Dominion Strategy Forum
Miscellaneous => Forum Games => Topic started by: mith on December 13, 2012, 04:33:32 pm
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In Sheep, each player submits 5 answers for each of 10 categories. The goal is to give what you think will be popular answers amongst the other players. Your score for each answer is the number of players (counting yourself) who submit that answer, unless you submit a "Black Sheep" (no one else submitted it) in which case you get nothing. The answers can range from examples of the category ("Eagle" or "Larry" for Bird), to components of the category ("Beak"), to various forms of word association ("Lady" or "Burred"). Answers should not, however, include the category or a part of the category; for example, if the category is Cards, don't submit "Playing Cards", but "Playing" is fine.
Outside research is fine, but no collusion.
I will be lenient with alternate spellings/misspellings, capitalization, and abbreviation. Any other differences will be considered as two different answers. You can hedge if you aren't sure which version others will go for (i.e. for Zen Master you could submit both "Coach Jackson" and "Phil Jackson", and these will be treated as two separate and distinct answers, despite being the same person), though it's not usually wise.
Please submit your answers as follows:
"1. [Category] - [Answer], [Answer], [Answer], [Answer], [Answer]
2. etc."
Categories
1. Ballet
2. Below
3. Bigger than a Breadbox
4. Bonus
5. Botany
6. Brian/Bryan
7. Bridge
8. British
9. Britney Spears
10. Buddhism
Deadline is one week from this post.
Players
Kuildeous
shraeye
Grujah
yuma
jotheonah
cayvie
Galzria
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It may be wise to wait until the results for game A are posted to see what sort of answers are popular, but I figured you could go ahead and start thinking about this week's categories.
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PPE: Ninja
I'm gonna wait until A publishes to see if I'm any good at this before entering this one. :P
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Probably out, these words look hard. D:
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Oh hey, sheep game B has all B words and sheep game A had all A words. I did not notice that before!
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Oh hey, sheep game B has all B words and sheep game A had all A words. I did not notice that before!
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really?
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Oh hey, sheep game B has all B words and sheep game A had all A words. I did not notice that before!
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really?
Yeah really. :-[
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Well, it's unlikely I'll do even worse than I did the last time.
And some of these categories look really hard to get a lot of points on. I may even do better. Will think up some things.
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And some of these categories look really hard to get a lot of points on.
Just wait 'til I get to the Zs...
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I can't decide whether (3) or (9) will have the most amusing answer set.
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Note: I am going to disallow "ballerina" as a possible answer for "Ballet", under the don't include the category/part of the category clause.
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Hooray for contingency plans!
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Is the plural form of a word considered a different answer from its singular form?
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Yes.
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inning
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in
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Will probably in, Mith PM me now to remind me when I get up tomorrow :P
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in - can't really get any worse.
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/in I'll send later.
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Is the plural form of a word considered a different answer from its singular form?
yeah i missed 7 points by submitting Olympic instead of Olympics last game
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okay that's not really pluralization but still
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Only five in so far...
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i'm in, yeah?
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One more day... Going to be a low scoring game at this rate!
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i'm in
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One more day... Going to be a low scoring game at this rate!
Man, this is a lot of effort on my mobile, but I keep meaning to send in. I'll try to shoot a PM out tonight.
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Not going to have a chance to post results until tomorrow, so I'll leave this open until then.
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Forgot all about this. Will try to get the results up today.
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I'm actually eager to see the results.
Especially since there were some words that I can't imagine scored me any points, but I'm anxious to see.
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??
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Sorry, computer troubles, grr.
Results! (No fancy answer sheet, yet.)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al5tXBExrSovdFR6VlVRREJmWDZ4bUViNkFCdW4zbnc
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I'll continue with game C once we're a week or two into 2013... (And then we'll see whether participation suffered here because of the time of year, lack of interest, of perceived difficulty...)
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I'm happy with second place... not as happy with the low number of participants.
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Difficulty does seem higher with this batch of words.
Though, yay for lots of Monty Python fans.
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I'm Bad at this.
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cayvie, thank you for also responding to "Botany" with "Bay"
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cayvie, thank you for also responding to "Botany" with "Bay"
how do you see the individual lists?
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there's another sheet
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oh come on
"What's My Line"
and
"What's My Line?"
are being counted as different?
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oh come on
"What's My Line"
and
"What's My Line?"
are being counted as different?
So are "Plant" and "Plants" for Botany. I mean, I get that "Plant Science" and "Science" are different, but... Ouch!
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"Buy" and "+Buy" for Bridge, hilarious
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also nobody agreed on what to call Siddhartha Gautama
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ok griping aside, there does seem to be legitimate inconsistency in the rulings
Eightfold Path/8-Fold Path are treated as the same
but Twenty Questions and 20 Questions aren't
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Just missed that one. Fixing.
As for What's My Line, "I will be lenient with alternate spellings/misspellings, capitalization, and abbreviation. Any other differences will be considered as two different answers."
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I won! crazy!
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I had no idea what "Bigger than a Breadbox" was, so I just named stuff that are bigger, like, Moon, Sun, Earth and Elephant. I see nobody else has done it.
;D
I suck utterly. :-[
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I had no idea what "Bigger than a Breadbox" was, so I just named stuff that are bigger, like, Moon, Sun, Earth and Elephant. I see nobody else has done it.
;D
I suck utterly. :-[
That word was actually the reason I didnt join this game. I'll play again in the next one despite my ultimate suckitude if I only know the meaning of all the words.
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Aside from the What's My Line? reference, it's common in Twenty Questions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Questions).