Category: Games
Cross-Training
Both gaming and writing are practices in which past behavior is not the best predictor of future results.
Read MoreHink Pink Answer Key
Thanks to those who took a stab at solving our holiday hink pink puzzle. The answers await below: Ornamental cap for the gland that secretes melatonin (hinkily pinkily): Pineal finial Very poor job, colloquially, of hurling a...
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We interrupt our holiday hiatus . . .
. . . for a bit of hinky (un)fun. So you didn’t think 2016 could suck any more? Well,...
Read MoreAcre Books at Books by the Banks!
Join us for the launch of Acre Books—UC’s new small literary press—at the annual Books by the Banks festival, which takes place at Duke Energy Convention Center this Saturday. Doors open at 10 a.m., and panels...
Read MoreGaming Poetics: Hexagon, Hexagon Again
James Ellenberger: The Settlers of Catan is a resource-management game that requires each player to stake out territory on a lovely, numbered hexagonal landscape. As the game progresses, the players rely on dice rolls (both...
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Hink Pink Answers
Michael Griffith: Congratulations to our puzzle contest winners, Stephanie La Francofille (with...
Read MorePuzzle Feature: Hink Pinks
Michael Griffith: Last month Chris Bachelder, may he be thanked and damned, sent me down a rabbit hole by introducing me to Hink Pinks. Chris passed along a most excellent and amusing feature on The Paris Review’s website, a...
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Shipping Week!
Our winter issue has arrived! We’re busy stuffing, taping, stamping, and hauling...
Read MorePuzzle Solution
All you crossworders who didn’t quite manage to fill in the blanks, click here for the solution to last week’s puzzle (created by fiction ed Michael Griffith). Congrats to Juliana Gray for getting us her completed...
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Crossword Challenge Continued
Yep, the brain-tickling never ends here at Cincinnati Review. Today fiction editor Michael...
Read MoreCrossword Key
For those who haven’t yet puzzled through this month’s puzzle—or for you crossword whizzes who just want to check your answers—click here for the key. The winner (submitting her solution approximately an...
Read MoreCrossword #3: He Hath No Fury
A post for our passionate puzzlegoers—“goers” because working a puzzle is a bit like taking a journey, both physical (you cross spaces, traverse territory) and mental (you explore both your mind and the...
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