There is a certain publication, whose name shall remain, well, unnamed for now, but which starts with S. It has been my pleasure to spend many an enjoyable hour doing the puzzles, and entering them into contests, some of which I have won.You know the kind. It's called word search, where they give you a list of words to find in a block of letters, that may be found forward, backward, diagonally, horizontal or vertical. I have always loved those games, so it was a natural for me to pick it up and finish the puzzle, and then, why not enter? Well, recently,I did the puzzle, and then laid the magazine aside for a while, and quite by accident misplaced the whole thing. No, it wasn't important, really, but considering I had just been about to find the secret word from the left over letters, and fill out the entry form, I was a little fussed to find it.After a long and fruitless search for the mag, I decided that it must have been tossed out by mistake, and sent Yon son to get me another. I still had time to do it over before the deadline for the puzzle entry.He wonderfully found and brought said mag to me, and I settled down after dinner to dash off the puzzle, when I noticed that a great many of the words to be searched out were not the same as in the previous magazine. Now, this was the same issue,so at first I thought I was just confused, but then I recognized the truth of it.I was seeing the right words, but the end letters were chopped off, making it impossible for anyone trying to do the puzzle to accomplish it. So, I got curious. I went back and found some old issues of the mag, and the games I had been able to finish were 14 letters down, 14 letters across.The new one which was incomplete, was 13 letters down, 13 letters across! There was no way anyone buying that issue could possibly do the puzzle, and enter the contest! Of course, I have no way of knowing if this was just an oversight on the part of the editors, or the quality control, but it looked awfully neat to me, so I don't buy into the notion that this was an accident, or an oversight. No, this was a deliberate ploy, shall we say, to limit the number of possible entries into the contest.Well, I am so annoyed over this whole thing, I do believe I should call them on this!
So I will. Hey! Sun magazine? GOTCHA!
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