mm links 24 dec

[jobjockey]

Well fellow puzzlers, another Christmas is almost upon us.
I don’t know whether your brains will be on full alert for this Christmas Eve’s effort so I have tried to make it as straightforward as possible with no tricky links (hopefully). I wish you all the season’s greetings and all the best for a happy and prosperous New Year.

Next week will be the end of my watch, I will be thinking of something suitable for the farewell, and I am looking forward to being on the players' side of the counter for the January competitions. Thanks to you all for your patience, and to Gen2 for his assistance and guidance with the computer. I find it very hard to pick up the tricks of a computer in my dotage.

Best Wishes again

KING JOHN (aka Jobjockey)

PS
Please note that the results will be posted by gen2 a couple of hours later than usual on Sunday. Look out for them around 9pm.

[gen2]

According to normal practice, for the everyday running of MM, I shall follow this rule on word length, in that each of my pre-selected link words contains at least four letters and at most eight letters. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts!

Each of the selected link words may go in front of, or behind my challenge word.
The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm, At 9 pm Sunday, gen2 will declare my pre-selected words and then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past. My set of four words to have their links predicted should appear below at 9.00am.

[gen2]

My seasonal greetings challenge words, are:

MERRY
CHRISTMAS (I'm allowed 9-letter words: You are not)
HAPPY
FAMILY

[ulysses100]

Good morning everyone, and may I take the opportunity of wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.

MERRYthought
CHRISTMAS pudding
clap HAPPY
FAMILY tree

[roslyn251254]

merry WIDOW
christmas PUDDING
TRIGGER happy
family HEIRLOOM

[tearinghair]

Morning all. I'll go for

Merry MAKING / MAKING merry
Christmas PUDDING
Happy HOUR
Family TREE

and a very happy Christmas to everyone.

[lysander]

Merry Andrew
Christmas stocking
Family tree
Happy hour

[rockfordill]

I'll try

Merry WIDOW
Christmas LUNCH
SHOPPING DAYS
HAPPY Family

[beejay1124]

make merry
christas card
trigger happy
family tree

[owllady]

Good morning all and a Happy Christmas to everybody

Merry MAKING
Christime TREE
Happy HOUR
Family FORTUNES

[fordward]

Merry goround
Christmas Party
Happy Feet
Family Fortune

[Christiana]

Happy Christmas

Make Merry
Christmas Cake
Happy Holidays
Extended family

[centrino]

merry GO-ROUND
christmas LUNCH
happy DAYS
family AFFAIRS

[roslyn251254]

J - are you making up your own links? shopping days?! Happy Xmas to you & yours!

[rockfordill]

Whoops - I meant
Merry WIDOW
Christmas STOCKING
Happy HOLIDAYS
Family PARTY
Bit late but it started a bit late too !

[kettledrum]

Merry England
Christmas carols
happy event
family bible

[middlestump]

merry HELL
christmas ISLAND
happy FACE
EXTENDED family

[Christiana]

Manxiemo's attempt:

Merry MAIDENS
Christmas CHEER
Happy HOLIDAY
Family DINNER

[slaney]

Make Merry
Christmas Spirit
Happy Hour
Family Circle

[evsajo]

Merry Xmas
White Christmas
Happy Talk
Family Group
HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE !!!!!

[rockfordill]

Thanks R - I spotted the error just about when you did.
I was a bit confused with the late start and the parallel threads
I was waiting on the wrong one - doesnt take much to confuse me!!
Happy hols to you and your J
J