Hope you all had a great festive season and a good start to the New Year.

The MobiDic competition continues and two lucky visitors to the SABC Education website can win one of these wonderful book prizes:

Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom (abridged version)
Ahmed Essop's The Hajji and other stories
Mongane Wally Serote To every Birth its Blood
We'll ease into 2006 with an easy puzzle so as not to strain your little grey cells too much after the holidays. All you have to do is to answer the following quiz question correctly and SMS your entry to 34744 and you could be the proud owner of a new book.

SMS messages are charged at R2 and conditions apply.

We all struggle with English idioms at times. An idiom is a group of words or sentence with a special meaning that must be used as a whole unit and that cannot be translated word for word into another language. So, if you say 'I was green with envy', you do not really become green, but you feel that you want something for yourself that someone else has.

Your task: Take the last letter of each word in the list below to make a new word that will be the answer to this puzzle. SMS the correct answer to 34744.

Your puzzle: Take the last letter of each word listed below to put together your mystery word:

nominee, heroism, recoup, gogo, kowtow, undulate, mentor

Next step: SMS your answer to 34744 and you will get the explanation sent back to you. The cost per SMS is R2.

The competition closes on Thursday 02 February 2006 at 3 pm. Two winners will be chosen randomly and will be notified telephonically.

The answer to the fifth MobiDic puzzle was 'oyster' and Juanita Lewis from Kuilsriver will be receiving her books shortly.

    Every time you use MobiDic, a share of your money goes to the following three organisations:
  • the National Association of People Living with HIV/Aids (NAPWA),
  • the Takalani Home for the Physically & Mentally Handicapped, and
  • the Mokoka Lamplight Foundation for the Blind.