Christmas Riddles

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Christmas Riddles

  1. I fall like snow from a shaken sieve and whiten the cake below. One sneeze, and I'm a cloud in the kitchen air, and everyone will know. What am I?
  2. I am the one way into the house that nobody knocks at. I open to the sky, and in the old poem a visitor comes down me with a bound. What am I?
  3. I am the shelf above the fire. For one night a year, a row of long socks hangs from my edge. What am I?
  4. I am a small folded card with one name written on me. At the big dinner, I decide who sits beside Grandpa. What am I?
  5. I start with "Dear" and I end with a name, and I'm full of things I'd like. I travel north in an envelope, and I often mention a bike. What am I?
  6. What is the best Christmas present in the world?
  7. A sleighing song published in 1857 became a Christmas song only later. By its first title, how many horses pull the open sleigh?
  8. Which shining Christmas shape spells a pest when you read it backward?
  9. In my family the mothers wear antlers too, and they keep theirs after the fathers' have dropped at the start of winter. My other name is caribou. What am I?
  10. A child groans to unwrap us, and a grandfather is glad to. We come as a pair, and by February one of us is missing. What are we?

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These Christmas themed riddles cover the whole season: what waits in the stocking, on the table and at the door, then groaners, rhymes, and the nativity story and carols more than a century old.

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What am I Christmas riddles, rhymes and carols

The menu under the button keeps one set. What am I describes things in the stocking, on the table and at the door. Funny holds groaners and letter puzzles. In rhyme riddles run two or four lines. Nativity and old carols asks about the Christmas story and carols over a century old.

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Split into two teams. Read a riddle aloud; the first team to answer takes the point, and Show answer settles it with one line of why. The main button deals ten more.

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Where are the difficult Christmas riddles?

Choose More filters in the menu, then Level, then Hard. One of them: in the carol of twelve days of gifts, which two gifts tie at 42 each? The geese and the swans. The levels are the editors' judgment.

Are there adult Christmas riddles here?

Yes, meaning harder ones, never rude ones. The Hard level suits grown-ups: which of the three gifts in Matthew's story is spelled without an A, E, I, O or U? Myrrh. Every riddle is clean enough for a family table.

Are these Christmas riddles printable?

Yes. Print makes a sheet of the riddles on show, each with a line to write on, and puts the answers on a separate page. Pick a set first to print only that kind.

Are these holiday riddles only about Christmas?

Yes. Every riddle is about Christmas and its season: stockings, dinner, snow, carols and the nativity story. There is no riddle here about another winter festival.

What is a good Christmas riddle?

One with a turn in it. I am a gift, I am this very moment, and I am what you answer when the teacher calls your name. What word am I? Present.

