Magazines Games
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Rating: - Come on Amazon! Cut us a break!
$30 for a subscription saving 40%? This is such blatant false advertising! Anyone can get a subscription from the publisher direct for $26.95. Easy searching online can get you better than that from wholesale magazine distributors. This is pathetic.

And of course, I agree with everyone else, this is an awesome magazine. I am only criticizing Amazon here.

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Rating: - Games rocks!
I used to subscribe many years ago, but stopped because the pencil section was dwindling and that was my favorite part. Now I'm back and glad to see so many pencil puzzles!

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Rating: - Me: Let the Games begin! Audience: Oh no! Not that tired old line!
In my elementary school gifted program we read Games. In the walk-in closet with the oil pastels, clay, toothpicks and other supplies were hundreds of back copies that I borrowed on rotation. I still love Games every bit as much today, but I can still smell the old classroom when I read it, so I imagine I'm a bit biased.

What I can tell you is that every issue is strangely timeless. Although there are lots of traditional games involved - crostics and the like, there are so many different kinds of puzzles - trivia and history mixed with deduction, linguistic puzzlers, and, it seems, just an endless variety.

My favorites have always included hidden contests - which I often can't find - but it's just amazing that they were there and I missed them. The people who solve them must be MI6 agents!

My absolute favorite are the fake ads. When I was ten I posted the roach hotel ad on my wall - it was a luxury hotel for roaches a la flea circus. I had to ask my mom what a real roach hotel was. One of the greatest things Games provides is this living culture of laughter and fun. When you're a regular reader you really feel a part of a larger community. I thought it was amazing that people produce this magazine for a living, and assumed that was childish naivete. Meanwhile, the older I get, the more I admire them. After all - I'm an accountant.

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Rating: - More than I need!
This magazine has way more puzzles than I can do in a month. I love the cryptic crosswords.