This is a game I invented and ran in a game forum years ago. As it was quite successful I'm resurecting it here:
The rules are simple:
Each time a new round starts I come up with a new secret rule/set of rules for that round.
Participants post some text (please limit to 2 lines max per post). The text can be anything, but actual sentences are cooler than just strings of characters.
I then give each post a number of points based on the secret rule/rules for that round.
The object is to figure out the secret rule(s) and post the correct answer first.
Please begin such solution posts with "SOLUTION:" to avoid confusion. Oh, and also please only post a single solution at a time and wait for the host's reply before posting another. Multiple solutions in a single post will be ignored.
A basic example:Player A's post: The pope walks into a bar and orders a drink.
Host's post: 5 pts
Player B's post: I don't understand how to play this game. Can you explain again?
Host's post: 7 pts
Player C's post: SOLUTION: One point is given for each letter "a" in the post.
Host's post: Player C is correct! New round starts!
This was only a basic example for clarity. Actual rounds will get more complex than just counting up a certain letter.
Feel free to post even if there are already posts waiting on scores: I will get to them all together.
At first I think I will run the game as Host for a few rounds until everyone is up to speed and then open it up for others to host.
ROUND #1 BEGINS NOW!The Leaderboard below shows how many times the player named has won a round:
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Stupot: 4
AnasAbdin: 2
Wyz: 1
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I'm also going to try to keep track of every rule-set that has been solved so there is not a lot of repetition:
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Round #1: One point for every two-letter word.
Round #2: One point for every letter that has a tail.
Round #3: One point for every common noun.
Round #4: One point for each "h" added to another letter if that changes its pronunciation.
Round #5: One point for every word containing three or more different vowels.
Round #6: One point for each consecutive letter in alphabetical order, spaces disregarded.
Round #7: One point for each time the last english alphabet letter in the previous non-host post appears in the post being scored.
Round #8:
Round #9:
So this is the begining!
Or at least a new reboot of something begun long ago!
selmiak: 2 pts
Baron: 3 pts
I have a sneaking suspicion this will score 5.
Gurok: 0 pts
Solution(?): Is it that one point is being scored for every two-letter word?
Quote from: Stupot+ on Fri 18/09/2015 07:57:38
Solution(?): Is it that one point is being scored for every two-letter word?
Correct!!! (Easy rounds to start with of course, but well done!)
Round #2 Begins!
Round 2 entry:
I am confused, is the rule now set by Mandle or Stupot+
I would guess Mandle from the opening post?
AnasAbdin: 3pts
Intense Degree: 4 pts
SOLUTION: One point is given for each word containing more than 4 letters in the post?
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Fri 18/09/2015 11:35:19
SOLUTION: One point is given for each word containing more than 4 letters in the post?
Nope.
Solution - one point for each occurrence of the letter "e"?
GAH I can't count... :-[
Should I post something else to improve the chance of successfully finding an answer?
Perhaps you should!
Are you counting all words in a post, including Anas's "Round 2 entry:" part, or would that be omitted from play?
Crimson Wizard: 5pts
CaptainD: 2 pts
Stupot: 8 pts
RULE CLARIFICATION: The entirity of every post except for ones beginning with the word Solution (or those exceeding the maximum of 2 lines) are tallied...
EDIT: OOPS!!! Sorry...Stupot's score was actually 8 pts....not 7 pts ....I goofed....
Either Mandle can't count or I still have no clue on how CaptainD can have 2pts or...
I've got a theory, but it doesn't quite work with one of the posts, so I'm going to save it.
Cassiebsg: 2 pts
Stupot: 6 pts
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GAME UPDATE: I've added a Leaderboard to this game which will be updated after each win, and on the main post (hopefully faithfully over time but only time will tell...)
Here is the current Leaderboard which shows how many times each player appearing on it has won a round:
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Stupot: 1
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(Also, I am going to just refer to Stupot+ as "Stupot" because the plus sign looks like it adds up the points both in the game and on the Leaderboard each time and gets confusing...which I'm sure was his intent when he created his AGS account in the first place... :P )
Quote from: Stupot+ on Fri 18/09/2015 15:01:15
Are you counting all words in a post, including Anas's "Round 2 entry:" part, or would that be omitted from play?
OOPS!!! Sorry...Stupot's score for this post was actually 8 pts....not 7 pts ....I goofed....
Original post has been updated...
In that case...
Solution: one point is given for every character that has a tail (such as lower case g, j, p, q, y)
Also, 'Stupot' is fine. It is my official account name. I added the + when Google+ was launched and I never got around to undoing it. Probably should soon.
Quote from: Stupot+ on Sun 20/09/2015 04:31:09
Also, 'Stupot' is fine. It is my official account name. I added the + when Google+ was launched and I never got around to undoing it. Probably should soon.
please don't :(
Quote from: Stupot+ on Sun 20/09/2015 04:31:09
Solution: one point is given for every character that has a tail (such as lower case g, j, p, q, y)
Correct!!!
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Stupot: 2
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Round #3 Begins! (And I will try real hard not to goof this time around...)
(Yeah, I'm still hosting it...I probably will host up until about Round #10 or so and then hand hosting over to Leaderboard members if they want it...Exact system is still not decided...)
Hurray for a new round! Cause I still can't get Stupot's solution to work. (roll)(laugh)
Quote from: Mandle on Fri 18/09/2015 15:40:52
EDIT: OOPS!!! Sorry...Stupot's score was actually 8 pts....not 7 pts ....I goofed....
HEY! Your goof cost me a headache >:(
*demands a recount*
"You look awfully pale" said the carrot to the parsnip.
Cassiebsg: 2 pts
AnasAbdin: POST EXCEEDS 2 LINES
selmiak: 1 pt
Wyz: 2 pts
(Oh...and I sent out a few mails but if anyone else was on the right track but my goof threw them off then please message me and I will award 1 score on the Leaderboard. This offer stands whether you posted in the thread or not. Honour system of course...)
Okay!! I'm not going to argue with Mandle ;P
AnasAbdin: 0 pts
What if the bait eats the fish?
Valent Jaineshon: 2 pts
You're twisting my melon, man.
Stupot: 2 pts
The result of this sentence should tell me the answer.
Stupot: 3pts
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Solution: Is it one point given for every common noun? (Not including proper nouns or pronouns, it seems to fit.)
Quote from: Stupot+ on Mon 21/09/2015 06:29:10
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Solution: Is it one point given for every common noun? (Not including proper nouns or pronouns, it seems to fit.)
Well done!!! That is correct!
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Stupot: 3
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ROUND #4 BEGINS!!!
A hamburger walks into a bar, and the bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve food here".
Gurok: 1 pt
You just reminded me to update the AGS Chef topic with the awesome burgers I made yesterday
AnasAbdin: 4 pts
Spoiler
Solution: Is it one point given for every letter with an overdot?
Seems like I now need to learn grammar!
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Mon 21/09/2015 09:22:33
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Solution: Is it one point given for every letter with an overdot?
Nope.
Cassiebsg: 0 pts
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Solution: Is it one point given for every letter I?
forget it... just saw Cassiebsg line...
:-\
However...
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Solution: Is it one point given for each capital letter not in the beginning of the line?
DAMMIT CASSIEBSG!!!
Solution: 1 point for every u used?
Quote from: Cassiebsg on Mon 21/09/2015 13:34:03
Solution: 1 point for every u used?
Sorry but nope...Very nice try though! It does fit all the evidence so far...
(Also I will mention that when I ran this game before I had a lot of people complain that their solution fit the evidence to date and therefore should be counted as a win. I had to point out that further testing would disprove their solution and therefore it is not a win. Thankfully this community is much smarter than that one was and I probably don't even need to be mentioning this...So I now go shut up my face...)
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
It was only a matter of time until someone posted a pangram; I was very much tempted to do so as well but fought off the urges.
No worry Mandle, just cause it fits, doesn't mean it's the right solution.
Poor Mandle has a lot of entries to tally right now. I really do not want to be a burden so I will try to be as brief as possible. Oh wait.. he is probably counting this too. Oops! Sorry man I will stop typing in one.. two.. two and a half.. THREE!
Stupot: 2pts
Wyz: 1 pt
Cassiebsg: 1 pt
AnasAbdin: POST EXCEEDS 2 LINES :P
Quote from: Mandle on Tue 22/09/2015 09:51:14
AnasAbdin: POST EXCEEDS 2 LINES :P
Yeah yeah narrow your window
AnasAbdin: POST EXCEEDS 2 LINES
(I'm not trying to be an asshole about it either...It's just that every time you post something including a quote it automatically is more than two lines including the whose quote line was it above the quote itself...Please don't do this...I'm just trying to run a simple forums game here for hopefully some fun...Also your long post before went over my line limit by exactly the word "THREE" and I thought the meaning of this was that you were aiming to go exactly over the line limit of three by having the word "THREE" right there in the prohibited line...I guess that wasn't the joke then?)
Uhm. How do you determine 2 lines? How many characters are there exactly? Cause I can fit it 2 lines... actually 1 if I stretch my browser window enough.
Actually this is even better than the intended joke! I also know about the quote rule so no worries mate. We just need to set a rule about emoticons.
Cassiebsg: 4 pts 3 pts (SORRY...MY BAD)
AnasAbdin: 4 pts
Give us a clue.
Stupot: 0 pts
(Every time someone posts something and I give a score it is a clue ;) )
Hahahahahaha
AnasAbdin: 0pts
So, what is everyone doing this weekend?
Counting words and letters and nouns I guess?
Well my 'give us a clue' above yielded 0 points, so we know that it isn't verbs, pronouns, indefinite articles or nouns being counted (at least, not in those forms).
I'd probably never guess this game IMO. Gah!
Shit..
Playing with LEGO :)
Uhm. How do you determine 2 lines? How many characters are there exactly?
In order of posting:
Stupot: 1 pt
cat: 0 pts
Stupot: 2 pts
ManicMatt: 2 pts
Cassiebsg: 1 pt
Baron:
2pts 1 pt (SORRY...MY BAD)
To answer Baron's question:
Vague Answer:
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It's whatever two lines looks like on my setup. The main reason for the rule is that when I last ran this game somebody posted an entire chapter of a novel and expected me to score it. When I said "no way" the person called me out for breaking my own game rules...Obvious troll is obvious right? But I learned my lesson...And seriously, is there any need to post more than a simple sentence or two which will never exceed two lines except to troll the game host? The character count for two lines also varies due to font and the fact that characters take up different amounts of space. Does anyone really want to count up all their characters to make sure they are within the limit or just let common sense rule for now...?
Precise Answer:
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200 characters exactly!
this game is going to be a disaster when others start taking over the rounds
AnasAbdin: 3 pts
Hm, shall we go the mastermind approach and replace single words to see what affects points and what not?
cat: 3pts
Hm, could we go the mastermind approach and replace single words to see what affects points and what not?
Gurok: 2 pts
SOLUTION: It's double letters.
Ignore that. Doesn't really fit with some other clues.
Hm, shall we go the mastermind way and replace single words to see what affects points and what not?
Hm, could we go the mastermind approach and replace individual words to see what affects points and what not?
AnasAbdin: 2 pts
Stupot: 2 pts
single individual shall approach (laugh)
I have no idea.
Hm, hm, could we go go the mastermind mind approach and replace individual words to see see what affects points and what not not?
Hm, hm, hm, could we go go the mastermind mind approach and replace individual words to see see what affects points and what not not?
Bananas!
AnasAbdin: 2pts
Stupot: 0 pts
ManicMatt: 2 pts
selmiak: 2 pts
Wyz: 0 pts
I'm liking the team effort even though only one person will get the point.
Hm, shall shall we go the mastermind approach and replace single words to see what affects points and what not?
Stupot: 3pts
Baron: 4pts
Shall
Stupot: 1pt
Shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall
AnasAbdin: 33pts
Shall I answer this?
Stupot: 2 pts
Mandle
Shell
Solution (?) is it one point for every 'th' 'ch' and 'sh'?
AnasAbdin: 0 pts
Cassiebsg: 1 pt
Stupot: Nope
Quote from: Baron on Sat 26/09/2015 04:23:59
Uhm. How do you determine 2 lines? How many characters are there exactly?
And sorry...I screwed up slightly again...
I originally scored this post as 2pts.
It should actually be 1 pt...
Correcting original score as well...
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Aw shit...Caught another slip-up:
Quote from: Cassiebsg on Tue 22/09/2015 15:53:51
Uhm. How do you determine 2 lines? How many characters are there exactly? Cause I can fit it 2 lines... actually 1 if I stretch my browser window enough.
Originally scored as 4 pts but should be 3 pts...
Original post updated...
Sorry guys once again. It's starting to feel like debugging a game... :-[
Solution: One point for a repeated cluster of ascenders or descenders.
Let me tidy things a little:
1pt A hamburger walks into a bar, and the bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve food here".
4pts You just reminded me to update the AGS Chef topic with the awesome burgers I made yesterday
0pts Seems like I now need to learn grammar!
2pts The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1pt It was only a matter of time until someone posted a pangram; I was very much tempted to do so as well but fought off the urges.
1pt No worry Mandle, just cause it fits, doesn't mean it's the right solution.
3pts Uhm. How do you determine 2 lines? How many characters are there exactly? Cause I can fit it 2 lines... actually 1 if I stretch my browser window enough.
