What's this new thing?

[Doctor Q]

So how often do these official contests happen?
The schedule is irregular.

See the History of Macrumors Contest Winners.

[techfreak85]

The schedule is irregular.

See the History of Macrumors Contest Winners.

so is there one coming up soon/in the works?.

Im starting to be envious of those ribbons. :p:D

[rrijkers]

Ah, they are gone, brilliant :D

[Moi un Mouton]

Thanks for the fun !!!! :p

[John Jacob]

Congratulations to all the winners!

I read the whole thread and it is amazing, the hard work you folks put in and the way you went about finding the solutions. :D

Congratulations to everyone who helped solve the Great MacRumors 2009 April Fool's Day Mystery Icon Puzzle.

The "official winners" are as follows:For identifying the rules:Rule A: iBookG4user
Rule P: Moi un Mouton
Rule R: r.j.s
Rule I: Peace
Rule L: Moi un Mouton
Rule 1: wrc fan
Extra icon rule: richthomas

For identifying names of rules:Rule A: Eanair
Rule P: Eraserhead
Rule R: darrenscerri
Rule I: TwinCities Dan
Rule L: TwinCities Dan
Rule 1: r.j.s

Honorable mention goes to:The members who mapped the icons:[indent]Rule A: iBookG4user
Rule P: Abstract
Rule R: r.j.s
Rule I: darrenscerri
Rule L: Moi un Mouton
Rule 1: OrangeSVTguy
The following members who made other important contributions to the team effort:bartelby
TuffLuffJimmy
Rt&Dzine
iMpathetic
MOFS
Your reward is this post (plus the satisfaction of doing a good job).

Thanks, everyone, and Happy April Fool's Day from MacRumors!

[xUKHCx]

Well done all :). Although it did take a fair bit of prodding to get you all going :p.

The schedule is irregular.

See the History of Macrumors Contest Winners.

That history is missing a piece. Although it is in the same forum the last major competition was the 5,000,000 post Avatar contest.

Five Million Post Avatar Contest - Winners and Gallery


As far as I am aware there are no immediate plans to have a contest.

There have been a few mumblings regarding this in Site and forum feedback namely

7 million posts approaching... (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=651192)

We are currently approaching 7,400,000 posts and 680,000 threads with 300,000 members. I suspect that there will be a competition when get to 10,000,000 posts which at the current rate is about 460 days away.

Ideas are always welcome and you never know if you come up with a good one it may come sooner.

[iMpathetic]

What did I do? :p

[Little HZ]

My brain is twisted in knots just reading all these posts :rolleyes: --so well done to those of you who actually solved the puzzle!!

[Doctor Q]

Thanks, xUKHCx. The History of Macrumors Contest Winners is now up to date.

What did I do? :p
You were the first to suggest that the Rule 1 flags depended on letters in usernames. If you don't think you were deserving of honorable mention, your punishment will be having to read the Ninebows puzzle thread (http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=286666&PageSize=25&WhichPage=1) at gamedev. (The MacRumors discussion about it was here.) I think more people got puzzle-induced headaches from that puzzle than from any other!

[rhett7660]

Rats.. I actually liked em.

Thanks for the fun........

[Rt&Dzine]

Thanks for the crazy fun! :D It got kind of exciting near the end ...

Identifying the name of "Rule 1" was beyond me. Kudos to all the winners!

[Eanair]

Yay!!!!

*grins*

That was fun.

And hooray for the Mac forums winning, hehe. :D

[richard.mac]

Congratulations to everyone who helped solve the Great MacRumors 2009 April Fool's Day Mystery Icon Puzzle. …

just saw my little medal of honor then. YAY! i actually won something for once :D:rolleyes:

[minik]

I love those icons.