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GetOverIt | 10:03 Fri 28th Aug 2015 | Crosswords
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Has anyone else won the Mephisto crossword recently?

I was pleasantly surprised to receive a Whitakers Almanak in the post today, but a bit disappointed that its a 2013 edition - the same edition that I won about two years ago.

I now now display them side by side!!

  
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I known one shouldn't be churlish when you've won ,but frankly I'd be disappointed.
I would pen them a witty ditty - in duplicate of course.
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I'm wondering if they've put in some kind of standing order years ago but never updated the details of the order.

You can buy old editions like this one on Amazon for basically just the P&P.
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I can't argue - I've won the runner's up prize of £20 (which I really want to win) a few times.
The irony is that if you 'win' you get the Whitaker's ('worth' £50 - to whom, I ask myself??) but if you are a 'runner-up' you get £20 in hard cash. I know which I would rather have...(though I feel sure that I won a 2014 Whitaker's last year so I think you've had a particularly raw deal!)
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Thank you Frogman. On Amazon a 2013 Whitakers can be yours for the princely sum of £2.24
Mine (2013 and 2014 editions) went to the charity shop. I haven't felt their loss.

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