poo- 5. The clock has two minute
1-E, rooster; 2-A, alligator; 3-D, dle, popsicle, poster, price tag, hands.
beaver; 4-J, pig; 5-F, lobster; 6-1, puppies, purse (or pocketbook),
walrus; 7-H, rabbit; 8-B, poodle; pussycat, pyramid. 6. The teacher's chair has only
9-C, raccoon; 10-G, lizard. three legs.

7. The boy at the front of the
room is sharpening a pen.

8. The teacher is wearing two
different types of shoes.

9. The desk in the middle of
the front row has a table
setting on it.

10. The desk on the right in the,
front row has an animal foot
as a leg.

11. The boy on the left in the
back row is facing the wrong
way.

12. The middle desk in the back
row has a phone on it.

13. The book on the desk at the
right in the back row opens
the wrong way.

160 • ALL THE ANSWERS

44 CIS FOR CIRCUS
We found 39 things beginning
with C in the picture. How about
you?

Calliope, camel, can, cannon,
cannonballs, canopy, cape, car,
carrot, cartwheel, cat, chair,
checkers (on clown costume),
chimpanzees, chins, cigar, circles
(on cushion), circus, cloak,
clowns, clouds (of dust), coat,
collar, collie, colt, concession
stand (the snack bar), cone (on
clown's hat), confetti, cord, cos-
tume, cotton candy, cowboy,
crank (on car), cream pie, crepe
paper, riding crop, crowd, crown,
and cushions.

43 WHAT'S WRONG? 3 47 TRIANGLE TANGLE 3

Wefound16 errors: 9. There is a manhole cover on
1. The rope from the tire is not the ground.
attached to the tree. 10. The boy on the bench has a
2. Two different types of fruit pot on his head.
are growing on the tree. 11. The bench is missing a leg
3. The tent has a chimney. (where the boy is sitting).
4. The tent has a glass window. 12. The toaster is electric, and
5. One mountain, between two not plugged in.
others with snow caps, does 13. The flame in the lamp is
not have snow at its peak. upside down.
6. A pencil is being used as a 14. The boy by the fire is toast-
tent stake. ing a baseball.
7. The bear has sunglasses on. 15. The boy by the fire is wear-
8. The water pump has a ing winter clothes.
shower head. 16. A bird is coming out of a
hole in the ground.

ALL THE ANSWERS * 161

51 ICE TEASE

1. Junior was by the concession
stand
2. two hours
3. clockwise
4. "No Hockey"
5. coffee, cocoa, and tea (give
credit for any two)

6. a star ^^^s

52 MATCH-UP 4
Snowmen A and E are exactly
alike.

48 FEET FIRST
1. Zebra
2. Elephant
3. Cow
4. Cat
5. Tortoise
6. Flamingo
7. Ostrich
8. Dog
9. Tiger
10. Camel
11. Giraffe
12. Horse

50 ASSEMBLY LINE
1-C; 2-B; 3-D; 4-B; 5-B; 6-C

162 • ALL THE ANSWERS

54 STRANGE 60 SPELLING BEEHIVE 62 DISABLED VEHICLES
HAPPENINGS Here's our list of words of at 1. AUTOMOBILE
leastfiveletters. You may have 2. BOAT
1. H (fruit bowl) found others. 3. CANOE
2. G (nail file) 4. MOPED
3. B (ski jump) 5 letters: foils, folio, honey, 5 SHIP
4. E (picket fence) lofty, often, olive, phone, 6. SUBMARINE
5. C (comic strip) silos, solve, sonar, tenet 7. TAXI
6. D (square dance) 8. TRACTOR
7. F (home run) 6 letters: folios, phoney, soften, 9. TRAM
8.1 (hat box) velvet, violet, vision 10. WAGON
9. A (bell hop)
8 letters: earphone, elephant 62 CAR QUIZ
56 WHOSE HUES? 9 letters: telephone 1. Card
When you are done coloring, 10 letters: television 2. Carol
you should see a parrot. 3. Cargo
60 PRESIDENTIAL 4. Carry
58 PICTURE DESSERTS 5. Carrot
CROSSWORD 1 6. Carpet
L 1NC 0 L N 7. Carton
M A C a|r 0 N 1 c|a N N 0 N W A S H 1 N G T 0 N| 8. Cartoon
0 A RS A0 A 9. Caramel
UC A L L 1G A T 0 R RE AG AN 10. Carnival
S A T u|r N A E E C C ARTER 11. Cardinal
E U G0 NG B H F O fi D 12. Carpenter
T U S K E_ D 0 g|h 0 u|s E KEN N E D Y
RE W0 E 63 CRISSCROSS
A T W S NEAKERS P0 LK PUZZLE 1
P 0|R T H 0 L E A E N I X0 N
C L E V E L A n|d|

The presidential dessert is
cherry pie.

