
Session 2: Week 11
A word puzzle this week. In 2009, during a trip to Singapore’s Vivo City, I was awestruck by three large shelves of puzzle books in Page One. That was the day I discovered Games magazine (my first issue was May 2009) and, with it, American style crosswords. Woefully, two years later, the shop had ceased to exist and I was later forced to rely on overpriced international shipping.
Matchboxes, a rare type in Games, has a very simple rule. You come up with entries in a given category and the more answers you fill in, the more clues you get for other answers. A wide range of themes had been adopted before; such as trees, boats, shades of red and baseball teams. I try not to Google when solving, and for maximum enjoyment I recommend you do the same for the puzzles below.
Below are six interconnected sets of Matchboxes. The category and an example entry are given with each puzzle. In an attempt to make things more challenging, even with Google, the category will be given for only the first three puzzles and no example entry will be given for the last puzzle.
Enjoy!
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