GUESS AGAIN - Part II of guessing game

[blobbottlebob]

Just a few hours remain to get your guesses in.

 

[blobbottlebob]

Last hour of guessing. Get em in.

 

[cyberdigger]

320

 

[blobbottlebob]

Guessing has closed. I appreciate everyone's input. We have a winner. Someone guessed within 10 of the actual number this time.

In all those years of diving, I have never found a true colored hutch (such as amber, cobalt, or citron). I have never found a quart hutch (or even pieces of one). I have found extremely rare ones and even a few that were not known (or at least had never been seen in modern times). The most I have ever found on one tank of air is 7. That is more than I have found in several of my dive seasons alone.

 

[blobbottlebob]

A break down by years,

1996 - certified (but didn't know antique bottles existed)
1997 - Excitedly found my first bottles including 21 hutches.
1998 - I had the bug. I had the time. (I was single). 81 hutches.
1999 - 83.
2000 - 92 - the most I had ever found in one season. I remember wondering if I could get 100. Never have.
2001 - 62.
2002 - 31. This is the year I got married. I started diving less often.
2003 - 7. My little guy is born and I have a shift of priorities.
2004 - 6.
2005 - 3.
2006 - 12.
2007 - 19.
2008 - 7.
2009 - 5.
2010 - 3.
2011 - 6.
2012 - 10.

For a grand total of 448! Before I totalled everything, just giving it a wild guess, I estimated 312. I was way off and fairly surprised it was that many.

 

[blobbottlebob]

ok......... 438

The winning bidder's guess. It is bne74honda.

 

[mr.fred]

Congratulations to the winner[]-----Thank's for the chance to win[]

 

[cyberdigger]

Awesome Bob! If you hadn't counted them, I'da won..! [8D]

 

[epackage]

Thanks for the game Bob, I was much closer when I guessed the first time but your response to my initial guess made me think I was way off...Congrats to the winner!!

 

[blobbottlebob]

Thanks Mr.Fred. Nice of you to say that.

Ya ya Chuck. We think alike sometimes. You're still the winner for every forum member who gets to read your entertaining posts.

E! E! What can I say? I felt so bad when you changed your guess. At the time, I thought that it was only fair that you should be given the chance to guess using the same information that everyone else would be seeing. And I thought that if I telegraphed that your first guess was better, I would have said too much. When I shut the first part down - 'cause the trend was guessing too low, I was hoping you'd maybe take that guess up again. As it turns out, the 468 wouldn't have been close enough. But I certainly wasn't trying to steer you wrong.