Edition 55

The Good Times
RISHIKA SINHA, 2 ND YEAR, ENE
RIYA SINGH, 2 ND YEAR, MCE
For many of my years as a child, my sole motivation to pick up the newspaper used to be
the games on one of the middle pages—the ones that came just below the movie streaming
schedule for that day. This was, of course, long before online games and show bookies took
over, and as an ode to that little kid who sincerely finished the scrabbles and crosswords
for many years until she grew up one day and started reading the other (“more important”)
news in the papers!
Those clippings from a 10-year-old newspaper remind me of how unworried my life was
then. The devil-may-care in me was just an innocent little girl who had once tripped around,
rolling in the aisles as she advertised the latest ‘Did You Know’ she’d read - ‘Obama was
known as O’Bomber at high school for his basketball skills!” And she did this every day
until this sailorman caught sight of a big can of spinach. I like spinach now, I didn’t then.
The riddles, the mazes, the crosswords; they were all a huge part of my childhood, and today,
the shrieking headlines and the camouflaged articles have bottled them up in a scrapbook I
never bothered to open until yesterday.
Crossword By: Preeti Das, 2 nd year, COE
ACROSS
3. An adult game of artists
6. You can’t play this without
taking Hari ka naam
10. Hand cricket(?)
11. The world’s #1 card game;
draw 4
12. 82 down with flu, 84
haggard and bored.
DOWN
1. The nerd game
2. Also a cookie. With choco
chips!
4. Mad Angles
5. It’s not “Cash on Delivery”
7. The origin of “sus”
8. A spy game, in Indian spelling
9. Red, yellow, blue, or green,
you need a 6 if you want to
begin.
ACROSS: 3. Skribbl 6. Antakshari 10. Odd Eve 11. UNO 12. Housie
DOWN: 1. Chess 2. Hide n Seek 4. BINGO 5. Call of Duty 7. Among Us 8. Ice-Pice 9. Ludo