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Brain Game: Try This Puzzle

BRAIN GAMES

Puzzles

BY STANLEY NEWMAN

Illustration of a scroll with the letters A _ _ _ _ _ _ D on it. There is a man that is dressed like a kind behind the scroll looking at it with shock

wordplay

ROYAL PAIN

What word, formed from eight of the 12 letters in PHILADELPHIA, describes how King George III must have felt about the Declaration of Independence?

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PUZZLE SOLUTION

ROYAL PAIN: APPALLED

Illustration by Sam Island

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