61 RIDDLE SEARCH 1

L o A S S TUB
T h|r E A D H A T S E U
H C 0 C HA 1R
U S O m|b R E R 0 C G
M R S OUE
B A|C|0 N N E w|s P A P E R

The answer to the riddle is: RIEIC[RIEIATTH1
BECAUSE HE WANTED TO
PLAY BY EAR. 64 ON THE DOUBLE
The pairs are (in alphabetical
order): Bat, crane, file, glasses,
horn, pen, pitcher, plane, ruler,
and trunk.

ALL THE ANSWERS • 163

65 CROSSWORD FARM H 69 PICTURE
PUZZLE 1 ANIMALS CROSSWORD 2

•BBDBEiBBEB3DBESQDD DB•EBDHQQ30m B 1 R D B A T H d|e S ER T

AA0 1 NA

S T X E S K 1M0 T

K 1T T E N T W A|R T

E L R E C 0 r|d M 0

B•QBI•UDBM•IBODDDQ•BBSHDB•BSHEEDQ]3HDOBDBBIIDBQBDDDi BBHBBQHBQMBDBSUBQDHSIsHBBS] T REE C 0 BA N J 0

B S K E L e|t 0 N E

A L AE

L E M 0|N A D E s T A M P
N w
LA CA

T 1C K E T S T e|a R

A LN TABLE E

RA B B 1T S E 1 N o|o N
M 0 F O u n|t A N C

S 1X T E EN R A R|C H

66 FROM HOUSE TO
HOUSE

67 FILL-INS 1
FRUITS

71 SUM FUN
CHAIR + CAT + NUTS -
HAT - ANT = CIRCUS

68 COLLECTORS' ITEMS 71 PRESTO-CHANGO
A. 1. apple B. 1. train
HI 2. lemon 2. bus
3. grape 3. plane
4. orange 4. buggy
5. mango 5. boat
6. cherry 6. truck
7. melon 7. car
8. lime 8. ferry

164 • ALL THE ANSWERS

72 PET REBUSES 75 CRISSCROSS 77 ALPHABETICALLY
1. CANE + BAT - BEAN = PUZZLE 2
B R A 1N Y
CAT C HA NG E
2. DOLL + BAG - BALL =
DREA RY
DOG
3. FIST + SHOE - TOES = H0 B B L E
L 1Z A R D
FISH ME0WE D
4. HOSE + CAR - ACES + PARL0 R

SLIDE - LID = HORSE
5. HAIR + BANK - RAIN +

MONSTER - KNOB =
HAMSTER

73 CROSSWORD
PUZZLE 2

76 MIRROR MESSAGE
The correctly reflected letters
are circled below:

^&Afu\;pbL;jVGY;
1YIA)1'AVHX'1EFH/1R<ca0R M C 11-3 R 1P P E D
E R0 TA T E
T1l 1 S P 1R 1T
C b0 0 1 EV B M 0k L 0
E 11 V r0 K M V G
2

74 RIDDLE SEARCH 2 The silly palindromic sentence T 1C K E T
is, "SIT ON A POTATO PAN,
OTIS." The answer to the riddle is: IN
A BAWL PARK.
E c AXM) A N G O) 76 MIXED PAIRS

1. not, ton 78 CROSSWORD
2. how, who PUZZLE 3
3. cat, act
4. car, arc
5. tub, but
6. ash, has
7. saw, was
8. are, ear
9. mad, dam

