2022-2023 Lantern Riddles Guessing Competition

2022-2023 A Colourful Kick-start of the School Year: Lantern Riddles Guessing Competition

In early September, an array of festive lanterns in different colours hung in the school covered playground invigorated all teachers and students. Why was the campus decorated with vibrant-coloured lanterns? That’s obvious! They were for celebrating one of the best festivals of everyone’s childhood, the Mid-Autumn Festival.

From 8 to 13 September, the English Society organized a lantern riddle guessing competition in collaboration with some Chinese, English and Mathematics teachers at our school. Unlike the past few years, this year’s competition started a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival and continued until after the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, so that students and teachers could have a blast enjoying the fun of lantern riddle guessing.

The most surprising of this year’s riddles must be those with Mathematics elements. These challenging yet fun riddles encouraged students to discuss with their fellow schoolmates, which further enhanced the interactive learning environment at school. 

Do have a look at one of the most impressive riddles - “Break it and it gets better, immediately set and harder to break again.” What is the answer? Try to work it out with family or friends.

 

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The English Society members helping with the Lantern Guessing Competition

co-organised with Chinese Society and Mathematics Society.

 

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Students challenging themselves in the lantern riddle guessing game

 

 

The lantern riddle guessing competition was great fun. We took some time after school to hang all the lanterns onto a piece of string in the school cafeteria. I passed by the other day and so many students were trying to guess the answers. The corridor was so crowded! Everyone got most of the answers wrong but it was still pretty fun.

Fung Hiu Yu Denise - 5E

 

I enjoyed the lantern riddle guessing activity a lot. It was nice to have such a traditional game about Chinese festivals at school because I had never had a chance to play this game with my friends or family members. I will definitely test my parents with these riddles!

Aatiqa Mohammed - 1B

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