Wrapping Paper Hints

Below are staggered hints for the puzzles on the 2022 Enigmailed wrapping paper.   

Please be warned, that if you click on the solution, the answer is immediately revealed. 

 

Hexagon Jigsaw

Hint 1

All the pieces fit in the larger blank grid.

Hint 2

Start by placing the U in the middle. The word is a compound word, (5,4).

Hint 3

The order the pieces can go in, using logic, are: pink, blue, blue, orange, orange, green, green, green, pink.

Backwords

Hint 1

Find all the parts, and pair them up, so they are the same number as the letter length of Paranoid, Antidote or Bartered.

Hint 2

Isolate the middle section of each word by using the middle numbers of the cracker.

Hint 3

Reverse each of these trios to formulate a word.

 

Sphere String 

Hint 1

Complete the clues and fill in the letters.

Hint 2

Starting with the filled dot, follow the string, collecting the letters.

Hint 3

When you have arrived at the end, you will have your word.

Buried treasure

Hint 1

Find all the half-buried letters

Hint 2

Identify what each letter is.

Hint 3

Anagram the solution

 

Crossblock

Hint 1

Add the letters from the bow into the letters below to make a word.

Hint 2

There is a shared letter. Collect this.

Hint 3

Put the shared latters together ot form a word.

Net Maze

Hint 1

'Capture' the letters within each colour region, so all the red letters in the reds starred region for example.

Hint 2

You will find two sets of letters.

Hint 3

Combine the two sets to make your solution

 

Antlerbet

Hint 1

Using the example, collect the letter which would land on the reindeer's face.

Hint 2

Where the letter is backwards, you should treat the alphabet as such.

Hint 3

Anagram your solution.

Tree Gift

Hint 1

The A and Z give you a clue. Count all the items on and under the tree.

Hint 2

Each represent a letter.

Hint 3

Collect the letters in the order shown.

 

Michael Bauble

Hint 1

Each bauble holds a letter.

Hint 2

Collect the letters.

Hint 3

Anagram them together.

Star Crossed

Hint 1

All the words are Christmas related.

Hint 2

Collect only the letters which are shared.

Hint 3

Anagram your solution.

 

Holly Wood

Hint 1

Find the symbols which shows that the holly is an arrow.

Hint 2

Follow all the arrows.

Hint 3

Uncover the hidden word.

Poppers

Hint 1

Seek out all the poppers. 

Hint 2

Match the letter parts to the popper itself.

Hint 3

Reassemble the letters and anagram your solution.

  

Solutions 

Hexagon Jigsaw

Fruitcake

 

Backwords

Tradition (TRA DIT ION)

 

Sphere string

Nutcracker

 

Buried Treasure

Yuletide

 

Crossblock

DECORATE

 

Net Maze 

Jingle Bells (Top left, Green net, Bottom, Blue net)

 

Antlerbet

pinecone

 

Tree Gift

Rudolph

 

Michael Bauble

PRESENTS

 

Star Crossed

STOCKING

 

Holly Wood

Mistletoe

 

Poppers

Tinsel