The word puzzles on this blog have a word search portion and a fill-in-the-blank portion. The puzzle is solved when all the words in the word search portion have been found and placed in the proper blanks in a passage from a famous book.
I've put together an easier--but slightly twisted--puzzle for this post. I'm telling solvers the book title for the fill-in portion of the puzzle, and the clue list is (almost) straightforward. The book is "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll. The twist? The word search puzzle and the clue list are both presented as mirror images. You can find the answers at the end of the post. I always present the answers upside down. This time I present the answer to the word search both as an upside-down mirror image and as an ordinary upside-down image.
A mirror-image word search puzzle is a treat for the author, too. I used the website armoredpenguin.com to create the word search puzzles from the list of clues, and I flipped the result using MS Paint. Thus, I was only slightly more familiar with the word search puzzle (as presented) than any other solver. I spent 40 minutes solving the word search. My brain doesn't process mirror images well.
(You can find a printer-friendly .pdf file of this puzzle on scribd.com at http://www.scribd.com/doc/87642560 )
Word Search Puzzle
Clue List
Passage
Answers
Mirror Image
Ordinary
Passage Answer
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