The Game (is not quite over)

There was a problem with The Game. I only received 8 responses by the deadline last night. Two people told me they had sent them in right away and I never recieved them, so they had to resend them. As it turns out I mistyped my email address on the game rules below. That may have been the source of the problem. These are the only contestants who I received answers from: jenny, monkey, sissy b, lance, osbasso, dale, katehopeeden and H20pixie. If you sent your answers in by the deadline and your name is not on this list, let me know ASAP by sending them in again. I will hold off on making any announcements other than this: as it stands now there is indeed a tie. If that ends up being the case I ask each of you contestants to comment here with ideas as to what the tie breaker contest should be. I look forward to hearing from you all.