User blog comment:BonesMcGee/Brainstorm: Potential savings in using the hurry hatch trick/@comment-5433714-20120913065057/@comment-5355974-20120913191445

Hey Lady Sarah,

My wife and I also started experimenting with 12HH eggs yesterday. If I had to describe the whole idea in a word it would be...masochistic. It is by far the worst idea we've ever had! Yet, for reasons unbeknownst to us, we did it for hours on end and will likely try it again this weekend.

So far, only my wife had any success. It took her about 2 hours or more to do 35 tries and she got a Spinosaurus. Over the next 100 tries or so for her she did not get any more rare 12HHs but she did get a Kentro, a Cory, and a Bambiraptor (10HH eggs).

I had no rare 12HH eggs at all, but on my 56th attempt I got a 10HH Bambiraptor! My first! So I stopped at that point.

Going back to your last question, how do we count these? You are on the right track. Basically what I did for my wife is I counted all the 12HH eggs, including her rare Spinosaurus, as "attempts" leading up to her first 10HH egg which I then recorded into the table.

So in your case, yes, you would just add the 23 eggs and the 35 eggs for a total of 58 "reps" for your Protoceratops.

If at some point we start tracking 12HH eggs, we will do so in a separate table so as not to unnecessarily complicate the data analysis.