Can I make a suggestion for the next contest? If you're going to give hints throughout the contest, like you did for this one, you might find a way to reward those who correctly guess without needing the hints. Like, for example, you get your name entered multiple times into the hat for needing fewer hints to get the right answers. Or maybe give a smaller consolation prize to the first person to get the answers right. Just some little incentive to try to correctly answer with the fewest hints and time possible.