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Original Picture: A festive Labor Day picnic with a rustic table, wildflowers, flags, lanterns, summer foods, and drinks in warm sun. Patriotic, cheerful, laid-back backyard celebration. Altered Picture: A festive Labor Day picnic with a rustic table, wildflowers, flags, a pinata, lanterns, summer foods, drinks, and cats in warm sun.

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Ten answers are hidden within! Can be used with a screen reader (be aware of spoilers!)

Original Picture: The picture is of a fenced backyard displaying a festive event with a table of food in the foreground. On the table from left to right is a large vase of flowers; an item wrapped in foil; a small vase with a large red flower; a large pitcher of a red colored beverage; two huge overstuffed sandwiches; a plate with corn on the cob pieces and a serving of potatoes or light colored vegetables; two bottles of yellow colored beverage and a lantern between them; a portion of a lantern is visible at the far right side of the table. Behind the leftmost sandwich is a piece of vegetation possibly in a small vase. Across the yard behind the table ten or more flags are strung up. There is a table at the back of the fenced area with a vase or lantern on it.
Altered Picture: The picture is of a fenced backyard displaying a festive event with a table of food in the foreground. On the table from left to right is a large vase of flowers; an item wrapped in foil; a small vase with a large red flower; a large pitcher of a yellow colored beverage; two huge overstuffed sandwiches, and in front of the sandwiches is an item wrapped in foil; a plate with corn on the cob pieces and a serving of potatoes or light colored vegetables, and a serving of broccoli; a bottle of blue colored beverage, and a bottle of orange colored beverage, and a lantern between them; a black cat is peering over the table next to the bottle of orange colored beverage; a portion of lantern is visible at the far right side of the table. Behind the leftmost sandwich the piece of vegetation possibly in a small vase has been removed. Across the yard behind the table nine or more flags are strung up, and onr is a pinata. There is a table at the back of the fenced area with a vase or lantern on it, and a white cat is sitting on the table, and a gray cat is lounging next to the white cat. An orange cat is lying down beneath the table in the foreground.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Instructions:

Each puzzle has clues labeled "Across" and "Down", which tell you where to put each word.
Read the clues and write your answers in the puzzle grid, one letter per square.
Use the letters from other words you've filled in to help solve harder clues.

THEME: Games

(Level of difficulty: EASY)

This crossword puzzle is a grid of 10 rows by 8 columns with 1 ACROSS and 1 DOWN starting in the fourth square from the upper left corner. See long description below.

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Crossword puzzle grid description: (this description may be used with a screen reader by those with low vision to sketch the grid)
Grid is 10 rows by 8 columns (or ten squares down by eight squares across).

Row 1: the first, second, and third squares are blocked-out; the fourth square starts item 1 ACROSS for a word containing 4 characters, and also starts item 1 DOWN for a word containing 10 characters; the eighth square is blocked-out.
Row 2: the first square is blocked-out; the second square starts item 2 DOWN for a word containing 6 characters; the third square is blocked-out; the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth squares are blocked-out.
Row 3: *contains no blocked-out squares. The first square starts item 3 ACROSS for a word containing 8 characters.
Row 4: the first square is blocked-out; the third square is blocked-out; the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth squares are blocked-out.
Row 5: the first square is blocked-out; the third square is blocked-out; the fourth square starts item 4 ACROSS for a word containing 4 characters; the seventh square starts item 5 DOWN for a word containing 4 characters; the eighth square is blocked-out.
Row 6: the first square is blocked-out; the third square is blocked-out; the fifth, sixth, and eighth squares are blocked-out.
Row 7: the first square is blocked-out; the second square starts item 6 ACROSS for a word containing 3 characters; the fifth, sixth, and eighth squares are blocked-out.
Row 8: the first, second, and third squares are blocked-out; the fifth square is blocked-out; the sixth square starts item 7 ACROSS for a word containing 3 characters; the eighth square starts item 8 DOWN for a word containing 3 characters.
Row 9: the first, second, and third squares are blocked-out; the fifth, sixth, and seventh squares are blocked-out.
Row 10: the first and second squares are blocked-out; the third square starts item 9 ACROSS for a word containing 6 characters.

ACROSS

1. Used in ice hockey

3. Board game with jumping moves

4. ____ Frog

6. A player brought into a game to play in place of another (abrv.)

7. What a player who is tricky in their strategy could be called

9. Favorite stacking game of toddlers

DOWN

1. Game played in a sometimes-makeshift court

2. ______ and Ladders

5. An item brought to the beach handy for a sand castle competition

8. Affirmative