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Quote of the week

The letters have dropped out of their columns. Put them back and a line worth remembering reads across the board.

When to use it

A Monday starter in English or history, with a new line each week. A team meeting that opens with a quote worth talking about. The last five minutes of a lesson, when a short puzzle can still leave the class with something to think about.

What makes it this

Built on the Fallen phrase generator with these changed. Everything else is the default.

  1. The phrase that falls

    In the builder: The phrase

  2. How wide the board is

    In the builder: The phrase

Preview

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Quote of the week: put the line back together

This week's line is Hamlet's, from Act 2 of Shakespeare's play: its letters have dropped out of the grid into the heap under their own column, and a letter only ever goes back into the column it fell from.

Why the example is built this way

  1. No word longer than a row.

    The board wraps whole words, fourteen characters to a row at the default width. A longer word would be broken across two rows, so check your line before you pick it.

  2. The board left at its default width.

    At a Board width of 14 this line falls into five rows, so a heap can hold five letters to put in order. A wider board means shallower heaps and an easier puzzle.

  3. Name the source, not the line.

    The instructions say whose words they are and where they come from. That gives solvers a way in without handing over any of the words.

Build it yourself

  1. 1 Open the Fallen phrase builder and fill in the The phrase tab.
  2. 2 Share the link with your players, or embed the activity in your own site.

Or skip the building: copy this example and swap in your own content.