4pts Actually this is even better than the intended joke! I also know about the quote rule so no worries mate. We just need to set a rule about emoticons.
0pts Give us a clue.
0pts Hahahahahaha
1pt So, what is everyone doing this weekend?
0pts Counting words and letters and nouns I guess?
2pts Well my 'give us a clue' above yielded 0 points, so we know that it isn't verbs, pronouns, indefinite articles or nouns being counted (at least, not in those forms).
2pts I'd probably never guess this game IMO. Gah! Shit..
1pt Playing with LEGO :)
1pt Uhm. How do you determine 2 lines? How many characters are there exactly?
3pts this game is going to be a disaster when others start taking over the rounds
3pts Hm, shall we go the mastermind approach and replace single words to see what affects points and what not?
2pts Hm, could we go the mastermind approach and replace single words to see what affects points and what not?
2pts Hm, shall we go the mastermind way and replace single words to see what affects points and what not?
2pts Hm, could we go the mastermind approach and replace individual words to see what affects points and what not?
2pts single individual shall approach (laugh)
0pts I have no idea.
2pts Hm, hm, could we go go the mastermind mind approach and replace individual words to see see what affects points and what not not?
2pts Hm, hm, hm, could we go go the mastermind mind approach and replace individual words to see see what affects points and what not not?
0pts Bananas!
3pts I'm liking the team effort even though only one person will get the point.
4pts Hm, shall shall we go the mastermind approach and replace single words to see what affects points and what not?
1pt Shall
33pts Shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall shall
2pts Shall I answer this?
0pts Mandle
1pt Shell
3pts * Cassiebsg consults wikipedia for the second time to check what "digraph" and "ascenders or descenders" mean... (roll)
5pts Shall Shell Sholl Shill Shull
4pts She sells seashells on the sea shore.
5pts ShallShellShollShillShull
3pts Shll Shll Shll
11pts Which shell shall the churlish chandler whisk thoughtfully through the graph?
3pts I feel like I was close with my last guess. But there's something more to it.
3pts phantom pharaoh elephant
2pts I'm pretty sure 'wh' isn't being counted, but let me check so it can be eliminated Who what when where why?
0pts what
1pt who
It's not..
Solution: Is it one point given for every letter with an overdot?
Solution: 1 point for every u used?
SOLUTION: It's double letters.
Solution (?) is it one point for every 'th' 'ch' and 'sh'?
Solution: is it 1 point for each digraph?
Solution: is it 1 point for each word containing a digraph?
Solution: is it 1pt for every two letters combo that are pronounced in a way that there is no single English letter with the same pronunciation?
Solution: Is it 1pt for every word containing a digraph with an 'h' being the second letter?
Solution : 1 point for each consonant digraph?
Solution: 1pt for each Consonant Blend?
Solution: is it 1 point for each digraph?
Solution: is it 1 point for each word containing a digraph?
/me consults wikipedia for the second time to check what "digraph" and "ascenders or descenders" mean... (roll)
Shall Shell Sholl Shill Shull
She sells seashells on the sea shore.
(In order since my last post)
Wyz: Nope
AnasAbdin: POST EXCEEDS 2 LINES (Hehe...just kidding mate. Thanks for tidying up. I was thinking to do the same today but you have saved me the job. Cheers!)
AnasAbdin: Nope
cat: Nope
Cassiebsg: 3 pts
selmiak: 5 pts
Stupot: 4 pts
ShallShellShollShillShull
Shll Shll Shll
Which shell shall the churlish chandler whisk thoughtfully through the graph?
selmiak: 5 pts
selmiak: 3 pts
Baron: 11 pts
I feel like I was close with my last guess. But there's something more to it.
phantom pharaoh elephant
Solution: is it 1pt for every two letters combo that are pronounced in a way that there is no single English letter with the same pronunciation?
Stupot: 3pts
AnasAbdin: 3pts
AnasAbdin: Nope
Solution: Is it 1pt for every word containing a digraph with an 'h' being the second letter?
AnasAbdin: Nope
Solution : 1 point for each consonant digraph?
I'm pretty sure 'wh' isn't being counted, but let me check so it can be eliminated Who what when where why?
Creamy: Nope
Stupot: 2 pts
what
Solution: 1pt for each Consonant Blend?
AnasAbdin: 0pts
AnasAbdin: Nope
who 8-0
AnasAbdin: 1 pt
Solution: is it 1pt when 'h' is added to a letter and changes its pronunciation?
Spoiler
:~(
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Tue 29/09/2015 11:23:39
Solution: is it 1pt when 'h' is added to a letter and changes its pronunciation?
Spoiler
:~(
CORRECT!!!Spoiler
Well...also combinations that became silent were not counted (for example the "gh" in "though"), but I think it can be argued that your words "changes its pronunciation" cover this in that such cases do not have a pronunciation so it could not really be said that the pronunciation has "changed". It's semantics but it works for me! GOOD WIN!!!
The point where I screwed up and had to change two scores kinda acted as a potential major hint in that:
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The word in both cases that I screwed up on was "characters" as I was adding the scores in a hurry and forgot to consider the pronunciation of the "ch" (silent ch) which was why I had to subtract a point in both cases...Sorry for that again, but the fact that it may have provided an unintentional clue moreso than hindering the round made up for it a bit I thought (laugh)
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Stupot: 3
AnasAbdin: 1
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ROUND #5 BEGINS!!!
Wow, that was a hard one. Congrats, AnasAbdin!
For example Sh, th and ch?
Quote from: Stupot+ on Tue 29/09/2015 12:32:33
For example Sh, th and ch?
Yes! But also ph and gh(as in "rough" but not as in "through") and wh(as in "who" but not as in "what")so...you were close but not quite there...Also the "ch" was not 100% correct as it would not have been scored in the case of a word like "Christmas"...
You were sooooo close though!
cat: 0pts
Stupot: 0pts
Shenanigans!
OMG! I won! haha thanks.. now let's see if this gets 0 points or more!
Stupot: 1pt
AnasAbdin: 0pts
Quote from: Stupot+ on Tue 29/09/2015 12:40:58
Shenanigans!
Are you joking or do you really think you should have won it with that answer?
It was close but if somebody had posted:
"Christmas characters" for example it would have scored 0pts which your answer did not account for...
Also:
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Here's an example from early on in the thread to show that the solid rule was decided at the start and was not changed during the round as well, in case that was a concern:
Quote from: Wyz on Mon 21/09/2015 16:52:23
It was only a matter of time until someone posted a pangram; I was very much tempted to do so as well but fought off the urges.
Note that this post scored 1 pt for the "th" in "the" and gained no points for the silent "gh" in "fought"...
The only inconsistancies were due to me being an idiot on the word "characters"...
I think you were joking but I really don't want anyone to feel they were cheated out of a win. I'm trying to run the game as if I'm a computer program with really solid and unbreakable rules so that everyone can see at the end of the round why their answer was not the right one or the complete one...And I'm not going to add something like "CLOSE" when somebody gets a partially correct answer because I think that takes away from the pure logic of the game and the players should have to get their hints purely from the scores. Of course I do screw up on the scoring now and then which annoys the shit out of me as well...
No worries mate. I was more enjoying the teamwork of trying to narrow it down. Well done, Anas :-)
Thanks Stu! I literally stopped AGSing because of this thread.
Stupot: 3pts
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(Cool mate...that's a relief...Just me being over-sensitive I think after how much stress I got from butt-hurt players the last time I ran this game in an online-game's forum. It's a pure logic game and I guess I first tried running it in the most purely illogical community imaginable: multiplayer online gamers..Fuckin' zoo I tells ya!)
AnasAbdin: 2pts
O rato roeu a roupa do rei de Roma...
"May I recommend a facial?" said the watermelon to the cantaloupe.
Cassiebsg: 2pts
Wyz: 2pts
A man entered a local newspaper's pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, hoping at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, NO PUN IN TEN DID. *chortle*
Shenaniga!
Gurok: 1pt
Baron: 1pt
Solution: 1pt for each word containing more than 2 different vowels?
edit: added different
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Wed 30/09/2015 08:24:18
Solution: 1pt for each word containing more than 2 different vowels?
edit: added different
CORRECT!!!
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Stupot: 3
AnasAbdin: 2
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ROUND #6 BEGINS!!!
That was quick. So do you make the rules before of after reading a post? :P
AnasAbdin: 2 pts
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I decide on the rules for the next round while the current round is still going (I have a lot of bicycle-riding time to and from work to think about game stuff). Also: I have run this game before so I still kinda remember which rules worked the best to provide interesting rounds while at the same time not having logic faults in the rules themselves which could be called out and cause conflict...GULP...I hope!
Oh, and as a side note:
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Quote from: Gurok on Wed 30/09/2015 03:40:07
A man entered a local newspaper's pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, hoping at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, NO PUN IN TEN DID. *chortle*
I now have my next joke for drinks night with the mates!!! That's hilarious!!! Your original? I never heard that one before...
Another win for you - congrats!
cat: 0pts 1 pt :-D
To make or not to make!
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Cassiebsg: 1pt
AnasAbdin: 1pt
Solution(?) one point for every sentence with a main verb? (Cat's didn't have a verb.)
That joke's not mine, Mandle. It's an old one. Should go down well at a drinks night! :D
Stupot: Nope
Gurok: 3pts
I see a little silhouetto of a man.
Scaramouche! Scaramouche! Will you do the Fandango?
Stupot: 1pt
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Free tip if you record yourself singing that and post the link!!!
And when she knows what she wants from her ti ya yam
AnasAbdin: 0pts
All the points given so far are under the assumption that his highness counted well and didn't goof. I had to get this out of my chest. And now it's out, I'll let HH count.
AnasAbdin: 7pts
not
Baron: 1pt
Solution: number of adverbs?
Baron: Nope
No, not not?
Baron: 3pts
ton?
Nope
cat: 0pts
Stupot: 2pts
I definitely need to study.
Wait, you managed to get 2 points for just one word 8-0
no problem
Stupot: 4pts
cat: 1pt
selmiak: 2pts
Solution: One point for every letter that comes after the letter which precedes it in the alphabet.
(Although I can spy one post that doesn't quite add up)
Quote from: Stupot+ on Fri 02/10/2015 15:49:16
Solution: One point for every letter that comes after the letter which precedes it in the alphabet.
CORRECT!!! And for people who don't speak Stu-Go: One point for each consecutive letter in alphabetical order, spaces disregarded.
Does the post in question add up if you disregard spaces? For example: "Sure friend" is worth 1 pt because of the e and the f.
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Stupot: 4
AnasAbdin: 2
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ROUND #7 BEGINS!!!
Woohoo :-) Point!
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No, the post in question is "Another win for you - congrats!" By cat on page 8
Nice one Stupot! (And I'm not talking about the victory ;))
Ooh, matron.
Awesome stu. And Mandle surely knows what he's doing!
Quote from: Stupot+ on Fri 02/10/2015 23:42:07
Woohoo :-) Point!
Spoiler
No, the post in question is "Another win for you - congrats!" By cat on page 8
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Oh God, I suck...that's like the most obvious one too, and I know I double-checked each time...Oh well: moving on with triple-checks...
Stupot: 3pts (Including whole post)
Baron: 2pts
Stupot: 0pts
AnasAbdin: 4pts
Solution: 1pt for each double u (e.g w, uu, "..u.. ..u") although one post may be wrong but you know Mandle's goofy boofy (wtf)
AnasAbdin: Nope (and I'm now triple checking remember...hehe I can't wait til it's your turn to host...)
Awwwwwwwww you guys will probably kill me after the first round :-D
I've got plans for some evil ones when it's my turn! Mwuuaahahaaa!
AnisAbdin: 3pts
Stupot: 0pts
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And I think this might be my final round for now as host...Mainly for these reasons:
* I suck at hosting my own game...
* Real life boring shit...
* Very eligable hosts have appeared who understand the game and have their own evil plans...
* I want to try playing my own game for once as well all these years after having invented it...I've always been the evil mastermind and never the victim player...I soooo want to play this game!!!
* I'm not sure if I can top this round rule-wise...
I was on track for the last one but messed up my counting on a line so I thought this can't be. Meh!
selmiak: 5pts
Spoiler
I just went back and recounted every score for the 5th time. I'm so gonna make this an error-free round. The logic is solid so far. I must bow out as host on a non-flawed round damnit all to heck!!!
Meh
ZzzzZ
goodnight!
AnasAbdin: 1pt
Cassiebsg: 0pts
selmiak: 0pts
is this related to the wordcount maybe?
I was on track for
the last one but
messed up my
counting on a line
so I thought this can't be.
selmiak: 5pts
Baron: 0pts
Stupot: 0pts
Baron: 0pts
Stupot: 0pts
Baron: 1pt
I was on track. For the last one. But messed up my counting. On a line. So I thought this can't be.
IwasontrackforthelastonebutmessedupmycountingonalinesoIthoughtthiscan'tbeMeh!
AnasAbdin: 6pts
Stupot: 7pts
Iwasontrackforthelastonebutmessedupmyco untingonalinesoIthoughtthiscantbeMeh
AnasAbdin: 5pts
I was thinking about pronouns (hidden in words or not) but I can't make it work with the counts. :(
ihaveafeelingnospaceswouldhelpalittlewiththisround
Wyz: 4pts
AnasAbdin: 3pts
mehmeh
mehmehmeh
meh meh
hem hem
AnasAbdin: 0pts
selmiak: 3pts
AnasAbdin: 2pts
Baron: 2pts
The plot thickens! Meh hem? Mayhem!
