The Catena Contest: Announcing the Winners

<p dir="auto"><a href="https://steemit.com/contest/@vitkolesnik/the-first-international-catena-game-contest-have-fun-develop-your-mind-win-prizes-get-visible" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">The Catena Contest has ended and it’s time to announce the winners! <ul> <li><strong>The First Place<span> (100 beyondbits) goes to <a href="/@fishyculture">@fishyculture — congratulations! <li><strong>Places 2-10<span>: <a href="/@lobbylux">@lobbylux, <a href="/@dearjyoce">@dearjyoce, <a href="/@nichole.james">@nichole.james, <a href="/@davor27">@davor27, <a href="/@rootingrobert">@rootingrobert, <a href="/@eirik">@eirik, <a href="/@androsform">@androsform, <a href="/@swati-s">@swati-s, <a href="/@lucasgabd">@lucasgabd will receive 30 beyondbits each. <li><strong>The Random Prize<span> goes to <a href="/@vikaromanova">@vikaromanova — 40 beyondbits. <li><strong>The People's Choice Award<span> goes to <a href="/@joeyarnoldvn">@joeyarnoldvn — 40 beyondbits. <p dir="auto"><span>But this is not all. I decided to give a small prize to everyone who took part in this first Catena contest on Steemit, so <a href="/@eddyova">@eddyova, <a href="/@maxy-hopkins">@maxy-hopkins, <a href="/@rafaeldp">@rafaeldp, <a href="/@pizzachain">@pizzachain, <a href="/@gregario">@gregario and <a href="/@dianadee">@dianadee will receive 5 beyondbits each. Thank you! <p dir="auto">The prizes will be sent today, so check your wallets tomorrow morning! Those who did not yet post their bitshares name still have the chance to do so until the next Sunday. <h2>The winning catenas <ol> <li><code>Money – Toll – Bell<code>toll is both a tax and the sound of a bell ringing.<span> by <a href="/@fishyculture">@fishyculture. There’s word play in this catena as <li><code>Money – Change – Time – Bell<code>Change.<span> by <a href="/@lobbylux">@lobbylux. Also a nice word play with <li><code>Money – Payday – Celebration – Bell<span> by <a href="/@dearjyoce">@dearjyoce. Thank you for the cheerful mood! <li><code>Fish – Jesus – Nun<span> by <a href="/@nichole.james">@nichole.james. The same catena was published later by <a href="/@fishyculture">@fishyculture, but she is a winner anyway) <li><code>Money – Ka-ching – Bell<code>Ka-ching is in the Oxford dictionary.<span> by <a href="/@davor27">@davor27. Cool one, and I didn’t know <li><code>Nail – Rust – Water – Rainbow<span> by <a href="/@rootingrobert">@rootingrobert. <li><code>Money – Fame – Drugs – Death – Bell<span> by <a href="/@eirik">@eirik. Thanks for reminding us! :) <li><code>Nail – Glisten – Rainbow<span> by <a href="/@androsform">@androsform. <li><code>Money – Graph – Curve – Bell<span> by <a href="/@swati-s">@swati-s. We are all keen about cryptocurrency graphs here. <li><code>Money – Bill – 10% – Church – Bell<code>tithes for the church's historic 10% tax, but the idea is clear).<span> by <a href="/@lucasgabd">@lucasgabd (it would be more correct to use the word <li><span>No particular catena as the prize goes to a random participant which turned out to be <a href="/@vikaromanova">@vikaromanova, thanks for all your entries Vika! <li><code>Money – Lincoln – Bell<span> by <a href="/@joeyarnoldvn">@joeyarnoldvn. As a non-American I didn’t find the link between Lincoln and Bell but I believe it’s there! <p dir="auto">Money turned out to be a more inspiring matter that any other word. No surprise as it’s one of “portal words” I wrote <a href="https://steemit.com/contest/@vitkolesnik/catena-contest-continues-take-part-and-use-these-hints-to-win" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">in my previous post about the game tricks. <p dir="auto">It’s always interesting for me to see the cultural peculiarities manifesting in catenas. This time was no exception, I did not know about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_for_Fish" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">sex for fish custom probably mentioned in the catena <code>Fish – Sex – Celibacy – Nun<span> by <a href="/@androsform">@androsform :) <p dir="auto">Now when you have these wonderful tokens, you may be asking what you can do with them. You can use them to get a whale vote on a post, the number of tokens sent equals the vote percent received — I wrote a detailed post on how to do it <a href="https://steemit.com/whaleshares/@vitkolesnik/how-to-get-a-100-whale-vote-on-your-post-use-whaleshares-a-steemgig-contest-entry" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">here. <h2>Contest Sponsors <p dir="auto"><span>The contest’s sponsor is Whaleshares, a community of creative Steemians founded by <a href="/@officialfuzzy">@officialfuzzy. <p dir="auto">The vision of Whaleshares community and BeyondBitcoin Hangout Series is to give people a voice to speak about their favorite projects in the blockchain tech space. We need to enable more people and incentivize more crypto savvy content creators to be part of the community, help build and benefit from in a synergistic union. <p dir="auto"><a href="https://discord.gg/T56Pjj9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Join the community in our fast growing 24/7 Discord server offering many channels from general talk to post promotion to more contests! <h2>Credits <ul> <li><a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@eirik/introducing-wheel-of-upvotes" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Wheel of Upvotes<span>The Random Prize was inspired by <a href="/@eirik">@eirik with his <span>, a funny tool which I highly recommend. Thanks <a href="/@eirik">@eirik for the hints! <li><span>A big thanks to <a href="/@maxy-hopkins">@maxy-hopkins for proofreading the text. Max is a young traveler who joined steemit recently in order to share his journey. He post regularly on a variety of topics, but at the heart of the conversation is his adventure. <li>Cover photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/iMxsCt2rxAQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Joseph Chan on Unsplash. <hr /> <div class="pull-left"><img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmcDnLNL8eNbJJfqtH2joJmWjRUv2KnXUq8NdPu924fRzy/3-vit2.jpg" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmcDnLNL8eNbJJfqtH2joJmWjRUv2KnXUq8NdPu924fRzy/3-vit2.jpg 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmcDnLNL8eNbJJfqtH2joJmWjRUv2KnXUq8NdPu924fRzy/3-vit2.jpg 2x" /><span>I'm a blogger, web designer, entrepreneur, world citizen and a father to eight. If you've enjoyed this post, follow me at <a href="/@vitkolesnik">@vitkolesnik.