Mail On Sunday 19 March 2017

[joyfully]

This week's prize word is cccococ!!!

[scorpiojo]

Excellent ;o)

[fiction-factory]

Is this the same as the Bullseye 9 letter word comp?

[Dodger666]

I've got cccococ too so I must be correct.

[petal54]

what does this 'word' mean?

[corylus]

I've got this too, it makes no sense to me so what's the answer?

[MargoTester]

So have I, doesn't make any sense to me!

[corylus]

And here am I hoping that you had the answer MargoT

[MargoTester]

Well thank you for your faith in me corylusx There must surely be an error somewhere I've double checked everything and can't see a mistake anywhere, guess we'all have to wait until next week.

[MargoTester]

Logically there can't be a word that starts with three letters the same?

[woodcote1]

Must be the mail at fault as the bull's eye letters don't make a word either!

[Dodger666]

Here's the reply I received from TMOS after raising the problem with them:-

Thank you for your email.

As you have discovered, the numbers for the prize word in Code Cracker don’t spell a real word. We are currently investigating how this happened.

In the meantime, please do use what was printed if you enter the Code Cracker competition.

Apologies again for this error and we hope this hasn’t detracted from your enjoyment of Get Puzzling too much.