Hello and welcome to the 2022 Advent Calendar Challenge!

The Advent Calendar Challenge is a fun yearly competition, where players are invited to guess what the pictures behind the windows on my advent calendar will be each day. Points are awarded (from 1 point on December 1st all the way up to 24 on Christmas Eve) for correctly guessing the picture, and the winner is simply the person who gets the most points over the course of the competition. Simple. Easy. Fun. If you're still a bit in the dark about things, have a look at the 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003 competitions to see what went on.

If you played last year you should get a PIN in your inbox automatically, and you can get started by submitting your guess in the form below! If you didn't play last year and want to play, apply for a PIN via the registration page. Once you have received your PIN, use the form below to submit your guess. You can change your guess as often as you like. The guess registered at the time of a window being opened is assessed for points on each day, and please note there is no need to sumbit a new guess every day as your guess remains in place until you change it or until it comes up, however long that may be! Your guess need not be unique. The eventual winner might win a top secret prize...

Two important points about choosing your guess:

• you HAVE to re-submit a guess after you score points, as scoring players have their guess wiped clean. You may, of course, re-set the same guess if you wish. This is to deter players from trying to set a lucky one-off guess and win despite never visiting the website again!
• guesses must be chosen from a list - this list contains all items that occur in the calendar (however many times they occur, they are listed only once), and only those items.

And finally, please note that if you start the competition late then you will be deducted the number of points equivalent to how late you started, to encourage playing the whole game and to reward those that do.

Good Luck!

Final Standings

	Pos	Player / Team		Score
	1	Samantha Scrivin		183 (11)	WR	5 in a row!
	2	James Laughlin		174 (10)	PB	5 in a row!
	3	Matthew Frost		172 (9)	PB	5 in a row!
	4	Ben Procter		164 (10)	PB	7 in a row!
	5	Sean White		163 (9)	PB	5 in a row!
	6	Håkan Wolgé		162 (11)	PB
	7	Neil Blake		157 (10)	PB
	8	Peter Smyth		156 (9)	PB	4 in a row!
	9	Anthony Smith		155 (9)	PB	3 in a row!
	10	Simon Rutter		144 (9)	PB 146
	11	Matt Foulkes		140 (8)	PB	4 in a row!
	12	Steph Coughlan		139 (10)	PB	3 in a row!
	13	Damian Cook		139 (8)	PB	3 in a row!
	14	Veronica White		135 (9)	PB
	15	Nigel White		133 (8)	PB
	16	Andrew Dale		131 (7)	PB
	17	Mark Coughlan		123 (8)	PB
	18	Edward Haslam		123 (7)	PB	2 in a row!
	19	Douglas Cameron		118 (8)	PB 126
	20	Tony Wilson		116 (7)	PB	3 in a row!
	21	Cassie Laughlin		111 (7)	R	2 in a row!
	22	Ross Turnbull		109 (7)	PB
	23	Simon Gosney		106 (6)	PB	2 in a row!
⇑1	24	Lorna Blake		104 (6)	PB 104
⇑3	25	Antony Brown		98 (6)	PB 121
⇑3	26	Chris Davey		98 (5)	PB 99	3 in a row!
⇓3	27	Mike Krotosky		80 (7)	PB
⇓2	28	Emma Tuckey		79 (6)	PB 81
⇓2	29	Geoff Marshall		77 (6)	PB
	30	Tom White		72 (4)	PB 121
	31	Laz Kay		68 (5)	PB
	32	Matt Nunn		62 (5)	PB 79
⇑3	33	Chris Green		57 (4)	PB 92
⇑4	34	Kevin Brown		53 (3)	PB 101
⇑4	35	Rosie Wallbank		50 (3)	PB 91
⇓3	36	Andrew Chilcraft		49 (4)	PB 131
⇓3	37	Joseph Palmer		44 (3)	PB 108
⇓3	38	Nina Dale		35 (2)	PB 88
⇓2	39	Ed Coughlan		30 (3)	PB 67
	40	Jen Fegan		22 (1)	PB 27
	41	Rich Davis		21 (1)	PB 36
	42	Heather Haslam		20 (1)	PB 59
	43	Iain MacNaughton		12 (1)	PB 23
	44	Gagandeep Singh Bharij		7 (1)	PB 57

This year's teams' championship will be the same again - I'm interested in finding out which astrological star-sign is the best, so I'll be trying to coax your date of birth out of you shortly! Current standings:

Final Team Championship Standings

	Pos		Team	# players	Score
	1		Aries	6 players	367 (46)	+50
	2		Leo	7 players	329 (40)	+54
	3		Taurus	5 players	291 (35)	+49
	4		Cancer	5 players	277 (28)	+36
	5		Pisces	5 players	262 (29)	+44
	6		Gemini	5 players	253 (24)	+41
	7		Libra	4 players	244 (26)	+44
	8		Sagittarius	1 player	183 (11)	+24
	9		Aquarius	2 players	157 (12)	+24
	10		Capricorn	2 players	150 (10)	+24
	11		Virgo	1 player	111 (7)	+24
	12		Scorpio	1 player	104 (6)	+24

Items uncovered: