RE: [Details Competition Independent on Sunday] New comment on Christmas Details Competition 2011 - Was it the ea....

Hello Greensleeves

Thank you for the comment.

Perhaps I am wrong about this. When a friend of mine won at Christmas in 2007, he got twelve bottles. Maybe it was an error and it should have been six bottles.

I think you'll find the answers, but If you get really stuck, let me know and I shall pass on the necessary information to you.

With best wishes

Details Detective

Christmas Details Competition 2011 - Was it the easiest ever?

Times must be harder at the Independent on Sunday as the prize for the Details Competition has been reduced. In 2011, there are now just two runners-up for prizes and the first prize, the case of champagne, is just six bottles instead of 12. However, it was good to see it back, keeping up Tom Lubbock's tradition. In my opinion, it is the easiest ever and I expect that there will be many correct solutions. Only one image, number 9, caused any trouble at all. The rest were pretty familar. 

Be interested to know if others felt the same. 

Details Competition 2011

For posters asking about a copy of the 2011 Christmas Comptition, "Fingers on Buzzers..." I suggest that you email details@independent.co.uk or obtain a copy from a Public Library. Cannot publish the 2011 Competition at present.

Christmas Details Competition 2011

There is every reason to believe that the Independent on Sunday will publish a Christmas Details Competition 2011 on this coming Sunday, 18th December. There was no competition last year because of the illness of Tom Lubbock who died in the New Year. Since then the Competition has been set by Jennie Gilbert. In my opinion, there has been an increase in the number of more modern pictures in the Competition, something which I think may well be repeated in the Christmas Competition.

It will be intriguing to see what choices have been made. Tom Lubbock used to throw in pictures from old competitions, but no matter what he did, every year quite a number of people found all the answers.

Sometimes mistakes are made in the publishing of the details so one year a minute part of one painting was selected as a detail by mistake by magazine staff. Tom Lubbock excluded this from the Competition proper, even though some people did manage to find the answer.

Does anyone know in which year the first Christmas Competition was set by Tom Lubbock and what all the details were that he set? I think it was in 1994. The first weekly competition was set in September 1990.

Here was the last Christmas Details Competition that ever appeared which was two years ago in 2009.