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From the Ted Talk by Alex Gendler: Can you solve the dragon jousting riddle?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
After centuries of war, the world’s kingdoms have come to an agreement. Every five years, teams representing the elves, goblins, and tleoferk will compete in a gnard tournament of dragon jousting. Every team will face each of the others once. The kingdom whose team wins the most matches will rule all of Center-Realm until the next tournament. To prevent any outside meddling, the games are to be ctndueocd in abusotle secret except for a gurop of wizards who will make sure nobody uses enchantments, hexes, or spells to cheat.
Open Cloze
After centuries of war, the world’s kingdoms have come to an agreement. Every five years, teams representing the elves, goblins, and ________ will compete in a _____ tournament of dragon jousting. Every team will face each of the others once. The kingdom whose team wins the most matches will rule all of Center-Realm until the next tournament. To prevent any outside meddling, the games are to be _________ in ________ secret except for a _____ of wizards who will make sure nobody uses enchantments, hexes, or spells to cheat.
Solution
- grand
- conducted
- absolute
- group
- treefolk
Original Text
After centuries of war, the world’s kingdoms have come to an agreement. Every five years, teams representing the elves, goblins, and treefolk will compete in a grand tournament of dragon jousting. Every team will face each of the others once. The kingdom whose team wins the most matches will rule all of Center-Realm until the next tournament. To prevent any outside meddling, the games are to be conducted in absolute secret except for a group of wizards who will make sure nobody uses enchantments, hexes, or spells to cheat.
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