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We're hosting a Facebook iPad contest!

Posted by Dominic Crapuchettes

16 Nov 2011

Dominic Crapuchettes

(domcrap)

United States
Bethesda
MD

This overtext is brought to you by the abstract strategy game Battle of LITS and the number 20.

We're hosting an iPad contest to celebrate getting Say Anything into Target and Toys-R-Us this year. Woot!! Just go to the North Star Games Facebook page and play a sample round of Say Anything. It only takes 30 seconds to click on your favorite answer!! Here is the question and the answers to choose from:

What would be the coolest technology to exist?
1: A car that turns your traffic lights green
2: Animal Translator
3: Cheap, green energy source
4: A robot masseuse that also serves drinks
5: Something that could defeat Chuck Norris
6: Invisibility Cloak

After playing, we would greatly appreciate it if you invited some friends to play. We want this to go as viral as possible, lest Say Anything gets dropped from Target and Toys-R-Us, and millions of families never get the chance to play the 2008 BGG Party Game of the Year (that would be a travesty). To help it along, if one of your friends wins, we'll also send YOU a free copy of any one of our games!

Note: You need to like our Facebook page to play, because we need to keep track of the participants in order to contact the winner.
Disclaimer: If two or more people claim to have invited the same friend, we'll go with the first person to have posted it on their Facebook page. Probably. Or if it is only two people, we might just send you both a game!

Say Anything

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Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:09 am

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Rick Baptist

(SlikkRikk)

United States
Redlands
California

I usually avoid Facebook contests like the plague, but for YOU Dom (and the iPad), I relent!

Posted Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:18 am
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Dominic Crapuchettes

(domcrap)

United States
Bethesda
MD

This overtext is brought to you by the abstract strategy game Battle of LITS and the number 20.

SlikkRikk wrote:

I usually avoid Facebook contests like the plague, but for YOU Dom (and the iPad), I relent!

Thanks Rick. If you win, I'll send your iPad with 10 board game apps of your choice!

Posted Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:19 am
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Floyd Sherrod

(fhsIV)

United States
Sharpsburg
Georgia

Very cool Dom. Just one huge success after another. Congrats!

Floyd

Posted Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:52 am
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Tony Snark

(chiron.42)

United States
Atlanta
Georgia

SlikkRikk wrote:

I usually avoid Facebook contests like the plague, but for YOU Dom (and the iPad), I relent!

I agree. That's probably the first time I've logged into that silly site in about 2 months.

Posted Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:53 am
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Christian Monterroso

(ccmonter)

Canada
Waterloo
Ontario

If you are not having fun, then you are missing the point.

What if I Facebook Like this blog post?

Posted Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:13 pm
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Russ Williams

(russ)

Poland
Wrocław
Dolny Śląsk

This site being BGG and all, a contest for BGG users instead of facebook users would have been cool. :/

(Yes, I know, it's inconceivable that there exist people who don't have and don't want to create a facebook account...)

Posted Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:00 pm
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Blake Durtschi

(ariva)

United States
Cottonwood Heights
Utah

SlikkRikk wrote:

I usually avoid Facebook contests like the plague, but for YOU Dom (and the iPad), I relent!

Same here, in fact I've never done one. I like your games and your company so much that I'll pass the word along as well. It will be the first thing I've posted on my wall in over 6 months I think.

Posted Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:57 pm
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Dominic Crapuchettes

(domcrap)

United States
Bethesda
MD

This overtext is brought to you by the abstract strategy game Battle of LITS and the number 20.

ccmonter wrote:

What if I Facebook Like this blog post?

ariva wrote:

I like your games and your company so much that I'll pass the word along as well. It will be the first thing I've posted on my wall in over 6 months I think.

Awesome, thanks guys.

If you "Like" this blog post, AND you win the iPad, make sure to let me know. I will also ship your iPad with 10 board game apps of your choice.

Posted Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:53 pm
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Dominic Crapuchettes

(domcrap)

United States
Bethesda
MD

This overtext is brought to you by the abstract strategy game Battle of LITS and the number 20.

russ wrote:

Yeah, it would have been cool. But our goal is to turn NEW people who have never heard of games into fans. Most people on the BGG have already heard of Say Anything, and very few of us gamers buy our board games at Target or Toys-R-Us. It is the casual gamer (or the non-gamer) that we need to reach.

You can still enter if you are a BGG user. In fact, we're throwing in a little extra with the prize for you guys!

Posted Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:04 pm
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Sir Halden of FTL

(Halden)

Canada
Ottawa
Ontario

Done and done.

Posted Thu Nov 17, 2011 6:06 pm
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James Miscavish

(jmiscavish)

United States
St. Joseph
Missouri

Done and done.

Posted Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:04 am
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Derry Salewski

(scifiantihero)

United States
Augusta
Maine

. . . give a ship.

russ wrote:

domcrap wrote:

You can still enter if you are a BGG user.

I understand that there's no restriction that BGG users cannot participate. But being a BGG user does not permit one to participate, unlike most contests announced at BGG. I.e. being a BGG user has no relevance to the contest.

Rather, there is a requirement that one must have a FB account (right? or am I totally confused?). That seems a bit unusual and disappointing to me for a contest announced on BGG to BGG users.

(But I agree that it's your contest, so you get to make the rules. Just take this in the spirit of feedback!)

The idea is that we give them some free advertising for a chance at an ipad. Not to give out ipads to someone because they're on bgg.

The chance probably isn't worth signing up for a facebook account if you're deadset against it . . . but in today's world, that person is in the minority.

Posted Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:08 am
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Dominic Crapuchettes

(domcrap)

United States
Bethesda
MD

This overtext is brought to you by the abstract strategy game Battle of LITS and the number 20.

scifiantihero wrote:

The idea is that we give them some free advertising for a chance at an ipad. Not to give out ipads to someone because they're on bgg.

Thanks for being understanding. If we had a Hasbro marketing budget, we would do a $2 million television advertisement campaign and everything would be fine. Getting a game into Target AND Toys-R-Us is that big. It's huge. But we don't have the money to o television, so we have to devise other ways to get the word out. It is not that we want to trick people. Say Anything is legitimately one of the best party games on the market. Yes, I think that, but so do a lot of other people. We just want people to learn about the game, so they make the decision to purchase it if it is something they would enjoy.