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Round 5 of the word game – Happy Christmas!

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“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more!” Dr Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

I hope Christmas has come with happiness to wherever you are. It’s been busy here.

This is today’s puzzle, and the final word challenge – Santa suspended. Here are three suggestions. Would love to hear yours if you have the time.

“Sending all new, totally awful suggestions, unless someone promptly enters novel data, express delivery”

“Santa ate nine tempting, appealing, super un-resistable sugary puddings easily, next, dangerously exhausted, dangled”

“Somewhere another new trainee appears stuck under stairs, profoundly embarrassed, needing delicate expert direction”

Thanks for playing!

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2023

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Round 4 of the word game – getting fiendish

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Whittaker’s Candy Cane

This delicious bar of chocolate has arrived all the way from New Zealand. The problem is resisting it, or, at least moderating intake. So, to spin out the pleasure, it has become today’s challenge. Hope you might have time to give it a go.

I’ve tried to create two sentences, the first letter of each word in the sentence beginning with the letters in Whittaker’s Candy Cane, each letter being used in the order it appears.

Here are my efforts. The first is a predicament.

What hope if the thriving, anticipating, Knaggs eats ravenously chocolate and new delights young Cate’s assembled, naming everyone?

The second is a little poem

When holly is thick,

the afternoons kiss evenings’ rich sunsets,

cold and new dawns yet coming,

candles adding nightly effervescence

Here’s hoping there’ll be another challenge tomorrow. Thanks for reading these.

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2023

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Round 3 of the word game – not too easy

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“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens

Brown paper packages tied up with strings

These are a few of my favourite things.”

Today’s word, in case you haven’t guessed, is wrapping paper.

Here are two attempts from me:

“What really angered Parcel Post in New Galloway – properly angered people – electric ribbon.”

“When rogues and pesky pirates instigate new gambles, pacifists and pangolins everywhere retreat.”

Hope you’ll have the time to have a go. Perhaps you could come up with a brand new sentence, or else improve either one, or both, of the above.

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2023