My contest suggestion: The Bump Game
1. 1000 posts
2. Pick a number from 1 to 50 (or use whatever range you want).
3. If you pick a number that has already been picked you are "bumping out" the previous person that picked that number. The last person to pick a number owns it.
4. You may pick another number if you have been "bumped out". You may not pick the same number that you were bumped from. You may only own 1 number at any given time, so you may only pick again if you have been bumped.
5. After 1000 posts, a random winning number from 1 to 50 is is chosen.
6. You may only post to pick a number. No chat is allowed in the thread without a number pick in the same post. But there will be plenty of opportunity to chat because you will get bumped and need to pick another number. But no one will be able to dominate the thread with useless chit-chat. You may mention who you are bumping, but you do not have to. Good humorous taunting is encouraged while bumping, but a quiet little bump may be to your advantage.
So: PersonA picks 22.
(PersonB picks 44.) PersonC picks 22.
PersonA has been bumped and may pick another number, but may not pick 22. PersonC currently owns 22.
The owner of each number from 1 to 50 is the last person to pick that number at the end of the game (after 1000 posts).
The 50 final owners are in the random number drawing.
It won't be over in ten minutes because you only post when you've been bumped.
It won't take hours and hours, or days and days either. It should be fast and exhilarating.
You don't need extraordinary creative powers, but tactical thought
may help.
Chaotically competitive.
Too confusing?
