Each of these Wordles (courtesy of wordle.net) is built from a different text (talk, scripture, hymn, article, etc.) that should be generally familiar to most of us. As with all Wordles, the words that are used most often in that text are larger, while words appearing less often are smaller. Many short, common English words have been eliminated altogether.
Can you identify the texts from which these Wordles were created? To keep the fun going longer, please identify only ONE text and leave the rest for others. If you want to identify lots of them, write to me at Keepapitchinin at AOL dot com (that’s -inin at the end of Keepapitchinin), and I’ll announce how many you got right without actually giving the answers.
[Update: The texts have all been identified (most answers are listed in comment 23, with the rest in following comments). If you’ve come too late to play with us, test yourself and let us know how you did.]
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I’ll start with an easy one (the privledge of going first?) # 4 is the Articles of Faith.
Bruce, I BELIEVE you are right. 🙂
#3 = OD 2?
JimD has #3 exactly right. (I moved the other two solutions off the page, though, to give more people a chance to play.)
Edje wrote to me privately with 14 correct answers “…and I stipulate that I consulted no sources nor read the already posted responses. Because it’s really, really important to me that I get full faith and credit for semi-anonymous internet fun. 🙂 ” (The two he did not immediately recognize were 11 and 14.)
I think #2 is The Family: A Proclamation to the World.
You think correctly, Keri; that’s it.
#1, easy – Praise to the Man
Well, I think no. 12 very well could be “Come, Come Ye Saints.”
SilverRain and Hunter are both exactly right. Thanks for playing!
15 is a nice one with Thanksgiving right in the middle. Appropriate for a season when thoughts turn toward food. It must be the Word of Wisdom.
#16 – Official Declaration 1 (Manifesto)
10 is the Sermon on the Mount.
I think #5 is JSH.
Researcher, Maurine, and matt b have all correctly identified their parts of the puzzle — good for you.
To recap:
1. Praise to the Man
2. The Family: A Proclamation to the World
3. Official Declaration No. 2 (Revelation on the Priesthood)
4. Articles of Faith
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10. Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5)
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12. Come, Come Ye Saints
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15. Word of Wisdom (D&C 89)
16. Official Declaration No. 1 (Manifesto)
Ray is right — 5 is the entire “Joseph Smith — History” section of the Pearl of Great Price.
In order to give latecomers a chance to play, I’m limiting answers to one per Keepapitchininny. (The one I just removed was correct, though.)
I now can say proudly that I am a ninny. Cool!
Not just ANY ninny, Ray — a Keepapitchininny!
I’m pretty sure #13 is the hymn “I Believe in Christ.”
9: How Firm a Foundation
Although I resent being called a pitchininny . . .
six is section 132.
seven is . . . (I know, but I’m not telling)
eight is . . . (I know, but I’m not telling)
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And tell Edje that full credit can be granted (if deserved) but not full faith–that’s only a state to state thing under the Constitution.
Ahna, XiGauss, and MarkB. are all champions. And I’m impressed, because I thought How Firm a Foundation and Sec. 132 were the hardest ones.
To recap:
1. Praise to the Man
2. The Family: A Proclamation to the World
3. Official Declaration No. 2 (Revelation on the Priesthood)
4. Articles of Faith
5. Joseph Smith–History (Pearl of Great Price)
6. D&C 132
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9. How Firm a Foundation
10. Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5)
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12. Come, Come Ye Saints
13. I Believe in Christ
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15. Word of Wisdom (D&C 89)
16. Official Declaration No. 1 (Manifesto)
Mark B. wrote to me privately with the correct answers to all 16 — Long Live the King!
And Maurine has written in with 9 absolutely correct answers and two almost correct (10 is the entire chapter 5 of Matthew, not just the Beatitudes). A crown for you, too.
Ardis, I’m with Maurine on 10–I put “the Beatitudes” in my email. So, let some deserving soul have the crown.
14: the Ensign article by Richard Turley on the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
Mark, I either looked at your list too fast, or was still laughing about your sly jokes to have noticed.
Justin, that’s the one. (I ran these Wordles by a few people in the library to see whether they would work as a puzzle, and nearly everybody was stumped on that one. I finally decided it was because they all worked on the M@MM book and had so many specific documents or earlier books in their heads that they couldn’t step back and realize that the Ensign article is the one Mountain Meadows account that more modern Mormons would know than any other.)
seven is the Declaration of Independence, no?
Yep.
Jacob J, you’re right (a trick question, since it was the only puzzle that wasn’t an obviously churchy one)
That leaves 8 and 11, if I count right, as the only unsolved puzzles.
Spoiler alert: This comment includes clues to the last remaining puzzles.
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8 is a recent conference talk, and 11 is a recent Priesthood/Relief Society lesson.
“A Heart Full of Love and Faith: The Prophet’s Letters to His Family” for number 11.
8 is Pres. Uchtdorf’s priesthood (?) talk on lifting the piano. Right?
And we’ve done it! Researcher’s Husband and Martin Willey come through with the last two.
I dunno about all of you, but I’ve sure had fun this afternoon. Thanks!
Yep, great quiz Ardis.
Darn it! This is what I get for having a job that sometimes takes me away from the computer — I miss out on the fun.
But I did have enough self-discipline to not look at the answers until I tried to guess. The one about the prophet’s letters to his family and the one about MMM had me stumped.
Very good, Mark — I’m not sure I would have gotten that many, if I hadn’t written the answer key.
When people in the library tried it, you could tell exactly when some of the key words clicked. They’d start snapping their fingers and trying to dredge up the name of the text — “Oh, yeah, that’s … um … yeah, you know … oh, what do you call it?” I wish someone who understood such things would explain what’s going on when key words in random order like this trigger awareness of something as complex as some of these texts are.
#38 – Dementia is difficult to explain – particularly to old ninnies. 🙂
Or by old ninnies? 🙂
Obviously I cannot begin to explain how people generally might solve these puzzles, but here’s how I solved some of them:
8: “Brethren” and “Priesthood” pointed in that direction, then “Monson” fixed the thing in something recent–it clearly wasn’t something from any of the standard works. Then what pushed me over the top was “Moyle” and that sparked my memory of the story of Bro. Moyle who worked on the temple. Then, I must confess, I couldn’t remember exactly which conference it was–although I was pretty sure it was Pres. Uchtdorf–so I went to http://www.lds.org to check out the recent talks by him. I suppose if I had looked at the puzzle longer and seen “lift” and “piano” I could have finished without looking at lds.org.
9: It helped a lot that I had sung this song in a choir, and am familiar with the verses that we don’t usually sing. So, words like “forsake” and “dross” and “consume” and “all-sufficient” and “repose” and “refine” were enough to get close to the solution, and then finding “foundation” sealed the deal.
That’s funny, #8 was the easiest one for me because I “stand” “lift” “piano” right off the bat (they are basically right in line with each other in the middle). But, I didn’t want to be the one to get the recent conference talk so I looked up at #7 which was also unsolved when I arrived. The word “usurpations” at the bottom was the clincher word for me.
I haven’t been ‘nacling the past couple of days and missed this when it came out. Drat.
I think I will print them and test people at Thanksgiving dinner…after I test myself!
Thanks for the fun, Ardis.