Heroes of the American Revolution: Fourth of July Word Game

Mix a little fun with a little history with this word game for the Fourth of July by unscrambling the names of these twenty people who contributed to the American Revolution. (Give yourself bonus points if you can unscramble the anagrams without looking at the original names.) Of course, omit the punctuation, which I added to make the anagrams more interesting.

You can find a similar word game based on names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence here. If all this mental activity makes you hungry, you may be interested in a recipe for a red, white, and blue pizza here, and you may want to take a break with some Fourth of July coloring pages here.

a. A bad shoe, Norm
b. Ad Man Josh
c. Alias Bag Maid
d. A tortoise hag
e. Dame jams ions
f. Elegant hen arena
g. Far men jab kiln inn
h. Freshman foe jots
i. Goggle error creaks
j. He is a top man!
k. His jinn on dock
l. I'm contrary sewer
m. I'm external and halo
n. Leave purer
o. Lighten a mount sun
p. Macho, grim or trendy
q. Madam, seal us
r. Jim Ruben Nash
s. Recap thy rink
t. War on; he gets going

Click on the name to go to the Wikipedia article so you can find out about the person. Of course, these are the founding fathers and mothers of our country, but I hope they won't mind if we have a little fun with their names, if we also take this opportunity to learn about what they did for us.

01 Abigail Adams
02 John Adams
03 Samuel Adams
04 George Rogers Clark
05 John Dickinson
06 Benjamin Franklin
07 Horatio Gates
08 Nathanael Greene
09 Alexander Hamilton
10 Patrick Henry
11 Samuel Huntington
12 Thomas Jefferson
13 James Madison
14 Richard Montgomery
15 Thomas Paine
16 Paul Revere
17 Benjamin Rush
18 Deborah Samson
19 Mercy Otis Warren
20 George Washington

a. 18 b. 2, c. 1, d. 7, e. 13, f. 8, g. 6, h. 12, i. 4, j. 15,
k. 5, l. 19, m. 9, n. 16, o. 11, p. 14, q. 3, r. 17, s. 10, t. 20

If you would like to create your own word game for the Fourth of July or any day, try these sites, which have anagram generators, which I used to compile this list:

http://wordsmith.org/anagram - Most flexible
http://www.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/cgi-bin/anagram.cgi - 15 letter maximum
http://www.anagramgenius.com/server.html - Only one anagram per word, unless you download a free trial or join