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A Simple Contest
Here’s the contest:
I’ll made a comment in this news story, somewhere after the 200th comment (aka, you guys have to get to 200 comments first). Then, the person who makes the 10th unique comment after I make mine will win a 6 month subbie. 10th unique means you can’t spam 10 comments in a row after I make mine. Only 1 will count.
Make sense? If not, post in the comments. 
. Although I probably won’t respond… don’t want to confuse anyone.
-Tass
EDIT: Contest is OVER!!! Gibson63 wins. Congrats and thanks for participating!
A Puzzle To Keep You Occupied
With Synth working hard up optimizing and updating our SmartFox (which is why ProChat and MP are currently down), I thought it’d be nice to give all you guys a little distraction.
Be the 1st person to solve this FFR releated puzzle and win 50,000 credits and a 6 month subscription. Post your answers in the comments of this story.
NOTE: do NOT post the answers to the 8 individual questions…Â you will only be helping other people!
1. Number of songs with 1 AAA.
2. The userID of the 1st person besides Synth to step a song for FFR minus that user’s age minus the levelID of the 2nd song he stepped.
3. The average levelID of the 3rd widget.
4. Find all the letters of the alphabet that are not represented as the 1st letter of an FFR artist (including widgets). In HEX, the sum of these lowercase letters.
5. This song has the highest percentage of AAAs per users who have played it (minimum of 500+ AAAs). Take the number of AAAs (rounded to the nearest hundred) divided by the percentage of users who have AAAd (rounded to the nearest 10 percent).
6. The number of notes in the second song by Excluded added to FFR.
7. The average rank (rounded to the nearest whole number) of the user who has the 2nd best average rank out of users who are 8th in their region.
8. Assuming all clicks were accepted, the number of t-shirts we’ve given away from linking to FFR.
Sum the answers to the above 8 questions and your answer will be the number of notes in a song (or songs). what song(s)?
-Tass
Spontaneous Contest #95939.2 – The Puzzle!
Be the 1st person to solve this puzzle and post the answer in the comments of this story to win a 6 month subscription:
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Not going to give any hints that would lead towards how to solve it, as I want it to take some time for you guys to solve. I did get the concept for this puzzle from a puzzle that Rubix once posted. And I did not get anyone to test this… so I hope I didn’t make an error.
-Tass
edit: after 56 minutes, qqwref solved it correctly! See comments 258 or 264 for how to solve it.
Spontaneous Contest #95939.2
Stay tuned for details later tonight.
-Tass
New Gamewhore Competition! This Saturday
So Whorli has left for Israel for a month, leaving me all alone until I go back to Philly in a few weeks. That means I’m going to be bored this weekend, and I need you guys to entertain me. I came up with this idea about a month ago, and ran it by a few people… everyone loved it.
This competition will be different from the last one. This one will not focus on the most points you can earn in 24 hours. It will focus on how low of an average rank you can get in 24 hours, starting from a fresh account.
The rules:
-It will run from 12:01am CST Saturday until 11:59pm CST Saturday, August 2nd.
-Your username for the competition will be in the format: “GWC_YourUsername”, where YourUsername is your username. Aka, mine would be GWC_Tasselfoot. Please do not use abbreviations, as it will only confuse me and make my life harder.
-You are not allowed to transfer credits to your GWC account… all secret/purchased songs will have to be played via credits you earn during the 24 hours. That makes it equally fair to everyone, and makes the competition have a bit more strategy.
-Whoever has the lowest average rank at the end of 24 hours will win.
-All GWC accounts will be blacklisted at the end of the 24 hours, so we don’t spam up the highscore lists from the competition.
Prizes:
FIRST PLACE IS GUARANTEED VROFL + a year subscription + a t-shirt + $20 + 50,000 credits
2nd place will be a year subscription and 40,000 credits
3rd place will be a 6 month subbie and 25k credits
4th place == 3 month subbie and 15k credits
5th place… 1 month subbie and 5k credits
As a note, a fresh account has an average a bit over 50,000 (about 50,670 right now). I’m expecting the winner to have an average rank under 150 by the time this is over. Which will be amazing and insane and I will personally call you crazy, but in a good way.
I’m looking forward to this, and I hope all of you guys are too.
-Tass
2nd Photo Scavenger Hunt – NOW thru Sun!!
