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Entries: This contest is open to everyone in the kin.

Running: From Sunday April 19, 2009 to the end of Sunday April 26, 2009.

Prizes Awarded: Winners will be determined on Monday April 27, 2009 and prizes will be distributed then.

Prizes: Since I will still be making tea during the running of this contest the exact amount of tea available isn't determined yet.


How to Enter:

1: Choose a random number between 1 and 1,000,000.

2: Send an ingame mail to Sodwaitress with your number.

3: Reply to this post with the name of the character that sent a mail to Sodwaitress.


Concerning Numbers and how prizes are awarded:

The system will select a random number between 1 and 1,000,000 and the number closest to it wins.

An example of how the system works:
Contestants and their numbers:
A: 345
B: 344
C: 1
D: 2
E: 366
F: 500,000

Random Number selected by the system: 356

E wins being 10 numbers away. A was close but 11 away.


Random Number selected by the system: 173

B and D tie. So 2 equal teas are used up on this.


Random Number selected by the system: 3

D wins. C has a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of winning so please pick numbers better than 1 and 2 and 999,999 and 1,000,000.

This is why I don't want people telling others their number. If you pick 500,000, tell someone and he picks 500,001 that has just cost you a big chance of winning. But as it's a contest you can do what you want.


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my number is . . .wouldn't you like to know! envy
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Smidgett Fleshield :D
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Garadson has guessed...
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Otherwise my minstrel has sent a number.
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Rhien, my Minstrel has sent a # to SoDWaitress.


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Nice idea, Sodwaitress! Toote's has sent her number in a post to you in game.

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Falanu has answered the call ......


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as well


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Belraene is sending a guess


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Mohana will sodwaitress a mail
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Contest Closed. Winners will be chosen now.

Here is the script I ran so that everyone can see how everything turned out. It was very difficult for a few people to win anything so since I had so few entries I went ahead and gave everyone 1 tea of each kind before selecting winners. So the numbers for tea all have 11 subtracted from the actual amount of tea available.

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from random import randint
numbers = {100000: 'Garadson', 987654: 'Socket', 307496: 'Rhien', 461963: 'Toote', 481516: 'Otherwise', 42157: 'Belraene', 230001: 'Lanovar', 125879: 'Mohana', 400985: 'Smidgett', 463291: 'Gonnhirr', 313692: 'Falanu'}
tea = {'Green': 18, 'White': 28, 'Black': 5}
def winTea():
    allWinners = {}
    for contestant in numbers.keys():
        allWinners.setdefault(numbers[contestant], {})
        for teaType in tea.keys():
            allWinners[numbers[contestant]].setdefault(teaType, 1)
    for teaType in tea.keys():
        print '----------'
        print 'Tea Type: %s' % teaType
        print '----------'
        numTeaAvailable = tea[teaType]
        while numTeaAvailable:
            difference = 1000000
            winners = []
            randomNumber = randint(0, 1000000)
            print 'Selected Number: %s' % randomNumber
            for key in numbers.keys():
                if abs(randomNumber - key) < difference:
                    difference = abs(randomNumber - key)
                    winners = [numbers[key]]
                elif abs(randomNumber - key) == difference:
                    winners.append(numbers[key])

            print 'Winners: %s' % winners
            print 'Difference: %s' % difference

            if len(winners) > numTeaAvailable:
                # Too many winners, not enough tea.  Can't award prize.
                print 'Too many winners: %s - %s: %s' % (winners, teaType, numTeaAvailable)

            else:
                for winner in winners:
                    allWinners[winner][teaType] = allWinners[winner][teaType] + 1
                    numTeaAvailable = numTeaAvailable - 1

    print '--------'
    print 'Winners'
    print '--------'
    for winner in allWinners.keys():
        print '%s: %s' % (winner, allWinners[winner])