Riddle answer: BECAUSE 77 NOW HEAR THIS
THEY'RE ALWAYS IN 1. go, toe, mow, slow, dough
BUNCHES. 2. lie, high, try, buy, dye
3. too, shoe, grew, blue,

kangaroo

ALL THE ANSWERS • 165

79 BODYBUILDING 82 CROSSWORD 85 RIDDLE SEARCH 4
PUZZLE 4

|W| I T B S HHE3 IS!L iAlPI

•EH BODS

H The answer to the riddle is:
THE PLYMOUTH ROCK
HfflHH S Q S D 0 0 1 1 86 RIDDLE ACROSTIC
•H •OoB h Q H D fmfliHMHuHm
80 RIDDLE SEARCH 3
•0
The answer to the riddle is: A B Q S Q HQHffl [ D B S
SUNBURNED ZEBRA
81 PICTURE •HUB DBBB BOB
8•3H UWBORDBWDHQEEBL H B O
CROSSWORD 3 FIX, FOX, BOX, BOW, COW,
COB, CAB, CAP, MAP, MOP,
TOP, TOE, TIE, PIE, PIN, FIN,
and back to FIX. (The order of
the words can also be reversed.)

84 PANHANDLING A. little G. hot
1. pane B. father H. best
2. panel C. hard I. watch
3. pansy D. messy J. house
4. panda E. eight K.dry
5. pants F. hood L. ten
6. Panama
7. pantry 87 CRISSCROSS
8. panther PUZZLE 3
9. pancake
10. pancreas p 0 | R T L | A| N D [D FB
11. pantomime HU E E L AS0
12. pandemonium 0L TN R1

84 HERE HEAR! E S P R0 V0 G S
1. threw, through N E|W A R K O E N|O M E_
2. bored, board 1 A 1R A
3. sealing, ceiling >t A|T L A N T A C C
4. guest, guessed EE B O S|T 0 N
5. scene, seen M 1AM 1 W NN
BG Y C WT
R 1 H M 0 N|D 0 M A H A
L R RC C
E Q|A K L|A(N D O 0
NM
T|R E N|T|dlNl A|U|G|U|S|T A

166 • ALL THE ANSWERS

88 PENCIL POINTERS 3 91 PUZZLING FILL-INS 94 PROVERBIAL
CONFUSION
buzz 9. sizzle
fizz 10. muzzle Pair#l
jazz 11. buzzard It's never too late to learn.
pizza 12. drizzle You can't teach an old dog new
dizzy 13. swizzle
fuzzy tricks.
7. frizzy 14. gri2zly Pair #2
8. nozzle Seek and you shall find.
15. blizzard Curiosity killed the cat.
Pair #3
91 BUMPER CROP Two heads are better than one.
The name reading down the Too many cooks spoil the broth.
columns is flower garden.
94 FILL-INS 2

89 AMONG THE 92 BUILD-A-WORD l.bark 7. Barbie
FLOWERS The new words are: pantry, 2. barn 8. barrier
pepper, gotten, carrot, mildew, 3. barge 9. bargain
1. day 10. comb notice, sacred, canyon, rather, 4. barber 10. barrette
2. vet 11. older and cotton. 5. barley 11. barracuda
3. mile 12. hint 6. barrel 12. barometer
4. owl 13. snoop 92 HORSING AROUND
5. maid 14. pint 95 RIDDLEGRAMS
6.pony 15. carton 1. A) Line B) Deer C) Vote
7. May 16. apron D)Card
8. hiss 17. anthem The answer to the riddle is:
9. bull CINDERELEVATOR.
2. A) Bag B) Train C) Rip
90 RIDDLE SEARCH 5 D) Near
The answer to the riddle is:
The bonus horse is Pegasus, GRAPE BRITAIN.
the winged horse of Greek
mythology. 96 SEEING THINGS
93 CROSSWORD
1. Bulldog 5. Cupcake
PUZZLE 5 2. Earthworm 6. Butterfly
3. Catfish 7. Firecrackers
4. Funny bone 8. Goldfish

The answer to the riddle is: 98 DINOSAUR QUIZ
ELVIS PARSLEY. l.a
2. c
3. c
4. False (Stegosaurs became

extinct millions of years before
tyrannosaurs lived.)
5. False

ALL THE ANSWERS • 167

6. False (A stegosaur's brain 102 THE OLDEN DAZE 3. Potato chips came before chop =
was about the size of a l . C 5.C 9. B suey. The first ones were cooked c
walnut.) 2. C 6. B 10. A in a Saratoga Springs, New York, *
3. A 7. A 11. B hotel in 1865, and were origi-
7. True 4. A 8. C 12. C nally called Saratoga chips.
8. Borosaurus is the fake. Chop suey was not invented in a

