Dig a trench from the river to water the plants and float the boats. Don't drown the people. Sounds simple enough, but the grid-based puzzler Flooded Village throws enough twists and turns at you to keep the old think-box working overtime. Further impediments (like ice) rear their ugly heads, forcing you to make more convoluted excavations in the landscape. What are you waiting for? Get digging!
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V.23 No.38 | 9/18/2014

Jesse Schulz
Music
Rooster Roundabout: This week’s music highlights
Writer Mark Lopez muses on a new Alicia Keys video, a surprise U2 record and Mary J. Blige’s London sessions.