Wyz: 4pts
mehmeh mehmehmeh
mehmeh
selmiak: 5pts
Baron: 2pts
e
Wyz: 0pts
(Also...I have just gone back and checked all my scoring for the 6th time right from the start of the round and everything is error-free so far...)
mmeehh
Wyz: 2pts
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Sun 04/10/2015 16:55:22
mehmeh
0 points
Quote from: Baron on Mon 05/10/2015 01:00:39
mehmeh
2 points
There's gotta be some external factor that we're not considering here. Either the user, or the metadata attached to the post.
Errrrr. All this quoting, etc. will probably make for a hard post to add up for points, so I'll just run it over 200 characters to make sure that no one gets confused. La la la-di la, hmmm-hmmmm, ââ,,¢Âª, ââ,,¢Â«, ☺, ta ta titi ta, shawamabing-bang-boom. Hey, has anyone seen The Martian yet? That should do it.
https://youtu.be/oMbEaEEVCfg
mhe mhe
Baron: POST EXCEEDS LIMIT ;)
Stupot: 3 pts
selmiak: 0pts
Oh, and here's your tip as promised Stu:
Spoiler
TIP: Don't give up your day job just yet...
Tidying up.. (with names since I have a feeling the rule either depends on the previous post or the user name... :-\ )
Stupot 3 Woohoo :-) Point! No, the post in question is "Another win for you - congrats!" By cat on page 8
Baron 2 Nice one Stupot! (And I'm not talking about the victory ;))
Stupot 0 Ooh, matron.
AnasAbdin 4 Awesome stu. And Mandle surely knows what he's doing!
AnisAbdin 3 Awwwwwwwww you guys will probably kill me after the first round :-D
Stupot 0 I've got plans for some evil ones when it's my turn! Mwuuaahahaaa!
selmiak 5 I was on track for the last one but messed up my counting on a line so I thought this can't be. Meh!
AnasAbdin 1 Meh
Cassiebsg 0 ZzzzZ
selmiak 0 goodnight!
selmiak 5 is this related to the wordcount maybe?
Baron 0 I was on track for
Stupot 0 the last one but
Baron 0 messed up my
Stupot 0 counting on a line
Baron 1 so I thought this can't be.
AnasAbdin 6 I was on track. For the last one. But messed up my counting. On a line. So I thought this can't be.
Stupot 7 Iwasontrackforthelastonebutmessedupmyco untingonalinesoIthoughtthiscan'tbeMeh!
AnasAbdin 5 Iwasontrackforthelastonebutmessedupmyco untingonalinesoIthoughtthiscantbeMeh
Wyz 4 I was thinking about pronouns (hidden in words or not) but I can't make it work with the counts. :(
AnasAbdin 3 ihaveafeelingnospaceswouldhelpalittlewi ththisround
AnasAbdin 0 mehmeh
selmiak 3 mehmehmeh
AnasAbdin 2 meh meh
Baron 2 hem hem
Wyz 4 The plot thickens! Meh hem? Mayhem!
selmiak 5 mehmeh mehmehmeh
Baron 2 mehmeh
Wyz 0 e
Wyz 2 mmeehh
Stupot 3 https://youtu.be/oMbEaEEVCfg
selmiak 0 mhe mhe
AnasAbdin 1 Mandle: 0 pts
AnasAbdin 1 Mandle: 0 pts
AnasAbdin 2 You misspelled my name
AnasAbdin 3 name misspelled my You
AnasAbdin 2 one point for every number Mandle randomly has in his head when he gives the score :-P
Stupot 0 日本語ã§æ›¸ãã¨ã¾ã ç,¹ã,'å¾—ã,‹ã"ã¨ãŒã§ãã,‹ï¼Ÿ
Baron 0 Mandle: 0 pts
cat 0 Mahna mahna!
Stupot 21 Nananana-nananana nananana-nananana Batmaaaan!
AnasAbdin 2 AnasAbdin
Wyz 2 AnasAbdin
AnasAbdin 0 Meh
AnasAbdin: POST EXCEEDS LIMIT (and cheers for the list :) )
Mandle: 0 pts
AnasAbdin: 1pt
Mandle: 0 pts
AnasAbdin: 1pt
You misspelled my name
AnasAbdin: 2pts
name misspelled my You
Solution: one point for every number Mandle randomly has in his head when he gives the score :-P
one point for every number Mandle randomly has in his head when he gives the score :-P
AnasAbdin: 3pts
Stupot: Nope
AnasAbdin: 2pts
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Stupot: 0pts
Mandle: 0 pts
Mahna mahna!
Nananana-nananana nananana-nananana Batmaaaan!
AnasAbdin
AnasAbdin
Meh
Baron: 0 pts
Cat: 0pts
Stupot: 21pts
AnasAbdin: 2pts
Wyz: 2pts
AnasAbdin: 0pts
Solution: The number of times the last character of the previous sentence occurs in the current one
Quote from: Wyz on Mon 05/10/2015 12:36:25
Solution: The number of times the last character of the previous sentence occurs in the current one
FINALLY I CAN SLEEP
Fuuuuuck! It's like that is it?
Nice one Wyz, you whizz kid.
Quote from: Wyz on Mon 05/10/2015 12:36:25
Solution: The number of times the last character of the previous sentence occurs in the current one
CORRECT!!! (And very well done! That was a tough one!)
The rule was: One point for each time the last english alphabet letter in the previous non-host post appears in the post being scored.
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Stupot: 4
AnasAbdin: 2
Wyz: 1
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Oh...and there might be one case where the points don't add up: AnasAbdin's list tally. If the next post's score does not make sense that's because the list was edited
after scoring.
For now I'm going to message Stupot and AnasAbdin. I'm thinking Stu deserves to host first if he wants it. If not then AnasAbdin will be host if he wants it. I was thinking it might be cool if those two alternate as host for a bit: swapping every round, or every second round, or whatever...
I'm pretty sure both wish to give it a go but if not then I will be in contact with Wyz...
So until all that is sorted: A brief break!
Yaaaay! ;-D
That took some serious pondering especially since you also took solution-messages into account which threw me off at first. I couldn't have done it without the helpful post by you guys; Batman saved the day. ;)
Now back to work! (nod)
Quote from: Wyz on Mon 05/10/2015 14:05:55
Yaaaay! ;-D
That took some serious pondering especially since you also took solution-messages into account which threw me off at first. I couldn't have done it without the helpful post by you guys; Batman saved the day. ;)
Now back to work! (nod)
Yeah...I think that it deserves real kudos for you that you realized that every player-post mattered: Even solution posts and EVEN the ones that exceeded the posting limit...(Trivia Corner:
EVEN the final player post from before the round even started was used to score the first post of this round...)
Batman...HAHAHA...I totally thought Stu had it nailed when he posted the whole "nanananananana" thing but apparently not...
Special kudos to Baron as well for calling out the fact that something other than the individual posts themselves was affecting the scores... Very scientific!!!
Consider this sentence me entering the game.
Okay. I'll host for a round.
This one's not so evil.
Round #8 Begins
Superkumi: 4 pts
Wooohooo!!! I finally get to play my own game! This is gonna be so awesome!
We need more data. Lots more data.
We need big data. Lots big data.
Mandle: 1 pt
Baron: 2 pts
Gurok: 2 pts
We data. Lots data.
I wonder what's stewing in Stu's brain...
I wonder what's stewing in Stu's brain...
Solution: One point for each letter in the first pronoun in the post.
(It fits the data so far: SuperKumi: "this"=4...Mandle: "I"=1...Baron: "We"=2...Gurok: "We"=2... 8-0 )
Baron: 2 pts
Mandle: 4 pts
AnasAbdin: 4 pts
Mandle: Nope
Quite confounding.
data data data data data data data data data data data data data data data data
Superkumi: 6 pts
AnasAbdin: 0 pts
lots we
Quite confounding indeed.
AnasAbdin: 2 pts
Superkumi: 1 pt
> Open airlock door and float in space.
Cat: 1 pt
data data data data data data data data data data data data data data data data
Don't think your data is helping, but then again I'm new at this.
Solution: The points awarded for each post is the numerical difference between the character count of the first word in the post and the last word in the post.
(For example: "lots we" = the numerical difference between 4 and 2 = 2pts)
BOOYAH!!!
Uhm-.. then Baron should have gotten -2 ... we - data = 2 - 4 = -2 :P
Yep Mandle is correct. It's the difference in the number of letters of the first and last word.
Well done.
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Stupot: 4
AnasAbdin: 2
Wyz: 1
Mandle: 1
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@Cassie: 'difference' doesn't necessarily mean 'x - y'. If y is larger than x then it will be 'y - x'. It just means 'how many digits (or letters) do I need to jump to get from x to y or vice-versa?'
I just sat down in my thinking chair and thunk...thunk...thuuuuuunk...
So stoked that I could at least win my first round. I must've gone through at least 10 different theories and was about to give up for the night when the solution just popped right out, and boy does that feel great!
Cheers for the fun round Stu! A very worthy puzzle!
Okay Mr. Abdin: ready when you are for the next round!
Be gentle with us, AnasAbdin.
Blade Runner?
Bueller?
Nice one Mandle. I'll punch up the difficulty a little :-D
Round #9 Begins
Baron: 1pt
Stupot: 0pts
Mandle: 0pts
Solution: One point awarded for every time the first letter of the poster's name appears in their post. Capitalization matters.
My ding-a-ling.
Mandle: Nope... please :-\
Stupot: 1 pt
Hey! The sudden lunge right off the bat is a recognized technique in fencing!
Mandle: 2pts
Hey! The sudden lunge right off the bat is a recognized technique in fencing!
Mandle: 2pts
If I were to say that Stupot is probably going to figure this damn thing out first... What would AnasAbdin reply?
Mandle: 4pts
Nah. I had a theory but the last few posts have killed it dead.
Stupot: 0pts
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!
Mandle: 0pts
AnasAbdin
Mandle: 0pts
Be gentle with us, AnasAbdin. Blade Runner? Bueller?
Solution: 1 pt for every full-stop or exclamation mark (but not question marks by the look of it).
Mandle: 1pt
Stupot: Nope.!?
i am two cats bound within baggage
Mandle: 1pt
unicorn using unique umbrellas
Mandle: 1pt
This game makes me feel so stupid.
cat: 1pt
I guess one point is better than nothing.
Welcome to the club.
cat: 2pts
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Welcome
wow, this thread moves fast!
Cassiebsg: 1pt
selmiak: 0pts
We
Cassiebsg: 1pt
wewe
Solution: One point for each pronoun used, even if in the middle of a word?
(probably not, but too tired to go check count). (roll)
selmiak: 0pts
Cassiebsg: Nope
wewe
aeiou
doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo.
Baron: 0pts
Mandle: 0pts
Stupot: 0pts
we
Mandle: 0pts
W
Mandle: 0pts
WE
Cassiebsg: 1pt
wE
WEird
Wookie Wipe Wee Willie Where???
Little Willy Willy won't... go home.
eW
Cassiebsg: 1pt
cat: 0pts
Baron: 0pts
Stupot: 0pts
Mandle: 0pts
Ew
Mandle: 0pts
we
Solution: Anas is giving random points and saying nope to all solutions until someone calls him out in it like this :-D
selmiak: 0pts
Stupot: Nope
We We We We We
Oui?
Need a wee?
Mandle: 0pts
Stupot: 0pts
cat: 0pts
Hint:
Spoiler
you're weeesting your time...
Poo
Stupot: 0pts
wait actually...just a sec
Mandle: 0pts
Baron: Be gentle with us, AnasAbdin. (1 pt)
Stupot: Blade Runner? (0 pt)
Mandle: Bueller? (0 pt)
Mandle: Solution: One point awarded for every time the first letter of the poster's name appears in their post. Capitalization matters. (NOPE... please)
Stupot: My ding-a-ling. (1 pt)
Mandle: Hey! The sudden lunge right off the bat is a recognized technique in fencing! (2 pt)
Mandle: Hey! The sudden lunge right off the bat is a recognized technique in fencing! (2 pt)
Mandle:If I were to say that Stupot is probably going to figure this damn thing out first... What would AnasAbdin reply? (4 pt)
Stupot: Nah. I had a theory but the last few posts have killed it dead. (0 pt)
Mandle: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh !!! (0 pt)
Mandle: AnasAbdin (0 pt)
Mandle: Be gentle with us, AnasAbdin. Blade Runner? Bueller? (1 pt)
Stupot: Solution: 1 pt for every full-stop or exclamation mark (but not question marks by the look of it). (NOPE)
Mandle: i am two cats bound within baggage (1 pt)
Mandle: unicorn using unique umbrellas (1 pt)
cat: This game makes me feel so stupid. (1 pt)
cat: I guess one point is better than nothing. (2 pt)
Cassiebsg: Welcome to the club. (1 pt)
Cassiebsg: Welcome (1 pt)
selmiak: wow, this thread moves fast! (0 pt)
Cassiebsg: We (1 pt)
Selmiak: wewe (0 pt)
Cassiebsg: Solution: One point for each pronoun used, even if in the middle of a word?
