The September SPAM Contest ended couple of days ago, and while some people tried to guess in October it’s my unfortunate duty to tell that these guesses came too late and won’t be taken in.
Correct spam count is: 10298
And here are the 5 lucky ones who guessed closest: (in September)
Preliminary results
10300 Chris Hepner
10280 Tuna
10333 Tom
10338 Desmont
10340 James Heaver
Sargon: "Hmm, well, I remember in the first games with “speech”, when the sound cards were starting to appear, I used to recite all kind of things in games...." 5 hours 7 minutes ago. 
Lumooja: "Doesn’t every every baby and young kid do the same? You do something, or they see something, and immediately they want to do it too!" 8 hours 42 minutes ago. 
Juuso: "Thomas: how many 10 year old games are you playing today? :) Pretty interesting results - almost split votes. I thought it could have been bigger pro-digital..." 10 hours 10 minutes ago. Juuso: "Then, hate the people who chose those governments… (whoops, that’s us;)" 10 hours 31 minutes ago. 
FlowClawDaddy: "I hate taxes, well, all the unnecessary ones. I mean we’re paying up to 40% of income to the government who is wasting most of it on wars and..." 1 day 11 hours ago. 
Russell: "I do taxes in Texas. Actually, my accountant does my taxes, but he’s also in Texas. Where we also have bugs called ticks and office supplies called..." 1 day 14 hours ago. 
Thomas D.: "Steam reminds me of another problem with downloads: What do I do with my downloaded game if Steam is down 10 years from now and I want to play, say,..." 2 days 19 hours ago. 
Brian 'Psychochild' Green: "Juuso, it’s not my system. The pricing structure was at 3DO when I started working there. At Near Death Studios, we go with a flat..." 2 days 20 hours ago. 
October 2nd, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Yay, and to this I was doing to choose 10300 before I noticed someone else had already done so :)
October 2nd, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Good grief, my hands are too numb to type properly.
“to think I was going to choose”
October 2nd, 2006 at 2:33 pm
[...] Most will probably say that spam is worth nothing or even worst - it wastes time & resources. But sometimes someone comes with original idea and spam is worth a game. Of course, if you win the contest. The rule is simple - you had to guess total number of SPAM within month of September. The lucky number is: 10298. [...]
October 2nd, 2006 at 7:04 pm
It wasn’t a guess - it was the result of hours of hard sums and complex computer modelling.
Of course I’m only sayign this since I won, If I’d lost it would have been the first 5 digits of the first number in the telephone directory.
October 2nd, 2006 at 7:20 pm
don’t put your hopes too high - olor was supposed to have won ;)
There’s still slight chance I made a mistake in calculations ;)
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:56 am
w00t w00t! I love prizes! Where do I go to get it?
October 3rd, 2006 at 9:56 am
Alright - the winners are now found:
10300 Chris Hepner
10280 Tuna
10333 Tom
10338 Desmont
10340 James Heaver
I’m emailing them the registration links.
Congratulations!
November 20th, 2008 at 5:52 am
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November 20th, 2008 at 8:37 am
It’s a funny (and sad at the same time) that IvanSok the Sbambot (hey, that almost rhymes) decided to make a post in this blog entry…