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What am I 30

  • A child groans to unwrap us, and a grandfather is glad to. We come as a pair, and by February one of us is missing. What are we? Answer: Socks. Socks are the gift nobody asks for, and one always gets lost in the wash.
  • The first of my kind was printed in London in 1843. I arrive in an envelope, stand on a shelf for a month and then go into a drawer. What am I? Answer: A Christmas card. The first commercial Christmas card was made for Henry Cole in London in 1843.
  • Hum into me, and your voice comes out buzzing like a bee. I am the smallest thing in the stocking and the loudest. What am I? Answer: A kazoo. A kazoo turns a hum into a buzz.
  • I am a curl of dried tree bark. Stir a hot drink with me, and the whole kitchen smells like December. What am I? Answer: A cinnamon stick. Cinnamon is the inner bark of a tree, dried into a curl.
  • I am a log that nobody burns. I am cake rolled around cream, and a fork dragged through my icing gives me bark. What am I? Answer: A yule log cake. The cake is a rolled sponge, iced and scored to look like a log.
  • I am a plant and a flavor. I make your mouth feel cold when nothing is cold, and I am the usual taste of the striped cane. What am I? Answer: Peppermint. Candy canes are most often flavored with peppermint.
  • I am a ring with no finger and no stone. I am woven of evergreen, and I swing when the front door does. What am I? Answer: A wreath. A Christmas wreath is a circle of evergreen branches hung on a door.
  • I am a slip of paper tucked into the box. Because of me, the sweater can go back to the store and nobody's feelings are hurt. What am I? Answer: A gift receipt. A gift receipt lets a present be exchanged without showing its price.
  • I am a small folded card with one name written on me. At the big dinner, I decide who sits beside Grandpa. What am I? Answer: A place card. A place card marks one guest's seat at the table.
  • I am a truck with a blade for a chin. I work before dawn, so that the road is black again by breakfast. What am I? Answer: A snowplow. A plow truck pushes the snow off the road with its front blade.
  • I am clear, I am sticky, and I come on a roll. On the night of the wrapping, nobody can find where I begin. What am I? Answer: Tape. The loose end of a roll of clear tape is hard to see and harder to pick up.
  • I am round and bright, and by old custom I am tucked into a Christmas stocking with the small gifts. You will smell me on your fingers all morning. What am I? Answer: An orange. In North America, a mandarin orange in the stocking is a custom that goes back to the 1880s.
  • I am the metal outline of a star with nothing in the middle. Press me into dough, and I leave a star behind. What am I? Answer: A cookie cutter. A cutter is only an edge: the shape it cuts is the cookie.
  • I am the one way into the house that nobody knocks at. I open to the sky, and in the old poem a visitor comes down me with a bound. What am I? Answer: The chimney. In the 1823 poem, St. Nicholas lands on the roof and bounds down the chimney.
  • I am the shelf above the fire. For one night a year, a row of long socks hangs from my edge. What am I? Answer: The mantel. Stockings are hung from the mantel over the fireplace.
  • I came north from Mexico in the 1820s, and my English name is the name of the American diplomat who sent me home. I am sold in a pot every December. What am I? Answer: A poinsettia. The plant is native to Mexico and is named for Joel Roberts Poinsett.
  • I come in a wooden shell with a wrinkled face, and my two halves look like a tiny brain. What am I? Answer: A walnut. Crack the shell, and the kernel inside is lobed like a brain.
  • I have no roots in the ground. I grow high on the branch of another tree and take my water from it, and at Christmas I hang in a doorway. What am I? Answer: Mistletoe. Mistletoe is a parasitic plant that lives on the branches of a host tree.
  • I have one long handle and one wide mouth, and I am fed nothing but snow. The more I eat, the more your back complains. What am I? Answer: A snow shovel. Shoveling a driveway is heavy work.
  • I have runners and no wheels, a bench and no engine. Hitch a horse to me, and I cross the snow. What am I? Answer: A sleigh. A sleigh slides on two runners and is pulled by an animal.
  • I lie outside the front door and say one friendly word to everyone. In December I get more wet boots than thanks. What am I? Answer: The welcome mat. A doormat with WELCOME on it takes the snow off every visitor's boots.
  • I look like money, but my gold peels off and I am gone in one bite. What am I? Answer: A chocolate coin. The gold is foil, and the coin under it is chocolate.
  • I wait on the porch in a brown box with your name on my label. In December I seem to arrive every day. What am I? Answer: A package. Gifts ordered or sent from far away come to the door in boxes.
  • In my family the mothers wear antlers too, and they keep theirs after the fathers' have dropped at the start of winter. My other name is caribou. What am I? Answer: A reindeer. Male reindeer shed their antlers after the autumn rut; females keep theirs until they calve.
  • In the old warning, I am all a stocking holds after a bad year. I am black, I am hard, and I burn. What am I? Answer: A lump of coal. The old threat is that a child who behaved badly gets only coal.
  • My name says meat, and long ago that was true. Today I am a small sweet pie of dried fruit and spice. What am I? Answer: A mince pie. Mince pies were once made with meat; now the filling is fruit and spice.
  • Two people pull me, and I answer with a snap. Out fall a paper hat, a small prize and a joke that makes the whole table groan. What am I? Answer: A Christmas cracker. A cracker snaps when it is pulled apart and holds a hat, a gift and a joke.
  • We float on your hot cocoa like small white pillows, and we shrink while you watch. What are we? Answer: Marshmallows. Marshmallows melt into the hot drink they float on.
  • We look like cabbages grown for a dollhouse. We arrive at Christmas dinner in a steaming bowl, and half the table passes us along. What are we? Answer: Brussels sprouts. A sprout looks like a cabbage the size of a walnut.
  • Without us, the best toy under the wrapping paper does nothing at all. The box says we are not included. What are we? Answer: Batteries. A toy that needs them will not start, and they are sold apart.

