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Cyberevil: Might be easier on you OldFatGuy if you just allowed one set of guesses total per person... maybe 5 in this case so someone could try for each, or dump all 5 into one game etc.

Should at least make bookkeeping easier!

A fine GA in any case! Thank You.
Yeah, this advice was given above. Lots of times when people play "guess a random number between X and Y," especially when all they need to do is be the closest and not necessarily get the exact number, they feel they can gain strategic advantage by waiting to see others' guesses. Example, if you see a guess of 100 as being the largest guess late, then you may gain an advantage by simply guessing 101. So, I didn't want to potentially "disadvantage" posters who posted early.

What I'll do next time is allow everyone to make 10 total guesses, and they can break them up in posts as they wish. They can make all 10 in one post, they can make 10 one guess posts, or something in between. Always good to give those playing a choice.
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OldFatGuy: What I'll do next time is allow everyone to make 10 total guesses, and they can break them up in posts as they wish. They can make all 10 in one post, they can make 10 one guess posts, or something in between. Always good to give those playing a choice.
i usually dont care or check which numbers everyone else posted, got enough trouble already deciding which numbers to pick and eventually i end up just randomly punching the num pad in the end anyhow :D
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Cyberevil: Might be easier on you OldFatGuy if you just allowed one set of guesses total per person... maybe 5 in this case so someone could try for each, or dump all 5 into one game etc.

Should at least make bookkeeping easier!

A fine GA in any case! Thank You.
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OldFatGuy: Yeah, this advice was given above. Lots of times when people play "guess a random number between X and Y," especially when all they need to do is be the closest and not necessarily get the exact number, they feel they can gain strategic advantage by waiting to see others' guesses. Example, if you see a guess of 100 as being the largest guess late, then you may gain an advantage by simply guessing 101. So, I didn't want to potentially "disadvantage" posters who posted early.

What I'll do next time is allow everyone to make 10 total guesses, and they can break them up in posts as they wish. They can make all 10 in one post, they can make 10 one guess posts, or something in between. Always good to give those playing a choice.
I see that logic, makes sense. Of course, it wouldn't have really worked with JA since there were so many entries. Best you could have tried to do is find the biggest "hole" and hope.
But on less popular titles you have a valid issue. I hadn't really considered that.
Thanks for the giftaway really appreciate it and congratz to all the winner ^-^
Thanks again for the giveaway, OldFatGuy.
Congrats to the winners. :)
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OldFatGuy: Also, forgot to mention, the order is important because in case of ties, (say two people were exactly 4 off) the winner would have been the FIRST to post the guess within 4. So I hope I got the order right too, though I didn't see any ties, as I said I may have made errors.

And if anyone liked this format please leave some feedback so I'll know whether to do it again or not.

Thanks again for playing.
Thank you so much!! And congrats to all the winners!! I loved this format. Everyone had 9 chances to win a game or games of their choice and they are the ones that picked the numbers so if they were way off it was on them only. IMO a very fair way to give a game away. I am not sure that typed out how I thought it. =) Thank you again!!!
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