Comments on: How’s Your Walk and Your Talk? Another Keepa Puzzle

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:06:31 +0000

Yes, and yes, to Ray and Ben. Whew!

1 – Dallin H. Oaks
2 – M. Russell Ballard
3 – Richard G. Scott
4 – Robert D. Hales
5 – Jeffrey R. Holland
6 – L. Tom Perry
7 – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
8 – Russell M. Nelson
9 – Joseph B. Wirthlin
10 – Boyd K. Packer
11 – Henry B. Eyrin
12 – D. Todd Christofferson
13 – Quentin L. Cook
14 – David A. Bednar
15 – Thomas S. Monson

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:54:20 +0000

#10 Packer?

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:48:47 +0000

#13 – Elder Cook?

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:24:20 +0000

I think you’re right, Justin: #11, Henry B. Eyring, “Our Hearts Knit as One.”

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:40:59 +0000

I think #11 is Henry B. Eyring.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:22:34 +0000

Jami, you get the credit whether you want it or not! And you’re right about that rocky #2 — M. Russell Ballard, “The Truth of God Shall Go Forth.”

Ray, solve away — anything is fair now since anybody who wanted to play has had plenty of time to check in.

If I have it straight, 10, 11 and 13 are up for grabs.

By: Jami

Jami — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:16:16 +0000

#2: The Truth of God Shall Go Forth,
Elder M. Russell Ballard

I was looking for Rockies and found nothing. Once I realized the word was Rocky all became clear. (It’d be more than mildly amusing if I was wrong.)

By: Jami

Jami — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:52:21 +0000

Oh. Confession time. I used lds.org. Never would have gotten them without the talks in front of me. So don’t score that doubleheader, OK?

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:41:26 +0000

Now that we have permission to use the Ensign Table of Contents, it’s only a matter of time!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:11:23 +0000

President Packer’s talk “The Test” is among the unsolved puzzles, but not #13. He did a quick tour through church history, including the Martyrdom, and the Utah War, and the handcarts.

These wordles are harder than the first ones we tried, I think, because so many of them don’t have prominent, unique words. The few that did — like “sacrament” and “hope” — were far more easily recognizable.

In #2, for example, the most visible word is “Church” — not very helpful. The talk that produced that wordle was an overview of church history, its early movements and the formation of colonies, and how it’s spread throughout the earth with the growth of missionary numbers. But each of the foreign lands that speaker mentioned was mentioned only once, so those places don’t stand out as clues in the puzzle.

#4 is similarly difficult because it was a gentle talk about discipleship in general, with few very distinctive words being used repeatedly enough to really stand out in the puzzle. Still, I think it and the other remaining puzzles would be recognizable to someone who scanned the table of contents page in the November 2008 Ensign.