(probably not, but too tired to go check count). (NOPE)
Baron: wewe (0 pt)
Mandle: aeiou (0 pt)
Stupot: doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo. (0 pt)
Mandle: We (0 pt)
Mandle: W (0 pt)
Cassiebsg: WE (1 pt)
Cassiebsg: wE (1 pt)
cat: WEird (0 pt)
Baron: Wookie Wipe Wee Willie Where??? (0 pt)
Stupot: Little Willy Willy won't... go home. (0 pt)
Mandle: eW (0 pt)
Mandle: Ew (0 pt)
selmiak: we (0 pt)
Stupot: Solution: Anas is giving random points and saying nope to all solutions until someone calls him out in it like this (NOPE)
Mandle: We We We We We (0 pt)
Stupot: Oui? (0 pt)
cat: Need a wee? (0 pt)
Stupot: Poo (0 pt)
Mandle: wait actually...just a sec (0 pt)
EDIT 1:
selmiak: why not. why would I not want willingly voluntary vultures find fiftyfive froggggs? (3 pt)
Mandle: why not. (0 pt)
cat: So Cassiebsg got one point for saying We but Mandle didn't. (3 pt)
Mandle: why would I not want willingly (0 pt)
Cassiebsg: Where wee wise Willie elbow writhe ew whence while wherefore waste wobble? (1 pt)
Cassiebsg: weee we web ew We Wee Bew... (1 pt)
Stupot: What's with all the W? I wonder whether we're working in the wrong wood. (2 pt)
Mandle: voluntary vultures find fiftyfive froggggs? (2 pt)
Mandle: this game is going to be a disaster when others start taking over the rounds (4 pt)
Cassiebsg: LOL (1 pt)
Mandle: I was actually posting that thinking that our new host has a hidden message that is the solution:
Something like: We are all screwed now!!! (4 pt)
Baron: Best get wet under aquarium. (1 pt)
Baron: Can we double up the sentences if we have a theory we need to test? (0 pt)
Cassiebsg: There once was a guy hosting a contest with a rule that no one knew what that was. Guess guess something weird. (6 pt)
Baron: Theory disproved. (0 pt)
why not. why would I not want willingly voluntary vultures find fiftyfive froggggs?
Cassiebsg thanks for the list ;-D
selmiak: 3pts
why not.
Mandle: 0pts
So Cassiebsg got one point for saying We but Mandle didn't.
cat: 3pts
why would I not want willingly
Mandle: 0pts
Where wee wise Willie elbow writhe ew whence while wherefore waste wobble?
Cassiebsg: 1pt
weee we web ew We Wee Bew...
What's with all the W? I wonder whether we're working in the wrong wood.
voluntary vultures find fiftyfive froggggs?
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Stupot: 2pts
Mandle: 2pts
this game is going to be a disaster when others start taking over the rounds
LOL
Mandle: 4pts
Cassiebsg: 1pt
I was actually posting that thinking that our new host has a hidden message that is the solution:
Something like: We are all screwed now!!!
Mandle: 4pts
Spoiler
you guys mislead yourselves with the wewe's and ewew's...
Best get wet under aquarium.
Can we double up the sentences if we have a theory we need to test?
Baron: 1pt
Baron: 0pts
There once was a guy hosting a contest with a rule that no one knew what that was. Guess guess something weird.
Cassiebsg: 6pts
Theory disproved.
Baron: 0pts
It's like my posts kill every single theory I can think of. :P
Before geysers were useful.
Before geezers were useful.
Geezers were useful always.
Bananas
Cassiebsg: 2pts
Baron: 1pt
Gurok: 0pts
Baron: 1pt
Wyz: 0pts
Before gegsers were useful.
Mandle: 1pt
dgtrfg kjjkjh yoljhgc seggjio asrtfdhlknbv fhgfret
Mandle: 2pts
I will give a hint if you want.
NO THANK YOU!!! I don't even want you to post a hidden hint...We WILL figure this out! It just might take a while...But I'm too intrigued to want to spoil it all with hints...
Good work.
Mandle: 3pts
Baron: 0pts
What up?
Baron: 0pts
Gosh, we useless. ;-D
Baron: 1pt
This game makes me feel so stupid.
Go with us.
cat: 1pt
Baron: 1pt
It's like my posts kill every single theory I can think of.
Cassiebsg: 2pts
Cassiebsg gets at least one point for every post made. So I assume it has to do with the nickname or profile in some way.
cat: 2pts
get wet u!
Gestation warthog uvula.
Gone where unhappily?
Baron: 0pts
Baron: 1pt
Baron: 0pts
estation warthog uvula.
Mandle: 1pt
Cassiebsg
.
cat: 1pt
Cassiebsg: 1pt
bsg
Cassie
g g g g g g g g g g
cat: 1pt
cat: 0pt
Cassiebsg: 1pt
bbb
bsg
/me wonders where the head banging smiley is... (wtf)
cat: 0pts
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Cassiebsg: 4pts
Now I'm totally confused. Cassiebsg gets only 1 point for saying bsg?
cat: 4pts
Solution: Every dot you can see. May it be . i ? and so on 8-)
nah. i thought too fast...
Kumpel: Nope
,
Mandle: 0pts
A.
Mandle: 0pts
Aardvark.
Mandle: 0pts
An aardvark.
...
Now I'm totally confused.
Mandle: 0pts
Mandle: 0pts
cat: 0pts
gets only 1 point for saying
cat: 2pts
only saying
gets point
cat: 1pt
cat: 1pt
hey, don't I get points for every post made? :P
cat: 1pt
You ignored one of my previous posts!
cat: 1pt
Sorry ;) fixed.
I demand at least 5 points just for posting!
selmiak: 1pt
I demand Mandle or Stupot solve this already!
What you see is what you get, xyzzy.
I demand Stupot solves this already!
Poop.
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Wyz: 1pt
Mandle: 0pts
Baron: 0pts
I haven't got a Scooby-Doo.
Stupot: 1pt
get it!
cat: 0pts
Guts and gumption are OK.
Gurok: 1pt
One two three four five, six seven eight nine ten, eleven twelve.
Baron: 1pt
eight
cat: 0pts
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Wyz: 1pt
NowI'mtotallyconfused.Cassiebsggetsonly1pointforsayingbsg?
Mandle: 4pts
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Wyz: 2pts
Wyz: 3pts
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Wyz: 3pts
b b b
Cassiebsg: 1pt
s s s
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Are you guys on to something here?
Superkumi: 1pt
not really no
Cassiebsg
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Cassiebsg: 2pts
e e e
Cassiebsg: 1pt
edit: sorry this one slipped. Thanks to cat for correcting me
zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba
Mandle: 1pt
This is the first time in this round that Cassiebsg got 0 points ???
cat: 2pts
I corrected Cassiebsg's entry to 1 point
Ging gang goolie goolie goolie goolie watch ya.
Stupot: 1pt
Peace, Love and AGS
Frankly I'm no wiser than I was several pages ago. I'm pretty sure it's nothing to do with word count, letter count, punctuation or grammar. Which means it's some other evil trick. :-\
Unless we somehow get more points for very long messages, which is pure evil since finding the solution in these posts would be difficult. Oh well, gotta try, don't we? What's the worst that can happen? Will we blow up? No! 50 years from now we'll look back at this and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and still won't know what the bloody rule is. By the way, what happens if I say (laugh)? Or :shocked:? :confused:? Well, let's see what comes of all this.
Hmmmm...a ways back cat got 1 point for saying "Cassiebsg" but Cassie just got 2 points for saying the exact same thing. So there is either a difference in points from user to user or something is changing over time...
Yeah I think it has little or nothing to do with the actual text we are writing.
It's probably the cross sum of all letters. Or the posts on every page even add up.
Baron: 1pt
Stupot: 4pts
Superkumi: POST EXCEEDS 200 CHARACTERS
Mandle: POST EXCEEDS 200 CHARACTERS
Stupot: 2pts
selmiak: 1pt
If you want hints I'm ready...
Is there a minimum amount of characters?
Superkumi: 0pts
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Fri 16/10/2015 13:48:23
If you want hints I'm ready...
Personally, I really don't see the point (no pun intended) of hints in this game: The mystery will be solved via the hints a bit faster than it would have been solved normally, and everyone who participated will go away feeling like a cheap route was taken to get to the answer. Even if you hide the hints the winner will know that everyone will just assume they looked at the hints even if they didn't: Thier glory is tarnished. And then, once the mystery is solved we just move onto another one anyway. It's not like an adventure game where progress stops while you are stumped: Progress is made with every new score update. It's just a matter of how long it takes for somebody to get that "click" moment where everything fits...Hints will just cheapen that moment for the winner.
And especially after the round has gone on this long I personally have no desire for any hints. I'm invested in solving it and hints would just destroy my interest in continuing to try. Just the way I feel of course...
Mandle: POST EXCEEDS 200 CHARACTERS
cassiebsg cassie bsg Cassiebsg Cassie bsg Cass ie b s g
Cassiebsg: 6pts
cassiebsg cassie bsg Cassiebsg Cassie bsg Cass ie b s g cassie
selmiak: 5pts
Solution: One point for every "AGS" you can write per post. Nickname included in the count?
(No, I haven't checked ever single post, only the last 2-3 pages... (roll) )
Cassiebsg: CORRECT!!!! (laugh)
--------LEADERBOARD--------
Stupot: 4
AnasAbdin: 2
Wyz: 1
Mandle: 1
Cassiebsg: 1
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Wow!!!
Guess I need to share the glory with cat, for noticing that I got a point no mater what I posted. And Baron for his "Peace, Love and AGS" post. (nod)
I know! When I saw Baron's post "Peace, Love and AGS" my heart sank! Also 1000000 kudos to cat for being a true persistent AGSer :-* and to all for the great team work 8-)
Congrats Cassiebsg :)
Dafuq?
Nice work Cassie.
I'm pretty sure the AGS count had occurred to me a while back but I wouldn't have thought to include the nickname. Nice devious puzzle Anas.
Thanks mate (nod)
I'm gonna have a power nap until you start the new round. My phone's auto complete suggests 0pts, 1pt, 2pts all the time now (laugh)
Hahaha!!! AWESOME WORK CASSIE!!! You said this game makes you feel stupid and then you solve the round that had everyone stumped for forever!!! (You a hustler, Cassie?)
I also considered the AGS thing at one point, and spent ages trying to connect characters in the post with characters in the username, but never thought to make the post and the username one entity. I even tried a few more outlandish methods, which I won't say here as they actually gave me good ideas if I host future rounds. I guess trying to solve a round like this probably gives everyone new ideas as well as their own attempts become more and more fringe.
And finally: Cheers AnasAbdin for a great round! I hope your phone recovers from its OCD issues at some point...
Is it me, or does Cassie want a go for winning the last round?
I think Cassie deserved it. ..If papa Mandle is okay with it :-D
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Sun 18/10/2015 06:43:46
I think Cassie deserved it. ..If papa Mandle is okay with it :-D
That's cool with me, if Cassie
wants to host a round of course.
Ahmm.. I really don't have the time to host and I'm bad at counting. :-[
Then I guess Stu will be counting a lot.
Congrats, Cassiebsg! I figured out that the nickname was included in counting, but I'd never have guessed the hidden AGS.
Nice rule, AnasAbdin!
I also like that the puzzle was solved almost immediately after Mandle said we don't want any hints :-D
Stu? HELLO???
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Sun 18/10/2015 19:03:52
Stu? HELLO???
Hahaha! That looks classic right there next to your avatar...
Peace, Love and AGS ;-D
Starting from Cassie's post
Cassie: 6
Anas: 3
Cat: POST EXCEEDS MY BOTHEREDNESS TO COUNT :-D
Anas: 0
Mandle: 8
Baron: 3
Solution: The points equal the count of the most repeated vowel in the post. If no vowels are repeated the score is zero.
I aaaaaaaabsolutely must know if I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaave the correct aaaaaaaaaanswer!!!
Mandle: 33pts ???
Mandle: nope
Mandle: 33 pts
Mandle 1 pt
So yeah, clearly you're onto it but your solution isn't what I have in mind
Solution: 1 point for how many times the first vowel of the previous poster is repeated in the post?
(just riding Mandle's wave... )
Cassiebsg: nope :-)
Bah...nevermind
Solution: The points equal the total count of whatever vowel is first repeated in the post.
Solution: The points equal the total count of whatever vowel is first repeated in the post including username.
Mandle: 1 pt
Mandle: nope
Selmiak: nope
Then I guess Stu will be counting a lot.
Baron: 1pt
Solution: One point for each vowel in the post which also appears in the poster's username the least. In the case of a tie for least used vowel the first vowel appearing in the username is the one used.
Mandle: nope
You guys are barking up the right tree but chasing the wrong squirrel.
Then I guess Stu will be counting a lot.
AnasAbdin: 3pts
wait what
AnasAbdin: 3pts
Mandle: 3pts
AnasAbdin: 0pts
Then I guess Stu will be counting a lot.
m a aa a aa a a a a a a a a a a a A A A A
Superkumi: 3pts
AnasAbdin: 0pts
I have a love-hate relationship with this game.
Cat: 5pts
AAAAAA! AAAAAA AAA A AAAAAA AAAAAAAA.
