Big fancy penny guessin’ challenge [winner announced!]
I hate pennies. I’ve established that. I tried to give them away to my coworkers, collecting them in a styrofoam cup and writing “FREE PENNIES!” on the side, but no one took the bait. Apparently, no one else likes pennies, either.
Well, I want to put my money where my mouth is (literally). Over the past two years or so at work, every penny given to me from a regretted Starbucks purchase or a frustrating Walgreens experience (don’t ask) has landed in that cup. It’s a normal, coffee cup-sized affair (not one of those lame “mini” styro cups). The cup’s almost full, and it’s pretty heavy. Hell, all those pennies might even be worth something.
On Wednesday 10/18/06 @ 11:30 a.m., I’m going to walk down the bank to cash that badboy in. I even set myself an appointment in Outlook. This thing’s fer reeeeal, dude.
Guess the number of pennies in the cup. The person closest wins. (Yes, you can go over; Price is Right rules are not in effect.) You don’t need to know me to guess, asshole! So guess! Leave your guess in the comments! Winner gets paypal’d on Wednesday afternoon.
UPDATE! 4:55 p.m. on 10/18/06. We have a winner! Someone got it exactly right… and that someone is…
IAN CARSWELL!
360 was the number, and 360 was the guess. Ian, come collect your reward.
BONUS RANT! What the hell is the deal with the bank? First I went to the fancy BankOne, I mean Chase, I mean JPMorganChaseBankOne, on Michigan Ave. — something of a flagship bank, ya know — and the assholes don’t have a coin machine! You call yourself a bank? What the fuck is this? Aren’t banks required by law to have a way to deal with currency?
So I go to CitiBank nearby, and they’ve got a coin counter but don’t want jack to do with me because I’m a JPChaseBankMorganOne customer. Money’s money, assholes!
Finally, I had to go to the BankJPMorganChase near my apartment. All I’m saying is that I put work into this thing, kids! Work!
October 13th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
313
October 13th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
178
October 13th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
As tempted as I am to guess 314, I’ll go with 427 as my official guess.
October 13th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
277. Or so.
October 14th, 2006 at 1:23 am
360, unless you keep adding on monday and tuesday, then i go with 367.
October 14th, 2006 at 7:56 am
555 ftw
October 14th, 2006 at 9:10 am
439
October 14th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
325
October 14th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
222
October 15th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Let’s go with 301. Six bucks!
p.s. Pictures are not coming through in your web feed. Looking at the source, it’s easy to see why.
October 15th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
250
October 16th, 2006 at 1:19 am
216
October 16th, 2006 at 10:36 am
197
October 17th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
440 pennies, bitch!
October 19th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Damn. I was 47 off. does 3rd place get anything?
October 20th, 2006 at 9:37 am
3rd place gets a pat on the back, buddy.
October 20th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
The average of all the guesses is 321. We would have needed 1 more guess of 900 to hit the actual total number of pennies. So basically, the tendency was to pick too low. I blame this on a shitty picture and not understanding the scale realtive to your fat hand.
Also, if you remove the highest and lowest guesses, the new average is, you guessed it, 313. My theory is that, since I chose first, I planted the seed and all the numbers were bound to hover around that. You should repeat this experiment, but hide the comments.
October 20th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Chlorophyll? More like BOROphyll!