Article date: Feb 1978
Article title: On checker jumping, the Amazon game, weird dice, card tricks and other playful pastimes
Mathematical Games column? Y
Book: 13. Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers
Chapter: 19. Sicherman Dice, the Kruskal Count and Other Curiosities
This data confirmed? yes
Notes
Peter Rowlett (27 August 2022):
Peter Rowlett initial guess (Uncertain)
Peter Rowlett (17 September 2023):
In the appendum to chapter 17. Chess Problems in Wheels, Gardner refers to the Feb 1978 chapter including a five Queens problem, which chapter 19 of Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers does.
Peter Rowlett (4 November 2023):
Oops, yes it does (page 268). I have now seen this chapter and column side-by-side and they match.