GAMES


Answers to the games will appear in the next issue

CRYPTOGRAM



"R WRYK ZDDX CTZ JWDDX VRQO C UKTUK DB ONXDNA. XCLMK RQ'U C UEDQQRUO QORTJ, VK WRYK QD NTZKAENQ RTZNWJKTEK VRQO C WCNJO."
UORAWKL OKTZKAUDT




SOLUTION TO Last Month's' CRYPTOGRAM:


“VI GOI WSHRWJMIHQA G FISMLPISMGQ NIRNQI, GSH LM FRPIMLPIF NQGAF UGBRE VLMU MUGM RMUIO EIQIJOGMIH FISFI RD RWOF, MUI NOGEMLEGQ.”
TGPIF P. JGOOLI

"WE ARE UNDOUBTEDLY A SENTIMENTAL PEOPLE AND IT SOMETIMES PLAYS HAVOC WITH THAT OTHER CELEBRATED SENSE OF OURS THE PRACTICAL" JAMES M BARRIE







 

Quiz Game

Since this was an Olympic year, we thought we would try some sports questions. Ready, set, go! Go and watch Geordie (Wee Geordie) too!



1.The first ever match in Scotland of what sport was played was in December 1857?

2. What sport appears to have been devised by Scottish woodsmen?

3. What sport has as part of its equipment brooms?

4. What world famous sport played with clubs and a small ball originated in Scotland?

5. What game played in Scotland is similar to Irish “hurling” and Welsh “bando”?




ANSWERS TO Last Month's' QUIZ:

1. What color are the yorlins?
ANS:   yellow, yella, or yellae   would do


2. What color are the "rashes"?
ANS:   green  


3. What color is the rose my love is like?
ANS:   red  


4. What color eyes does Robert Burns say will cause his death, if the lass will not listen to his vows?
ANS:   blue  


5. Burns says he would like to be a bird that could shelter on a bush. What color blossoms would the bush have?

ANS:   purple  



 

THE SCRAMBLER

Unscramble these words. They all share something in common (besides being scrambled). Do you know what it is they share?


thesnicas

lutandherc

grayll

sinsnerve

ormyCart


ANSWERS TO "THE SCRAMBLER" from Last Issue


Unscramble these words. They all share something in common (besides being scrambled). Do you know what it is they share?


They are all firths!

LYCDE = Clyde
FHOTR = Forth
YAMOR = Moray
YUABLE = Beauly
ASLOWY = Solway




 

SCOTTISH PUZZLE

We discovered a very interesting site for those of you who like jigsaw puzzles. It has lots of jigsaw puzzles on it and is called Jigsaw explorer and can be reached by clicking the link to jigsawexplorer.com. In addition to having lots and lots of their own puzzles, they allow people to submit photos to them which they will turn into puzzles for you and put them up on the web. So Each issue now will have a link to a new puzzle that will show something about Scotland.

This month's puzzle is a parade in Glasgow and is found at Glasgow.

Glasgow puzzle

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