Hristmas Arols
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Below are ten clues, each of which relates to the first line of a different Christmas carol or song. Unlike the title of the teaser, these clues only have the first letters of each of the words.
Can you figure out what songs they are?
1. CROAOF
2. IDOAWC
3. RTRNRHAVSN
4. GGROBAR
5. IHABCWY
6. ISMKSC
7. OTFDOCMTLGTM
8. FTSWAJHS
9. IBMBOJHSSOM
10. JBJBJBR
Answer
1. A Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...)
2. White Christmas (I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...)
3. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose...)
4. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer (Grandma got run over by a reindeer...)
5. Blue Christmas (I'll have a blue Christmas without you...)
6. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus...)
7. The 12 Days of Christmas (On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...)
8. Frosty, the Snowman (Frosty, the snowman, was a jolly, happy soul...)
9. I'm Gettin' Nothin' for Christmas (I broke my bat on Johnny's head, somebody snitched on me...)
10. Jingle Bell Rock (Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock...)
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PENANDINK 
Aug 15, 2005
| I really loved your teaser it was a lot of fun. I didn't get it at first, but I never do |
(user deleted)
Aug 15, 2005
| I don't know most of those songs...  |
deadeye823 
Aug 15, 2005
| Nice one  |
Question_Mark 
Aug 15, 2005
| TWAGT. IEI. That was a good teaser. I enjoyed it. |
im_pid
Aug 15, 2005
| nice 1  really hard though |
lillith1975
Aug 15, 2005
| Great teaser, there were 2 of us looking at it, and still only got 4 of them. One thing though, on rudolph the red nosed reindeer, the first line is "Well there's Dasher and Dancer, and Prancer and Vixen.." Most folks forget about the intro though. lol. |
vikingboy
Aug 15, 2005
| phrebh, fun teaser!
I think lillith is incorrect, the book I have does not show that line.
but you are missing the correct first line from "i'm getting nothing for Christmas" It starts out "I broke my bat on Johnny's head..somebody snitched on me"
Love the teaser. |
NTaliesen
Aug 16, 2005
| How did you know I,m already humming carols (This happens in mid January for me)  Thanks for the awesome teaser. |
hit_the_sand
Aug 16, 2005
| I didn't know most of the songs, but I got a few of them!!! |
timon_dmlybots
Aug 16, 2005
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Almost got it all the Christmass carol....i missed one!!!!! |
courtneylray
Aug 17, 2005
| really fun, and lillith is right the intro is "well there's dasher and dancer, prancer and vixen, comet and cupid, donner and blitzen, but do you recall...the most famous reindeer of all..." |
froggygg
Aug 22, 2005
| Great teaser! I absolutely love Christmas carols and Christmas time! |
Pelikan
Aug 26, 2005
| i just got one of them  but still loved the teaser!!! |
Darklight
Sep 14, 2005
| HUH??? i would have never guessed that......hhhhmmmm maybe.....  ....but i liked it cuz it got me confused |
smarty_blondy
Sep 18, 2005
| Heehee, awsome teaser, i love to sing Christmas carols. What got me a bit stumped was the fact that we sing them in romanian, so i had to guess many of them. Still loved it, keep them coming. |
teaser55
Sep 26, 2005
| cool teaser I got half of them  |
dodger
Sep 26, 2005
| Phrebh is my favorite teaser. Another superb one to try and figure out. You've got me feeling all Christmassy now. Keep em coming.  |
Angelli
Sep 26, 2005
| Real hard... but really cool, I love it  |
thimblenoggin
Sep 26, 2005
| Never heard of IGNFCMADAM. Oh well. Nice one though.  |
Terilynne88
Sep 26, 2005
| Less than three months til Christmas and this puts me in the mood! Thanks. Got them all by 1 & 9, and should have had those. Great job! |
jabdr
Sep 26, 2005
| Loved this one! It's early morning for me and my brain was very slow kicking in! |
bluvsscoobydoo
Sep 26, 2005
| Awesome teaser! Pretty easy, but def got me in the Christmas spirit Can't wait for the holidays! |
MurfQ
Sep 26, 2005
| Great job! I was suprised that I couldn't get a lot of these in the short time I allowed myself. I was even more suprised that I never even heard of one of them before (Number 9). |
iteachkids
Sep 26, 2005
| I got 10 right away, and then 7. After that I was stuck. It's cool how this teaser put music in my head ... happy holiday music! |
bund76
Sep 26, 2005
| Very good teaser! Gets ya into the holiday spirit |
(user deleted)
Sep 26, 2005
| made me think this morning....loved it! |
jimmyb
Sep 26, 2005
| I'm waiting for that schmattazz lamahumpa. What kinda sass has he got today?  |
likeaboss92
Sep 26, 2005
| It was easy to me cuz of the title. ALthough i diidnt get all of them i got most of them. I really loved it. |
Question_Mark
Sep 26, 2005
| ST. IWGAILI. Sweet teaser. It was good and I liked it. |
gummbypal
Sep 26, 2005
| Ahhh the warmth of Christmas carols....the family around the glowing hearth singing Grandma got run over....brings a tear to your eye don't it? |
dogboy
Sep 26, 2005
| i got all but one only after reading the last one JBJBJBR gave it away to me |
akm365
Sep 26, 2005
| great teaser |
POPS
Sep 26, 2005
| I have never heard of songs 4 and 9 .  but I got all the other ones Good thinking on your part to come up with that kind of a teaser That will be in my favorite vault so I can ask my kids at XMAS. Thank you |
Nash-n-Seb
Sep 26, 2005
| ONLY THREE MORE MONTHS TILL CHRISTMAS !!!! YYEEAAA!!!
