Day 125: A clever rearrangement of some text, incorporating clues.
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It’s Games and Puzzles Day! Today’s Activity: Solve an acrostic. Acrostics aren’t just those poems you wrote as a kid where the first letter of each line spells out a word. They’re also a form of crossword-esque puzzle. You solve them by working back and forth between a set of lettered clues and a numbered grid that contains a quote or message. The letters that form each of the clue answers are scattered throughout the quote, so as the words take shape you gain new letters to help you solve the clues. And, like the poems, the first letter of each clue generally forms words as well — typically the author’s name and/or title of the source.
Day 125: A clever rearrangement of some text, incorporating clues.
Day 125: A clever rearrangement of some text…
Day 125: A clever rearrangement of some text, incorporating clues.
It’s Games and Puzzles Day! Today’s Activity: Solve an acrostic. Acrostics aren’t just those poems you wrote as a kid where the first letter of each line spells out a word. They’re also a form of crossword-esque puzzle. You solve them by working back and forth between a set of lettered clues and a numbered grid that contains a quote or message. The letters that form each of the clue answers are scattered throughout the quote, so as the words take shape you gain new letters to help you solve the clues. And, like the poems, the first letter of each clue generally forms words as well — typically the author’s name and/or title of the source.