***We have a winner!!***
 
Thanks to everyone who took part in our childish and unnecessarily crude anagrams game. It wasn’t a surprise to see that more than one person got them right, so we drew our winner at random and the lucky person is: Matt Mc from London.
 
Just for your own sanity, the answers were:
Nan Teet = Tatenen
Anal Rhino Lectern (or Carnal Neon Hitler) = Northern Alliance
Press Hob Bra = Barbers Shop
And we had to replace one on Monday because Barbers Shop was withdrawn:
Tough Porn Ace = Chapoturgeon
At least now you know your word skills are fine, all you need to do next time is work on your jamminess abilities.

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We’ve got a VIP Trip for two to give away for the Paddy Power Gold Cup Day at Cheltenham on Saturday, 14th November. We are the sponsors, so we’re a bit biased, but it’s going to be the best day of racing this side of Christmas and if it’s not, you’’e going to get VIP treatment so who really cares? The fantabulous prize includes:
 
- Club Badges for Cheltenham Racecourse on Saturday 14th November for winner and a guest
- Champagne Reception
- VIP lunch in the Paddy Power hospitality suite
- £100 Free Bet on the Paddy Power Gold Cup
- Friday night hotel stay in Cheltenham
 
You’re going to be rubbing shoulders with some pretty high brow people [and the Paddy Power Marketing Department], so if we’re going to be sending you, we need to know you’ll be able to hold your own in grey matter department. Obviously, this test of intellect doesn’t apply to our marketing department or else there’d be no-one there to run up a massive bill at the bar.
 
We’ve borrowed a bit from a certain word based gameshow and added our very own Paddy Power-mind in-the-gutter slant to it. We need all three answers (don’t just send in the one you got and forget about the other two), so when you’ve used your noggin to work it send all three answers and your username to competitions@paddypower.com
 
The brainteaser:
Which of the horses likely to run in the Paddy Power Gold Cup are anagrams of the following?
(you might want to look at the betting for this)

(a) Nan Teet
(b) Anal Rhino Lectern (or Carnal Neon Hitler)
(c) Tough Porn Ace
 
This is kind of important:
**Entries in the comments section won’t count as official entries, but you can use it for general gamesmanship and gameswomanship etc.**
 
Conditiony stuff
In the likely event more than one person gets it right, the winner will be drawn at random. Paddy Power decision is final. Competition closes at midday on Tuesday 10th November 2009.

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This competition is now closed

They call themselves the People’s Republic so of course they need their own Grand National. The paddypower.com Cork National is one of the most exciting races on the Irish racing calendar and you could be making the trip to the Rebel County for the VIP treatment. Passport not necessary.
 
This year’s race takes place on Sunday 1st November and we’ve got a fantastic trip for two people to enjoy this prestigious day thanks to the nice guys in the Paddy Power marketing department who haven’t used up all the complimentary tickets for themselves. This prize is so good we like to call it the Ceann Comhairle Treatment and includes:
 
- Reserved Enclosure entrance tickets
- Complimentary race card and tipster
- Four course silver service meal in the restaurant
- Complimentary drinks for the afternoon
- Overnight accommodation in Cork
- €200 travel expenses
- €200 free Paddy Power betting vouchers
 
To decide who gets the prize, we’re going to play a game badly named ‘If You Like It You Should Find A Ring On It’. Cork hurling legend, Christy Ring is hiding somewhere on paddypower.com (the bit with the sports odds, not the poker, casino, games, bingo etc. bits) and all you need to do is find out where he is and tell us.
This is what he looks like:

Email your answer and your username to competitions@paddypower.com.
There is a clue and it’s that he’s hiding somewhere vaguely related to this competition.
 
In the highly likely event that more than one person finds Christy, the winner will be drawn at random. Entries in the comments section won’t be counted, but feel free to use it to send your opponents on wild-goose chases. Closing date for entires is 12pm on Tuesday 27th October and the Paddy Power decision is final.

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Win a VIP trip for two to the final of the paddypower.com Irish Greyhound Derby final at Shelbourne Park on Saturday 12th September.

