Winning Combination

Some lucky blighter in Benidorm will be €1.3 million better off after winning on the new ONCE competition 'El Combo.' At the moment nobody has stepped forward to present the winning coupon to the organisation which is the charity which looks after blind people in Spain. All we know is where the coupon was purchased - in Calle Gambo - but the lady who sold the ticket doesn't know the winner's identity.

The competition involves picking 6 numbers in a triangle and then picking another number from 1 to 9 for each of the original six numbers and then choosing more numbers from 1 to 11for something else. As we haven't got Carol Vorderman in the office we got lost after the triangle bit, is it any wonder we don't understand our mobile phone tariffs?

5 February 2005 Stephen White.