Sunday, June 17, 2018

MIXED-UP PRESIDENTS
Harvery Estes

Each nonsense phrase below is an anagram of the name of a U.S. president since the Civil War. Who are they?

1. OR WINDOW SO LOW
2. DRAG FOLDER
3. DARN OX IN RICH
4. HURT MARY RAN
5. HE BUGS GORE
6. REAL AND GROAN
7. JAM TRY CRIME
8. OH BROTHER EVER
9. LOVING A COLD ICE
10. HEROES REVOLTED TOO

Answers:

1. Woodrow Wilson
2. Gerald Ford
3. Richard Nixon
4. Harry Truman
5. George Bush
6. Ronald Reagan
7. Jimmy Carter
8. Herbert Hoover
9. Calvin Coolidge
10. Theodore Roosevelt 

Note: In the original puzzle, the phrases were parts of sentences - making the puzzle much more difficult.
Examples:
#1: The burglar came in through a door or window so low that he couldn't be seen.
#4: Even after she was hurt, Mary ran the rest of the race.
#10: Villains and heroes revolted, too angry to negotiate.




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