Coloring the olden scene for a Christmas memento
The notice invites readers to color a lithographic print styled scene using a color by numbers guide and mount it in a cardboard frame. It suggests orange brown light blue dark blue red lavender yellow and green as color options and provides a frame support diagram.
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Granny
King Features Syndicate
Continuous drawing puzzle of Mars in one stroke
A trick prompt explains how to draw a figure of a man on Mars in one continuous motion. Start by sketching the man, fold the paper, then draw Mars as an outer circle with a continuing line across the fold.
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Mars
Sly court riddle on ages reversed two-figure ages
A clever woman avoids naming her age by stating that her husband's age is the digits of her age reversed. The difference between their ages is one eleventh of their sum. Solve to find her age and her husband age.
Junior Christmas Tree Quest Stirs Holiday Brain Teasers
Junior begins a four tree hunt and seeks a non looping path to visit each tree and return to start. The puzzle promotes careful route planning without tracing aids or dead ends while interwoven with holiday wordplay and cryptic style clues about close and near topics.
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Ong
Junior
Cram Game For Holiday Parties Heads Are Hide and Seek
A party game called Cram starts with a Head Crammer who hides and after five minutes players search. Each finder hides in the same spot to avoid being seen, quickly filling a single hiding place with occupants. The last to find that spot becomes it.
Hidden Seasonal Riddle from Poets and Parade Day
A fragmented nostalgic prompt poses a five letter completion to Bayley and Wither verses, referencing Santa’s reindeer and a garbled word puzzle. The passage hints at Blitzen and Rudolf era phrasing, inviting reconstruction of a seasonal sentiment in a concise, era-appropriate line.
Great Books X Word Favorite Christmas Book List
A quirky feature highlights a world war era doctor authoring animal loving tales for children. It cites titles such as The Story of Mrs Tubbs and Tommy Tilly and Mrs Tubbs and traces origins to wartime letters to his children.
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Tilly
Mrs. Tubbs
Fence posts for two-sided driveway 100 feet long
A man fences both sides of a 100 foot driveway. With posts at 10 foot intervals, count posts along two sides. The solution places posts at every 10 feet on each side, totaling 22 posts, assuming corners counted once per side.
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