Mail on Sunday prize crossword

[auntiebertie]

Does anyone have any ideas as to how many people complete and send off this crossword for �1500....I have entered it every week for the past few years and want to know what my odds are!!! Thanks

[beerbelly]

seem to remember someone asking this a couple of weeks ago , and the number quoted was about 40,000 !!!!!
wether this is true or not i dont know , but it would sound about right .
good luck !!!! ....b...b

[fergol]

I don't know how many people do the Sunday Mail crossword but someone on here last week stated that the Sunday Express 1,000 pound GK get 39,000 entries!

[Babz]

I'd like to know that as well auntiebertie, I'd guess tens of thousands! I do it every week too as well as the one in the mag and the Sunday Express ones as well, though I did win �1000 in the Express mag in August 2003! Maybe that's my lot and I should retire gracefully.

[Brooksy]

I`ve entered the MoS and Sunday Express prize crosswords for the last 11 years without success. Must be my turn soon! I consider them to be a rather exclusive form of lottery. Brooksy

[ashfordshe]

According to the Mail on Sunday on 23.10.05 I had won the Bare Bones for 9 October - I am still awaiting a confirmation letter and the prize! Last year I won the Daily Mail Prize Crossword and after a month I phoned to ask about the prize - it took a further 3 phone calls before I received it two months later - so don't hold your breath if they publish you as a winner!!

[rbind]

You have the same hassle with the express when you win a prize.I have won the Skeleton runner up prize about 6 times now(including last sunday according to todays paper)but every time I have had to ring them after about 6 weeks before I receive it

[Herodotes]

Assuming the Mail on Sunday and Sunday Express do a deal with the Royal Mail regarding the number of entries received each week, they presumably make a handsome profit on their �1,500 or �1,000 prizes. And we must assume that the number of entries has increased dramatically since everyone discovered The Answerbank.

[LindaBon]

I won the �1500 two years ago.

I also won Bare Bones in July and depsite some correspondence by email have never received prize.

[jan1956]

i won a jamie oliver teaset in the express in april it finally arrived in october after many e mails and phone calls, i was getting annoyed in the end.

jan

[Brooksy]

Dear Jan, I hope you got some spoons with the teaset!

[lastresort]

ashfordshe. Do not worry.

I won the barebones a few months back, the Collins arrived a few weeks afterwards. I had to dig through the recyled papers to find the report that I had won.

It was before I found this site; but the answers to this query show that some of us do actually win.

[LindaBon]

Have been spurred on to conatct Mail on Sunday again re my books!! Will let you know if I ever get them. Was announced as winner on July 17th!

[wideboy]

I've only won the Daily Mail �20 some time back this year but they sent the prize very quickly, must have been doubly lucky.

[sslinks]

Oh no!!!

Does that mean you have to check to see if you have won? We NEVER check!

And now we are wondering why we have never won the MoS �1,500 or Sir Lancelot or Bare Bones.

We have won two dictionaries (1x The Times and 1x The Telegraph over the past couple of years BUT the Collins English Dictionary that we won is rubbish AND we gave away our 20 year old Collins to a friend but now want it back.

Which dictionaries / books do you have on your Crossword solving shelf?

[masonbm]

<XMP>ss links</XMP><XMP>I've always assumed that most compilers</XMP><XMP>use the Chambers Dictionary. I think it's</XMP><XMP>the best - do others agree?</XMP>

[juliaorm]

A friend has been entering for years, then last year won twice.

[marjessica]

I often wonder that. Ive been doing it for zonks and nothing. I was doing it when it was the old prize money. I send mine off religiously every Sunday night, same envelope, same handwriting. In the past I tried different things like writing 'please pick me' or doing stylised writing, fancy envelopes etc. but still nothing. It keeps your brain active anyway, when your getting on in years.