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KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME
SEASON 9, EPISODE 2:
SCINTILLATING SCI-FI
Kevin is trying to remember some of his favorite science fiction movies, and wouldn’t you know it, this wouldn’t be a puzzle if he didn’t need your help.
Blue-collar worker Roy Neary and single mother Jillian Guiler discover that they’re not alone in the universe in Close ___ ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ of the Third Kind.
Characters race to find an Easter egg hidden in a virtual reality world called the OASIS in the 2018 movie Ready ___ ___ ___ [__] ___ ___ One.
In a dystopian version of Los Angeles, Rick Deckard must come out of retirement to fight robots called “replicants” in the cult classic [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ Runner.
Arnold Schwarzenegger takes on the role of a time-traveling assassin sent to kill Sarah Conner in 1984’s hit movie The ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.
Cloning dinosaurs to make a theme park proves to be a dangerous idea in Steven Spielberg’s ___ ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Park.
Based on a 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle, an astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet dominated by primates in 1968’s Planet of the ___ [__] ___ ___.
Trapped in 1955, Marty McFly must return to the year 1985 in a time-traveling DeLorean in Back to the ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___.
Humanity must fight off an alien invasion on July 4 in the action-packed 1996 movie ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Day.
After Leonard Nimoy’s pointy-eared character died in the previous film, Kirk must recover his body in Star Trek III: The Search for ___ ___ ___ ___ [__].
Blue-collar worker Roy Neary and single mother Jillian Guiler discover that they’re not alone in the universe in Close ___ ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ of the Third Kind.
Characters race to find an Easter egg hidden in a virtual reality world called the OASIS in the 2018 movie Ready ___ ___ ___ [__] ___ ___ One.
In a dystopian version of Los Angeles, Rick Deckard must come out of retirement to fight robots called “replicants” in the cult classic [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ Runner.
Arnold Schwarzenegger takes on the role of a time-traveling assassin sent to kill Sarah Conner in 1984’s hit movie The ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.
Cloning dinosaurs to make a theme park proves to be a dangerous idea in Steven Spielberg’s ___ ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Park.
Based on a 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle, an astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet dominated by primates in 1968’s Planet of the ___ [__] ___ ___.
Trapped in 1955, Marty McFly must return to the year 1985 in a time-traveling DeLorean in Back to the ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___.
Humanity must fight off an alien invasion on July 4 in the action-packed 1996 movie ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ [__] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Day.
After Leonard Nimoy’s pointy-eared character died in the previous film, Kirk must recover his body in Star Trek III: The Search for ___ ___ ___ ___ [__].
(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle. Any resemblance between this Kevin and the one who runs www.kevinspuzzles.com is purely coincidental.)
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