The CartoonStock Caption Contest #156 is now the company's second competition that is pay-to-play. As before, five dollars gets you three entries and a chance at a $1,000 cash prize. Statistics tells us one needs a better than 1-in-200 chance of winning in order to make entering such a contest worthwhile. Surely, the uncharacteristic difficulty of the first two contests is discouraging potential entries, improving the odds for those few who do enter. Like many caption contestants, I remain certain that I have a better than 1-in-200 shot at this, but the fact of the matter is that in the first 155 contests I have failed to win a single one. It would be unwise to get my hopes up. The drawing is by Ellis Rosen.
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August 3, 2022 Update: The Winner
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