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For the BtP team it was another swift finale this year: the first three entries came in at 12:01, 12:05 and 12:06. All three of these competitors got their first-choice prizes (Marvin Chassman claiming his eerie twenty-second prize in twenty-three years). Entries kept coming, but pretty soon there was a batch of wrong-uns, which was interesting as almost all the answers were different. We concluded that these were the guessers, who just happened to have been unlucky. As usual we've subsequently heard of people
solving the puzzle as early as Day 5, which meant that the remaining
condundra served merely to confirm a suspicion. To guard against
premature expostulation, we ensured that the wording of the
Thirteenth Instruction specified a means of conveying the correct
answer that has not been used before, and couldn't be deduced from
the main twelve puzzles. Special thanks to Gary Brooker for this year's prizes, to our heroic Antipodean puzzle-validatrix, and to our exceptionally Glamorous Assistant (sadly not photographed) for deploying the BtP Homburg with great diligence. And lastly, thanks to everyone for playing, and commiserations to those whose names stayed in the BtP Homburg, or whose answers did not conform to the judges' expectation. |
Congratulations to the winning persons, listed here with their origins and their prizes: |
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Here's the log of the 107
winners since the first BtP Christmas puzzle in 1997:
Once: Alan Semok, Alick Leslie, Andrea Grasso, Aongus Collins, Arne Grue
Jensen, Avihay Abudy, Barrie Deatcher, Basil Steven-Fountain, Bent Aronsen,
Bernard O Connor, Bruce Donley, Christina Hermansson, Claes-Peter Haväng,
Dietmar Schloetel, Dominik Halas, Erik Mouridsen, Ernst Schuiki, George Parker, Giancarlo Buletti, Giorgio Marcanato, Graham Wallis, Gary Madely,
Heidi Moen, Ian Berry, Ian Elby, James Kline, James Waters, Jim Krapf, Jim
Stratico, John Crouch, John Weir, Karsten Overgaard, Kurt Harding, Marc Laveaux,
Mark Mott, Michael Haag, Mick Norman, Mike McGill, Mike Norman, Nancy Zohner,
Peter Bourne, Peter Christian, Peter Gardner, Pierre Godbout, Richard Mosely,
Robert Ruehs, Robert Sangpeth, Robert Young, Russell Maddox, Sam Behrend, Søren Borello, Stefano Ciccioriccio,
Stuart Grant, Toshiya Hyakuma, Yan Epstein, Holger Neumeyer, Jesper Mortensen,
Lars Johansson.
Twice: Carlo Ponissi, Claire Margerison, Dave Knight, Fred Schröter, Greg Panfile, Jan Pederson, Jutta Kaufmann, Kerry Canfield, Lourens Visser, Mogens Vinther, Pamela Miller Chwedyk, Phil George.
Thrice: Barbara Black, Beverly Peyton, Bob Young, Charlie Allison, Evan Wagshul, Gabriella Vinci, Ian Hockley, John Cammalleri, John Commons, Jonas Söderström, Marcelo Pereira, Stefano Carbone, Tarvo Niine, Claire Margerison
Four times: Axel Leonhardt, Dave Pettit, Maurice Atkinson, Markku Huttunen, Peter Cohen, Gordon Chalmers.
Five times: Richard Beck, Heidi Widmer.
Six times: Mark Allister, Jeremy Gilien.
Seven times: Kerry Holloway (and Jen, sometimes), Piotr Wlaz.
Eight times: Bert Saraco (and Carina, sometimes), Bob Jaccino.
Nine times: Tormod Ringvold.
Ten times: Pat Keating.
Twenty-two times: Marvin Chassman.
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