Out of the ordinary competitions

I started doing a competition from Vedett to win a cement mixer!  Unfortunately I never got round to entering it (having the grandchildren for a week meant no spare time). 

You had to work out how many miles the cement mixer had travelled on a tour of the UK.  Each day the details of which bar/pubs it would be visiting were listed.  The closing date was very close to the end of the tour which meant you had to keep up to date on where the truck was going.  It was not an easy competition and I think a guess would have been as good as working it out carefully as not enough information was given.  Did it use the motorways, what about toll roads?  Where did they stop overnight and was this mileage to be included?  Typically, though the competition closed over three week ago, it is still on the website.  I will have to keep going back to see if they publish the answer.

I don't mind a competition I have to work hard for, in fact I like them as they don't get many entries.  But I think if it is complicated then all the facts should be available.  It is easy just to use Roboform and send off hundreds of entries into basic draws but that means that lots of others are doing it as well. 

Another out of the ordinary competition at the moment is on Auto Trader.  I wont be doing this one as I cannot work out cryptic clues.  Also I am not keen on daily competitions because if I can't do it one day I feel put out.