Saturday, November 30, 2019

THE PUZZLE CORNER: NOVEMBER 30, 2019

😎FUN FACT
November 29 should have been the official beginning of the 2019 Christmas retail season, but many have jumped the gun on this as early as HALLOWEEN!🎃

For those expecting Christmas themed enigmas today, sorry to disappoint but The Free Choice E-zine believes in holiday traditions, so those won’t start until it’s officially December!
Meanwhile…

IN OTHER WORDS
An alternate title to a famous movie is below. Do you know the film’s real name?
Metal Glass.

WHAT’S THAT SONG?
Words from a tune of the past are below. All you have to do is give us the song title. Ready?
♫Overture. Curtain. Lights!♫

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the November 23, 2019 Puzzle Corner.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇
Which President first declared Thanksgiving an official holiday in the United States?
Abraham Lincoln established it in 1863 on the very last Thursday of November.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt changed it to the Thursday of the last full week of November in 1941.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
How many new words can you form out of the letters in THANKSGIVING?
A, aging, ah, akin, an, angst, as, at,
Gag(s), gain(s), giant(s), gas, gat(s) <old 1930's slang for guns>, gig(s), gin(s), gist, git(s) <Hillbilly slang for scram/get>, giving
Hag(s), haggis <a Scottish delicacy>, hang(s), has, hat(s), having, hi <short form of "hello">, hiking, hint(s), hit(s)
I, ink(s), in(s), inn(s), is, it, its
Kin, king(s), kit(s), knight(s), knit(s)
Nag(s), nigh, night(s)
Sag, saint, sank, sat, saving, shag <a type of carpeting>, sight, sighting, sign, signing, sink, sinking, sin, shin, shining, sit, skin, skit, snag, snit, stag, staging, stain, staining, stank, sting, stinging, stink, stinking
Tag(s), tan(s), tank(s), than, thank(s), thin(s), thing(s), think(s), this, tin,
Vain, vat(s), visit, Viking(s) <the people, not the football team, which is a proper name and thus ineligible>, (AND) vista.
Other words besides the 117 above might be possible. But IV (the medical term) didn’t count because it’s an abbreviation. The Roman numerals II and IV are debatable, but the cuss word for human waste was not listed since this is a family oriented E-zine.

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