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The Easter Egg Competition has just over one day to go. But who has the most eggs? How many eggs will you need for ten tokens? And what is the etymology of the word egg? Find out the answers to all of these questions and more* in this final update to the Easter Egg Competition standings.
*There may not be more answers to questions than those specified.
First, the information you've all been waiting for. Egg is derived from egge, a mid-14th Century word most likely pronounced in a northern English dialect. It fought off competition from the Middle English words eye or eai, which were taken from the Old English æg. Before this we had the Old Norse word egg, which in turn evolved from the Proto-Germanic ajja. Ajja most likely came from the Proto-Indo-European word owyo or oyyo, meaning egg, which was probably derived from the PIE root awi, meaning bird.
In less important news, Adamantium and Celina are our current top egg collectors with 25 each as of 10am this morning. Nath's 25 egg record from last year will now surely be broken LIKE AN EGG SHELL unless Torn's servers are egged by a gang of no-good teens. A further egght players were sat on 24 eggs - which sounds painful - and another six had 23 eggs. If I were to hazard a egguess at the winning egg total, I would eggstimate that our winner will have 27 eggs.
150,479 eggs have been found so far, despite 317,931 eggs having been genereggted in total. A record number of 31,160 people have participated in this event too, beating LIKE AN EGG last year's tally of 25,698 players. In our previous article, we used these stats combined with last year's numbers to calculate that 15 eggs would be the total required to finish in the top 10% of all players, and thus acquire the full amount of ten competition tokens. At present, you need 11 eggs minimum to enter the top 10%, so we are rounding down our predicted final number to 13 eggs for a top 10% finish. If you're clucky, you might sneak in with 12.
And finally, here's a fun story from 2014 when one Michigan child experienced what the people of Torn could only ever dream of.
*There may not be more answers to questions than those specified.
First, the information you've all been waiting for. Egg is derived from egge, a mid-14th Century word most likely pronounced in a northern English dialect. It fought off competition from the Middle English words eye or eai, which were taken from the Old English æg. Before this we had the Old Norse word egg, which in turn evolved from the Proto-Germanic ajja. Ajja most likely came from the Proto-Indo-European word owyo or oyyo, meaning egg, which was probably derived from the PIE root awi, meaning bird.
In less important news, Adamantium and Celina are our current top egg collectors with 25 each as of 10am this morning. Nath's 25 egg record from last year will now surely be broken LIKE AN EGG SHELL unless Torn's servers are egged by a gang of no-good teens. A further egght players were sat on 24 eggs - which sounds painful - and another six had 23 eggs. If I were to hazard a egguess at the winning egg total, I would eggstimate that our winner will have 27 eggs.
150,479 eggs have been found so far, despite 317,931 eggs having been genereggted in total. A record number of 31,160 people have participated in this event too, beating LIKE AN EGG last year's tally of 25,698 players. In our previous article, we used these stats combined with last year's numbers to calculate that 15 eggs would be the total required to finish in the top 10% of all players, and thus acquire the full amount of ten competition tokens. At present, you need 11 eggs minimum to enter the top 10%, so we are rounding down our predicted final number to 13 eggs for a top 10% finish. If you're clucky, you might sneak in with 12.
And finally, here's a fun story from 2014 when one Michigan child experienced what the people of Torn could only ever dream of.
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