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Published by Games / Playboy Enterprises, Inc., Chicago, 1983
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As New; pristine. See scan. Chicago: Games / Playboy Enterprises, Inc., 1983. The August, 1983 Issue (Issue 32), and the final issue in the brief existence of this cherished puzzle publication from the best of the best, The Four-Star Puzzler. Final closure letter is still tipped on (see scans), with its own cute goodbye word puzzle within it. Quarto, printed stapled wraps, 16 pp. Pristine in every way (see scan); there is no tipped in subscription card in this issue, because of the known cancellation. A thin - sixteen pages - but trenchant, memorable and collectible aggregation of puzzles from the masters who brought fame to the puzzles of Games Magazine, among other notable routes of the New Wave puzzling world. In this 32nd and last issue, editors Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon provide crossword variants, an acrostic (anacrostic), quizzes, rebus cartoons, cryptograms, logic, "The Sphinx Page" (riddles and other puzzles in the style of the vintage "patron Saint of Puzzledom" known as "The Sphinx"), and much more from the minds of Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon (Editors); Howard Bergerson, Keith Ringkamp, Linda Bosson, Len Elliott, Virginia C. McCarthy, Mike Shenk, Henry Hook, Karen L. Hodge, Toni Green, Erica Caruthers, R.E. Nelson, Paul R. McClenon, Dodi Schultz, Charles A. Duerr, Merl Reagle, B. Upton-Rowley, Barbara King, David Diefendorf, N.M. Meyer, and of course Cox and Rathvon themselves. Don't lay pen or pencil to these virgin pages; instead, scan them and solve them on the scans. Keep this treasure in your collection, unbesmirched. Scarcer than hen's teeth - in almost any condition. The very last appearance in the brilliant but short-lived series. LPR5.