RU Familiar with RU?

by George Barany and Marjorie Russel

This "mid-week level" puzzle (may play somewhat harder for off-campus solvers) was commissioned for the holiday (Dec 2013-Jan 2014) issue of Natural Selections, an unofficial RU publication that provides a creative and fun outlet for the campus community of GB's alma mater/MR's professional home.  After solving the puzzle (spoiler), please click here for a map of some of the sites referenced therein. Also, you may have a lot of fun looking at this page and its sequel. Update: This puzzle appeared in the December 2013 / January 2014 issue of Natural Selections, as accessed here.

Click here to view or download the 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. Also, click here or here to see the puzzle as formatted by the Natural Selections editorial team. We thank Ralph Bunker, Michael Hanko, Brent Hartzell, Martin Herbach, Ben Jones, and Tom Williams none of whom were familiar with the puzzle's theme, for beta testing and helpful comments.  

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

More puzzles here (all), here (science), and here (tributes).

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