Note: Dinosaur names, with China. It was, in fact, first
some exceptions, can appear
in two different ways—either 104 CAN YOU GUESS cooked in New York City on L
capitalized, with a final-us, or August 29,1896, for the \
uncapitalized, without the 1. 206 Chinese Ambassador. \
-us. The name with the -us is 2. 2Vz ounces
the name of the dinosaur's 3. 5 feet 4. Basketball was invented in
"genus," which is a type of 4. 1,050 1892 by James Naismith of
classification that can include 5. $600 Springfield, Massachusetts
more than one similar species. 6. more than 30,000 (where today's Basketball Hall
of Fame is located). Three years
Genus names usually appear 105 PLAY BALL! later, not too far away in
in italics. It is therefore cor- Holyoke, Massachusetts,
rect to say, for example, that George Morgan of the local
a stegosaur is a dinosaur YMCA developed the game of
belonging to the genus volleyball, which was originally
called Mintonette.
Stegosaurus.

99 DINOSAUR EYEBALL Paddle answer: BECAUSE 5. Christmas cards came first.
BENDERS THEY HEARD THERE WOULD They were first engraved in
BE A FOWL BALL! 1875. The first long distance
a. plesiosaur phone call—from Boston to New
b. apatosaur (formerly known as 106 WHICH CAME FIRST? York City—was made on March
1. The first night baseball game 27,1884.
a brontosaur) was played first, on June 2,
c. tyrannosaur 1883, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 6. These two events happened
d. stegosaur The first night football game within a year of one another.
e. saber-toothed tiger was played in 1892 at the The first reindeer to be born in
f. woolly mammoth Mansfield Fair, in Mansfield, the United States was in Be-
g. triceratops Pennsylvania. verly, Massachusetts, on May
h. pterodactyl 2. The safety pin was invented 31,1929. A cow named Elm
The woolly mammoth and saber- first, in 1849, by Walter Hunt. Farm Ollie was flown and milked
toothed tiger were mammals. The golf tee was invented in in flight on February 18,1930.
Plesiosaurs, which lived in the 1899 by George F. Grant of
water, and pterodactyls, which Boston, Massachusetts. 7. The stamp catalog came first.
could fly, were both reptiles, but In 1862, U.S. postage stamps
are not classified as dinosaurs. had been on the market for
The rest are true dinosaurs. about 15 years, when the first
postage stamp catalog made its
100 RIDDLE ME THIS
1-E, 2-D (rust "eats" iron), 3-B, appearance—The Stamp Collec-
4-G, 5-A, 6-C, 7-H, 8-F. tor's Manual, Being a Complete
Adapted from 263 Brain Busters, Guide to the Collectors of Ameri-
by Louis Phillips, © Louis can and Foreign Postage and
Phillips, 1985. Used by arrange-
ment with Viking, Penguin, Inc. Despatch Stamps. Thefirstauto-
mobile road map was published
and distributed in 1914 by the
Gulf Oil Company of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.

168 • ALL THE ANSWERS

8. Men started wearing derby which is where east meets The contest was held at the
hats around 1850. Chester west.) State University of New York at
Greenwood of Farmington, 2. a (along with Aleut) Albany. There were three players
Maine, invented earmuffs in 3.d per mat, and winners were con-
1873. 4. c solidated on new mats as players
5. True were eliminated.)
9. The pencil with attached 6. d (Canadian igloos are made 4. B (Draughts is the British
eraser came first. We take it for name.)
granted that pencils have erasers of ice.)
on them, but pencils had been 7.d D (Noughts-and-crosses is the
around for a while before Hyman 8. False (Anchorage has the British name.)
L. Lipman patented the pencil
with the attached eraser in highest cost of living of any A (Pipopipette is the French
1858. In 1888, John J. Loud of city in the U.S.) name for this paper-and-pencil
9.c game of connecting dots to make

Weymouth, Massachusetts, re- boxes, but the name also appears
ceived a patent for his ball-point in some English language
pen. 110 WHAT'S IN A GAME? books.)

