For the last week I've been running a competition to guess the number of patch cables I have for my modular synth and entries have JUST closed so we have a winner!

But before I announce the winner... let's recap!

Here was the picture - the winner being the one who guessed the number of cables in it (or whoever got the closest!)

Are you ready for the answer now? Some people have waited a full 7 days! Ok here goes... Let us...

The actual number of patch cables in the picture was...

178!

We had 17 entries in total and here they are in order of entry:

User	Guess	Comment
Hive account@sequentialvibe	177	THE WINNER - who'd have thought that the very first guess would be the closest!
Hive account@ciderjunkie	122
Hive account@steevc	163
Hive account@awah	147
Hive account@stickupboys	180	Second closest guess!
Hive account@quinnertronics	112
Hive account@lionsuit	88	The lowest guess!
Hive account@double-eagle	89	Closest guess excluding the cable hanger
Hive account@todayslight	151
Hive account@trippymane	169
Hive account@benthomaswwd / Hive account@aliveandthriving	103
Hive account@edje	117
Hive account@ambrosechappel	2500	Erm... maybe by next year?!
Hive account@ravenmus1c	121
Hive account@cathgothard	243
Hive account@driptorchpress	120
Hive account@vincentnijman	152

NB: I've double checked the above but if I did make any mistake anywhere - just give me a shout and I'll put things right!

Well it was very interesting seeing your answers and I think people were doing a combination of trying to count plus guessing.

And btw - it was actually quite hard counting them even in real life! I had to do it in sections and then re-count to make sure! So well done everyone!

I noticed quite a few people picked prime numbers and it turns out that the majority of people guessed too low with only 3 people guessing a number higher than the true number! If we take out the extreme outlier guess of Hive account@ambrosechappel then the average (mean) guess was 140.9.

So I did wonder if maybe a few people didn't include the patch cables on the cable hanger to the right. Though that was clearly included in the competition, I've decided to award a bonus prize to the person who came closest to the number EXCLUDING the cable hanger.

So the breakdown was actually:

• 95 cables actually patched in the modular
• 83 cables hanging on the cable hanger.

So a bonus prize of 5 HBD is on it's way to you now Hive account@double-eagle for your guess of 89!

Also an honorary mention to Hive account@stickupboys who were only 2 away from being spot on!

But the grand prize for being only 1 away from the exact number goes to Hive account@sequentialvibe! Please can you let me know where to send it? You can email me at hello@tdctunes.com, DM me on Instagram or Twitter or contact me via the PIZZA, Rising Star or Music for Life Discords!

Congratulations Hive account@sequentialvibe!

This is on it's way to you shortly:

The Walkman is newly refurbished with a new belt and I've given it a test and it sounds great! (in a 1980s Walkman/Lo-fi kind of way!) I hope you enjoy your prize!

And finally if you didn't manage to catch my track "The Dreamer" yet which appears on Escapism Mixtape Vol. 2 you can listen on the major streaming services here:
https://ffm.to/thedreamer

The cassette tape is currently sold out but I'm hoping Oakhi Records will do another run soon! They live over at: https://www.oakhirecords.com/products/718838-escapism-mixtape-vol-2-cassette

Thanks to everyone who entered this competition. I hope it was a good bit of fun - I certainly had fun making it and seeing all the answers come in - great times!

Have a good day everyone and see you next time for another fun competition!