
Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
doin' the math, there were 550k puzzles, sold at $24.99 each. Let's say they made $10 profit from each one? That's $5.5m, and total prize pool was $1,437,500. I'm guessing they didn't sell _all_ the puzzles though, so perhaps around $3m / $4m? And minus cost of production.