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Get up-to-date and on-the-ball with this fun fast-paced Football Triva App from the team at YouPlay and Lovatts. Questions are drawn from a database of 400+ (and growing) trivia teasers based on the world game but with a definite World Cup skew. For more information about this fabulous and FREE App for your iPhone, CLICK HERE
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Brought to you by the talented team of developers and designers @ YouPlay.com and the brainiacal gang at Lovatts is the new iphone app - GO! TRIVIA - available for downloading now from the iPhone Apps Store. Tackle over 6000 trivia questions drawn from a quality quiz database of 50,000+ questions compiled by the best in the business - us! Post scores to Facebook, compete for top spot on the leaderboards, create your own avatar, view detailed game results and check answers against your own so you're never left in the dark. Choose GO! TRIVIA Lite or sign up for our paid version ...
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YouPlay.com is a fun, entertaining and educational place to play free quality online puzzles and games, chat to friends online, read blogs create an avatar and lots more! We have many games and puzzles to choose from including: Action Puzzles, Number Games, Crosswords, Word Games, Memory, Trivia and more. Visit YouPlay.com to play now! or browse the list of available puzzles and games below: YouPlay is brought to you by Lovatts Interactive - Creator of quality online puzzles and games Crossword Puzzles Quick Crossword Puzzle Classic Crossword Puzzle Giant Crossword Puzzle General Knowledge Crossword Puzzle Elevenses Crossword Puzzle Word Puzzles WordSearch (Findaword) Puzzle Code Cracker (Starhunt) Puzzle Alphabet Mix Puzzle WildWords Puzzle Number Puzzles Sudoku Combat ...
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Hello – Colossus 223Does your name come with a description? History has given forenames many a soubriquet which makes us curious about their origins. Some are easy to work out. Doubting Thomas came from the dubious apostle who did not believe that Jesus had arisen from the dead until he saw him with this own eyes. Plain Jane probably comes from Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel Jane Eyre, in which Jane attends a school that enforces plainness among its students. When the revolving server became popular, it was known as a Lazy Susan, Susan being a generic name for a servant, while Simple Simon, meaning a gullible person,...
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Colossus Winners (Issue 223)BAFFLER No 223 5 x £50 Prize Cheques Rebecca Cruickshanks, Holmes Chapel; B Perrigo,...
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Lucky Subscriber Draw Winners — May/June ‘10Congratulations to these five lucky puzzlers who have each had their subscription...
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Asleep on the job – MEGA 3 ContestsThe Mega Stinker was as smelly as usual in issue No. 3. It was enough to keep some of you awake especially at 47dn where ‘Wakefulness’ was INSOMNIA and not IMSOMNIA. As you saw the sun come up you may have been tackling 134ac ‘Solar radiation... [Read more or comment]
Christmas birds – BIG Crossword 204 ContestsAs this is our Christmas issue I am going to try and stick to writing only about words that make us feel good. Our clue for HALCYON was ‘Golden (past)’ but the word came from a Greek myth about a bird (no not a partridge) and has a Christmas... [Read more or comment]
On the menu – Colossus Crosswords 215 ContestsHave you ever wondered why a ‘Shellfish soup’ is called a BISQUE (Stinker 286ac)? Well I have, so I embarked on some research and still don’t really know. It is the case with many words that their origins are more the stuff of theory... [Read more or comment]
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DIY Clues typed or hand-written?When compiling the DIY puzzle in the Christine’s BIG Crossword, is it acceptable to TYPE the list of clues rather than HAND WRITE the list of clues and then submit your answers together with the original completed grid? Anne Baxter Read More →
Great to have bi-monthly crypticI was delighted to receive the new Cryptic magazine for which I have subscribed. I am afraid I do have one gripe though – why on earth, in a magazine dedicated to cryptic crosswords, to you include dreadful acrostic and logic puzzles? I do not wish to do such puzzles and, if I did, I would subscribe to your bi-monthly Puzzle Collection. All... [Read more or comment]
A puzzling journeyThis week I had to travel from Newcastle upon Tyne to Aberystwyth on Tuesday and make the return journey the following day. The two trips totalled over 12 hours (I was thinking I could have flown from Newcastle to Faro, Portugal and back twice in that time!). So you can imagine how grateful I was to have my copy of BIG with me. It kept me fully occupied... [Read more or comment]
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