May 2008 Contest Results

If you participated or are interested in the results of the May 2008 contest, please click the “more” link below and read all about it. Thanks to everybody who participated and I hope everybody had fun!

There were quite a few entries, but nobody got all 50 items. So, I gave each entry a color: green if it was clearly correct, yellow if it was kind of iffy, and red if it was not even close. Green got 2 points, yellow 1 point, and red nothing. The highest score was a 92 and the lowest was a 2, haha.

The Top 5 on the scoreboard ended up being:

1st: Pbchicknz – 92 points
2nd: Dawtch – 91 points
3rd: (tie) Shaynon – 89 points
(tie) Bekah – 89 points
5th: Van Meters – 88 points

It was pretty close up there! If you want to know your score, PM me on the forums or leave a comment.

For the random prize, I used Random.org to pick between 1 and 50 and it selected #28, which was the fire engine. Only 11 people found one and I lined them all up based on when they submitted their entries, Random.org picked #4, and that ended up being Van Meters.

A few interesting facts about the hunt include: Only one person found somebody with a musical instrument, making it by far the hardest item to find. The easiest was a green stoplight, as only two people were unable to find one of those. One person managed to find a snapshot of an airplane in the sky (!) and my favorite items out of place included a million bags on a NY sidewalk and a laundry machine in the middle of a road.

So, Pbchicknz won $50! Dawtch won $25! Van Meters won $25! Everybody had fun – wooo!

Oh, for the record, this will also be the first contest that I'll tie into the new awards system on the forums. Everybody who participated will get a ribbon soon!