100% SBD Give-Away 0020. (Over 62 SBD given away already!)
Since the original idea behind these giveaways was to help redfish and minnows, and with the proliferation of autobots in the system, I believe we need a method of building REAL community. As long as I have enough Steem Power, I will be up-voting those who participate in these weekly contests so that at minimum participants will receive increased rank and a small amount of Steem. If each participant ALSO up-votes the others here, we will form a small community of little fish helping each other out! Participating here involves actually reading the post and making a reply, which is what the platform is asking us to do.
Each week's contest will require entrants to select a number between 111 and 666.
How this contest works
- The contest is intended for lower-ranking members who could use the money (whales and dolphins are encouraged to upvote and increase the prize pool and/or comment rewards. Your support is greatly appreciated!).
- The contest will run for 1 week and close on Oct. 25, 2017.
- Entrants will select a number between 111 and 666 and in the replies to this post they will write, "ENTRY GUESS" followed by their chosen number. This should be the first thing they write, followed by anything they feel will add value to the post. This can be something as simple as a famous quote you copy and paste from the Internet (as long as you provide attribution), something of interest to you that you would like to share, a joke, etc.
- The winner(s) will have guessed all 3 numbers in the correct order and if nobody guesses correctly, then at least 2 of the 3 numbers rolled by 3 6-sided dice rolls must be achieved or the prize rolls over to the following week.(NOTE that there will be no numbers 7, 8, 9 or 0). Example: Dice rolls = 456. Players guessed 152, 256, 416, 555, and 645. Guesses 256 and 416 would split the prize for each having 2 of the 3 numbers in the correct places.
- The prize pool will consist of ALL the SBD earned by this posting PLUS a minimum bonus of 2 SBD to which 0.25 SBD will be added for each valid entry up to a maximum of 5 SBD added to the post reward.
- In order to win, you MUST have upvoted the original post and written something interesting. @nnnarvaez will be awarding the most interesting comment an additional prize of a full-power up-vote at his discretion.
Upvoting this posting will increase the prize pool, so be sure to ask your friends and followers to upvote, even if they are not entering!
Dice rolls were: 2,3,6 for 100% SBD Give-Away 0019 (last week)
Winner selected from those who followed the instructions:
- @abh12345 (guessed 266) winning 1.305 SBD (off by 30) PLUS 2.000 SBD PLUS (7 X 0.25) = 1.750 from @nnnarvaez for a total of 5.055 SBD.
I believe this contest can make a difference if we continue to believe and participate fully in it as a group.
Congratulations to the winner!
A bit of background about our sponsor:
@nnnarvaez has shown that he truly cares about this platform and is doing his utmost to make this a better place by using his expertise where it will do the most good.
- He is attempting to create incentive for people to comment on articles and actually discuss things.
- He believes that scripts can be used to do the 'heavy lifting', freeing people to engage in more discussions. As an example of the good work he does, @nnnarvaez built the script that runs the good bot Jack.
- He has worked with @steemcleaners to hunt down a 3,200 account bot net and protect innocent accounts.
- He has just recently set up his own server so that he can help add blocks to the blockchain and keep Steemit running smoothly as a witness. I highly recommend voting for him as a witness.
@nnnarvaez has discovered a Canadian witness that he believes is worth supporting and recommends you also vote for @guiltyparties as a witness.
To vote for a witness, you need to be logged in with your active key, so have it handy when you are ready to vote. To vote for witnesses not in the top 50, simply insert their name into the text box at the bottom of the witness list and click on the VOTE button.
I sincerely thank you for your input!
ENTRY GUESS 465 !
Here is a sketch made by me.
You can rate it if you want :)
That's really good! Seems lots of people go for manga-style these days. I wonder what makes it so popular?
Haha.. I think that style is simpler and easier than coloring.
That's why people go for black and white.
Although there are a lot of colorful manga.
You should start watching anime :)
I actually own several anime DVD's.
Wow !!! I thought you only had knowledge about Anime.
Sorry.
Glad to hear you watch anime. What's your favorite anime ?
I don't have any DVDs. I download animes from Kissanime.ru :)
It's difficult to choose just 1, but I think perhaps the video with Ponimayu in it is my favourite. I think it's so cute. I'm not sure what the title is and I can't find it in my hundreds of DVD's. It's about a little boy who lives with his single mother and finds a fish/girl with magical powers.
Lol.. Unfortunately , I haven't seen that anime yet.
I might watch it this time. :)
50 votes. Wow! 2nd place for best comment.
Wow man.. I dont even receive this much votes on my posts. Here is a tip from me as a gift. :D
I just counted up what you earned here and you gave back everything you just made! That was extremely generous of you to give such a big tip. Might I suggest you watch for the end of the current zombie adventure game and sign up for the next one so that you can earn some daily rewards by participating there? This contest runs just once per week, but the game runs daily and requires only that you state your moves (very easy to do). And fun if you enjoy that sort of game.
I will try and participate 3-4 days later. I am on vacation right now :D
I never imagined I will get that much upvote. Nevertheless, on a comment. I wouldn't have gotten them without your post. You deserve the tip. But I might comment like that in near future too. I hope it won't irritate you.:D
Once the zombie game begins, the team is fixed and new players must wait for the game to end. Enjoy your vacation because the game will go for several more days for sure. You can join when the next game begins. Original drawings are cool and will not irritate me at all.
Ok.. See you in your game :D
New game is starting now but you have not signed up yet.
Thank-you! I try to make it worthwhile to participate. My motto is to have no losers, just winners and bigger winners.
