Winners & Answers in the Steemiversary Contest

The contest for My First Steemiversary is officially ended! Thank you to all who participated in the contest as well as everyone who congratulated me on the milestone!

🎀 The Winners

There were four people who completed the challenge, so each of them has been awarded three units of Steem Basic Income (SBI):

• @thehive
• @gmatthe2
• @sgt-dan
• @katrina-ariel

🎀 The Crossword Answers

The first task was the crossword puzzle. Most, if not all, of the answers were available in the FAQ on Steemit. Here are the hints/questions and the answer to each one:

• 1-across = Transactions are stored in a ➡️ BLOCK
• 2-across = The best way to earn rewards on the platform? ➡️ POST
• 3-across = How to mark posts so people can find them? ➡️ TAGS
• 4-across = What provides network services to the blockchain? ➡️ NODE
• 5-across = What is a unit of measurement for SteemPower? ➡️ VEST
• 6-down = Who keeps the blockchain up-and-running? ➡️ WITNESS
• 7-down = The basic unit of currency on the Steem blockchain? ➡️ STEEM
• 8-down = What was the first chain to fork off of Steem? ➡️ GOLOS
• 9-down = What keeps your account secure? ➡️ KEYS

🎀 The Unscramble

The critical answers which were required in order to get the letters to unscramble were: block, tags, vest, and witness. The unscrambled letters were to make the name of a Steem user. An additional hint was that the name also corresponds to the name of a place on the earth, so the answer is: @wales

🎀 The Butler

In the story Where old beat-up suitcases go to die, Rumi (the butler) spoke to several things: a hollow tree, a suitcase, a no-longer-there dog, himself...  — any of those would have been an acceptable prompt for a stick-drawing, a poem, a freewrite, or a photograph. One entry was also stamped with the phrase: "the doom of it all."

By the way, I count Where old beat-up suitcases go to die as a rather phenomenal piece of writing. It is full of amazing imagery and descriptions as well as a rather quirky and charming story line. I was thrilled to find such a great piece of writing to use in my contest!

@wales : You didn't know what was going on until @gmatthe2 posted her comment on the story, but THANK YOU for such an entertaining thing to read! And hopefully, utilizing your story in my contest has brought a couple new fans of your writing!

^{• SCREENSHOT FROM MY WALLET AS PROOF-OF-PAYOUT OF PRIZES •}

THANK YOU to everyone who participated — not only the winners, but everyone who worked on the contest (some of whom started, but did not complete it) and all those who congratulated me on the milestone! You are all appreciated!

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a big hug to @enginewitty for designing the following personal banner for me 🤗