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Thursday
Feb272020

Mixed Messages: March - April 2020 word scramble puzzle

Unscramble a motivating quote from an athletic actor.

 

fi hginetsmo nsasdt enebetw ouy nda uryo scsecsu, emvo ti.

~ newday shojonnv

 

Solution:

 

If something stands between you and your success, move it. 

~ Dwayne Johnson, "The Rock"

Tuesday
Jan072020

Mixed Messages: Jan - Feb. 2020 word scramble puzzle

Unscramble a quote by a female Victorian-era novelist who wrote as a man.

 

sti erenv oto aelt ot eb twha uyo himtg evha nebe.

~ eeorgg tlieo (raym nan neasv)

 

Solution:

 

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

 

~ George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

 

 

Thursday
Oct312019

Mixed Messages: Nov. - Dec. 2019 word scramble puzzle 

Unscramble a comedian cartoonist’s quote about conflicting desires.

 

I atwn ot hvea a odog bdyo utb ont sa hmcu sa I nwta eesrdts.

 

~ njaso eolv

 

Solution:

 

"I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert." 

 

Jason Love

Wednesday
Sep042019

Mixed Messages: Sept. - Oct. word scramble puzzle

Unscramble this quote by a self-proclaimed "futurist."

 

ew rae inogg ot cobeem tackersare rfo het trsobo.

 

~ ragy cotts

 

Solution:

 

"We are going to become caretakers for the robots." 

 

Gray Scott

 

 

 

Saturday
Jul062019

Mixed Messages: July - August 2019 word scramble puzzle

Unscramble these words to reveal a quote about observing nature from an American modernist painter.

 

toms lepepo ni het ticy shru adourn os, yeth vaeh on temi ot kolo ta a wolfre. I wtan meth ot ese ti thehwer heyt atwn ot ro otn.

 

~ rogiage foekeef

 

Solution:

 

"Most people in the city rush around so they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."