THE GREAT BIBLE CHALLENGE

1. The Contest is open to individuals below the age of 25 as of December 2006.
2. The contestant must first register with the Contest Referee by submitting the following information:

Name

IC Number

Valid Email address

Telephone Number

3. All contest questions are sent via email. All responses must be submitted via email to the Contest Referee

4. The Contest will run for FOUR consecutive months from 1 June till 30 September.

5. The rules of the Contest:

Each Friday evening between 5pm – 11pm, the contest questions will be emailed to the registered email address of each contestant.

You are required to “reply to sender” with the attached answer/response with subject matter unchanged. Non-compliance may affect your participation.

All correct responses will receive 2 points, irregardless of response time.

Additionally, the first all correct (or with the most correct answers) response to reply via email will receive 10 pts. The second fastest with the most correct answers will be given 5pts, the third (3pts), the fourth (2pts) and the fifth (1pt).

There will be four categories of questions each month. In the event that any particular month has more than 4 Fridays, there will be no questions sent out on the last Friday of the month.

Each week, the contestants will try to accumulate as many points as possible to vie for the Monthly Prize.

The points will only accumulate for the month itself. At each beginning of the month, all scores are refreshed to zero.

Contestants are allowed to register at any time and be eligible to request for questions that were sent our earlier, if any, for that particular month.

Questions are based on the New International Version (NIV)

Contest Referee’s decision is final and no complaints will be entertained.

By sending your response by email does not mean that the Contest Referee has received the reply. Each response email will be acknowledged by a reply by the Contest Referee.

The time of the receipt of the email is time-stamped by Google Mail.

Weekly and Monthly Results will be published at: http://ywap.blogspot.com

Answers will only be published at the end of the monthly contest at: http://ywap.blogspot.com

Look out for clues that may be randomly shared on http://ywap.blogspot.com for assistance to solve the Great Bible Challenge.

You may use any bible study tools such as the Concordance, Dictionary, or the Internet or whatever means to help solve the questions/puzzle/code.

6. The Four Categories of the Contest are:

Bible Verse Scrambler:

i. You are required to unscramble the alphabets of the words of a verse/passage and rewrite the verse/passage and quote where the bible verse/passage is found in.

ii. Eg: “ROF DGO OS DLVOE….” has to be unscrambled to form the words, “For God so loved…” AND also quote John 3:16 to complete the answer.

Mix Up Verse:

i. You are required to reorganize the words of the verse/passage to form the correct verse/passage. You will also need to quote where the bible verse/passage is found in.

ii. Eg: “LOVED SO GOD FOR…” has to be reorganized to form the correct verse, ie. “For God so loved…” AND also quote John 3:16 to complete the answer.

Break the Code:

i. You are required to either:

Find out what is the common relationship between the items mentioned OR

Solve Bible Maths OR

Unscramble a scryptogram (code). Solve the code and discover the verses OR

Solve the riddle

Bible Challenge:

i. You are required to answer bible trivial questions relating to

people of the bible

places in the bible

event in the bible

7. All points secured by the contestant during the contest will add towards the Grand Prize – The Great Bible Challenge at the end of the four months. This means that points secured in each of the four months will be added up together to find overall winners for the grand prize. Eg. If you secured 20pts in Month 1, 15pts in Month2, 30pts in Month 3 and 5pts in Month 4, you will have a total of 70pts.

8. Prizes are subjected to change without notice but will be replaced by items/cash of similar face value.

9. The Contest Referee has the right to admit or reject any contestant registration without giving reasons. The Contest Referee also reserves the right to terminate any contestants found cheating or in violation of the rules.

10. A confirmation of the contestant’s eligibility to participate in the Contest will be emailed to the registered email.

11. Please register by sending an email to:

mr.michaelfun@gmail.com with all the relevant information as mentioned in Rule 2.

12. Please submit all enquiries or need of assistance to the same email address: mr.michaelfun@gmail.com.