Competitions Discussion Thread Part 16

josie301

chrissie57 wrote: »

Hi, fire***fly

Is there any way the answer could be 'LAPTOP'?:o

chrissie

fire**fly wrote: »

hiya chrissie,
i'm sorry, i've not the foggiest idea i've tried allsorts of combinations & the mag doesn't give any clue or help how
to help solve the puzzle, usually codewords you just put the letter which they give you in the numbered relevant squares,
but this one has 2 numbers in some of the squares,
i assumed the 6 would be A, 18 Y etc but must be wrong,
would be great if you could show how you figured out LAPTOP for the answer :j
this one has me stumped
thanks for replying & helping, you're an :A
x

I've had a look and I don't think that's the answer - the words won't work with those letters.

you are correct in assuming the 6=a 18=y etc, but you have a couple incorrectly marked in the scanned doc.

I've looked and looked and have no idea!
Sorry

bishopsgirl

fire**fly wrote: »

hi, help needed please,
been trying to fathom this out
for ages now but am not getting anywhere with it
can anyone help please

fire*fly
Do you think the top number in the circle is the letter in th grid of 26 letters and the lower letter in the circle is where the letter appears in the row of just 6.

Or am I just being daft and you already know this?

Edit while I was typing others seem to have had the same idea. Still can not work out the puzzle though. Sorry

hamster

I tried working backwards from LAPTOP and it all seemed to fit.

MsBooty

Hi All
I am a bit of a newbie and have a few questions and and also a thank you.

StokieBecks wrote: »

I thin a lot of people bookmark the dailies they want to enter and then just work their way through them every day.

I have saved bookmarks but cannot find them – is it a bookmark created on the site/forum or on my browser ?

One-Eye wrote: »

If you use this button (save the link in your favourites/bookmarks):-
QUOTE]

Where is this button? I do not see it?

Bonnie151 wrote: »

Ugh, I logged into my competitions Gmail email account last night to find it had been accessed by someone in Russia! :mad: I've changed the password and added the two step verification (a text is sent to your mobile with a code each time you log into the account from a new computer).

Thanks Bonnie, I have just set this up on my main gmail account

weeowens

MsBooty wrote: »

Hi All
I am a bit of a newbie and have a few questions and and also a thank you.



I have saved bookmarks but cannot find them – is it a bookmark created on the site/forum or on my browser ?

answer: You create the bookmark on your own PC.Click Bookmarks in Firefox or "favourites" in IE.

One-Eye wrote: »

If you use this button (save the link in your favourites/bookmarks):-
QUOTE]

Where is this button? I do not see it?


answer: MSE have taken the button off the board.Just click on the button above & it will sort it ie

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chrissie57

hamster wrote: »

I tried working backwards from LAPTOP and it all seemed to fit.

Thanks, hamster:) I love codewords but was baffled by this one - only really tried to get the letters that would fill the grid:o and when I got the two ps & the l, laptop seemed a reasonable fit.

However it was late and I'd had a bit of a rough day so I found it a little bit mind-bending:eek:

chrissie57

fire**fly wrote: »

hiya chrissie,
i'm sorry, i've not the foggiest idea i've tried allsorts of combinations & the mag doesn't give any clue or help how
to help solve the puzzle, usually codewords you just put the letter which they give you in the numbered relevant squares,
but this one has 2 numbers in some of the squares,
i assumed the 6 would be A, 18 Y etc but must be wrong,
would be great if you could show how you figured out LAPTOP for the answer :j
this one has me stumped
thanks for replying & helping, you're an :A
x

Hi, fire***fly

Hamster has kindly worked it out properly in a later post and Laptop seems as if it might fit.

The way they have numbered the circles is confusing, I think, and I noticed square 6 in the prize grid was down as 'A' - you had put an A in a circle near the bottom of the grid which also represented the 2 (correctly) in the prize grid but then you rubbed it - I sort of thought you might have been looking at it for a while and getting frustrated:o. Not many 3 letter words end with a H and I am a big Simpsons fan, so DOH seemed a good option at the top of the middle block.

I then cheated and googled 3 letter words ending in A:eek:, that gave me pea (which was wrong for the answer but still helped with grid) for one clue which led to alp for another so LAPTOP seemed a reasonable deduction.

The reason I phrased my reply as I did is that, beneath the puzzle, it says 'One of the words in the list is missing from the grid' which made me think that there was a checklist which you would be able to use to see if Laptop would fit - I'm guessing I was mistaken about that:o

Not sure if this explanation helps in any way:eek: - and still not sure I have helped:rotfl:

All the best for 2012:A

fire**fly

chrissie57 wrote: »

Hi, fire***fly

Hamster has kindly worked it out properly in a later post and Laptop seems as if it might fit.

The way they have numbered the circles is confusing, I think, and I noticed square 6 in the prize grid was down as 'A' - you had put an A in a circle near the bottom of the grid which also represented the 2 (correctly) in the prize grid but then you rubbed it - I sort of thought you might have been looking at it for a while and getting frustrated:o. Not many 3 letter words end with a H and I am a big Simpsons fan, so DOH seemed a good option at the top of the middle block.

I then cheated and googled 3 letter words ending in A:eek:, that gave me pea (which was wrong for the answer but still helped with grid) for one clue which led to alp for another so LAPTOP seemed a reasonable deduction.

The reason I phrased my reply as I did is that, beneath the puzzle, it says 'One of the words in the list is missing from the grid' which made me think that there was a checklist which you would be able to use to see if Laptop would fit - I'm guessing I was mistaken about that:o

Not sure if this explanation helps in any way:eek: - and still not sure I have helped:rotfl:

All the best for 2012:A

hiya chrissie,
just been going through the thread & seen all the help & reply's :j thanks to all xxx :T:T:A
yes, i'd done some in pencil & then scanned it out as i was making a mess of the actual pic, ended up nearly chucking it in the bin
i tried loads of things but was getting nowhere
your first reply with the answer was brilliant & as you do a lot of codewords would believe you'd the correct answer,
i just needed to see how it worked out with the letters to fathom out how they did the thing with the double circled letters
i've not come across one like that before & sometimes have to be shown how it works out so's can learn for the next time
i also was very tired, had been out the night before & didn't get to bed till gone 3 in the morning (helping SIL clear up her party buffet) & then had to be up for half 6 to help do an errand for someone, then was busy during the day (as we all are) so was getting tired & frustrated with the puzzle
i had to log out last night & get some sleep just after you'd replied

no, there wasn't a list, all that was on the scanned page is
just how the puzzle/page appeared in the puzzle book,
you helped tremendously :A:T:T
big thank you to you, hamster & all who helped :A
you're :A:A xxx

superlukey

Hi all and Happy New Year to everyone (esp the posters)

I know this question has been asked before - I don't do Facebook comps as I don't want all my friends to get bombarded with them all or see what I am up to. If I set up a separate comping fb account won't they still be able to find it if they do a search on my name?

More and more comps are fb ones so feel like I'm missing out....

Any help much appreciated!

StokieBecks

You can do it on one account. Just separate your comping friends onto a separate list and then when you share a comp you just select the comping list. Thats what I do. Facebook are starting to be very strict with duplicate accounts