A Nigerian woman set a new Guinness World Record for the highest number counted out loud after spending 14 hours a day for 70 days counting to 1,070,000. If Favour Ogechi Ani were to write a book about her quest for numerical glory, what should she title it?
RESULTS:
THE WINNER: “My Days Were Numbered”
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Troup Miller, Austin
SECOND PLACE: “I Count”
Mark Thermansen, Portland, Ore.
THIRD PLACE: “The First Million Is Always the Hardest”
Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Va.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“Make Me a Countess”
Allan Thomson, Gordonsville, Va.
“Down for the Count”
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pa.
“Add Nauseum”
Fayne Pearson, Newport News, Va.
“Sum Kind of Wonderful”
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
“Numb and Number”
Rick Torrence, The Village, Okla.
“Number-crushing”
Valerie Mason, Southbury, Conn.
“1,070,000 is the Loneliest Number”
Jon Eganhouse, Playa Del Rey, Calif.
“Blessing My Counts”
Mary Jo Astrachan, Oneida, N.Y.
“To Infinity and Beyond”
Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Ind.
“One is Not the Loneliest Number”
John Keefe, Mount Vernon, Wash.
“Counter Intelligence”
Bill Levine, Belmont, Mass.
“The Book of Numbers”
Kenneth Walker, Bridgeport, Ohio
“Next Goal: Doing It Backwards”
Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Mass.