We’d like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum.

This is to keep it a safe and useful space for MoneySaving discussions. Threads that are – or become – political in nature may be removed in line with the Forum’s rules. Thank you for your understanding.

📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!
The Forum now has a brand new text editor, adding a bunch of handy features to use when creating posts. Read more in our how-to guide
Competition tagging is now live - Please tag your posts 🙏
🏷️ View / Follow Tags

E: WEEKLY :Win A mini Bottle of champagne ( new crosssword daily)

189101214

Comments

  • Yes, got it right "first time" :rotfl:
    hammy was a bit slow today, thought she would just beat me.
    The trouble with the counting is how fast do you count. If you count a bit slower than me, you might get away with only counting to 4. Sometimes I must count a bit quicker as I do still tilt now and then but my biggest problem is when I try to type fast, I catch the wrong key.

    :rotfl: Arrrghhhhh! Two days in a row I have typed badly :D
    I'm not even in the top 10 today although the 2 glasses of wine this evening probably didn't help :o
    The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents ;):o:D
  • thingamaBob
    thingamaBob Posts: 21,232 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Friday 5th September

    Across: Belly
    Down: Flop
  • thingamaBob
    thingamaBob Posts: 21,232 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Did it in 3.051 today..... but not showing on the leader board.

    [FONT=rial,]
    wrote:
    Congratulations selrach1947
    You came first in The First Post World's Fastest Crossword number 584.
    Your winning time was a very impressive 3.051 seconds.
    You may be interested to know that the slowest time was 13.062 seconds.

    So why not on the leader board:confused:

    [/FONT]
  • crin
    crin Posts: 3,540 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Tilt for me boo hoo. The people on the leaderboard today have very long times lol
    If at first you don't succeed try, try, try again.

    Eleventh Heaven # 550 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
  • thingamaBob
    thingamaBob Posts: 21,232 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    After chasing First Post again I have now had this further reply from Harry Underwood:-

    Robert,
    Sorry that nobody got back to you the previous time.

    We can’t give you out details of the previous prize winners. The competition isn’t a con.

    All the best,
    Harry.
    Harry Underwood's e-mail address is harry.underwood@thefirstpost.co.uk
  • Gilla_2
    Gilla_2 Posts: 13,228 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts

    [FONT=rial,]So why not on the leader board:confused: [/FONT]

    If you came first, have you won??
    42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot
    :hello: Good Luck everyone !:hello:
  • thingamaBob
    thingamaBob Posts: 21,232 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Gilla wrote: »
    If you came first, have you won??

    No, your position on the leader board has nothing to do with winning. The T&C's say that anyone making a correct entry will be entered into a draw regardless of the speed of entry. The leader board is only for fun.
    With the number of MSE'rs entering this and with a fairly low number of entrants overall, I find it hard to believe that someone from MSE hasn't won yet and if they won't publish a winners list how can we know that they are actually awarding any prizes at all.
  • toniq
    toniq Posts: 29,340 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    i reckon this is one for the isp, we have played this religiously for months and one of us would def have won by now, somedays only 8 enter, and they are all msers.xxx Im gonna email mister bigshot xxx
    #JusticeForGrenfell
  • thingamaBob
    thingamaBob Posts: 21,232 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Monday 8th September

    Across: Big
    Down: Bang
  • thingamaBob
    thingamaBob Posts: 21,232 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Tuesday 9th September

    Across: Fannie
    Down: Freddie
This discussion has been closed.
Meet your Ambassadors

🚀 Getting Started

Hi new member!

Our Getting Started Guide will help you get the most out of the Forum

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 354.6K Banking & Borrowing
  • 254.4K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
  • 455.5K Spending & Discounts
  • 247.5K Work, Benefits & Business
  • 604.3K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
  • 178.5K Life & Family
  • 261.8K Travel & Transport
  • 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
  • 16.1K Discuss & Feedback
  • 37.7K Read-Only Boards

Is this how you want to be seen?

We see you are using a default avatar. It takes only a few seconds to pick a picture.