Electromaze Puzzle
June 1966 Popular Electronics

June 1966 Popular Electronics

June 1966 Popular Electronics Cover - RF CafeTable of Contents

Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Popular Electronics, published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

Robert Radford's (not to be confused with Robert Redford) "Electromaze" is a unique - and weird - sort of word puzzle that first appeared in the April 1966 issue of Popular Electronics magazine. Some people were confused about the strategy, believing that all the white spaces needed to be filled in. They do not. Just because a letter might have an empty square adjacent to it does not imply that another letter must fill it. You will probably want to print out the maze grid and find an old guy who should still have a pencil stowed away somewhere you can borrow to use for filling in the boxes.

Here are the February 1966, April 1966, and June 1966 Electromaze Puzzles.

Electromaze Puzzle

By Robert C. Radford

Here's a new kind of crossword puzzle designed to test your knowledge of electronic terminology. Refer to the clues given and fill in the word called for by the first clue. Start at the arrow. Thereafter, fill in each new word called for by the following clues perpendicular to each preceding word. The first or last letter in each preceding word will be common to the first or last letter of each new word, and all words will read vertically downward or from left to right. The tenth word will have a letter in common with the word at the first exit. Nine more correct entries will take you to the word at the second exit, which will also share a letter with the last of these nine words. In each case, the first or last letter of the exit word will be the first or last letter of the next word. An additional nine correct entries will put you at the final exit for a perfect score. A correct entry may or may not fill up all of the white spaces available.

Electromaze Puzzle, June 1966 Popular Electronics - RF Cafe

Clues

1  Noise in a radio receiver, sometimes caused by atmospheric conditions.

2  Metal surface on which electronic circuits are mounted.

3  Abbreviation for the effective value of an alternating current or voltage.

4 .Instrument for electrical measurements.

5  Unit of resistance measurement.

6  Synonym for a sine-wave generator.

7  A revolvable device on which recording tape is wound.

8  Conductor used with test equipment.

9  To hinder or prevent oscillation or vibration, such as the quivering of a meter pointer.

10  One end of a bar magnet.

Exit 1.  Polarity resulting from excess of electrons.

11  Voltage representing angular difference between shaft position and stator of a svnchro control transformer.

12  Series-connected coil in on electron tube plate circuit, providing feedback to grid through inductive coupling.

13  Visible form of energy.

14  Thin sheet of copper or other metal, often bonded to phenolic boards.

15  To supply a signal to the input of a circuit.

16  A doughnut-shaped coil.

17  Circuit that rejects undesired signals.

18  Wood used for making speaker enclosures.

19  Signal reflected by a distant target to a radar screen.

Exit 2.  Device for mixing carrier frequency and signal frequency to produce sideband frequencies.

20  Negative or battery side of a telephone line.

21  A long, narrow channel or depression.

22  A transistor element.

23  Scientific research/development center (abbreviation).

24  Unit of length equal to one-thousandth of on inch.

25  Microwave amplification by simulated emission of radiation.

26  Undesired low-frequency vibration, usually associated with turntables.

27  May be transformed from one form to another, but usually cannot be created or destroyed.


Here are other electronics-themed crossword puzzles from vintage electronics magazines (RF Cafe Crosswords here):

- April 1964 Popular Electronics

- November 1962 Electronics World

- March 1962 Popular Electronics

- September 1958 Radio & TV News

- October 1957 Popular Electronics

- November 1957 Popular Electronics

- January 1974 Popular Electronics

- November 1958 Popular Electronics

- January 1965 Electronics World

- November 1960 Electronics World

- January 1960 Electronics World

- December 1957 Popular Electronics

- February 1966 Popular Electronics

- September 1957 Popular Electronics

- December 1960 Popular Electronics

- August 1958 Popular Electronics

- July 1960 Electronics World

- September 1965 Electronics World

- August 1962 Electronics World

- May 1958 Radio News

- November 1958 Radio News

- April 1963 Electronics World

- July 1961 Electronics World

- July 1963 Electronics World

- May 1967 Electronics World

- August 1960 Popular Electronics

- March 1973 Popular Electronics

- June 1966 Popular Electronics

- April 1959 Popular Electronics

- January 1963 Electronics World

- October 1961 Electronics World

- December 1965 Electronics World

- September 1960 Electronics World

- July 1958 Radio & TV News

- April 1967 QST

- April 1960 Electronics World

- October 1963 Electronics World

- May 1963 Electronics World

- October 1960 Electronics World

- July 1971 Radio-Electronics

- May 1959 Electronics World

- May 1963 Electronics World

- April 1966 Popular Electronics

- May 1961 Electronics World

- August 1958 Radio News

- July 1945 Radio-Craft

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electromaze Puzzle Solution, June 1966 Popular Electronics - RF CafeElectromaze Solution

1  Static

2  Chassis

3  RMS

4  Meter

5  Ohm

6  Oscillator

7  Reel

8  Lead

9  Damp

10  Pole

Exit 1.  Negative

11  Error

12  Tickler

13  Light

14  Foil

15  Feed

16  Toroid

17  Trap

18  Pine

19  Echo

Exit 2.  Modulator

20  Ring

21  Groove

22  Base

23  Lab

24  Mil

25  Maser

26  Rumble

27  Energy

 

 

Posted July 13, 2108