Spruett001's 3,000th Post Contest!

Being honest, I'm thinking this contest idea isn't going to create much interest and play out well. I liked the idea of not knowing the answers at the start but, I think this will be dragged out too long and no one will care. I thank everyone for the guesses but, I think I'll do something else with a timeline and known answers. Thanks for playing this unknown game and I hope to see everyone in my new iteration of the contest where the answers are already set in stone.

I realized I don't have time to actively seek free money for this and it will go on for far too long. I didn't leave the "homestead" today. I found two coins yesterday: a 2015 dime and a 2001 cent. I can't make this game work.

I have another idea, however, and am considering a "Big Supporter" giveaway.

I apologize for the fail.

Thanks for the kind words TNG. The more I thought about it as it was being played out, the more I realized that my incarnation of the original idea wasn't feasible. Sorry, Parklane.

The only way to improve it would have been to remove the "pre-2000" requirement but, that would have led to everyone who had guessed changing their guesses and would have made the topic flow completely horrible for anyone else just finding it.

If anyone is wondering, I had yet to find a qualifying coin (and found nothing today either) so, it wasn't ended with a potential winner.

I will be posting a brand spankin' new contest tomorrow with known answers and set deadlines. It will involve world coins (non-U.S.) and also be a guessing game with little to no research involved. Easy, right?

The prizes will be the same and there will still be three winners.

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Yeah Spruett, just report the thread and ask this one to be closed I guess. Otherwise things will really get funner with old guesses on this and new guesses on that in the same thread.