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By popular demand:See a PDF of the June Puzzler(It prints all on one page.)Post & Riposte: Join the ConversationDiscuss word games, puzzles, and The Atlantic's Puzzler in our online forum. Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon may drop by from time to time.The diagram's central column features a series of arithmetic problems. The plus, minus, and times signs are already in place; you must derive the six different numbers, one per square in that column, involved in the arithmetic. Solve each problem in turn; that is, add the first number to the second, as directed; then apply that sum to the next operation; and so on. The correct result will be expressed in the entire bottom line of the puzzle. Eight answers are capitalized. The instructions above are for this month's puzzle only. See a complete introduction to clue-solving. See last month's Puzzler solution.. Try your hand at previous Puzzlers going back to 1997. See a PDF of the June Puzzler that will print all on one page.
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