General Sontar's Puzzle Corner

Ten-hut Troopers! General Sontar here to remind you that it's just as important to work on your wits as it is to practice obeying the orders of a superior officer without question, shielding your Probic vent from the enemy, and putting a charged quantum shot through the cyanotic node of a Rutan at 600 Sontaran paces! With that in mind our top strategy boffins have put together this test. It's more challenging than a twenty-seven day forced route march through the gas swamps of Hypoxia VI!

Question 1: Join the dots

(answer to last week's Join the dots puzzle. Unfortunately last week's dots formed a circle, if you are still attempting this puzzle then stop now)

Question 2: Word Jumlbe (set by Clive Doig)

(clue, you shoot them with the front of your gun)

Question 3: Spot The Difference

Oh No! In preparing an image for publication in the glorious Sontaran Standard newspaper the picture editor has accidentally made ten changes. Can you spot the difference?

(Answer: The difference is between a Sontaran who can do his job properly and one who makes incompetent mistakes! The picture editor's entire squad was reduced to genetic material as punishment. REMEMBER: SLOPPY ERRORS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!)

Question 4: A-mazing Maze

Travel through the maze to find out what the lovely kitten wants to wear.
(Answer to last week's A-mazing Maze. The naughty puppy had chewed the slippers)

HOW DID YOU DO?
Completion time
Five hours plus: more work needed Trooper
Three to five hours: average
Two to three hours: keep up the good effort Soldier
Two hours or less: report to the Promotion Sphere for Officer Upgrade and Naming Ceremony.

It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To

Bank Holiday Fun with John Lumic

"Hello children everywhere! Uncle John here with some games for you to play this Bank Holiday."

British Bulldog: All the players line up on one side of a garden or field with a Cyberman in the middle. On the word go all the players run for the opposite side of the field. If the Cyberman catches someone they are upgraded and join the Cyberman in the middle. The game ends when everyone has been converted.

If it's raining then why not try these indoors games.

Musical Chairs: First count how many players you have. In the middle of a room place a line of chairs that is one less than the number of players. Play some music, everyone must keep dancing round the line of chairs until the music stops when Cybermen burst in and upgrade everyone.

Bobbing for Apples: Fill a tub with water and float apples in it. The players must try to grab an apple with their mouths while a Cyberman roams the room upgrading the audience. Remember, using your hands or resisting upgrading is cheating!

Uncle John's Puzzle Maze

Can you join the orderly queue and march through the maze to the conversion chamber where you will become part of Uncle John's vision for the destiny of mankind?

Let's play the Regeneration Game*

Every other Doctor Who blog on the internet has something about David Tennant leaving and Shouting Into a Well just wants to be popular.

To while away the time before the new Doctor is announced (and to stop you grinding your teeth to stumps at the endless headlines and newspaper stories speculating on which flavour of the month celebrity will be cast; Russell Brand/Kerry Katona/Daniel Craig/Daniel Radcliffe) here's a puzzle.


Plus, here's how generic newspaper cartoonist K*pp*r W*ll**ms might have interpreted the news with his satyrical eye.




*alternate titles include: Who goes, there/I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry/Journey's End