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In my hands is a one gallon square glass jug filled with Starburst jelly beans. You guess how many.

The rules are:

One guess per post.

No consecutive posting, someone else must post between your guesses.

Contest ends Sunday April 1 at midnight EST.

Winner will be the person who guesses closest without going over.

Winner will be announced April 2nd and will have the option of actually receiving the jelly beans and jar, or making a donation to the site in order to prevent me from sending the jelly beans to them.  ;D

Jelly beans were weight counted on a calibrated scale. That is the number that will be used to determine the winner.

In the event of a tie the first contestant to guess the number wins.

2018

 Cindy quickly converts an American gallon to an imperial gallon divide by 4.5 to convert to litres. Changes the starburst jelly bean inches to centimetres and uses the Devlyn hand size conversion unit matrix, takes daylight saving into account and the cool change forecast this afternoon.


856

925? This reminds me of 1st grade. We did something just like it way back when.

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Quote from: Cindy on March 23, 2018, 04:47:59 PM
Cindy quickly converts an American gallon to an imperial gallon divide by 4.5 to convert to litres. Changes the starburst jelly bean inches to centimetres and uses the Devlyn hand size conversion unit matrix, takes daylight saving into account and the cool change forecast this afternoon.


856

"She blinded me....with science!"

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 23, 2018, 04:53:11 PM
"She blinded me....with science!"

And baffled me with Rh................

2088.

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1700 is probably a low end estimate. Those estimating in the low 2000s still are likely to be winners.

OMG.  You all got me giggling again!

3840

1440

A Mathemagician Who Shall Not Be Named sent me this....

Best Answer:  Well, let's make a calculation based on some assumptions:

➊ we are talking about an imperial gallon = 4.546 L (1 L = 1 litre)
(If you wish to re-do the estimate with an American gallon, use 3.785 L instead)

➋ 1 jellybean has a volume of say, 1.5 cm³

➋ some of the space in the jug will be air, as the beans don't "stack" and fill every available space, so let's "inflate" the average volume of the bean, and the air wasted space around it, to 2 cm³

A container of size 1 L will occupy 1000 cm³ of space
∴ a 1 gallon or 4.546 L container will occupy 4546 cm³ of space

∴ 4546 cm³ of space ÷ 2 cm³/jellybean & air = 2273 jellybeans

Let's round that down to the nearest 50 and say 2250 jellybeans.

...which would be impressive as heck.....if they knew how to count past two!  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

1280

Lost me talking about cm and litres.  What would musical instruments have to do with it?

Quote from: salaniaseviltwin on March 23, 2018, 04:52:30 PM
925? This reminds me of 1st grade. We did something just like it way back when.

Wait, you meant that in a GOOD way, right?  ;D

I'm using the hand/boob method in my calculations. 
How many right boob handfuls would it take? 
I know it would take a few more handfuls if I used my left boob.
Then I take the average and presto!
Now this of course is an entirely personal formula and ymmv.

This is science!  Jessica

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 23, 2018, 07:57:56 PM
Wait, you meant that in a GOOD way, right?  ;D

Of course. I got a jar full of jelly beans. What first grader wouldn't be happy. Lol

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Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 23, 2018, 04:00:39 PM
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Winner will be announced April 2nd and will have the option of actually receiving the jelly beans and jar, or making a donation to the site in order to prevent me from sending the jelly beans to them.  ;D

So.....just to be clear........the winner will have the option to either get the jar of jelly beans.......
or make a donation to the site........how much do we have to donate?

Lol, semantics counts with Devlyn!  >:-) Watch out!

I'm not stipulating a donation, I shouldn't have put that in there. The site has no connection to my contest.

Hugs, Devlyn

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 23, 2018, 09:44:31 PM
I'm not stipulating a donation, I shouldn't have put that in there. The site has no connection to my contest.

Hugs, Devlyn

Oh my.... I meant that in jest.  I knew what you meant and just made a play on words.
Sorry Devlyn, didn't mean to infer anything.
I've made my guesses, so I'll stop causing trouble and step out of the thread.

Quote from: Jessica on March 23, 2018, 09:54:57 PM
Oh my.... I meant that in jest.  I knew what you meant and just made a play on words.

Well, I didn't know that :)  And,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I was thinking there are only two jellybeans and the rest are those little packing material things that you use to ship electronic parts in non-static bags!!!!


Just kidding.  I know that you carefully place grocery bags in the jar with the beans glued on.

:)

No, no tricks. It is a one gallon jug full of jelly beans. There's a lot.  :)

27672

Quote from: sarah1972 on March 23, 2018, 10:13:03 PM
27672

Thaz a lot of beans!

