10.17.2008

Bible Search Answers

Thanks to WP who e-mailed me the answer, we now have the missing book in the word search puzzle! The last book that I could not see was Titus - can you spot it? Whew! I feel like I have cheated, but I was honestly stumped. Now I can put up the answers. Here they are:

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Find thirty Books of the Bible

There are thirty books of the bible in this paragraph. Can you find them?
This is a most remarkable puzzle. It was found by a gentleman in an airplane seat pocket, on a flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu, keeping him occupied for hours. He enjoyed it so much, he passed it on to some friends.
One friend from Illinois worked on this while fishing from his johnboat.
Another friend studied it while playing his banjo. Elaine Taylor, a columnist friend was so intrigued by it she mentioned it in her weekly newspaper column. Another friend judges the job of solving this puzzle so involving, she brews a cup of tea to help her nerves.
There will be some names that are really easy to spot. That’s a fact. Some people however, will find themselves in a jam; especially since the book names are not necessarily capitalized. Truthfully, from answers we get we are forced to admit it usually takes a minister or scholar to see some of them at the worst. Research has shown that something in our genes is responsible for the difficulty we have in seeing the books in this paragraph.
During a recent fund-raising event, which featured this puzzle, the Alpha Delta Phi lemonade booth set a new sales record. The local paper, The Chronicle surveyed over 200 patrons who reported that this puzzle was one of the most difficult they had ever seen. As Daniel Humana humbly puts it ,”the books are all right here in plain view, hidden from sight .” Those able to find all of them will hear great lamentations from those who have to be shown.
One revelation that may help is that books like Timothy and Samuel may occur without their numbers. Also bear in mind that punctuation and spaces in the middle are normal. A chipper attitude will help you compete really well against those who claim to know the answers.
Remember, there is no need for a mad exodus, there really are 30 books of the Bible lurking somewhere in this paragraph waiting to be found.

Can you spot them?

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There you go. Now wasn't that easy? If nothing else, this was a great (complicated?) diversion from the complications of life.

2 comments:

Dee said...

Sheesh. They're so obvious when you finally see them.

But this little word hunt was certainly great fun.

Thanks for the pleasant diversion.

carla said...

Isn't it amazing? Yes, it was fun, wasn't it?

Kind of reminds me how my eyes were opened up to the Bible one day. Unless the Holy Spirit illuminates the truth when we are given our spiritual eyes, there are many things we cannot see in His Word that seem so obvious to us later on.