THE PUZZLE CORNER: DECEMBER 26, 2020

😎FUN FACT

While a popular novelty song, 1953’s I Want A Hippopotamus🦛 For Christmas by then 10 year old Gayla Peevey was never planned as a fund raiser for an Oklahoma City zoo.

FAMOUS FIRSTS: THE CHRISTMAS CAROL EDITION🥇

Having been inundated with Christmas🎄 music by some radio stations since before Veterans Day this year, let’s see if you know who sang which song first?

01. Frosty the Snowman⛄

02. Have A Holly Jolly Christmas

03. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

04. Here Comes Santa Claus🎅

05. I’ll Be Home For Christmas

06. Jingle Bell Rock

07. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

08. Rocking Around The Christmas Tree🎄

09. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

10. Santa Baby

11. Santa Claus🎅 Is Coming To Town

12. Silver Bells

13. Sleigh Ride (as an instrumental)

14. Sleigh Ride (with lyrics)

15. White Christmas

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX🎁 and discover the results from the December 19, 2020 Puzzle Corner.

NUMBER PLEASE

Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.

How many presents can Santa Claus🎅 put into an empty sack?

1. Then it wouldn’t be empty any more.😉

THE LETTER SHUFFLE

How many new words can you spell out of the letters in CHRISTMAS?

A, act(s), ah(s), aim(s), air(s), am, amiss, arc(s), arch, arm(s), art(s), as, ash, ass, at

Cam(s), car(s), cart(s), cash, cast(s) cat(s), char(s), chair(s), charm(s), chart(s), chasm(s), chat(s), cram(s)

Ha, hair, ham(s), harm(s), has, hat(s), hi, him, his, hiss, hit(s)

I, I’m, is, it, its, it’s, itch

Ma, mach, march, mart(s), mash, mass, mast(s), mat(s), match, math, mint(s),mirth, miss, mist(s)

Racism, racist(s), ram(s), rash, rat(s), rich, rim(s)

Sash, sat, scam(s), scar(s), scat, sham(s), shirt(s), Sir, sis, sit(s), smash, smart(s), stair(s), star(s), starch, stash, stir(s)

Tar(s), this, Tis, trash, tram(s), trim(s), Tsar

Besides the 135 words listed above, Chris, Christ, and Sam might be eligible, depending upon your position of counting proper names in a game like this. Other words might also be possible.