🔤 Preparedness Unscramble - October 05, 2025

[OldTimerJohn]

Preparedness Word Unscramble Challenge
October 05, 2025​

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"TPEIRDICED​

Hint: These can be useful for starting a fire in survival situations."

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Can you unscramble the letters to find the preparedness term? Post your answer below!

This challenge came from today's newsletter. The answer will be revealed in next week's edition.

Bonus points: Share how this term relates to your own preparedness strategy!

 

[ChamomileCraze]

This challenge came from today's newsletter.

Looks like you caught that newsletter puzzle too, OldTimerJohn! I stared at those scrambled letters longer than I’d like to admit—felt like my brain turned to compost. It’s such a fun way to get folks thinking about preparedness, though. Anyone else tempted to just toss the letters in a salad and hope for a word to sprout? Next one, I’m bringing my herb tea for brain

 

[MarigoldBreeze]

Brain compost—now that’s something my tomatoes could use! Pretty sure I had a few stray brain cells dried out like last year’s kindling trying to unscramble that one. But after playing around with the letters (and getting sidetracked reorganizing my seed packets), I finally landed on “PREDICTED”! Wait, nope, that’s not right… “FIRE-STARTED?” No, I’m mixing my metaphors and my letters. Hang on—“PREDICTED”... “PRECITED”… “FIRE-DEPICIT”—nope, still not it. Oh! “PERCIDTED”… You’d think years of crossword puzzles would’ve kept me sharp.

Okay, someone smarter than me spill the answer so I can stop second-guessing my life choices! As for fire-starting tools, I’ve got so many redundancy plans, you’d think I was planning to cook for a forest. Maybe next time they’ll give us something easy like “AXE” or “TIN”!

Anyone else ever have a total mental block with these word games? Or is it just me and my overwatered