Knucklebones was a bi-monthly United States

United States

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-based magazine

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, focused on providing news and reviews of board game

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s and card game

Card game

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s. The magazine included some puzzle

Puzzle

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s and contest

Competition

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s, typically with a game-oriented theme, and also included puzzles such as Sudoku

Sudoku

is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9...

 and crossword

Crossword

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Knucklebones won praise on the board game forum BoardGameGeek

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 after they agreed to honour the subscriptions of former Games Quarterly Magazine subscribers.

Knucklebones was published by Jones Publishing

Jones Publishing

Jones Publishing, located in Iola, Wisconsin produces a number of publication dealing with collectibles including "Teddy Bear Review" which is dedicated to the collection and hobby of teddy bears and soft sculpture collecting and...

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