WELL! I`m not saying that I`ve been looking for the prizes for very long BUT.....I`m sure i just saw my husbands socks walk to the washer & jump in ..all by themselves!!!

I have sold a lot more Holly (ilex aquilfolium) plants, christmas wreaths and Pear Trees (after the partridge and holly clue this week.) at great prices.... thanks ebay..... i wondered why one of my plants suddenly had a zillion hits!

Haven't been on here very much today, busy with Sunday lunch, visitors etc.....

All I can say is when I did sit here and search I was amazed at how many high feedback sellers were selling pieces of tinsel at £5.00 with £2.00 P/P, immediate payment etc.

Wouldn't want to attempt to list the other scams...too many of them....

Even more amazed at newbie buyers who bid and won within seconds of the auctions starting....they as well as a lot of others, us here included, don't know what the auction page should look like....I only know because I've spent some time in here...

Can of worms eBay have opened with this treasure hunt...

~ Can anyone tell me why people knew the After Eight clue before it was even 8pm?

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Only just decided to attempt this and i am so confused...and feel so thick! anyone know what the page looks like? I mean its in a different category but when you click on the link is there a picture i just dont know what to do.........ahhhh!

Anagram: Mistletoe > "item lose"
finds: 5541776219 Extreme colon cleanser and weight lose item

:-D


definition of anagram Anagram
Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

Anagram
Noun

1. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.

Anagram: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

An anagram (Greek ana-, "back", and graphein, "to write") is the result of transposing the letters of a word or words in such a manner as to produce other words that possess linguistic meaning. The meaning of the new word so created is seen in the context of or in contrast to that of the old word so as to create humorous or interesting associations between the two. Anagrams are a type of word play.

The construction of anagrams is an amusement of great antiquity. Jews are often credited with the invention of anagrams, probably because later Hebrew writers, particularly Kabbalists, were fond of it, asserting that "secret mysteries are woven in the numbers of letters." Anagrams were known to the Greeks and also to the Romans, although the known Latin examples of words of more than one syllable are nearly all imperfect.

They were popular throughout Europe during the Middle Ages and later, particularly in France, where a certain Thomas Billon was appointed "anagrammatist to the king" by Louis XIII. W. Camden (Remains, 7th ed., 1674) defines "Anagrammatisme" as "a dissolution of a name truly written into his letters, as his elements, and a new connection of it by artificial transposition, without addition, subtraction or change of any letter, into different words, making some perfect sense applyable [i.e., applicable] to the person named." Dryden disdainfully called the pastime the "torturing of one poor word ten thousand ways" but many men and women of note have found amusement in it.

A well-known anagram is the change of "Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum" into "Virgo serena, pia, munda et immaculata." Among others are the anagrammatic answer to Pilate's question, "Quid est veritas"—namely, "Est vir qui adest"; and the transposition of "Horatio Nelson" into "Honor est a Nilo"; and of "Florence Nightingale" into "Flit on, cheering angel." James I's courtiers discovered in "James Stuart" "a just master," and converted "Charles James Stuart" into "Claimes Arthur's seat." "Eleanor Audeley," wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to "Reveale, O Daniel," and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by the dean of the Arches, "Dame Eleanor Davies," "Never soe mad a ladie."

The pseudonyms adopted by authors are often transposed forms, more or less exact, of their names; thus "Calvinus" becomes "Alcuinus" (V = U); "Francois Rabelais," "Alcofribas Nasier"; "Edward Gorey," "Ogdred Weary"; "Vladimir Nabokov", "Vivian Darkbloom" or "Vivian Bloodmark" or "Dorian Vivalcomb", "Bryan Waller Proctor," "Barry Cornwall, poet"; "Henry Rogers," "R. E. H. Greyson," and so on. It is to be noted that several of these are "imperfect anagrams", letters having been left out in some cases for the sake of easy pronunciation.

"Telliamed," a simple reversal, is the title of a well known work by "De Maillet." One of the most remarkable pseudonyms of this class is the name "Voltaire", which the celebrated philosopher assumed instead of his family name, François Marie Arouet, and which is now generally allowed to be an anagram of "Arouet, l j[eune]", that is, "Arouet the younger." Anagramming may also be used to good effect in farce or parody. A writer might take an unpleasant person he knows, base a character in a book on him/her, and then transpose the letters in the source's name. For example, controversial Isreali Prime Minister Ariel Sharon might be satirized as, say, local greengrocer "Leon A. Shirra". A rather inventive way to avoid a libel lawsuit.

