Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Kominers’s Conundrums: Jigsaw Puzzles From Famous Quotes

Each line has one superfluous word, and those words together form an extra quote.

September 19, 2021 at 1:15 PM UTC

Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard University department of economics.

While these jumbles might look like word salad at first, they’re not actually that hard to unscramble.
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Jigsaw puzzles have seen a huge rise in popularity over the last year and a half. But did you know you can make them out of words?

We’ll look at some of the more complex approaches in future Conundrums, but this week we’re showcasing one of the simplest: jumbled quotes. The goal is to assemble famous quotes from their “pieces,” i.e., their individual words.