Thursday, March 22, 2007

Can you find them?

Can you find the names of 25 books of the Bible in this paragraph?

This is a most remarkable puzzle. Someone found it in the seat pocket on a flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu, keeping himself occupied for hours. One man from Illinois worked on this while fishing from his john boat. Roy Clark studied it while playing his banjo. Elaine Victs mentioned it in her column once. One woman judges the job to be so involving, she brews a cup of tea to help calm her nerves. There will be some names that are really easy to spot... that's a fact. Some people will find themselves in a jam, especially since the book names are not necessarily capitalized. The truth is, from the answers we get, we are forced to admit it usually takes a minister or scholar to find all of them at the worst. Something in our genes is responsible for the difficulty we have. Those able to find all of them will hear great lamentations from those who have to be shown. One revelation may help, books like Timothy and Samuel may occur without their numbers. And punctuation or spaces in the middle are normal. A chipper attitude will help you compete. Remember, there are 25 books of the Bible lurking somewhere in this paragraph!.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmmm...
Amos, Mark, Luke, John, Judges, Job,
Hebrews, Acts, Ruth, Matthew, Genesis, Lamentations, Timothy, Samuel, Numbers, Malachi, Peter, Kings,

Okay, second look through, this is hard! Joel! and...James, Titus, okay 4 to go. This is way too addicting. I've got to give up. I keep thinking Romans is probably there, and Isaiah...they'd be easy to insert. Oh well!

Thanks for posting this!

Anonymous said...

I enjoyed the puzzle. I found 23 right away and then another one today. I am stumped on the 25th one.

Annette said...

I have to admit, I haven't been as successful as you Becky, Like Mary, I have to continue to work at it. :)