Festive 24 Things

Thanks to each of you who entered the Festive 24 Things quiz. We had three entries who correctly guessed each of the 24 clues, so we used the online random number generator to select a winner:

The winner is…. Georgina Hardy! Congratulations Georgina, and to all the other entrants who did very well indeed (everyone scored 23 or above!).

We’ll post the full list of answers later today.

Enter the Festive 24 Things 2011 quiz

Jo Alcock — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:00:50 +0000

We hope you’ve enjoyed our festive quiz & if you’ve worked out the titles of the 24 carols and songs its time to submit your answers!

Please submit your entry by midnight on 31st December 2011. A winner will be picked from the correct entries (in the event of a tie we will hold a draw) and we will announce the winner and the correct answers in the new year. Add your entry using the online form.

If you need to revisit any of the clues, here is an overview of all the posts:

Day 1 - Frozen precipitation commence

Day 2 – Array the Corridor

Day 3 – Righteous Darkness

Day 4 – Sound of Tinkerbell’s end from the big apple

Day 5 – Bleached yule

Day 6 – Monarchial triad

Day 7 – Obese personification fabricated of compressed mounds of minute crystals

Day 8 – The quadroped with the vermillion probiscus

Day 9 – Singular yearning for twin anterior incisors

Day 10 – Bantam male percussionist

Day 11 – I heard ugly sisters: Nancy, Moira and Princess Charlotte

Day 12 – The dozen festive 24 hour intervals

Day 13 – Bidding everyone festive joy

Day 14 – Castaneous coloured seed vesticated in a conflagration

Day 15 – Parent was observed oscillating a red coated unshaven teamster

Day 16 – Musical slogan advertises whisky

Day 17 – New born Nick

Day 18 – 1066 and all that describes monarch in unorthodox Czech landmark

Day 19 – Arrival time; 2400 hours-weather cloudless

Day 20 – Proceed and enlighten on the pinnacle

Day 21 – Swingin’ around and around the richest master

Day 22 – Give Attention to the Melodious Celestial Beings

Day 23 – Willoughby dines out

Day 24 – Red man en route to borough

Thanks for joining us & wishing you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Red man en route to borough

damyanti — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:00:37 +0000

Our final festive clue is our Christmas Eve favourite (see last years post).

Find out when Santa is coming to visit you

Willoughby dines out

damyanti — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:28:48 +0000

Infographics are a popular way of representing information in a visual way. Mashable.com regularly posts infographics on a wide variety of topics, and there is advice on creating infographics in this article on makeuseof, which also lists some useful tools. This infographic was created using Pages and Inkscape on a Mac, although they can be created with any graphics packages. Some services can create infographics for you – like this twitter infographic tool from visual.ly - why not try it?

Give Attention to the Melodious Celestial Beings

Jo Alcock — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:45:09 +0000

For today’s clue we’ve done something a little bit different – we’ve created a wordsearch! There are 30 words all taken from the lyrics of today’s song, each of which are hidden in the wordsearch. See if you can find them all – visit the wordsearch on Flickr to add your answers and let’s see how quickly all 30 can be found.

Give Attention to the Melodious Celestial Beings (click on image to go to wordsearch on Flickr)

We used Brian Herzog’s Excel template to create this wordsearch – see more information on his library themed wordsearches on the original blog post. Why not have a go at creating your own and adding it to Flickr for us to try to solve?

Swingin’ around and around the richest master

damyanti — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:00:13 +0000

Today’s clue was made using stripcreator

Proceed and enlighten on the pinnacle

damyanti — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:52:15 +0000

We used Logotype Maker to make this quick logo/clue, it took only a couple of minutes and very straightforward to use.

I couldn’t resist making one for festive24things

Arrival time: 2400 hours; Weather: cloudless

damyanti — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:52:55 +0000

Che ora gli angeli cantano

We used Google Translate for this clue. Once you have translated a phrase, use the ‘speaker’ icon to hear it spoken aloud.

1066 and all that describes monarch in unorthodox Czech landmark

damyanti — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:00:24 +0000

Day 18
by: library23things

This movie was created using Xtranormal, there is a limited amount you can create for free all you need to do is choose a background, actors and some text. I was also able choose different view points, facial expressions and hand gestures.

If you are looking for some library themed inspiration then there are a few library videos to browse here via @aarontay