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Christmas Conundrums 2008

Make your own choice from our fab prizes ...


Each year at Christmas, following the Scandinavian custom, BtP sets twelve days of Procol puzzles which great numbers of Palers follow with much interest and merriment ... at the end of the trail is a one-word answer, which you send in by e-mail to the webmasters, to win one (or more?) of the prizes below. The puzzles start on Christmas Day – arguably they get easier and easier year by year, while the prizes get more and more munificent.

This year's fine freebies are, we think you'll agree, every bit as splendid and collectable as 1997's, 1998's, 1999's, 2000's, 2001's, 2002's, 2003's, 2004's, 2005's, 2006's or 2007's: this is largely thanks to the generosity of our very kind friends and sponsors. Click here, in due time, to view the schedule of winners!

A

A copy of The Common Thread CD by the Keith Reid Project, signed and personally dedicated to the winner (thanks, Keith)

B

A copy of the 2009 orchestral / choral DVD Procol Harum: Live at Ledreborg Castle (with six 1974 bonus tracks) (thanks, Eagle Rock) [This prize will be sent to the winner when it's issued]

C

A copy of Trace of a Feeling, the third Palers' Project 2CD [‘some astounding moments’, according to Stereophile]

D

A glossy flyer from a 1997 Gary Brooker Ensemble concert, signed by Gary himself (thanks, Gary)

E

A copy of the full and frankly confessional book Journey to Freedom by former Procol Harum drummer, Bobby Harrison (thanks, Bobby)

F

A  second copy of the 2009 DVD Procol Harum: Live at Ledreborg Castle {Procol + orchestra / choir (and six band-only 1974 bonus tracks)} (thanks, Eagle Rock) [This prize will be sent to the winner when it's issued]

G

A Brooker / Reid tee-shirt from the 40th Anniversary celebrations in July 2007

H

A Procol Harum poster from Kristiansand, Norway

I

George Lovell's excellent book of Procol Harum concert memoirs, The Waiter Brought a Tray (thanks, George)

J

A full-colour tee-shirt designed and printed by Bert Saraco in the USA, depicting Procol Harum's 'Golden Decade'  (thanks, Hermann)


Competitors should rank the above prizes in the order they favour them, and send in their preference – all ten letters, please! – with the solution to the puzzles. The message will look something like : "The one-word answer is [x] and my prize preferences are CJGEIAHFBD"

We shall allot the first three prizes on a beat-the-clock basis, where the earliest correct response earns its first choice of prize and so on; after that all subsequent correct entries received in the next 24 hours will be placed in the BtP Homburg and the remaining prize-winners will be drawn by a suitably Glamorous Assistant, Deo volente.

In the somewhat unlikely event of there being fewer than ten winners, the first people to submit correct answers will get more than their fair share of the prizes!

The quiz starts on Christmas Day and runs through to Twelfth Night. You can join in at any time, if you have a pencil and an internet connection! The answer at the end will be a single word, as in previous years.


How to play | The solution | Winners


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