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Ah, I'll mention this could be cleared up. It's the top 3 people get the 1/2/3 prizes mentioned. The raffle is run amongst everyone who plays at all. So even if you just tweet or like the thing, or take the minimal amount of time to enter, you are elegible for the raffle. So you don't have to be anywhere near the top 10 to win a javascript ebook.

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...and I was feeling reasonably good about reaching #18 efficiently. But don't really have the time to burn to claw my way up another 15 places. I was hoping that the raffle would be weighted by the number of points you have...oh well. Time to just hope I'm lucky.

By the way--thanks for babysitting this thread and responding to everyone.

Ah, yes, weighted raffles. We'd love to have weighted raffles. We were fooling with that awhile ago, but there's a sticky legal point. The whole no purchase necessary clause. If we had weighted raffles it sounds like we'd need a way for people to send us a postcard and have equal treatment as the highest person on the leader board with the raffle. That didn't sound fair. We'd love to figure out a way to do it though.

> The whole no purchase necessary clause.

But none of the games/tasks cost anything anyway... so no purchase is necessary. (What am I missing?)

So basically it makes no difference how much effort I put in, if I don't get in the top 3?

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