Harvard Puzzle "Bookmark"

Clever creations of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas '52

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"Bookmark" Solvers (The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically)

1. Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
2. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
3. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
4. Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
5. Stan Rehm '68 – Madison, WI
6. Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
7. Dwight Freund – Sacramento, CA
8. Carolyn Roosevelt – Cambridge, MA
9. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
10. Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA

Barry Brandes – Purdys, NY
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Albert & Christie Chong '00 – Pasadena, CA
Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
Jeff Courtright – Normal, IL
Jon Delfin – New York, NY
Stan Francuz – Forster NSW, Australia
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
John Gliessman – Seattle, WA
Yohma Gray – Evanston, IL
Gerald Hurtubise – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Dorothy Juhlin – Hillsborough, NC
Al Kahn – Houston, TX
Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL
Carol Marsh – Greensboro, NC
Mark Manasse – San Francisco, CA
Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico
Thomas Miller – Hollywood, CA
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Kiki Neely – Waban, MA
Paul Noack – West Bloomfield, MI
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Carolyn G. & Robert M. Smith – Massena, NY
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
Edward Stejskal – Raleigh, NC
John Stuelpnagel – Baltimore, MD
Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD
Margaret Webster – Medford, MA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI

You can find all 35 puzzles published in Harvard Magazine between 1986 and 1998 at John de Cuevas's website—puzzlecrypt.com—under Harvard Puzzles. You will also find additional puzzles and contact information there and can subscribe to his mailing list.

 
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