The Independent on Sunday Christmas Details Competition no longer exists, but the memory remains. As you raise your glasses to "Absent friends", think of Tom Lubbock, who gave us all so much fun through the year and particularly at Christmas. Some will disagree about the term "fun". I think there is still a bottle or two in the Details cellar.
As a little piece of hommage to Tom and his colleagues over the years, I have very hastily put together a few details for those who like a puzzle. I am sorry that none of them is modern or even in the last couple of centuries. I used whatever came quickly to hand on Christmas morning. If anyone finds the answers, please post them to vonthoma@yahoo.com by 6th January 2017. I shall post up the names of the most successful "entries". The only prize will be the plaudits of the readers of this blog and myself. I shall publish the correct answers, too.
Happy Christmas to all those who entered into the spirit of this competition over the years.
If anyone wishes to send me any further puzzles, I shall, within reason, put them on this blog with due acknowledgement.
Names of painters and titles of paintings are needed.
1.
Where can you find this small painting within a painting?
Where is this beast to be found?
In what painting can this woman be found?
What are these odd constructions and in which painting can they be found?
As a little piece of hommage to Tom and his colleagues over the years, I have very hastily put together a few details for those who like a puzzle. I am sorry that none of them is modern or even in the last couple of centuries. I used whatever came quickly to hand on Christmas morning. If anyone finds the answers, please post them to vonthoma@yahoo.com by 6th January 2017. I shall post up the names of the most successful "entries". The only prize will be the plaudits of the readers of this blog and myself. I shall publish the correct answers, too.
Happy Christmas to all those who entered into the spirit of this competition over the years.
If anyone wishes to send me any further puzzles, I shall, within reason, put them on this blog with due acknowledgement.
Names of painters and titles of paintings are needed.
1.
In which painting can this collection of objects be found and who painted them?
In which painting can this act of entreaty be found and who painted it?
What are these characters looking at and who painted them?
Whose hands are these and in which painting do they appear?
And whose is this hand and who painted it?
This disembodied hand looks unearthly, but who painted it and where can it be found?
1 comment:
I am so glad to see this! I meant to make one this year, but I have been backwards and forwards to Portugal. At the moment I am wrestling with the King William's College 'General Knowledge' Quiz which is always reprinted in the Guardian. Then I thought nostalgically of this, and lo and behold, you have set some details!
Thank you so much. I will start tomorrow. Jenny
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