Gems from old GAMES Magazines IV

May/June, 1979

Are You Mensa Material?

R. Wayne Schmittberger

1. What word can fill the blank that means about the same as the two other words?

    HARD _______ COMPANY

 

2. Complete the analogy with the given initial letters:  

    Needle:thread :: L_ _ _ _ _ : F _ _ _ _ _ _ _

July/August, 1979

Crossword a l'Anglaise 

Doug and Janis Heller 

 

3. Everybody can be Jefferson, Nixon, and Truman 

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4. MISSING LETTER

    Will Shortz

 

Only the letter Y is missing from the sentence below. Add Y ten times in the correct places (mentally supplying the necessary word spacing) to complete a statement about a creepy gathering.

 

S P R G P S N M P H S S L L T R S T B M C R P T 

Answers:

 

1. hard FIRM company

2. Needle:thread :: Leader : Follower

3. Tom, Dick, and Harry

4. Spry gypsy nymphs slyly tryst by my crypt.