Get your clue featured in the Hidden Books Game

Our popular bookish brainteaser gets bibliophiles around the nation searching for hidden book titles. Mary's clever clue for Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads made it into last year's game.

One lucky Caboodler will get the chance to see their clue designed and featured in this year's Hidden Books Game, and win a £100/€115 National Book Token to spend in their favourite bookshop.

To enter, you just need to describe to us – in no more than 50 words – what your clue would look like (and give us the answer so we can judge whether or not we think it’s a good ‘un!). Here are some tips to get started:

• We're looking for clues for the biggest and newest books – published within the past five years – that you’ve loved reading recently, or contemporary books you haven't stopped hearing about.

• Adventure! Travel! Journey! Think about signposts, road signs and other signage – all of our clues will be along this theme.

• What's on your shelves? Your clue could be for the biggest book in science fiction, the best in modern crime, or the most page-turning literary fiction you've read recently.

• Check out the answers for the past few Hidden Books Games for inspiration.

This competition has now closed. We'll contact the winner once we've looked through your wonderful entries!

Terms and Conditions

1 x winner will receive a £100/€115 National Book Token and be in with a chance of having their clue designed and featured in this year's Hidden Books Game

Open to entrants aged 13 and over as of Wednesday 23rd May 2018.
No purchase necessary.
Entrants can submit up to five entries, each for a different clue.
Multiple entries for the same clue will not be accepted.
The prizes are non-transferable and there are no cash alternatives.
Closing date 11:59pm, Thursday 21st June 2018.
In the event of a winner not responding when contacted via email after 14 days, we reserve the right to allocate the prize to another winner.
By entering, you are giving permission for us to use your clue in the Hidden Books Game, in materials promoting the game, for use in trade or national press, in social media activity, and on National Book Tokens' digital marketing platforms, including Caboodle.
The winning clue is not guaranteed be featured in the final Hidden Books Game design, which is at the discretion of the Book Tokens Ltd team. A £100/€115 National Book Token prize will be awarded to the winner regardless of whether or not the clue is used.
In the event that a clue does not win this competition but is used in the game, the entrant will be awarded a £10/€15 National Book Token.
National Book Tokens will only be awarded if the entire entry (book title, author, and exact clue description) are used in the game.
Book Tokens Ltd reserve the right to use book titles or ideas which may be similar to those by entrants, but not matching in their entirety, without administrering any reward to those entrants.
The competition is open to UK and Republic of Ireland residents except employees of the Booksellers Association, Book Tokens Ltd and employees of participating bookshops.
Entrants agree to Book Tokens Ltd using their details in post-competition publicity. Your details will not be used for any other purpose, or passed onto any third parties, unless specified.
The promoters’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Promoter: Book Tokens Ltd, 6 Bell Yard, London, WC2A 2JR.

Get your clue featured in the Hidden Books Game

Our popular bookish brainteaser gets bibliophiles around the nation searching for hidden book titles. Mary's clever clue for Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads made it into last year's game.

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