Winners!!! Birthday Event #4: Word Search

Hello folks!  It is time to announce the winners from Event #4 of our Birthday Celebration. I know it has been a while, so if you would like to refresh yourself on the details of our Letter Hunt, please click HERE to check them out.

For this particular event, we had a word search for you to complete where you had to find 20 vocabulary words that one might correlate with penguins. Given the nature of difficulty for this particular puzzle, we offered up a a few different levels of prizes.

Here are the actual words that we were looking for in this word search:

• leap
• bird
• dive
• icicles
• feathers
• white
• snowbank
• water
• krill
• march
• hatch
• fish
• chick
• swimming
• herring
• honk
• Antarctic
• frozen
• oceangoing
• waddle

There were a couple that tripped people up. The first was 'snowbank'. Several people just put 'snow'. The second one that caused some problems was 'oceangoing'. Same issue with several people just including the first part of the word 'ocean'.

Funny enough, some of you found the word 'ice' which wasn't even in the list though 'icicles' was.  Another extra word a couple of you found was 'raw'. Others found even more unrelated words!

In cases where the word had an 's' at the end and someone forgot it, or there wasn't supposed to be an 's' and you included one, I allowed those minor mistakes to pass.

So, on that note here is how it worked out. We had a total of eight people participate:

• one person got all 20 words correct
• one person got 19 words correct
• two people got 18 words correct
• one person got 17 words correct
• two people got 16 words correct
• one person got 14 words correct

The original prizes listed were broken down into different tiers so that people who didn't do as well would still have the opportunity to win something. The problem was that I didn't account for only one person getting the words correct in any of the four prize categories. I'll have to think it through better next time. So, I hope there isn't a mutiny but I'm going to do the prizes a little bit different. This simply makes it fairer odds for all the players.

First, the names of those people who submitted between 19 and 20 correct WORDS were put into a draw to win ONE of the following:

• #256 Penguin Party Boys; OR
• #251 Three B's Trio; OR
• $12 worth of images from the Penguin section in the store.

Congratulations to...

Ike

(winner chosen randomly from all correctly submitted responses by Mini Web Tool)

Ike… Please send a message to decossesdynamitedoodles {at} yahoo {dot} ca, (don't forget to replace 'at' and 'dot' with the appropriate symbols) with the subject heading, "SD BD Event #4 Top Prize Winner", and let me know which option you would like as your prize--A, B OR C--and I will get your choice out to you as soon as I can.

Next, the names of those people who submitted between 17 and 18 correct words were put into a draw to win:

• $9 worth of images from the Penguin section in the store.

Congratulations to...

Mandy

(winner chosen randomly from all correctly submitted responses by Mini Web Tool)

Mandy… Please go to the Scribbles Designs store and choose up to a $9 value of digital images (digital papers are not included). Then, please send a message to decossesdynamitedoodles {at} yahoo {dot} ca, (don't forget to replace 'at' and 'dot' with the appropriate symbols) with the subject heading, "SD BD Event #4 $9 Prize Winner", and I will get your choices out to you as soon as I can.

 

Originally, the third prize was for those getting between 10 and 14 words correct and it was for $6 worth of images. However, I didn't think it fair to just go with $6 when those who got between 15 and 19 should have originally had the opportunity to win $9 worth of images. So, for this final prize I'm sticking with $9. 

Therefore, the names of those people who submitted between 14 and 16 correct words were put into a draw to win:

• $9 worth of images from the Penguin section in the store.

 

Congratulations to...

Denise B.

(winner chosen randomly from all correctly submitted responses by Mini Web Tool)

Denise… Please go to the Scribbles Designs store and choose up to a $9 value of digital images (digital papers are not included). Then, please send a message to decossesdynamitedoodles {at} yahoo {dot} ca, (don't forget to replace 'at' and 'dot' with the appropriate symbols) with the subject heading, "SD BD Event #4 $9 Prize Winner", and I will get your choices out to you as soon as I can.

 Well, that is it for this one. I'll do my best to post the winner announcement for Birthday Event #5 as soon as I am able to get it ready. Take of yourselves!

Until next time,