Funny 30

  • Change one letter of GIFT, and what will carry you up a mountain? Answer: A lift. G becomes L: a ski lift.
  • Christmas starts with me, and magic stops with me. Which letter am I? Answer: The letter C. Christmas starts with a C, and magic ends with one.
  • Going by his home address, what nationality is the man in the red suit? Answer: North Polish. (the North Pole, and Polish)
  • How does the good king of the carol like his pizza? Answer: Deep pan, crisp and even. In the carol, the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even.
  • How much did Santa pay for his sleigh? Answer: Nothing. It was on the house. (on the house means free, and the roof is where he parks)
  • I am a gift, I am this very moment, and I am what you answer when the teacher calls your name. What word am I? Answer: Present. A present, the present, and "Present!" at roll call.
  • My first five letters are what a shop keeps on its shelves. My last four letters wear a crown. I am only eight letters long, and I hang by the fire. What am I? Answer: A stocking. STOCK and KING share the K: S-T-O-C-K-I-N-G.
  • Rearrange the letters of the name LEON. Which Christmas word appears? Answer: Noel. L-E-O-N becomes N-O-E-L.
  • Say "you will" as one short word, and you have said an old name for Christmas. What is it? Answer: Yule. You'll sounds just like Yule.
  • Shuffle the six letters of TINSEL, and you can join the army or find small bays along a coast. Which two words are they? Answer: Enlist and inlets. TINSEL, ENLIST and INLETS use the same six letters.
  • Swap the last two letters of ANGEL. What corner from math class do you get? Answer: An angle. A-N-G-E-L becomes A-N-G-L-E.
  • What comes at the very end of every Christmas Day, every Sunday and every birthday? Answer: The letter Y. Day, Sunday and birthday all end in Y.
  • What did one ornament whisper to the other? Answer: "I like hanging with you". (ornaments hang, and friends hang out)
  • What did the peanut butter say to the grape in December? Answer: "'Tis the season to be jelly". (jolly)
  • What do you call a letter sent up the chimney on Christmas Eve? Answer: Black mail. (the soot blackens it, and blackmail is one word too)
  • What do you call a reindeer that jumps out from behind the sleigh and shouts? Answer: A cari-boo. (caribou is another name for reindeer, and boo!)
  • What do you call Santa when he has spent his last five cents? Answer: Saint Nickel-less. (Saint Nicholas, and not a nickel left)
  • What do you call Santa when he solves mysteries? Answer: Santa Clues. (Santa Claus)
  • What do you get when you cross a famous archer of Sherwood with a spool of ribbon? Answer: Ribbon Hood. (Robin Hood)
  • What does a sheep in Mexico bleat on December 25? Answer: "Fleece Navidad". (Feliz Navidad is Spanish for merry Christmas)
  • What is striped red and white and feels blue all December? Answer: A sad candy cane. (to feel blue is to feel sad)
  • What is the best Christmas present in the world? Answer: A broken drum. You simply cannot beat it.
  • What might Santa feel halfway down a narrow chimney? Answer: Claus-trophobia. (claustrophobia, the fear of tight spaces)
  • Which athlete stays warmest all winter? Answer: The long jumper. (in Britain a jumper is a sweater)
  • Which insect hides in the middle of the word SANTA? Answer: An ant. S-ANT-A.
  • Which of the eight reindeer in the old poem could deliver valentines in February? Answer: Cupid. Cupid is one of the eight named in the 1823 poem, and the name of the figure on valentines.
  • Which shining Christmas shape spells a pest when you read it backward? Answer: A star. STAR read backward is RATS.
  • Why did nobody bid for the pair of reindeer at the auction? Answer: They were two deer. (too dear: in Britain, dear means expensive)
  • Why did the gingerbread man's joke fall flat? Answer: It was half-baked. (a half-baked idea is one that was not thought through)
  • Why was the spruce in the living room sent to the barber? Answer: It needed a trim. (to trim a tree is to decorate it)

