2019-05-01_Games_World_of_Puzzles

may 2019 | GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES 45

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his contest was a repeat per-
formance of our popular Role
Playing challenge. In the diagram
provided, each yellow circle represented
an actor (who could be male or female),
and each orange rectangle represented
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who appear in them, not necessarily
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nected to at least two actors, and each
actor was connected to at least two
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and last names of the actor, while the
numbers in each rectangle told you the
number of letters of each word of the
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There were eight question marks in
the diagram. The question marks repre-
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titles for which no information was given
about the lengths of the names or title
words. The object of the contest was
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titles represented by the question marks.
The completed diagram is shown at
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that were the solution to the contest
are: Kim Dickens, Colin Firth, Michael
B. Jordan, Natalie Portman, Thor: Ragn-
arok, Black Panther, The Martian, and ei-
ther A United Kingdom or Jack Reacher,
since both David Oyelowo and Rosa-
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was not our intention to have two pos-
sible answers for this square; however,
both are valid and were accepted by the
contest judges.
We received a very respectable total
of 476 entries, almost all of which gave
a correct solution with either A United
Kingdom or Jack Reacher. Congratu-
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prize, Vincent DePaola of Tinley Park,
IL, whose entry was selected at ran-
dom from among all correct entries.
Runner-up prizes of a year’s subscrip-
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(or an additional year for current sub-
scribers) go to: Matthew Blocks of
Portland, OR; James Ellis of Kenosha,
WI; Tom Forsberg of Bristol, RI; Gloria
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lin of Agoura Hills, CA. Q.

KristenWiig

DickensKim

HemsworthChris The Shapeof Water

Rosamund

Pike

Creed MartianThe OscarIsaac

JulianneMoore

The GoldenKingsman:

Circle

Annihilation

bustersGhost-

12 Yearsa Slave CrudupBilly

A MostViolent

Year

AnotherDie

Day

RagnarokThor:

Sally

Hawkins

Queen ofKatwe

ColinFirth

ShelterTake

ShannonMichael

GoneGirl Surrogates

OyelowoDavid

ChiwetelEjiofor PortmanNatalie

ChastainJessica

MercuryRising

Blue

Jasmine

Cate

Blanchett

Nyong’oLupita Jackie

Halle

Berry

BruceWillis

A SingleMan

A UnitedKingdom

Reacher)(or Jack

ThompsonTessa

Michael B.Jordan

PantherBlack

ChadwickBoseman (^42) BeharieNicole
CovenantAlien:
Shame
MichaelFass-
bender
Queen ofKatwe