Hi, it's me again! It's back! I got to know this forum game from another forum, and ran it for a few months in 2015. It ended because I failed to wrap up the last round I was hosting, as it included a question with rather elaborate scoring, and I wasn't able to work out the maths. This time, I have decided to keep it simple. Moreover, I have written a program to do the calculations for me, and write the results for me too. The essence of the game is as follows: there is a question. You give an answer. You get points in proportion to how popular your answer was. So the goal is to try to think of what other people would answer. For example, the results for the question "Name a block in Minecraft" could be as following: 1: Dirt (Egeau, TomvanWijnen, Equinox_Boss) 1: Stone (Kephras, AncientTower, Hashhog) 0.66: Grass (ShelLuser, Joy_the_Miner) 0.33: Block of Gold (ForeverMaster) 0.33: Stone Slab (Unoski) The goal is to get the most points over all questions in a round. There is one important rule: do not talk about the questions or your answers with anyone except me until the round is over. This would be a form of cheating. That should be enough to understand the game, but if you wonder about the details, you can find some extra rules in the spoiler. The answer you give does not have to be correct. If the question is "During what month of pregnancy does a woman begin to look pregnant" and the most popular answer is 'September', then everyone who answered September will get 1 point, despite it being a nonsensical answer. You are allowed to do a web search before giving your answer, to avoid frustrating situations where you don't know enough about the subject to answer (on the other forum we once had the question "Name a species of parrot", and I couldn't think of any ). You are not allowed to search through Season 1 rounds, or look for the game on the other forum, or look for the same question in the original tv series et cetera. You are also not allowed to consult other people, such as family members. If there are synonyms among the answers, these are added together. For example, if some people say 'cinema' and some people say 'movie theatre', these will count as the same answer. If there are hypernyms among the answers, these remain separate. For example, if some people say 'bird' and some people say 'duck', these will count as different answers. I will post the first round in the next post! (in my next post, that is; I don't mind if you get in a post before me )
Round 1 Reminder: the goal is to give the most popular answer, not the most unique or most 'right' one. Name a block in Minecraft. Name a species of bird. Name a Lego product line. Name a Minecraft developer. Name a novel author. Name a country in Asia. Name an EMC XenForo style. Name a device you might plug into your pc. Name a Pokémon. How old are you? Also remember that you are not allowed to ask questions or talk about this round with anyone except myself. If you don't understand something, send me a pm. To submit your answers, also send me a pm. If we already have a pm, feel free to use that if you can find it; you are also free to start a new one. If you have thoughts behind some questions, are uncertain on a question, or want to elaborate on the process behind arriving at your answer, comments are welcome in the pm! I might use them to spice up the results post. Just make sure it is clear what's the final answer. Enjoy!! I'll write down my own answers somewhere now, so we can see how I would have done.
Very low attendance so far. I'm sorry, but I will not set a deadline! I will however, announce prizes. First place wins 50k, second place wins 25k, and third place wins 15k. In addition, everyone gets their score's worth rounded to the nearest integer in Club Points.
Bump; the (non-existent) counter is at four entries. I am waiting until I get 10, I hope we'll get there.
I already have more submissions from the other forum than from this one! And the other forum has 2100 members and this forum 121000.
Ah, I thought Rhy randomly decided to join, but I see that Sky bumped it. We're still not there yet! And even if we get there, I'm not too hopeful for the future of the game: on the other forum, more people joined on the first round than on any following rounds.
I've decided that I will post the results of the round, even if no more people join. That seems nicer for the people who did.
I think I got all the entries... let me know if you joined and I didn't take your answers, and I'll redo the script. Usually I put in funny answers with the results, but this time Uber_Corq was the only one who included anything other than his actual answers, so there's not much material to do this. Results 1. Name a block in Minecraft. 1: Dirt (Egeau, Uber_Corq, Rhythmically) 0.33: Double smooth stone slab (wafflecoffee) 0.33: Smooth stone slab (Unoski) 0.33: Cobblestone (SunnyStriker) 0.33: Netherrack (Fred_TWK) 2. Name a species of bird. 1: Eagle (Egeau, Unoski) 1: Parrot (Uber_Corq, Rhythmically) 0.5: Cock-a-doodle-doo! (wafflecoffee) 0.5: Crow (SunnyStriker) 0.5: Bald Eagle (Fred_TWK) 3. Name a Lego product line 1: Lego City (Egeau, Unoski) 1: Star Wars (Uber_Corq, SunnyStriker) 0.5: Star Track (wafflecoffee) 0.5: Technic (Fred_TWK) 0.5: Bionicle (Rhythmically) 4. Name a Minecraft developer. 1: Notch (Unoski, Uber_Corq, SunnyStriker, Fred_TWK, Rhythmically) 0.2: Jeb Bush (wafflecoffee) 0.2: Jeb_ (Egeau) 5. Name a novel author. 1: J.R.R. Tolkien (Unoski, Fred_TWK) 1: J.K. Rowling (SunnyStriker, Rhythmically) 0.5: Ow. (wafflecoffee) 0.5: Stephen King (Egeau) 0.5: Dickens (Uber_Corq) 6. Name a country in Asia. 1: China (Egeau, Uber_Corq, Rhythmically) 0.67: Asia (wafflecoffee, Unoski) 0.67: Japan (SunnyStriker, Fred_TWK) 7. Name an EMC XenForo style. 1: Dark - Orange (Egeau, Uber_Corq, Fred_TWK) 0.67: Dark - Blue (Unoski, SunnyStriker) 0.33: English - 24h (wafflecoffee) 0.33: Dark - Rainbow (WIP) (Rhythmically) 8. Name a device you might plug into your pc. 1: Mouse (Egeau, Fred_TWK) 0.5: USA type B (wafflecoffee) 0.5: Monitor (Unoski) 0.5: Keyboard (Uber_Corq) 0.5: Flash Drive (SunnyStriker) 0.5: Phone (Rhythmically) 9. Name a Pokémon. 1: Pikachu (Unoski, Uber_Corq, SunnyStriker, Fred_TWK) 0.5: Charizard (Egeau, Rhythmically) 0.25: Waricona (wafflecoffee) 10. How old are you? 1: 18 (Egeau, Uber_Corq, Rhythmically) 0.33: Three and five sevenths (wafflecoffee) 0.33: 13 (Unoski) 0.33: 15 (SunnyStriker) 0.33: old (Fred_TWK) Ranking 1. Uber_Corq (9 points) 2. Egeau (8.2 points) 3. Rhythmically (7.83 points) 4. Unoski (7.5 points) 5. Fred_TWK (7.33 points) 6. SunnyStriker (7 points) 7. wafflecoffee (4.12 points) I hope you enjoyed! I'm sorry that this didn't catch on, as I would've loved to do more rounds, but most people don't seem to care about it, and we don't have a big enough playerbase anymore to get plenty of entries anyway. Oh well! I do recall that back in the day I did have to bug players who joined in previous rounds to join again.