In rhyme 30

  • Eight of us pull in the old poem's team, with four hooves each, all told. How many hooves come down on your roof on a night that is clear and cold? Answer: 32 hooves. 8 x 4 = 32. The 1823 poem names eight reindeer.
  • Fold me, snip me, open me wide: a square becomes a star. Taped to the window with six points out, I'm snow that never falls far. What am I? Answer: A paper snowflake. Folded paper, cut and opened, makes a six-pointed flake.
  • Four of us stand in a ring of green, and we are not lit together. One more of us burns each Sunday, whatever the December weather. What are we? Answer: The candles of an Advent wreath. One more candle is lit on each of the four Sundays before Christmas.
  • Full at the start and flat at the end, I ride at the back of the sleigh. In the stories I hold every toy in the world, and I give them all away. What am I? Answer: Santa's sack. The sack leaves full and comes home empty.
  • I am the day after the day, the twenty-sixth by date. In Britain I'm a holiday too, with leftovers on the plate. What day am I? Answer: Boxing Day. Boxing Day is the holiday of December 26 in Britain and the Commonwealth.
  • I am the last of twelve to come and the first to hope for snow. North of the equator I bring the shortest day you know. What month am I? Answer: December. The twelfth month holds the shortest day of the northern year.
  • I am three small words, and all three are the same. Said deep and loud, I am a laugh with a famous name. What am I? Answer: "Ho, ho, ho". It is the laugh of Santa Claus.
  • I fall like snow from a shaken sieve and whiten the cake below. One sneeze, and I'm a cloud in the kitchen air, and everyone will know. What am I? Answer: Powdered sugar. Powdered sugar is sifted over cakes and cookies to look like snow.
  • I gallop all day and I never leave the hall. I have a mane and a saddle and no stable at all. What am I? Answer: A rocking horse. A rocking horse rides in place on its curved rockers.
  • I give a gift and sign no name; I drew you out of a hat. You open it and look around and wonder who did that. Who am I? Answer: Your Secret Santa. In a Secret Santa swap, each person draws a name and gives in secret.
  • I have two wings and cannot fly. I'm made by lying down. Wave your arms and legs in the snow, and I'm the neatest shape in town. What am I? Answer: A snow angel. Sweeping arms make the wings and sweeping legs make the robe.
  • I start with "Dear" and I end with a name, and I'm full of things I'd like. I travel north in an envelope, and I often mention a bike. What am I? Answer: A letter to Santa. A wish list written as a letter and mailed to the North Pole.
  • I tie a box, and I can curl when a blade runs down my spine. By breakfast I am in a heap, though the night before I shine. What am I? Answer: Ribbon. Curling ribbon coils when the edge of a scissor blade is pulled along it.
  • I was a tree; now I'm split and stacked where the porch keeps off the snow. I warm you once when the axe comes down, and again when the embers glow. What am I? Answer: Firewood. The old saying is that firewood warms you twice: when you cut it and when you burn it.
  • I wear the snow like a thick white hat, and I keep the storm off your head. In the poem, a sleigh comes down on me while the children are in bed. What am I? Answer: The roof. In the 1823 poem the sleigh and its team land on the roof.
  • I'm asked from the back seat every ten miles on the road to Grandma's door. The answer is no, and the answer is no, and then I am asked once more. What question am I? Answer: "Are we there yet?". It is the question of every long holiday drive.
  • I'm knitted loud with a reindeer face, and sometimes my nose lights up. At the party I'm judged against the rest, and the worst of us wins the cup. What am I? Answer: An ugly Christmas sweater. At an ugly sweater party the prize goes to the loudest one.
  • I'm written when the feast is done and the paper's cleared away. I name the gift and the one who gave, and I'm mailed without delay. What am I? Answer: A thank-you note. A note of thanks names the present and the giver.
  • The morning news reads out a list while children cross their fingers. If your school's name is on it, then in bed the whole house lingers. What am I? Answer: A snow day. A snow day is a school day called off for the weather.
  • No two of us are quite the same, and none of us makes a sound. Six arms each, and by the million we whiten all the ground. What are we? Answer: Snowflakes. A snow crystal grows six arms, and each one forms a little differently.
  • Somebody got me and wished they had not, so I'm wrapped once more for the game. I'm picked, I'm unwrapped, I'm stolen away, and I'm named for a beast that's not tame. What kind of gift am I? Answer: A white elephant gift. In a white elephant swap, unwanted gifts are opened and stolen in turn.
  • The toy inside cost quite a lot; it beeped and flashed and spun. But I'm the thing the toddler chose, because I'm much more fun. What am I? Answer: The cardboard box. Small children often play with the box and not the toy.
  • Turn my handle, hear my tune, and wait, because I'm slow. On the very last note my lid flies up, and out jumps a clown: hello! What am I? Answer: A jack-in-the-box. A crank plays the tune and springs the lid.
  • Up the hill you pull me slow, and down the hill we fly. I have no wheels, I have no brakes, and I'm happiest when the snow is high. What am I? Answer: A sled. A sled is dragged up a hill and ridden down.
  • Visions of us danced in children's heads in a poem of 1823. Our name says fruit, but we are sugar, as hard as hard can be. What are we? Answer: Sugar plums. A sugar plum is a hard sugar candy, not a plum; the line is from A Visit from St. Nicholas.
  • We are a pair with blades for feet, and we write on a frozen lake. Lace us tight around your ankles, and count the turns you make. What are we? Answer: Ice skates. Skate blades cut lines into the ice.
  • We are many mouths with a single song, and we stand in rows to sing it. One of us waves a little stick, and the rest of us begin it. Who are we? Answer: A choir. The one with the stick is the conductor.
  • We match from Grandpa down to the dog, in stripes or plaid or deer. We're unwrapped first on Christmas Eve and worn for the photo each year. What are we? Answer: Matching Christmas pajamas. Some families give everyone the same pajamas the night before.
  • We wait on the hearth, a plate and a glass, for a guest who comes while the small hours pass. By morning we're crumbs and one white drop. What are we, left for a rooftop stop? Answer: Milk and cookies. A snack is left out for Santa on Christmas Eve.
  • Whatever weekday Christmas takes, one holiday takes it too. It comes exactly seven days on, when the year is new. Which holiday is it? Answer: New Year's Day. December 25 plus 7 days is January 1, so the two always share a weekday.

