March 100 Word Anonymous Challenge - Discussion Thread

[farntfar]

Not a lot of guessing going on so far.
So although the voting ends tonight, I won't be giving you the names for a day or two to let you have a go at that.
The winner, of course will have to be revealed tomorrow morning however, unless there's a tie-break.


Does anyone one feel like taking the reins for next month's contest?

 

[Starbeast]

Gold Fantasy​

New Strange Bedfellows - Nice Bond villain touch.

Alchemy - I love the change of heart through magic.

The Color of Gold is Green - Get that map! Excellent.

The Darkest Magic - "Economancy". That's outstanding.

Silver Unicorn & Golden Karma - A unicorn has a real bad day.

True Value - Beautiful tale of size and honor.

Read Between the Lines - You got me wanting more.

Just what it says on the tin. - Speak the words properly. Heh heh.

Useless Stuff - Another way to look at gold. Very cool.

The Last Quest Of Sir Anselm The Younger, Knight - A family business, indeed.

Blind Greed - Jeepers creepers, I know where you got them eyes. Great.

Climbing Olympus - Marvelous mythical sporting event.

The Prospector - A poor victim of a robbery. Tremendous drama.

The Gilded Warrior - Intense brother against brother tale.

Melting Point - Grim, but great sorcery story.

Crown Of The Heavens - Epic. I want more.

Insight - Awesome Gold Stalker horror tale.

Beneath The Mines of Darmiir - Warrior vs Monster. I love it.

All that Glitters - A quest to save a community. Fantastic.

R & R - Thanks for the laugh. Where is this store?

Auld Gold - Delightful and disturbing. Well done.

Dark Arts - I love the turn around in this story.

Spinning a Yarn - A near fortune. Sad, but great tale.

Fragile Unity - Fork over the yellow, fellow! Excellent.

Be Careful In The Dragon's Lair, Lest You End Up 'Medium Rare'. - Thanks for the laugh. Great title too.




I was originally going to mark all of the stories "RED", to identify my finalist selections, but then I noticed I marked 98% of them(in short, I liked all of the tales). So I marked only the one I finally (FINALLY) chose for my vote. Another great group of stories this month.

I guess I'm like the others, I can't choose who wrote what.

 

[hopewrites]

Ok. Guesses.
Not 100% on any of them and several are dart throws, but here we go.

New strange bedfellows -cascade
Alchemy -mosaix
The color of gold is green -cathbad
The darkest magick- pambaddeley
Silver unicorn and golden karma -cat's cradle
True value -shyrka
Read between the lines -ajid
Just what it says on the tin -anyakimlin
Useless stuff -J5V
The last quest of sir anselm the younger knight -starbeast
Blind greed -ratsy
Climbing Olympus -chrispenycate
The prospector- Victoria silverwolf
The gilded warrior -ashlyne b watts
Melting point -ihe
Crown of the heavens -singers
Insight -DG Jones
Beneath the mines of darmiir -stillearning
All that glitters -Robert Mackay
R &R -Droflet
Auld gold -vas
Spinning a yarn -uruss
Fragile Unity -willwallace
Be careful in the dragon's lair, lest you end up 'medium rare' -Johnny jet

 

[farntfar]

In what is becoming almost a tradition, once more we have a tiebreaker between
All That Glitters
and
True Value

who both received 4 votes.

Please vote for your favourite
Here

The poll will close at (just after) midnight (GMT) on the 2nd.
After which I will also publish the author list.

 

[farntfar]

Hope

You have 1 correct author.
Infinitely better than I would have done.

 

[farntfar]

Oh dear. I've mucked up again.
The tiebreaker poll ends at 23:00 (GMT) on the 2nd April or 24:00 BST.
Sorry about that.

 

[Singers]

I can't really guess because I don't know anyone's style yet, being so new. But I was very impressed with the standard. *impressed face*

 

[hopewrites]

Lol 1 is better than I expected, trouble now is guessing which of my guesses is right.

