Round Two Completed

If you have been playing along, you should now have a lovely list of ten compound words. Now is the moment to rope in any sentient human being in the vicinity of your screen to get them to help you if you still have the odd pesky blank in your list. I find a reward in the form of Easter chocolate often motivates deep thought.

Bet you're dying to know if you've solved them all. Here's what you need to do now.

• Drop me an email at alisonhudson03@hotmail.com

• Please make the subject line CWP - Round 2 answers

• Include a list of ONE answer only for each diptych - no hedging your bets now!

I will let you know how many you got correct, but probably not until April 1st (sorry if the wait is agonising - I'm not in front of a computer until then).

The full list of answers will appear on the blog here on Tuesday April 2nd.

Thank you so much for joining in and good luck!

How to Play - Round 2

Welcome to Round 2 of The Compound Word Project! If you've played before, you know the drill, and if this is your first time, greetings - it's lovely to have you.

The rules are straightforward:

• During the next fortnight, 10 diptychs will be posted on this blog - each will represent a compound word. 

• Take a look and guess the solution to each one (but please, don't be tempted to post your answer in the comments section - just note it down privately).

• When you have seen all ten, drop an email with one answer for each diptych to me {alisonhudson03@hotmail.com} - I will let you know how many you got correct. Your first submission is the only one I can accept - no second chances!

• I will publish the correct answers on the blog once the deadline for submitting guesses has passed.

Really hoping you enjoy the chance to join in. Please do feel free to spread the word about the game. Also, there are links to all of the Round 2 photographers in the sidebar if you'd like to pay them a visit.

Ready for a trial run? Have a go at this diptych:

Photo by Shelley 

Did you guess right? Though don't get over-confident - they aren't all straightforward...

Bonne chance!

Round One Completed

Okay, so it might have overheated your brain, caused you to pull your hair our, or suffer intolerable smugness from your spouse and offspring, but you've done it!

You should have a lovely list of ten compound words and now you are itching to see if they are correct, I'm sure! Here's what to do.

• Drop me an email at alisonhudson03@hotmail.com

• Please make the subject line CWP - Round 1 answers

• Include a list of ONE answer only for each diptych - no hedging your bets now!

I will let you know by return email how many you got correct.

On Monday evening, I will make all the answers available on the blog. At that point you can have a free for all in the comments section and vent about the ones you just couldn't guess!! 

And I am sitting here, crossing my fingers that at least one bright spark has got all ten correct and earned themselves a little prize - I will, of course, let you know who.

Good luck Compound Wordsters, and thanks for making my week an awful lot of fun! Fancy a Round 2 at some point?

How to play

We're kicking off round one on Monday 12th November. Here's how you can play....

• During the week, 10 diptychs will be posted on this blog - each will represent a compound word. 

• Take a look and guess a word for each one (but please, don't be tempted to post your guess in the comments section).

• When you have seen all ten, drop an email with one answer for each diptych to me {alisonhudson03@hotmail.com}. There's a little prize for one person who guesses all ten correctly.

Really hoping you enjoy the chance to join in. Please help get the word out about the game - if this round goes well, it would be great to have a whole heap more photographers and words for rounds 2 and beyond.

Most of the photographers in this first round have lovely blogs of their own. Links to all of them are in the sidebar. Why not pay them a visit?

And for this of you who'd like a little practice, try this one... do you think you got it?