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*** Mystery Subsim Challenge: Winner pool and disbursement. Check daily. ***

Congratulations to the 99 winners of the 2008 Mystery Subsim Challenge. You are in the prize pool. Here's how the prize disbursement works!

There are 99 winners (no one guessed MS#95 correctly), each winner has a number assigned in the order he won. Each business day, starting with Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, at the close of the market, I will copy the last two digits of the Dow Jones Index Average and the person with the corresponding number wins that day's prize pack! Some prizes will have a Choice A and Choice B.

The winner must claim his prize in this thread, so winners, check the thread daily. No claim, no prize.

Here is the winner list:

01 Mikekiller16
02 Fincuan
03 Nisgeis
04 Mookie Mookie
05 Contact
06 To be
07 Fincuan
08 Molon Labe
09 Subnuts
10 Subnuts -- WINNER JAN 6
11 Danlissa
12 Fincuan
13 gandalf71
14 gandalf71 -- WINNER JAN 14
15 SandyCaesar
16 Fincuan
17 Subnuts
18 D'biter -- WINNER JAN 9
19 Subnuts
20 Subnuts
21 Mbot
22 Subnuts -- 1/16 win limit
23 Subnuts
24 Bort
25 ekempey
26 Subnuts
27 Fincuan
28 Subnuts
29 Fincuan
30 Dowly
31 Mikhayl
32 Subnuts
33 Subnuts
34 Subnuts
35 Subnuts
36 HunterICX
37 Seeadler
38 Raptor1
39 Flakchak
40 Sonarman
41 Sonarman
42 VonDos
43 Sonarman
44 Sonarman
45 roman2440
46 Subnuts -- WINNER JAN 8
47 Fincuan
48 Subnuts
49 Sonarman -- WINNER JAN 15
50 Rilder
51 Schultzy
52 Subnuts
53 HunterICX
54 Molon Labe
55 Sonarman
56 Sonarman -- WINNER JAN 13
57 Sonarman
58 Marcantilan
59 Sonarman
60 robbierob2005
61 Fire
62 lesrae
63 j_o_nn_y
64 Sonarman
65 Subnuts
66 Sonarman
67 LobsterBoy
68 Sonarman
69 Syxx_Killer
70 Sheppard -- WINNER JAN 7
71 Sonarman
72 Subnuts
73 Subnuts -- 1/16 win limit
74 Mookie Mookie
75 Sonarman
76 robbierob2005
77 j_o_nn_y
78 Mookie Mookie
79 Mookie Mookie
80 Ramius
81 Sonarman
82 Captain Vlad
83 Ramius
84 Sonarman -- 1/16 win limit
85 HunterICX
86 robbierob2005
87 robbierob2005
88 JanMichaelWallace
89 Rilder -- WINNER JAN 5
90 Sonarman
91 Sonarman
92 Subnuts
93 Subnuts
94 Subnuts
95 No winner
96 Subnuts
97 A Very Super Market -- WINNER JAN 12
98 Sonarman
99 XabbaRus
00 timbob

I will post the prize pack the evening before, so #1 prize pack will be posted and then at the end of the next day, when the DJIA closes, the winner will be announced. This will be clear after you see how it works Monday.

Claim your prize by posting in this thread soon after (within a day or two, three max).

The Dow Jones number will be pulled after the market closes using the number posted on the Wall Street Journal Online: http://online.wsj.com/public/us

So, for example, the closing number on Friday Jan. 2 is: DJIA 9034.69
So the winning number is: 69 Syxx_Killer Then Syxx_Killer would make a reply claiming his package "Hey, I won!"

Please note, if for some reason I do not post a prize package one day, then there will not be a drawing the next day. I do not anticipate this happeneing but in case I am on my yacht and cannot get a satellite connection, I am giving myself this out.

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If you guess correctly, your name is added to the prize pool. You can have as many correct guesses as you can manage, they do not count against your three guess limit.

If you reach five correct guesses in the contest, you are considered an Ace* and will get a bonus entry into the prize pool.

*That means: if you are an Ace and your number wins you a prize, you are eligible to win a second prize if your number matches the Dow Jones' closing number.

Prize package for Monday, Jan. 5:

Choice A Das Boot book
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA240_.jpg

Choice B SILENT HUNTER II GERMAN EDITION (sold in Germany)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA240_.jpg

The winner will be announced around 5:15 PM EST Monday.

Good luck!
Neal

I'm not sure I understand. If the Dow closed at 9034, how does that translate to #69 being the winner? Wouldn't it be #34?

And what happens if the Dow closes at 9034 and then 9134? Does #34 (or #69) win twice?

Good questions. The last two digits I am referring to are the hundreths place, not the tens place. So the DJIA would close at something like 9034.25 not 9034

And yes, if the market closes with identical numbers during this period of prize determination, if the person holding that number is an Ace, he will get his bonus prize. Each person can win once, except those with 5+ correct guesses, they can win twice.

EDIT: If the market closes with identical numbers during this period of prize determination, and the number is not held by an Ace or if the person has won his 1 prize, we can then move to the amount the DJIA changed, and if that hits a previous winner, we move to the percent change. If that hits a winner, we skip that day.

So, as an example, on 1/2:

........Close .........amount changed........ percent change
DJIA* 9034.69 ----- 258.30 ------------- 2.94%

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http://www.subsim.com/meet08/1_1_ac3.jpg

thanks
Neal

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