Dear Customer,
Hello everyone and welcome to this month’s Happy Puzzle competition!
For those of you who are new to this, for 14 weeks over lockdown we had an absolute blast creating weekly puzzles which were being received by well over 50,000 people each week. We had thousands of entries and each week a winner was drawn at random from the correct entries. As the weeks passed by, the puzzles were getting more and more ambitious and in the end, Gavin had to concede that he did not have the time to produce a new one every week. So we decided to make it a monthly thing, with the puzzle coming out at 7pm on the first Tuesday of each month.
Here we go then!
Here is the 85th PUZZLE and there is a £25 Happy Puzzle voucher up for grabs.
The Greatest Show
After another sunny weekend, when partly anyway i found myself with plenty of time to relax and watch TV which gave me the inspiration for this months competition.
Below are 50 TV series, many of which i have enjoyed myself. The first thing you need to work out how many years each of the series has been running. Now, there are a few things to mention...
1) This competition is as of May 2026, so the number of years will take you up to this point.
2) If a series has had a break, then we are only including the years the show was on air and not any years in-between.
3) We are not including any spin off shows that may have run longer than the original show
4) Finally, we are only including UK versions of the shows below
You will also need this colour key to help you...
1 - 5 years - YELLOW
6 - 9 years - BLUE
10 -15 years - ORANGE
16 - 24 years - RED
25 - 50 years - PURPLE
51 years plus - GREEN
The list of TV series are shown below...
1) The Bill
2) Only Fools & Horses
3) Porridge
4) EastEnders
5) Coronation Street
6) Doctor Who
7) Top Gear
8) Strictly Come Dancing
9) Downton Abbey
10) Peaky Blinders
11) Sherlock
12) The Inbetweeners
13) Skins
14) Black Mirror
15) Fawlty Towers
16) Mr Bean
17) The Office
18) Gavin & Stacey
19) Line of Duty
20) Broadchurch
21) Call the Midwife
22) Midsomer Murders
23) Silent Witness
24) Spooks
25) Casualty
26) Holby City
27) Waterloo Road
28) Grange Hill
29) Dad's Army
30) Are You Being Served?
31) Keeping Up Appearances
32) Absolutely Fabulous
33) The IT Crowd
34) Friday Night Dinner
35) Outnumbered
36) Love Island
37) I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
38) The X Factor
39) Britain's Got Talent
40) MasterChef UK
41) Come Dine with Me
42) Great British Bake Off
43) QI
44) Have I Got News for You
45) Mock the Week
46) 8 Out of 10 Cats
47) Countdown
48) Pointless
49) Antiques Roadshow
50) Blue Peter
To win the £25 Happy Puzzle voucher, once you have worked out all the how many years the show has run, you need the assign a colour to them based on the number of years they have run. The key you need is further up in this email.
Finally, to win the competition, simply email me the colour which features the most number of shows.
Please send your answer to me at josh@happypuzzle.co.uk, ensuring that you put MAY 2026 PUZZLE in the subject line.
The competition closes at 23.59 on Sunday 31st May 2026. Both the answers and the winner will then be drawn at random and revealed in next month’s puzzle on Tuesday 2nd June 2026! My decision will be final!
Now back to April’s competition!
We had many correct answers. I know there was a small mistake in the spelling of the word Freddo and i apologise about that. It didn't seem to stop everyone getting the correct answer though which was Creme Egg.
For those of you who didn't manage to work them all out, the correct answers are below.
1) Milky Bar
2) Aero
3) Creme Egg - Not shown in the wordsearch
4) Milky Way
5) Fruit & Nut
6)Yorkie
7)Smarties
8)Chocolate Orange
9)Caramac
10) Kit Kat
11) Topic
12) Bounty
13) Wispa
14) Lion
15) Milka
16) Ferrero Rocher
17) Freddo
18) Hersheys
19) Toblerone
20) Flake
21) Snickers
22) Daim
23) Star Bar
24) Turkish Delight
25) Twix
The winner of this competition and the £25 voucher is Adam Hardy.
That’s it! Enjoy the competition.
Joshua Miller
General Manager
Happy Puzzle
www.happypuzzle.co.uk
0844 848 2822