Gurok: 0pts
AAAAAA! AAAAAA AAA A AAAAAA AAAAAAAA.
AAAAAA! AAAAAA AAA A AAAAAA AAAAAAAA.
Well, it's obviously something to do with vowel counts. The vowel depends on some external factor since the same posts result in different counts for different people. For some reason it's usually A, but it sometimes could be E, I or U (was there an O?). It's hard to tell what the external factor is because we keep using phrases with the exact same number of A's, I's & E's, or E's, I's & U's. So let's work together and everyone post something with a consistent number of vowels so we can isolate what we're dealing with here. Something like:
Canada Banana Everest even if Illinois zoo fuzz butt why? (6 A's, 5 E's, 4 I's, 3 O's, 2 U's and a Y for good measure)
Canada Banana Everest even if Illinois zoo fuzz butt why?
Mandle: 30pts
Selmiak: 0pts
Baron: POST IS EXCEEDINGLY LONG
Baron: 6pts
Solution: The number the first vowel in a post including the username appears in the post?!?!?!?!
EEEEEE! EEEEEE EEE E EEEEEEE EEEEEEEE.
Selmiak: nope
Selmiak: 31pts
Wait wait wait. Everyone else gets "POST EXCEEDS 2 LINES" and I get "POST IS EXCEEDINGLY LONG"?!? I thought the judge was supposed to be neutral.... (roll)
Solution: The number of times the first vowel in the user's username appears in the post.
a a a a A A A A
a a a a A A A A :P
Baron: 6 pts
Gurok: Nope
AnasAbdin: 0 pts
AnasAbdin: 0 pts
e e e e E E E E
AnasAbdin: 0 pts
Solution: 1 point for each occurrence of either vowels 'A' or 'E' depending on Stu's mental condition at the time of counting.
Solution: 1 point for each occurrence of a vowel in the post following the alphabetical order, if the poster has this vowel in his/her user name. If the next poster doesn't have the next up vowel in his/her name, stu starts counting again from "a".
Quote from: Kumpel on Wed 21/10/2015 12:24:04
Solution: 1 point for each occurrence of a vowel in the post following the alphabetical order, if the poster has this vowel in his/her user name. If the next poster doesn't have the next up vowel in his/her name, stu starts counting again from "a".
Yeah...I think you might have cracked it...I knew it was an AEIOU progression but couldn't figure out exactly how that progression advanced and stopped and advanced again...But I think you have it...
I'm not sure. it doesn't fit with last pages scores. ^^ Superkumi got the u-points but anas didnt get the a-points after that. 8-0
Canada Banana Everest even if Illinois zoo fuzz butt why? :P
Anas: nope
Kumpel: nope
Mandle: POST EXCEEDS ALL EXPECTATIONS (of length)
Kumpel: 5 pts
Kumpel: 2 pts
You're still chasing the wrong squirrel and now you've chased it to a different tree.
Quote from: Stupot+ on Wed 21/10/2015 13:40:08
You're still chasing the wrong squirrel and now you've chased it to a different tree.
Hahahahahaha....SHUT-UP!!!
Be a normal robot host like you are supposed to be... (laugh)
I saw a squirrel this morning and chased it on a tree, unintentionally. Do I get points for that?
You ignored my solution. How can we trust your counting now? >:(
Solution: 1 point for how many times the last vowel of the previous poster's nickname is repeated in the post? (roll)
Solution: 1 point for how many times the last vowel of the poster's nickname is repeated in the post?
ARRRGH
AAAAA
EEEE
III
OO
U
Mandle: 9pts (not including quote)
Cat: 7pts (+10 squirrel points)
Anas: 5pts (sorry mate, fixed my previous post)
Cassie: nope nope 1 pt
Cassie: 5 pts
Cassie: 0pts
Cassie: 0pts
Cassie: 0pts
Cassie: 0pts
AAAAA
EEEE
III
OO
U
Kumpel: 0pts
Kumpel: 0pts
Kumpel: 0pts
Kumpel: 0pts
Kumpel: 1pt
Undue undulations unwound near Uranus.
Gurok: 8pts
Solution: The number of vowels according to the Japanese kana table rotating with each post: A I U E O
So, first post: Number of A, second post number of I, ...
Quote from: cat on Thu 22/10/2015 13:51:22
Solution: The number of vowels according to the Japanese kana table rotating with each post: A I U E O
So, first post: Number of A, second post number of I, ...
OH CRAP!!! DAMN YOU STUPOT!!! (laugh)
I tried the exact same theory with AEIOU progressively but it didn't work so I gave up on that branch of your damn tree...
Excellent work cat on connecting the dots with the whole Japanese influence...
I really had not realised until just now that Stupot actually lives in Japan...DAMN EH?!
If cat is correct, you guys have opened a door you really don't want to miss with. Bring on the foreign languages baby (nod)
Quote from: Mandle on Thu 22/10/2015 15:12:27
I really had not realised until just now that Stupot actually lives in Japan...DAMN EH?!
Err, who was that guy at Hello Kittens then?
It's called "temporary amnesia"... (laugh)
Cat: nope
Mandle: Exceedingly good cakes
AnasAbdin: 7pts
Cat: 3pts (not including quote)
Cassiebsg: 4pts
The squirrel has now run into the middle of the road and you're still chasing it.
Poor squirrel :(
AEIOUAEIOUAEIOU
It's on the road! Could someone please drive over that damn squirrel? (Kumpel: 2pts...)
actually you should have 3pts by my count. (laugh)
Cat: 0pts
Selmiak: 3pts
Kumpel: 3pts (including bracket contents)
Cassiebsg: 3pts
treble is a deli aperetif
Do we count Mandle's A's because he's an AGS A-lister?
Selmiak: 5pts
Baron: 6pts
Solution: The number how often the first vowel of the username appears in the post.
Just saw that this was written before.
Interesting...We know what each poster is going to score...But just not why...I have looked into user profiles including signup dates/times, country, etc but cannot find a match just yet. I feel though that it must be in there somewhere...
I feel it's no use to look for clues. Let's fill Stu with Solutions.
Cat: nope 3pts
Mandle: POST EXCEEDS A CERTAIN NUMBER OF CHARACTERS.
AnasAbdin: 2pts
Solution: 1 point for each "second letter of the posters nickname" that appears in the post.
(doesn't fit with at least one post, but might be a miss count - either by me or Stupot (roll) ).
YES! Well done Cassie.
Right from the beginning you got it in your heads that it was to do with vowels, and true most of your nicknames have a vowel in the second position (that was the 'wrong squirrel' I was trying to gently steer you away from) but Anas was the key as his username has a consonant in the second position.
Cassie, which is the one that doesn't fit? I hope it's not a game-breaker that led everyone astray :-/
Whichever one it was, it certainly led me astray.... (roll)
Ahhhhhh...Well done again Cassie!!! Yeah...I was thinking that with Anas it was the "i" that was being counted but I even noticed that it wasn't counted in his post "wait what?" but did not follow through on thinking about that more clearly. Tunnel-vision is easy to get in this game I have noticed.
Awesome round!
Well done Cassie :-D
If you guys are up to another hardness level punch. Gimme some material to work with (nod)
Thanks, and thanks to AnasAbdin for not having as vowel as the second letter. (laugh)
Kind of wondered why he wasn't scoring on any vowel. (roll)
Stupot, this one:
QuoteYou ignored my solution. How can we trust your counting now?
You scored it with 5 pts, but I count 6.
Ahh bugger. Sorry about that. Even more kudos for getting it despite my miscount being on a post of the user who was kind of a key to solving it. Nice work.
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other, "Does this taste funny to you?"
Did you hear about the cannibal who was late for dinner? He got the cold shoulder.
Starting from Stu's:
Stupot: 2pts
Gurok: 3pts
Cannibal kid says to his mum: "I hate dad's guts."
Stupot: 3pts
Hurray a new round!
Cassiebsg: 4pts
round
Hurray
Yay! Cassie grabbed that damn squirrel by the tail!
I think the new one has something to do with whole words.
What did the cannibal do after he dumped his girlfriend?
He wiped.
"Doctor, Doctor, I think I'm a camnibal."
"Oh really? You should try this cream."
Cassiebsg: 4pts
Superkumi: 4pts
Kumpel: 3pts
Baron: 2pts
Stupot: 3pts
round
Stupot: 3pts
Hmm. So there's definitely some influence outside of the post itself... But what?
round
round
round
.
Stupot: 3pts
Mandle: 2pts
Mandle: 3pts
Cassiebsg: 3pts
Cassiebsg: 4pts
uhm... the plot thickens. (laugh)
Cassiebsg: 4pts
5
Mandle: 3pts
5
Never mind 'outside influence', I don't think the pts are related to the post contents at all. I've tried several theories but come up empty so far.
.
hehe
Mandle: 3pts
Stupot: 2pts
Stupot: 3pts
selmiak: 3pts
I see a squirrel
Cassiebsg Cassiebsg
Cassiebsg: 3pts
Blade Runner?
Stupot: 2pts
Cavefish
Cassiebsg: 3pts
Fleeing the Cylon tyrrany...
4 pts
5 pts ?
Quote from: Stupot+ on Sun 25/10/2015 23:44:54
Never mind 'outside influence', I don't think the pts are related to the post contents at all. I've tried several theories but come up empty so far.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing so I posted two identical messages one minute apart and the score went from 3pts to 4pts. This had me thinking that it's all about the time you post at and I tried many calulations on the time stamps but couldn't get it to perform consistantly. As I'm too busy this week to participate much I pass this theory on for the greater good (or harm)! :P
Yeah. I was trying all sorts tricks with the time stamp too, but can't get anything to work.
8
8
8
Cassiebsg: 3pts
Cassiebsg: 4pts
Cassiebsg: 3pts
Mandle: POST EXCEEDS MY BOREDOM THRESHOLD
Stupot: 2pts
Baron: 3pts
Baron: 2pts
Baron: 3pts
I'm back and want to chase some squirrels!
cat: 2 squirrels
Okay. So no 1pts or 0pts and more than 4 pts so far. this squirrel gotta have three ways to run away from us then.
maybe a connection of reply # and time? even and uneven numbers maybe?
Kumpel: 3pts
You know your avatar looks like he is laughing about us while shaking his head all the time. :P
Kumpel: 3pts
...
Solution: 1 point for every 3 letter in the nickname of the poster, + 1 point for every even post? (roll)(laugh)
All this counting reminds me of Monty Python's Holy Hand Grenade.
cat: 2 pts? (laugh)
Kumpel: 3pts
Cassiebsg: Nope
cat: 2pts
Cassiebsg: 3pts
Solution: 1 point for each vowel in the posters nickname + 1 extra point for every even post? (roll)
That really works Cassie! I think you cracked it!
or not? (2pts?)
Cassiebsg: Correct! I knew it was about time after Kumpel's previous solution (laugh)
--------LEADERBOARD--------
Stupot: 4
Cassiebsg: 3
AnasAbdin: 2
Wyz: 1
Mandle: 1
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Cassie u wanna or can I? :D
Cool! :)
I didn't noticed Kumpel posted a solution... (roll)
Be my guess Kumpel, I don't have time to host anyway. :)
Maybe it's just the seasonal influence but this is starting to remind me of what happened when Jack Skellington took over Christmas... :-D
Damn. Nice job Cassie. Come on then Kumpel. What have you got?(nod)
Cassiebsg: 8pts.
Mandle: EXCEEDS EVERYTHING I STAND FOR
Stupot+: 9pts.
Quote from: Kumpel on Wed 28/10/2015 00:11:09
Mandle: EXCEEDS EVERYTHING I STAND FOR
Don't be lazy! :P
cat: 13pts.
Weird Science?
O
Stupot+: 0pts.
AnasAbdin: 0pts.
Blade Runner?
cat: 0pts.
We need more data.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
We need much more data.
cat: 3pts.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? My last post was too long?!
Mandle: 1pt
We need much much more data.
We need much much more data.
We need many more data.
There is this guy from Dresden. I think he needs arrestin'. His name is Kumpel and from what little we can tell, his Points Game turn is int'restin'.
Kumpel and tell don't rhyme at all :P
Kumpel and Tell don't mime in fall.
Fumpel in Tell dom't mine and kall.
Mumpel and Fell don't kiss and tell.
Stupot+: 3pts.
AnasAbdin: 1pt (HAD TO EDIT THAT)
Gurok: 2pts.
Stupot+: TOO LONG! C'MON! BUT I LIKED IT XD
cat: 5pts.
Baron: 5pts.
AnasAbdin: 1pt
Gurok: 4pts.
Quote from: Kumpel on Thu 29/10/2015 15:41:12
Stupot+: 3pts.
AnasAbdin: 2pts.
Gurok: 2pts.
excuse me.. 8 entries and 3 scores?
AnasAbdin: 11pts.
(Sry for the missing entries. I tried to update via smartphone but it didnt't show all ^^)
Was Anas' last score including the quote, or not?
Quote from: Baron on Thu 29/10/2015 21:15:38
Was Anas' last score including the quote, or not?
Squirrel incoming!
Baron: 5pts.