Nativity and old carols 30

  • A sleighing song published in 1857 became a Christmas song only later. By its first title, how many horses pull the open sleigh? Answer: One. It was first published as "The One Horse Open Sleigh".
  • At a carol service by candlelight, I am handed from one person to the next along every row, and nobody who gives me away has any less of me. What am I? Answer: A candle flame. Lighting a neighbor's candle takes nothing from your own.
  • Both Matthew and Luke set the first Christmas in me, and a carol calls me little. Which town am I? Answer: Bethlehem. The two gospels agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
  • The carol of "the first Noel" is traditional and English. Which county at the far southwest tip of England is it traced to? Answer: Cornwall. The carol has Cornish origins.
  • The carol of 1857 begins "We three kings". Where does the same line say they are from? Answer: The Orient. The first line is "We three kings of Orient are".
  • The carol that begins "Joy to the world" was written in 1719, and not from the Christmas story. Which book of songs in the Bible is it based on? Answer: The Psalms. Isaac Watts wrote it from Psalm 98.
  • Children put me on every December in bathrobes and paper crowns. There is a doll in a box of straw, and somebody always forgets a line. What am I? Answer: A nativity play. A nativity play acts out the Christmas story.
  • I am four Sundays of waiting before Christmas, and my name is Latin for a coming. What season am I? Answer: Advent. Advent starts on the fourth Sunday before Christmas; adventus means coming.
  • I am one of the three gifts in Matthew's story, and my name is spelled without an A, an E, an I, an O or a U. Which gift am I? Answer: Myrrh. M-Y-R-R-H has none of the five letters; gold has an O, and frankincense has an A, an I and two Es.
  • I am the feast of January 6, and in Western churches I remember the visit of the wise men. What am I? Answer: Epiphany. Epiphany, on January 6, marks the visit of the Magi.
  • I am the messenger in Luke's story who announces the birth to the men watching their sheep. Who am I? Answer: An angel. In Luke, an angel brings the news to the shepherds.
  • I come back after every verse of a carol, with the same words each time. By my third time around, even the shy ones are singing. What am I? Answer: The chorus. The chorus, or refrain, is repeated after each verse.
  • I was a bishop of Myra who, by tradition, died on December 6 in the year 343, and that day is still my feast. Tales of my secret gifts grew into Santa Claus. Who am I? Answer: Saint Nicholas. The legend of the bishop's secret gift-giving is where Santa Claus began.
  • I was built to hold hay for animals. In the Christmas story I am the baby's first bed. What am I? Answer: A manger. The Gospel of Luke tells of the birth in a manger, a feeding trough.
  • In the carol of the good king, a poor man comes in sight on a bitter night. What is he gathering? Answer: Winter fuel. The verse ends "gathering winter fuel": firewood.
  • In the carol where the halls are decked with boughs of holly, which three little syllables are sung over and over after each line? Answer: Fa la la. "Fa la la la la, la la la la" follows the lines of the carol.
  • In the old carol that counts twelve days of gifts, every gift is sent again on each later day. Which two gifts tie for the most, with 42 of each? Answer: The geese and the swans. Six geese on 7 days and seven swans on 6 days: 42 each.
  • In the song that begins "Dashing through the snow", the bells are not on the sleigh. Where do they ring? Answer: On the horse. The line is "Bells on bob tail ring", and sleigh bells were strapped to the harness of the horse.
  • It takes two carolers to make me: each sings a different note at the same moment. If one copies the other, I am gone. What am I? Answer: Harmony. Harmony is different notes sung together; the same note from both singers is unison.
