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E: 02/01 Win a share of £10,000 (Daily Mail Puzzles - starts 27/12)
This weekend (December 27 and 28), celebrate the magic of Twixtmas (this joyful time between Christmas and New Year) with our bumper festive puzzle pullouts. Sit back and relax with our fun 8-page specials this weekend, bursting with mind-bending maths teasers, challenging word puzzles and a treasure trove of cash prizes.
Find the missing festive word in our giant wordsearches in Saturday’s Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday to be in with the chance of winning £2,500. But that’s not all! Solve Saturday and Sunday’s riddles and enter our £5,000 brain teaser jackpot competition.
Put your puzzle prowess to the test and you could start 2026 with a nice cash windfall.
Don't miss Twixtmas Teasers, only in The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday this weekend.
Twixtmas is the new buzz word for the period between Christmas and New Year. Thanks to the Daily Mail, you can escape the hustle bustle of the festivities and enjoy some precious me-time with our Bumper Puzzles Specials - packed full of puzzles and cash prizes to be won!
There’s our £2,500 Giant Wordsearch , which you can play every day and submit your answers on here for the chance to win this great cash prize. Be quick though, as entries close at 23:59 on the day of publication.
But that’s not all! Play the Giant Wordsearch puzzle every day and then answer the final Brain Teaser Jackpot question on Sunday, December 28, 2025 and you could be in with the chance of winning £5,000.
£2,500 DAILY GIANT WORDSEARCH
How to enter:
- Play the Giant Wordsearch on today’s Mail Bumper Puzzles Special pull-out.
- Complete your contact details in the form, then submit your answer for today’s Wordsearch game.
- For additional entries, you can also submit your answer by phone or text. See today’s paper for details.
All entries must be received by 23:59 on the day of publication. Texts and calls cost £1 each plus your standard network charge. Winners will be notified the next working day. UK residents, 18+, full terms and conditions apply .
£5,000 BRAIN TEASER JACKPOT
How to enter:
- The entry form for this game will open at 00.01 on Sunday, December 28 (once both riddles have been printed in the paper) and close at 23.59 on Friday, January 2, 2026.
- Once the entry form opens, complete your contact details in the form then submit your final answer.
All entries must be received by midnight on Friday, January 2, 2026. UK residents, 18+, full terms and conditions apply .
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR PRIZE DRAW
THE DAILY MAIL’S £10,000 TWIXTMAS TEASERS
Conditions of entry
- This promotion (each, a “Prize Draw” and together, the "Promotion") is only open to legal residents of the United Kingdom, and excludes employees and agents of (a) the Promoter and/or (b) any company connected with the production or distribution of this Promotion, as well as any members of their immediate family (e.g. spouse, parent, child, sibling) and persons living in the same household, whether or not related.
- Entrants must be aged 18 years or over at the time of entry. Proof of eligibility must be provided upon request. By entering the Promotion, entrants are deemed to accept and be bound by these terms and conditions.
- To enter:
- the daily £2,500 Giant Wordsearch Prize Draw (the “Giant Wordsearch Prize Draw”), entrants will need to answer the Giant Wordsearch correctly (each Giant Wordsearch can be found in that day’s Daily Mail Bumper Puzzles Special pull-out in the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday paper) and submit their answer by 23:59 GMT on the day of publication of that Giant Wordsearch via one (1) of the following entry routes:
- Online entry (free entry route) - Entrants can go to Mailplus.co.uk/twixtmasteasers and submit their answer and contact details (full name and email address); or
- Text entry - Entrants can text 65700 with the word CASH followed by their answer and full name (e.g. CASH ANSWER Sue Smith). Texts cost £1 per text plus your usual network charge; or
- Telephone entry - Entrants can call 0901 293 5200 and leave the answer, plus their full name and phone number. Calls cost £1 by a premium rate phone call plus your usual network charges.
