Remember Wordles? Those are the word clouds produced by wordle.net: You run some text through their program, and it returns a cluster of words based on that text. The words used most often are in large letters; the ones used very seldom appear in tiny print. (For example, if you did a Wordle of the Articles of Faith, the word “believe” would be very large since it is used so often in those few words. “Baptism” would be very small because it is used only once.)
I’ve run the text of some of the prominent October Conference talks through that program, and pasted the resulting word clouds below. But whose talk produced each of those Wordles? Who talked about which themes? Who told that story with the repeated and distinctive phrase?
Please solve only one puzzle, at least until the game has been up long enough for other Keepa’ninnies to discover it and have their turn. If there are still unsolved puzzles this afternoon, feel free to solve another one, or to give hints to help on the harder ones.
It would also be fun, I think, if you indicated which words were key in helping you solve any particular puzzle. All talks come from the recent Conference and may come from any session, including Priesthood and Women’s sessions. Conference speakers and talk titles are listed here. Enjoy!
UPDATE: The complete solution is in comment 47. If you’ve come along late, though, you can still play along by ignoring the comments. Thanks for a fun time, all.
No. 1:
No. 2:
No. 3:
No. 4
No. 5
No. 6
No. 7:
No. 8:
No. 9:
No. 10:
No. 11:
No. 12:
No. 13:
No. 14:
No. 15:
No. 16:
No. 17:
No. 18:
No. 19:
No. 20:
No. 21:
First! # 5 is Jeffrey R. Holland, without white gloves.
Bingo!
#18 David A. Bednar
Karen scores!
#3 Elder Ballard. Key words: fathers and sons.
#17 is Elder Choy’s talk on loud boys.
Two more solved! Now we’re picking up steam.
#6 Elder Clayton: “That Your Burdens May be Light”
Ben earns a point!
No. 16 — is it Dallin Oaks’ talk on “Love and Law”?
Yes, Hunter, that’s it!
#1: Neil Andersen.
Recap:
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3. M. Russell Ballard – Fathers and Sons: A Remarkable Relationship
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5. Jeffrey R. Holland – Safety for the Soul
6. L. Whitney Clayton – That Your Burdens May Be Light
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16. Dallin H. Oaks – Love and Law
17. Yoon Hwan Choi – I Love Loud Boys
18. David A. Bednar – More Diligent and Concerned at Home
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That was before seeing Justin’s correct answer to #1.
I know that some of you can’t see images on your office computers. If you want me to send you a Word document with the Wordles in them so that you can play along, let me know.
No. 11 must be Elder Scott’s great talk on listening to the Spirit.
It was, Ben.
Hint: #8, #12 and #13 should be fairly easily recognized if you look at the *titles* listed on the Ensign’s table of contents (link at the end of the introductory paragraphs above).
#4 is Barbara Thompson: Mind the Gap (is it not?)
(Thank you, Ardis, for sending the wordles directly!)
Yes! I expected that to be the most difficult — naturally, therefore, it’s one you’d zero in on.
Recap:
1. Neil L. Andersen — Repent … That I May Heal You
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3. M. Russell Ballard — Fathers and Sons: A Remarkable Relationship
4. Barbara Thompson — Mind the Gap
5. Jeffrey R. Holland — Safety for the Soul
6. L. Whitney Clayton — That Your Burdens May Be Light
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11. Richard G. Scott — To Acquire Spiritual Guidance
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16. Dallin H. Oaks — Love and Law
17. Yoon Hwan Choi — I Love Loud Boys
18. David A. Bednar — More Diligent and Concerned at Home
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# 8 Tad R. Callister, I suspect.
And # 2, I think with the Manti pageant connection, is L. Tom Perry.
Don’t know why you would think it difficult… that big “GAP” made it ever so obvious!
Check, and check, kevin!
To us women, yeah, but I never expect the men even to remember there was a women’s meeting, much less look over the talks.
#14 – “Seeking to Know God, Our Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ” by Elder Robert D. Hales
Catherine scores!
