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Mr. Slickdeals, from sEprize Inc, is a sweepstakes sponsor and he has noticed over the years that there's one particular group of 15 who are very diligent about entering his sweepstakes. So, he decides to hold a sweepstakes just for these 15 people, divided into groups of three, who will split various sums of money. This sweepstakes should be entered daily over the course of seven months. However, the prize won is not dependent upon the number of entries for each team. At the end of the seven months, Mr. Slickdeals, using his special computer program, has entered all of the information needed to determine the winners & will be making the announcement the following Monday. On that Monday morning, he turns on his computer & realizes that it has crashed sometime over the weekend & he never made a backup of the sweepstakes information! Can you determine, from his notes, who's on what team, how many entries they submitted, & who won which prize?
1. VoidinHi (VIH), who wasn't on a team with RMGM, didn't win $10,000. Happy2Win (H2W) wasn't on a team with Shamoo. St. Patty's (SP) team entered 391 times.
2. JavaFlower (JF) and her teammate, CrazeyPoet (CP), didn't win $5,000. The team who won $25,000 had two more entries than RedFuzzyCow's (RFC) team.
3. The team that RMGM & Shamoo were on didn't win $10,000. MK1234, who wasn't on the same team as WTrash (WT), didn't win $5,000.
4. The team that won $5,000 entered the contest 393 times. DealsRUs' (DRU) team entered 388 times, but they didn't win $2,500. DimDig (DD), who wasn't on a team with Happy2Win (H2W), submitted two more entries than the team that won $1,000.
5. The five teams, in no particular order, were Eilsenrenrag (EILS), WTrash (WT), the team that won $10,000, JavaFlower (JF), and the team that had 389 submissions.
6. FreebiesRGreat (FRG) had one more submission than the team that won $2,500 but one less than the team that WTrash (WT) & Implode (IMP) were on.
1. VoidinHi (VIH), who wasn't on a team with RMGM, didn't win $10,000. Happy2Win (H2W) wasn't on a team with Shamoo. St. Patty's (SP) team entered 391 times.
2. JavaFlower (JF) and her teammate, CrazeyPoet (CP), didn't win $5,000. The team who won $25,000 had two more entries than RedFuzzyCow's (RFC) team.
3. The team that RMGM & Shamoo were on didn't win $10,000. MK1234, who wasn't on the same team as WTrash (WT), didn't win $5,000.
4. The team that won $5,000 entered the contest 393 times. DealsRUs' (DRU) team entered 388 times, but they didn't win $2,500. DimDig (DD), who wasn't on a team with Happy2Win (H2W), submitted two more entries than the team that won $1,000.
5. The five teams, in no particular order, were Eilsenrenrag (EILS), WTrash (WT), the team that won $10,000, JavaFlower (JF), and the team that had 389 submissions.
6. FreebiesRGreat (FRG) had one more submission than the team that won $2,500 but one less than the team that WTrash (WT) & Implode (IMP) were on.
Hint
Remember that the team with the most entries does not necessarily win the most money!VoidinHi = VIH
RMGM = RMGM
Happy2Win = H2W
St. Patty = SP
Shamoo = Shamoo
JavaFlower = JF
CrazeyPoet = CP
RedFuzzyCow = RFC
WTrash = WT
MK1234 = MK1234
DealsRUs = DRU
DimDig = DD
Eilsenrenrag = EILS
FreebiesRGreat = FRG
Implode = IMP
Answer
VIH, DD, EILS 393 $5,000SP, WT, IMP 391 $1,000
JF, CP, FRG 390 $25,000
MK1234, RMGM, SHAMOO 389 $2,500
H2W, RFC, DRU 388 $10,000
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Very good and challenging puzzle. I think you deserve a higher difficulty rating. Putting in the space between the entry numbers
(391 ,393) makes it more confusing. Thank you. I enjoyed it.
(391 ,393) makes it more confusing. Thank you. I enjoyed it.
The team structure confused me at first, and the names didn't help, , but I finally got it! Very enjoyable.
Hey, that was fun. I didn't right, but I only missed two. Oh well. The names made it kinda confusing. I didn't understand what they meant. Overall, it was great!!
It looked a tad daunting at first, but it is very well structured and extremely fun to solve! Keep them coming!
The odd names drove me absolutely crazy!
Thanks for a great teaser. I thoroughly enjoyed solving it.
Thanks for a great teaser. I thoroughly enjoyed solving it.
This was a great LG. I loved the bit about matching up the teams; it was an awesome idea!
Thanks for all the great input! I'm working on a few more now ... ;-)
Soooo much fun! I loved the teams! Quite a tough one.
Ugh, thought I had it, finally got the grid filled out and I messed up quite a few.
WOW!! This was quite a challenge. I just loved it. Please give us more.
great puzzle!!! I loved how there were 3 team members to match up!
OH MY GOSH!!!!
I have said this before but this was the hardest grid I have EVER worked on and still solved correctly! I didn't think I would ever get it though. I thought I would go crazy first!
But then I'd read the clues again and cross-check and slowly, bit-by-bit, I could chip away a little bit more.
Awesome job but I'm glad not every teaser is like that (or else I'd look like this: )
I have said this before but this was the hardest grid I have EVER worked on and still solved correctly! I didn't think I would ever get it though. I thought I would go crazy first!
But then I'd read the clues again and cross-check and slowly, bit-by-bit, I could chip away a little bit more.
Awesome job but I'm glad not every teaser is like that (or else I'd look like this: )
Really enjoyed this puzzle. Maybe I missed something, but after solving it, I think the difficulty rating should be higher. The clues are there, but it takes some effort to solve. Excellent!!
I was slightly surprised I avoided making a careless error -- the abbreviations made it rather like doing a puzzle in a foreign language -- but it all worked out. I didn't actually think it was all that difficult -- just fiddly due to the non-meaningful names. I think this made it somewhat less fun, personally. I prefer the challenge to come from the logic, not just from keeping names straight.
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