New Year's Eve 2012: A Nation on the Brink

by George Barany, Michael Hanko, and Paul Luftig

As a special New Year's Eve treat, two versions of this puzzle (both "mid-week level") were released, one 15x15 and the other 17x17 (the latter is shown below). Other than their size and details of the content, the two puzzles differ with the main theme entry; four other theme entries are identical.

Click here to view or download the 17x17 puzzle in PDF format; here to download it as a puz file; here to download it as an ipuz file [requires the free Puzzazz app to solve]; here to solve the puzzle interactively (thanks to Jim Horne); here for the solution. Click here for the 15x15 puzzle, here for the puz file, here to download it as an ipuz file, here for interactive play, and here for the solution. We thank Noam Elkies for helpful suggestions during the development of these puzzles.

If you want to tell others about this particular page, refer them to http://tinyurl.com/wilycoyotepuz

More puzzles here (all) and here (political).

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