ENTRY GUESS 314
After last week's extensive discussion, my brain was burned out for this week, so I wanted to go with an easier, simpler comment. So I picked that number (314) for this week because it was approximately "easy as pi".
That's actually very clever. Those who don't know what pi is may have difficulty seeing it though.
You reminded me of the movie The life of Pi
If you haven't watched, I suggest watching it. Has an interesting wisdom in it.
I also know I can eat a Pie and enjoy it ;P
Apple pie would be my favorite with ice cream on the top. Yummm
My ENTRY GUESS is 555
Thank you :)
How, in today's society could you not know what pi is? If anything it should be a security question when signing up to websites :
"what is pi? Also explain the difference between there, they're and their "
Anyone who fails gets their ip banned for 2 days.
Hmmm.. Anything there is to see or hear can be submitted by people writing here and they're also making their ENTRY GUESS here.
and my ENTRY GUESS is 422
Looks like nnnarvaez gave you a vote trail too! Congratulations.
Oh, that is why I got several votes on my comment?!
Thank you very much to you and nnnarvaez
You are most welcome. We are attempting to build engagement here and showing appreciation with rewards is part of the plan.
Very clever! I hope I don't miss this nested entry when I tally up!
ENTRY GUESS 119. Thank you for this contest. This will help me a lot. And im sure this is gonna be fun!
Is there any chance you can come up with something more interesting? There is the possibility of winning a bonus prize for best comment.
Sweeet!
Thanks guys!
Can I go for another week? If so I'll try 551.
Cheers!
ENTRY GUESS 551
Of course you can stay for another week. Please stay forever. However, the rules do require you contribute something of interest. The whole point of this endeavor is to stimulate some human interaction. Surely you can think of something interesting to write. There is the additional chance of getting a good up-vote for the best comment.
ok then :)
If you like meme competitons, check out @acidyo's post
How about the chance of winning a ticket to Steemfest 2?
If you write about travel, be sure to get your post added to the Steemit worldmap
Thanks for reminding me to practice what I preach regarding comments, have a great day!
That's much better. Thanks!
Thank you too!
Hi @happyme! My guess is 185.
Yesterday I posted about a plant that grew by its own determination out of an open pallet compostor. I think it's a variety of zucchini cross pollinated by a pumpkin...maybe?
Here's what the mystery squash looked like when I cut it open:
Looks somewhat like a zucchinni on the outside, but smells like pumpkin, has yellow-orange flesh and big seeds like pumpkin.
Welcome and thanks for joining us!
Whatever it is I hope it tastes good! Last year I had something similar growing out of my compost and over the lawn. It made cutting the lawn in that area impossible, but it was worth it because I got several good meals out of it.
I tried to resteem this post. It is showing that I did, yet it is not showing on my blog for some reason. I will keep trying.
I do hope this problem of unreliability is solved SOON! I'm having a heck of a time today; doing everything at least twice.
ENTRY GUESS 666
Hope Satan helps me win haha (。•̀ᴗ-)✧
Congrats to the winner @abh12345! ^.^
I love seeing people with little reputation win, so I'm rooting for you. Is there any chance you can come up with something more interesting? There is the possibility of winning a bonus prize for best comment.
I didn't really want to win that's why I chose 666 deliberately haha.
Hmm, something interesting? This is random af, but I was reading about deers for one of my shitty posts recently and from my totally extensive scientific research (cough-one article-cough) I found out that that deers somewhat don't really need antlers and that deer doesn't have a plural form, fml.
Yeah, giant antlers look awesome and deer can use them as a weapon but come to think of it. First of all, they're heavy. Imagine a wooden lamp or smth attached to your head 24/7. They take a lot of nutrients like calcium to sustain them. Some deer grow antlers during winter when you need nutrients the most. The fun part is antlers fall off after some time and go through a delicate regrowing process again. All those nutrients and care goes out of the window. At last, some deer depending on their individuality don't even use antlers during predators attacks.
Now, after you read (or didn't) all of that nonsense above I want to share smth useful with y'all. Taken from one of @ocd comments:
@ocd curators find cool undervalued content and share it with steemians.
Wow! That was actually very nice information! THANKS! Good stuff and good luck.
I'm curious though as to why you would say that you didn't really want to win? Isn't earning steem why most people are here?
Thank you! ^.^
I meant I didn't want to win in this game. I knew chances of winning are slim in this game, so I chose 666 just to make Satan joke. Idk, I'm just random like that haha
About earning steem in general (via curating, writing posts and comments) yes, I'm no exception, I do want it too. :)
Up until now, there have been roughly 6 to 10 participants at any given time and a winner WAS guaranteed, so chances were very good. However as of the last contest, I was informed that the way winners were chosen could be gamed, so I altered it to this new system and I really have no idea how good the chance of winning is now. One would need 2 out of the 3 numbers to be in the correct place, but there could be 6 possible numbers in each position. Whatever odds that works out to.
ENTRY GUESS 465 :)
You are half way to having a valid entry... wanna go the full 9 yards and make it fully valid?
You mean about the comment ?
I didn't understand about it.. Can you explain please. Of course I want to make it valid
The idea behind this contest is to provide readers with something interesting to read. That is why you need to add something besides simply making a guess. The guess is so that the winner is random rather than me having to use my biased opinion on what is better than something else (I'll leave that part to my sponsor).
All you need to do is write something that you consider to be of interest as explained in the article above. It need not be post-worthy, but saying something that provokes interaction and engagement might win you the bonus award.
So, should I edit my comment or reply again ?
Either way is fine.
Then I will reply again :D