Yes, this is a bit self-indulgent; please don’t point this out to us.

Our commenters occasionally inquire about DCist’s daily readership (most recently in the discussion following yesterday’s Ticket Love post). It’s not too tricky to find rough estimates on the interweb, but we decided to answer the question definitively, sort of. Because contests are fun, we’re announcing our own personal jelly bean jar: in the comments section, leave us your best guess as to the number of daily unique site visits DCist receives (for the answer, we’ll take last week’s average). Be sure to plug in a valid email address, or we won’t be able to get you your prize, a free DCist t-shirt. Multiple entries will be disqualified.

The contest will close at noon tomorrow. Let the guessing begin.