Gemelo, in association with The Observer, plans to start offering a monthly clue-writing competition early in 2027.
The competition will operate in much the same way as the Azed competition, which we last saw in July 2025. Gemelo’s clue-writing competition will run on the last Sunday of every month.
The plan is to run a test competition on November 29th. This will form the basis of testing the whole process and the competition (for real) will start on January 31st 2027.
Any feedback should be sent to: puzzles@observer.co.uk.
I’ll be giving this a miss as I don’t want people to turn against me when I win it every month.
Look forward to this.
For those interested, the cccwc monthly clue writing competition is also back up and running and now in its third month since the restart.
Is this open to non-UK residents like the cccwc monthly clue writing competition and like the Azed competition used to be?