Thanks to everyone for participating. I had fun reading your creatively eclectic entries. There were a total of 14 entries and seven entries were correct. The solution is as follows:

The first letter of each word spells out a book title from the Hardy Boys detective series that I enjoyed reading in my younger years. (Actually, I still enjoy reading the series, but I probably shouldn’t admit that.) Also, there is one sentence for each word in the title. Everyone managed to get the first part of the puzzle.

The ten clues in order spelled out the titles of the following books from the series: #1 #4 #1 #5 #9 #2 #6 #5 #3 #5

As you can see, these are the first ten decimals of pi (ie the ratio of a circle’s circumference to the diameter). So, for example, if you want to submit clue #83, you would need to spell out the title of book #2, since the 83rd decimal of pi is 2.

Congratulations to the following people who submitted successful entries:
1. Rebel Sun (thanks for your additional “ineligible response”)
2. Aline
3. dichroic
4. Andy Batangantang
5. Alicia
6. Simon M
7. Jovan

Each person has been randomly assigned an NFL team from one of four games to be played on Oct. 24th. I wrote the names of eight NFL teams on slips of paper and then drew them out one at a time from a ceramic cup. I specifically chose these four games because NFL writer Peter King predicts these four games to be close games on this weekend’s schedule: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/peter_king/10/21/week.7.picks/index.html?eref=sihp. Whichever team wins by the largest margin will win ten bookmooch points for the person who was assigned that team.

1. Rebel Sun (Arizona Cardinals)
2. Aline (New England Patriots)
3. dichroic (Seattle Seahawks)
4. Andy Batangantang (Chicago Bears)
5. Alicia (Washington Redskins)
6. Simon M (San Diego Chargers)
7. Jovan (Tennessee Titans)

Congratulations, Jovan.

Thanks again to everyone for participating. Let's meet up again in the next bookmooch contest.