Harry Potter Christmas Competition - win some promo sets!

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[Tower]

Celebrating the announcement of the the title of Book 7 and the release of the Chamber of Secrets card set, it's definately time for a new competition. So i decided to donate a few promo sets for the winner.

The winner will receive:

A sealed 4 card Goblet of Fire Update gold foil promo set
A sealed 2 card Goblet of Fire silver foil promo set (promo 3 and 4)
A "half-sealed" (2 cards are not) complete 4 card gold foil promo set of Memorable Moments

So 3 promo sets with free shipping for the winner. 

Closing date of this competition will be the last minute of this year, wherever you live. Anytime at new years day i'll make the drawing and will tell everyone the winner in this topic.

Important: You have to send the hopefully correct answer via forum's PM to me. PM, don't email!

You have to answer both questions correctly, so be carefully:

Here are the questions:

1. In "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", who is the first to be petrified?

2. How many (female and male) actors of the Harry Potter movies signed at least one Auto Card yet?   "Yet" means before the CoS set and "Auto card" means every kind of Auto card.

Any questions? Feel free to ask, but don't post hints here in the topic.

Let the fun begin, good luck to everyone! 

Here's what the winner gets:

[Tower]

Sorry, i had to change the second question, there was no possibility for only one correct answer, so i took a better question right now.

[Sharon]

I have a question    Why are your questions always so hard  .  Seriously thank you for the competition Thomas 

[Tower]

It's not hard. You only must have read the book (or you watched the movie) and are able to count.

[Tower]

4-5 days of this competition are left and igot only a handful of PMs yet. So still a very good chance for everyone to win these promos, come on, send a PM to me.

[grecopa]

I'm in!  Fingers crossed.

[Tower]

Less than 2 days left and still only a few answers. They are still available, use your chance to get some promos for free, if you find the correct answers and have luck with the draw. 

[Tower]

The competition is over and the winner is still unknown. 

I decided to change the kind of decision, there will be no draw. 

What happened is that i got only two correct answers.    Seems that my question was tougher than i thought. The first one was easier, it was Mrs. Norris and everyone knew this.

But the number of actors who signed at least one Autograph, yes, it was not an easy question. I got many replies with answers very close to the right one. And i got an answer which would have been right after the CoS relaese, but sorry, it was asked for the moment before that.

So i got many answers from 59 up to 62, but only two answers were correct.

And here is the solution: There were 61 actors who signed a card yet (before CoS)!

What to do now? I don't like a draw for only two. I decided to give both another question. The one who is closer to the right answer will win the pot.

The question is: How many foils sets (R1-R9) was i able to combine out of my 2 CoS cases?

You have to guess now, you can't know it of course, cause i didn't post it in the breakdowns. So calculate a bit and guess, if i had luck getting the same number of each card and so the max. number of complete sets or was i really short of any of the cards and got only a few sets combined. Or anything in between that.

Both "winners" so far got a PM and have to reply again with PM: Wish you both good luck!

And for everyone: Here is the solution of the second question, if you like to check it. All the signing actors in order of appearance: 

1.   Emma Watson
2.   Gary Oldman
3.   Michael Gambon
4.   David Thewlis
5.   Julie Christie
6.   Robert Hardy
7.   Bonnie Wright
8.   James Phelps
9.   Oliver Phelps
10.   Matthew Lewis
11.   Daniel Radcliffe
12.   Rupert Grint
13.   Chris Rankin
14.   Richard Griffiths
15.   Pam Ferris
16.   Harry Melling
17.   David Bradley
18.   Dawn French
19.   Jimmy Gardner
20.   Lee Ingleby
21.   Jamie Waylett
22.   Genevieve Gaunt
23.   Peter Best
24.   Warwick Davis
25.   John Hurt
26.   John Cleese
27.   Ian Hart
28.   Leslie Philipps
29.   Ray Fearon
30.   Geraldine Somerville
31.   Adrian Rawlins
32.   Joshua Herdman
33.   Devon Murray
34.   Alfred Enoch
35.   Luke Youngblood
36.   Brendon Gleeson
37.   Shirley Henderson
38.   Robert Pattinson
39.   Stanislav Yanevski
40.   Miranda Richardson
41.   Jeff Rawle
42.   Pedrag Bjelac
43.   Tiana Benjamin
44.   Angelica Mandy
45.   Henry Lloyd-Hughes
46.   Clemence Poesy
47.   Katie Leung
48.   David Tennant
49.   Frances de la Tour
50.   Roger Lloyd-Pack
51.   Shefali Chowdhury
52.   Afshan Azad
53.   Ashley Artus
54.   Alex Palmer
55.   Maggie Smith
56.   Jason Isaacs
57.   Eric Sykes
58.   Philip Rham
59.   Paschal Friel
60.   Olivia Higginbottom
61.   Richard Rosson

[mcgonagall]

goodluck to both the competitors  and well done for getting the right answer

[Tower]

They are both so good! 

I was able to compile 10 foil sets out of my cases and both answered exactly these 10, wow!

So we need another one. You both have to guess again and this time, we'll have a winner, i'm sure.

Referring to this topic:
http://www.theyakshack.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,4933.0.html

How many miscutted base cards i unfortunately pulled out of my 2 cases? I counted them today.

The closest answer will win. Please PM me again. 

[Tower]

The competition is over, we have a winner.

Sorry, Sam, you have been so good, but Cindy was a bit better.

I have 86 miscutted cards and Cindy guessed 80, that was so extremely tough to beat.

So our winner is: kbmum!    Congrats, Cindy!

[pinksamstar]

hahaha that was really tough   :'(


congrats cindy my guess was a little tooo high 

[kbmum]

Wow, thanks!   I never win anything.  How high was your guess Sam?

[rns91294]

Congrats Cindy  

[Bogleg]

Well done Cindy 

I was out by 1 for the auto number. I have a question though. Who did Afshan Azad play?

[Tower]

I was out by 1 for the auto number. I have a question though. Who did Afshan Azad play?

A picture says more than 1000 words.

[mcgonagall]

Wtg Cindy congrats  and thank you Tower for running the comp it was fun

[HPfamily]

YAY!! Congrats Cindy!!!!! 

Thanks for taking the time to do this, Thomas!!! 

[grecopa]

Way to go, Cindy!    I would have been in the running with you guys if I had only read the directions more carefully.  I guessed 66 signers (5 on CoS).
Cool competition, Tower!