This contest is now over!

Bear riddle solution: White, because it’s a polar bear. There’s only one place on earth where you could go south, east, and north, and end up where you started–the North Pole.

Up/down hill solution: 13.3 mph is the avg speed. Why is it not 15? Because you spend twice as much time going 10 mph as you do 20 mph. Avg speed is the total distance divided by the total time. Say the hill is 20 miles. It takes you 2 hours to go up and 1 hour to come down. Therefore it took 3 hours to go 40 miles ==> 13.3 mph.

Congrats to the many people who solved one or both. To those that didn’t, bravo for not Googling it and trying to solve it yourself. With integrity like that, you would do well in the Initiation.

Since there were almost 4,000 entries, I decided to give away five $50 Amazon gift cards in addition to the $250 one. I always try to overdeliver on giveaways. The winners, randomly selected, are listed below in the contest app as well as here, only partially identified to protect your privacy (Gleam.io selected the winners using random.org to ensure fairness and transparency):

$250 Amazon gift card: Rebecca Elyse H.

$50 Amazon gift cards: Marissa V., Jennifer G., Ashlynn H., Terry B., Nicole Z.

The winners will be contacted by email. Thanks to everyone who participated!

If you like reading…

If you enjoy riddles, brainteasers, mind games, puzzles…

If you loved books like The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games, Ready Player One, etc. …

If you want to try something different from all the fantasy and contemporary YA books out right now…

Give The Initiation a shot! It’s a fast-paced read, in which you can participate in the Initiation alongside the characters, as they face challenge after challenge, many of them brainy. See why readers and reviewers are saying things like:

“A gripping, mind blowing, brilliant book that makes you think while at the same time delivering a fantastic story.” – Renita D’Silva, author of A Daughter’s Promise

“An adrenaline-filled and suspenseful dystopian… A masterfully written tale that will be liked by fans of Divergent and Warcross.” – Books and Tea

To those who joined my email list, you’ll have the option to unsubscribe when I send out my next email. Totally cool if you want to opt out now that the contest is over. But – you may want to stick around. I run giveaways all the time just for people on my list, where your odds of winning are much higher. I’ve given away thousands of dollars of stuff, including an iPhone X in my last giveaway. Inequality is a major theme in The Initiation, and one of the ways to solve it is redistribution of wealth. I’m basically redistributing the profits from book sales back to my readers by running giveaways. I also never spam you – at most I send out 1 to 2 emails per month, and only when I have something really great to share. Same goes for social media. Thanks again to everyone who participated and I hope you’ll check out my book!

The Initiation Riddle Giveaway

