solosater

And are the spaces on purpose?

solosater

Nevermind!

Dragon

Not that I'm usually very good at cryptograms to start with but I'm not sure I get the premise. I understand that the strings of 24 letters put in the right order will make a word search, but I don't get how the words in front give us a clue how to order them. Perhaps I am just not a word puzzler or did I miss some instructions?
I'm sure Robin and Sheftali will get it right away and say 'Jeez, how did Dragon miss that?'

Dragon

Also, is the word 6th from the bottom supposed to be PEAECABLE (which I've never actually heard of) or perhaps PEACEABLE?

Baldur

There are both words and phrases hidden in the puzzle.
If the word is used in a phrase you cannot also count it separately.

Now Dragon.....
There is no cryptogram portion to this puzzle, so you can breathe easier.

I'll draw up a mini example
If you are given these 5 sets of letters:
GRAMPDI
TRAYGUNK
OZNGJIL
HRAEBRD
NOLAWH

You can re-arrange then this way:

TRAYGUNK
HRAEBRD
OZNGJIL
NOLAWH
GRAMPDI

The word 'THONG' appears if you read down the first column.
If you poke around you will also find 'MARG'.

You need to do this with the 24 series of letters that Baldur has provided.
There is no scrambling of letters here at all.
The clue words that I start each line with are a logic puzzle on their own. You need to determine how to re-order them (and thus the letters that follow them) to form the correct block to use for your word search.

You can certainly help each other along

Baldur

It should be 'PEACEABLE'

The odd spaces kept re-appearing when I copied the letters onto this page, rather than risk making more errors I left them. There should be no spaces between letters in your game board.
The important thing is that there should be 24 letters per line, if I screwed that up even after recounting them over and over please let me know

Baldur

Baldur is hoping that he did not make any serious errors.
Proofreading this is quite impossible.

My suggestion about transcribing everything onto graph paper is to allign everything well so you can see diagonal words. When using 'typed' words the 'I' for example, takes up less room than letters such as 'W' or 'M'. This prevents letters from lining up nicely in columns.

solosater

Is anyone mking any headway here? I'm starting to feel stupid, I've not ever had this much trouble with a word search.

Baldur

I know the answer!
Oh wait, Baldur wrote it

Who is working on the puzzle? What have you figured out about the words I gave you to help sort the lines?

solosater

I've only noticed that they are inalphabetical order, I tried that but had no joy.

Baldur

but I told you that you needed to change the order, and indeed you do.

solosater

I did change the order, I alphabetized the rows by the first letter in the row not by the clue word...

Making sense?

solosater

I have found ten words and phrases in the original rows forward and back but none after I re-ordered them. I did find several almost but not quite words.

Baldur

Maybe you should take a break and enjoy the Gallery for a while, to refresh your mind.
Sometimes when Baldur tries too hard to solve something he developes a mental block.

solosater

We are re-ordering just the rows yes, and not the columns?

Baldur

Only reorder the rows, otherwise you'll just be scrambling the letters all up.

solosater

That's what I thought; I am apparently on the wrong track...

The clue words are a logic puzzle not a word puzzle?

Baldur

Yes, the clue words are a logic puzzle.

I can hear a tub of peach ice cream calling me from the freezer. It's muffled because of the door being shut but I can still hear it.
I'm going to try to ignore it.

solosater

I gave in to the chocolate Haagen-Dazs last night, probably will again tonight.

I love me some icecream!

I'm all about the fat too, I pour heavy cream over the top and leave it in the freezer for 10 -15 minutes to crust, OMG!

Yep I'll definitely be having some tonight...

Baldur

Maybe they're a logical word puzzle... how does one tell?
As in all things, once you know how to solve it, the whole darn thing is quite simple and obvious.