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Sherlock Holmes · June 15, 2015 1:23 pm

The producers of Mr Holmes got in touch with me as apparently I am a "known Sherlockian", and they asked me to run a competition for them. Of course, I said yes.

So, the competition went live today on Twitter and will be running for the next two weeks. You can win a signed Mr Holmes poster (signed by Ian McKellen) and a DVD bundle of 5 movies.

View the details here:
https://twitter.com/believeinsh2012/status/610437241362583552

mrshouse · June 15, 2015 2:16 pm

I'm deeply impressed, Boss A known Sherlockian! In the end, aren't we all around here?
I will participate!

tonnaree · June 15, 2015 2:20 pm

There are much worse things to be "known" as.

SusiGo · June 15, 2015 2:29 pm

Great, Boss, good to know they appreciate your experience as a Sherlockian.

Harriet · June 15, 2015 2:54 pm

Go ahead, Boss!

Russell · June 15, 2015 6:12 pm

Cool!

ukaunz · June 16, 2015 12:11 am

Awesome

But maybe I'm a bit silly - I can't see how to enter this comp? Details in the pic on Twitter, but it's just a poster for Mr. Holmes?

Russell · June 16, 2015 2:43 am

ukaunz wrote:
Awesome

But maybe I'm a bit silly - I can't see how to enter this comp? Details in the pic on Twitter, but it's just a poster for Mr. Holmes?

No… there's two smaller thumbnails for other pics next to it… just click the texty one!
(or, if you clicked the poster, or the poster is the one that pops up for you, just click it and it takes you to the next picture) I honestly was surprised all you had to do was answer one trivia question, that I imagine most avid readers would know. Ah, well… here's hoping to not having to be randomly picked out of thousands and thousands of entries!

Sherlock Holmes · June 16, 2015 8:55 am

Well, only two people have entered so far, so I'm not expecting thousands!

Harriet · June 16, 2015 10:09 am

A 50% chance, then

ukaunz · June 16, 2015 12:11 pm

Russell wrote:
ukaunz wrote:
Awesome

But maybe I'm a bit silly - I can't see how to enter this comp? Details in the pic on Twitter, but it's just a poster for Mr. Holmes?

No… there's two smaller thumbnails for other pics next to it… just click the texty one!
(or, if you clicked the poster, or the poster is the one that pops up for you, just click it and it takes you to the next picture) I honestly was surprised all you had to do was answer one trivia question, that I imagine most avid readers would know. Ah, well… here's hoping to not having to be randomly picked out of thousands and thousands of entries!

I'm still not getting anywhere... Might have to try it on my laptop instead of my iPad

SusiGo · June 16, 2015 12:51 pm

If I understand correctly, you just have to mail your answer to the address given in the pic. I gave it a try.

Sherlock Holmes · June 16, 2015 1:54 pm

Russell · June 16, 2015 5:37 pm

Sherlock Holmes wrote:
Well, only two people have entered so far, so I'm not expecting thousands!

Really? Ha… so maybe I'm just competing against you guys, then! ;D (but there's time, and I figured they'd be promoting it broadly…)

ukaunz · June 17, 2015 1:04 am

Thank you for posting the details boss! Saves me a bit of hassle at the moment

lil · June 17, 2015 1:07 pm

I entered too. :-)
But good luck to everyone else who entered from here.

Yitzock · June 20, 2015 6:59 pm

Thanks for sharing this! An interesting contest, to be sure, although only one part of the prize is related to the film itself. Still good,though. I hope this film is good, it intrigued me since I saw the trailer a few months ago.

Russell · July 4, 2015 4:22 am

So I had partly forgotten about this what with two weeks of bouncing around between other things, but happened to check my email earlier and was -quite- surprised to see a note about it? Surely I never ever get picked for these random things, but… oh my Holmes, I won!!!! *dances*

So cool they did a little giveaway and that one of our own got to run it, or would have never heard of… thanks Boss!!! Just wanted to put a little update in here, in case anyone was wondering. Were there many entries? Would share some of the dvds with you guys if could (or if anyone really wanted one of the strange mix of titles!) ! Can't wait to see it!