I would like to share some holiday spirit and wish everyone a

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

After Halloween and Thanksgiving comes Christmas, every year without fail. Amazing actually, how some things never seem to change. Especially after this year 2024 which has seen a fair amount of change in directions that make me wonder – and worry a little – what next year will be like. But now is not the time. I would like to share some of the things I love (re-) using in the time before the holidays.

Food is always a great topic. And as the headline in the image suggests, there are also a lot of Christmas related sporcles to choose from.

Christmas Quiz, 15 quiz questions covering different fields

Find Five: Christmas Things Quiz

16 Little Christmas Pictograms, an emoji quiz

Can you name the Christmas movies? Christmas film scenes quiz

Can you name the 24 Things associated with an American Christmas

And some more Christmas food from different countries

Christmas Trivia Field Quiz

Christmas songs in Emojis

One of my all-time favorite games to play online are the online treasure hunts from Durham escape room. They are not for free, which, as I have mentioned elsewhere, is a good sign for quality. A two weeks license costs

In Santa’s Christmas Rush, Santa is back home and realizes to his dismay that he has forgotten the delivery of ten gifts. You have to help get them to their designated locations. The elves like to have some Christmas fun too and have made the job a little less easy to do. For each of the gifts they left a clue; using google maps and any source on the internet that helps, you have to find out where to take which gift. Great fun! And whenever you are stuck just check the clues to help you move on. And if they don’t help just check the answer and move on. Don’t spend too much time when things seem to be too difficult, especially if you are doing something like this for the first time. There are enough puzzles to solve.

In the sequel from 2022, some of the elves themselves are lost and need help 🙂

In 2010, Spotlight magazine published a wonderful Christmas Quiz. I still like sharing it.

The Big Day

In one of my Christmas readers is a story about the Christmas truce during World War I. The Christmas Truce of 1914 is a topic in its own right. You find a lot about it on the internet.

And here is a great blog for more stories (adfree like mine, just soooo good) Christmas Stories – A collection of 100+ favorite Christmas Stories

Christmas time is story time, a time when we leave our little Netflix bubbles (or whatever streaming service we use) and share the same stories, written, audio or visual. Most of us agree on what the best Christmas movies ever are, I think ;-). Great topic for conversational exchange. Here is one of the many lists you find, and one that has two of my favorites on it, even if only on position 6 and 20 ;-).

A little warm-up exercise: Rank the following movies into what you think is their order of popularity before you check with the source above.

• The Santa Claus (1994)
• National Lampoons’ Christmas Vacation (1989)
• Gremlins (1984)
• Scrooged (1988)
• White Christmas (1954)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
• Miracle on 34^th Street (1947)
• Love Actually (2003)
• Die Hard (1988)
• A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
• Home Alone (1990)
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Elf (2003)
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• A Christmas Story

I personally also like rereading, relistening or rewatching the Harry Potter series during the winter season. For me, the stories are more connected with winter – wonderful winter landscapes and a great Christmas party in book four. A new kind of game I started this September is playing a passage from one of the books I have as audio version read by Stephen Fry. Even non-HP fans can enjoy listening (I hope). You need to have two screens for this.

Scientific American podcast: How to avoid overconsumption during the holiday season

Fun Christmas Trivia Games | TriviaMaker – Quiz Creator

These are two of my favorites:

Christmas Trivia Time! – Custom Trivia Quiz Maker

Christmas Answer Battle – Holiday Trivia with score board – Custom Trivia Quiz Maker

Christmas JeoParody – Fun Christmas Games – Custom Trivia Quiz Maker

Some seasonal Geoguessrs:

Vitug Christmas 2022 – Map – GeoGuessr (it says easy)

Perth, Cocos (Keeling) & Christmas Islands, and Bangkok – Map – GeoGuessr (claimed to be very easy)