Crosswords! What type do you enjoy!

[Caribeing]

What type of crossword do you like most, cryptic or general knowledge! Have you ever won a prize! I do Mail On Sunday enjoy the challenge, Express Magazine Crusader & Squire, find this quite tedious! What do you like and what would you recommend!!

[joggerjayne]

The Guardian, cryptic.

Never won a prize.

Do it on Monday. It gets harder as the week goes on (like a man, but in reverse!)

[stonekicker]

any where there is money involved! have won the �25 you magazine and �1000 sun express so is well worth the effort. also, it gives me something to do while i am getting p!ssed after work on a sunday...

[Jafi]

I enjoy Lovatts crosswords, especially the stinker, really gets the brain cells working.

No i've never won anything.

[bushcombe]

hi mary i do all the same one's as you and the times on saturday enjoy general knowledge ones the best can't get on with cryptic at all.the times is my favorite. have been doing them for about three years, won times about a month ago. someone i know won the you twice couple of years ago. good luck with your entrys

[Bluesmudge]

I won the Sunday Express �1000 crossie about 10 years ago but I haven't had a sniff since. What's more the prize has never gone up either! I have also had one �25 runners up prize in You magazine. The prizes are genuine but they are also very elusive. It comes down to luck of the draw in the end.

[Captain Spod]

Telegraph Cryptic. I've won runner up on Saturday twice, Sunday once, but the most recent was about five years ago.
GK are more difficult because if you don't know the answer you don't know the answer, with a cryptic you can work it out by solving the anagram etc. - but it takes a few months to get to know a new complier!

Good question.

[Jacko439]

Won �25 on the you magazine crossword a few years ago, have not had a sniff of a win since.

[gen2]

I much prefer cryptic crosswords. Used to send them in and won �25 book token about 12 or 15 years ago. Stopped sending them in as postage cost more than the winnings. I now only post in entries to those that have worthwhile prizes on offer (Who uses a fountain pen these days?) but still haven't won again.

For me, the enjoyment is in solving the puzzle - once completed, I lose interest.

I also enjoy helping others to solve puzzles (if they provide sufficient information to do so)

I never start solving the puzzle in my own paper until I go to bed so I usually avoid looking at posts of the current day's Daily Telegraph cryptic if any replies are showing.

[pippaspencer]

Hello Mary
I won the Daily Express Saturday xword 6 weeks ago - �100
although I have been doing them for years including the Sunday Mail and the sunday express.
Have probably spent that in postage stamps!
Pippa spencer Salop

[Haaard1]

I do the Telegraph cryptic 6 days a week and The Sunday Times Prize Crossword; I've entered the draws for both a few times but not won anything...the prizes tend to be fountain pens which I can't stand writing with, don't need or want, but I'm still chasing that elusive recognition :)