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I created a simple Excel spreadsheet with random numbers to determine the winner.

The winner of the Brutus Buckeye Coffee Mug is…

Minywheats!

Congratulations, sir. I will email you to arrange delivery. I might even arrange to get video of the prize ceremony.

Thanks everyone for participating and stay tuned to future contests where I give away stuff that I don’t really want!

Just a quick reminder that the Great Coffee Mug Giveaway of 2007 is coming to an end soon.

Head on over the Coffee Mug giveaway blog post and leave a comment to enter.

The contest ends on November 30th, so you don’t have much time left. It’s free to enter and free to win, people, so just do it already!

As a prize for being the closest on my prediction of the score of the 2007 Ohio State – Michigan game (17-3, actual score 14-3) at my place of employment, I received a fine Brutus Buckeye coffee mug.

As I don’t drink much coffee or tea, I thought I might give it away to a Buckeye fan who does.

Here’s the mug.

And here’s a video of the spinning.

I can tell you’re excited!

To win this mug, all you have to do is leave a comment below. Only your first comment will count in this giveaway. You must be at least 18 years old to enter and live in the United States of America. Upon winning, I will email you to get your mailing address, so make sure to provide a valid email address.

To be eligible, you must enter before November 30th, 2007, at which point I will choose one winner at random.

Episode 6 of the Do Not Want podcast has been posted in the usual places.

We are also happy to announce that we have started the first Do Not Want Contest!

For full contest details, just check out the Episode 6 show notes, but here’s the general gist:

• Email any one of us at webmaster@mgroves.com, dreadhead@jards.com, or lbusler@50pixelsofevil.com.
• Email is the preferred method, but you can also just leave a comment below if you want to. Your gamer tag is all we really need, but your name and email address would be useful too.
• If you don’t leave a comment below, just leave a comment on one of the other blogs: The Daily Priapism, or 50 Pixels of Evil.
• If you don’t want to do any of the above…well, uh, smoke signals? Carrier pigeon? Whatever–just get us your gamer tag somehow!

Once we have all the gamer tags, at 5pm on April 16th, we will take a snapshot of your current achievement points. We will take another snapshot on May 1st, 2007. The gamer who has gained the largest amount of points in the meantime will be the winner!

Prize(s):

• The first place winner is guaranteed to receive a 3 Month Xbox Live Gold membership for you to use or to extend your current membership.
• There are no other prizes for sure at this point (this is only the first contest after all), but we will definitely try to throw something else in for the 1st-3rd place winners. Authographed pictures, or CDs of our podcasts, or whatever. Got something you want to give away? Used carpets, old toasters, some pocket lint? Contact us!

You are free to enter the contest after the April 16th start date, but no entries will be accepted after May 1st at 5pm. Cuz that’s when the contest ends. Duh. Please email one of us if you have any questions at all so we can supply additional confusion.

It’s a special edition of the Name Those Pixels this week. It’s a triple threat: 3 games, 3 sets of pixels. See if you can score the hat trick!

The 2nd Name Those Pixels contest is over. Check out the results as well as the next set of pixels at Vintage Computing & Gaming.

The Name Those Pixels contest is now a regular feature at Vintage Computing and Gaming.

Check out the first edition here: Name Those Pixels.

The very first Name Those Pixels contest is now over.

Here is the answer:

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Congratulations to the winner of the Dr. Mario cartridge:

Jonathan Signor

Stay tuned to mgroves.com for the next contest. Hopefully I can get some better prizes going. Speaking of which, if you are willing to supply any sort of prize for an upcoming contest, please contact me at webmaster@mgroves.com. Doesn’t matter how big or small!

Thanks to everyone who entered!

FINAL UPDATE: I’ve added one more clue. Get your entries in while you can. So far, the winners pool is very small, so if you get it right you’ve got a good chance of winning.

I’d like to announce the first mgroves.com contest. This is a sort of ‘pilot’ for future contests.

Prize: an authentic Dr. Mario NES cartridge. This is one of my favorite puzzle games of all time. I just happen to have a few extra copies laying around, so I thought I would give one of them away to one of my loyal readers.

Contest: Hopefully this won’t be too difficult, but difficult enough that I won’t get 1000 correct entries. Name the game that these pixels are taken from:

Here’s a zoomed in view:

Hints: it’s a U.S. NES release.

If I don’t get a lot of correct entries, I will post a clue in the comments below. The contest will run for 2 weeks from today (October 28, 2006).

Send your guess in an email to [sorry, contest is now over]. Good luck!

Rules: One entry per person per day please, one correct entry per person per contest. The prize can only be shipped to an address within the U.S. Winner will be chosen at random from all the correct entries. I reserve all rights to cancel the contest or change the prize at any time, or generally do whatever the hell I want. Don’t send me 776 emails, one for each Nintendo release either.