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Star Trek CCG Tenth Anniversary Contest #9:
The Numbers Game
December 14, 2004 – CONTEST IS CLOSED
Our penultimate Tenth Anniversary contest comes to you courtesy of long-time
STCCG player, former upstate New York Ambassador, and occasional "card
extra" writer Sean O'Reilly, known as "Jonotrek" on our messages
boards (formerly "Jono", until the 5-letter minimum caught up
with his handle). Thanks, Sean, for contributing your "Numbers Game"
to our Tenth Anniversary celebration.
All you have to do (you know when I say that, it's going to be a doozy,
don't you?) is come up with eight specific numbers that relate to Star
Trek CCG, as specified below, and plug them into a formula which –
if you got the right numbers – will yield a famous number in Star
Trek history. To have your entry counted as all correct, you'll need
to supply the intermediate numbers as well as the final result (i.e., guessing
the "famous number" without doing the rest won't count as a correct
entry).
As before, we will first randomly select a winner and two runners-up
from those entries with all correct solutions. (If there are not three entries
with all answers correct, they will be randomly selected from the entries
with the most correct answers.) The first three places will receive the
following prizes:
1st place: A complete 18-card Necessary Evil foil subset, plus
a First Edition foil Borg Cube.
2nd place: Six Tenth Anniversary Collection foils (3 ship/commander
pairs, random selection), plus a First Edition tournament foil (random
selection).
3rd place: Five Second Edition promo cards (one each of 0P1 through
0P5), one Tenth Anniversary Collection foil (random selection), plus a
First Edition tournament foil (random selection).
Fourth through tenth places will be randomly selected from ALL complete
and valid entries received, to receive the following prizes:
4th-10th place: One Tenth Anniversary Collection foil (random
selection) plus one First Edition tournament foil (random selection).
In addition, each of the ten winners will receive two collectible preview
postcards (one each of the Necessary Evil and Fractured Time postcards).
You have until Tuesday, December 14th at 5pm Eastern Time to submit
your winning entry. Good luck!
General note on all the Tenth Anniversary contests: In some cases,
answers may be found somewhere on the www.decipher.com website (though you
may have to dig to find them!); other questions may be – well, let's
just say "more obscure" – long-time players with equally
long memories (and those who save everything) may have an edge here.
The home pages for Star Trek CCG are located here: Second
Edition and First Edition. A couple
of tips for First Edition sleuthing: Not all expansions had "expansion
areas," but those that did are generally linked to the First Edition
card lists page. Also, some outdated First Edition web sections are not
linked to the First Edition home page, but are still accessible if you know
where to look. Hint: look at some of the "old format" pages, such
as the card lists page.
1. First, calculate the answer to each of the nine questions, and
then combine them to calculate the famous Star Trek number. Type each
number into the blank provided. If no edition is specified in a question,
it refers to both First and Second Editions, through Reflections 2.0.
Note: the length of the text fields does not necessarily reflect the number
of digits in each number.
The final calculation is carried out as follows (represented as a formula
in question 10 below):
- Multiply answers A and B.
- Multiply answers C and D, and subtract the result from the result
of step 1.
- Multiply answers E and F, and subtract the result from the result
of step 2.
- Add together answers G, H, and J, and subtract the result from the
result of step 3. The result is a famous number in Star Trek
history.
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