Guess the Years Contest ***WIN A FREE ANTIQUE PURITAN BOOK***

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Constantlyreforming

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Ethan's Bookshelf Age Guessing Contest

No Purchase Necessary.


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20 books on the top shelf (one book has two titles in it).


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It’s pretty simple, really. Make a guess as to how many years are represented by the books on the shelf in total. These are not necessarily my oldest books, but my favorite set of books.
Rules:


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(1) Each person gets ONE guess
(2) Each number will only count once. For instance, if someone guesses 550 years, and a day later someone else guesses 550 years, the second person’s guess will not count. It is up to you to make sure that your guess is legit and valid.
(3) The contest ends on August 24th (one week from today) at 12:00 P.M. central time.
(4) The winner will be the closest to the actual number of years represented in the books. IF there is a tie, then something is wrong because there cannot be a tie. HA! EDIT: I guess someone could be 100 years off above, and the other a hundred years the other way. If that is the case, I will add another book to the winnings, and flip for who gets which.
(5) The winner will receive a copy of a book from the grouping of my choice. Shipping will be paid for by me to anywhere in the contiguous 48 states. If you wish to participate and are overseas, and are a winner, you will be required to pay nothing in shipping either.
!!!!!

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Guess away! There are some hints if you are careful enough by looking at the books closely. I will do my best to update post #2 with the guesses.

In Christ,

Ethan J. Beckler
 
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If I understand correctly, you are asking for the sum of the age of all the books, so if each were 1 year, then 19 years would be the total?
 
exactly. so if all books were 500 years old, the answer would be 10,000 years!!!!

(no, that is not a hint)

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right. THere are 20 books. So you are right, the answer would be 20 in that case.



LIST OF GUESSES
25
666
1,337
2,300
2,427
3,872
4,321
4,444
4,750
4,937
5,000
5,100
5,225
5,250
5,500
5,600
5,700
5,723
5,750
5,751
5,752
5,801
5,999
6,000
6,022
6,111
6,120
6,283
6,290
6,500
6,666
6,789
6,823
7,000
7,650
8,000
8,165
8,220
10,285
12,350
15,000


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Thank you Chris for your question! The header says "20 books on the top shelf (one book has two titles in it)." But I only see 19 books there.
 
Okay. I can't tell that one has two titles. Just guessing on the bindings I'll take an average and say 5,000.
 
Back in the day, they would often bind two books into one binding. I have one in there that has two books in one binding, with two different printed by dates in it. SO the total are 19 bound "books", but 20 titles.

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The seventh one from the right has two titles in it.
 
Is the age of the book by the printing or when the book was written if these are not first editions?
 
Back in the day, they would often bind two books into one binding. I have one in there that has two books in one binding, with two different printed by dates in it. SO the total are 19 bound "books", but 20 titles.

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The seventh one from the right has two titles in it.

Hold it... are you looking for the original printing date, or the date of the present binding? I sent a guess to you by PM that assumes one of these but your rules arent' clear.
 
the age of the book is by when the publication date is. So, if the book was published in 1776, but was rebound in 2009, the date of the book is 1776, even if it is a 5th edition.
 
I'm just watching to know who's going to make it to the "Showcase Showdown," and if you are within 100 (but not over) do you get both?

(Seth, you beat me to it)
 
I'm just watching to know who's going to make it to the "Showcase Showdown," and if you are within 100 (but not over) do you get both?

(Seth, you beat me to it)

[video=youtube;BMCFRElyaCc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCFRElyaCc[/video]
 
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