Thank you again to everyone who backed Sawdust!
As promised, here are the answers to the contests now that the Kickstarter campaign ended. The winners were notified earlier this morning. Thank you to all who participated!
CONTEST A
1. In the first video, how many times is the word “Sawdust” spoken out loud? 4 times.
2. In the first video, how many sound effects are used to emphasize individual cards? 9 sound effects.
3. In the second video, how many cards appear more than once? 5 cards. The Jack, Queen, and King of Spades appear 3 times. Both Jokers appear twice.
4. Not including the central trio, which Sawdust cards are referenced in the second Joker?
These 10 cards are referenced:
• 4 of Spades (the elephant and mouse)
• Ace of Clubs (the monkey)
• 8 of Diamonds (the woman on the knife wheel)
• Queen of Clubs (the wire walker)
• 3 of Hearts (the man on stilts and the little girl)
• 9 of Hearts (the little boy and the dachshund)
• 8 of hearts (the showgirl)
• 10 of Hearts (the giraffes)
• 6 of clubs (the human cannonball)
• King of Hearts (the lion tamer and cub)
5. Which appear more in the Sawdust deck, female or male characters? Neither/equally/evenly. Female characters and male characters appear the same number of times (60 appearances each).
6. What number larger than 10 appears multiple times in the Sawdust deck? The number 52.
7. Which circus cast member has an injury? The woman on the knife wheel (from the 8 of Diamonds) has a Band-Aid on her leg when she reappears in the second Joker card.
8. A parent and their child do not appear together in the same card. Which cards show this parent-child pair? The little girl in the 4 of Diamonds is the daughter of the ringmaster in the King of Diamonds. She’s dressed just like her father, and both their top hats transform into Diamond pips.
9. Refer to questions 5 and 6 to calculate: The number of males (60) + the number of females (60) – the answer to question 6 (52) – the number of Sawdust court cards (12) = 56. 56 is the number of cards in the uncut sheet (or printed deck).
10. There’s a pair of happy and sad faces hidden in which Sawdust card? The 8 of Clubs. The bicycle wheels are eyes, the trapeze bars are noses, and the aerialists form the mouths. The sad face is on the left and the happy face is on the right.
11. The National Flag of the Philippines is referenced in which Sawdust card? The 7 of Hearts. The sun emblem of the flag is on the lower back of the illustrated man and the 3 stars of the flag are on his upper back.
CONTEST B
1. Not including the box, how many times does the letter S appear in the Sawdust paper-cut cards? The letter S appears 96 times (this includes the back design, which has 11 S’s). The hint about “the largest S is in one of the court cards“ referred to the King of Clubs. The trapeze performers form a giant S.
2. Not including the box, how many times would the letter S appear if 1 Sawdust deck was printed today? The letter S would appear 743 times.
Playing cards are double-sided, so the S’s on the faces and the backs have to be accounted for.
The faces: 96 (the number of S’s in the 55 paper-cut cards, which includes the back design since there’s a double-backer card) + 31 (the number of S’s in the poem, which is the 56th card) = 127 S’s
The backs: 11 (the number of S’s in the back) x 56 (total number of cards) = 616
Total: 743 S’s.
Here are the images of the Sawdust cards.
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I love how the collage photo turned out, too! I think I'll make one for my previous and future decks. 
But I was also wrong about the hidden happy and sad faces. 
And I was 
