Strands#265 Did You Hear That?
Quizzes & Puzzles13 mins ago
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.In answer to BILEY...look on page 78 and you'll get today's answers to today's GK No 680...It takes the fun right out of it and I am grateful to learn that the FT do a decent quizz. I do get the FT and will make a start PRONTO! The Telegraph have been dumbing down their quizzes recently and it is losing them a lot of customers who really enjoy the arcane and the research it involves ...not to mention the camaraderie that this forum enjoys!
Shaneystar, I am puzzled - if you are not interested in the prize and enjoy just doing the crossword, what is the problem of having the answers in the paper as long as they are not on the same page? After all, one does not have to look at the answers until you have finished the crossword and you do not have to wait a week before finding out if you were right or not. It only takes a little self will not to look at the answers, doesn't it?
Alzheimer, thanks for the info. I do not get the Sunday Telegraph, as you might have gathered.
There is one point I would like to mention. If the website crossword is still a prize competition (which it certainly seems to be) why not do the paper crossword as if it is a prize crossword and send it in in the normal way? The Sunday Telegraph HAVE to accept it as an entry or else there would surely be legal ramifications - ie it does not state that only website entries are allowed (or at least I cannot see it if it does). Anybody know the legal position on this?
Wow I've certainly started something with that question!! My thinking is almost identical to Shaneystars. I like the challenge of completing and sending in a good crossword puzzle. The likelihood of winning is slight but its sooooo much more satisfying than just doing them for fun.
Financial Times here I come!!!!
Reckon the MOS GK Xword is quite challenging - at least it lets one "google" to one's heart's content (and furnishes one with loads and loads of useless information in the process) Mind you, you have to be a film-buff, avid reader of obscure books, or a sports fanatic to get the best from it!
Amazing how much post has been generated since STel started messing about. Surprised there wasn't a comment in today's edition. Must say,though, I thought the blank clue was very clever. Let's hope STel takes note of all our comments and reverts to how it used to be, making our Sundays enjoyable again.
AND if anyone would care to try and interpret the instructions for today's Enigmatic Variations, I should be most interested............:)
Think I'll try FT next weekend, unless STel gets its act together.
Re Tel .GK crosswords etc
Not all of us want to enter the crosswords..we just enjoy completing them! I'm an Aberdonian and we don't like spending money...so...no postage needed when you DON'T send them in!!! As for those of you that can withstand the temptation of turning over the page for the answers....I take my hat off to you all. Now .. where did I put that what's left of that big box of chocolates?!!! And the FT.....of course!
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