CURLING CRYPTOGRAM PUZZLES: Solutions

GENERAL FACTS

Curling is a team game played by two teams with four people per team on a rectangular sheet of ice. The teams take turns sliding polished granited stones down the ice towards a target called the house. Two sweepers with brooms go with the rock and sweep if necessary.

ORIGIN

It is thought that the game of curling was originally invented in late medieval Scotland. A curling stone with the date fifteen fifty-one inscribed on it was found when a pond in Dublane Scotland was drained.

IN THE OLYMPICS

Curling has been an offical Winter Olympics sport since nineteen ninety-eight. Curling first appeared as a demonstration sport in the nineteen twenty-four winter games. It was also a demonstration tournament in the nineteen thirty-two Winter Olympics Games between four teams from Canada and four teams from the United States.