Day Two Hundred and Twelve - Peggy Hill

I love Jeopardy. I watch it pretty much every single day. I'm reasonably good @ it except that Final Jeopardy is frequently not the happiest time of the day for me [I get it maybe once every 8-10 programs]. Anyway, the other day they had a category called "Words in Alex Trebek" - these clues were all words that could be made with the letters in Alex Trebek's name. I thought it might be an interesting mental exercise to try this for myself - as I am beyond awful @ jumbles, Boggle, etc. [as previously mentioned] - and I enjoy a good mental workout. Okay, I'm lying...I don't - but I'm trying to get more into puzzles and stuff to keep my mind sharp as I'm scared of going really senile really early.

So this evening I set my imaginary Boggle timer to 30 minutes and I attempted to make as many words as possible from my first and last names. I didn't come up with all that many words...and spent much of my time lamenting the lack of i and r in my name. I would love to be able to make a clever anagram from my name, but sadly I'm not that clever. If anyone else wants to try - go right ahead. Here are all of my words - I didn't use multiples [like adding s to things, even though since I do have an s in my name I could. if this were serious Boggle of course I would] and I went sparingly on the proper names/slang.

sub, she, he, helm, hey, eel, by, bye, be, ban, been, yes, yam, yak, keel, Yemen, nuke, nan, hue, Hun, man, men, musk, lamb, me, meek, able, abs, am, an, as, aye, ask, amble, kneel, human, bale, hay, Yule, beak, has, keel

As you can see - not really too many interesting words. Personal favourites include: eel, yak, amble, bale [as in Christian] and anything pirate-y. As an interesting aside I can spell the last name of one of my ex-boyfriends using this system - try to guess which one, I think you'll have fun.