Standard prize vault unlocked: Wanamaker hits winning four-digit combination

WANAMAKER

The prize vault has successfully been opened.

Brenda Wanamaker became the first contestant to guess the combination and gain access to the prize vault’s contents yesterday afternoon at the newspaper office.

For her safe-cracking skills, Wanamaker received $80 cash, a briefcase, a one-year subscription to the Standard, dinners for two from both Morrison Market and New York Grill, and an autographed copy of Trace Adkins’ new book.

“We thought someone was going to guess the combination soon,” said Standard circulation director Steve Warner, who organized the promotion. “So far we’ve been really pleased with the response. This has sparked more interest than any promotion we’ve ever done.”

The promotion, officially called Pigskin Prognosticator, lists 10 football games each week in the Wednesday edition of the newspaper. Contestants try to guess the winning teams and then submit their picks at the Standard office.

Each week, 10 entries are randomly selected and those contestants are rewarded for the number of games they pick correctly. Wanamaker, for example, picked nine of the 10 games correctly. That meant she was given three correct digits in the prize vault combination.

“We had given her 721,” said Warner. “And the winning combination was 7213. She was excited about winning, but she asked a lot of questions about the $25,000 prize.”

The chance at $25,000 will come at the end of football season, the first week in January.

That’s when entries from the entire season will be placed in a box and 1,000 names will be drawn. Those people will then have a chance to crack a six-digit code, with no correct numbers given. If a contestant correctly guesses the six-digit code, he or she will win $25,000.

The weekly prize vault is being restocked with prizes and will be awaiting 10 lucky guessers next week.