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Will the first letter of Sunday's New York Times front page headline be a vowel or consonant?

Settled as Vowel




AEIOU or Other?


Settlement details: As reported by the New York Times Sunday February 9th print addition. The "main" photo will be the 4 column photo on the front page.

The front page of the New York Times can be seen each day at: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html


SETTLEMENT NOTES:
"W" Take from the left-most headline.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html
UNSETTLED:

SETTLEMENT NOTES:
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html

Headline for "main photo" article begins with "U".

 
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Settled

Vowel
33%
Consonant
67%
Activity: H$7,809
Settled as Vowel on Sun 10th Feb 5:56am PST

Suspend date: Sat 9th Feb 6:59pm PST Settlement date: Sun 10th Feb 5:56am PSTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Sat 9th Feb 6:59pm PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled

Initial likelihoods: Vowel: 40%, Consonant: 60%

Action history:

Created Wed 6th Feb 9:27am PST by swilson
Settled Sun 10th Feb 5:56am PST

Suspend date: Sat 9th Feb 6:59pm PST Settlement date: Sun 10th Feb 5:56am PSTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Sat 9th Feb 6:59pm PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
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Predictions (58)

58 predictions

42 weeks ago
pepe predicted Vowel (H$39 at 27%)
42 weeks ago
barbs1133 predicted Consonant (H$100 at 73%)
42 weeks ago
wiseman predicted Consonant (H$500 at 71%)
42 weeks ago
pepe predicted Consonant (H$100 at 68%)
42 weeks ago
bobyn42 predicted Vowel (H$150 at 31%)
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Comments (8)

  1 shadowfax
This is a great contest/wager, swilson. very clever indeed and super fun!
thanks for the late night smiles this brought me, I may vote Other... i may vote vowels...
hmmm...
posted 42 weeks ago
I agree.
posted 42 weeks ago
  3 swilson
Thanks, I imagine I'll try to keep a few questions in here like this. I like that there's absolutely no way of keeping up with the progress and adjusting wagers on this, it's just an old school, all or nothing wager.
posted 42 weeks ago
  4 wijiki
Which edition?
posted 42 weeks ago
perhaps it will depend on who is most impressive in saturday's primaries
posted 42 weeks ago
  6 steph
Good point, infernalmachine! Tomorrow's paper will headline with either an O or an M. =)
posted 42 weeks ago
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html#Front%20Page

There's a link to view the page itself, and the NYC and National editions have same layout and articles, BUT which is the front page headline? The left-most one? Then "w" (ie consonant) wins. The middle or right one, then a vowel "u" or "o" wins. Tricky.
posted 42 weeks ago

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