12/22/2022 Holiday Decor
This incomplete chart shows the number of various Christmas ornaments. There are 19 red ornaments and 49 green ornaments. Each color comes in large or small. The number of large green ornaments is twice the number of large red ornaments. The number of small green ornaments is three times the number of small red ornaments. If someone selects a red ornament at random, what is the probability that it will be large?
12/21
NAUGHTY NICE
PEAK VALLEY
DAY NIGHT
CHAOS ORDER
RAIN SHINE
REAP SOW
12/22
42%
Correct!
12/23/2022
Fill in the grid with ten 4-letter entries: four across, four down, and two on the downward long diagonals. Clues are given in random order. One letter is already placed. Can you fill the grid?
Paid athletes
Lion sound
Army beds
Karate move
Study all night
Feedbag fill
Untidiness
Bagel center
Coconut tree
Palo ____, CA
12/24/2022 Two At The End
If the digit 2 is written at the right-hand end of a certain number, that number is increased by 5753. Find the number.
639
Correct and correct!
12/25/2022 A Visit From St. Nick
Pair up each three-letter word with a four-letter word and rearrange the seven letters together to form a word or name associated with Santa’s visit. Each word below is used once only. What are the four words?
POD HYMN
ANY REST
ICE THUG
PEN HURL
12/26/2022 Triple Play
Insert the same letter into any position in each set of three words to create three 5-letter words. None of the added letters is S. When you’re finished, unscramble the six added letters to form something that might be English.
1. COLD BOGS ONCE
2. EVES UNIT QUIT
3. VISA SAID CUER
4. ERSE WHET RIDS
5. HEED BRAN SEAR
6. DOOR GASH ALOE
Final word: _________________________
12/26 I think the answer is Juglans regia
1. COuLD BOGuS OuNCE
2. ElVES UNlIT QUIlT
3. VIStA StAID CUtER
4. ERaSE WHEaT RaIDS
5. HEwED BRAwN SwEAR
6. DOnOR GnASH ALOnE
WALNUT, with DP providing the Latin
Correct
12/25
POD + HURL = RUDOLPH
ICE + HYMN = CHIMNEY
ANY + THUG = NAUGHTY
PEN + REST = PRESENT
Correct!
12/27/2022 Crime Caper
Four known criminals were brought in for questioning about a house burglary. One and only one of them is guilty of the crime. The criminals make these eight statements about the burglary:
Daniel: “I’m innocent. I didn’t do the burglary.”
Muffy: “I’m innocent. Daniel did the burglary.”
Vincent: “I’m innocent. Either Muffy or Wanda did the burglary.”
Wanda: “I’m innocent. Vincent is the culprit.”
If four of these eight statements are true and four are false, who committed the burglary?
12/27
Daniel committed the burglary.
True statements are: Muffy (1), Muffy (2),Vincent (1), and Wanda (1)
False statements are: Daniel (1), Daniel (2), Vincent (2), Wanda (2)
Correct!
12/28/2022 Boxed Mix
Unscramble the six words and enter them into the grid in some order so that the same words read across and down. One letter has been placed already. Watch out! Some scrambles may give more than one word, and only the correct six words will make the square.
N O R I E S
C H O T E L
T S I N C E
S T E E R R
L E E D E N
D C I T E S