Dingbats Results and Answers 2025

Results of and Answers to the WDSG-UK 2025 Xmas Dingbats Competition

Thank you to everybody who took part in the Xmas-themed Dingbats competition, which has raised an astonishing £675 for the Group and especially to those who bought lots of copies and/or made generous donations to the Group through it. Thank you also to Vario Press Ltd of Slough, who sponsored the event.

There were 38 entries returned, with 5 all correct answer sheets and 12 runners up with only one answer wrong. Clue number 23 seems to have stumped many!

Congratulations go to: Sarah Payne, Sara and Phil Latham, and the Hoctor and Duncan families, all of Cambridge, and Peter McWilliam of Oxford, who got them all right.

As there can only be one winner, in compliance with the rules of the competition, the winner’s name was independently drawn out of a hat. I therefore have much pleasure in announcing that the outright winners of the competition are SARA and PHIL LATHAM, who have been presented with the £25 cash prize donated by our past chairman and friend of the Group, Dr Graeme Alexander.

I appreciate that Dingbats are not an exact science, and many of you will think your answers are as good as, if not better than, mine. One of the reasons I am attracted to devising Dingbats quizzes is that the answers can’t be found on the internet. Having said that, I am reliably informed that AI was indeed able to solve some of my clues! How annoying! And finally, well done to everybody who took part for the first time, especially those who scored so highly.

Val Wheater
1 Feb. 2026