The Game Within The Christmas Murder Game

Game 1: The Twelve Days of Anagrams

The clues in the book are revealed on each of the twelve days of Christmas, so I have embedded anagrams of each the twelve gifts in the relevant section of the book.

 

1st Day of Christmas: find the anagram of ‘A partridge in a pear tree’

2^nd Day of Christmas: find the anagram of ‘Two turtle doves’

3^rd Day of Christmas: find the anagram of ‘Three French hens’

4^th Day of Christmas: find the anagram of ‘Four colly birds’

5^th Day of Christmas: find two anagrams of ‘Five gold rings’!

6^th Day of Christmas: find the anagram of ‘Six geese a-laying’

7^th Day of Christmas: find the anagram of ‘Seven swans a-swimming’

8^th Day of Christmas: find the anagram of ‘Eight maids a-milking’

9^th Day of Christmas: find the anagram of ‘Nine ladies dancing’

10^th Day of Christmas: find the anagram of ‘Ten lords a-leaping’

11^th Day of Christmas: find the anagram of ‘Eleven pipers piping’

12^th Day of Christmas: find the anagram of ‘Twelve drummers drumming’

 

Each anagram appears as a sequence of full words. For example, one anagram of ‘My true love sent to me’ is ‘novelette sore tummy’, which I will work into a sentence, i.e: ‘Alexandra rapidly consumed the novelette. Sore tummy aside, she considered it an interesting addition to the country house mystery.’ Or similar.

Some anagrams are easier than others to squeeze into a prose corset. Watch out for ones that don’t quite fit.