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Message 757773 - Posted: 24 May 2008, 12:57:13 UTC - in response to Message 757747.  

There appears to be approximately 53 visible biccies.

Yup, that was the start of my mathematical equation as well... Although, I just rounded it off to 50... ;)
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Message 757774 - Posted: 24 May 2008, 12:58:44 UTC - in response to Message 757768.  

Oh cut out the scientific crap & give the wrong answer so I can win.


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my guess is 107 i win whoo hoo

Good guess for a first time poster!

If I don't win.... I hope you do!
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Message 757814 - Posted: 24 May 2008, 17:04:05 UTC

My guess is 185
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Message 757951 - Posted: 24 May 2008, 21:07:09 UTC

My guess is 163 biccies.

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Message 758215 - Posted: 25 May 2008, 8:51:27 UTC

My guess is 197 biccies!

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Message 759948 - Posted: 28 May 2008, 16:19:59 UTC - in response to Message 757417.  
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123

I'd like to revise my estimate to 121.

I'm sure two of those biscuits have gone missing since I last looked

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Message 759950 - Posted: 28 May 2008, 16:26:33 UTC

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Message 759958 - Posted: 28 May 2008, 16:41:48 UTC

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Message 759965 - Posted: 28 May 2008, 17:07:09 UTC

You all forgot to consider the angle of dangle.

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Message 760289 - Posted: 29 May 2008, 16:43:42 UTC

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Message 760298 - Posted: 29 May 2008, 17:35:19 UTC

Ooh, ends tomorrow. :)
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Message 760300 - Posted: 29 May 2008, 17:54:36 UTC

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Message 760306 - Posted: 29 May 2008, 18:26:36 UTC

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Message 760312 - Posted: 29 May 2008, 19:10:40 UTC - in response to Message 757404.  

Surely by now there must be 0! ;)
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Message 760345 - Posted: 29 May 2008, 20:37:31 UTC - in response to Message 759965.  

You all forgot to consider the angle of dangle.

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William, I think you are absolutely right! I looked again and saw another biscuit ;)

My third and final estimate is 122

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Message 760347 - Posted: 29 May 2008, 20:39:54 UTC

Ok, I have a bowl about like this and took some measurement to determine a scale. I then determined the approximate size of each biccie. According to my calculations there should be 130 biccies in to bowl.

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Message 760391 - Posted: 29 May 2008, 23:51:01 UTC


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Message 760432 - Posted: 30 May 2008, 1:28:45 UTC - in response to Message 757404.  
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Rules:

The competition ends at midnight (GMT -0) on Friday 30th of May 2008.

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Its after midnight here GMT on the 30th (cRunchy lives in the UK).......We have about 21 and a half hours to go, to get the answer. This is very exciting, I'm looking forward to this!...LOL

We have had a very wide range of answers. So what range of answers will be in the right ball park for being correct. I stick to my answer of 207, but i recon that between 150 and 250 will be the ball park right answer!

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Message 760435 - Posted: 30 May 2008, 1:30:46 UTC

I will say 150

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Message 760497 - Posted: 30 May 2008, 5:04:41 UTC

Waiting for the answer here. Did I win, did I came close.
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