Answers for Thursday, 29 October 2026
All six puzzles from this day, solved.
The answers are below — no peeking unless you mean to!
Yesteryear — the year was 1971
Clue 1: Hot pants were, briefly, high fashion.
Clue 2: Mr Benn first popped through the changing-room door on children's TV.
Clue 3: The Open University welcomed its first students.
Clue 4: Shopkeepers spent February explaining a whole new kind of money.
Clue 5: Decimal Day: pounds, shillings and pence became pounds and new pence.
Word Search — theme: The Allotment
The 8 hidden words were:
BEETROOT · CABBAGE · MARROW · POTATO · RHUBARB · RUNNER · SHALLOT · WHEELBARROW
Mini Crossword
MOON
ON
TULIP
SO
FERN
Across: 1. MOON · 3. TULIP · 4. FERN
Down: 1. MOUSE · 2. ONION
Daily Trivia — Games & Pastimes
- In Monopoly, what do you collect for passing GO? £200
- How many dominoes are in a standard double-six set? 28
- Which card game features 'trumps' and 'tricks' and four players in pairs? Whist
- In bingo, which number is called 'two little ducks'? 22
- How many tiles does each player start with in Scrabble? Seven
Sudoku Solutions
Easy
231469758
948175326
657823941
123687495
795314862
486952173
564738219
319246587
872591634
Medium
568219473
127834596
439765128
685471932
342596781
971328645
753142869
894653217
216987354
Memory Match — deck: Flowers
The 10 pairs were:
🌸 Blossom · 🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Hibiscus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌷 Tulip · 💐 Bouquet · 🥀 Wilted flower · 🌹 Rose · 🏵️ Rosette · 🌱 Seedling