Contests – Humble Dave

I love puzzles! Jigsaw puzzles are fun but are mostly an exercise in patience. Except for this jigsaw called One Tough Puzzle. Wow. It’s only 9 pieces. There are no edge pieces, so all 9 pieces have 4 usable sides. According to the box there are over 300,000 ways to align them incorrectly, but ONLY 1 WAY TO DO IT RIGHT!

Just for fun, I crunched a few numbers on this one. If you average 10 seconds each time you do the puzzle, and you’re supremely unlucky thereby finishing it on the 300,000th try, you spent a little over 833 hours on these 9 puzzle pieces. THAT’S OVER 1 MONTH of steady puzzling, nonstop. No eating, sleeping, bathroom breaks, etc. Also assuming you average 10 seconds per attempt, and really that would be nearly impossible. 20 seconds makes it closer to 2 1/3 months of constant work.

My mom finished it. Of course she did. She’s amazing. The rest of us ordinary people just have to do the best we can. I’ve had this thing for YEARS and still haven’t gotten it.

So, the moral of this story is puzzles suck, but are also kinda awesome. I recommend you buy this for a friend or family member who loves puzzles. You can also buy it for a friend or family member you hate. I won’t judge.

Stupid puzzle.

As always, thanks for reading, and you’re welcome!

Living the dream,

Humble Dave.

P.S. Stupid puzzle.

I have been entering these things for at least the past year. Not every day, but at least a few times per week I enter 10-20 different drawings on Amazon. They make it pretty easy. Go to Amazon Giveaways and click. Until now I’ve never won a a thing. Until now.

“Congratulations David!” – I never get tired of hearing that. Although I don’t hear it that often.

“You won the giveaway hosted by BookGorilla.com Daily Alerts!” – Hooray for me! BG is apparently some kind of free subscription service where they email you information on kindle book bestsellers that you can buy through them for a discount? I have no idea if it’s worth it, don’t use their service, and have no plan to sign up. I will, however, give them this brief plug here since they were kind enough of raffle off my new Kindle Fire 7 Tablet.

“Click Here to Claim Your Prize!” – And this is where I hit the brakes. I’m no noob. I’m not the guy you read about who clicked some idiot link and infected his computer with whatever and has to call his brother-in-law for guidance on how to avoid paying some internet ransom to hackers in Russia/China/India/Whereversland.

I looked at source code. Seemed okay. Checked full email address; appeared to be coming directly from Amazon.com. It came encrypted. And, ultimately, I DID enter a drawing that corresponded to this prize. I crossed my fingers, clenched my toes… and clicked.

BOOM! Nothing happened. I must have bumped the mouse off the button. Clicked again and everything worked fine. Routed to Amazon.com, confirmed my address on file, and received my order number. New Kindle Fire 7 is on it’s way!

This was basically the first email I saw this morning when I woke up. What a nice way to start the week. I hope your week is starting off just as good or better! Thanks BookGorilla, and thanks Amazon! As always…

Living the Dream,
Humble Dave

Category: Contests

PUZZLES!

I Finally Won an Amazon Giveaway!