Word Jumble Challenges - 14

This is the fourteenth volume in the Word Jumble Challenges seriesChaos might be fascinating, but order is what we crave.When a confused mass of letters sorts itself out in our brains, and turns into an orderly, useful, meaningful word, we feel happiness, and a sense of accomplishment.This is the premise for this series: that rearranging sets of letters to form meaningful words is fun, and can provide many hours of pleasurable diversion.Use every ounce of ingenuity you possess to...
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This is the fourteenth volume in the Word Jumble Challenges seriesChaos might be fascinating, but order is what we crave.When a confused mass of letters sorts itself out in our brains, and turns into an orderly, useful, meaningful word, we feel happiness, and a sense of accomplishment.This is the premise for this series: that rearranging sets of letters to form meaningful words is fun, and can provide many hours of pleasurable diversion.Use every ounce of ingenuity you possess to unscramble the letter sequences given in each chapter, and to form intelligible words from them, that you can find in a dictionary. In case you would like hints, each clue has a hint provided in the middle of the chapter. With or without the hints, we are sure that you will come close to a perfect score.This book contains hundreds of jumbled words - each varies in length, so they will pose a challenge to all. To make your solving easier, each jumbled word comes with a hint, if you would like to use it. Answers are provided at the end of every chapter. At the end of the book, your brain would have had a thorough workout, and you would have been completely entertained.All the best!It's not that hard! It starts off easy, and gets progressively more difficultThe last thing you want from a book of word games is excessive difficulty. This book balances difficulty levels expertly; some clues are of the strictly popcorn variety; they feature shorter words that you have to unjumble, and you can expect to guess their answers in a few seconds. Yet others are frustrating but not overly so: a minute of serious thought, and / or resorting to writing down the letters in a circle and squinting at them will help you see an emerging pattern in time. Only about 10% of the clues are so difficult that you will need time, coffee, the assistance of a friend, a computer program, or divine intervention. All jokes apart, you will be able to have fun with this book whether you're a novice or an expert.A perfect introduction to the world of word gamesIn English alone, there are thousands of different word puzzles that the fertile minds of human beings have invented over the millennia. This book features the most intuitive of puzzles; a simple rearrangement of the letters of a word. The simplicity of the concept belies the difficulty of solving every single such puzzle; your brain can often be tricked by a completely different arrangement. Of course, one sure way to solve every clue is to rearrange the letters into four or five different sequences. Once you look at a particular set of letters in many different ways, your brain breaks through its initial misconceptions and is able to guess the correct answer much more easily. This is also, then, one of the most fair word puzzle types: given infinite time, you will always be able to guess the correct answer. The challenge is to complete the solution in a reasonable amount of time, and to keep refining the time until you're a lean, mean, word-gaming machine.This book helps you develop lateral thinking skills, in addition to word game skillsEvery one of the 150+ puzzles in this volume can be attacked in different ways. You might be stuck for upwards of ten minutes, staring at a stubborn combination of letters that refuses to divulge its secrets and rearrange itself into a regular dictionary word. But you can always tackle the problem from a different perspective; whether it is a short break that allows your mind to recharge its batteries, or the use of pencil and paper to write down the word with a different initial arrangement of letters (with 5-6 different initial arrangements to stare at, you will almost always be able to guess the final answer) or the use of patterns like common word endings or common word prefixes, you will always be able to use lateral thinking to make each problem more tractable.