Well, this certainly got me in the Christmas Spirit !!! THANKS!! |
foreverfree
Sep 26, 2005
| i loved it!!!!! i absolutlu love chtistmas and have already started listening to christmas music! this christmas will be extra special cause my sister has been studying in egypt for 7 months and shes coming home dec 23rd!!! so anyways i only got 2 tho... i just am not good at thinking of things even tho i knew all the songs... great teaser!! |
precious1026
Sep 26, 2005
| I don't know many Christmas songs, but I was able to decipher at least three.
I made it |
ErIn_RuLeS
Sep 26, 2005
| that is soo good!!
I loved it!! |
BrenBeadSP
Sep 26, 2005
| Loved it thanks. My favorite was the jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock....... |
ceeyaaa
Sep 26, 2005
| Got all but 8 and 9...just didn't think of Frosty and didn't know the other..very good teaser..fun fun fun |
FulanitoGM
Sep 26, 2005
| I flunked. Got 50%... that's an F. Guess I'm going to get kicked out of Christmas 101! In my defense, there are a couple I'd never heard of, but regardless, there were some that I should have gotten for sure! The ones I did get right jumped right out at me... Anyway, good job... Feliz Navidad, everyone! Yeah, a little early, but the heck? |
shanniesue
Sep 26, 2005
| good grief! are we already doing christmas songs... I mean it isn't even halloween yet! |
bhssoccer23
Sep 27, 2005
| OMG, that was THE cutest thing EVER! Loved it, even though I didn't get ANY of them! Definitely going in my favorites! Thank you for this great teaser. God Bless! |
Haylie1506
Sep 28, 2005
| That was an AWESOME teaser!!! I didn't get some of them, but...oh, well... This one is going in my favorites!! |
schatzy228
Sep 28, 2005
| very good teaser,,,i got all but blue christmas,,i remember the song but not the first line but that was great |
talkinghands
Sep 28, 2005
| I enjoyed it but.......... |
ilubhyun
Sep 30, 2005
| It was fun!! but 4 me, a bit hard.. lol cuz I don't know many christmas carols.. but I really enjoyed it!! |
GebbieRose
Sep 27, 2006
| Cute one! Hey, where's the snow?? |
Rach_
Sep 27, 2006
| Brilliant!
My only complain is that you've gotten the songs stuck in my head |
marschie
Sep 27, 2006
| Good teaser (even though I never heard of most of the songs). I got three of them!!! |
twinklyspangle
Sep 27, 2006
| That was really fun. I didn't know a few of them though |
coachpisco
Sep 27, 2006
| Good one |
nstock
Sep 27, 2006
| Enjoyed it - but must be old fashioned, as I don't think of any of those as carols - Christmas songs, yes but not carols ( an example of a carol would be SNHNAWCAWB). Got half of them - and hadn't heard of a couple, but stil had a lot of fun. Thanks. |
Badger
Sep 27, 2006
| BAH HUMBUG! (That's Chinese for "I only got about half of them")
Good one, though, PHREBH. Going in to my favorites for the kids at Christmas! Thanks! |
bradon182001
Sep 27, 2006
| Didn't get any, but like Nstock, I was trying to fit traditional Christmas Carols (Silent Night, Away in a Manger, etc) to the letters and wasn't thinking about Christmas songs. In my book that makes this a good teaser. Any teaser that makes me "think" is a good teaser. |
Scitchr
Sep 27, 2006
| Liked it. Got the last one first, and then the rest Wish it was closer to Christmas. |
phrebh
Sep 27, 2006
| Thanks, all!
I also want to note that a carol is a song that may be sung while caroling, not a song with religious undertones. |
Pizzazz2u
Sep 27, 2006
| I must be getting a little bit older now... two of these I didn't recognize. But, this is a totally Awesome teaser. The songs are mostly older ones, but the new ones can be hard to keep up with. Keep up the superb work. |
locutus13ds
Sep 27, 2006
| Good one! Although I only got 6, I'm in trhe spirit.. DTHWBOHFLLLLLLLL |
(user deleted)
Sep 27, 2006
| Very good. I only caught 2 or 3 of them. Although I wouldn't consider #4 a carol per se. I mean would you really want to stand in front of someone's house and sing that? And I had completely forgotten about #9. Haven't heard that one in like 15 years. heh.
People caught the Rudolph one, but noone caught the White Christmas one. The into to White Christmas is:
The sun is shining, the grass is green; The orange and palm trees sway. There's never been such a day In Beverley Hills, L. A...
