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Crosswords in the press - chances of winning?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.My father, his next door neighbour and I have all won The Times Saturday crossword - me twice. Plus I have recently won an FT arts quiz. But I have never won a Jumbo, sudoku or any Telegraph crosswords (I guess there are many more entries for the Telegraph than Times).
Once we have won, we send them in with another family member's name & address for a while - just in case they notice that the same people are winning!
Keep going though and good luck.
I won my first Times Saturday crossword in 1986 and have been entering since I completed my first crossword a couple of years earlier. (This was obviously long before Answerbank) and I didn't really expect to win anything, I was just so pleased that I could complete them.
I've won a number of prizes since then, but have gone for long periods without a win. So, even after all these years, it is still very nice to get that notification. As far as entries bearing corrections, I know I've won with Tippexed answers, so don't worry about that.
As to the odds of winning, it is obviously better to enter the more obscure crosswords, but whatever they are, they are the same odds for everyone who enters. Send them in regularly without expecting to win and you may get a surprise.
Good luck.
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