ON THE NINTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS MY TRUE LOVE SENT TO ME

NINE CHRISTMAS PUZZLES

At the North Pole we seven gnomes fight over the Christmas puzzle books to see if we can catch one another out . . . everyone except Gnigel who sleeps under the bed because he’s a little potty . . . Anyway, see if you can work out the following puzzles.

Riddles

1. What travels over water, under water but doesn’t touch water?

2. How do you get down from an elephant?

3. If there are two flies in an airing cupboard, which one is in the army?

4. What is 96 years old, walks with a stick and lives at the North Pole?

5. What tool do you use to flatten a ghost?

Word-search

6. Find the word that describes Father Christmas when he can’t find his thermal knickers on Christmas morning.

7.

Spot the difference 1.

8.

Spot the difference 2.

Test your knowledge

9. General Knowledge: Name three foods that begin with ‘t’.

10. History: Where was Ann Boleyn beheaded?

11. Biology: What is the largest mouse in the world?

12. Mathematics: If 2’s company and 3’s a crowd what are 4 and 5?

13. Physics: What do you call a snowman with a sun tan?

14. Geography: Where was King Solomon’s temple?

15. Christmas: How many ‘A’ levels has Father Christmas got?

Test your brain power

16. What seven letters did Father Christmas say when he looked in Gnigel’s earhole?

17. What two letters did Father Christmas say when he looked at Gnora’s rotten tooth?

18. What four letters did the hungry horse say?

Master-mind bender

19. Thirty days hath September, April, June and November, all the rest have thirty-one but . . . how many months have twenty-eight days?

AND NOW, CHECK YOUR ANSWERS . . .

Answers

Riddles:

1. A man on a bridge with a bucket of water on his head.

2. You don’t get down from an elephant – you get it from a swan.

3. The one on the tank.

4. A little cold lady.

5. A spirit level.

 

Word-search:

6. The answer is “x” – because he’s a little cross.

 

Spot the difference 1:

7. The difference is that you can’t dip a sailor in your soft-boiled egg.

 

Spot the difference 2:

8. There is no difference; they are both pictures of Father Christmas’ house in a snowstorm.

 

Test your knowledge:

9. Tin of plums, tin of peaches and tin of peas.

10. Just below the chin.

11. The hippo-poto-mouse.

12. Nine.

13. A puddle.

14. On his forehead.

15. None. He just has “Ho! Ho! Ho!” levels.

 

Test your brain-power:

16. O.I.C.U.R.M.T.

17. D.K.

18. If you said M.T.G.G. you’d be wrong! The answer is nothing – ’cos horses can’t talk, stupid!

 

Master-mind-bender

19. They all have! Ho! Ho! Ho!

 

Now Check Your Score

20: Dirty rotten cheat! There were only nineteen questions.

10-19: Clever clogs.

1-9: Thicko!

0: Look out, Gnigel, someone out there’s as dim as you!