Thanks for my juicy portion of
happiness you add since long time ago to my Christmas time ...
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No witty words of feedback as you'd
expect. Just a word of thanks. My mind is duly boggled by the amount of
work and ingenuity it must take for you to come up with a new puzzle
every every year.
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You sneaky bastard(s)! I knew 'a word hint' meant something. I
latched on to it early on but didn't try hard enough to solve it as an
anagram. I finally found an anagram site online where you could
specify 'make it three words' (or other options), but that didn't yield
the answer. I should've sat me down and tried rearranging the
anagram manually.
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My first time attempting a BtP
puzzle, it was not only excruciatingly frustrating (at times) but so
enjoyable to ramble around in the PH playrooms and gather/revisit
information that only reinforces my long-lasting (since ’67) love affair
with this mighty band.
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Sad to say that although I had an
inkling that ‘a word hint’ and the changing clock face were significant
clues, and tried to use both to solve the puzzle, I failed miserably.
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In the night of 5 January I realised
that it was not at all a good idea to try to solve the Final Procedure
of the BtP Conundrum AND to watch an interesting ice hockey match on TV
at the same time. I should have remembered to exclude the outside world
to be able to solve the puzzle quickly enough, “against the clock”.
Luckily in the end the results in both –puzzle and ice hockey – were
reasonable.
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Thanks for another terrific quiz
with plenty of red herrings.
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There is always something to learn,
not only about Procol Harum, but also about our computer having a Find
function! That was new to me and already turned out to be helpful in a
different matter
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Well...the lesson lies in learning,
thanks for enlightening me about the 'find' feature [on my computer]. I
never realised how useful it is.
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Such innovation deserves a poem:
Pairs of letters, pair of blunders
Almost tore it all asunder.
But with corrections just in time
I ended up with sense and rhyme.
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Once again, the BtP quiz proved a
splendid diversion from the general festivities and as usual, provided a
nerve wracking final night.
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'Hard to win' is the right
description of this 2018/2019 Christmas puzzle. It is not so much the
puzzles that make it hard, but the procedure to arrive finally at an
answer. It is a bit of a fixed match. You think you are solving a
difficult puzzle when all the time the quizmasters send you in the
direction they want to get to the right solution. It is a bit David and
Goliath, and it turns out that Goliath is the clever one and gets the
result he wants.
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Very happy to hear that I made it
into the hat! I got stuck, so I had no chance against the clock;
However, winning is not so important, as I always get much joy from
playing, no matter the length. Thank you for doing a great job time and
again!
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Thanks for the amazing puzzle. I had
a lot of fun solving it – like all years before.
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Unusual competition this year. Found the finding of the tracks the easy bit for the most part, until
the very last night when for some unfathomable reason it took me twenty minutes to twig Teatime (needed a late night cuppa, maybe?). The
puzzling method was possibly more straightforward than usual and brought
about some backward proofreading looking for specific letters.
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Revealing some of the solving
methods ahead of time made the midnight rush a little more reasonable
and I used my own word logic to find a solution and did not resort to
the clock jigsaw method. I arrived at an answer and await 'the reveal'
with some optimism. Thanks again for the puzzles, but more for the
whole year's news and views. Happy Hogmanay greetings from Bonnie
Scotland.
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Thank you (and your team of elves)
for another tremendous conundrum.
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My phone alarmed at 1:57am, 11:57pm
UK time. Like a déjà vu from previous years my wife, still half-asleep,
groaned “Oh no”, and for a second or two she got me wondering if I’m
silly. Then I got off the bed I switched on my laptop …
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Every time you say it is not going
to be hard, it sure is! It was sheer torture to solve the puzzles but
there is a Christmas quiz addict in me!
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Thankfully, I had eleven of the twelve double-letter answers which was sufficient to suggest that 'king' and
'world' would lead me to the answer. A quick entry in the site search
resource directed me straight to it.
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I enjoyed it. Resources link was
useful. Still haven’t worked out the answer to Question 6
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Thank you so much for running such a
fun quiz. I can hardly wait until next year's edition. A lot of
quizzes/competitions are too simple or, if they are difficult, far too
hard. But a Procol quiz is never so difficult that it stops being
enjoyable.
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Once again I noticed that the
capability to read and write without making mistakes is essential. One
stupid spelling mistake of my own made my life much harder when I tried
to figure out the mysterious line in question.
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Had a great time, got up at 5 am New York
time and it took an hour and a half to get it
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I like the Christmas puzzles but
only enter them now and then. To me it assures that my mind is still
working and that I still remember all those fabulous Keith Reid lyrics.
You get that way when you reach that part of your life that makes you an
OAP. And always been a fan from the first time I heard the first note,
when it was the first time on air, of A Whiter Shade of Pale.
Again, I enjoyed it. Oh yes, and with the clock suggestion for finding
the answer I relived my kindergarten days! Only shame is that the
instalments are always published in the middle of the night, so I will
never be part of the first-three-in club, because I enjoy my bed too
much at that time.
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I am pleased for the lucky winners
and look forward to the next Christmas quiz which I am sure will be
equally exciting!
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I appreciate the tremendous amount
of work that has to be put in to put together the puzzles each year.
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Trying to solve these puzzles is
more like attempting to complete the 12 Labours of Hercules. It
gets harder each year and the latest set took the biscuit! It is truly
'unique entertainment' and very much appreciated. Many thanks!
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The puzzles are really lots of fun …
and it is fine that the name remained in the Homburg! I will admit I
told [my wife] that it took a 'diabolical mind' to build the puzzle, but
that aside, it was an excellent challenge!
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My answer, 'hard to win', is a
statement of fact. It just didn't click for me this year but the idea of
solving this conundrum in the manner presented strains credulity. There
are, after all, only 288 hours in the twelve days of Procol puzzles. On
the other hand, thanks again for another year of great fun, a wonderful
way to start the new year.
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This twisted puzzle would have given
me some more grey hair, if it already wasn’t all grey. And what else
that can be than an outcome of desperate efforts to solve the puzzles in
past years.
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