Christmas Quiz

[MtheP]

Getting urgent now, please help.

Rearranged a game brought this to a toddler? (12 letters)

Answer associated with the Festive Season.

[gen2]

I strongly suspect that the compiler of this quiz has made an error. My reasoning is as follows:

An anagram of 'a game' gives you magae which I suspect was intended to be Magi (Wise Men). The Magi brought gold, frankincense and myrrh to the young Jesus. Frankincense is 12 letters long.

Does anyone else agree with this reasoning?

[valerieb1254]

This question was asked a while ago and I also came up with Frankincense. Been trying to rearrange the letters to come up with the name of a game but to no avail.

Val

[Quizmonster]

Yep, I thought of frankincense, too, especially given the number of letters and the Christmas connection. However, I rejected it mainly on the grounds that a new-born babe can scarcely be called a 'toddler'.
On the other hand, 'mage' is an alternative for 'magus', the singular of 'magi' and presumably each of them gave an individual present. So, a mage did bring such a gift. Since nobody has come up with any other suggestion, MtheP, I'd go with frankincense.

[gen2]

Quizmonster, according to the bible, the magi were not there at the birth but arrived quite some time later when the baby Jesus might well have been a toddler. It is all those school Nativity plays that leads us to believe that the Magi were right there behind the shepherds. However, If we are to stick to the wording in the Bible (Matthew 2), then they simply brought 'gifts' and there is no mention of frankincense at all!

[MtheP]

Thank you all for your help. I'll go with frankincense. Thanks.

[biley]

What version of the Bible are you using Gen2? In most translations frankincense is mentioned as one of the gifts. Also it does say - They came to where the child was - in some translations - so I think the compiler does have licence to call Jesus a toddler at the time the Magi found him.

[gen2]

My apologies, biley, I was going by what I found on a website. I now see the following at this website :

Matthew 2:11-12
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

The Magi did not find a "baby in a manger in swaddling clothes" as did the shepherds a year and three months earlier. The Magi found a "YOUNG CHILD" in a "HOUSE." The Magi presented gifts "fit for a king." The fact that three kinds of gifts were presented does not mean that there were three men presenting them. These expensive gifts would have provided the family with the financial means needed to pack up and move to Egypt that very night.

I mistakenly believed what I read instead of corroborating the statement with what was on other sites.

[Quizmonster]

Toddler or not, the fact remains that "a mage" (click here) did present a gift specifically named in the Bible as 'frankincense'. Now that the Christ-child's possible age has been clarified - I regret my error in that regard - I'd say the clue is wholly justified and the answer is absolutely conclusive.