Caption Competition
Winning entries in the caption competition.
This week's picture is a portrait of the Prince of Wales by artist Lizzie Sanders to celebrate Scrabble's 60th anniversary. Can't see the prince? Try squinting.
The competition is now closed.
Thanks to all who entered. The prize of a small amount of kudos to the following:
6. RMutt-Urinal
Prince's lunch of alphabet soup ruined by sneezing fit.
5. rogueslr
"A word in your ear, your Highness."
"I know, it's antidisestablishmentarianism."
4. SteeleHawker
"I think Colossus is malfunctioning again, Sir."
3. SeanieSmith
"KIGN...INGK...KGIN...GNIK...? No, I'll have to pass..."
2. In Off The Post
It was an increase in workload, rather than a pay reduction that led to Carol leaving Countdown.
1. Magnum Carter
"...as in 'when I become Qing'..."
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Comment number 1.
At 13th Nov 2008, rogueslr wrote:A face is worth a thousand words, or three thousand if it's on a treble.
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Comment number 2.
At 13th Nov 2008, Steele Hawker wrote:The new presenter of Countdown is announced
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At 13th Nov 2008, W_K_Snowdon wrote:I think one has a triple?
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At 13th Nov 2008, W_K_Snowdon wrote:Can you see it yet?
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At 13th Nov 2008, rogueslr wrote:The King and I I I O U X W
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At 13th Nov 2008, MuteJoe wrote:...and on a triple word score, that's 6 billion points to me, thank you.
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At 13th Nov 2008, excellentmad_hatter wrote:Terminator 4 - The rise of the autocues.
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Comment number 8.
At 13th Nov 2008, Steele Hawker wrote:Unfortunately, Dad couldn't make anything longer than four letters
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Comment number 9.
At 13th Nov 2008, Steele Hawker wrote:Don’t you know the Queen’s English? Of course she is.
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Comment number 10.
At 13th Nov 2008, W_K_Snowdon wrote:It was going to be a long long game..
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Comment number 11.
At 13th Nov 2008, Neil wrote:Postmodernists debate the significance of the word ZMOWAA in the mouth of the future king.
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Comment number 12.
At 13th Nov 2008, DarrenFarr wrote:No, I said SCRIBBLE me a quick portrait. Oh, never mind....
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Comment number 13.
At 13th Nov 2008, Steele Hawker wrote:I think Colossus is malfunctioning again, Sir
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Comment number 14.
At 13th Nov 2008, Steele Hawker wrote:A lot of difficult letters – or so tenants at Sandringham think
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At 13th Nov 2008, Candace9839 wrote:Unfortunately for the Prince, pixelation was not the answer to disguising his celebrity
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Comment number 16.
At 13th Nov 2008, rogueslr wrote:Unfortunately Hasbro and Mattel are suing as an infringement of Crown copyright.
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Comment number 17.
At 13th Nov 2008, Magnum Carter wrote:"...as in 'when I become Qing'..."
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Comment number 18.
At 13th Nov 2008, Steele Hawker wrote:A lot of difficult letters - or so tenants at Sandringham think
Sorry
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Comment number 19.
At 13th Nov 2008, W_K_Snowdon wrote:So, are you the Alpha Male?
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Comment number 20.
At 13th Nov 2008, Candace9839 wrote:World's largest scrabble score contested after missing blanks discovered
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Comment number 21.
At 13th Nov 2008, MuteJoe wrote:It was an increase in workload, rather than a pay reduction that led to Carol leaving Countdown.
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Comment number 22.
At 13th Nov 2008, Neil wrote:Diplomatic row ensues as MUNFUHU is found to be a significant term of abuse in Swahili.
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Comment number 23.
At 13th Nov 2008, Steele Hawker wrote:Prince Charles - man of letters
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Comment number 24.
At 13th Nov 2008, rogueslr wrote:Unfortunately Microsoft are suing as an infringement of WordArt.
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Comment number 25.
At 13th Nov 2008, Candace9839 wrote:The result of sitting too close to the telly after Mum told you not to
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Comment number 26.
At 13th Nov 2008, Vespari wrote:It required some explaining to Charles that he had not been sent the latest Myra Hindley portrait
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Comment number 27.
At 13th Nov 2008, MuteJoe wrote:A picture is worth a thousand words
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Comment number 28.
At 13th Nov 2008, Vespari wrote:So, to recap - that's a triple word score AND I've used all my letters so I win.
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Comment number 29.
At 13th Nov 2008, Steele Hawker wrote:Charles - Prince of Tiles
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Comment number 30.
At 13th Nov 2008, Vespari wrote:Ms Sanders wondered how long it would take them to spot the rude word.
