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We need more people like you in our legal system!Originally Posted by grimmYou, of your own volition, publicly posted that the closest number was off by 24,674. I took this possibly erroneous bit of information and applied it to the data set and made a plus/minus chart of all the entries, which effectively doubled the number of choices. Because of the way some of the numbers overlapped relative to the 24,674 number, I was able to eliminate them and got the list of viable possibles down to 60 or so.
I then had a jumbled mess of possibles to be sorted and so I operated under the assumption that your choice of numbers wouldn't actually be random. I scoured the list looking for anything that may be of historical significance or otherwise meaningful in some way. Of all the possibilities, two stood out with plausible date formats in the 1900's.
From here I looked at your forum name "Sharpie Sniffer" hoping to glean some insight, and assumed it was likely someone in their mid-to-late teens. Any earlier and you would not be into sniffing markers, any later and you would have moved on to proper narcotics to get your fix. This assumption happened to line up nicely with one of the two plausible date formats, the one ending in 1995. The 4 and 6 were of no interest to me but I later assumed them to be birth month and day.
It was a guess, based on a guess, based on a set of assumptions. Nothing in the rule set banned the analysis of this publicly available data or operating on assumptions. As the rules are written, the only possible way to cheat in this contest would be to change your answer after the fact, and that is something I did not do. It was a guess, a scientific wild *** guess maybe, but a guess all the same.
Hopefully this clears up the mystery. I'm totally blown away that it all came together.
As to why my first post was short, I didn't want to spend an hour-plus putting my thoughts together in a coherent way... I do not like to write if I am not going to write right.
Thats an insane way of coming to guess a number for some random contest on an internet forum for a video game where you dont die for guessing the wrong number
Most people just put in a random guess and hoped for the best. But you sir, you went all out!!!
Definitely my bad. Also the only way I thought that you could have legitly gotten it right.You, of your own volition, publicly posted that the closest number was off by 24,674.
Makes sense but isn't technically right only because that isn't how I thought of my name at all.From here I looked at your forum name "Sharpie Sniffer" hoping to glean some insight, and assumed it was likely someone in their mid-to-late teens. Any earlier and you would not be into sniffing markers, any later and you would have moved on to proper narcotics to get your fix.
Never said it wasn't.Nothing in the rule set banned the analysis of this publicly available data or operating on assumptions.
It does but sounds like a whole load of crap to me. But this seems to ******ed to be made up.Hopefully this clears up the mystery.
That is your fault alone. If I sit there and call you a cheater and such and you don't respond to it with any defense or explanation and just put what will seem to be a smarta$$ answer then that will just further my opinion. Thank you for an actual answer though. And now I hope that me and you have both learned a lesson here.FMLAs to why my first post was short, I didn't want to spend an hour-plus putting my thoughts together in a coherent way... I do not like to write if I am not going to write right.
Within a weeks time, once I acquire the card you should receive a private message from me. I will try and get it Monday so look out. And with nothing else to say, congrats. And again FML
You are from the united states right? If not then you need to let me know where.Originally Posted by grimmI would like the code to be sent by private forum message. Thank you for taking the time to host this Sharpie, it was a fun game!Originally Posted by SharpieSniffer
********!!!! The closest before this info was given out was me!!!! FML
I KNOW!! I WAS SO HAPPY FOR YOU AND NOW I FEEL SO BAD!!
Look on the bright side.. you live in aus and get the sunshine everyday in life..Originally Posted by HardkoreMan
And you probably have a pool in your massive garden...
Yeah.. I've seen neighbours
Correct.Originally Posted by SharpieSniffer
Within a weeks time, once I acquire the card you should receive a private message from me. I will try and get it Monday so look out. And with nothing else to say, congrats.
and there i was thinking i put a lot of thought in to my guess...
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Not exactly fair you gave out a hint...but congrats to grimmYou're tracks are beast sir! Speaking of....think Its time to send another FR!
