Competitions Discussion Thread Part 3

pinguisace

My friend has just had a e-mail saying he has won some ipod speakers and has 2 pay £2.99 delivery charge. Has anyone heard of them and how trustworthy are they.

Many Thanx in Advance.

VelvetGlove

kirsteenatom wrote: »

I posted this on the actual thread, but then a new thread got made so i didn't get any answers.
I am totally confused by the puzzler thread and all the links and numbers - can someone explain how it works? I can only see start times and not end dates and there is something about colour groupings things with the same answers!

I really need a beginners guide if anyone has the time to explain it.

Ta

Kirsteen

rrickyuk wrote: »

Oh yeah, me too.

I've wondered about that for months.

I'll give it a try - I thought the same as you two but then I sat down & read the whole darn thread (huge long thing it was!) & started to get a glimmer of understanding so let me share my thoughts to save you the time reading!
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1. You need to goto www.puzzler.com & register there so you can log in & access the magazine & online competitions there.
   When you've logged in, just below the Puzzler logo, there is a menu option for 'Puzzles & Prizes' (just next to 'Home'). Go there.
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2. In the 'Prizes' box - (bright pink outline, left hand side menu) click 'Online Competitions' & scroll down.
   There you will find online comps like crosswords, wordsearches, fillwords which you can either do yourself or wait for someone lovely to post a pic of the completed puzzle that you can copy the answers from
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3. In the 'Prizes' box - (bright pink outline, left hand side menu) click 'Magazine Competitions' & to the right you should see a drop down menu which says 'Select Issue' - this is where all the magazines are listed that can be entered online.
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   If you select any mag from the list you should then have a display about the closing date, competition ID code & what prize it is - with a box for you to type the answer in for each separate comp in that particular magazine.
   Some mags have only 1 prize comp, others have a few.

(I really hope you are still both with me so far!)


The First Post on the thread is like an index to all the current comps which are on the site. There are colour codings & links & end dates. I'll take each in turn

Colour Codings
These just show which magazines have competitions which have the same competition ID in them (ie, the same answer is published in a few different magazines which have different puzzles to be solved to reach that single answer. Handy if you like crosswords but hate wordsearches etc).

Puzzler Arrowords 47
Puzzler Code Words 126
Puzzler Crossword 15
Puzzler Kriss Kross 73
Puzzler Quick Crosswords 132

These mags above were all colour coded the same colour & grouped together on the page - this means we know at a glance that we only have to buy 1 of those listed mags (usually with your preferred method of quizes) to get the answers to all of them!

All those comps have the Comp ID: 7163 so when you answer 1 mag with 'COLD' which was the answer, then it will automatically fill all the other comps which have Comp ID: 7163 with the same answer.

Links
If a magazine has more than 1 Comp in it then the first post will usually link to the post within the thread that has the answers to that particular magazine.

I have to say I don't use the first post an awful lot as I tend to read the whole thread & thank the post to thank them for buying the mag & posting the answer & also so I know next time where I got up to!


End Dates
Well, I think the end dates are quite straightforward, what may be a little confusing are the other dates which let us know that a new mag has just been released (or will be soon) so it is on the list of mags on site which will need an answer. Think of those as prompts for folk so we remember to keep a look out for & buy the mag!


I'm hoping that has cleared up a few of the queries & confusing bits but if not then yell out & I'll fill in any gaps


(Sorry this was so long but it is hard to make this a short explanation! I tried & it was like gibberish! )

kirsteenatom

Oh thank you!!! that is brilliant, I will have a go now.

I really appreciate you taking the time!

have some extra lucky comping dust!

Kirsteen

hjb123

princessmoneysaver wrote: »

I posted a comp earlier today to win some baby show tickets, from a legit site, but it's disappeared - any ideas why?

Kipper - I have read the annoucement about sigs, will mine then be too big?

which site was it from? perhaps it was a duplicate?

princessmoneysaver

From Chelltune & I'm almost certain it's not a duplicate, I can't find it listed anywhere. How Strange?

melmel_2

I'm new and have tried to search but can't find anything .. how do you sort the threads by the date they were originally posted ?

thanks

mel

Northernstar

I have a quick question if someone can answer it, it would be very much appreciated, I just wondered on the MSE quiz fest if there was a prize at the end of each month, if there is are the prizes donated by MSEr's?

Edit: Have sent a pm to strepsy

scottishfreebiehunter

Could anyone tell me if the loose women comp cuts off when you have entered your quota for the day as lost count :mad: when I heard Liverpool getting beaten 2-1:eek:

VelvetGlove

scottishfreebiehunter wrote: »

Could anyone tell me if the loose women comp cuts off when you have entered your quota for the day as lost count :mad: when I heard Liverpool getting beaten 2-1:eek:

It comes up with a message in red which says you have exceeded your quota for the comp (or something like that) so you can't enter too many times - it will stop you

VelvetGlove

melmel wrote: »

I'm new and have tried to search but can't find anything .. how do you sort the threads by the date they were originally posted ?

thanks

mel

Hello melmel :hello:

Scroll down to the bottom of the main comp page and at the bottom of the list of threads is 'Display Options'. There is a drop down menu for 'Sorted by', select 'Thread Start Time' and then click the button 'Show Thread's.