  • Many an old carol is one of me: a song of praise, four letters long. My last letter makes no sound, so I sound exactly like a word for a boy or a man. What word am I? Answer: Hymn. H-Y-M-N: the N is silent, and hymn sounds like him.
  • My name is two words pushed together: a title and a church service. Pull them apart, and you have Christ and Mass. What word am I? Answer: Christmas. The word is recorded in Old English as Cristes maesse, Christ's Mass.
  • Paintings and plays put me beside the manger with an ox, and I stand in every model stable. The gospels' Christmas story never mentions me. What animal am I? Answer: A donkey. The ox and the donkey come from later tradition, not from the gospels' account of the birth.
  • Saint Stephen's Day is named in a carol about a king and his page. On what date does it fall? Answer: December 26. In Western churches, Saint Stephen's Day is the day after Christmas.
  • "Stille Nacht" are the first words of a carol first sung in an Austrian village in 1818. What language are they in? Answer: German. Stille Nacht is German for silent night.
  • Travelers from the East followed me to find a child. I am the only guide in the story that never spoke. What am I? Answer: The star of Bethlehem. In Matthew, a star leads the wise men.
  • We are in every Christmas play, crawling on all fours behind the children in bathrobes. That night we were out on the hillside too. What are we? Answer: The sheep. The shepherds' flock is the part given to the smallest children.
  • We are the only two of the four gospels that tell the Christmas story. One of us has the shepherds, and the other has the wise men. Which two books are we? Answer: Luke and Matthew. Luke tells of the shepherds and Matthew of the wise men; Mark and John have no birth story.
  • We are three gifts carried from the East. One of us is a metal, and the other two are sweet-smelling resins from trees. What are we? Answer: Gold, frankincense and myrrh. Matthew names the three gifts; frankincense and myrrh are both aromatic tree resins.
  • We came from the East, and we are called wise. A carol calls us kings and counts three of us, but Matthew gives us no crowns and no number. Who are we? Answer: The wise men. Matthew names three gifts; the visitors' number and rank come from later tradition.
  • We were out in the fields with our flock at night when the news reached us first. Who are we? Answer: The shepherds. In Luke, angels appear to shepherds near Bethlehem.
How this list was compiled

Written by the Game Night Generator editors on October 3, 2026: 120 Christmas riddles with one answer each, in four sets of 30. What am I describes things in the stocking, on the table and at the door. Funny holds groaners and letter puzzles; most of the puns have been told at Christmas tables for generations and belong to nobody, and each is retold here in the editors' words, with the play on words explained after the answer. In rhyme holds riddles of two or four rhymed lines, all the editors' own. Nativity and old carols holds riddles about the Christmas story as the gospels of Matthew and Luke tell it, about the feasts of the season and about carols old enough to be in the public domain, with a few word puzzles; what they state as fact is stated plainly. None was copied from a book or a site. No riddle of this list is told as a riddle on another page of this site; some of the facts behind it are also asked as quiz questions on our Christmas trivia pages. Every riddle that states a fact (a date, a custom, a plant, a line of a carol or of the 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas) keeps to the English Wikipedia article on its subject as it read on October 3, 2026 (en.wikipedia.org; text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, restated in our words); the riddle on the word hymn keeps to the English Wiktionary entry read the same day. Letter puzzles and sums were recomputed the same day. The three levels are the editors' judgment; nobody tested the riddles with a group. Licence: own work