10. In 1892, William Painter 1. C (This is partly because of C (Reversi was the game's
obtained a patent for his Illinois Avenue's location, and original name when it was in-
invention—the bottle cap with partly because there's a card vented in England in the 1880s.
cork in the crown. The first that sends you there.) The name "Othello" is a trade-
comic books (containing car- mark now owned by Hasbro/
toons that had appeared in news- B Milton Bradley, but other com-
papers) were published in 1904. A panies still put out the game
D (At the start of the game, under the name reversi.)
you have $1,500. You have to
pay either 10 percent of this,
11. Gertrude Ederle achieved
international fame on August 6, which is $150, or $200. Of
1926, when she became the course, you would choose to pay I l l STATES OF
first woman to swim the English only $150.) CONFUSION
Channel. The first airline stew-
ardess was Ellen Church, for a 2. D (There are also boxed and 1. Indiana
United Airlines flight on May computer versions of this game.) 2. Tennessee
15, 1930, between San Fran- 3. Oklahoma
cisco, California, and Cheyenne, C 4. West Virginia
Wyoming. B (It's the checker variation 5. Texas
in which the object is to lose all 6. Nevada
your pieces. There are also
12. The United States Congress "Giveaway" versions of chess.) 7. New York
authorized the minting of the A (Klondike is the name of 8. Hawaii
firstfive-centpiece or "nickel" the most common form of card 9. Montana
(even though the coin contained solitaire. It's the game that 10. Washington
starts with seven piles, and in 11. Maine
75% copper and only 25% which you can place a red 7 on 12. South Carolina
nickel) in 1866. Thefirstpark- a black 8, etc.) 13. Louisiana
ing meter made its appearance 14. Delaware
in Oklahoma City, in 1935. 15. Nebraska
108 ALASKA? I'LL ASK 3. C (In a common form of darts, 16. Florida
a player must hit 301 exactly,
YA! and must begin and end the
game by hitting a "double" space
on the dartboard.)
1. c (Ice fields cover about 4.9% A (This is according to the
of Alaska. If you're wondering Guinness Book of World Records.)
about d, it's true because B
Alaska's Aleutian Islands D (This is according to the
cross the 180° longitude line, Guinness Book of World Records.

ALL THE ANSWERS • 169

112 WHO WAS IT? 3. Two minutes. It takes one cover after you've placed 16
minute for the front of the train dominoes—and there's no way
l . B to get through the tunnel, and you can do it.
2.B one more minute for the back of
3.B the train to get through the
4. B (Eli Whitney invented the tunnel.
cotton gin—a machine to
separate the cotton seeds 4. Yes. The day Kim's parents
from the cotton.) spoke to her about the picnic
5. A was the day before yesterday.
6. A Since it didn't rain the next day
7. A (Gillette invented the (which was yesterday), the pic-
safety razor.) nic went on as planned (today).

8. A 5. Six (two red, two yellow, and
9.B two green)
10. A
11. B (Celsius invented his ver- 6. Besides the half dollar, I have 10. Minnesota
a quarter, four dimes, and four 11. The trick is to make a three-
sion of a thermometer 28 pennies. dimensional figure (called a tet-
years later, using his temper- rahedron). One equilateral trian-
ature scale.) gle, using three toothpicks, lies
12. B 7. No, because if the man's wife flat on the table. The other three
is a widow, the man is no longer toothpicks meet at a point above
13. A (Howe invented the sew- alive! the triangle, and extend to the
ing machine.)
14. B 8. Here's one possible solution.
(Your solution may look like this
one turned sideways or upside
down.)
114 TWELVE TOUGH
TEASERS triangle's three corners. This
forms three more triangles, as
1. One of the ways the figure shown.
can be copied is shown by the
arrows. It is necessary to begin
and end with the ends of the
long horizontal line, since draw-
ing a line to one of these points yi.

puts you at a dead end.

I

-\\J-T' 9. No, it's impossible, and there's
a very clever way to prove it.
2. GAMES Junior, like all other Imagine that the grid is colored 12. There is no missing dollar.
modern magazines, has odd- like a checkerboard. Now it's The question is misleading, be-
numbered pages on the right. clear that no matter how you cause there is no reason to add
Therefore, pages 15 and 16 are place a domino to cover the two the $27 spent by the men and
the front and back of a single squares, the two squares will the $2 kept by the bellboy. Re-
page, and nothing could have have different colors. But since ally, the $27 spent by the men
been found between them. there are 18 dark squares and is made up of the $25 spent for
only 16 light squares, you'll be the room and the $2 kept by the
left with two dark squares to bellboy.

