Count The Beans!
Thedillpickl
Hi Kids!
For no particular reason I'll be giving some stuff away. Want any of it? Thought so.
Here's the deal, count the beans! Ever seen this contest at a local merchant? They get this huge glass jar and fill it with jelly beans. Every customer gets to put an estimate of how many beans there are on an official entry. When the contest is over, who ever guessed closest wins the prize.
How this works
Guess how many times the word "bean" appears in the block below. The word may be spelled forward (bean), backward (naeb), with hyphens (b-e-a-n), with slashes (b/e/a/n or b\e\a\n) or underscores (b_e_a_n). It must be a complete 'bean' to count (e.g. ean & bea do not count).
For all the critics out there: I will do the following so that I know how many beans there are: 1) Copy/paste the word bean several times to make a block of a known amount. 2) Do the same for the other official ways to have a bean. 3) Cut/paste these together, being careful to not 'chop up' any beans.
🙂4) Add bogus crap to make it even more confusing!
Contest ends Monday night at server reset (00:00 eRep time).
The Prizes
> The first to guess the closest or exact number of beans gets prize #1.
> The second to guess the closest or exact number gets prize #2.
> The third to guess the closest or exact number gets prize #3.
Prize #1 = 100 q3 food & 10 q4 weapons
Prize #2 = 10 q4 weapons
Prize #3 = 100 q3 food
If the prize winners guess dead on, they get a bonus of 1 gold each. (If all three are exactly right, that's 3 gold total.)
So How Many Beans Are There?
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beanbeanbeannaebb/e/a/nb/e/a/nnaebbeannaebbeanb_e_a_nbeanbean-a-rama!
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beanbeanbeanb_e_a_nb_e_a_nbeanbean Don't stop now!
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beanbeanThe musical fruit! The more you eat, the more you toot!
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Comments
I tell you what, if someone actually counts how many times the word bean appears, they have way too much time on their hands! 😛😛
Holy crap. It's like Blazing Saddles.
298
hold on this is going to take me awhile....
321
i have sacroficed a portion of my sanity to the art of bean counting 😛
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ill go for 300
its a nice, round, spartanic number
= D
322
322
maybe i can get Prize #2
7 ?
322. Prize 3, lol
It is 322 exactly, damn all of you who read this article before me!
Ow, geez, my eyes hurt. You know, technically, the "block below" is the one entitled "The Prizes", in which case the word bean appears only once (in the word beans).
But I'll assume he meant that really biggggggggg block that just made me go blind. 😃
Well, technically "the block below" meant block of characters with the word "bean" in it, not the paragraph block immediately proceeding that statement. But what ever!
I can't believe it is over already! The magic number is 322. I hope you all are cross-eyed for a month. Your awesome and very nutz.
Prize #1 goes to ssomo
Prize #2 goes to Nimits
Prize #3 goes to xxAwsumxx
The FLBF* award goes to Benjamin Doverton
The OSC** award goes to Jason Welsh
*Finished Last, But Finished; **Oh, So Close
I, umm (ahem) don't seem to have the prizes on me. I wasn't planning on announcing the winners until Tuesday. Rest assured, I will be on this promptly.
I'll take it!
damn, should have read you gave out the prizes already
6.
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