The 2006 competition was organized by Greg Boettcher.

Voting ended on April 23, 2006. The results are below. If you haven't already played the games, you can download them further below.

Thanks to all the voters. Congratulations to all the entrants.

Place	Game	Author	Avg.	Std. Dev.	No. Votes	Prize Chosen
1	De Baron/The Baron	Victor Gijsbers	6.79	1.89	14	$200.00
2	The Potter and the Mould	Robert Street	6.64	1.91	14	$97.40
3	Pantomime	Robb Sherwin	6.29	1.54	14	$40.00
4	The Warlord, The Princess & The Bulldog	David Whyld	5.93	2.02	14	3 Windows games

SpringThing2006.zip	All four games in one archive		740 kb	ST.net	ST.net Mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
baron.zip	De Baron/The Baron by Victor Gijsbers	Z-Code	324 kb	ST.net	ST.net Mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
mould.zip	The Potter and the Mould by Robert Street	ADRIFT	125 kb	ST.net	ST.net Mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
pmime.hex	Pantomime by Robb Sherwin	Hugo	242 kb	ST.net	ST.net Mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
warlord.zip	The Warlord, The Princess & The Bulldog by David Whyld	ADRIFT	197 kb	ST.net	ST.net Mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
readme.txt			3 kb	ST.net	ST.net Mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror

You'll need an interpreter to play these games. Actually, you'll need more than one interpreter, one for each game type (ADRIFT, Hugo, and Z-Code). To find out which interpreters are best for your system, consult ifwiki.org's list of IF interpreters.

The Spring Thing would like to thank the following people:

Adam Cadre, for starting the competition;
Mike Snyder, for writing the voting program;
Peter Seebach, for hosting and technical help;
Stephen Granade, for occasional advice; and
all of the prize donors, for their generosity. here here

Obviously, the general purpose of Spring Thing is to promote interactive fiction. More specifically, there are three aims that make Spring Thing different from the annual IF Comp:

1. To provide a place for promoting medium-sized to long works of interactive fiction.
2. To provide some springtime relief to the dry season between the autumn deluges of the IF Comp.
3. To encourage excellence and discourage shoddiness. (The entry fee seems to be fairly effective for this purpose, usually weeding out substandard games.