Answer Key Solutions to Word Search Mystery NANCY DREW D E H E U O W O L A G N U B T L L E N C L G D U O A E A W S B K H S R M Y S T E R Y O E B O T B T E K C O L M O A K K E R R N C E R I O A K I C O N C D S L E G T O C S E E L R D Solutions to Decode the Clues Solutions to Logic Puzzles Clues to unscramble: 1) She was walking. Flashlight Magnifying Glass 2) One is a quarter and one is a nickel. (While one Pencil of the coins is not a nickel, the OTHER one is!) Notebook 3) You can push the cork INTO the bottle and shake NANCY DREW is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc., registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mystery solution: the penny out. Nancy Drew’s Sleuth Bag 4) Only 3 women went to lunch: a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter—but the mother is also the grandmother’s daughter! 5) You throw the ball straight up in the air. Sleuth your way through these mysterious activities! Grosset & Dunlap • A division of Penguin Young Readers Group Reproducible Activity NANCY DREW is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc., registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Create Your Own Mystery Word Search Mystery Nancy Drew isn’t just a super-talented super sleuth —she can also tell a thrilling mystery One of the most exciting parts of being a world-famous super sleuth is deciphering clues. Some story. In this game, create your own spooky mystery tale as a group. Sit in a circle and choose of Nancy’s favorite puzzles involve hidden words and word searches, like the one below! someone to start by drawing straws or by having a contest to see who can come up with the best fi rst line for a mystery story. After someone delivers the fi rst line, the next person in the Test your puzzle-solving skills by fi nding and circling all the hidden words listed below. Do circle comes up with the second line, and so on. Continue until everyone has had a chance to you notice something familiar about them? When put together correctly, they spell out the titles add to the story, and then come up with the last line as a group. (You can make the story last of six of Nancy Drew’s most famous mysteries! See if you can fi gure out which mysteries are longer by giving everyone two or three chances to add a line.) hidden in the puzzle. J A H O H P Q H D C M L E X H F K B A E U D H E J S U I O C Here are some examples of opening lines from BANISTER W O L A G N U B T T L D L M E some of Nancy Drew’s best mysteries: BRIDGE R F P T B U B E N C S L J G W BROKEN BUNGALOW K G O G S D F W U R O L A M D CLOCK V E P A U V E B A W A S M L B “Sorry, miss, but I wouldn’t go near that bridge CLUE P J T H M N D K H Y S L H Z R for a million dollars…” CROOKED (From #15 The Haunted Bridge) HAUNTED M Y S T E R Y X O E C Y L B O HOLLOW T B T E K C O L M O L A A K K LOCKET “Nancy,” said the voice on the telephone, MESSAGE S E R Q Q H Q H Y X R N O C E “you are wanted in New York City!” MYSTERY L U R I O A K V S L I C P O N (From #12 The Message in the Hollow Oak) OAK OLD C A I C D Y G A E S D W Z L Z SECRET R N G Q E G M Y T T O G X C J “I wouldn’t go into that spooky old T N F F F S E E R K W L V K A house alone for anything.” A R B K W F R I F X D W D Z Q (From #33 The Witch Tree Symbol) Grosset & Dunlap • A division of Penguin Young Readers Group Grosset & Dunlap • A division of Penguin Young Readers Group Reproducible Activity NANCY DREW is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc., registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. NANCY DREW is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc., registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Reproducible Activity Create Your Own Mystery Word Search Mystery Nancy Drew isn’t just a super-talented super sleuth —she can also tell a thrilling mystery One of the most exciting parts of being a world-famous super sleuth is deciphering clues. Some story. In this game, create your own spooky mystery tale as a group. Sit in a circle and choose of Nancy’s favorite puzzles involve hidden words and word searches, like the one below! someone to start by drawing straws or by having a contest to see who can come up with the best fi rst line for a mystery story. After someone delivers the fi rst line, the next person in the Test your puzzle-solving skills by fi nding and circling all the hidden words listed below. Do circle comes up with the second line, and so on. Continue until everyone has had a chance to you notice something familiar about them? When put together correctly, they spell out the titles add to the story, and then come up with the last line as a group. (You can make the story last of six of Nancy Drew’s most famous mysteries! See if you can fi gure out which mysteries are longer by giving everyone two or three chances to add a line.) hidden in the puzzle. J A H O H P Q H D C M L E X H F K B A E U D H E J S U I O C Here are some examples of opening lines from BANISTER W O L A G N U B T T L D L M E some of Nancy Drew’s best mysteries: BRIDGE R F P T B U B E N C S L J G W BROKEN BUNGALOW K G O G S D F W U R O L A M D CLOCK V E P A U V E B A W A S M L B “Sorry, miss, but I wouldn’t go near that bridge CLUE P J T H M N D K H Y S L H Z R for a million dollars…” CROOKED (From #15 The Haunted Bridge) HAUNTED M Y S T E R Y X O E C Y L B O HOLLOW T B T E K C O L M O L A A K K LOCKET “Nancy,” said the voice on the telephone, MESSAGE S E R Q Q H Q H Y X R N O C E “you are wanted in New York City!” MYSTERY L U R I O A K V S L I C P O N (From #12 The Message in the Hollow Oak) OAK OLD C A I C D Y G A E S D W Z L Z SECRET R N G Q E G M Y T T O G X C J “I wouldn’t go into that spooky old T N F F F S E E R K W L V K A house alone for anything.” A R B K W F R I F X D W D Z Q (From #33 The Witch Tree Symbol) Grosset & Dunlap • A division of Penguin Young Readers Group Grosset & Dunlap • A division of Penguin Young Readers Group Reproducible Activity NANCY DREW is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc., registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. NANCY DREW is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc., registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Reproducible Activity Decode the Clues NANCY NANCY NANCY DREW DREW DREW Quick! Nancy Drew needs help solving the mystery below. NANCY DREW © & ® Simon & Schuster, Inc. NANCY DREW © & ® Simon & Schuster, Inc. NANCY DREW © & ® Simon & Schuster, Inc. Can you fi gure out the hidden message? First unscramble each of the clue words. Then, to solve the mystery, copy the letters in the numbered cells to the cells at the bottom with the same number. NANCY NANCY NANCY Unscramble the Clue Words: DREW DREW DREW HTHIGSALFL NANCY DREW © & ® Simon & Schuster, Inc. NANCY DREW © & ® Simon & Schuster, Inc. NANCY DREW © & ® Simon & Schuster, Inc. 9 2 7 12 15 NIINAGMFGY GSLAS 14 5 3 8 PICLNE NANCY NANCY NANCY 6 4 DREW DREW DREW TOKNEOBO NANCY DREW © & ® Simon & Schuster, Inc. NANCY DREW © & ® Simon & Schuster, Inc. NANCY DREW © & ® Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1 11 10 13 Now copy the letters with the corresponding numbers from above into the spaces below. What do the clues add up to? NANCY NANCY NANCY D R W ’ U DREW DREW DREW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Grosset & Dunlap • A division of Penguin Young Readers Group NANCY DREW © & ® Simon & Schuster, Inc.