- the two-day £5,000 Prize Draw (“£5,000 Brain Teaser”), entrants will need to collect their answers to the daily Giant Wordsearches published in the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday complete the solutions grid published on Sunday, December 28, 2025 and submit this by 23.59 on Friday, January 2, 2026 via one (1) of the following entry routes:
- Online entry (free entry route) - Entrants can go to Mailplus.co.uk/twixtmasteasers and submit their answer plus their contact details (full name and email address); or
- Text entry - Entrants can text 65700 with the word WIN followed by their answer and their full name (e.g. WIN ANSWER Sue Smith). Texts cost £1 per text plus your usual network charge; or
- Phone entry - Entrants can call 0901 293 5201 and leave their answer followed by their full name and phone number. Calls cost £1 by a premium rate phone call plus your usual network charges; or
- Mail+ Editions subscribers can submit their answer on the Mailplus.co.uk app.
- the daily £2,500 Giant Wordsearch Prize Draw (the “Giant Wordsearch Prize Draw”), entrants will need to answer the Giant Wordsearch correctly (each Giant Wordsearch can be found in that day’s Daily Mail Bumper Puzzles Special pull-out in the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday paper) and submit their answer by 23:59 GMT on the day of publication of that Giant Wordsearch via one (1) of the following entry routes:
- The Promotion is free to enter via Mailplus.co.uk/twixtmasteasers; however, internet access is required, or Entrants can enter via SMS which costs £1 per text or via telephone which costs £1 by a premium rate phone call, plus your usual network charge.
- Only one (1) entry will be accepted each for: (i) the Giant Wordsearch Prize Draw and (ii) the £5,000 Brain Teaser.
- The promotional activity for the Giant Wordsearch Prize Draw will run from 00:01 GMT on Saturday, December 27, 2025 until 23:59 GMT on Sunday, December 28, 2025 and the promotional activity for the £5,000 Brain Teaser shall run from 00:01 GMT on Saturday, December 27, 2025 until 23:59 GMT on Sunday, December 28, 2025 (the “Promotion Period”).
Winner
- There will be one (1) winner each day of the daily Giant Wordsearch Prize Draw over the two (2) days of the Promotion who will each win £2,500 cash and there will be one (1) winner of the £5,000 Brain Teaser who will win £5,000 cash (a “Prize”, together, the “Prizes”).
- Winners will be randomly selected from all eligible correct entries, conducted by a computer process that produces verifiably random results, from all eligible entries. Giant Wordsearch Prize Draw winners will be randomly selected from all eligible entries held on the following working day. The winner of the £5,000 Brain Teaser will be selected from all eligible entries in a random draw held within three (3) working days after the closing of the Promotion.
- The Giant Wordsearch Prize Draw winners will be notified that they have won their Prize within two (2) working days of the Promotion closing. The £5,000 Brain Teaser winner will be informed within five (5) working days of the Promotion closing. The winners will be given details of how to accept their Prize. Reasonable efforts will be made to contact the provisional winners, but it is each winner’s responsibility to monitor their phone and / or email address (including spam folder and voicemail for receipt of the notification). Failure by the winners to accept the Prize in the manner specified within five (5) working days of the Promoter's contact will make any claim invalid and the Promoter will then select another winner using the same random process.
- For the avoidance of doubt, the Prize does not include travel/transportation, accommodation, food, beverages, souvenirs, gratuities, car parking charges, or any other costs of a personal nature (including spending money) that are not explicitly set out in these Terms and Conditions and neither the Promoter nor any provider of any part of the Prize will be responsible for any such costs.
- The Prize is non-transferable and non-refundable.
- Gifts, prizes and other promotional items are not transferable, may not be re-sold and are subject to availability. The Promoter reserves the right in their reasonable discretion to substitute any such gift, prize or item with a gift, prize or item of equal or greater value.
- By entering the Promotion, each entrant acknowledges that in the event of a win, their surname and county of residence may be disclosed to persons enquiring, where permitted by law. Provided no objection is received from the winners, a winners list will be made available by the Promoter four (4) weeks after the end of the Promotion Period, for a period of eight (8) weeks. To request the winners list, please email competitions@mailnewspapers.co.uk. Without prejudice, the Promoter will provide winner information to the Advertising Standards Authority when requested by them.
