What do the following partial words have to do with Christmas?

SER

FIY

 

HINT:

It's a secret.

 

Answer:

 

S(NICK)ER - SNICKER

FI(NICK)Y - FINICKY

 

Credit:

Gia Christian

SECRET SANTA 

Four Christmas-related words are concealed in the phrases below, with the letters in correct, but not consecutive order. Can you find them?

1. NOW READ THIS

2. GNATS LIVE IN STY

3. SILK BENT IN FLIGHT 

4. AMID STALE TOKENS

 

Answers:

 

1. noW REAd THis - WREATH

 

2. gNATs l IVe In sTY - NATIVITY 

 

3. SILk bENT iN f l IGHT - SILENT NIGHT

 

4. aMId STaLE TOkEns - MISTLETOE 

SANTA'S FAVORITE GAME

GAMES/ World of Puzzles

December, 2021

David Baskind

 

What property do these words have in common? 

1. SIT

2. CAP

3. SAP

4. CARD

5. CARE

6. CASE

7. GIST

8. TASE

9. PINE

10. WISE

11. SEWER

HINTS:

A. The title is a hint.

B. TAUGHT could be added to the list.

C. The same change has to be made to one of the the letters in each of the words. 

D. The letter that has to be changed is in the same position in each of the words.

Answers:

 

All the words become new ones when their second letter is replaced by "HO":

 

1. SIT - SHOT

2. CAP - CHOP

3. SAP - SHOP

4. CARD - CHORD

5. CARE - CHORE

6. CASE - CHOSE

7. GIST - GHOST

8. TASE - THOSE

9. PINE - PHONE

10. WISE - WHOSE

11. SEWER - SHOWER

 

NY Times Crossword
December 24, 2010
Jay Kaskel and Daniel Kantor

 What Christmas song is suggested by the following clues?

1. CHURCH HYMNS
2. CARRIAGE
3. NAUGHTY OR NICE
4. CHRISTMAS EVE

HINT:
It has to do with a certain type of letter.

Answer:

SILENT NIGHT

Going through the clues, you have a silent N in HYMNS, silent I in CARRIAGE, silent GH in NAUGHTY, and silent T in Christmas Eve - giving you Silent N, I, GH, T.

"Now Dasher! Now Dancer!
Now Prancer and Vixen!
On Comet! On Cupid!
On Donner and Blitzen!"

It's Christmas Eve, and Santa is having trouble with his computer. It's too late to have it repaired, so he has to work around the problem. He is able to send the following email:

To Bobby, Adam, and Danny,
     Mrs. Claus and I  know you all act as good boys, and I look forward to my visit with your family this Christmas. I will study your Christmas lists and try to bring a toy, book, or gift of clothing, which will bring you joy.
     I was fond of that snack you put out last Christmas. So was Rudolph. Many thanks from both of us. Wish us good flying conditions, with no rain or fog (although snow is all right).

                                                             Happy holidays,
                                                                    Santa Claus

Santa sent this message to 3boys@aol.com. He then asked Rudolph to send a message to each of the eight reindeer, directing them to report to work. Their email addresses are Dasher@aol.com, Dancer @aol.com, and so forth. But then Santa realized that because of his computer problem, only one reindeer would receive the message. Which reindeer?

Answer:

Cupid is the only reindeer that will receive the message, because Santa's computer keyboard's letter E is broken. In his email to Bobby, Adam, and Danny, Santa managed to avoid using any E's.

Credit: GAMES Magazine
December, 1999
David Senner
NO E MAIL? 

Note from JA: The name of the seventh reindeer is in dispute. Is it DONNER or DONDER? The original poem, "The Night Before Christmas" by Clement Moore says DONDER, which I personally prefer. I used DONNER in this puzzle because that is how Mr. Senner wrote it. 

HUMBUG!

In the Christmas song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," the 4th day gift is commonly written as Four Calling Birds. It should be Four Colly Birds. (Colly - or collie - means black.)

Santa's seventh reindeer is commonly referred to as DONNER. According to the poem " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas," his name is DONDER.

IN THIS KNOW
Credit: GAMES Magazine
December, 2001
Debora Omari

Can you make sense of this poem?

Eye eight sum little raise inns
Wile wall king in this no.
It 'twas might teak old out --
For bee lows hero.

The raise inns star Ted Free zing!
Watt was eye to dew?
Watt ewes is arrays in
Won ewe Ken know choo?

Ice awe sum little chilled wren
Play yin in this know,
Bill ding a fines gnome an
At for bee lows hero.

Eye gave them mall my raise inns,
An two migrate Sue prize,
They oozed my gift to make there man
A mouth, a know sand ayes!

Answer:

I ate some little raisins
While walking in the snow.
It was mighty cold out --
Four below zero.

The raisins started freezing!
What was I to do?
What use is a raisin 
When you cannot chew?

I saw some little children
Playing in the snow,
Building a fine snowman
At four below zero.

I gave them all my raisins,
And to my great surprise,
They used my gift to make their man
A mouth, a nose and eyes!

YULE OUTSOURCING

Credit: NY Times Crossword - Dec. 23, 2007

Adam J. Perl

Santa's had an easy season,

Lying in his big recliner;

If you ask him for a reason,

"Everything is made in China."

FOUR CHRISTMAS RIDDLES

1. What do sheep in Mexico say at Christmas?

2. How do you know Santa Claus is flat broke?

3. If Rudolph is the ninth reindeer, who is the tenth?

4. What is a three-letter word for a subordinate clause?

Answers:

1. "Fleece Navidad"

2. He's called Saint Nickleless

3. Olive ("All of the other reindeer/Used to laugh and call him names)

4. Elf

Sesquipedalian Christmas Songs

1. Move hitherward the entire assembly of those who are loyal in their belief.
2. Attune your auditory receptors! The celestial representatives produce harmonious vocal emanations.
3. Nocturnal period of uninterrupted quietude.
4. Embellish the interior passageways.
5. Small municipality southeast of Jerusalem.
6. Diminutive masculine master of skin-covered percussionistic cylinders.
7. Obese male personification fabricated from compressed ice crystals.
8. Imminent arrival to an urban area of the universally acknowledged symbol of the yuletide season.
9. In religiously inspired awe of a particular nocturnal period.
10. Perambulating through a geographic state of fantasy during the season of nature's dormancy.
11. The first person nominative plural of a triumvirate of far eastern monarchs.
12. Tintinnabulation of vacillating pendulums in inverted, metallic, resonant cups.
13. A distantly located improvised unit of neo-natal furniture particularly adapted to facilitate both diurnal and nocturnal repose.
14. Jovial greetings intended for the general population of the terrestrial sphere.

Answers:

1. O Come All Ye Faithful
2. Joy to the World
3. Silent Night
4. Deck the Halls
5. O Little Town of Bethlehem
6. The Little Drummer Boy
7. Frosty the Snowman
8. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
9. O Holy Night
10. Walking in a Winter Wonderland
11. We Three Kings of Orient Are
12. Jingle Bells
13. Away in a Manger
14. Joy to the World