New Word Sudoku (Qudoku!) Puzzle for Thursday, 9/17/2009

Quick! What’s today? I’m willing to bet you didn’t know this is a day proclaimed by the U.S. Congress! September 17 is Constitution Day, or Citizenship Day, marking the anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Congress established this national holiday just a few years ago, in 2004.

According to http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_pre.html, the U.S. Constitution was written by several committees over the summer of 1787; the one committee most responsible for the final form, the "Committee of Stile and Arrangement," presented the Constitutional Convention with the final draft in mid-September. Some pretty famous names from American history were on this committee: Alexander Hamilton, William Johnson, Rufus King, James Madison and Gouverneur Morris.


photo: Wikimedia Commons

Haven’t heard much of that last guy, with the unusual first name? I know I didn’t cover him in any history class! But history remembers him well: In New York, a town and a county village are both named Gouverneur in his honor; and a WW II U.S. Liberty (cargo) ship was named the SS Gouverneur Morris. But more to the point here: The text of the Preamble and much of the final draft of the U.S. Constitution is usually attributed to Gouverneur Morris.




According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouverneur_Morris), Morris advanced the idea of being a citizen of a single union of states at a time in our history when most Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their respective states.

QUIMBY
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the words exactly once

VW CHOP
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once

DRAFTS
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once

JUNGLE
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once
Copy circled letters to the corresponding numbered cells in the quote grid to spell out the quote

Solutions first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave