Puzzle "John Harvard"

Clever creations of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52

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

1. Judy Adamski--Jenison, MI
2. Stan Kurzban--Chappaqua, NY
3. Steve Tice--Great Falls, VA
4. Charlotte Cremin--Los Angeles, CA
5. Stan Rehm '68--Madison, WI
6. Lewis Gee--Poway, CA
7. Jim Christenson--Port Townsend, WA
8. Stan Francuz--Forster NSW, Australia
9. Daniel J. Milton--Vienna, VA
10. Rick Kasten--Alexandria, VA

Robert Brown--Albuquerque, NM
Charlene Coates--Coatesville, PA
Norman W. Davis--Englewood, NJ
Richard Friedman '71--Silver Spring, MD
Michael N. Geselowitz--Cedarhurst, NY
Ralph Jones --Aurora, CO
Wayne Jones --Worcester, NY
Richard Letourneau--Bonita Springs, FL
Mary Lyndal Nyberg--Manhattan, KS
Carolyn Roosevelt--Cambridge, MA
Ned Robert--Los Gatos, CA
Carolyn G. & Robert M. Smith--Massena, NY
Joe Rogers--Old Greenwich, CT
Joe Schrader--Hillsboro, OR
Dexter Senft --Bedford, NY
Donald Stanley--Littleton, CO
Edward Stejskal--Raleigh, NC
John Stuelpnagel--Baltimore, MD
Margaret Webster --Medford, MA
Korina and Mike Tueller '92 - Phoenix, AZ
Thomas Wilson--South Williamsport, PA
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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