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Each month a regular challenge
is set to give Alpha Writers a chance to flex their writing muscles and engage in
some friendly competition. Read on for details of present and previous challenges,
entries and results!
CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE 2005
Now for those of you who are waiting for this challenge - it's based on numbers. I know that as writers, you
are not expected to deal in numbers, so I've written those down for you. Each line is a statement: it may be a
proverb or a saying; it may be a book or film title, it may be a measure equivalent, or it may simply be a statement
of the obvious (or obscure). So obvious, in fact, that I have omitted everything except the initials of the key words.
Examples: 3 M in a B, clearly is an abbreviation for 3 Men in a Boat, and 4 P of the C is just as clearly 4 Points
of the Compass.
So have a go at this, and send me what you've done by Alpha Day 6 (Put XMAS CHh in the subject box): there'll be a
bonus point for the highest scoring. But I warn you, some of them are easy, and some are fiendish: there are 26 to
solve, and the winner will do well to exceed 20.
**Click here for the answers, and here for the winners!**
(a) 1 S d make a S | |
(b) 2 H on a B C | |
(c) 3 B to an I | |
(d) 4 S in a Y | |
(e) 5 C on a P | |
(f) 6 F to a D | |
(g) 7 A of M | |
(h) 8 P to a G | |
(i) 9 L of a C | |
(j) 10 G B h on a W | |
(k) 11 M in a C T | |
(l) 12 M of a J | |
(m) 13 D at the L S | |
(n) 14 L in a S | |
(o) 15 M on a D M C | |
(p) 16 O to a P | |
(q) 64 S on a C B | |
(r) 200 P for PG in M | |
(s) 273 D b for A Z | |
(t) 29 D in a L Y F | |
(u) 100 W in a M S | |
(v) 20 T in the P | |
(w) 101 D in the F | |
(x) 20,000 L under the S | |
(y) 92 E in the P T | |
(z) 76 T in the B P | |
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