My first contest contest!!!

couldn't one of the guessers just bid on the auction and win the prize and auction item?

 

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1- Guess the high temperature on a particular day in the future in Washington D.C. or whatever city you want.

2- Buy a couple of customer rolls and have the members guess what the oldest date is in the roll. You could open it on YouTube.

 

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Thats a good idea.

 

Thanks for all the posts already guys. I will tally up everyone at the end and put them in a hat and let the girlfriend pick one out.
P.S. There is no limit to the amount of posts u get another chance for every idea you post.

 

You could hold a contest for members to post pictures of their "Ugliest Coin." You could establish certain criteria to prevent a member from mutilating a common piece of change to get a good entry in. You could leave 'Ugliest' extremely ambiguous, and leave the interpretation of its meaning up to the posters of CT, which could yield an interesting look at how people perceive coins aesthetically.

 

Family Fued CT Style. Have a drawing to pick 10 CTers, split them into groups of 5 and you figure out the rest...

 

How about a 'what is your favorite cherrypick' that you have made?

 

Or, perhaps:

What coin did you NOT buy, and you are sorry that you passed on?

 

Another:

What coin did you buy and you feel increased the most in value since the states quarters program started?

Or did the best since you purchased it?

 

My last contest- use the post number of each reply, no repeats if you post more than once your first number is the one assigned. On any given Sunday, turn of your TV at 1:30. The first Jersy number you see is the number of the winning post number. Easy as pie. Only problem is if you have more than 99 posts.

 

Idea #7

Create a puzzle or thread-scavenger hunt, where clues in from one thread lead to another thread (new or old thread -- older threads requiring search skills), and so on, until you have a dozen threads or so. The final thread would give you the answer to post in the original competition thread. Alternatively, you could also exchange the idea of searching threads to searching web sites in similar manner to creating clues to the next web site that leads you back to CT. A contest challenge sure to test the patience of members and shake more than a few off the finalist/winners list.

 

Idea #8

Ask members to register for the contest by posting their current CT post count to the contest thread, have a closing date/time for contestant entries, then do a random number drawing based on a range between the highest and lowest post counts, which ever number is closest to a given members post count at the time they registered is your winner.

 

My idea: have each participant come up with and draw/photoshop/whatever a redesign for a modern coin or unit of paper currency. The winner(s) could be determined by a poll.

 

Gao:
Well, that leaves me out.

I have never been able to do that, unless you count stick figures.

better to have a 'post a picture of your pet'.

Then I'd have a chance.

 

Honestly, I couldn't really do that one, either. I'd mostly just be interested in seeing what other people came up with.

 

Idea #9

Numismatic word scramble.

For instance: Create a list of scrambled numismatic words or names: scramble the letters for coin designers or engravers names, numismatic terminology, coin names, etc.

Contestants PM you their answers, then you post the winner(s) that get them all correct.

I'd suggest you make the scramble contain less than or more than the actual letters needed to spell these words as unscrambling web sites exist.

 

Idea #10

Numismatic Hangman.

Try to make this last a while. Perhpas this can be a phrase or segment of text that needs working out. Limit contestants to one or two guesses per 24 hours. This is not Wheel of Fortune so each contestants guess only can be used to fill in one space, even if there are 6 "e" letters in the phrase, only reveal one letter per guess.

Each contestant gets to post a letter or piece of punctuation. You fill in the holes as the posts roll in. Anyone who can guess the answer *MUST* PM you, no answers should be given in the thread. You can determine a winner by PM time stamp or multiple winners can be determined by further rounds or name drawing.

 

Sounds like a fun contest ty

#1 first person to come up with a list of coins that using the first letter list out the whole alphabet from A-Z, perhaps let it go on for a while and give the prize to the person that uses the most number of countries.

 

#2 Use a type or specific coin name and see how many anagrams you can make of it, possibly only other coin types/names count

 

#3 post a picture of a jar of coins and we need to guess the amount of money in the jar