Clue 1: Trick or Treat?

ea as in treat ea as in head
scream bread
dream spread
bead health
beach dread
mean
beast

The thief prefers tricks.

Clue 2: Pick the Pumpkin

pray snake pain day

stay game rain whale

tail plate snail again

The digraph with the most matching words is ai so the thief must have brown eyes.

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Clue 3: A Scary, Hairy Clue

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chum dat cag rin ept jash

kick reef quib coid quass glog
tay short blot blard disp murbs
sloam zued greet dust disp murbs
meve clend braits parks high ploam
scrug splue mobe glisp goal model
shaj plend grene graint plope person
clend braits strunk teast snife chapter
scrug glerson ptraw plips noats reptiles
fnue flatcher thibe shlam gloost dice

white orange black brown green

The thief’s hair must be green.

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Clue 4: Witchy Whispers
Sentence -ing -ful -ly
I am so thankful they didn’t take anything else. x

What a dreadful thing to do! x

I keep wishing this is all a bad dream. x

They must have taken them very quickly! x

I was just playing in there the other day! x

I think I saw the criminal flying away from the scene. x

I will do everything I can to be helpful. x

Poor Wanda, she is really worrying. x

I was just sitting upstairs, minding my own business. x

I was gardening at the time. x

I was busy haunting the attic. x

We spend all year waiting for Halloween. x

They must have hidden them cleverly. x

I think the culprit must be good at acting. x

It makes me hopping mad! x

The suffix that is used the most is –ing.

This suffix is used 10 times so the thief must be 10 years old.

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Clue 5: Creepy Shoes

This is a complete disaster.

split digraph digraph

What else might they steal? I hope we have enough treats.

digraph split digraph digraph split digraph

Who will we invite to the party? I have seen them apple bobbing.

digraph split digraph Let’s celebrate all night. digraph split digraph

trigraph split digraph

3 4 5 3 4 5

The thief’s shoe size is 4.

The Halloween decorations were stolen by

Viola the Vampire.

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