The 2012 Music Banter Easter Egg Hunt: Congratulations Frownland!

Unknown Soldier · 04-21-2012, 02:32 AM

Hey I just found an egg on my thread, do I win a prize?

http://www.musicbanter.com/rock-meta...ml#post1180558

Howard the Duck · 04-21-2012, 02:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Hey I just found an egg on my thread, do I win a prize?

http://www.musicbanter.com/rock-meta...ml#post1180558

you have to be the one who finds the most eggs or runner-up to win

read the OP

Unknown Soldier · 04-21-2012, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck

you have to be the one who finds the most eggs or runner-up to win

read the OP

How many eggs have you got?

Howard the Duck · 04-21-2012, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

How many eggs have you got?

just one, ha ha ha

only started participating

in the lead are GuitarBizarre, Paloma and AwwSugar, I think

The Fascinating Turnip · 04-21-2012, 05:37 AM

http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/61...ml#post1179897

http://www.musicbanter.com/introduct...ml#post1063131

Guybrush · 04-21-2012, 06:07 AM

Sorry for coming with this comment so late in the game, but an idea for future egg hunts could be this :

Instead of giving a prize to whoever gets most eggs, every egg caught rewards a better chance of getting the prize. If you have guys with this egg score :

tore - 70 eggs
Duce - 45 eggs
Jans - 33 eggs

Then you have a total of 70 + 45 + 33 = 148 eggs. Then you pick a random number between 1 and 148 (using f.ex random.org). The owner of the number picked wins the competition.

You can tell who the owner is like this :

tore has numbers 1 to 70
Duce has numbers 71 to 115
Jans has numbers 116 to 148

(with the one who has the most eggs getting the earliest numbers - sort alphabetically when two or more persons are tied for the same amount of eggs)

The point of doing it this way is that finding an egg will always give you an advantage in the competition, regardless if someone else has found every other egg but the one you found. That way, it's always worth finding an egg, even if you're late in the game

Arya Stark · 04-21-2012, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by tore

Sorry for coming with this comment so late in the game, but an idea for future egg hunts could be this :

Instead of giving a prize to whoever gets most eggs, every egg caught rewards a better chance of getting the prize. If you have guys with this egg score :

tore - 70 eggs
Duce - 45 eggs
Jans - 33 eggs

Then you have a total of 70 + 45 + 33 = 148 eggs. Then you pick a random number between 1 and 148 (using f.ex random.org). The owner of the number picked wins the competition.

You can tell who the owner is like this :

tore has numbers 1 to 70
Duce has numbers 71 to 115
Jans has numbers 116 to 148

(with the one who has the most eggs getting the earliest numbers - sort alphabetically when two or more persons are tied for the same amount of eggs)

The point of doing it this way is that finding an egg will always give you an advantage in the competition, regardless if someone else has found every other egg but the one you found. That way, it's always worth finding an egg, even if you're late in the game

This is for future ones and not this one, right?
Also, I'm not sure I really understand it. It doesn't really sound fair.

Paedantic Basterd · 04-21-2012, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by tore

Sorry for coming with this comment so late in the game, but an idea for future egg hunts could be this :

The idea being that even the people who participate the least will still have some shot in the game?

I will consider this idea for next year, because I don't want to run the same event every year, but it would be nice to have variations on the events...

However, this event is a lot of work, and your suggestion sounds like even more work on top of it, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Guybrush · 04-21-2012, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

The idea being that even the people who participate the least will still have some shot in the game?

I will consider this idea for next year, because I don't want to run the same event every year, but it would be nice to have variations on the events...

However, this event is a lot of work, and your suggestion sounds like even more work on top of it, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Of course I respect that and completely understand.

I don't want to give the impression I'm really pushing this idea, but I just wanna mention I don't think it would be such a lot of work. It's more or less just generating a random number at the end of it all and figuring out who the winner is. It only requires some basic math skills.

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Originally Posted by AwwSugar

Also, I'm not sure I really understand it. It doesn't really sound fair.

It just means the more eggs you find, the greater chance you have of winning .. but as long as there are other contestants involved, winning is never guaranteed so basically everyone who's found an egg has a chance. Is that unfair?

The Fascinating Turnip · 04-21-2012, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by tore

Of course I respect that and completely understand.

I don't want to give the impression I'm really pushing this idea, but I just wanna mention I don't think it would be such a lot of work. It's more or less just generating a random number at the end of it all and figuring out who the winner is. It only requires some basic math skills.

I think she's probably had a lot of trouble hiding this ridiculous amount of eggs in threads every day so far, Tore.
Another thing is if she's putting her own money into this or if the mods chipped in or something. If she is, I think she's doing far too much already.

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Guybrush Juicious Maximus III Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Scabb Island Posts: 6,525	Sorry for coming with this comment so late in the game, but an idea for future egg hunts could be this : Instead of giving a prize to whoever gets most eggs, every egg caught rewards a better chance of getting the prize. If you have guys with this egg score : tore - 70 eggs Duce - 45 eggs Jans - 33 eggs Then you have a total of 70 + 45 + 33 = 148 eggs. Then you pick a random number between 1 and 148 (using f.ex random.org). The owner of the number picked wins the competition. You can tell who the owner is like this : tore has numbers 1 to 70 Duce has numbers 71 to 115 Jans has numbers 116 to 148 (with the one who has the most eggs getting the earliest numbers - sort alphabetically when two or more persons are tied for the same amount of eggs) The point of doing it this way is that finding an egg will always give you an advantage in the competition, regardless if someone else has found every other egg but the one you found. That way, it's always worth finding an egg, even if you're late in the game __________________ Something Completely Different Last edited by Guybrush; 04-21-2012 at 06:14 AM.