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Comment number 31.
At 13th Nov 2008, Candace9839 wrote:Camilla tries out the scrabulous setting on her new digital camera
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Comment number 32.
At 13th Nov 2008, littleDickie wrote:"Our dictionairy defines "ears" as protruberances from a covered skull."
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Comment number 33.
At 13th Nov 2008, Magnum Carter wrote:Well the writing IS on the wall - I'd say you're royally screwed
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Comment number 34.
At 13th Nov 2008, W_K_Snowdon wrote:One is not RAROTNIO
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Comment number 35.
At 13th Nov 2008, Rob Falconer wrote:Mensa has issued a photo-fit of the man they wish to interview
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Comment number 36.
At 13th Nov 2008, Magnum Carter wrote:I'm a man of few words...
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Comment number 37.
At 13th Nov 2008, Candace9839 wrote:Charles was accused yet again of being too wordy
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Comment number 38.
At 13th Nov 2008, Magnum Carter wrote:You can really see the tan lines
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Comment number 39.
At 13th Nov 2008, Candace9839 wrote:Queen demands new reading glasses
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Comment number 40.
At 13th Nov 2008, Rob Falconer wrote:It's very appropriate, really - whoever made all those words with only consonants was clearly using a Welsh dictionary
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Comment number 41.
At 13th Nov 2008, DramJam wrote:Even with a blank expression, the prince managed to score points.
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At 13th Nov 2008, Candace9839 wrote:The answers were written all over his face
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At 13th Nov 2008, DramJam wrote:Let us paint.
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Comment number 44.
At 13th Nov 2008, rogueslr wrote:Camilla was none too pleased when Charles celebrated his 60th with a night on the tiles.
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At 13th Nov 2008, DramJam wrote:The prince after a night on the tiles.
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At 13th Nov 2008, nosniknej wrote:Damn! not enough letters for abdicate
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Comment number 47.
At 13th Nov 2008, bmerren wrote:Prince Charles gets up to some antics (semantics)
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Comment number 48.
At 13th Nov 2008, Marquee wrote:The return of Letterman
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Comment number 49.
At 13th Nov 2008, Rob Falconer wrote:So, sixty years ago, the Queen found giving birth so boring that she decided to invent a board game at the same time?
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Comment number 50.
At 13th Nov 2008, Marquee wrote:Charles accused of setting a bad example to his sons after having a night on the tiles
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Comment number 51.
At 13th Nov 2008, Candace9839 wrote:Charles revisits Bletchley Park and returns a changed man
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At 13th Nov 2008, nosniknej wrote:"After Mum's done her speech, who's for a nice Christmas board game?"
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Comment number 53.
At 13th Nov 2008, Rob Falconer wrote:Computer technology is used to make clearer the face of the man on the grassy knoll
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Comment number 54.
At 13th Nov 2008, bmerren wrote:Come-in-n-pick-your-vowels
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Comment number 55.
At 13th Nov 2008, Rob Falconer wrote:Unfortunately, Lizzie Sanders had misunderstood her Australian boss's request to make a portrait of Prince Charles out of tails
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Comment number 56.
At 13th Nov 2008, Ed Loach wrote:A knight on the tiles
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Comment number 57.
At 13th Nov 2008, MuteJoe wrote:So am I painting by numbers, or by letters?
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Comment number 58.
At 13th Nov 2008, Neil wrote:Falling asleep late at night on the computer resulted in a rather unfortunate case of "keyboard face" the next morning.
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Comment number 59.
At 13th Nov 2008, rogueslr wrote:Charles began to be worried about another Peasant's Revolt when he overheard an aide asking 'What tiler?'
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Comment number 60.
At 13th Nov 2008, Velvet Jones wrote:Giving 10,000 monkeys 10,000 sets of scrabble produced some interesting results but alas no shakespeare.
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Comment number 61.
At 13th Nov 2008, Candace9839 wrote:Charles had always aspired to be a man of letters
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Comment number 62.
At 13th Nov 2008, nick_fowler wrote:A portrait of Prince Charles by his gamekeeper
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Comment number 63.
At 13th Nov 2008, youngWillz wrote:Regent Square
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Comment number 64.
At 13th Nov 2008, youngWillz wrote:Heir, Apparently
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Comment number 65.
At 13th Nov 2008, penny-farthing wrote:Accomodating the Royal ears within the confines of the board had been the artist's real challenge.
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Comment number 66.
At 13th Nov 2008, youngWillz wrote:Mosaic discovered of "The Man Who Would Be King"
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Comment number 67.
At 13th Nov 2008, StroszekBassist wrote:A man of many words - most of them made up.
