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The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin

Chapter Eight: The Paired Heirs

"FRUITED PURPLE WAVES FOR SEA"

Choose and answer three of the following:
1. How can these clues be arranged differently? Try different combinations and see if you can make better sense of them below.

2. What do the clues mean? Ask the person directly behind you and try to figure it out (NO READING AHEAD!!!) Record your ideas of what it might mean below.

3. Google the clues. Where might these words come from? Are they from a quote? Write down possibilities from google and yahoo searches.

4. What different strategies did you use to try to figure out the clues? Which strategy proved most effective? Why?