😎FUN FACT
10 year old Gayla Peevey of Oklahoma City first performed ♫I Want A Hippopotamus🦛 For Christmas♫ in 1953, but NOT as an effort to raise money for a local zoo. However a hippo was later donated to that facility.
REBUS
Something familiar is represented in the image below. Do you know what it is?
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THE LETTER SHUFFLE
How many new words can you make out the letters in CHRISTMAS?
We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX🎁 and discover the results from the December 13, 2025 Puzzle Corner.
HOLIDAY SPECIAL QUIZ
There have been a lot of Christmas specials over the years. Many produced by the Rankin-Bass Studio.
Can you match the Narrating Host to their classic Rankin-Bass holiday special?
Note: Since not every narrator was actually a character within the story, some of them either appeared as "themselves" or did not actually appear on screen at all.
THE NARRATORS
a. Fred Astaire
b. Shirley Booth
c. Jimmy Durante
d. Greer Garson
e. George Gobel
f. Andy Griffith
g. Buddy Hackett
h. Burl Ives
i. Roger Miller
j. Red Skelton
k. Jonathan Winters
THE SPECIALS
01. Frosty The Snowman⛄ (1969)
02. Frosty Returns (1992)
03. Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976)
04. The Little Drummer🥁 Boy (1968)
05. Jack Frost (1979)
06. Nestor, the Long Eared Christmas Donkey🫏 (1977)
07. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer🦌 (1964)
08. Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)
09. Santa Claus🎅 Is Coming To Town (1970)
10. Twas The Night Before Christmas (1974)
11. The Year Without A Santa Claus (1974)
THE MATCHES
Jimmy Durante was the unnamed host of Frosty The Snowman.⛄ (C-1)
Jonathan Winters was the unnamed narrator of Frosty Returns. (K-2)
An otherwise unidentified Andy Griffith escorted us through Frosty's Winter Wonderland. (F-3)
Greer Garson narrated The Little Drummer🥁 Boy off screen. (D-4)
George Gobel as Father Mouse told the main story, but Joel Grey recited Twas The Night Before Christmas. (E-10)
Buddy Hackett as Pardon-Me-Pete the Groundhog told the story of Jack Frost. (G-5)
Roger Miller as Spieltoe, a donkey belonging to Santa Claus, told the story of Nestor, the Long Earred Christmas Donkey.🫏 (I-6)
Burl Ives as Sam the Snowman related the story of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.🦌 (H-7)
Red Skelton as Father Time told us of Rudolph's Shiny New Year. (J-8)
Fred Astaire portrayed S(pecial) D(elivery) Kluger, a busy postman, because 🎅 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. (A-9)
And Shirley Booth as Mrs. Claus told the story of The Year Without A Santa Claus.
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