Perhaps the only practical use to which anagrams have been turned is to be found in the transpositions in which some of the astronomers of the 17th century embodied their discoveries with the design apparently of avoiding the risk that, while they were engaged in further verification, the credit of what they had found out might be claimed by others. Thus Galileo announced his discovery that Venus had phases like the Moon in the form, "Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur--oy," that is, "Cynthiae figuras aemulatur Mater Amorum." Similarly, when Robert Hooke discovered Hooke's law in 1660, he first published it in anagram form. One might think of this as a primitive example of a cryptographic hash function.

There are also a few "natural" anagrams, English words unconsciously created by switching letters around. The French chaise longue ("long chair") became the English "chaise lounge" by metathesis (transposition of letters and/or sounds). This is an example of folk etymology. It has also been speculated that the English "curd" comes from the Latin crudus ("raw").

Cryptic crossword puzzles frequently use anagrammatic clues, usually indicating that they are anagrams by the inclusion of a word like "confused" or "in disarray". An example would be Businessman bursts into tears (9 letters); the solution, Stationer is an anagram of into tears, the letters of which have burst out of their original arrangement to form the name of a type of businessman.

What is the most anagrammable name on record? There must be few names as deliciously workable as that of "Augustus de Morgan" who tells that a friend had constructed about 800 on his name (specimens of which are given in his Budget of Paradoxes, p. 82)!

I can't believe How addicted I am. I am sure we will all be requireing Treasure Hunt Anonymous in January.

I have been addicted from day one, when only a few of us knew about the treasure hunt. I can remember going on the chat rooms and everybody asking me questions like, whats the treasure hunt?, do you have any clues? and Whats it look like?

My and my work buddy have been banging our heads together to solve the clue. We work in different offices so constantley contact each other by phone or email. I had the Mini in the bag but had to leave work at 4.30 so lost out on that one, dam.

AAARRGGHHH TREASURE HUNT IS DRIVING ME BANANAS, EVEN GOT MY 12 YEAR TRYING TO HELP!!! PLEASE STOP THE COMPETITION, SO I CAN SOMETHING ELSE DONE, LIKE EATING, WASHING UP, CLEANING, SORTING MY EMAILS OUT. IT IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!

Missed out on Vordermanns Alarm Clock, thought of Carol Vordermann, just couldnt spell it, and had to go out. Help me, eBay comp has taken over my life, as I knew it!

Well i am kinda addicted myself but not as bad as some of u guys are! I have to say some of the hints are really bad! like this is related to this who starred in this makes me wonder if u just dont wana give the stuff away! I missed the ebaneezer goode one i was very close!!

#117 - love the attention clue. 😉

I've been wandering hopelessly through eBay for the past few days now, most of the clues I wouldn't have got in a million years and some I've *nearly* got but not nearly enough. I mustn't give in to the temptation to sit here all day, social services would come round and take the children away... mind, you, if they did that, I'd have more time to try and look...

This is what you looking for:

thanks simon.guerrero but my mouse is female "no b*%&%".!!!!!!!:^O

Where do i find the daily and hourly hints?

Now, beware the scammers trying to replicate the look of the winning auctions. 😕

I hope ebay give away some nice simple prizes like - ***huge tub of chocolates every half hour, to replace the ones you've been munching that were meant for Christmas, while sat at the computer all day, forgetting to eat proper food...*** 😉

Yeah #137 - that'd be good. How about 'Isotonic drinks to replace lost fluids' (like marathon runners drink or portaloos so you don't need to be AFK to answer those awkward calls of nature. 😉

Hi Alexia!
I have a very bad story to tell, I have just sent you a email about it ,please reply ASAP. THX

AAAAAARRRGGGGH!! hahah - my story, 12th December 2004 - my sons FIRST birthday. All 31 guests were grilled with the TINSEL clue and we thought we were sooooooooo good - how WRONG were we?!

Our Lateral thoughts :-

Tinsel > garland > Judy Garland > Wizard of Oz

And so we tag teamed - trawling through listings upon listings upon listings (no wonder we didnt find anything DOH!)

I have come to the conclusion i'm not a lateral thinker! LMAO!

What a fabby idea! The nation grinds to a halt as TH fever hits

xx