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The very first Happy Meal in 1979 was the Circus Wagon Happy Meal. It cost one dollar and contained either a McDoodler stencil, a puzzle book, a McWrist wallet, an ID bracelet or McDonaldland character erasers. The original Happy Meal consisted of a hamburger or cheeseburger, twelve-ounce soft drink, a small order of french fries, and a "McDonaldland Cookie Sampler", a small portion of cookies.
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Meal
Added: 4th July 2007
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Originally called the "Magic Cube" by its inventor, this puzzle was renamed "Rubik's Cube" by Ideal Toys in 1980. This thing use to drive me crazy. I had the perfect solution for it. It was called Brian's hammer.
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Added: 8th July 2007
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Anyone should be able to solve this puzzle, right? Wrong!
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Wheel
of
Fortune
Added: 7th October 2007
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If you were a Life Savers-eating crossword puzzle fan in 1951, this ad would have appealed to you. (Hey, a roll still only costs a nickel!)
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Savers
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Added: 26th March 2008
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Here’s the very first crossword puzzle, designed by Arthur Wynne. It appeared in the New York World on December 21, 1913.
2-3.
4-5.
6-7.
10-11.
14-15.
18-19.
22-23.
26-27.
28-29.
30-31.
8-9.
12-13.
16-17.
20-21.
24-25.
10-18. What bargain hunters enjoy.
A written acknowledgment.
Such and nothing more.
A bird.
Opposed to less.
What this puzzle is.
An animal of prey.
The close of a day.
To elude.
The plural of is.
To cultivate.
A bar of wood or iron.
What artists learn to do.
Fastened.
Found on the seashore.
The fiber of the gomuti palm. 6-22.
4-26.
2-11.
19-28.
F-7.
23.30.
1-32.
33-34.
N-8.
24-31.
3-12.
20-29.
5-27.
9- 25.
13-21. What we all should be.
A day dream.
A talon.
A pigeon.
Part of your head.
A river in Russia.
To govern.
An aromatic plant.
A fist.
To agree with.
Part of a ship.
One.
Exchanging.
To sink in mud.
A boy.
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crossword
puzzle
1913
Arthur
Wynne
Added: 3rd April 2008
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Actress Dorothy Lamour has the panel puzzled for quite a while during her appearance as a mystery challenger on What's My Line. This is from February 20, 1955.
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Line
Dorothy
Lamour
Added: 6th August 2008
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Here's a unique and forgotten game show: The Magnificent Marble Machine! Hosted by Art James, the show ran for 11 months on NBC starting on July 7, 1975. Designed to take advantage of the pinball craze, contestants were paired with celebrity partners to solve word puzzles, which, by some bizarre logic, entitled the winners to play an oversized pinball machine for cash and prizes! If the ball hit a bumper the contestant won a prize. Hey, I liked the show, but I was 11 years old at the time.
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Machine
Added: 17th December 2008
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This clip is a real puzzler. It apparently is the pilot episode of The Joker's Wild from 1969, hosted by Allen Ludden. I can't find a darn thing about this version of TJW. There's no mention of it in my usually reliable TV reference book Total Television. It only lists the Jack Barry version (which began on September 4, 1972) and its syndicated revivals. Be that as it may, this is a rare color glimpse of a 1960s game show!
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Jokers
Wild
1969
Allen
Ludden
Added: 16th June 2009
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Arthur Wynne started a sensation on December 21, 1913. His creation, the first-ever crossword puzzle, appeared as a 'mental exercise' in the Fun section of the New York World. The numbering system is a little different than what you'd see in today's puzzles. Clues listed both starting and ending numbers. Within a decade, crossword puzzles were a newspaper staple throughout most of the English-speaking world. I'll post the clues for this historic puzzle if anyone requests them.
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puzzle
Added: 5th October 2009
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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When Americans visit Canada in the the first days of November, they are often puzzled by the poppies Canadians wear on their jackets. The poppy is a symbol of remembrance
that dates to the First World War. It is based upon a famous poem, In Flanders Fields. It was written by a Canadian battlefield surgeon
John McCrae, who was in charge of an aid station in Belgium in 1915. McCrae wrote the verse after a close friend of his was killed by an artillery shell. (McCrae himself did not survive the war; he died of meningitis in 1918.) The full poem is below in the comments section. A good many Canadians know it by heart.
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Day
Poppy
Added: 11th November 2009
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