{"id":10317,"date":"2010-02-28T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/introducing-the-bonus-riddle\/"},"modified":"2010-02-28T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T14:00:24","slug":"introducing-the-bonus-riddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/introducing-the-bonus-riddle.php","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Bonus Riddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom and I have been posting a riddle every Saturday since early November, and it&rsquo;s been a lot of fun for us.&nbsp; The &ldquo;prize&rdquo; has always been to pick a research topic for the following Monday&rsquo;s post, and we&rsquo;ve sure had some interesting subjects come up.&nbsp; We decided to add something extra to the whole riddle concept, so we&rsquo;re introducing a &ldquo;Bonus Riddle&rdquo;.&nbsp; Everybody who has <span><em>solved<\/em><\/span> a previous riddle will be eligible to participate in the bonus riddle.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c2aa4_The-Universe-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5288\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c2aa4_The-Universe-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"240\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>The Universe - Season 4 DVD Collection<\/p><\/div><p>The prize for solving the bonus riddle will be the season 4 complete DVD set of &ldquo;The Universe&rdquo;.&nbsp; This is a special edition, 4-DVD set containing 12 episodes (plus never-aired segments) from A&amp;E Home Video.&nbsp; This video collection was only released 02\/23\/10, is over 10 hours total running time, and includes features on comets and meteors.<\/p><p>I bet I got your attention with that, didn&rsquo;t I!<\/p><p>Okay, here&rsquo;s how it&rsquo;ll work:<\/p><ul><li>Tom and I will post the Bonus Riddle at noon CDT, March 15th.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s Monday&hellip;&nbsp; the Ides of March (sounds ominous, doesn&rsquo;t it?). You&rsquo;ll have two more chances to solve a riddle to become eligible to participate; the one on March 6th, and the one on March 13th.&nbsp; Good luck on those.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Guesses will be by email to Tom or Marian.<\/li><li>You will have 24 hours to submit your guesses; from noon CDT March 15th until noon CDT March 16th.<\/li><li>You get three guesses.<\/li><li>Comments will be closed on the Bonus Riddle until after the submission deadline.<\/li><li>The winner will be the first person to submit the correct answer.&nbsp; If nobody solves the riddle by noon CDT March 16th, it will be opened for everybody to give it a shot.<\/li><li>Tom will have the final say in any controversy.<\/li><\/ul><p>This is going to be SO much fun!&nbsp; We&rsquo;ll be reminding you of the Bonus Riddle as the date approaches, so nobody gets bushwhacked.&nbsp; Also, Tom and I both will be contributing clues to this riddle.&nbsp; We&rsquo;re planning on making the Bonus Riddle a regular event, and hopefully we&rsquo;ll always be able to offer a prize as nice as this one.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom and I have been posting a riddle every Saturday since early November, and it&rsquo;s been a lot of fun for us.&nbsp; The &ldquo;prize&rdquo; has always been to pick a research topic for the following Monday&rsquo;s post, and we&rsquo;ve sure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/introducing-the-bonus-riddle.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}