okay,
so is the game over???.....
Well...I'll tease you a bit...please forgive me
First I'll post the pm's I got from Selski and Eeb (Major Tom's post is above

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I'll post a picture of the thing in the box in 3 hours..
from Eeb:
I tried this afternoon. It was not so clear, first I fell asleep. If somebody has been signalled sleepwalking around , that was me...! Anyway, I thought I saw a ball in the box.
I'll try again later today..
and the second post from Eeb:
I'm just picking up the practice again (never obe'd, consciously), I was not for 100% on the API. I went there and everything was not to clear, I was phasing in and out all the time if you can say it like that. I went to the boat (didn't notice other people) and opened the crate (of wood?). The thing I saw in it I thought it resembled a ball for playing soccer perhaps. Any more details would just be wild guesses...
and from Selski:
at was hard! I had to try not to second guess what you might have put in there, and also not think what I would have put in. It was difficult to leave those thoughts behind.
Anyway, inside the box my very first impression was "round" and "orange" (I hope that wasn't my subconscious picking up on the bottle of orange juice!). My second impression was bucket and spade, but this was one of the items I thought about the previous day, when I first read your post.
I turned away from the boat, started coughing (something in or around the boat was making me cough?), but I wanted a second look in the box with fresh eyes.
I looked again, got round and orange, and this time quickly turned away, so I wouldn't start changing it.
I started badly coughing again (not in physical reality, I have to clarify), and I moved away from the boat, and back to the speedboat, where Jimmy had some water on board, which I happily drank and felt much better. I thought about the two words which described what I "saw" and wondered if it was a frisbee?
Of the whole experience, the one thing that stood out was my coughing. It was really really odd.
There were lots of footprints on the sand when I arrived, but I didn't see another soul.
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those are all of the contestants...notice any similarities??....I'll see you in a moment..