 

[johnnyjet]

My wild guesses:

New Strange Bedfellows - Farntfar
Alchemy - Robert Mackay
The Color of Gold is Green - Cascade
The Darkest Magick - Uruss
Silver Unicorn & Golden Karma - Starbeast
True Value - StilLearning
Read Between the Lines - J5V
Just What It Says on the Tin - DG Jones
Useless Stuff - willwallace
The Last Quest of Sir Anselm the Younger, Knight - chrispenycate
Blind Greed - Cathbad
Climbing Olympus - Shyrka
The Prospector - mosaix
The Gilded Warrior - pambaddeley
Melting Point - Ashleyne. B. Watts
Crown of the Heavens - crystal haven
Insight - Cat's Cradle
Beneath the Mines of Darmiir - Ihe
All That Glitters - Victoria Silverwolf
R & R - AnyaKimlin
Auld Gold - Singers
Dark Arts - Ratsy
Spinning a Yarn - Vaz
Fragile Unity - Ajid
Be Careful In The Dragon's Lair, Lest You End Up 'Medium Rare' - Droflet

 

[farntfar]

Very good Johnnyjet. 5 correct.

 

[johnnyjet]

Very good Johnnyjet. 5 correct.

Whoa! Best I ever did! (Actually pretty lucky. I started out trying to make educated guesses, then rapidly devolved into high speed dart throwing.)

 

[farntfar]

high speed dart throwing.

Well it obviously works.

 

[farntfar]

So a clear winner in the tiebreak.
All that Glitters by Crystal Haven

A worthy second from
Still Learning with True Value

CONGRATULATIONS to you both.

I was a little disappointed with the guessing this month, but had a lot to do myself. So I understand.
But I would like to thank everyone who entered such terrific stories, and to those who voted, for making this a great month for the challenge.
Also special thanks to AnyaKimlin for being our mystery extra.
(Oh and lots of thanks to everyone who said nice things about me.)

Watch out for the complete list of writers, which will be published as soon as I work out how to copy and paste it from my excel sheet into here without the format getting all weird.

 

[hopewrites]

Nicely played saying you'd have to put yourself down as the red herring if no one pm'ed you.

And hearty congrats to @crystal haven as well!!

 

[farntfar]

The runners and riders were:

The runners and riders were:
story Author
New Strange Bedfellows Droflet
Alchemy Victoria Silverwolf
The Color of Gold is Green ______ Cathbad
The Darkest Magic Shyrka
Silver Unicorn & Golden Karma Starbeast
True value: _ StilLearning
Read Between the Lines _ Ratsy
Just what it says on the tin Farntfar
Useless Stuff chrispenycate
The Last Quest Of Sir Anselm The Younger, Knight. ____ Robert Mackay
Blind Greed Ihe
Climbing Olympus Cascade
The Prospector johnnyjet
-The Gilded Warrior- Uruss
Melting Point Ashleyne. B. Watts
Crown Of The Heavens Ajid
Insight Cat's Cradle
Beneath The Mines of Darmiir __ Vaz
All that glitters crystal haven
R & R willwallace
Auld Gold Singers
Dark Arts DG Jones
'Spinning a Yarn' pambaddeley
Fragile Unity _ J5V
Be Careful In The Dragon's Lair, Lest You End Up Medium Rare __Mosaix

 

[hopewrites]

Wow!! Well played everyone!
My one right was one of my dart throws. And all the one's I thought I had close were way off. Lol.

 

[Droflet]

Huge congrats, Crystal. And well done to everyone for another bumper crop. And that's for the mentions.

 

[crystal haven]

Thank you!

And congratulations too, to StilLearning for a really great story. I was so wanting to know who'd written it.
Farntfar has done a great job with running the challenge; a big thank you to you, and also to Victoria for the lovely reviews.

Well done, everyone. I enjoyed reading all the stories.

 

[StilLearning]

Well done Crystal, well done everyone in fact, I enjoyed all of them. I must present my apologies for not finding the time to make a list of guesses, I'm getting into a bad habit of letting other things push it to the back of the queue. I'll make a point of guessing first and voting last next time. Thank you everyone who gave me a vote or a mention, as soon as life hasc calmed down a bit (probably wednesday) I'll put upmy own shortlist!

 

[Singers]

Very well done, worthy winners. And fantastic guessing to JohnnyJet, who guessed mine without ever knowing my writing!