105 (now 106) GEC Giveaway - A Counting Game - WINNER ANNOUNCED!

EPIC GAW, amusing, challenging and sometimes inducing despair

Got a pic I was going to post, just a minute or more...

Yes, back. Got FED UP with trying to count the armour scales on the elephant's saddle my eyesight is failing so it became tiresome, a drink or two didn't really enhance matters either Likewise another shot I ditched that had just too many, how many??? Wild Strawberry leaves, or was it the veins in them

 

It was a totally fun GAW and fun is the entire point of a hobby - thanks Barrett for dreaming up an epic GAW. OH

 

Will, that's known as The Math Curse!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_Curse

Here's an 86 that I prepared as "insurance", in case I missed getting my almost-identical 85 posted in time:


Thanks for creating this fun and addictive GAW, Barrett! I have to admit that I have not been keeping up with my usual threads on The Porch due to your GAW (and family visiting, packing and traveling for vacation, and doing "vacation stuff"). Thanks to all the participants for their creative and entertaining contributions!

- GT

 

Here are 2 that I planned on entering that got passed by very quickly before I had a chance.

8 acorn caps with a Tuna Valley lightning wood knife. and 17 eggs gathered from our chicken coop, with a Tuna Valley sweybelly.

Also, thanks again for the opportunity Barrett. This was fun.

 

Holy smolly!!! You folks finished this off in a hurry!! Had a photo ready for 105 to finish the game (now 106).
Here it was...
105 letters visible on book cover and knife...

A great book and an absolutely amazing GAW from a perfect gentleman.
Thank you for the fun, and the chance to win, Barrett.
Enjoy the weather!

 

48,375,889 cotton bolls.

 

Absolutely beautiful photos!! Glad you shared those!

 

I wish my connection was that fast ... anytime ...

 

Yes, but how many weevils?

 

I had this one ready, but I was way too late by the time I checked the thread, but I’m glad another piano shot got made.

 

I also feel that, were I speaking as Pedantic Adjudicator, there are quantities of thistledown in there too! I'm seeking a verified re-count.

But, maybe we should follow Stalin's paraphrase-likely a myth- about not WHO votes but WHO counts the votes Something for your forthcoming election....?

 

Hey, no politics!
I don't know about recounting, Will. It's pretty hot in those fields. A high of only 93 expected today, 96 tomorrow. Fahrenheit. (Okay, I didn't really count them. )

 

Thank you Barrett, for great fun. I really did enjoy the game.

Here are some photos I wasn't fast enough to post:

64 pieces in this jigsaw puzzle:


65 here:


67 rooms on this evacuation plan:


And I thought it would be fun to verify that there are 78 triangles here:

 

How many handles from mastodont tusk?
Do Triceratops have horns or tusks or both?

 

I got up to 70 and started to lose my mind.

 

I got in on this at the beginning and then life got hectic and I couldn’t keep up with all the threads on here. I would have liked to participate more, but when I checked back in on this one it had already blown by. Nice work everyone. It was fun.

 

When them cotton bolls get rotten, you can't pick very much cotton, Vince!
This was a song (one of many) I used to sing as a kid unloading wagonloads of hay bales:


- GT

 

I'll take your words for it.
You wouldn't tell us a untruth, after all.