AnasAbdin: 9pts. (EDITED. DAMN SMARTPHONE)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Eichh%C3%B6rnchen_D%C3%BCsseldorf_Hofgarten_edit.jpg/800px-Eichh%C3%B6rnchen_D%C3%BCsseldorf_Hofgarten_edit.jpg)
Watch out!
cat: 0pts. (EDIT... gotta concentrate better.)
What? All that cuteness deserved at least 10 pts! 8-0
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
There once was a man called Kumpel. His name caused quite a kerfuffle. With 'tell' it don't rhyme, and even this time, it don't really rhyme with 'kerfuffle'
Kumpel
Stupot+:25pts. (I HAD TIME TO COUNT THIS TIME :P)
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
Cool! :)
I didn't noticed Kumpel posted a solution... (roll)
Be my guess Kumpel, I don't have time to host anyway. :)
Let's keep going!
Cool! :)
I didn't noticed Kumpel posted a solution... (roll)
Be my guess Kumpel, I don't have time to host anyway. :)
Cassiebsg:16pts. 8pts.
cat:1pt.
Cassiebsg:16pts. 8pts.
Cool! :)
I didn't noticed Kumpel posted a solution... (roll)
Be my guess Kumpel, I don't have time to host anyway. :)
Cool!
I didn't noticed Kumpel posted a solution...
Be my guess Kumpel, I don't have time to host anyway.
Stupot+:17pts.
Cassiebsg:7pts. (EDIT because smartphone...SRY ^^)
ou
Cassiebsg:0pts.
(Had to edit several of Cassies previous pts.)
Ah... I was wondering why all of a sudden I was doubling scoring.
Makes much sense now...
Cassiebsg: 4pts.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Cassiebsg:0pts.
Ah...interesting. Maybe it's something about repeating letters then?
Mandle: 2pts.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Mandle: 0pts.
Mandle
ss tt ll
An AGSer walks into a bar.
Mandle: 0pts.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
cat: 4pts.
Kumpel walks into a bar.
cat: 3pts.
Kumpel walks into a pub.
The real question is: Why do I score 8 when Stupot scores 17. :-\
Stupot walks into a pub.
cat: 3pts.
Cassiebsg: 1pt.
cat: 3pts.
walks into pub
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
The squirrel takes a vacation, it seems.
The real question is: Why do I score 17 when Cassiebsg scores 8. :-\
Stupot+: 11pts.
Solution: Stupot gets 10 points just for being Stupot! :P
Cassiebsg: Nope (BUT THE SQUIRREL IS STRONG IN THIS ONE)
Let's do this!
Stupot+: 0pts.
I'm out of ideas. :sad:
Stupot walks into pub.
cat, Cassiebsg & Stupot+ walk into a pub.
We should actually do that one day. Sounds like fun!
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
cat: 1pt.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
cat: 8pts.
OH NOOOOOES I BROKE THE POINTS GAME :~(:~(:~(
WHAT HAPPENED?
DID I MESS IT UP WITH MY UNUTTERABLY EDITS?
NEED A HINT?
(Kumpel: 17pts. - EDIT)
Kumpel runs into a pub.
cat: 3 pts. (I'D NEVER DO THAT:=)
Kumpel crawls into a pub.
Pub crawl?
selmiak: 0pts.
Stupot+: 0pts.
I'm still playing! Just a bit too busy the last few days to participate much. And:
NO HINTS!!! (imo)
A squirrel walks into a pub.
A pub walks into a squirrel.
A walk squirrels into a ...never mind. (roll)
Mandle: 12pts.
cat: 4pts.
Stupot+: 3pts.
Baron: 6pts.
The squirrel walks into the pub.
cat: 4pts.
Squirrels walk into pubs.
Solution: Number of times the first three letters in poster's name appears in the post. (Didn't check back that far, but works for recent ones).
cat: 2pts.
Baron: Nope (BUT THIS IS ACTUALLY THE FIRST SERIOUS ATTEMPT IN SOLVING! (roll))
:)
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
Fot fot fot fot
cat walks into a pub.
Superkumi: 3pts.
cat: 3pts.
Stop disproving my theories! :P
cat walks.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
cat: 0pts.
into a pub.
cat: 1pt.
Whaaat? I don't get it. Cassiebsg, please solve this!
LOL I don't get it either...
Every time I "solve" it... the next or previous post's count ruins it. (roll)
An antidisestablishmentarianist walks into a bar.
cat: 7pts.
Cassiebsg: 7pts.
Stupot: 3pts.
I'm lost. Not metaphorically, like, really, lost.
Solution: Kumpel has made a random number generator in AGS and this is the only way he can think to use it? :-P
Acatwalksintoapub.
A cat walks into a pub.
Superkumi: 6pts.
Stupot+: Nope (NOTHING RANDOM ABOUT THIS SQUIRREL)
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
A cat walks into a pub.
Baron: 4pts.
A cat walks into a pub.
Baron: 4pts.
Solution: For some posters it seems to be the number of dots in a post. This includes periods, dots on i's and j's, colons ( : ), etc. But not exclamation or question marks. And sometimes for some posters it includes dots in their signature, time stamp and personal text. I'm not sure about the exact rule, but if you count the dots often enough in different ways you can always find some combination that fits the official score. ;-D
Baron: Nope
YOU CAN DEFINITELY HEAR THE SQUIRREL SQUEEKING IN A FAR DISTANCE... YOU ARE JUST CHASING IT ON THE WRONG TREE.
A cat walks into a pub.
I'm about as close to solving this as I was about ten pages ago :-/
cat: 4pts. (OBVIOUSLY...)
Stupot+: 12pts.
NEVER THOUGHT IT COULD BE THAT HARD FOR YOU 8-0
I'm about as close to solving this as I was about ten pages ago :-/
E cet welks into e pub.
Oooo! Nice Afrikaner accent, cat! :)
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
i ââ,,¢Â¥ tofu sundaes
Cassiebsg: 3pts.
cat: 4pts.
Baron: 4pts.
Cassiebsg: 14pts.
Baron: 2pts.
Stupot, can you post my latest "a b c ..." post. I need to see if you score 11 point more than me. (nod)
Cassiebsg: 12pts.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Stupot+: 23pts.
rats... if I need to do math to solve this, I'll never solve it. I'm awful at math! :-[
Cassiebsg: 7pts. (THE WHOLE GAME IS MATH, ISN'T IT?! :=)
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
cat: 24pts.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Baron: 24pts.
abcdefg hijklmn opq rst uvw xyz
Baron: 4pts.
abcdefg hijklmn opq rst uvw xyz
cat: 4pts.
abcdefg hijklmn opq rst uvw xyz
(I'm pretty sure that something on out nicks is subtracting point to the post's point, but negative points are counted as 0).
Yet, I have still no idea what the rule is. :-\
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
(Cassiebsg: 20pts.)
b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Baron: 23pts.
cat: 23pts.
b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y
cat: 22pts.
abcdefg hijklmn pq rst uvw xyz
Baron: 4 pts (laugh)
Baron: 4pts.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x y z
Stupot: 18 pts ?
Stupot+: 18pts.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
What are you thinking Cassie?
Well... it seems to be 1 point for each "word" (or group of characters) minus some magic number that varies per poster, which I'm still clueless to. (roll)
Baron and Cat that magic number seems to be 2, you is 3 and me seems to be 12... but where those this magic minus number comes from.... no idea yet. (wrong)
What are you thinking Cassie?
I'm thinking:
Stupot: 2 pts
cat: 3 pts
(roll)
Stupot+: 2pts.
Cassiebsg: 47pts. (I HAD TIME :P)
cat: 3pts.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
CASSIE FOUND A SQUIRREL ON THE TREE BESIDE THE RIGHT TREE BUT IT HAS A DIFFERENT FUR COLOR. (TWO MISTAKES IN YOUR ASSUMPTION)
Squirrel!
Squirrel Squirrel Squirrel!
Stupot+: 0pts.
Baron: 2pts.
Gurok Gurok
xyzzy xyzzy
Number of words in the message minus number of images in the signature?
SOLUTION: Number of words in the message minus number of images in the signature.
Zut alors! I think you've done it!
Epic!
Gurok: 0pts.
Gurok: 0pts.
Billbis: 12pts. (Glad to see you here as a refreshener :P )
Billbis: Nope
YOU FOUND THE TREE BUT THAT DAMN FUR COLOR...
Stupot+: 4pts.
Then maybe number of words in the longest sentence?
Without counting shorter sentences.
Plus rule stated above.
What about cat's score? ^^
Solution: one point for every word, letter, cluster of letters/symbols or smiley, minus the number of images in the signature and the profile pic (avatar) (?)
Billbis:Nope
Gurok:1pt.
Stupot+: Nope (YOU NAMED EVERY OTHER SQUIRREL AND SEVERAL TREES...I WOULD HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO COUNT THAT METHOD :D)
Solution: one point for every [space] minus the number of images in the signature.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Gratz to Stupot+! :D
Never thought it would last so long ^^
Congrats Stupot! And great catch Billbis! (nod)(nod)(nod)
Never thought about counting the images! :-[(roll)(roll)
I never thought about counting the spaces.... (roll)
That was a epic round. To be honest I was getting a bit bored of it but Bilibis basically solved that, I just piggybacked as usual. Bilibis, do you want to do the next round?
No, please go ahead Stupot+!
I understood the image thing only after Cassiebsg discovery that negative score was dependent of the poster.
Great round, Kumpel and everyone!
PS - I would like to formally complain that I only actually have 2 images in my signature... (laugh)(laugh)(laugh)
Ahhhhhhhh!!!
If Stu does not mind can I kick in with a slightly less insane round without all the meta stuff?
Just a kind of relaxing round where you don't have to tear your frontal lobe out to solve it...
Anyone mind?
PS: I LOVE what the game has become and I LOVE that people want to solve insanely hard puzzles, but a bit of back-to-the-basics is not a bad thing either...
(In either case I will be updating the Leaderboard and the first post pretty soon)
If it's all good with Stu then:
Cassiebsg: 13 pts
Yeah go ahead dude. I can't think of a good one anyway.
Stupot: 5pts
Yeah go ahead dude. I can't think of a good one anyway.
Yeah go ahead dude. I can't think of a good one anyway.
Wow, that last round was very clever. Congrats on the great teamwork, Cassie, Billbis and Stupot!
Baron: 5pts
Cassiebsg: 5pts
cat: 10pts
Yeah go ahead dude.
Baron: 1pt
I can't think of a good one anyway.
Baron: 4pts
You sure I have 13 on the first post?
Have a theory that fits very good in all the remaining posts... except the 1st. :-\
EDIT: Unless you counted outside of the post, then it fits. But then it doesn't fit with me "only" getting 5 on the next post.
Quote from: Cassiebsg on Sun 06/12/2015 07:50:01
You sure I have 13 on the first post?
Have a theory that fits very good in all the remaining posts... except the 1st. :-\
EDIT: Unless you counted outside of the post, then it fits. But then it doesn't fit with me "only" getting 5 on the next post.
I just recounted to be sure...They are correct...
Thanks for sustaining my little puzzle for soooo long :)
Yeah. I got bored too xD That's because I made a huge jump for joy when at first gurok and then Billbis participated who gave it a new direction :)
Ok. On to the next level!
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Kumpel: 27 pts
Kumpel: 2 pts
ooooo uuuu aaa ee i
Kumpel: 5pts
Solution: 1 point for each letter O and L in a post.
(and now it's bed time (nod) )
You cracked it. Cassie broke the game :(
Cassiebsg: Nope
Kumpel: 2 pts
Oh, and here's one that I realised I only replied to but did not score. Sorry bout that, I was distracted at the time:
QuoteYou sure I have 13 on the first post?
Have a theory that fits very good in all the remaining posts... except the 1st. :-\
EDIT: Unless you counted outside of the post, then it fits. But then it doesn't fit with me "only" getting 5 on the next post.
Cassiebsg: 22 pts
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Baron: 2pts
Baron: 2pts
n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Stupot: 1 pt
Baron: 1 pt
a b c d e f
g hh iii jjjj kkkkk llllll mmmmmmm
Baron: 0pts
Kumpel: 6pts
Squirrel
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - . , # + < > ^ !"§$%&/()=?\}][{³²~_;:
That's okay, I just assumed you hadn't counted cause: too long, more than 2 lines. (laugh)
Rats... I knew that would have been to "easy"... (roll)
1
cat: 1pt
Kumpel: 2pts
Cassiebsg: 12pts
Cassiebsg: 1pt
j k l m
Baron: 1pt
o l 1 22 333 4444 55555 666666 7777777 88888888 999999999
j k
Kumpel: 3pts
Baron: 0pts
LOL
roflmao
Baron: 1pt
Stupot: 3pts
oO0l1|
Solution: One point for each character that is either a circle or a straight line.
Cat: I can see by your last two posts that you have figured it out. So: CORRECT!!!
The puzzle was: Any character that looks like binary code gains a point, and as "oO0l1|" looks like binary code I will overlook the fact that you probably should have said "a vertical straight line" as I'm sure that's what you meant.
No time right now to update leaderboards and such, but I will get on it...
For now: Cat, do you want next round or, if not, who does?
Yay! I wasn't thinking of binary, but the shape of the character. Baron's LOL gave it away.
I have a quick and easy one, if you don't mind.
You guys just have to solve it before I leave for AdventureX :P
Ok, let's start this!
Mandle: 11pts
Yay! I'm so gonna solve it, or my name's not Mandle...
