Monthly Prize Puzzle 088 – Review
September 2019
Hail Caesar! – A Puzzle by Prolixic
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A Caesar cipher encodes words by shifting the letters by a set number of places.… Continue reading
Category: Prolixic (Prize)
MPP – 088
Monthly Prize Puzzle (September 2019)
Hail Caesar! by Prolixic
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Why not have a go at our latest Monthly Prize Puzzle?
The winner will receive their choice of any of the Telegraph Crossword Books.
Please note that, due to punitive postal charges, while the competition is open to all, the prize is only available to UK solvers.
A review will follow after the closing date (21st September 2019).
The competition is now closed
MPP 084 – Review
Monthly Prize Puzzle 084 – Review
May 2019
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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This month’s winner of a Telegraph Puzzles Book of their choice is Roland Rance.
MPP – 084
Monthly Prize Puzzle (May 2019)
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Why not have a go at our latest Monthly Prize Puzzle?
The winner will receive their choice of any of the Telegraph Crossword Books.
Please note that, due to punitive postal charges, while the competition is open to all, the prize is only available to UK solvers.
A review will follow after the closing date (18th May 2019).
The competition is now closed
MPP 082 – Review
MPP No 082
A puzzle by Prolixic
The instructions said: A number of solutions contain a common feature and a smaller number of solutions have the opposite feature. What is the total number of solutions in question? The clues give an additional hint about the feature that you are looking for.
The consonants in 15 solutions appear in alphabetical order or reverse alphabetical order .… Continue reading
MPP – 082
Monthly Prize Puzzle (March 2019)
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Why not have a go at our latest Monthly Prize Puzzle?
The winner will receive their choice of any of the Telegraph Crossword Books.
Please note that, due to punitive postal charges, while the competition is open to all, the prize is only available to UK solvers.
A review will follow after the closing date (16th March 2019).
The competition is now closed
MPP 078 – Review
Monthly Prize Puzzle 078 – Review
November 2018
A puzzle by Prolixic
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This month’s lucky winner is Silvanus (who is certainly having a good week!) who correctly named eight of the English flowers hidden in the grid and now gets to select a Daily Telegraph Crossword Book as his prize
There are eleven – Avon, Dart, Dee, Exe, Mersey, Nene, Thames and Ure, Ock, Burn and Tees, some of which are more obscure than others. … Continue reading
MPP – 078
Monthly Prize Puzzle (November 2018)
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Why not have a go at our latest Monthly Prize Puzzle?
The winner will receive their choice of any of the Telegraph Crossword Books.
Please note that, due to punitive postal charges, while the competition is open to all, the prize is only available to UK solvers.
A review will follow after the closing date (17th November 2018).
The competition is now closed
MPP 073 (Review)
Monthly Prize Puzzle 073 – Review
June 2018
A Puzzle by Prolixic
How many solutions cryptically describe a bad hair day?
Congratulations to LetterboxRoy who submitted a correct answer, had his name drawn from the electronic hat by Mrs BD, and can now choose a Telegraph Puzzle Book as his prize.
There were eight solutions where ENDS were ‘split’ – 5a, 10a, 11a, 14a, 22a, 26a, 27a and 20d – I’m still of the view that split ends are more of a permanent problem than a bad hair day (unless of course you are the current POTUS) which is probably why, when test solving this puzzle, I couldn’t see what I was supposed to be looking for to answer the question.… Continue reading
MPP – 073
Monthly Prize Puzzle (June 2018)
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Why not have a go at our latest Monthly Prize Puzzle?
The winner will receive their choice of any of the Telegraph Crossword Books.
Please note that, due to punitive postal charges, while the competition is open to all, the prize is only available to UK solvers.
A review will follow after the closing date (16th June 2018).
The competition is now closed