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Christmas Games for Verbal Analysis

Answer the following True/False questions on a fun Christmas theme to test your verbal skills.

1. The fifth letter of the word obtained by using the letters “M Y C I N E H” is “M”.

2. The word “ELF” can be formed with exactly nine matchsticks without bending or breaking any matchsticks.

3. There are only two vowels in each of the following reindeer names: Rudolph, Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Dancer, Dasher, Donder, Prancer, and Vixen.

4. If the word “paint” is replaced by “stock”, then the following sentence is meaningful: Black boots are out of paint, but we have got red paintings in paint.

5. The letters in the word “chimney” are in alphabetical order.

6. The following words have antonyms (words of opposite meaning) beginning with the letter S: happy, winter, joy, white, north.

7. The word “times” is spelt using five letters from the word “mistletoe”.

8. The word “snows” is a palindrome, i.e., it reads the same backwards as forwards.

9. An elf used 16 letter tiles and two blank tiles so as to read “FIRST OPEN COUNTER”. The elf then used the same 16 letter tiles and two blank tiles to read “FIR STOP ENCOUNTER”.

10. When the words COAT, CARD, BAKE, and TREE are written one below the other, the word CAKE is formed diagonally from left to right.

11. All the vowels appear in the following sentence: “Rudolph is the red-nosed reindeer”.

12. Each of the words “rein, snow, and stock” can be prefixed to the corresponding words “deer, flake, and king” to form three new words.

13. The word “scissors” is spelt using the first letters of the sentence: “Santa Claus is sorting some orange ribbons carefully.”

Answers:

1. False. The word is “C H I M N E Y” whose fifth letter is “N”.

2. True. The word “ELF” can be formed with exactly nine matchsticks as follows: 4 matchsticks for E, 2 matchsticks for L and 3 matchsticks for F.

3. True. The vowels in each name are given in brackets: Rudolph (u,o); Blitzen (i,e); Comet (o,e); Cupid (u,i); Dancer (a,e); Dasher (a,e); Donder (o,e); Prancer (a,e); and Vixen (i,e).

4. True. “Black boots are out of stock” means “black boots are not there for sale”. “We have got red stockings in stock” means “we have red stockings (coverings for legs and feet) available for sale”.

5. False. All the letters in “chimney” except the letter “e” are in alphabetical order.

6. False. The antonyms of “happy, winter, joy, white, north” are “sad, summer, sorrow, black, south”. The opposite of “white” is “black”, which does not begin with the letter S.

7. True. The word “times” is contained in the word “mistletoe”.

8. False. The word “snows” backwards reads “swons”. Some examples of palindromes are “Hannah”, “Mum”, “Dad”, “level”, “Madam”, and “Ten animals I slam in a net”.

9. True. The 16 letter tiles are kept in the same order and only the two blank tiles are moved to change “FIRST OPEN COUNTER” to “FIR STOP ENCOUNTER”.

10. True. COAT, CARD, BAKE, TREE

As seen, the bold letters form the word CAKE from top-left to bottom-right.

11. False. The five vowels are “a e i o u”. The sentence “Rudolph is the red-nosed reindeer” does not contain the letter “a”.

12. False. Though “reindeer” and “snowflake” are meaningful words, “stockking” is not. The correct spelling is “stocking”.

13. False. The last letter in the word “scissors” is “s”, whereas “carefully” starts with “c”.

to be continued