DISCLAIMER: My name is not actually Mandle!
Mandle: 0pts
Batz jink frev squdgy cwm phlox.
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
Was that 11 points for Mandle's entire post?
Kumpel: 0pts
Baron: 0pts
Stupot+: 0pts Yes, the entire post. I counted several times to make sure, I hope I got it correct :P
Cat: So: CORRECT!!!
The puzzle was: "oO0l1|" should have said "a vertical straight line"
For now: who does?
Baron: 1pt
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Cat: So: CORRECT!!!
The puzzle was: "oO0l1|" should have said "a vertical straight line"
For now: who does?
Kumpel: Way too long!
Kumpel: 1pt
hehe. Good to know. :P
next try:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr.
Sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.
At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum.
Kumpel: 0pts
Kumpel: 3pts
Are you trying to "exorcist" the topic now? (laugh)
Cassiebsg: 2pts
Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius.
Are you trying to exorcist the topic now?
Cat: So: CORRECT!!!
The puzzle was: "oO0l1|"
Stupot: 0pts
Kumpel: 2pts
Baron: 0pts
should have said "a vertical straight line"
For now: who does?
Baron: 1pt
Kumpel: 0pts
Okay wow. That makes no sense at all to me...
Quote"Are you trying to exorcist the topic now?"
gives me 2pts
Quote"Cat: So: CORRECT!!!
The puzzle was: "oO0l1|"
For now: who does?"
gives me 1pt
but:
Quote"Cat: So: CORRECT!!!
The puzzle was: "oO0l1|" should have said "a vertical straight line"
and
Quote"For now: who does?" separated brings 0pts?
separated brings 0pts each?!?!?
There must be some connecting factor beetween the sentences/paragraphs ...
Edit: ah! I see. Thx for clarifying that!
Please recheck your post, you got a mistake there.
"a vertical straight line"
Cat: So: CORRECT!!!
The puzzle was: "oO0l1|"
Baron:1pt
Kumpel: 0pts
"""" :) """"
"straight line"
Kumpel: 0pts
Baron: 0pts
should have said
Kumpel: 0pts
Are you trying to exorcist the topic now with a vertical straight line?
Kumpel: 3pts
Sorry I was a bit slow with responses lately, I was at AdventureX. Now that I'm finally back I'll be quicker.
.- --. ...
Stupot+: 0pts
trying Vertical exorcist
Kumpel: 0pts
Abeb baboc calud dele emaf filog
Kumpel: 0pts
a
Cassiebsg: 1pt
b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Kumpel: 4pts
a e i o u
e i e i o
"a vertical"
Cassiebsg: 5pts
Stupot+: 5pts
Baron: 1pt
E I E I O
Stupot+: 5pts
aeiou
selmiak: 1pt
You are you and I am I.
Solution (though I'm not sure how best to phrase it): One point for every word (or string of letters, even if it is just one letter) which, when spoken phonetically, contains only vowel sounds (or semivowels such as /j/).
Stupot+: 5pts
Stupot+: No
Solution: 1 point for every word where there are more vowels than consonants?
(haven't checked all posts, and don't know if Y is counted as a vowel or a consonant... cause if it's a vowel, then it doesn't fit in one of the posts I checked, mind you).
You got it! Congrats Cassiebsg!
It was fun to see you all going in wrong directions first and then finally getting closer and closer.
Thanks :) had a feeling the "a" was the right point in that huge sentence...
Anyway, y isn't a vowel, right?
According to Merriam Webster, it depends (http://beta.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vowel).
I have learned at school that vowels are a, e, i, o, u, so I went with that.
Are you starting a new game?
Ah good, that's what I learned too, but since English isn't my first language and we didn't even had Y on our alphabet back then, I wasn't sure.
Someone else please take it :), I don't have the time to count points (and would most likely miscount them anyway).
Ahh damn. I knew it was vowel-related but didn't quite hit the nail in the head. My theory worked on Mandle's 11-pointer, so I was pretty confident I was on the right track. Oh well. Good work Cassie.
Couldn't have done it without you. It was your 5pts "You are you and I am I." that showed the solution. (nod)
So, who has the next puzzle?
Cassie: 7
Cat: 1
next puzzle?
Who is the next squirrel?
Kumpel: 0
Cat: 0
; , . ! " § % & / ( ) = (nod)
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Kumpel: 0
Cassie: 3
a ee iii oooo uuuuu
hi there!
Baron bars Narob on Rab.
Kumpel: 1
Selmiak: 0
Baron: 8
Baron bars Narob on Rab.
Baron bars Narob on Rab.
abc
Cat: 8
Selmiak: 8
Cassie: 3
Solution: 1 point for each a, b and c ? (first 3 letters of the alphabet)
Yep :-D well done you.
And thanks to Kumpel for finding the "a" and Baron, cat and selmiak for finding the b... ;)
Okay, I'll host a round... this is way too quiet... :P
Stupot: 4 pts.
Hooray!
Cat: 1 pt
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
U E U A A Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang
Kumpel: 7 pts
Stupot: 4 pts
Why did the squirrel cross the road?
cat: 3 pts
Because the trees are always greener on the other side.
cat: 3 pts
What did the squirrel say to its food?
Stupot: 3 pts
"You're nuts!"
Stupot: 1 pt
What did the squirrel say to his nuts?
Baron: 3 pts
"You're nuts!"
Kumpel: 2 pts
"You're nuts!"
cat: 1 pt
not again!
selmiak: 1 pt
nuts
Kumpel: 1 pts
not again!
Kumpel: 1 pts
not again!
Stupot: 0 pts
"You're nuts!"
Baron: 1 pt
not again!
Baron: 0 pt
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Baron: 6 pts
bcdefhjklmpqrsvwxyz
a bb ccc dddd eeeee ffffff ggggggg hhhhhhhh iiiiiiiii
Baron: 6 pts
Kumpel: 1 pt
a
cat: 0 pts
not again!
cat: 0 pts
bcdefhjklmpqr
j kk lll mmmm nnnnn oooooo ppppppp qqqqqqqq rrrrrrrrr
aaa
Baron: 1 pt
Kumpel: 3 pts
Kumpel: 1 pt
a ll
s tt uuu vvv wwww xxxxx yyyyyy zzzzzzz :=
Kumpel: 1 pt
Kumpel: 23 pts (hope I count it right... 8-) )
What???
a j l w x y z
vwxyz
Old Mac Donald was a Fremchman. A E oo la la.
cat: 2 pts
Kumpel: 5 pts
Baron: 5 pts
Stupot: 3 pts
q
Baron: 0 pts
La la la.
w mmmmm
Baron: 0 pts
Gurok: 3 pts
w mmmmm
cat: 2 pts
w mmmmm
cat: 2pts
w mmmmm
Stupot: 2 pts
w
Kumpel: 3 pts
V
w
Kumpel: 2 pts
Baron: 2 pts
y
Kumpel: 2 pts
Kumpel
cat: 1 pt
.
x
z
cat
Cornelius Cat's Pest Control
Cat vs. Squirrel
Kumpel: 1 pt
Kumpel: 2 pt
Kumpel: 1 pt
cat: 0 pts
cat: 0 pts
Stupot: 1 pt
squirrel wins!
Indeed :(
Solution: One point for each letter k, v, x , y and 2 points for the letter w (cause it's two v's...?) occuring in the post or the name of the poster. ???
Or does it have to do with the ^ shapes in the letters? but then the x and k should get 2 points like the w does (which should even get 3 points ^^) and the z should generally get points (2 I'd guess...) :-\
selmiak: 3 pts
cat: 0 pts:
Kumpel: Nope (technically is incorrect... ;) it's still a "1 point for" rule)
Kumpel: 13 pts (I hope, not easy to count when everyone keeps talking to me here home (roll) )
WHAT? The WWWWWWWWWWW clearly gets 2 points each?! (26pt.?) :P
Kumpel: 26 pts (still "1 point" rule :p )
^ > <
Kumpel: 1 pt
EDIT: Let me know if you guys wish me to let the Squirrel lose out of it's cage... (roll)
The problem for me is, my solution works with every post you got in this round. So technically it is right ;)
I don't get how the w could get one point but I still get two if I only post a single "w"...
Gimme some squirrelish cryptic hint! :D
The nickname seems to be included in the count. Or something else not directly post content.
So Cassie, did I mess up your previous countings now?
w
Kumpel: Post out of bounds...
cat: 2 pts
Kumpel: 5 pts
kumpel: 3 pts
I just said technically is incorrect. ;)
/me opens cage
Squirrel runs up a tree. Kumpel chases it, tries to climb the tree but slips and falls! You are now stuck looking at the Squirrel teasing you from the top of the tree, because you still haven't figured out how to climb the tree.
- Your move! :-D
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW m
hmmmmmmm
Gurok: 197 pts (or out of bounds, if I counted wrong... :p )
selmiak: 1 pt
wwwwwwwwhat?
selmiak: 17 pts
Quote from: Kumpel on Thu 21/01/2016 13:36:56
Or does it have to do with the ^ shapes in the letters? but then the x and k should get 2 points like the w does (which should even get 3 points ^^) and the z should generally get points (2 I'd guess...) :-\
That's almost the solution.
1 point for every ^ form you can take out of the letters in the post including username. This is destructive, so taking away 1 ^ form from x leaves only 1 ^ form over, taking the < out of z leaves - and so on.
I don't think that's what Cassie is aiming for. (S)He said "still one-point-rule, so every letter can get only one point. But our ^ theory prooves, that x and w should get 2 points each. Or am I misunderstanding you, selmiak?
you wrote
Quote from: Kumpel on Thu 21/01/2016 13:33:54
Solution: One point for each letter k, v, x , y and 2 points for the letter w (cause it's two v's...?) occuring in the post or the name of the poster. ???
my conclusion is you worded it wrong with the 2 points for w and not 1 point for every ^ shape in the w (laugh)
edit: if this is correct... thanks a lot kumpel!
but the X has the same amount of ^ as the W does ??? How would you explain the 2 points for two ^ in W but only one point for two ^ in X?
selmiak: post out of bounds (no complicated math, I'm not into math... just 1+1+1...=...)
Kumpel: 14 pts (note: I never said "so every letter can get only one point") (roll)
selmiak: post out of bounds
Kumpel: 18 pts
The Squirrel looks puzzled as you try climbing the tree upside down... (laugh)
Solution: One point for every / in the name + message?
Great idea! But the z gets no points and clearly has a / :( Also the operators ^, < and > all got a / and didnt get any points.
Oh, sorry.
Solution: One point for every \ in a letter in the name + message.
with this one the R would get a point and still the ^ < and > are ignored :-D
Do we know R gets no points?
Gurok: Nope
Kumpel: 3 pts
Gurok: 2 pts (and NOPE)
Kumpel: 5 pts
Gurok: 4 pts 6 pts (sorry my kid keeps making me drawings (laugh) )
The Squirrel is puzzled as Kumpel and Gurok try to climb the tree from the sides, instead of taking the direct route.
Cassie are you sure you counted guroks last post right? I see two Ws and the k in his name. Shouldn't it be 5 ???
R
Kumpel: 9 pts
Kumpel: 1 pt
(updated last previous post count, sorry about that)
In that case shouldn't Kumpel's last post have 2 pts if there's a K in his name?
Wait... D'oh
Soulution: the number of \ in just the post, not including the name.
^ Sekond
(http://theinfosphere.org/images/thumb/e/eb/Scruffy_2.jpg/300px-Scruffy_2.jpg)
Stupot+ I am 100% shure the name is in the counting included. ^^
Stupot: Nope
Weston_Kaunk: 21 pts (yeahhh.. a new player! :-D But he opened a can of worms! 8-0 )
Kumpel: 1 pt
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! 8-0 8-0 8-0
_ ?
(o) (o)
/\/\/\/\/\
Kumpel: 2 pts (yeah, wasn't easy, but I hope I got it right... (roll)(laugh) )
Kumpel: 1 pt
Gurok: 5 pts
(
Kumpel: 1 pt
/\ /\ /\ /\ /\ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/
Kumpel: 6 pts
Solution: One point for each thing pointing down in a post (including username)?
Wait, no never mind.
Gurok: 4 pts
v V \/
o
the post, name, and possibly some part of the title and tag line are include. This is a tough one, should Focus on eliminating Letter/things not included in count
Kumpel: 4 pts
Weston_Kaunk: 4 pts
Weston_Kaunk: 5 pts
(wtf)
Solution: One point for every \ in a post including everything ( usernames, signature, text under the picture, (but not that thing that says 'Report to Moderator'))
(To be honest this doesn't work with all posts but I'm just throwing it out there that there's a whole lot more included than just the username and post.)
Edit: oh sorry, I hadn't read Weston's last post where he pretty much says the same thing.
Solution: One point for every v-shape (but not ^-shape) in any letter or symbol combination of the name, posting or signature text.
(No idea about Weston_Kaunks 21 pt. posting consisting of only a "^ sekond" a picture and his signature "tldr: I say too much
http://westonkaunk.itch.io/" though... - his name gets 4 points and maybe his signature is counted which gives him 5 more. I would count 10 points then...)
Weston that other stuff doesn't seem to be included or else stupot would have gotten more points for his "Rotwheelers" status or selmiak for his crazy upside down but still vs and ks consisting tagline... also I changed my tagline to test this. it wasnt relevant for Cassiebsg.