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Comment number 68.
At 13th Nov 2008, nick_fowler wrote:The poor old editor of "The Sun" had spent days trying to find a rude word in there somewhere, to no avail ...
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Comment number 69.
At 13th Nov 2008, Magnum Carter wrote:The Charles formerly spelt as Prince
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Comment number 70.
At 13th Nov 2008, youngWillz wrote:"Let me spell it out for you, your Royal Highness, it's a JIGSAW..."
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Comment number 71.
At 13th Nov 2008, W_K_Snowdon wrote:Just for a laugh, scientists decided to DNA profile some vegetable soup..
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Comment number 72.
At 13th Nov 2008, Caddyshaq wrote:So that's what Dubya has been doing for the last eight years.....
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Comment number 73.
At 13th Nov 2008, Candace9839 wrote:"It's always all about U", laments Camilla
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Comment number 74.
At 13th Nov 2008, Marquee wrote:Charles rejects accusations of being square
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Comment number 75.
At 13th Nov 2008, nick_fowler wrote:Unfortunately, when the Palace instucted everyone to list all Charles' titles, the second 't' had been omitted
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Comment number 76.
At 13th Nov 2008, Caddyshaq wrote:"Yes, it's very nice dear but Scrabble isn't a jigsaw"
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Comment number 77.
At 13th Nov 2008, Blythy wrote:scrabu.....under threat from hasbro's lawyers, the rest of this caption has been deleted.
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Comment number 78.
At 13th Nov 2008, nick_fowler wrote:For the documentary on his sixtieth birthday, Charles had wanted to present himself as a well-rounded character
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Comment number 79.
At 13th Nov 2008, youngWillz wrote:And next week, a portrait of Camilla, made out of Duchess potatoes
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Comment number 80.
At 13th Nov 2008, honesthulley wrote:"Charles,can I have a word."
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Comment number 81.
At 13th Nov 2008, nick_fowler wrote:Eventually, Charles' left ear was found down the back of the sofa
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Comment number 82.
At 13th Nov 2008, neilp1976 wrote:No matter how hard anyone looked they just couldn't find the word KING anywhere in the wordsearch.
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Comment number 83.
At 13th Nov 2008, nick_fowler wrote:A very prosaic mosaic
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Comment number 84.
At 13th Nov 2008, DramJam wrote:The prince was enjoying a performance by Fawlty Towers' Manuel when artist Lizzie Sanders placed her hands into sacks and drew.
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At 13th Nov 2008, rogueslr wrote:In an attempt to boost ratings, ITV announce the return of Celebrity Squares.
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Comment number 86.
At 13th Nov 2008, Caddyshaq wrote:"The picture's great but the pedants who inhabit the Magazine are going to have a field day with your terrible spelling"
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At 13th Nov 2008, youngWillz wrote:"It's difficult to make out, but if you stand far enough away from it, you won't see anything at all"
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Comment number 88.
At 13th Nov 2008, rogueslr wrote:'A word in your ear your Highness.'
'I know, it's antidisestablishmentarianism.'
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Comment number 89.
At 13th Nov 2008, youngWillz wrote:His 'A's seem to follow you around the room...
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Comment number 90.
At 13th Nov 2008, Caddyshaq wrote:If that doesn't stump Robert Langdon then I give up!
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Comment number 91.
At 13th Nov 2008, MuteJoe wrote:Scrabble-Wrestling proved less successful than .
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At 13th Nov 2008, pinkfloydareace wrote:The future king of letters
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At 13th Nov 2008, Evyxmsj wrote:Sarah's spelling wasn't impressive.
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At 13th Nov 2008, youngWillz wrote:Good grief, is that the word "mad" in the middle top left of the picture?
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At 13th Nov 2008, rogueslr wrote:Originally Harry and Wills were going to do it, but Pop Art is just so passe.
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Comment number 96.
At 13th Nov 2008, pinkfloydareace wrote:Charles: The only word I can find here is 'mop'. What is exactly is a mop?
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At 13th Nov 2008, nick_fowler wrote:Unfortunately, the new security keypad at Windsor Castle was not a success, as everybody kept hitting Charles on the nose
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At 13th Nov 2008, Candace9839 wrote:Charles misunderstands the rules and requests to buy a vowel
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Comment number 99.
At 13th Nov 2008, Fi wrote:The Prince of Wales receives a moving portrait from the Welsh Scrabble Society. The left ear bears a rather fitting triple score word, which no one has yet dared translate...
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At 13th Nov 2008, shear_uk wrote:Artist Lizzie Saunders has ordered 270 more boxes of letters to do the Prince's ears...which will appear as seperate exhibits...
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