 Contests & Activities: July 21, 2010 Issue [#3860] |
  Contests & Activities
This week: Virtual Dice Edited by: Leger~  
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The purpose of this newsletter is to highlight some of the current contests and activities on the site, help educate members on how to host contests and activities, and provide clues to submit quality entries to contests. Write to me if you'd like something in particular covered.
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Leger~
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Drawing A Number From A Hat
When running a contest or raffle with prizes, how do you pick the winner? Do you cut up little bits of paper and put them in a sack and draw one? Years ago, when I first took over " Wild Card Review" , I drew the winners from an actual deck of cards. Now I use something better...Virtual Dice.
You can find WDC's Virtual Dice in the navigation panel, under Writing.Com Tools > Virtual Dice. This is a very handy tool for drawing winners fairly because you can associate the dice roll with your contest or activity and contestants can also look up the roll if they want to verify your picks.
Fill out the first field with the item ID number of the contest or activity you're hosting. Then you have to decide how many dice will be tossed and how many rolls will occur. If you would like three individual winners in your raffle, then you would choose to roll 1 die - three times - with the number of sides being the number of people in the raffle. Then if you want three different people to win, you'd click the radio button next to "No Repeat Numbers". This tells the program to keep rolling until three different numbers are chosen.
The instructions on the Virtual Dice page are quite easy to understand. Give it a try for your next raffle. And note it on your raffle or contest page, so more people can learn about a cool tool in our WDC arsenal - the Virtual Dice. Now go throw out those little scraps of paper!
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Win GPs and an exclusive Good Deeds merit badge. Deadline is July 31st!
Win GPs and an exclusive What a Character merit badge. Deadline is July 31st.
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This round, your writing must reflect all or some of these three virtues: courage, determination and strength. Deadline is July 31.
Short story or poem, deadline is August 5.
Win 1000 GPs just by entering your favorite quote. New round each week.
Excerpt: Come, darlings, step into my shadows, deepen my nightmares, and revel in the things that go bump in the night! I bid you to take a look inside and share your darkest fears. Make them my reality. -Deadline October 16.
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Excerpt: This will be a monthly contest open to all E-rated English words, excluding Proper Nouns. Each month I will give a category, and you may nominate words throughout the month.
A daily prize of 10,000 GPs for the best story or poem. Check it out!
Excerpt: This is an auction for various GROUPS or individuals to donate prizes to help raise gps for themselves or a group
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This month's question: What other fun uses have you found for Virtual Dice?
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