I am organising yet another lottery and Springer have kindly agreed to donate two copies of LaTeX and Friends (see also).
This year I decided to be the judge of the lottery. The lottery closes when the judge has announced the last winner. The judge's decision is final and there shall be no discussion and/or correspondence about the outcome of the lottery.
To win the book you may guess two numbers in the range 1--250. The first two people that guess the right number win a copy of the book. Please note that the time of arrival in TeX-SX is what counts, not the time of sending.
To give everybody a fair chance, you may submit only one number.
There is one exception to the previous rule. If several contestants submit the same number, the contestant whose submission arrived first is valid. The other contestants may resubmit a new number.
Contestants must have been a member of TeX-SX before 10 December, 2014. (Without this restriction, people may start creating fake accounts and submit multiple guesses.)
Please post your guess as an answer to this meta question; not as a comment. Comments will be ignored. Please only put your guess in the body of the answer.
Guesses will be checked every couple of days and the winner will be announced within a few days after.
I can sign the book at your request. Please note that I won't sign by default because I know some people want to keep their books pencil and ink free.
At the time of writing there were no winners yet. To speed things up, contestants may choose two numbers in total.
** OK It's two days before Christmas and the remaining number still hasn't been guessed. I'm giving you one more try, so everybody may guess three numbers in total. **
Update: the numbers were 126 and 197 have been guessed by mrf and phollox respectively.
Congratulations to Winners !. Thanks all for participating. More luck next year.
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