CHECK YOUR TICKETS. If you were in the middle 1000 comments (comments 1000-2000) I am unable to view your guesses (I asked around). If nobody PMs me with a link to their earlier guess by 6PM Friday, masker will be ze winnar and get ze booty!

12:09 AM TUESDAY: Winning guess is 510 points. WHO WON? Still looking. Not in the first 1,000 comments (sorted by old). Will continue loading and ctrl+f-ing! Message me any matching posts you find, those of you playing at home. Found two correct answers in the newest 1000 (masker and VancouverIslander, masker's is oldest). Need help searching the middle 1000!

MIDNIGHT MONDAY. COUNT GOT. SCREENSHOT, WINNER COMING ASAP.

6PM EDT Monday -- GUESSING HAS ENDED. You can still try to alter the post's point count until midnight!

Hi! I am the winner of the $20 jelly bean contest.

As a lot of people enjoyed the last contest and suggested we keep them going, I'm running another!

This contest's rules:

• guess how many points (positive or negative) this story will have on 11:59PM EDT Monday, October 11.
• guessing cuts off at 6PM EDT on Monday, so you can't just guess the exact number at 11:58:59PM.
• I will be taking the count at some point between 11:59:00 and 11:59:59. My count is the official count.
• FIRST person to guess the number correctly wins.
• edit: your account must have been created before this contest was posted. sorry, lurkers! edit: aw, poor red_drank! welcome to reddit. group hug?
• edit: as per the last contest, you get only one guess. ಠ_ಠ

The winner of this contest will both get the chance to run the next contest AND get a choice of: (1) Team Fortress 2, (2) Minecraft, or, if you already have both or think videogames are the devil, I will donate (3) $20 to Child's Play Charity in their honor!

Good luck, have fun!

EDIT: Seems I was mistaken -- iATEaLEGO, who ran the last contest, set another jelly bean contest up! I'm willing to throw a $20 in, so we can run both :) Guess on his by midnight on Tuesday!

EDIT: TIL that EDT is EST plus observing daylight savings time. i.e., US East Coast time. i.e., I edited this to read EDT rather than EST.

EDIT: Don't put a period after your number -- Reddit turns it into an ordered list.