Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 March 2025
This month we offer you a word search containing the names of 55 fruit and vegetables, with a chance to win our monthly £50 prize.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 March 2025
The task for this month was to identify the singers or bands from the picture clues. Every entrant had a chance of winning our £50 prize.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2025
We were as surpised as anyone to find that our February 2025 newsletter included our 50th prize-winning competition. Puzzles over the last 6 years have included word searches, logic puzzles, quizzes and much more, as this blog shows.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 November 2024
Think you're good at Power BI Desktop data manipulation? See if you can present our Excel football results as a final table (showing games played, goals scored/conceded and points won) to have a chance of winning this month's £50 prize.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 November 2024
Announcing the winner of our October 2024 newsletter competition, giving the answers and showing which questions people found most and least difficult
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 27 September 2024
Congratulations to Rory O'Connor of Freemans Grattan Holdings for winning last month's logic puzzle competition. Here's the answer!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 September 2024
Announcing the winner of last newsletter's competition (and also giving the answers in case anyone is still struggling to identifiy the 16 book titles).
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 September 2024
Five tribute acts played in 5 different venues on successive days of one week in September. Can you use your skills of logical deduction to work out who played which venue when, and what the capacity of each venue was? The incentive is a chance to win our monthly fifty-pound prize.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 04 July 2024
We've created clues to help you identify 16 different books (they're all well-known). The more you can guess, the greater will be your chances of winning our £50 voucher!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 20 June 2024
In computing it's enough to solve a problem, but as a bonus it's nice to do so in the most elegant way (although elegance is a subjective quality). This blog gives my 3 favourite ways to solve last month's Excel desert island competition.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 06 June 2024
This month we ask you to travel to the terrifying Skull Island and find the hidden treasure buried there, armed only with some - unlikely - Excel clues
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 June 2024
Apologies for making this word search slightly harder than usual - you can see the answer in this blog, as well as discover who was the lucky win of the month's prize
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 May 2024
Congratulations to Samantha Wareham of Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust for winning our Easter quiz (out of the 47 answers received, hers was the entry chosen by our randomised Excel sorting hat). You can see some further analysis of the answers in this blog.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 May 2024
Our grid contains 24 hidden thematic treats. Once you've found them all, the unused letters will spell out a message. Email this to us and you have a change of winning a £50 voucher!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 04 March 2024
Last month we asked you to identify 5 Abba songs from cryptic pictures. Out of 16 correct entries our randomised sorting hat chose the name of Alison Palmer of Devon Council, who wins a £25 voucher. An explanation of the answers follows!