... He can't sleep anyways, so he decides to count the visible beans by color:

- 26 green ones
- 32 yellow ones
- 50 orange ones
- 24 purple ones
- 25 red ones

= 157 visible jelly beans
Considerably less green, purple and yellow ones (what's with that?)

...Makes an estimation of times that said amount of beans can fit in a jar. Pretty sure it's greater than x10 times... x20 times...

...Gives up and picks one... offers 3,297 number of beans

...Wonders why he talks about himself in the third person

...Returns back to sleep, realizing that counting beans is more satisfying than counting sheep

Edit:

...Wonders how Devlyn figured out the exact number of beans in the jar

Quote from: November Fox on March 24, 2018, 08:48:53 PM
... He can't sleep anyways, so he decides to count the visible beans by color:

- 26 green ones
- 32 yellow ones
- 50 orange ones
- 24 purple ones
- 25 red ones

= 157 visible jelly beans
Considerably less green, purple and yellow ones (what's with that?)

...Makes an estimation of times that said amount of beans can fit in a jar. Pretty sure it's greater than x10 times... x20 times...

...Gives up and picks one... offers 3,297 number of beans

...Wonders why he talks about himself in the third person

...Returns back to sleep, realizing that counting beans is more satisfying than counting sheep

I am just soooooo glad you chose to count the beans versus the little white spots on non-cable or digital tv's dead space. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfJ5JEAccvo

If I ever reach those levels of desperate, somebody should just "help" me sleep with a blow to the head...  :P

Quote from: November Fox on March 24, 2018, 09:00:11 PM
If I ever reach those levels of desperate, somebody should just "help" me sleep with a blow to the head...  :P

Melatonin time

Ha! I know.

Since I am now on a diet, I should go for a new number:

919

Quote from: Cassi on March 23, 2018, 10:28:49 PM
Thaz a lot of beans!

Google says there are about 250 beans in a bag and looks like about 9 bags worth to me so my guess is 2250

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Quote from: TonyaW on March 25, 2018, 09:19:00 AM
Google says there are about 250 beans in a bag and looks like about 9 bags worth to me so my guess is 2250

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LOL, that's not exactly how googled explained it but the answer is still the same,lol.

Quote from: November Fox on March 24, 2018, 08:48:53 PM
... He can't sleep anyways, so he decides to count the visible beans by color:

- 26 green ones
- 32 yellow ones
- 50 orange ones
- 24 purple ones
- 25 red ones

= 157 visible jelly beans
Considerably less green, purple and yellow ones (what's with that?)

...Makes an estimation of times that said amount of beans can fit in a jar. Pretty sure it's greater than x10 times... x20 times...

...Gives up and picks one... offers 3,297 number of beans

...Wonders why he talks about himself in the third person

...Returns back to sleep, realizing that counting beans is more satisfying than counting sheep

Edit:

...Wonders how Devlyn figured out the exact number of beans in the jar

Calibrated military grade counting scale.  ;D

In other words:

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Still plenty of time to get in on the action!  :)

Are they safe from squirrels?

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Hardy-har-har.  >:( :) :D ;D :-* :laugh:

If not the contest is switching to "How much does the fat squirrel in the jar weigh?"  :laugh:

Hugs, Devlyn

'Squirrel in Jar' sounds like a modern art installation [emoji16]

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Squirrel - Leave Rocky out of this!!!!!  And don't even think of putting him in a jar or I'll tell Bullwinkle!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_w3obzvsoU

Quote from: Megan. on March 28, 2018, 12:45:40 PM
'Squirrel in Jar' sounds like a modern art installation [emoji16]

LMAO!  :laugh:

As I am a little afraid of getting stuck with a bunch of Jelly Beans that I don't really care for, I am going to give everybody a little help coming closer to the correct number.

I counted 12 to 13 beans across the face of the jar. If you cube 12, you get 1728. If you look at the corners you will see they are rounded so instead of using 12.5 or 13, I used 12 and rounded down giving my 1700 number.                                       

Quote from: November Fox on March 24, 2018, 08:48:53 PM
... He can't sleep anyways, so he decides to count the visible beans by color:

- 26 green ones
- 32 yellow ones
- 50 orange ones
- 24 purple ones
- 25 red ones

= 157 visible jelly beans
Considerably less green, purple and yellow ones (what's with that?)

...Makes an estimation of times that said amount of beans can fit in a jar. Pretty sure it's greater than x10 times... x20 times...

...Gives up and picks one... offers 3,297 number of beans

...Wonders why he talks about himself in the third person

...Returns back to sleep, realizing that counting beans is more satisfying than counting sheep

Edit:

...Wonders how Devlyn figured out the exact number of beans in the jar

November Fox had a good start and then made a mistake. With 157 across the face, the square root of 157 is is about 12.53, cubing that gives 1967.

