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I realise that you are a proper English gentleman and don’t much care
for the salty language, so I apologise ahead of time for calling you a
diabolical motherfucker.
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Every year it never fails to surprise me how original and enjoyable the
quiz is, and this year is no exception.
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The questions were not too difficult and some answers were very funny …
the Fresh Fruit answer came to me very quickly as an intuition, I
still don’t know how I did it!
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A tremendous finale reminded me of those Russian dolls where you think
you’ve reached the end and there’s another one waiting in line with
another puzzle to be solved. Truly fiendish ... can’t wait for the next
conundrum.
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It’s a pity that annual things happen only once a year.
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The individual daily questions and answers were pretty easy. The
solution method was very clever – I commend whoever devised the
methodology to create the two-level anagram. Especially impressed by the
fact that the anagram was from four separate real words, not just a
letter jumble. Good job.
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The hints get better every year! (when ‘wordshuffler tramples info’ came
up, I knew I was into something good). You are talented people.
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I knew I was in with a chance once I saw the letters of the anagram
spelling out words rather than gobbledegook.
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Thanks for all the work you put into the quiz; it took me into areas of
the website that I rarely visit; something I need to put right.
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Big fun: I was totally hooked. I have also now much better knowledge of
many PH details than before Christmas. The final instructions – and
final final instructions – were funny, sly and clever.
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Great fun, my first try.
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… encouraged me to listen to some of my less often played albums. Failed
to use the visual clues to speed my final response.
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Win or lose, the BtP Christmas puzzles are always so much fun to work
on. I’m amazed at the methods you devise for us to decipher the final
answers. Despite the fact that you say that this year’s puzzles were
"simplified", I still feel a sense of accomplishment.
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Your puzzle was a problematic experience but my interest in the band was
bigger than the challenge
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Certainly no easier than previous years, if not rather more challenging!
It’s not every day one is asked to solve a 24 letter anagram! Thanks
very much Roland for taking the time and trouble to set such an
enjoyable, though fiendish, puzzle over the Christmas period.
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As usual it was a concentrated effort using all the tools only to see
that it was a piece of cake, and that piece was right there in plain
sight, as in other years.
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I suffered a lot trying to solve it, but the final part (the chorus) got
me a little crazy, because not too many PH songs have a traditional pop
song structure.
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Glad it wasn’t as easy as you first suggested.
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The quizzes were indeed easier to solve: to follow the final instruction
and the actual final instruction at 1 am CET was the real challenge!
Anyway, I had a lot of fun with the quizzes: I wonder how much time you
invest to compile everything, must be many hours of brainwork!
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‘Now if I’d known then what I know now’ - it probably wouldn’t have
taken me 40 minutes to work out the final clue! Once again
congratulations to those concerned in creating the logistics of the
whole puzzle.
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It certainly got the grey cells working. Long may it continue!
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Had I known that ‘piece of piss’ actually means ‘piece of cake’, I would
have won! Unfortunately I didn’t use Google search at 1 am!
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I had to go through the quizzes twice to search first for the first
letter (I had noted only the numbers of the right answers!) and then for
the clue word. I haven't thought about noting the complete answers and I
was angry since I believed that having to go through them all twice
prevented me to be one of the three winners.
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To find the anagram of Fresh Fruit I followed your suggestion and
searched all the titles with an "f" ...
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We have time zone GMT +2 hours, so it was 2 am when the last puzzle was
published. My wife said I’m crazy when I set my phone alarm. Yes,
apparently I am. It must have been much easier for Procoholics in USA or
Australia, where it was still/already daytime.
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Although I did ignore your admonition to "take your time," I can tell
you it is very satisfying to find, after forty minutes of following the
very simple final instructions, that the answer I had in my head after
the eleventh day was correct.
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Just to let you know that some non-competitors greatly enjoy your
Christmas puzzles as well, just by reading the questions, perhaps
surfing BtP a bit, trying to guess the final answer by means of
semi-hidden clues, and by reading your comments on the right
answers!
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(I tried the capitals of your background icons ... Cake Angle Star … but
gave up with Camel, as CASC was apparently leading nowhere … The ‘piece
of cake’ riposte to the rhythm section was brilliant, of course!)
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I’m so happy that you keep up the great tradition. Fun!
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Thanks again for the pure enjoyment that are the Christmas Conundrums
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There’s a dream in every home, and in mine a different vestal virgin
brought a tray with a quiz every night for twelve nights. Now I wonder
if I could meet one of the four remaining vestals to spend together the
time that has to pass from here to the next edition of PH Christmas
Conundrums...
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Thank you, web-weavers, for another amazing, magical, maniacal, puzzle!
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Our devious webmasters have once again brought Something Magic to
our holiday season: a most frustrating, but enjoyable, entertainment.
I’ve included three statements that support this assertion - choose the
one that is most correct:
01 ‘Conundrums’ are actually a form of old English pastry buns made
popular by The BBC’s ‘Great British Bake-off’
02 ‘Walpurgis Night’ was originally a mis-heard version of the phrase
‘warped-urges night’ - a night every January where Procol Harum fans get
the urge to spread every album, cassette, and CD by the band in front of
the computer to count letters and search for secret messages
03 Misdirection is a form of deception in
which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to
distract its attention from another. Managing the audience’s attention
is the aim of all theater, it is the foremost requirement of theatrical
magic.
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Later on I thought that it must have been possible (easier?) to solve
the puzzle just by calculating which pair of the songs in a same album
have altogether 24 letters in their names. Perhaps it is not so many of
them.
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