GeekDad Puzzle of The Week Solution: Board to Tears?

Welcome back to the puzzle of the week solution. There was a bumpy start this week, but as usual though the puzzle geeks weathered the storm of typos and showed me how good you people really are. So without further ado, here is the puzzle and the solution. Puzzle: 1. cddlnn 2. lnmp 3. ksr […]
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Welcome back to the puzzle of the week solution. There was a bumpy start this week, but as usual though the puzzle geeks weathered the storm of typos and showed me how good you people really are. So without further ado, here is the puzzle and the solution.

Puzzle:

1. cdd__l__nn
2. l__n__mp
3. ksr
4. c__h__ts dn ddlrs
5. lrsstt f c__n__t
6. cnmr
7. grst__t__
8. hkmr hrrr
9. j__j__mn
10. bbclrs

Solution

1. Cand__l__and
2. Mo__n__opoly
3. Risk
4. C__h__utes an Ladders or S__h__oots and Ladders depending on when you saw the puzzle
5. Settlers of Cata__n__
6. Cranium
7. Stra__t__ego
8. Arkham Horror
9. Juman__j__i
10. Scrabble

Bold Letters: __L N H N T J __ which gives us Jonathan Liu, our top board game geek, who will be reprimanding me for leaving the "The" out of "The Settlers of Catan".

This week's winner is Randy Slavey, who correctly solved the puzzle, made fun of my typo with a Korn reference and was picked by the random number generator. Randy will of course get a $50.00 Thinkgeek Gift Certificate and bragging rights ... whatever that means. Everyone else gets this code: GEEKDAD81AD for $10 off a $50.00 order at Thinkgeek.