New Year Card lotto

[GomiGirl]

Can anybody share the link that shows what numbers have won? Not that I expect to, but I have never checked before as I haven't known where to look.

[Mulboyne]

I'm not sure which lottery you are in but there are numbers here and here.

[omae mona]

[omae mona]

I posted the winning numbers & prizes over in the main nengajo thread. Hope this helps!

[dimwit]

God I usually only bother to look at the numbers when I figure I might be able to get free stamps, but than again the effort of actually looking through the cards and bothering to walk up to the post office to collect them seems only a slight improvement in time wastage from playing video games.

By the way, what is the top prize these days; a Sony Walkman or a Sega Saturn or some such thing found in lost in found Gumma?

[omae mona]

[quote="dimwit"]By the way, what is the top prize these days]
It's all listed on the message I posted (follow the link).

[GomiGirl]

Thanks OM - I didn't win sadly. Now what to do with all the cards. There are some great ones I received - yours was fab OM actually. What software did you use to make it? Can you just input a xls with all the names and addresses in and print them off? It seems that most people these days are using home created cards which look great and the printing of the addresses makes light work of addressing everything in Kanji. I sent out christmas cards and used a basic mail merge for the envelopes but most of my cards were going off-shore so postcards wouldn't have worked.

[omae mona]

Thanks OM - I didn't win sadly. Now what to do with all the cards. There are some great ones I received - yours was fab OM actually. What software did you use to make it? Can you just input a xls with all the names and addresses in and print them off? It seems that most people these days are using home created cards which look great and the printing of the addresses makes light work of addressing everything in Kanji. I sent out christmas cards and used a basic mail merge for the envelopes but most of my cards were going off-shore so postcards wouldn't have worked.

Sorry you didn't win. Don't forget to check blank postcards you didn't use, if you have any left over. Apparently you can claim those as well. I checked mine and still didn't win.

My software is Microsoft Hagaki Studio 2007, which has sadly been discontinued as far as I can tell (no 2008 or 2009 version). It does accept imported address books in lots of different formats. I assume the other pieces of nengajo software all have similar functionality, though. The one thing is that these are all completely specialized for Japan, so operation is a real pain if you're not very comfortable reading manuals and using software all in Japanese.

The Microsoft Hagaki Studio software does a lot of things I like. It knows the exact layout of the pre-printed nengajo postcards, so it even knows how to dump the postal code into the 7 little boxes. It has hundreds of pre-canned greetings, saving me from having to google for a nice thing to say in Japanese. And it has tons of clip art including cheesy seasonal illustrations related to the appropriate year (it had 2009, Year Of The Ox available, and I think my 2007 version goes up through 2010).

I created a separate layout for overseas postcards, since I could not use the domestic pre-paid postcards, and didn't want to print things vertically or in Kanji. Just taught the software how to lay out foreign addresses, and associated this alternative layout with all the non-Japan contacts in the address book.

[dimwit]

It's all listed on the message I posted (follow the link).

I was being facetious. The point being that for all the swag they pull in, one would think they might offer some prizes that you couldn't actually buy with money in your wallet.

[omae mona]

I was being facetious. The point being that for all the swag they pull in, one would think they might offer some prizes that you couldn't actually buy with money in your wallet.

Sorry, irony detector was malfunctioning. Still, what kind of prizes were you thinking of? In the other thread Greji already suggested an evening with Noriko, but we already know she's overbooked.

[dimwit]

Sorry, irony detector was malfunctioning. Still, what kind of prizes were you thinking of? In the other thread Greji already suggested an evening with Noriko, but we already know she's overbooked.

Maybe it's the weather but the I.D. seems to be failing on a few people lately.
As for prizes I dunno, maybe something like a car. Toyota doesn't seem to be selling many of them lately