Attention contestants: There is an error in the Cartoon Rebuses Contest in the May 2009 issue of GAMES. The illustration for Rebus #1 was repeated for Rebus #10, which is Bird (6,6). The correct illustration for #10 looks like this:

A larger version can be found here.

WACKY WORDIES
What three two-word phrases can be found
in this box? 
ANSWER...

What is this object?
ANSWER...

EQUATION
ANALYSIS TEST
26 = L. of the A.
What are L. and A.?  

  
 

March 2009 issue

April 2009 issue
(on sale Feb. 17)

Features

Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos, and Toys in the Attic
A museum showcases a photographer’s masterful puzzles and illusions. Tricia Vita

Mr. Precedent
Test your knowledge of U.S. presidential firsts.
Gunnar and Sherry Johnson

Call Our Bluff Plays Games
Can you tell the real board games from the fake?
David Galt

Square Deal
Find patterns in this colorful observation test. Paddy Smith

Game Views

Inside the Box
Fallout 3: The Best of Beards
Thomas L. McDonald

Endgame
A climactic chess variant.
Gwen Page and Mike Selinker

Mobius
An original two-player connection game. Mark Steere

Electronic Game Reviews
Age of Empires: Mythologies
Left 4 Dead
Quantum of Solace

Traditional Game Reviews
Dominion
Wasabi!
Sorry! Sliders
Vineta
Tayü
Municipium

Contests

Grille Work
Identify the automobile makes and models shown both inside the magazine and on the cover.
Randy Centner

Contest Results
Key Ingredients from November

Grille Work
Can you identify these makes and models? A challenging contest. Randy Centner

Pencilwise
Marching Bands
U-Turns
In the Cooler
Time Travel Unraveled
Kid Stuff
Slither Link
Puzzlecraft #50:
   Chess Problems
Doub-Ell Decker
Have a Nice Trip?
Paint by Numbers
Playing Poker
Double Cross
The Twenty Agents
Conflict Resolution
World’s Most Ornery
   Crossword

Recent Features: Links

December 2006
Starry Night
Solve an interactive version of our December issue’s cover maze by Robert Abbott (Logic Mazes). Cover design by Jim Malloy.

October 2005
The Looney Labs Experiment
How a kinder, gentler game company got its groove on.
Read article.

September 2005
Canned Wonders
Charitable competitions produce remarkable feats of Canstruction®.

GAME OF THE YEAR
AND OTHER AWARDS
Games Online Contest #22

Orion’s Crystal
The all-but-invisible puzzle
that’s sweeping the country!

Eight puzzle pieces fit together to form a sphere. Not too tough…if you could see the pieces! Now just $14.99 plus shipping. Order.
 

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March 2009 issue
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