This is the richest greyhound race in the world and courtesy of sponsors paddypower.com you and a friends could be at the final where you’ll enjoy a lavish meal in the restaurant overlooking the track, overnight accommodation in a top Dublin hotel and €250 of Paddy Power free bets.

Paddy Power himself will be on hand to personally mark your card and hopefully making it a very memorable and profitable evening for you and your guests. To be honest you’ll probably find it far more profitable if you don’t listen to his consistently woeful tips.

To be in with a chance of winning simply answer the following question:

Who won the 2008 paddypower.com Irish Greyhound Derby?

a) Late Late Show
b) Shelbourne Aston
c) Tyrur Ted

Mail your answer on a self addressed email and send it to competitions@paddypower.com….posting the answer on here won’t put you in with a chance of winning but it will make it a lot easier for everyone else. We’re also only taking your first answer so at least go to the trouble of looking up the correct answer online if you don’t already know it. It’s probably on wikipedia.

Answers must be in no later than midday Thursday September 10th and the winner will be notified the same day. Please remember to use the email address you have registered with us to ensure we have the correct contact details.

Anyone who has an issue with our use of two attractive ladies to promote the final, should direct their complaints to the Joe Duffy Show. We’re sure he could squeeze a couple of days out of this one too.

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Thanks to everyone who took part in our Win 80s Crap Competition. It was without doubt the most successful Wins 80s Competition we’ve ever had.

If you have the memory of a goldfish, the competition combined the best bits of the Krypton Factor observation round and maths for 8 year old and required that you watch these ads [Brucie – Carlton - Des] and did some simple mathematics.

The equation was:
x = (Des Walker Appearances – Brucie Kitchen Appliances) ÷ Carlton’s blue stripes.
And the answer is:

It was a test of watching stuff rather than mathematics and the lucky few who combined the skills of watching stuff, adding up stuff and being a bit jammy will be notified in the very near future.

Thanks to all who took part.

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Subjects lampooned in today’s edition
- That whole he/she thing from the World Championships
- Mark Hughes is only in it for the thrill of the chase
- Jenson Button is an arse

(more…)

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The 80s are over and we’ve got to deal with it. It’s not as if Spandau Ballet, the Pet Shop Boys and Simply Red are still alive and touring. Time moves on, but if you want just a reminder of how things used to be, then this could be the competition for you.
 
 
We’ve got some vintage 80s prizes to give away and none of them are leg-warmers or a flock of seagulls hairdo. You could be walking away with – or at least accepting delivery from the postie – of one of the following:

- A pair of Nike gloves signed by Bruce Grobbelaar
- A Liverpool retro 1984 shirt signed by Bruce
- A red England 1988 retro shirt signed by Carlton Palmer with Carlton 12 on the back
- A Sheffield Wednesday shirt signed by Carlton
- An England white 1990 retro shirts signed by Des Walker
 
 
The connection is that they’ve all starred in our recent high-larious ads on the tellybox. Watch them here if you haven’t already been subjected to our brainwashing: Brucie – Carlton - Des
 
 
To win, you’ll need to combine brains with jamminess. Firstly, find out the correct answer to the below mind-boggler and then email the aforementioned correct answer, your username and the vintage item you’d preferably most like to win [although that's no guarantee you'll get it] to competitions@paddypower.com.
 
 
The Big Question [you'll probably need to watch the videos for this]
What number do you get when you take the number of appearances Des Walker claims to have made in his career SUBTRACT the number of kitchen appliances Bruce Grobbelaar interferes with in his ad and DIVIDE the total by the number of blue stripes visible on Carlton Palmer’s shirt in the bathtub ad?

So, in summary, that equation is
x = (Des Walker Appearances – Brucie Kitchen Appliances) ÷ Carlton’s blue stripes.
 
 
Email the final answer to competitions@paddypower.com.
 
 
The small print
- Competition open to paddypower.com and Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet account holders only. - Closing date for the competition is 23:59 on Sunday 30th August 2009.
- In the very likely event that a few people get the question right, winners will be drawn at random.
- Paddy Power decision is final.

