Archive for the ‘Secret Messages’ Category

Just Drop It

Friday, May 30th, 2008

You can drop each letter into one of the empty boxes below it to form words reading across. Letters in a given column may need to be rearranged as you drop them. A black square indicates the end of a word. If you place all the letters correctly, you’ll spell out a quote from Richard Bach.

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Make Me A Sandwich

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

You can place letters in the blanks below to make series of three-letter words reading down. Some blanks can take more than one letter — should that first word be ODE or ONE or OWE? If you choose the right letter every time, you’ll spell a two-word phrase reading across both puzzles.

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Make Me A Sandwich

Friday, March 14th, 2008

You can place letters in the blanks below to make series of three-letter words reading down. Some blanks can take more than one letter — should that first word be ALP or AMP or ASP? If you choose the right letter every time, you’ll spell a two-word phrase reading across both puzzles.

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Strike Out

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Strike out one letter from each word below, and then respace what’s left, and you’ll get a quote from poet Carl Sandburg.

NOTE HINGE CHAP OPEN STUN BLESS FIRE STAND REALM

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Quote Pieces

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Rearrange the puzzle pieces below so that they spell a quote across all four rows. Grey bars mark the ends of words.

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Strike Out

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Strike out one letter from each word below, and then respace what’s left, and you’ll get a quote from philosopher Pubilius Syrus.

THEY REARED NOSE HOUR TIC OUTS TOW MAN YIP LANCE WORE THUG BOING

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Curses!

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Cartoon characters like to curse with symbols: &$*%!#. I prefer to turn those symbols into a puzzle. The symbols below represent a code. Figure it out to spell the end of this quote from Napoleon: “Ability is nothing without…”

 

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Trace-a-Quote

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Starting with the S on the left side of the grid, you can trace out a quote (from astronomer Fred Hoyle) by moving one letter up, down, left, or right, until you reach the S on the right side.

The finished quote has fourteen words. To help you, here’s the number of letters in each word of the quote:

5 2 4 2 4′1 5 4 2 4 3 5 2 8 7

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Just Drop It

Friday, October 5th, 2007

You can drop each letter into one of the empty boxes below it to form words reading across. Letters in a given column may need to be rearranged as you drop them. A black square indicates the end of a word. If you place all the letters correctly, you’ll spell out a message. Punctuation is shown, and a few letters have been placed to get you started.

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Secret Agent

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

You’re a spy, and you’ve just received an important message from your contact. But something must have gone wrong — not only are there no spaces between the words, but the entire middle of the message has been wiped away! Can you figure out enough of the letters to learn what your contact wants you to do?

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