- Entrants agree to provide reasonable cooperation to allow the Promoter to use the name and/or likeness of the winner for advertising and publicity purposes in connection with this Promotion including but not limited to publication of the winner's name and photograph on the Promoter’s websites. In addition, by submitting an entry and in consideration of the Promoter granting a right to enter the Promotion, entrants agree to grant the Promoter a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to any materials contained in the entry (including but not limited to text, images or video materials) (the “Materials”) worldwide and/or to incorporate the Materials in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in the Materials. By submitting Materials to the competition, an entrant:
- warrants that the Materials are its own original work and that it has the right to make them available for all the purposes specified above; that it does not infringe any law; that it is not obscene or libellous; and that it does not violate the rights of any third party;
- agrees to indemnify the Promoter against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred as a result of a breach of the above warranty; and
- agrees to waive any moral rights in the Materials for the purposes of its submission to, and publication by, the Promoter and the purposes specified above.
Personal information
- Any personal information provided to us as Promoter during the entry process (including but not limited to your name, e-mail address, telephone number and date of birth) must be correct. We as Promoter accept no responsibility for any incorrect personal information provided to us.
- We as Promoter will hold your personal information in accordance with these terms and conditions and our privacy policy (available here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/article-1388040/Privacy-Policy-Cookies.html).
General
- The determination and decision of the Promoter on all matters shall be final and no promotional correspondence or discussion will be entered into.
- The Promoter reserves the right in its reasonable discretion:
- to disqualify any claimant, competitor or nominee whose conduct is contrary to the spirit of the rules or the intention of the promotion and to declare as void any or all of their claims or entries based on such conduct;
- to declare as void any claims or entries resulting from any printing, production and/or distribution errors (including but not limited to any error(s) on any website of the Promoter, any game cards and/or other printed materials) or where there has been error(s) in any aspect of the preparation for or conduct of the promotion materially affecting the result of the promotion or the number of claimants or the value of claims;
- to add to or to waive any rules on reasonable notice; and/or,
- to cancel the promotion or any part of it at any stage in the event of circumstances beyond the Promoter's reasonable control.
- No entries will be accepted in bulk, from agents or third parties.
- To the fullest extent permitted by law (and subject to paragraph 22 below), the Promoter hereby excludes all warranties, representations, covenants and liabilities (whether express or implied) relating to this Promotion and/or the Prize.
- The Promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with any social media platform or any other third party. All third-party trademarks and other intellectual property rights are hereby acknowledged. Use of and entry to promotions via social media platforms is always subject to the rules, terms and policies of those platforms. By participating in the Promotion, entrants are providing information to the Promoter, not to any relevant social media platform. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the relevant social media platforms shall have no liability to any person in connection with or arising out of the Promotion howsoever caused, including for any costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities.
- Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude the Promoter's liability for:
- death or personal injury as a result of its negligence;
- fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
- any liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.
- The Promoter reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, suspend or cancel the Promotion should virus, bugs, tampering, fraud or other causes beyond the reasonable control of the Promoter corrupt or hinder the administration, security or proper play of the Promotion.
- If any of the provisions of these terms and conditions are held to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part that part shall be severed from the remainder of the provisions and the validity of the other provisions and the remainder of the provision in question shall not be affected.
- These terms and conditions shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales and any dispute shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales, except that residents of Scotland may also bring proceedings in the Scottish courts.
Promoter
- The Promoter is Associated Newspapers Limited, Northcliffe House, 9 Derry Street, London, United Kingdom W8 5HY (company number 00084121).
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Hi
£2500 Giant Wordsearch
Missing word for Saturday 27th - PICTIONARY
Enter here
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Hi
£2.500 Giant Wordsearch
Missing word for Sunday 28th - PRINCESS JASMINE
£5,000 Brain Teaser Jackpot - answer - JAMES STEWART
Enter here
https://creative.dailymail.co.uk/mailplus/2025/12-twixtmas-teasers/index.html
Good luck everyone
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