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Welcome to Title Builder Beta.

This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

As this is a Beta we only have a limited number of papers and quizzes listed. If you think your favourite Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle should be listed here don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Mail On Sunday I Spy

Wrangler3 | 07:27 Mon 02nd Feb 2015 | Crosswords

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Does any else share my grievance that the recently introduced I Spy entry to the General Knowledge Prize Crossword is basically unfair? It would be quite feasible for someone to text in the correct number of 'Is' appearing in the completed grid, whilst having some of the answers completely wrong or mis-spelled, negating the efforts of those who struggle to find the correct answers.

Also for postal entries, is it the correct crossword or the I Spy answer which counts? Strikes me the MoS hasn't really thought through its new (allegedly) fantastic puzzles pages! Maybe someone from the paper will read this and explain!

Radio Times Prize Crossword 6 Tuesday January 27Th 2015

Bird

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mallyh

i agree with you ,why can't they leave things alone .

factor-fiction

Perhaps because it's because they make some income from the texts whereas it took up a lot of wasted resources and required lots of paper to be shredded when they received tens of thousands of entries each week.

mastro

I agree
What was a nice informative puzzle...ruined.
Mastro

dannyk13

I agree totally ruined the crossword.

Wrangler3

Question Author

Glad I'm not alone! I wonder what the average number of entries is each week?

OAP60

I agree, you are absolutely right.

whitehill

And I wonder if it is worth sending it in any more - are they going to bother with the postal entries at all if it is so much easier to read a text or accept an automated phone call? But I begrudge paying them to accept my entry, as you do with texts and phone calls. Shame, especially as I have just cancelled my Saga subscription after a second month of their new 5 min prize crossword (it used to take me all month, even with the help of this site, but there was satisfaction in finishing it)

teeboy

Do as I do. I stopped sending in entries 3 years ago instead saving the postage from 2 competitions a week. After 24 months I had saved an amazing £150. Even more now that the postage has gone up so much.
good luck everyone.

Baldric

I fail to see why anyone who has access to Google would struggle to find the correct answers it usually takes longer to type in the question than it does for the answer to appear!

HBETTY8

I agree with Danny totally ruined it.

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