But it's December the twenty-fourth.. And I am longing to be up north... |
FeaerFactorY666
Sep 27, 2006
| cute!! |
phrebh
Sep 27, 2006
| Rudolph starts with the lyrics as given, and always has. The spoken word intro in the 1960's TV classic is not part of the song, even if it is sing-song.
And, yes, originally White Christmas was written with an opening verse, but Berlin dropped it. The verse was not included in either "Holiday Inn" or "White Christmas" nor was it in the two original recordings (the original 1942 master degraded so much that they had to rerecord it in 1947). It may have been included when Crosby introduced the song to the public on his radio show, The Kraft Music Hall, but since no recordings of that survive, it's hard to tell. |
scallio
Sep 27, 2006
| I only got a few of them. I was looking for more traditional Christmas carols. But then, I do love Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer!
I was singing every song I could think of to try and make them fit: Silent Night, Deck the Halls, We Three Kings, O Come All Ye Faithful, etc. Man this one was hard.
I really enjoyed this teaser!
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iteachkids
Sep 27, 2006
| ... and now, thanks to YU ...
IDOAWC!!! |
zaya
Sep 27, 2006
| Very fun, but why didn't you wait to submit this for Xmas season? Also, never heard of the song "I'm Gettin' Nothin' for Christmas". |
gracieboo
Sep 27, 2006
| Greatly enjoyed it! I only solved 4 but it really got me thinking!
I, too, have never heard of number 9 and I was also looking for ones I would know right away (Deck The Halls, Silent Night, etc.)
Good job!!! |
jabdr
Sep 27, 2006
| This was awesome! I only got 3 but it was sooo clever. |
whowantsbush
Sep 27, 2006
| Never heard of #9. Good one though. |
loony300
Sep 27, 2006
| that was a lot of fun, but really hard
Good one though |
Mariee
Sep 27, 2006
| I never heard of #4 or #9--still, I loved this teaser! |
tdbrsun
Sep 28, 2006
| I didn't catch on at first. When I did I really enjoyed trying to solve.Good One. |
Qrystal
Sep 28, 2006
| This was fun, though chosen as teaser of the day WAY too early, and I'm with Rach_ ... I'm not entirely happy that the songs are now stuck in my head...
At least I got em all! I guess I'm a certified Christmas song-singing freak. My family has a long-standing Christmastime tradition of a Christmas Carol singalong (and yes, I would consider all of these caroley enough to qualify!) |
labsmith
Sep 28, 2006
| Technically, I missed 4. I A Christmas Song and didn't catch the Chestnuts bit anyway. I don't know how I missed "Blue Christmas". I thought Elvis Presley did it beautifully. but two of them were just crass abominations. They're not Christmas songs or carols just crude jokes by crude immature minds. I had never heard of one of them before. It's embarassing to have other cultures think this is part of the U. S. idea of Christmas.
Having said that, we value free speech and these songs have entered common usage apparently.
I love the style of the brainteaser and hope to see more use of this technique. Poetry, famous literature?Thanks Phrebh for a clever teaser. |
lmurray 
Sep 30, 2006
| MY MOTHER'S COPY OF WHITE CHRISTMAS HAS THE INTRO, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHO SINGS IT. (IT'S AN OLD 78 RPM |
vlerma
Oct 03, 2006
| Ho! Ho! Ho! Good one Phrebh. I loved it! Was hard for me too as I was going over the traditional ones, that is what made it so much fun. And as for immature minds and the world thinking we are low grade, I bet there isn't much joy, or maybe I should say laughter in that home. People all over the world have humor. Where is yours? My Lord has a sense of humor! More please, Phrebh. |
kittygirl19 
Sep 05, 2009
| i #3 |
kittygirl19
Sep 05, 2009
| i #3 |
Barticus
Sep 27, 2009
| Good Teaser, but how did it get to be teaser of the day? I would save Christmas teasers until December. |
phyllisa
Sep 27, 2009
| Yes, it's a little early for Christmas songs, but good teaser, I missed "Frosty" and I never heard of #9. |
patiencewithaP
Sep 27, 2009
| Missed Grandma and I'm Gettin' Nothing for Christmas...very fun! Thanks! |
auntiesis
Sep 27, 2009
| I only got 5 or 6 and they were hard. Now I'll have Christmas songs in my head all day. Really fun teaser, difficult but fun. |
candygirl1515
Oct 01, 2009
| Interesting and Fun! Snowman is one word, though! |
Babe
Sep 27, 2012
| A lot of people making corrections. I had a struggle with it as I was looking for more of traditional Christmas song. Like Silent Night. We Three Kings, Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem, etc and did not see any of them so gave up. |
jaycr
Sep 27, 2012
| I don't do Christmas in Sept. I'll come back to this one in a few months. |
freakshow07
Sep 27, 2012
| Good teaser. Got them all. lillith is right thought. Rudolph starts with "you know dasher and dancer and prancer and vixen....." Still fun though! |
iggy39
Sep 27, 2012
| Fun teaser, didn't get them all missed one I don't remember at all. |
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