Quote from: TonyaW on March 25, 2018, 09:19:00 AM
Google says there are about 250 beans in a bag and looks like about 9 bags worth to me so my guess is 2250

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Now this is an approach I didn't think of however it's useful information. Look at the following.
7 bags = 1750
8 bags = 2000
9 bags = 2250
Given the above information, 1750 or 2000 are likely numbers but remember the contents of a bag is an approximation so a little higher or a little lower are equally likely possibilities.

Let the guessing resume.

Quote from: Dena on March 30, 2018, 10:01:05 PM
As I am a little afraid of getting stuck with a bunch of Jelly Beans that I don't really care for, I am going to give everybody a little help coming closer to the correct number.

I counted 12 to 13 beans across the face of the jar. If you cube 12, you get 1728. If you look at the corners you will see they are rounded so instead of using 12.5 or 13, I used 12 and rounded down giving my 1700 number.                                       
November Fox had a good start and then made a mistake. With 157 across the face, the square root of 157 is is about 12.53, cubing that gives 1967.
Now this is an approach I didn't think of however it's useful information. Look at the following.
7 bags = 1750
8 bags = 2000
9 bags = 2250
Given the above information, 1750 or 2000 are likely numbers but remember the contents of a bag is an approximation so a little higher or a little lower are equally likely possibilities.

Let the guessing resume.

I like all the maths, but I said they were Starburst jelly beans, and Google will tell you that the bags come in a wide variety of sizes...

Here's a stable number: it IS a gallon of jelly beans.  :laugh:

If the winner balks at taking the beans, I'll foist them off on the candy stripers at the local hospital. You don't want that on your conscience!  :laugh:

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 30, 2018, 10:15:04 PM
If the winner balks at taking the beans, I'll foist them off on the candy stripers at the local hospital. You don't want that on your conscience!  :laugh:

The Candy Stripers will have to suffer. One easter morning we awoke to discover my sister had devoured the entire contents of her easter basket. This was no small feat because there must have been close to 2 pounds of candy in each basket. As the oldest, my mom asked me to share the contents of my basket with my sister so she would have something for the next few days. She could have had all my jelly beans and I wouldn't have cared but my mom also divided the chocolate, something I am still considering is if I will forgive her. Fortunately I got to keep the giant hollow easter bunny and only the chocolate covered candy was divided.

I'm not a bean counter but I do know for certain that there are as many jelly beans as will fill a one gallon square glass jug - That's how many beans there are

1997 tasty beans

We're getting close to the deadline, and Dena made a ton of guesses, so she's looking strong here.  ;D  :laugh:

I didn't make a ton of guesses. My first guess of 1700 still stands but I made suggestions for others to use. Remember there is a one guess per post restriction and because 1700 is contained in each post where I work with numbers, I have only made one guess.

Please, Please, I don't want a pile of Jelly beans.

Guess I may, guess I might, but then again, probably not  ;D

1865

We're running out of time!

2437

Thank you to everyone who participated! We have a winner!

The actual number of jelly beans was 2,469. The closest guess was 2,437 by Cassi, only off by 22.  :)

Congratulations, kid! Let me know what you want to do with the beans and jar.

Hugs, Devlyn

Woop! Gz Cassi! Don't eat 'em all at once [emoji4]

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OMG - Oh My Gellybeans!!!!!

Please share them with those in your area and thank you.  Wow, only 22 off.  I think Ashley said something about my psychic ability perking on HRT, now I believe it.

So, I'll begin giving fortunes in the future - accept chocolate as payment only :)

Thanks!

Way to go cassi. Told you you were too sweet. Lol

Quote from: Cassi on April 02, 2018, 02:03:46 PM
OMG - Oh My Gellybeans!!!!!

Please share them with those in your area and thank you.  Wow, only 22 off.  I think Ashley said something about my psychic ability perking on HRT, now I believe it.

So, I'll begin giving fortunes in the future - accept chocolate as payment only :)

Thanks!

Okay, and I know just where to start sharing.  ;D

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I love it when a plan comes together!  :laugh:

Hugs, Devlyn

Too funny but your going to get a tummy ache.

Quote from: Donna on April 02, 2018, 05:42:30 PM
Too funny but your going to get a tummy ache.

I'm like a hummingbird. I run on sugar.  :)

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on April 02, 2018, 05:39:06 PM
Okay, and I know just where to start sharing.  ;D

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I love it when a plan comes together!  :laugh:

Hugs, Devlyn

WELL!!!!  Just don't eat them all otherwise you'll lose your girlish figure and BTW, I didn't see that coming :)