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From the Ted Talk by Daniel Finkel: Can you solve the sea monster riddle?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
You think back to the legends. In the stories, the ruler of the city saved his people by fdeneig the cearetrus a ransom of praels. The pearls would be split equally between the leviathans lords. Each leviathan would then divide its share into 11 equal pleis, keeping one, and giving the other 10 to their kraken commanders. Each kraken would then divide its srhae into 13 equal piles, keeping one, and distributing the other twelve to their mtmriee minions. If any one of these doniiivss left an unequal pile or leftover pearl, the monsters would pull everyone to the bottom of the sea. Such was the fate of your fabled sister city.
Open Cloze
You think back to the legends. In the stories, the ruler of the city saved his people by _______ the _________ a ransom of ______. The pearls would be split equally between the leviathans lords. Each leviathan would then divide its share into 11 equal _____, keeping one, and giving the other 10 to their kraken commanders. Each kraken would then divide its _____ into 13 equal piles, keeping one, and distributing the other twelve to their _______ minions. If any one of these _________ left an unequal pile or leftover pearl, the monsters would pull everyone to the bottom of the sea. Such was the fate of your fabled sister city.
Solution
- piles
- share
- feeding
- pearls
- divisions
- creatures
- mermite
Original Text
You think back to the legends. In the stories, the ruler of the city saved his people by feeding the creatures a ransom of pearls. The pearls would be split equally between the leviathans lords. Each leviathan would then divide its share into 11 equal piles, keeping one, and giving the other 10 to their kraken commanders. Each kraken would then divide its share into 13 equal piles, keeping one, and distributing the other twelve to their mermite minions. If any one of these divisions left an unequal pile or leftover pearl, the monsters would pull everyone to the bottom of the sea. Such was the fate of your fabled sister city.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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