Daily puzzle

Put The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County back in order

Seven beats from our edition of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, shuffled. Drag them, or use the arrows, until the story runs straight. No account, no streak to lose.

  1. The errand The narrator, prompted by a friend, asks Simon Wheeler about a supposed Leonidas W. Smiley.
  2. Wheeler corners him Wheeler blocks the narrator in and begins a long, solemn, unstoppable monologue about Jim Smiley.
  3. Smiley's mania Wheeler recounts Smiley's compulsion to bet on anything, including horses, dogs, and a sick neighbor's recovery.
  4. Dan'l Webster Smiley catches and trains a frog named Dan'l Webster into a champion jumper and the pride of the camp.
  5. The stranger's bet A stranger doubts the frog, and Smiley bets forty dollars, leaving to find a frog for the challenger.
  6. Buckshot While Smiley is away, the stranger loads Dan'l with quail shot so the frog cannot jump.
  7. The narrator flees The weighted frog loses, the stranger vanishes, and the narrator slips out before Wheeler can start again.