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With England in the lead and Kevin Pietersen out, the 3rd Test could be the pivotal one in this year’s Ashes series. And as everyone knows, the fourth day of a Test is the best day to go along to see [don't dispute it – it's a well known fact]. So, putting together the fact that Sunday is going to be the pivotal day of the pivotal Test and we have a pair of tickets to Sunday’s play at Edgbaston – how would you like to win a pair of tickets to Sunday’s play at Edgbaston? It could well be pivotal.

To be in with your chance of winning this amazingly pivotal prize, we’ve concocted this tricky and topical game that we like to call Spot The Bell. Simply tell us where on the grid Ian Bell is and email the answer along with your username to competitions@paddypower.com. Then – hey presto - you’ll be entered into a draw for the tickets.

The competition closes at midday on Thursday 30th July. The winner will be drawn at random. Entries posted in the comments section will not count as proper entries – sorry. Entrants must be paddypower.com or Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet account holders. Paddy Power decision is final.

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Normally when we’ve got a really great prize to give away, we ask you a moronically simple question and if you get that moronically simple question right, you go into a draw with all the other people who got the moronically simple question right too. Well without wanting to criticise it too much because we’ll probably use it again some time in the near future, how about winning a prize for actually using that noggin of yours? We’re giving away a VIP trip for two to Punchestown on Wednesday 29th April which conveniently happens to be the day of the Paddy Power Champion Bumper.

This fantasmagorical prize includes:
- Champagne on arrival
- Three Course Meal for Two
- A Free Bar!
- €100 Paddy Power Bet
- €100 Spending Money
The next couple aren’t great, but just keep Free Bar in your head while you read them and you’ll be ok:
- Complimentary Racecard
- Celebrity Tipster

For your chance to win this fantasmagorical prize, simply complete the headline taken from a high profile recent horse racing story in the funniest, wittiest or most entertaining way you can think of. Stick your answers in the comments section below and if our panel of comedic experts think yours is the best, you’ll win!!

There is a right answer, but that’s not the point of this competition, so let your imaginations run free. The closing time and date of this competition is 12pm on Wednesday 22nd April, so you’ve got about a week to think about it.

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Win €/£100 in Free Bets

As with most things we set our frazzled minds to, yesterday’s Cheltenham Katchphrase game wasn’t as well thought out as it really should have been and was in very real danger of turning into somthing of a farce. To avoid such pitfalls today I’m enforcing a few rules. There’s only one guess per person per square revealed, we can’t have one person having a hundred guesses before any one else even makes one (not naming any names, dave) . You can only win once over the four days, so sorry joe but we have to give everyone else a chance. I think this is all pretty fair and other rules will be made up if necessary.

So on to today’s installment. It’s pretty simple really, I’ll start revealing a new square every half hour or so from 1pm and you just say what you see. The first person to get it right wins €/£100 in free bets but if we get to the end and no one has the right answer then, and only then, will it become a free for all and Dave can have as many guesses as he wants. Good luck guys.

We have a winner. Today Dave Jones’ quality over quantity approach has won him the free bets. Congratulations Dave. One Trick Pony it is, I think we’re going to have to start making these a bit tougher.

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You may find similarities between the competition we’re running throughout the four days of Cheltenham and a certain other gameshow, but we’d like to point out that our version is legally different and has no association with it. Plus, we spell it Katchphrase.

Everyday at about 1pm, we’ll put up a graphic representation of well known phrase. If you’re confused already, here’s an example of what it will look like:

Now obviously deciphering what is being represented in the image is going to be difficult, so every half an hour or so during the racing at Cheltenham, we’ll reveal another bit of the image until eventually it will look something like this:

Now, combining your knowledge of West Coast rappers and clichés of the English language, you’d be able to tell us that this phrase is ‘A Game Of Two Halves‘.

From about 1pm on Tuesday, we’ll put up the Katchphrase of the day on our blog. Every half an hour or so we’ll remove a square and the first person to put the correct answer in the comments section wins €100/£100 in Free Bets.
It’s that simple.

Conditions
Open to paddypower.com account holders only.
Our decision is final.
Just in case someone is bizarrely brilliant at this game, once you’ve won, you’re automatically ineligible to win for the remainder of the week.

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