Everyone enjoys a good scavenger hunt, and we at FFR are no different. Listed below is a list of items that you can take photos of to receive varying amounts of points. The harder something is to get a picture of, the more points it is worth! You will have until 11:59pm PST on Sunday, July 13th to submit pictures into this thread located here.
Important note: Please post pictures with IMG tags in the thread… NOT links.
The List:
1 point:
Picture of you with your finger up your nose
Picture of you doing a handstand
Picture of bubblewrap
2 points:
Picture of a dunkaroo
Picture of a cat tree (at least 3 levels of tree) – +1 per cat on the tree
Picture of a bullet (unfired, any caliber)
Picture of shoes with at least 5″ platforms
Picture of you blowing a bubble
Click MORE for the rest of the list, or go to the thread
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Tass’s Photo Scavenger Hunt #2!
I want to give everyone as much notice and warning that this will be happening again. The first one was a great success (check the thread for all the hilarious photos! Like the one to my right, of our winner, Jtehanonymous and his ability to get 2 mannequins to touch each other in naughty places!)
This coming weekend, starting on Thursday July 10th, I will be holding another photo scavenger hunt. You will have from Thursday evening all the way until Sunday night. July 10th – July 13th. I have a whole new list of challenging images for you guys to find.
I think our prizes from the previous contest are decent enough to use again:
1st place – 1 year subscription + an FFR T-shirt + $25 cash money + 50,000 credits + funniest photo featured on the front page
2nd place – 1 year subscription + an FFR T-shirt + 40,000 credits
3rd place – 1 year subscription + 30,000 credits
4th place – 6 month subscription + 20,000 credits
5th place – 3 month subscription + 10,000 credits
For those who participated back in March, every one of them said it was a really fun weekend… so I encourage all of you to participate as well.
I leave you guys with a teaser… and the ability to get an early start… If you can get a picture of you on a pommel horse, that is worth 5 points. Feel free to get that image now or this weekend, and save it for posting in the official thread, which will be posted on Thursday!
-Tass
Spontaneous Contest – #58940-384856.2 – Guess NOW!
Our Winners!
Gameplays: 171,079,352. Top 3: Emerald000, Killburn, knq
Grandtotal: 34,923,734,741,500. Top 3: nuclearsamurai, .Mantis., Xx{Midday}xX
Current # of Replays: 1,474,042. Top 3: FlameFalco, sarahxjane (can’t win, staff), DarkRavenX9X, and .Mantis.
Total # of Replays (some of you quasi-cheated): 24,099,430. Top 3: shadow 1800, [TeRa], kcfp_Ice
Total # of MP Games: 5,986,038. Top 3: n0uille (only off by 626!), Strife_Of_The_Ages, cry4eternity
Profile Votes: 920,786. Top 3: keyslayer101, Silver_Brian, star99
Total # of AAAs (some of you quasi-cheated): 170,890. Top 3: DarkProdigy (off by 1!!), Popmeister (off by 157), Xx{Midday}xX
Congrats guys! Subbies will be sent out shortly… and don’t forget that if you are already a subbie, read the sticky in the subbies forum on manual extension of subbies!
As promised, we have SEVEN different interesting statistics for all of you guys to take your best guess on:
Overall Gameplays:
Overall Grand Total Score:
Total AAAs:
Overall Replays Recorded:
Current # of Replays Stored:
# of MP Games Played:
Total Profile Votes:
All of these stats are for all registered users (no guests, sorry), and date back to when the stat was first recorded. Total AAAs will still only count 1 AAA per user per song. AAAing Excite Bike 50 times will still only count as 1. It will also include ALL songs, not just public ones.
Use this link to submit your guesses. ONCE YOU SUBMIT, YOUR ANSWERS ARE FINAL
Contest will run from now (5:55pm EST) until 11:00pm EST. Prizes: Closest on each statistic will get a 6 month subbie, 2nd closest will get 3 months, and 3rd closest will get 1 month. So we’re giving away 21 prizes!
Spontaneous Contest TONIGHT! – #58940-384856.2
Lightdarkness and I will be running a contest tonight that is derived from the weird statistics thread I made a few days ago. The goal will be for you guys to guess close to a specific statistic… such as the overall gameplays in the history of the game. Or other, more creative, statistics. We’ll have 5-10 different statistical categories for you to guess. And we’ll be giving out subscription prizes to the top3 closest for each one.
So stay tuned!
-Tass