170 • ALL THE ANSWERS

116 CATS INCREDIBLE! like a disc (or, it's not in its er couldn't have been the es-
package). caped criminal. Bart Hargrove
1. a-4, kata; b-7, gato; c-5, 5. The canoe contains a girl. was completely bald, and would

katze; d-6, miu; e-2, qittah; The raft is not made of wood have no reason to buy a comb. It

f-8, koshka; g-3, cftaf; h-1, (or, the person in the raft is seems that Dumpty did pay at-
mac facing a different direction). tention to appearances after all.
2. c The rowboat has two oars
3. True rather than one paddle. Lip Reading
4.e 1. E
5. False (There is no exact 2. A
date, but it is generally ac- 119 HIGH-LOW QUIZ 3. F
cepted that the Egyptians
first kept cats as pets 4,000 1. LOW. The typical price for a 4. D
to 5,000 years ago. By the compact disc is $14.98. 5.B
way, there is no year 0 on 2. HIGH. A Baby Ruth candy 6. C
our calendar; 1 B.C. was bar sold for 10<P in 1952.
followed by 1 A.D.) 3. LOW. In 1982 you could have
6. False (Cats can see color, bought a complete set of 126 THE DATING GAME
although not very well.) Topps baseball cards for $21. The correct order of the pages
7.d is: F, B, E, A, D, C.
8. True 4. HIGH. In 1959 MAD sold for
9. d (Cats can see with much 25$.
less light than humans, but 5. HIGH. In 1961 you could
they cannot see in total have bought wallet-sized pho-
darkness.) tos of movie and TV stars for
10. a-5; b-4; c-2; d-3; e-1. only 10<P.
6. LOW. The top price for an
around-the-world cruise
aboard the QE2 in 1976 was 128 OUT OF ORDER 2
$62,000 per person (double The correct order is: D, A, F, E,
occupancy). There were, of C, B.
118 WHAT'S THE course, cheaper cabins
DIFFERENCE? available. 129 TREASURE HUNT
7. LOW. In 1959 a four-blade The X containing the treasure
Here are our answers. Other Scout pocket knife sold for
correct answers are possible. $1.50. is the one labeled H.
1. The penny is a different color. 8. HIGH. In 1948 a six-bottle From clue 1, you can rule out
carton of Coke sold for 25 <t
The nickel is tail-side up. plus deposit. (Individual bot- points A and G.
The dime is worth an even tles cost a nickel.) From clue 2, you can elimi-
number of cents.
2. The lion has no stripes. nate C.
The tiger is lying down (or, From clue 3, you can elimi-
the tiger is a native of Asia nate E and I, which have even
instead of Africa). numbers of Xs to their north but
The zebra is not a feline. are on the big island.
3. Colorado has straight-line From clue 4, you can elimi-
borders (or, Colorado is a 122 OUT OF ORDER 1 nate D and J. The distance from
state, not a country). The correct order is: F, A, E, C, I to J is the same as the distance
Cuba is an island (or, Cuba D, B. from the pirate hut to the

ends with the letter A). 124 DETECTIVE'S sunken ship, and the distance
Mexico begins with the NOTEBOOK from D to E is even less.
letter M.
You now know that the trea-
4. The record is by Michael Jack- Picture Mystery sure must be buried at either B,
son. Dumpty suddenly remembered F, or H. Of these, only H has
The price of the disc is $13.. that one of the items the shopper buildings both to its north and
The cassette is not shaped bought was a comb. The strang- its west.

ALL THE ANSWERS • 171

131 WHAT COMES NEXT? 139 TRTVIARITHMETIC
The pen (A) comes next. The
name of each pictured item is a - • - • - •500 10 — 34 16
rhyme for its number (for exam- +
ple, one-sun, two-shoe, three-key, • • - •80 - j - 8 5 2
etc.). x+

132 DETECTIVE'S • • •60 + 321 — 3
NOTEBOOK
== ==
Picture Mystery
The picture shows there were at
least three restaurants on Maple 7 + 6 + 8 — 21
Street. Officer Dumpty never
told the twins which restau-
rant's food had been ruined. The
only way Tim and Kim could 141 SQUARE DEAL
have known it was Pulski's was The highest possible total is 31
if they had been there that (4 + 9 + 5 + 7 + 6), as
morning. Once Officer Dumpty Incidentally, four colors are al- shown.
pointed this out, Tim and Kim ways enough to color a flat map
admitted their guilt. according to the rule that touch-
ing areas must have different
Pigpen Code colors. Four colors are also
Key is in mailbox enough for a map drawn on a

135 OUT OF ORDER 3 sphere. But on some surfaces, a
The correct answer is: C, F, B, greater number of colors is
E, D, A. needed. Some maps drawn on a
surface shaped like a doughnut,
for example, require as many as
136 COLOR SCHEMES seven different colors.

