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Posted: **Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:51 pm**

281 is a nice round number

Posted: **Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:33 pm**

Im guessing 680

Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:41 am**

290 for me.

Ron.

Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:06 am**

Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:41 am**

Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:31 pm**

I'm going with 729 :roll:

Andrew

Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:46 pm**

Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:22 pm**

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. ;-)

Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:58 pm**

492

Graham

Posted: **Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:54 pm**

247 !!!!!

Posted: **Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:55 pm**

nice jar

Posted: **Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:11 pm**

306... plus the cork on top = 307

Yep you flushed another newbie/lurker out

Posted: **Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:31 pm**

How about one for each day of 2008 = 366 corks.

Posted: **Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:49 pm**

305

But how many had TCA.

Next year screwcaps!

Posted: **Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:22 am**

I'll have a crack at 735...

Brett

Posted: **Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:18 am**

329 for the win

Posted: **Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:17 am**

Posted: **Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:14 am**

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

Posted: **Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:22 am**

Posted: **Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:05 am**

OK,
I will have a go.
345.
Mike.

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:00 am**

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

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:48 am**

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.

Posted: **Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:08 am**

put me down for 598

Posted: **Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:55 pm**

246...

Posted: **Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:58 pm**

319.....

Posted: **Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:39 pm**

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.

Posted: **Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:28 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:02 pm**

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.

Posted: **Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:11 pm**

Just Kidding.

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

Posted: **Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:46 am**

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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