Please be my mule.

This is the best contest EVAR!!!

These will change, I’m sure, but my first thoughts are:
Brass
Antler Island
Cuba
Age of Steam: Southern US and Pittsburgh
Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage

Thanks!

.k

I’ll throw my hat in for the mule contest.

Count me in…

Im in. Note: Are you shipping from Germany, or once you get back?

Ha that is awesome!
I’d say Caylus LPE, Antler Island, Im Jahre Des Drachen (x2).  I’ll have to check the previews again.

Both of these are awesome contests. I’ll have to wait and see what gets announced in the next month or so, but I am certainly interested in:
Caylus LPE
Cash ‘n’ Guns Yakuza
Die Säulen der Erde: Die Erweiterung
Die Siedler von Catan giveaway scenario pack
Mr. Jack Expansion
The Zooloretto give away piece

Obviously, I would have to winnow down the list. Also, I have to wait on a final list until Ferti has made their Essen announcements. Any new PitchCar items will move to the top of the list…

I need a mule!

I already have pre-orders down for the Cas$h ‘n Gun$ expansion (gotta getta Uzi) and the AoS “War in Iraq/NY Subway” maps.  My third choice would be Veflixxt Hich2.

Any I’m feeling generous, so I’d give my remaining two game picks to someone else.

So if...I mean, WHEN I win, draw a “second place” name as well.  :)

Luke, I’ll be shipping the games direct from Germany.

...and (WHEN I win) I’ll cover shipping for my second place winner as well.

Man, I’m such a nice guy.

Please enter me in the Mule contest.

I’d like to be in the running.

Maybes:
Rückkehr der Helden: Die Nibelungen
Mr. Jack Expansion
Catan scenario
King of Siam
Lascaux(?)
Midgard: Städte, Schätze, Abenteuer - if any prayer for a non-German reader
Monastery
New Auf Achse

I could use a mule!

Count me in!  I’ll have to work on the list.

Be my mule!!!

List:
Age of Steam: War in iRaq / NY Subway
That Settlers board - will gladly pay you double for it!!
Macht & Ohnmach
Mr Jack expansion
Monastery

The Caylus constest sounds too hard.... sign me up for the mule

I need:
Cuba
Antler Island
Yakuza expansion with the uzi (so let me know early if I win, so that I can reserve the uzi). 

:)

I’m in!

Ca$h N Gun$ Yakuzas, the latest Verflixxt expansion, The Mr. Jack expansion, anything Bohnanza, & whatever surprise Friedemann Friese comes up with would top my list.

Great, great contest idea.  Thanks Eric!

Can we enter the Mule contest?

I want two of the Czech games.
Antler Island,
The Yakuza expansion (I refuse to play Cash $ Guns again until I get the expansion--it is SO good. I just can’t go back.)
And the single most deranged thing on the show floor. There is usually one really good WTF item to be found in the Essen games lists.

Count me in! Not sure of the titles yet…

Throw me in the contest…

Die Siedler von Catan: Die Kolonien
Die Siedler von Catan scenario pack (Spielen in Österreich)
Entdecker: Im Reich der Jadegöttin
Rückkehr der Helden: Die Nibelungen
Verflixxt hoch²!

Please add me to the mule contest.

I’ll be going myself, so you can save that space for some other lucky gamer. Great idea!

This is a great contest. I am in.

And remember that shipping from Germany to Sweden is cheaper than overseas.

I already have two copies of Antler Island reserved

I’m not sure what I want....limiting to five vs. 100 is always difficult for me.

Thanks for counting me in, Eric!

I want a mule too.  I’ll come back later with a wish list, I hadn’t thought too much about it, since I wasn’t going.  It would have to include the Cash n Guns expansion (w/ Essen UZI), Caylus Premium, Bang Bullet Edition, Power Grid deck expansion, Midgard: Städte, Schätze, Abenteuer.  I’m sure there’s more, just need to research.

Sure, I could use a mule. Never considered the possiblity of jumping the titles early..

Eric

Great idea!

please mule the following (if I win)

civitas Hamburgum
cuba
Rise of Nations
brass
kingslovrg

Thanks

I’m in for the mule contest.
I hope this also applies to looking for those hard to find or out of print games that some of the vendors over there may have?

Please count me in.

Thanks,

Kevin

I am entering your most exciting contest!

Count me in, please.

By the way, if a similar contest is held next year, here’s an idea:  Instead of having one winner get mule service for up to five games, how about five winners each getting one game shipped from the con?  It would reduce the luck and the rich-get-richer problem.

Eric Clark suggested: Instead of having one winner get mule service for up to five games, how about five winners each getting one game shipped from the con?

The problem is that I would then be packaging five games individually instead of five games in one box, and I’d need to make sure I have enough boxes, packaging material, and so on.

I want to spend as much of my time covering the event as possible, thus my limited offer of generosity. Think of the offer as an experiment, though, and if it goes well, you can expect to see it reappear in some fashion next year.

Eric, if you were my mule, I would treat you exceedingly well.

Private stall, extra carrots.  Everything a mule could want.

I hope it’s not too late to sign up.  That Caylus LE with the promo looks too good to pass on (and I haven’t even played the game yet!)

I’d love to have a pet mule.  I would even Paypal enough for a good German beer or two.

OK. I’m feeling mulish this morning. Or at least in the need of a good mule companion. Wait. That didn’t sound right.

Please be my mule.

Games I’m interested in:

Amyitis
Brass
Cuba
Galaxy Trucker
Utopia

Thanks, Eric!

Sounds good to me!  Galaxy Trucker looks like fun, and probably won’t make it here for a while.

I would like a mule! :-)

I would probably get:
Galaxy Trucker
Ubongo Extrem
Utopia?
Yakuza Cash & Guns Expansion?

I’m still envious of anyone able to spare the
time to get to Essen. I’m only lucky that I
live near Dallas, and its easy to get to BGG Con.
JRM

If you were my game mule, would you swallow condoms filled with games or smuggle them another way?

I need a mule as well!

I am sure it is still the 25th somewhere in the world! Please mule me a game or two? I am looking for Galaxy Trucker.

Any word on a winner for the Caylus contest?

The announcement of the Caylus winner will have to wait a few weeks. The answer checking is taking far more time than I thought it would, especially since multiple entries have minor errors, such as possibly forgetting that turn order alternates in a two-player game, which means I need to figure out what’s really going in in the answer.

I’ll make another announcement about the contest in a couple of days.

As for the Mule contest, Michael Green is the randomly chosen winner. Congrats, Michael!

Thanks for the reply.  Did several people tie, or were several of the top scores invalid?  I thought you were only going to check the winning score to see if it was valid then the next if it wasn’t and so on.

Patrick, I need more time to check the answers than I have at the present moment, thus the delay. I need to decide whether any error kicks out an answer or whether I should be lenient in something like Player 2 entering the castle before Player 1, when it could be the other way around.

The game won’t be available until the end of the month in any case, so I’ll announce the winner sometime before then once I have time to check out the details.

It’s all good.  Thanks for doing the contest =).

since i’m one of the participants, i have a suggestion, if the minor error is a typo or if it affects the scoring in a minor way, it can be accepted.
if the error affects the scoring in a major way, it shouldn’t

I would concur with that, except that leaves the position of deciding what’s a minor scoring error.  This whole contest is about scoring so even a minor error could negatively effect the outcome.

aahhh… if the error causes the scores to dip below scores posted by others, i suppose.

Was there ever a winner announced for this contest?