The Four-Star Puzzler - September, 1981. Issue 9. Puzzles from Games Magazine: Anacrostic (Acrostic), Crosswords, Cryptic, Cryptograms, Logic, more.

As New; pristine. See scan. Chicago: Games / Playboy Enterprises, Inc., 1981. The September, 1981 Ninth Issue of The Four-Star Puzzler. Quarto, printed stapled wraps, 12 pp. Pristine in every way (see scan); even the tipped-in subscription card is still in place and immaculate - though you certainly can't use it now. A thin - twelve 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 issue, editors Will Shortz and Henry Hook provide crossword variants, a Jumble from Henri Arnold and Bob Lee (plus an article about them), an acrostic (anacrostic), a logic problem, rebus cartoons, cryptograms, "The Sphinx Page" (riddles and other puzzles from the vintage "patron Saint of Puzzledom" known as "The Sphinx", a quiz, a detective mystery, a diagramless, and much more from the minds of Merl Reagle, Henri Arnold & Bob Lee, Robert D. Spurrier, Linda Bosson, Jack Luzzatto, Paul R. McClenon, Stephanie Spadaccini, Sally Porter, Dorothy Pryse, Charles B. Paine, Philip Cohen, Gloria Rosenthal, Lisa Bussey, Robert L. Liddil, The Sphinx, and of course Shortz, Hook and Shenk 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. Ninth Issue. LPR5