Magic often run a Mystery Voices competition in which listeners are required to guess the names of three celebrities who speak in the competition. One says "Magic", the second "One o five" and the third "Point four". Every hour a listener guesses the names of the celebrities and for each failed attempt £100 is added to the prizefund. The competitions often run for several months with the winner eventually receiving a prize potentially worth upwards of £100,000. The competition is on an indefinite hiatus since September 2010.
- In the first five-month competition which ended on 29 June 2006, the celebrities were Sara Dallin, Clive Anderson and Morten Harket, with the listener, Peter Loraine, winning £98,400.
- Nicola Diss won £110,600 for identifying Kurt Russell, Gloria Estefan and Matthew Wright.
- Barbara Way won £81,200 for naming Liza Tarbuck, Mariah Carey and John Travolta.
- In a marathon six-month contest, Maria Crosskey won £168,600 for identifying Anjelica Huston, Rob Thomas and Sarah Lancashire at the end of March 2007, but was later disqualified for failing to 'comply with the rules of the competition'. Emap decided to roll the prize fund over to the start of the next Mystery Voices contest, which began in August 2007.
- A further MMV competition commenced in August 2007. Due to the problems with the previous contest, the bonus for the first voice was set at £50,000, for the second voice another £50,000 and the jackpot for the third voice started at £69,000. The bonuses went on the second and fourth days of the competition, Paul Young and Pam Ferris being identified. The jackpot of £88,600 on 5 September went to Gary Thompson who identified the third voice as that of Nigel Planer.
- In the competition that began in September 2007, the first name, Paul Carrack, was given in mid-November and a second, Chesney Hawkes a month later. On Friday 1 February, a man identified simply as "Russell from Reading" correctly identified the third voice as Julie Delpy, winning £110,700.
- A new Mystery Voices contest began on 10th September 2012.
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