From the Puzzle Master - This is day FIVE of our five day puzzle series. Once a puzzle is posted, we'll keep it listed for the duration of the series. Answers can be submitted to any of the puzzles through Saturday, January 2. Also, incorrect answers can be resubmitted. Hopefully, we'll get back to you within a day after answers are received to let you know if your answer is correct. For every correct answer we receive, it will count as an entry in our contest. We'll draw first, second, and third place winners from all the correct answers received. To clarify, only one correct answer for each problem gets counted as an entry. Sending multiple correct answers for a particular problem will not help - at most, any one person will have up to five entries in the drawing.

A hint for the first puzzle... this "home away from home" is sometimes visible to the naked eye... but you could get  a sore neck looking for it! Yet another hint... This "home away from home" moves around the earth very fast, say at over 17,000 miles per hour!

On to the fifth and final puzzle, good luck!

Email Solutions to team1629puzzle@gmail.com


Fifth Puzzle - Thursday, Dec 31...

Santa's Reindeer Treat - Day 5

Santa is treating his reindeer to his favorite holiday beverage – Wassail. Here is his secret formula:

50% - unsweetened pineapple juice

25% - apple cider

25% - canned orange juice

Heat and serve spiced with cinnamon!

It seems like he has at least ten gallons of apple cider and ten gallons of canned orange juice but Santa only has 2 gallons of unsweetened pineapple juice. If he follows the formula, how many gallons of wassail can Santa make?

If you think you know the answer to today's puzzle, email it to team1629puzzle@gmail.com by Saturday, January 2.  First, second, and third place winners will be picked at random from all correct answers received.  Thanks for playing and be sure to get answers in by Saturday, January 2!!

Fourth Puzzle - Wednesday, Dec 30...

Santa around the World – Day 4

Let’s make it easy and say that the radius of the earth is about 4000 miles at the equator. If that’s the case, how fast (miles per hour) does Santa have to travel in order to make it around the world (along the equator) in his yearly 24 hour jaunt around the world? Don’t count stops or over complicate – remember Santa has magic dust!

Hint: Use 3.14 as the value for Pi and you can round the answer to the nearest whole mile per hour.

If you think you know the answer to today's puzzle, email it to team1629puzzle@gmail.com by Saturday, January 2.  First, second, and third place winners will be picked at random from all correct answers received.  Thanks for playing and check back tomorrow for another puzzle!

Third Puzzle - Tuesday, Dec 29...

Santa’s Gears – Day 3

Santa is trying to build a mechanical toy that that has an 8-tooth gear (white) driving a gear with 24 teeth (red).

If the 8-tooth gear makes 60 full revolutions in one minute, how many full revolutions will the 24-tooth gear make in FIVE (5) minutes?

If you think you know the answer to today's puzzle, email it to team1629puzzle@gmail.com by Saturday, January 2.  First, second, and third place winners will be picked at random from all correct answers received.  Thanks for playing and check back tomorrow for another puzzle!

Second Puzzle - Monday, Dec 28...

The True Cost of the Twelve Days of Christmas – Day 2

If each of the gifts in the “Twelve Days of Christmas” cost as listed, what would be the total price tag on all the gifts given and how many items would the recipient of these gifts receive after the twelve days?

Hint: Be sure to follow along with the entire song!

Costs are listed as the total cost of each set – not the unit price. For example, three French hens cost a total of $35.00 – NOT $35.00 each. When counting items however, three French hens count as three - each time they are mentioned!

A partridge in a pear tree, $184.00

Two Turtle Doves, $50.00

Three French Hens, $35.00

Four Calling Birds, $599.96

Five Golden Rings, $495.00

Six Geese-a-Laying, $260.00

Seven Swans Swimming, $5,200.00

Eight Milkmaids (hired for 1 hour), $58.40

Nine Ladies Dancing, $4,759.00

Ten Lords a-Leaping, $4,285.00

Eleven Pipers Piping, $2,213.40

Twelve Drummers Drumming, $2,450.00

Good luck, once you find the answer to today's puzzle, email it to team1629puzzle@gmail.com by Saturday, January 2.  First, second, and third place winners will be picked at random from all correct answers received.  Thanks for playing and check back tomorrow for another puzzle!


First puzzle - Sunday, Dec 27...

Wreath Grief – Day 1

On his way around the world, Santa encountered a “home away from home” where the tenants were trying to hang, unsuccessfully, a holiday wreath on the outside surface of their window.

The holiday decorators were trying to use suction cup with a hook on it to hang their wreath on a flat, clean, glass surface. No matter how hard they tried, they could not make the suction cup work on the outside of the window. However, the same suction cup worked flawlessly on the inside surface of the window.

Where is this “home away from home” and why didn’t the suction cup work on the outside of the window?

Hint: Temperature (how be it extreme) had nothing to do with why the suction cup did not work.

If you know the answer to today's puzzle, email it to team1629puzzle@gmail.com by Saturday, January 2.  First, second, and third place winners will be picked at random from all correct answers received.  Thanks for playing and check back tomorrow for another puzzle!