Well my competition extended another day because I went to sleep instead of doing the results post last night! Honestly I never expected to get such a big response - so many entries I quickly lost track and had to even give up with the idea of replying to comments so many came in. I really did not help myself any allowing multiple answers - but really it was very difficult to guess the number of beans in that dripper and I wanted everyone to have a good chance of being a winner.

There were winners though, so the 10 Steem up for grabs will be spread amongst them. I did leave a quite open tolerance to encourage more winners - mainly because I doubted anyone would guess even near the correct amount - and yes I did count every single one of these coffee beans into the dripper. The actual number of beans in my dripper is 229 which means any guesses from the range 224 to 234 are winners. From the original post

so winners are anyone guessing the exact amount or within 5 beans higher or lower

One of the competition requirements was to Resteem the post, my theory behind this was to give more people opportunity to join in (it worked as well - so many people did enter!). @yidneth pointed out she carefully crafts her blog, which means she can rarely resteem unless it fits in - I totally understand this and appreciate it - I know from discussing with @soyrosa before she is the same - it's important our blogs remain a true reflection of our work and personality. I'm going to take that on board for the next contest I do, but since I had such a wonderful response with so many people entering I am going to reward (once per account) everyone that commented and did not win with a small Steem payment. It's something @mermaidvampire does with all her competitions and I think it would be nice for you to all receive a little something for your effort.

So I counted all 229 beans into this dripper, and it was really boring! I had intended to fill it to the brim - but honestly after counting to 229 I had enough - I will have to try a different container to put them in next time which might make it a little easier.

The Winners Are
@ninahaskin
@saffisara
@giddyupngo
@porters
@foxyspirit
@enginewitty
@jumpmaster
@roselyn028

I make that 8 winners, so 10 Steem divided between 8 people is 1.25 Steem each. I will be sending the winners their prize right now - and every person who did not win but still left a comment will get 0.25 Steem sent as a thank you for taking part. That will probably take all weekend but I will get to it eventually.

Thank you to everyone who entered, I never expected to receive so many entries - it's the first time I have tried doing a competition and didn't really expect people to be interested. I will do another (might be a few weeks time so I can recover!) and I will try and tweak it to make it easier - although we did get more correct answers then I expected!

Some of my previous posts you might have missed

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