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I'm sorry to see that CKcollectiblies2 did not make a guess in Round 8. Too bad, they were in podium contention. Alas, this means one less player eligible for a Participation Prize.  Onward now to the round results. Nickelsearcher 15,000 Post ContestRound 8 Results
Player Guess
jbuck 347
loonielewy 420
Spence 439
igwt79 442
HondoB 444
Dearborn 480
bill069 598
mrwhatisit 623
mcshilling 650
ttkoo 745
jason39305 750
Marv65 776
nfine 814
BStrauss3 911
joshu-a 986
Chase007 997
Keith67 1001
CoinForMe 1047 <== Runner Up! 10 Points
I6609 1050 <== Runner Up! 10 Points
Petespockets55 1138 <== Runner Up! 10 Points
halfamind 1234 <== Runner Up! 10 Points
Zurie 1237 <== Winner! 20 Points
Actual Count 1399
triggersmob 3000
Congratulations to Zurie - Winner of Round 8!  Congratulations to the Runner Ups! Contest Standings Coming Up NextTake a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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Nickelsearcher 15,000 Post ContestStandings Through Round 8
Player Total
Petespockets55 85
halfamind 70
Zurie 70
joshu-a 65
CKcollectibles2 60
CoinForMe 60
HondoB 55
I6609 55
Spence 55
Keith67 50
ttkoo 50
bill069 45
igwt79 45
jason39305 45
Chase007 40
Dearborn 40
jbuck 40
loonielewy 40
Marv65 40
mcshilling 40
mrwhatisit 40
nfine 40
triggersmob 40
BStrauss3 35
jomic 35
Petespockets55 remains in the drivers seat for the championship. The remaining 2 rounds are the time for a handful of the players to make a podium surge for the 3 main event prizes.  Nearly everyone else remains eligible for one of the lovely Participation Prizes. The Round 9 container will be posted later today.
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Zurie 1237 <== Winner! 20 Points Yow! my 444 not only wasn't in the ballpark, it couldn't even see the stadium! Congratulations, Zurie! Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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@HondoB - your reply causes me to wonder if somehow my using 'everyday objects' to assist the Players to gauge scale of the containers is somehow flawed? Or, equally likely, perhaps the Players just don't have the interest/skills to use the size of the everyday objects to calculate an estimate for the container volume? I suspect a few of the Players are doing some math to guide their estimates - and I further suspect that they are near the top of the standings.  Regardless -- we are moving onto Round 9 and the final chase for the Main Event podium and premium hand-made David prizes. I'm enjoying everyone participating and giving me an opportunity to give back to you. |
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Nickelsearcher 15,000 Post Contest - Round 9Guessing Deadline Saturday June 6 @ 1PM EST Best of Wishes to all the Players. p.s. - a quiet hint. If you guess less than 100 nickels you are not likely to gain any bonus points. Just saying for those who tend to guess low.
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I have found the everyday objects to be quite helpful. Especially in the previous round with the ruler, I calculated it to be about one-third of a box of nickels (666), inevitably give or take a few.
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Good feedback Joshu-a, thank you. If I host a 20K contest -- should I simply use a 6" ruler for each container?  That seems to me to dumb down the challenge. But I welcome the Players input. Take for discussion sake this new Round 9 container. Its everyday object is obviously a Bostich electric pencil sharpener. Granted most of the Players don't own this exact pencil sharpener -- but it's not a lot of work to Goggle the dimensions and use that information to judge scale. Perhaps I'm overthinking this. Let's just have some fun guessing nickels and win some prizes. Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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I suspect a few of the Players are doing some math to guide their estimates - and I further suspect that they are near the top of the standings. I did, but still missed. I used the Ike as a guide to size. Used an average diameter and then used the pi r 2 x h to estimate a volume, allowing for an assumed thickness of the glass, and then divided that my the volume of a nickel, and then dropped 500 off to allow for space, and still failed. |
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I again was way off, so I'll guess this round:
1,155
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I thought I had that one figured out, wow off again.
Try again on this one.
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I just close my eyes and throw a dart. And it landed on 2309.
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