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About four years ago I won a pair of VIP tickets, including back stage passes to see Asia/Jethro Tull at the Shepherds Bush Empire, courtesy of Classic Rock Magazine

That's about it

I've won 2 80gb iPods from that Coke label contest.
A few friends own a shop that sells tons of the stuff, and the bins were full of bottles every day, most with their labels intact. For the first iPod, I waited until 2am and put through about 200 codes at that time. Won a ton of free songs and the hardware.
Told my housemates about this, and soon discovered the joys of employee-supermarket relations... One worked for Asda, and one day turned up with a lot of the No Purchase Necessary scratchcards. A carrier bag full of them!
Following weeks were spent entering codes at stupid o'clock, netting another iPod for myself (Sold for a good chunk of change shortly afterwards), one for the housemate for the Asda codes, then began to teach others the method (bulk entries via website for no text charge and quickness, preparing numbers beforehand, having one person moving the codes whilst another types, etc...)

I don't usually win stuff(I'm still waiting on a magic contest). But our neighbor works for a radio station, so I get free concert tickets and the occasional backstage pass every once in a while.

The best thing that I received from them was tickets to Universal Studios and Islands of adventure (Massive theme parks) and a water park.

So it's good to live next to someone who works in a radio station.

Mark Waddington wrote:Oooh, forgot to mention - I won three nodding dogs yesterday

How and where?

The only things I have won is a slow bicycle race in school and the 100m dash - and promptly cut my throat open on the string that was pulled really tight at the finish. Bad memories of winning so I try not to win anything now....

I had a really lucky year around 1997 entering competitions. The prizes I can recall from then:
Big suitcase on wheels
This book and matching T-shirt
Fleece jacket
Tamagotchi
Ice cream maker
Deluxe leather-bound edition of The Great Apes

No cash, cars, or holidays, though. Since then I've won a nice toaster, and I recently won £14 on the Vernons pools.

I won the most horrible bottle of wine ever last night for comming second in the pub quiz.

Third prize was two bottles ?

Ooh, at school a group of us once won a Police, Camera, Action! book for coming second in a quiz night. The incredulous disgusted looks on our faces said it all, but it was great fun.

i won £17k on a tv gameshow with my missus last year

and a limited edition green Blue Peter Badge for a poem i wrote about the environment.

I got a green blue peter badge too for a painting I did of an Eagle for one of their competitions. I think it was to design a stamp for endangered animals or something like that.

The legendary Tony Hart designed the Blue Peter logo... and was paid the princely sum of £100 back in 1958..

i remember looking at the list of places i could now get in for a discount price, realising they were all outside of Wales and becoming very disheartened.

I've since lost the badge but it was quite cool at the time (last year of junior school)

ps Flashman: Good pub quiz knowledge!

Wow, what gameshow was it?

it was on ITV about 3pm called 'for the rest of your life'. The premise was that you won an amount of money for a certain amount of time. For example mine was about £700 per month for 2 years, but we had a lump sum instead that was a little bit less.

got an e mail in work advertising it and within 2 months we'd done the interview and were filming by the London Eye. Nicky Campbell was presenting and he was a legend - really nice guy.

Just glad all that was before i rediscovered Magic / CUPS!