Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Like Puzzles?

There are 30 books of the Bible in this paragraph. Can you find them?
One book is bolded for you.


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 soon find
themselves in a jam; especially since the 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 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 the books like Timothy and Samuel may occur without their
numbers. Also, keep in mind that punctuation and spaces in the middle
are normal. A chipper attitude will help you compete really well
against those who can claim to know the answers. Remember, there is
no need for mad exodus, there really are 30 books of the bible
lurking somewhere in this paragraph waiting to be found.

8 comments:

happydi2 MSN said...

Well I do love puzzles and I've worked on this one off and on all day and I believe I found some answers to the puzzle, which means I don't know the Bible as well as I should. 1- Isa 2- Mark 3- John 4- Judges 5- Job 6- Hebrews 7- Revelations 8- Ecclesiastes 9- Genesis 10- Chronicles 11- Daniel 12- lamentations 13- revelations 14- Timothy 15- Samuel 16- Numbers 17- Exodus  

happydi2 MSN said...

Here are 7 more books:   Amos, Kings, James, Ruth, Hosea, Titus and Romans for a total of 23. Ecclesiastes is wrong.

shirleybh2 MSN said...

Malachi Nahum Joel few more  

shirleybh2 MSN said...

acts Peter

maggiemck MSN said...

Esther (Nerves. There)

sharon_starr MSN said...

"Them at the worst." - MATTHEW "Honolulu, keeping" - LUKE   I'm surprising MYSELF here...lol...didn't realize that I even KNEW any of the Bible.

maggiemck MSN said...

you also have REVELATIONS twice.

happydi2 MSN said...

Oops...hadn't noticed that......so between us have we found the 30 books of the Bible mentioned in the paragraph? ......Dianne