prizes have changed under the current administration, as tabulated below. in march 2012, a reusable grocery bag was introduced as a new runner-up prize; just weeks later, the empress switched to a new first-place statue, the "inkin' memorial" (an abraham lincoln bobblehead) from the original "inker" (a bookend of the thinker with a paper bag over its head) after the bookends went out of manufacture. in 2017, a new trophy, the “lose cannon”, replaced the “inkin’ memorial”, when it too became unavailable.