--------
Tea Type: Black
----------
Selected Number: 522926
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 41410
Selected Number: 452678
Winners: ['Toote']
Difference: 9285
Selected Number: 252983
Winners: ['Lanovar']
Difference: 22982
Selected Number: 479155
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 2361
Selected Number: 818881
Winners: ['Socket']
Difference: 168773
--------
Tea Type: White
----------
Selected Number: 697841
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 216325
Selected Number: 722031
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 240515
Selected Number: 80700
Winners: ['Garadson']
Difference: 19300
Selected Number: 337991
Winners: ['Falanu']
Difference: 24299
Selected Number: 234806
Winners: ['Lanovar']
Difference: 4805
Selected Number: 542317
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 60801
Selected Number: 65861
Winners: ['Belraene']
Difference: 23704
Selected Number: 41025
Winners: ['Belraene']
Difference: 1132
Selected Number: 758014
Winners: ['Socket']
Difference: 229640
Selected Number: 102625
Winners: ['Garadson']
Difference: 2625
Selected Number: 464375
Winners: ['Gonnhirr']
Difference: 1084
Selected Number: 856327
Winners: ['Socket']
Difference: 131327
Selected Number: 228340
Winners: ['Lanovar']
Difference: 1661
Selected Number: 167581
Winners: ['Mohana']
Difference: 41702
Selected Number: 345130
Winners: ['Falanu']
Difference: 31438
Selected Number: 557865
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 76349
Selected Number: 85466
Winners: ['Garadson']
Difference: 14534
Selected Number: 20279
Winners: ['Belraene']
Difference: 21878
Selected Number: 494765
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 13249
Selected Number: 990816
Winners: ['Socket']
Difference: 3162
Selected Number: 176296
Winners: ['Mohana']
Difference: 50417
Selected Number: 842609
Winners: ['Socket']
Difference: 145045
Selected Number: 196197
Winners: ['Lanovar']
Difference: 33804
Selected Number: 447290
Winners: ['Toote']
Difference: 14673
Selected Number: 243925
Winners: ['Lanovar']
Difference: 13924
Selected Number: 894377
Winners: ['Socket']
Difference: 93277
Selected Number: 464496
Winners: ['Gonnhirr']
Difference: 1205
Selected Number: 367286
Winners: ['Smidgett']
Difference: 33699
--------
Tea Type: Green
----------
Selected Number: 586125
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 104609
Selected Number: 554268
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 72752
Selected Number: 987449
Winners: ['Socket']
Difference: 205
Selected Number: 868200
Winners: ['Socket']
Difference: 119454
Selected Number: 728268
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 246752
Selected Number: 558366
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 76850
Selected Number: 395746
Winners: ['Smidgett']
Difference: 5239
Selected Number: 489828
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 8312
Selected Number: 705046
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 223530
Selected Number: 748032
Winners: ['Socket']
Difference: 239622
Selected Number: 629234
Winners: ['Otherwise']
Difference: 147718
Selected Number: 447389
Winners: ['Toote']
Difference: 14574
Selected Number: 840801
Winners: ['Socket']
Difference: 146853
Selected Number: 433295
Winners: ['Toote']
Difference: 28668
Selected Number: 337376
Winners: ['Falanu']
Difference: 23684
Selected Number: 185999
Winners: ['Lanovar']
Difference: 44002
Selected Number: 282033
Winners: ['Rhien']
Difference: 25463
Selected Number: 976805
Winners: ['Socket']
Difference: 10849
--------
Winners
--------
Mohana: {'Green': 1, 'White': 3, 'Black': 1}
Toote: {'Green': 3, 'White': 2, 'Black': 2}
Socket: {'Green': 6, 'White': 6, 'Black': 2}
Gonnhirr: {'Green': 1, 'White': 3, 'Black': 1}
Falanu: {'Green': 2, 'White': 3, 'Black': 1}
Lanovar: {'Green': 2, 'White': 5, 'Black': 2}
Garadson: {'Green': 1, 'White': 4, 'Black': 1}
Otherwise: {'Green': 8, 'White': 6, 'Black': 3}
Belraene: {'Green': 1, 'White': 4, 'Black': 1}
Smidgett: {'Green': 2, 'White': 2, 'Black': 1}
Rhien: {'Green': 2, 'White': 1, 'Black': 1}
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