Cork Count 2008 Competition

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BillMac
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Post by BillMac »

281 is a nice round number :?

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Post by redwino »

Im guessing 680

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Post by Von Ridler »

290 for me.

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redstuff
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Post by redstuff »

212

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285
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Sarg
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Post by Sarg »

I'm going with 729 :roll:

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Post by Nayan »

408

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With a low guess of 164 and a high guess of 729, that's a pretty big range to play with yet. I will give a clue then, it's somewhere between those two. ;-)
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Post by GrahamB »

492

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247 !!!!! :D
Some people slurp it,others swill it,a few sip on it,some gaze at it for hours ,enough now wheres the RED

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nice jar :shock:
Some people slurp it,others swill it,a few sip on it,some gaze at it for hours ,enough now wheres the RED

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Post by odyssey »

306... plus the cork on top = 307 :D

Yep you flushed another newbie/lurker out :P

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Post by n4sir »

How about one for each day of 2008 = 366 corks. :)
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Post by David »

305

But how many had TCA.

Next year screwcaps!

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Post by GravyMaker »

I'll have a crack at 735...

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Post by winetastic »

329 for the win

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Rob
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Post by Rob »

368
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Just a reminder, entries will be accepted up to 5:43 pm on Tuesday 15th January 2008.
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Post by trev »

432

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Post by Muscat Mike »

OK,
I will have a go.
345.
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Red Bigot wrote:Just a reminder, entries will be accepted up to 5:43 pm on Tuesday 15th January 2008.


Just out of curiosity why 5:43 pm? As opposed to 5:44pm for instance?

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drlev wrote:
Red Bigot wrote:Just a reminder, entries will be accepted up to 5:43 pm on Tuesday 15th January 2008.


Just out of curiosity why 5:43 pm? As opposed to 5:44pm for instance?

Cheers, Lev


It just happened to be the time I posted the original announcement of the competition on the 1st January.
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Post by crusty2 »

put me down for 598
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Post by Christo »

246...
"You are what u drink!"

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Post by Popov »

319.....

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Post by Red Bigot »

And the winner is: grahamg with a guess of 530.

The actual number of corks in the jar is 526 + the cork top of the jar makes 527.

Well done grahamg, please email or PM me with your postal address and your choice of which wine you want - Johns Blend or Fox Ck Reserve, both cabernets, both 98.
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Post by John #11 »

Red Bigot, did yu drink all 526 bottles of wine in the last 2 months?

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John #11 wrote:Red Bigot, did yu drink all 526 bottles of wine in the last 2 months?


John, I have no idea where you got 2 months from, it's more like 2 years (see earlier in this thread), almost entirely corks with branding on them, the others go for earlier re-cycling via a local retailer who collects them for craft people etc.

With tastings, dinners etc where I keep some/all of the corks I'd certainly average more than one cork per day.
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Post by John #11 »

Just Kidding.

We average about 1200 per year, but there are 4 of us.

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Post by grahamg »

Thank you very much for your generosity Red Bigot, I am already greatly in debt to you for the wine knowledge and tips you give both here and on your site. I have not yet had either of these wines so send which ever you like and know that I will savour it.
Thanks again!
grahamg

For anyone like me who spent too much time thinking about this game here is my equation
Corks = r ^3 (6576.40 / F )
where r is the radius if the jar was a perfect sphere
and F is the Fish Tank Volume from the last cork count competition (that had 1570 corks x pi x 4/3 = 6576,40).
For the Fish Tank Volume I added 1cm to the height because it was filled over the top and a lucky guess of 15cm for the jar's radius.

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