Here are our solutions. Other 137 LIGHTS OUT! 143 OUT OF ORDER 5
answers may be possible. The correct order is: E, F, C, A,
D, B.
1 1-G; 2-H; 3-A; 4-D; 5-E; 6-F;
7-B; 8-C. 144 LIZARD LOGIC
Felix was Amy's admirer. Since
138 OUT OF ORDER 4 each neighbor told one lie, any
The correct order is: E, B, D, F, boy who had both of or neither
A, C. of the characteristic named by
one neighbor can be eliminated.
From the first neighbor, Boris,
Calvin, and Dennis are disquali-
fied. Abner, Calvin, Dennis, and
Elmer are eliminated by neigh-
bor two. The third neighbor
rules out Abner, Boris, Calvin,
Gomer, and Horace. That leaves
only Felix.

172 • ALL THE ANSWERS

146 CROSS NUMBERS 148 PLAY BY NUMBER M = 6.82252
N = 90
1 4 6 OUT ON A LIMB A = 64 0 = 3Ao or .3
1. Redwood, cedar, ash, lemon B =0 P = 153
2. Oak, apple, palm, elm C =2
3. Locust, almond, hickory D = 35 0 = 1010°
4. Maple, larch, aspen E =9
5. Olive, hemlock, willow, F = 63 R = 12
G = 144 S =6
spruce H =8 T = 7.6
147 MAGIC H E X I = 6.90625 In order from lowest to highest:
J = 40 BLOCKSMITHERDJFANGPQ
3 K = 3.14 The longest word: LOCKSMITH
L = Vieor .166
13. JEFFERSON CITY (Missouri)
149 STATELY NAMES 14. JUNEAU (Alaska)
15. KENTUCKY
1. ANNAPOLIS (Maryland) 16. LOUISIANA
2. HARTFORD (Connecticut) 17. HONOLULU (Hawaii)
3. NORTH CAROLINA: SOUTH 18. MARYLAND
19. ST P A U L (Minnesota)
CAROLINA 20. OLYMPIA (Washington)
4. CHARLESTON (West Vir- 21. RICHMOND (Virginia)
22. S A L E M (Oregon)
ginia)
5. INDIANA; INDIANAPOLIS 23. T E X A S

(Indiana) 24. TRENTON (New Jersey)
6. NEVADA
7. FLORIDA 25. PENNSYLVANIA
8. FRANKFORT (Kentucky)
9. AUGUSTA (Maine) 26. WEST VIRGINIA
10. H E L E N A (Montana)
11. FLORIDA; IDAHO
12. JACKSON (Mississippi)

1 4 7 CATEGORIES
Our answers are as follows.

(Other answers are also
possible.)

Things relating to Valen-
tine's Day: cards, love, arrows,
sweets, hearts; Units of mea-
sure: carat, league, acre, sec-
ond, hour; Drinks: coffee, lem-
onade, apple juice, soda, hot
chocolate; Occupations: car-
penter, lawyer, artist, salesman,
hockey player; Words contain-
ing the letter "Z": crazy, lazy,
amaze, size, hazy.

ALL THE ANSWERS • 173

150 THREE-SUM 151 FACTS AND FIGURES
There are 13 triangles with dots
totaling a multiple of three. Four 1. 120 8. 42
of them are of the smallest size, 2. 12 9. 20
six are the next size up, two are 3.3 10. 28
the size above that, and one is 4.8 11. 87
the entire triangle, which has 5. 2 12. 8
45 dots. 6.5 13. 10
7. 353 Total: 698

150 BREAK IT UP 152 SEVEN UP! 6. R (art)
7. Y The words: hottest; extra;
1. dragon; drag on 1. V
2. me at; meat 2.1 (Skiing is simply riding hills battle; teeth; fall; phone. The
3. pa rent; parent sentence: The next to last
4. cart on; carton with thin sticks.) letter of the alphabet.
5. was her; washer 3. C (A-4; B-l; C-5) Thefinalword: VICTORY.
6. island; is land 4. T
5. 0 (grid)