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Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part I: Ugly Sweaters

We asked readers if we should commemorate the holiday season by putting together some games, much like the one we put together for Thanksgiving. The response was a resounding "yes," so away we go.

As you can probably guess from the headline, we'll do 12 games, with 12 sets of answers. We aren't 100% sure how we'll spread them across the month, but at very least, we know that today is December 1, which means that we need to run the first entry today.

Our plan and goal is to develop 12 different concepts. We'll see how well that works out. Also, we recognize that not everyone celebrates Christmas, and so while we used the obvious headline for this series, we are considering all December holidays, and anything winter-related, to be fair game in terms of raw material.

And that brings us to today's game. Because we did not plan this out in advance, we'll be starting with something fairly simple, and something that reminds us that Christmas isn't the only game in town. One of the most notable holiday traditions to emerge in the 21st century is... ugly sweaters. So, in case you want to get on top of your ugly sweater game, we've got 12 of them below, each honoring a different December holiday or occasion. The game is to guess which holiday or occasion is being celebrated. Some are easy. Others, less so. We're going to give you the correct date to wear the sweater (sometimes, that date is just the first day of the multi-day occasion being celebrated), the sweater (or, sometimes, sweatshirt) itself, and four possible occasions. And with that said:

1. December 5:

The sweatshirt says 'WIE ZOET IS KRIJGT LEKKERS

a. Sinterklaas
b. St. Swithin's Day
c. Lek Gifting Day (Albania)
d. Unification Day (Germany)

2. December 14:

The sweater says 'THIS IS HOW WE JEW IT' and has dreidels, Stars of David and menorahs

a. Simchat Torah
b. Hanukkah
c. World Dreidel Championships (Final Round)
d. Rabbi Appreciation Day

3. December 15:

The sweater is green and white and says 'FA-LA-LA-LA F*CK SCOTUS

a. Founders' Day (Democratic Socialists of America)
b. Bill of Rights Day
c. Public Defenders' Appreciation Day
d. Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) Birthday

4. December 17:

An ugly brown and purple sweater with a drawing of a plane and the words 'Wright Bros.'

a. Wright Brothers Day
b. International Aviation Week
c. North Carolina Heritage Day
d. Pilot Appreciation Day

5. December 21:

Brown background, decorative elements in green that look like Maltese Crosses, a wreath at the center, and a pentagram within the wreath

a. Birthday of Anton LaVey (Founder of the Satanic Church)
b. Winter Solstice
c. Samhain (Druids)
d. International Heavy Metal Day

6. December 21, Also:

Black background, and a pattern with white question marks. There is a white bar across the sweater, and marching across is something that looks like upside-down snow cones

a. International Dalek Remembrance Day
b. Giving Tuesday
c. Ashura
d. Little Yule

7. December 22:

Cream background, red trim, a bunch of winter symbols like snowmen and santas, and on the chest are a half-dozen GIANT math symbols, like square root and infinity

a. Founders' Day (M.I.T.)
b. Nerd Appreciation Day
c. National Mathematics Day (U.S.)
d. Albert Einstein's Birthday

8. December 25:

A crocheted sweater with a reindeer that is clearly meant to be Rudolph, but has crazy eyes

a. National Mental Health Awareness Week (Canada)
b. International Save the Reindeer Day
c. Christmas
d. Techno Day

9. December 26:

Blue and red background, various winter decorations, and the center is a cat in a cowboy costume holding gifts, with the word 'UMOJA' underneath

a. Kwanzaa
b. Umoja (Saudi Arabia and parts of Syria)
c. Klöpfleinsnächte (Knocking Nights)
d. Cat Appreciation Day (Egypt)

10. December 26, Also:

A figure that looks like Mike Tyson, carrying a bag of gifts, and the caption 'MERRY CHRITHMITH'

a. International Speech Impediment Awareness Day
b. Mike Tyson's Birthday
c. Procrastinators Day
d. Boxing Day

11. December 28:

A white sweater with a bunch of giant, 3-D vegetables

a. International Farmers Day
b. Eat Vegetarian Day
c. Veg Out After the Holidays Day
d. Ōmisoka (Japanese New Year)

12. December 30:

Pink background, with three ribbon-shaped lines running across it, the ribbons are the color of bacon, but look like what would happen if you took a scalpel to someone

a. Surgeon Appreciation Day
b. Jurassic Park Week (the first film in the franchise was released on December 30, 1995)
c. Bacon Day
d. Roadkill Appreciation Day

If you want to register your best guesses, the link is here. You'll have until at least tomorrow night at 11:59 p.m. PT. (Z)


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