Saturday, March 29, 2008

Word Whimsy

As a linguistics major, I love word games. I've run into a couple recently that I thought I'd share here.

Let's begin with something to warm up your brain. . .
Example: DEAL --big deal

1. gesg

2.NiRENDEVOUSght

3. KNEE
LIGHT

4. HIJKLMNO

5. IECEXCEPT

6. It's a ALL world

Now try something a bit more challenging. . .

Example: 101 D --101 Dalmations

7. 26 L I T A

8. T 10 C

9. A T W I 80 D

10. 20,000 L U T S

11. 4 A 20 B B I A P

Even harder. . .

12. 206 B I T H B

13. S L T 8 M A 14 S T R T E

I really want to know if anybody gets this one:

14. 17 I T C R O 4913

The ultimate challenge is the following paragraph. This was given to me by a friend from work. It took me two hours to figure out, but I was determined to do it!

This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!

I'll let y'all try for a bit before I give the answers. Ask for hints if you need them.

Good Luck!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

My brain is overheating after 5 minutes. The Ulshafers like to carry #4's.

Charming Simplicity said...

Posted on behalf of Grandma:

1. Eggs?
3. Lighting?
6. I's a small world
Paragraph: needs double spacing after "unusual though."?

Charming Simplicity said...

Grandma, you were very close on most of them.

The answers to those guessed so far:

1. Scrambled eggs

3. Neon light (knee on light)--the formatting didn't show up well on the blog post.

6. It's a small world after all.

For the paragraph I will wait a bit longer before giving the answer.

-Yes Jacob, you are right! It's rare to see any of us without it. :-)

~Anne