The Celebrity Word Scramble Music Edition is a word puzzle game based on the concept of an anagram, where you need to re-organize the letters to recreate a word. The Celebrity Word Scramble Music series utilizes names of different performers, ranging from pop music icons, for example, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley to current artists like Taylor Swift. Each puzzle page has several five or six letter words, circled letters in each word helps you in forming the celebrity's name. Apart from the selected letters, the puzzle also provides details regarding the celebrity's biography and a few examples of their most popular songs. Celebrity Word Scramble is intended to interest a wide scope of puzzle lovers with puzzle books on sports, entertainment, history, and literature.
The Celebrity Word Scramble Music Edition is a word puzzle game based on the concept of an anagram, where you need to re-organize the letters to recreate a word. The Celebrity Word Scramble Music series utilizes names of different performers, ranging from pop music icons, for example, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley to current artists like Taylor Swift. Each puzzle page has several five or six letter words, circled letters in each word helps you in forming the celebrity's name. Apart from the selected letters, the puzzle also provides details regarding the celebrity's biography and a few examples of their most popular songs. Celebrity Word Scramble is intended to interest a wide scope of puzzle lovers with puzzle books on sports, entertainment, history, and literature.
IN THIS PUZZLE, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE FIRST NAME OPTIONS THAT
HAVE SIX LETTERS?
GEORGE, THOMAS, WILLIE, LOUISE, SANDRA, HOWARD, WALTER,
DENNIS, CHERYL, ROBERT, DANIEL TO NAME A FEW.
GEORGE, THOMAS, LOUISE, HOWARD AND ROBERT CAN BE
ELIMINATED BECAUSE THERE ISN’T AN “O” IN THE GROUP OF LETTERS.
DENNIS, SANDRA AND DANIEL CAN BE ELIMINATED BECAUSE THERE
ISN’T A “D” IN THE GROUP OF LETTERS.
WILLIE, NO “I” AND CHERYL, NO “C” CAN ALSO BE ELIMINATED.
IN THIS INSTANCE, THAT LEAVES “WALTER.” WHEN THE LETTERS
R,A,E,T,W,L ARE ELIMINATED FROM THE GROUPING, YOU HAVE
H,G,A,E,N REMAINING. IN THIS EXAMPLE FROM GOLF, THE 5-LETTER
LAST NAME SOLUTION IS: HAGEN
Celebrity Word Scramble: Famous Names in Music by Bill Maier is a puzzle book, filled with over a hundred unique challenges to test knowledge of famous singers both past and present. As Maier himself proclaims, "Celebrity Word Scramble is intended to interest a wide scope of puzzle lovers with puzzle books on sports, entertainment, history, and literature." This would imply that Maier intends to release subsequent versions of this book, although at the time of reviewing publication dates were to be confirmed.
The puzzles follow the same approach, scrambled words where the reader has to select the right letters. Over the course of several iterations, with clues to help, the reader is able to piece together an answer to discover the hidden name of the celebrity. An appendix is also included to compare answers to.
While to all intents and purposes this could be a fun little book, I found myself falling down at the first hurdle. No matter how many times I stared at the worked through example on the opening page, I could not work out how the author was able to piece together the word "tunnel" out of the jumble of letters that make up "becrha". With my brow becoming increasingly furrowed over what was meant to be a simple example, you can imagine how I got on with the actual word puzzles. After staring at the first three for five long minutes with little joy, I simply gave up.
With puzzle books it is hard to be truly unbiased. I fully accept that to a seasoned puzzle goer the nature of this book could be very straightforward but equally I have to reflect on this book being advertised as suitable for a wide range of readers, including those looking for a quick pick-up. In this case it is not something I can readily recommend; the questions themselves were just too complicated for me to grasp.
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