Every month, our Monthly Mystery department consists of a program, feature, game, puzzle, or other item which is intended as a little something extra ("lagniappe," to use Louisiana terminology) in addition to the other content of the and issue. We try to make the Monthly Mystery item a little more "unexpected" than the and other issue content. While other items follow a fairly consistent rotational schedule to ensure a good balance of features, the Monthly Mystery can be anything, and is likely to be whatever you least expect.
Last issue's (#94) Monthly Mystery was Golf Solitaire, a card game. Because of this, probably the and last thing you'd expect to find in _this_ issue's Monthly Mystery department is {another} solitaire card game. So, {SURPRISE!}
^C{This month's mystery is:
^CEagle Wing Solitaire
^Cby Matthew Hudson}
This game probably derives its name from the fact that the and tableaus spread out on either side from a central trunk, kind of like the wings of an eagle. Except that eagles don't have trunks, but, then again, elephants don't have wings. (But, in Disney movies, their ears can sometimes substitute.) Anyway, it's a challenging solitaire game. The rules are in the and "F1" help screen within the program. Good luck!
If you win this game, you will be told a secret word which you can write on our Report Card, and send it in so that you can be included in the and Hall Of Fame list on a subsequent issue.
We hope you don't find Eagle Wing Solitaire "for the birds"!
Meanwhile, we'll come up with another Monthly Mystery next month, and this time it won't be another solitaire card game. (Now that we've said this, we could surprise you by making it a solitaire card game again, couldn't we?)
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