Guess The Coin Amount, Win Cool Prizes

Posted March 23, 2007 at 9:32 AM by Ben Nadel

Happy Friday! Something for a fun Friday (and a pay-day Friday for me!). I have had the coin jar (below) on my desk for the last few months. Into this, I put all change I get through the day. This weekend I am taking it to Commerce Bank's Penny Arcade and turning that coinage into cash. If you can come close to guessing how much it's all worth, you get a cool prize (not yet determined - generosity will probably depend on how much cash I get).


 
 
 

 
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Did anyone else have people in school who would brink in a two-liter soda bottle full of Jolly Ranchers and give it to whoever guessed how many were in it? School is cool.

Just "comment" your guesses, no cool submit form with scantily clad chicks this time ;)



Reader Comments

Mar 23, 2007 at 9:42 AM // reply »
35 Comments

47.50


Mar 23, 2007 at 10:06 AM // reply »
95 Comments

65.75


Mar 23, 2007 at 10:09 AM // reply »
6 Comments

$39.75


Mar 23, 2007 at 10:11 AM // reply »
3 Comments

$164.37


Mar 23, 2007 at 10:36 AM // reply »
46 Comments

78.56


Mar 23, 2007 at 10:47 AM // reply »
56 Comments

52.50


Mar 23, 2007 at 11:06 AM // reply »
6 Comments

$55.03


Mar 23, 2007 at 11:15 AM // reply »
8 Comments

$71.92


Mar 23, 2007 at 11:38 AM // reply »
78 Comments

39.74


Mar 23, 2007 at 12:12 PM // reply »
35 Comments

$84.76


Mar 23, 2007 at 12:31 PM // reply »
13 Comments

$115.12


Mar 23, 2007 at 12:37 PM // reply »
1 Comments

$113.41


Mar 23, 2007 at 12:41 PM // reply »
25 Comments

$69


Mar 23, 2007 at 1:01 PM // reply »
1 Comments

98.16


Mar 23, 2007 at 1:02 PM // reply »
10 Comments

$74.25


Mar 23, 2007 at 1:05 PM // reply »
18 Comments

$25


Mar 23, 2007 at 1:38 PM // reply »
33 Comments

$135


Mar 23, 2007 at 1:55 PM // reply »
21 Comments

98.75


Mar 23, 2007 at 2:11 PM // reply »
6 Comments

$69


Mar 23, 2007 at 2:48 PM // reply »
1 Comments

$28.87


Mar 23, 2007 at 2:49 PM // reply »
3 Comments

$29.34


Mar 23, 2007 at 2:58 PM // reply »
3 Comments

124.84


Mar 23, 2007 at 3:09 PM // reply »
7 Comments

$63.17


Mar 23, 2007 at 4:13 PM // reply »
1 Comments

$87.35


CJ
Mar 23, 2007 at 4:53 PM // reply »
11 Comments

$143.73


Mar 24, 2007 at 3:36 PM // reply »
1 Comments

98.02


Mar 24, 2007 at 10:06 PM // reply »
9 Comments

$61


Mar 25, 2007 at 1:19 PM // reply »
9 Comments

I wish that happy it was been not only Friday, and and all of days of week.


Mar 25, 2007 at 2:51 PM // reply »
32 Comments

42.34


Mar 26, 2007 at 4:13 AM // reply »
3 Comments

212.20$


Mar 26, 2007 at 9:00 AM // reply »
10,640 Comments

The verdict is in - Commerce Bank has spoken. My coins totaled in at a sweet $140.15. That makes Thomas Messier our closest "under" winner at $135.00 and CJ our closest "over" winner at $143.73.

Congratulations!

Regarding rewards, I will contact you off line at the emails provided in your comment posting. If you do not get my email within the next hour, please contact me as perhaps it went to spam or something.

If you didn't come close, better luck next time!


Jun 30, 2007 at 8:21 PM // reply »
1 Comments

$135


Aug 12, 2007 at 5:14 PM // reply »
2 Comments

82.38


Aug 12, 2007 at 5:15 PM // reply »
2 Comments

142.15


May 14, 2008 at 1:49 PM // reply »
1 Comments

$56.54


Sep 23, 2008 at 3:31 AM // reply »
1 Comments

163.07$


Nov 18, 2008 at 2:27 PM // reply »
1 Comments

89.45


May 18, 2009 at 11:13 PM // reply »
1 Comments

120.00



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