15 NOVEMBER 1968, page 32

Mrs World Fiasco

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS Banshee screams of angry recrimination, the slow dissevering rip of sweat-rotted corsets and the monotonous splash of fat women falling into the......

No. 527: The Word Game

COMPETITION Competitors are invited to use the ten following words taken from the opening passages of a well-known work of literature, in the order given, to construct part of a......

Chess No. 413

PHILIDOR Black White II men 10 men I. A. Schiffmann (3rd Prize, West Sussex Gazette, 1930). White to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 412......

No. 525: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports: Competitors were invited to write an octet hymning Shove Ha'penny, Skittles, Darts, Bingo, the Sack Race, or indeed any other of our less notorious......