E:30/04 Win your very own library worth over £13,000

bella165

looked but didnt see,from here http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/competition/index.html
direct link http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/competition

We've collected together more than 1300 Penguin Classics and here's your chance to win them all. This collection contains more than £13,000 of books for all tastes – truly the greatest books ever written and they could be yours.
To enter the competition, read the weekly stories posted on this site and, after the last story is posted, six questions will be published on this site. Correctly submitted answers will be put in a hat and a draw will be made to find the winner. Please do bear in mind that this prize is more than 25 metres of books – so do think about how and where you might store them!
Please note that this competition is only open to UK residents over the age of 16. Please click here for full terms and conditions

bella165

Competition Rules

1. No purchase necessary to enter the prize draw.
2. This prize draw is open to UK residents aged 16 years or over, with the exception of employees of the Promoter, their families, agents and anyone else connected with this promotion.
3. Entries must be received by Midnight of 30th April 2008. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any entries that are incomplete, illegible, corrupted or fail to reach the Promoter by the relevant closing date for any reason. Proof of posting or sending is not proof of receipt. Entries via agents or third parties are invalid. Entries become the property of the Promoter and are not returned.
4. Only one entry per person. No entrant may win more than one prize.
5. To enter simply send the answers to all six questions found on http://wetellstories.co.uk along with your personal details, including name, age, address and email address to competitions@wetellstories.co.uk. Entries that do not answer all six questions or entrants who answer one question at a time in six separate emails are not valid and will not be entered into the competition.
6. All correctly completed entries will be entered into a prize draw which will take place on 1st May 2008. The first entry drawn will be the winner.
7. The prize for the winner is one paperback of each book in The Penguin Classics Complete Library published before 31st December 2007 (a total over 1300 books). No substitutions can or will be made to this collection. Penguin will deliver this prize to the UK address specified with the entry.
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bella165 wrote: »

after the last story is posted, six questions will be published on this site.

Last story will be posted on Tues 22 April (from here) I'll try and remember to bump this then. Thanks very much for the post, I'd love to win this! :T

Splodz

"Please do bear in mind that this prize is more than 25 metres of books – so do think about how and where you might store them!"

Ha ha!! No idea where I would put them so I'll leave this one to those with bigger houses!! Good luck all!

kfer_kaz

wonder how much P&P would be :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

compblazer

I have the answers for weeks 1 & 2 but need help on week 3.

• Question for Week 1
  
  What is the name of the seaside town on the Firth where Rick beaches the dinghy? Pettycur
• Question for Week 2
  
  Where does Betty's Grandmother live? Queensland, Australia

• Question for Week 3
  
  What is the Mysterious Goblin's name?

Here is the clue...

The Goblin laughed. 'You will never meet the Starmaker. I have trapped you here and will only let you go if you guess my name from my riddle. And it is unguessable.'
'Tell me your riddle,' Heather declared, 'I know I can solve it'.
The Goblin recited his riddle in a singsong voice:

"My first is in sugar and also in sweet,
My second's a legume, tasty to eat,
My third is myself, my fourth's an old chick,
My fifth's in an apple and also a brick,
My sixth just repeats what my fourth said above,
My seventh's a thousand, you will be my love,
My eighth's simply fifty, my ninth is a breeze,
If you follow my meaning you'll find it with ease.
My whole is a strange name, of that there's no doubt,
But though berries may lie, the truth it will out.
You may call me a thing but I swear I'm a man,
Now come and find me. That is, if you can."

Next story is posted tomorrow 8/04/08 I think.

compblazer

If these clues are to do with Roman Numerals then

My seventh's a thousand

is M
and

My eighth's simply fifty

is L

_ _ _ _ _ _ M L_

But just thinking out loud

ROBDOLPHIN66

I think that the answer is SPINANKLE.

ROBDOLPHIN66

S is in sugar and sweet.
P(ea) is a legume that you eat.
I is self.
(he)N is an old chick.
A is in apple and a brick.
N same as four.
K is 1000
L is 50 Roman numerals
E not so sure on this one, but would anything else fit?

compblazer

Thanks, your answer seems correct to me.

NOSONDDU

NINTH - don't know if this is the reason for it being an E

you'll find it with ease = e's

where do you find the exerpts? the question is there

Question for Week 4

What is the local MP's name?