What's In A Name

©1999 Tom Palumbo/AIM Consultants

The "What's In A Name" game can be played in the car, at a party or in the classroom. Clues are given for words that can be made by using the letters in your name. No letter can be used more times than it appears in your name. If a letter does not appear in your name, it can not be used as part of the secret word. I have used the name Harris Burdick as an example, because he is one of my favorite characters from the Chris Van Allsburg book, The Mysteries Of Harris Burdick.

Write your first and last name in column two. Try to write five clues that will reveal words found in you name. You can compete with any of your classmates to see who solves the other's words first. If they write your answers and you write their answers on a separate sheet of paper, you can challenge more than one person with your clues. Try this with Ben Franklin or Napoleon or The Civil War!!

Try this with with an event in history…like the Civil War or Gettysburg Address!