15 is Thomas s. Monsons talk on service (service and birthday being the give sways)
21 is Ann m dibb her iron rod talk [edited]
Two more solutions bring us to this recap:
1. Neil L. Andersen – Repent … That I May Heal You
2. L. Tom Perry – The Past Way of Facing the Future
3. M. Russell Ballard – Fathers and Sons: A Remarkable Relationship
4. Barbara Thompson – Mind the Gap
5. Jeffrey R. Holland – Safety for the Soul
6. L. Whitney Clayton – That Your Burdens May Be Light
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8. Tad R. Callister – Joseph Smith, Prophet of the Restoration
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11. Richard G. Scott – To Acquire Spiritual Guidance
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14. Robert D. Hales – Seeking to Know God, Our Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ
15. Thomas L. Monson – What Have I Done for Someone Today
16. Dallin H. Oaks – Love and Law
17. Yoon Hwan Choi – I Love Loud Boys
18. David A. Bednar – More Diligent and Concerned at Home
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21. Ann M. Dibb – Hold On
what a FAB idea for a post, ardis! i love this!
heh, heh! Fun, isn’t it? This was the idea of Keepa’ninny Alan for last year’s October conference. I didn’t think of it after April conference so it’s been a long time since we played anything like it.
19. Uchtdorf: “The Love of God” (love how the wordle captures it . . . if I’m right, that is)
You *are* right, Deborah, it’s Pres. Uchtdorf’s talk by that title.
Tried to get my husband to play, so I’d have an excuse to post again, but no dice. We both recognized #20 as the talk about -ity virtues, but I had to look it up to see who gave it. So # 20 is H. David Burton, Let virtue garnish thy thoughts. I remember thinking during that talk: “Good luck translating that!”
Me, too. I thought they might do okay with effort in Spanish with all the -edad words, but that had to be harder to translate than Neal A. Maxwell. And of course you’re right about identifying the talk and speaker.
That leaves only 7, 9, 10, 12 and 13 to solve.
Cool! There are some left to solve. I love these.
7. Prayer and Promptings
President Boyd K. Packer
20. Let Virtue Garnish Your Thoughts
Bishop H. David Burton
9.Blessings of the Gospel Available to All
Elder Joseph W. Sitati
10. Be Ready
President Henry B. Eyring
12. Moral Discipline
Elder D. Todd Christofferson
Oopsies on giving 20 when it had already been found. I’ll leave 13 for some other lucky soul.
Thanks, Ardis. Very fun.
Jami is on a ROLL!
#13, anybody?
How fun!
When I saw your name in the comments column, Steve, I hoped you had come up with the last puzzle so I could wrap this up. C’mon, please?
It *has* been fun!
#13, Stewardship — a Sacred Trust by Quentin L. Cook
And Jones cleans up the last one!
Thanks, everybody. The complete list is:
1. Neil L. Andersen – Repent … That I May Heal You
2. L. Tom Perry – The Past Way of Facing the Future
3. M. Russell Ballard – Fathers and Sons: A Remarkable Relationship
4. Barbara Thompson – Mind the Gap
5. Jeffrey R. Holland – Safety for the Soul
6. L. Whitney Clayton – That Your Burdens May Be Light
7. Boyd K. Packer – Prayer and Promptings
8. Tad R. Callister – Joseph Smith, Prophet of the Restoration
9. Joseph W. Sitati – Blessings of the Gospel Available to All
10. Henry B. Eyring – e Ready
11. Richard G. Scott – cquire Spiritual Guidance
12. D. Todd Christofferson – Moral Discipline
13. Quentin L. Cook – Stewardship – A Sacred Trust
14. Robert D. Hales – Seeking to Know God, Our Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ
15. Thomas L. Monson – What Have I Done for Someone Today
16. Dallin H. Oaks – Love and Law
17. Yoon Hwan Choi – I Love Loud Boys
18. David A. Bednar – More Diligent and Concerned at Home
19. Dieter F. Uchtdorf – The Love of God
20. H. David Burton – Let Virtue Garnish Your Thoughts
21. Ann M. Dibb – Hold On
Well, I’m behind on everything so I missed the fun, but I just wanted to say that this was such a fun idea. Even being lazy and just reading everyone else’s solutions (I guessed only one or two by looking at them) was great. Thanks for posting this, Ardis!
(Oh, and I used Sister Thompson’s “Mind the Gap” talk to home teach last month. So maybe a few men are hearing about it.)
Thanks for wordling the Conference talks and making us think. I am real bad about rapidly forgetting what we have been taught and have also turned to wordles as a remembering tool.
You mentioned the Articles of Faith and how “Believe” would be very large because it is used so frequently. Over a few years we developed some processes to really put some “visual kick” into wordles and recently enhanced one of our earlier wordles of the Articles of Faith. It really brings out your insights in the size of “We Believe”.
Articles of Faith Wordle
http://www.mormoncharts.com/143/mormon-wordles/articles-of-faith-wordle/
Thanks again for your efforts in creating wordles of the Conference talks and making us rethink them.
gary polson