Currently offline. Eggcentricity

The video rental store in our area had a jelly bean count contest for Easter weekend and I happened to stop there last Friday while enjoying a day off from work. I have won a jelly bean counting contest once before (some years ago) but for that contest the grand prize was a dinner for two in Portland. The second prize was a gift certificate from LL Bean in Freeport and the third prize was the jelly beans. Anyway I never made it to the restaurant for the dinner and I always wished I'd had the gumption to speak up at the time and offer to swap the third prize winner for the beans.... oh well.

So back to this past weekend. I used the same technique to guess the number of beans as I had done before, I came up with a pretty high number and was hesitating a bit about it, but then I figured it was worth using the first number I came up with as well as any other number so I stuck with it .

Imagine my surprise when I got a call on Saturday morning that I had won the contest! And I was under by just one bean! Besides the beans I won a pass for 20 free video rentals!!! When I got the beans home and put them into canning jars I was shocked how many it took. Three of the full quart jars, three small jelly jars, two larger mug size jars, one medium jelly jar and a single cup canning jar. What a load of beans!! OK how many you wonder? One thousand four hundred forty one beans (1441) my guess was 1440, what funny cheerful luck for the day, I felt like I'd won a real jackpot.

Happy Easter everyone!!!