Holiday Triples Puzzle

In this winter holiday-themed word puzzle, you must carefully arrange the letter trio cards to spell a variety of Christmas related words. Can you solve this Christmas challenge from Erich Friedman?

Puzzle Instructions

Combine the letter trios to spell out some words associated with Christmas. Each trio of letters will be used exactly once.

For example, RIB and BON can be combined to form RIBBON. What other Christmas themed words will you be able to find?

Puzzle Inspiration

This “Holiday Triples” puzzle was published by Erich Friedman in 2013 as part of a holiday puzzles collection. I knew it would make the perfect interactive puzzle for my math classroom! I discovered this puzzle and ended up creating my own holiday-inspired Halloween Triples Puzzle and Thanksgiving Triples Puzzle.

Back in April, I also shared a math-word version of this triples puzzle that can be used year-round!

Prepping the Puzzle

I printed the letter trio pages on green colored paper and it through my laminator before cutting the pieces apart.

I put ceramic disc magnets on the back of each word card so the puzzle could hang on my dry erase board. This is completely optional. For my Halloween and Thanksgiving versions of this puzzle, I just put the cards in ziplock bags and had students take the cards to their table to work on the puzzle.

Using the Puzzle in the Classroom

I am currently this puzzle as my puzzle of the week. My students have been really engaged with it. Since we have done the same puzzle for different holidays, I had a bunch of students jump right in and solve it since they already knew how the puzzle worked.