2017
Christmas Puzzles
December 2017


“Christmas Puzzles,” Friend, December 2017

Funstuff

Christmas Puzzles

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Funstuff: Christmas Puzzles

Illustration by Brad Teare

Jumbled Jellybeans

Samantha gave her friend Kaisha a bag of jellybeans for Christmas full of Kaisha’s favorite colors. The bag has five different colors of jellybeans, each with a different amount. Can you figure out how many of each color went into the bag? Answers below.

Clues:

  1. There are twice as many purple as pink.

  2. There are three more orange than pink.

  3. There is one more blue than orange.

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2

3

4

5

Blue

Yellow

Purple

Orange

Pink

Rambling Riddles

Solve the riddles below! As you move down the puzzle, each new answer will use the letters of the previous word minus one. Sometimes you’ll have to rearrange the letters. After the fourth word, the words grow again by adding one letter at a time. Answers below.

  1. You open these on Christmas morning.

  2. When you want to make “rock” in rock, paper, scissors.

  3. What you do when you’re tired of standing.

  4. “Oh what fun it _ _ to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.”

  5. How you get down a snowy mountain fast, standing up.

  6. Where to wash your hands before eating Christmas treats!

  7. What a pig does when he wants breakfast.

Finish the Star

Can you place two letters inside the Christmas star to make two six-letter words and two four-letter words? Be sure to read the words in the direction the arrows are pointing. Answer below.

  • Answers: 1) gifts 2) fist 3) sit 4) is 5) ski 6) sink 7) oinks; 3 blue, 5 yellow, 2 purple, 4 orange, 1 pink; AS