Cryptic Puzzle: “Game Time”

Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas '52

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E-mail John de Cuevas the revealed phrase. Solvers will be listed below in the order received

"Game Time" solvers
(The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically)

  1. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
  2. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
  3. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  4. Itai Pines – Portland, OR
  5. Norman W. Davis – Englewood, NJ
  6. Joe Schrader – Hillsboro, OR
  7. Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
  8. Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines
  9. Margaret Webster  – Medford, MA
  10. William Flis – Philadelphia, PA

Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA
Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Tom Barnet – Spartanburg, SC
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
Eric Chipman – Boulder, CO
Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
Don Coppersmith – Belle Mead, NJ
Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Richard Friedman '71 – Silver Spring, MD
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
Wayne Jones  – Worcester, NY
Al Kahn – Houston, TX
Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico
Chris McManus – Silver Spring, MD
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY
Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT
Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD
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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