Puzzles & Amusements

The Westler Valley Voice

Issue No. 1 — For Idle Hands & Curious Minds
A page of puzzles pulled from the tales of Westler. Pencils ready, rascals — and mind the goose.
Puzzle No. 1

The Crossword

Tap a square and type your answers right in. Numbers run Across and Down.

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Across

  • 2. What Jack and Jill go up
  • 5. The cow jumps over the ___
  • 7. What Petra is — not a duck
  • 8. The town where the stories take place
  • 10. What frightens Miss Muffet
  • 11. What Goober is nearly baked into
  • 12. Matta's good friend

Down

  • 1. Matta's sister
  • 2. Herbert who sat upon a wall
  • 3. Old ___ Cole
  • 4. The animals Bo-Peep loses
  • 6. Matta's pet goose
  • 9. What Peter Piper sets out to buy

Answer Key
  • Across
  • 2. Hill
  • 5. Moon
  • 7. Goose
  • 8. Westler
  • 10. Spider
  • 11. Pie
  • 12. Anne
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  • Down
  • 1. Lori
  • 2. Humpty
  • 3. King
  • 4. Sheep
  • 6. Petra
  • 9. Rope
Puzzle No. 2

The Word Search

Drag across the letters to mark each name. Words hide across, down, and slantwise — forwards or back.

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  • Goober
  • Goose
  • Hill
  • Humpty
  • King
  • Matta
  • Moon
  • Muffet
  • Petra
  • Piper
  • Sheep
  • Spider
  • Wall
  • Westler
  • Willie
  • Wolf

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Puzzle No. 3

The Goose's Maze

Trace a path from the gate to the nest without crossing a wall.

◦ Start (gate)Nest ◦
Puzzle No. 4

Spot the Difference

Five small things changed between the two farmyard scenes. Can you find them all?

Answer Key
  • 1. A window vanished from the barn.
  • 2. The sun became a cloud.
  • 3. The fence grew an extra post.
  • 4. The tree lost two apples.
  • 5. A weathervane appeared on the roof.
Puzzle No. 5

Riddles & Trivia

Puzzle out each riddle, then test what you remember from the tales.

i. I am taken from a duck's cousin, yet I am no duck at all. A king himself declared my name. What am I?

Answer

A goose (Petra).

ii. The higher you climb me, the more water you may spill. What am I?

Answer

A hill.

iii. I sat up high and would not stay. All the king's men could not fix my day. Who am I?

Answer

Humpty (Herbert Humpty).

By the Book

  1. What is the name of the town most of the tales take place in?
    Answer

    Westler.

  2. What was Petra the goose first named before Matta renamed her?
    Answer

    Polly Wolly.

  3. Who mocks Lori in class, and gets a spider for her trouble?
    Answer

    Maggie Wentsfield (in the Miss Muffet tale).

Puzzle No. 6

Finish the Rhyme

Tap a word from the bank to drop it in the next blank. Tap a filled blank to clear it.

Jack and Jill went up the  ,
To fetch a pail of  ;
Jack fell down and broke his  ,
And Jill came tumbling  .

Word Bank:
watercrownhillafter

Answer Key

hill · water · crown · after

Puzzle No. 7

The Fill-In Story

Fill every blank without peeking at the story, then press the button to read your tale.