Other stuff like << Last Edit.... isnt counted either. at least not in every post...
obo
lol gurok. Two or three letters in the signature aren't enough, hu? :P
I wwvwvwv don't yyyw knowwwwwyVyyX what you meanxxXXXX \/\/\/\/ sen\/d he\/\/\lp
the 21 must have been something in the hyperlink of the picture, and not the signature or anything.. huhh..
Quote from: Weston_Kaunk on Tue 26/01/2016 02:37:57
the 21 must have been something in the hyperlink of the picture, and not the signature or anything.. huhh..
ooooooh. I like it.
http://theinfosphere.org/images/thumb/e/eb/Scruffy_2.jpg/300px-Scruffy_2.jpg just gets 3 points more.... OH! but the slashes!
Solution: One point for every /-line (but not \-line) in any letter or symbol of the name, posting (including hyperlinks of graphics in a posting) or signature text. ???
(With that Cassie would have ignored the slashes in Westons signature but counted it in the postings hyperlink... WTH? 8-0 )
Alternative with which Cassie would have indeed ignored selmiaks and my previous tagline :-\
Solution: One point for every /-line (but not \-line) in any letter or symbol of the name, posting (including hyperlinks of graphics in a posting) or tagline.
Yeah I am now pretty sure we think far too complicated ^^ Westons Signature hasnt been counted after his 21pts post so this couldnt it be that either :(
Also he put a / in one post which also didn't bring him a point more than his 4 name points and the y in his post... So it can't be a / that gives points after all. I feel like I am back at the start...
Argh.... do you really expect me to count all this? I'm sick today. :p
Quote
Solution: One point for every v-shape (but not ^-shape) in any letter or symbol combination of the name, posting or signature text.
Please try this one again... it's only one item away from the truth... (roll)
Solution: One point for every v-shape (but not ^-shape) in any letter or symbol combination of the name, posting, signature or tagline. 8-0
Solution: One point for every v-shape (but not ^-shape) in any letter or symbol combination of the name, posting (including hyperlinks of graphics in a posting) or signature text.
Stupot: Nope
Kumpel: Nope
Gurok: 1 pt
Kumpel: 4 pts
Gurok: 49 pts (you evil you :P )
Weston_Kaunk: 6 pts (wrong)
Stupot: 1 pt
Kumpel: Nope
Kumpel: Nope
Kumpel: Post out of bounds
Kumpel: Nope
Kumpel: Nope
I hadn't realized this would be so complicated to solve... (wrong) Use your 8-0 8-)
http://theinfosphere.org/images/thumb/e/eb/Scruffy_2.jpg/300px-Scruffy_2.jpg
Kumpel: 3 pts
So I now got a can of worms I have no idea where they came from and a squirrel looking confused how I am trying to climb the tree... I am just tired (wtf)
Well, it appears you're not counting signatures, so...
Solution: One point for every v-shape (but not ^-shape) in any letter or symbol combination of the name or posting.
YES Gurok!!! Thank you!!!! (nod)
Don't get how Kumpel had the solution from the 1st solution he posted, but failed to see it. Even though I tried to give a clue so he wouldn't think it was totally off... (roll)
PS - Reason Weston_Kaunk got 21 pt with posting a picture, is cause there's a lot of V shapes in that picture! And I was going for a visual V, not characters. :p
Wow! I practically posted that a few pages ago, but crossed it out!
Okay, new game begins now! I have a great one for you guys. :D
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1VpL6peX4oU/SwmMXbGrW1I/AAAAAAAAByY/0DKJD_WOERc/s1600/FFFFFUUUUUUU-.png)
Kumpel: 0 points
Daaaamn. You tricky devil, Cassie.
Stupot+: 2058 points
what? I'm getting that out of pan into fire feeling
Weston_Kaunk: 1055 points
Uhm....
Cassiebsg: 1000 points
a
Cassiebsg: 0 points
ab
Cassiebsg: 0 points
abc
Cassiebsg: 100 points
c
Cassiebsg: 100 points
ca
Cassiebsg: 100 points
y
Cassiebsg: 0 points
ping pong
Oooh. Now we're getting somewhere.
Cassiebsg: 1 point
i
Hmmm
C
Cassiebsg: 1 point
Stupot+: 3000 points
Cassiebsg: 100 points
Hmmm
Cassiebsg: 3000 points
m
Gimme some points!
solution: points for letters in a posting resembling roman numbers.
Ah, sounds about right! Good spotted!
i=I = 1
c=C = 100
m=M = 1000
Guessing V is 5... :-D
Cassiebsg: 1000 points
cat: 3002 points
Kumpel: I'm going to need to need more detail (there are several variants). If you can give me the correct score for the phrase "Dames, knights and fox killers.", I'll assume you know what's going on.
Cassiebsg: 4210 points
Solution: One point for i(I), 4 points for iv(IV, maybe "iV", "Iv", "i v", "i V" and "I V" too...), 5 points for v(V), 9Points for ix(IX and so on...), 10 points for x(X), 40 points for xl (XL...), 50 points for l(L), 90 Points for xl(XL...), 100 points for c(C), 400 points for cd(CD...), 500 Points for d(D), 900 points for dm (DM...), 1000 points for m(M).
That better be right! :P
The "i" in killers shouldn't effect the following "l", so it should be 1+50+50. I don't see any other troublesome combinations. ^^
so the score should be:
500+1000+1+500+10+1+50+50 = 2112
Kumpel: I'm sorry. These values are all over the place. Which part of Rome did you get your numerals from?
I think it's simpler than that.
This sentence will pay dividends.
Alright, Kumpel's edited reply is enough. The totals are correct, but I'm guessing he listed out the wrong values in excitement. I'm going to give it to Kumpel.
lol sry. Yeah i forgot the 4 point rule and pasted the 9 point without editing it to 4 point :-[
And at first I confused 50 and 500 but noticed that afterwards...
Phew. You know I'd have been devastated if you had said now: "Nope. I mean that other variant... := "
Okay. On to a new one! ^^
Stupot+: 13 pts. EDITED SRY
Gurok: Post out of bounds
I think it's simpler than that.
This sentence will pay dividends.
Baron: 13pts. EDITED SRY
I think it's simpler than that.
This sentence will pay dividends.
Cassiebsg: 13pts. EDITED SRY
I
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
sentence
Cassiebsg: 3pts.
eee
I have a couple of theories but need more data.
Cassiebsg: 3pts.
Stupot+: 19pts.
SOLUTION: The number of horizontal lines in a post (e's, f's, t's.... not capital I's though, because I guess they're just decorative (roll) ).
Baron: Nope.
Damn it, Stupot! :P Take it your new sentence to ruin a perfectly good solution... (laugh)
Cassiebsg: 22pts.
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a e c u n m h s S
I am Jack's lack of squirrel.
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I was going to guess it's the number of fully enclosed spaces e.g. o but I count 13 in Stupots first sentence when only 12 points were awarded.
(Sry Haggis! You are damn right its 13! I must have missed one letter! Please elaborate on your theory. I am not sure, if you mean what I think)
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Weston_Kaunk: 2 pts.
Stupot+: 6 pts.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
Haggis: Post out of bounds (AKA too lazy to count)
Damn it, Stupot!
Ah! Good job Haggis! (nod)
I'll let you formulate the solution, cause now it's obvious you are right. (laugh)
Ok, so my detailed solution is - 1 point for any of the following letters - q o p a d g b e Q D A B* O P R
(letters which have ringed off areas / fully enclosed spaces / holes in them)
*would this have been worth 2 points?
Tbh I suspect many other people were on to the same theory so I can't take much credit - Baron's post about horizontal lines got me thinking on this track.
Happy to pass baton for starting new puzzle to someone else
Alright Haggis got it. Just missed the numbers and symbols ;) And B, 8 and stuff like that would have gotten 2 points.
Haggis i don't think baron would bother. Your turn :)
(http://www.motivateusnot.com/resize.php?name=LzM3OC9JZi15b3UncmUtaGF2aW5nLWEtYmFkLWRheS1KdXN0LXRoaW5rLW9mLXRoaXMtc3F1aXJyZWwtNTJmNWZkODEyYTQxNS5qcGc=&w=550&h=9999&extension=.jpg)
I'll still leave it open to someone else to continue - early bird gets the points worm.
I'll still leave it open to someone else to continue - early bird gets the points worm.
I'll still leave it open to someone else to continue - early bird nets the points worm.
Okay.
Haggis: 3 pt
Baron: 1
Gurok: 4
I'll still leave it open to someone else to continue - early bird nets the points worm.
I'll still leave it open to someone else to continue - early bird gets the points worm.
Kumpel: 1
Gurok: 5
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Kumpel: 9
Baron: 2
(//)
abcdefg
Kumpel: 6
Baron: 5
To find this squirrel you might need to think outside of the circle.
(//)
RT: 3
Kumpel: 5
...
...
...
Baron: 8
Danvzare: 9
Ryan T: 7
I feel like this could go on infinitely :-/
1
1
1
Cassie: 9
Cassie: 3
Danvzare: 2
Come on guys. More guesses. Let's keep it constant.
9 and 3? so it's gotta be the reply number. Thats the only thing that changed between the posts. Even/Uneven maybe.
Or
stupot+ computes the points with a combination of the actual poster and his/her predecessor? But how? :-\
(//)
(//)
(//)
Kumpel: 3
Kumpel: 8
Kumpel: 4
Kumpel: 6
If you think this is irrational, that's because it is :-)
Quote from: Stupot+ on Tue 01/03/2016 12:48:04
this is irrational, that's because it is :-)
Irrational?!? This is downright crazy!
It's either got something to do with the reply number, or it's got something to do with the exact date and time, which you can only see when you quote someone.
And in either case, I have no idea how you're coming up with these numbers. Are you running some sort of algorithm using the individual numbers on the reply number? Are you counting the horizontal and vertical lines on the reply number, and using the result as part of some sort of algorithm? Are you looking up the number of notable events on Wikipedia for the year that corresponds with the reply number?
I have absolutely no idea!
I simply can't figure it out.
Unless of course you're just coming up with random numbers.
Is that the answer? Are you just coming up with random and meaningless numbers?
Answer: The score is the nth digit of pi, where n is the reply number. So 3 for the first reply, 1 for the second and so on.
Boom. Well done Gurok. Did you get my clues along the way (circle, constant, infinite, irational)?
Plus, there was even a clue in my first post of this round representing the decimal point.
3 pt
1
4
:-D
Well I hereby feel like an idiot.
Congrats Gurok. (nod)
I would have never guessed it, I'm sure.
Bob eats bananas.
Oh Wow! Really clever one Stupot+ and pretty nice catch, Gurok!
Thanks everyone! Actually, it was Danvzare's comment about random numbers that made me think to check for sequences. The pi clues all made sense afterwards though, Stupot. "Think outside the circle!" LOL :D
Oh, and next round:
Stupot+: 6 points
Danvzare: 2 points
Casssiebsg: 1 point
Ryan Timoothy: 0 points
Kumpel: 2 points
Bob eats bananas.
Kumpel: 0 points
EDIT: Also, I made counting errors with Stupot's and Danvzare's replies, but I've fixed those now.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Danvzare: 0 points
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
A B C o'clock D o'clock E.
Ryan Timoothy: 0 points
Stupot+: 4 points
Well I hereby feel like an idiot.
Ryan Timoothy: 2 points
Bob eats bananas because he likes bananas.
Ryan Timoothy: 1 point
Solution: A point for every attached double letters in a word (ie: really). A point for each duplicate word but 2 points for each duplicate word within a sentence. [or so that's how it has actually fallen into play - unless I've missed something]
// oh snap. I missed my last post. That doesn't fall into play here.... Hmmm that might be the only one that doesn't.
o'clock o'clock
Not quite, Ryan Timoothy. I don't know how to do these squirrel clues. Something about a nut? No clues yet, sorry.
Kumpel: 2 points
o'clock
Kumpel: 1 point
oho oho
Apple banana celery
Kumpel: 3 points
Ryan Timoothy: 5 points
Ant Bug Colt
Ryan Timoothy: 0 points
Babenost
Danvzare: 0 points
ll pp oo
Cassiebsg: 1 point
ll ll ll
Danvzare: 3 points
Ant Ant
Won't Won't Won't
Wont Wont Wont
Ryan Timoothy: 1 point
Ryan Timoothy: 0 points
Ryan Timoothy: 0 points
We were getting close and now it seems we're just moving further away. Should I give a hint?
Aristotle.
Stupot+: 1 point
aa bb cc dd ee ff gg hh ii jj kk ll mm nn oo pp qq rr ss tt uu vv ww xx yy zz
AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LL MM NN OO PP QQ RR SS TT UU VV WW XX YY ZZ
Aristote.
Danvzare: 0 points
Ryan Timoothy: 0 points
As far as I can tell there's something going on with L's but I can't seem to figure it out because there appears to be more than just that.
But still I think I'm climbing the wrong tree.
Ryan Timoothy: 6 points
Ryan Timoothy: 2 points
Yep, wrong tree.
Spoiler
Hopefully I didn't screw anything up, here's the recap. I need a smart person to solve this. ;)
Boom. Well done Gurok. Did you get my clues along the way (circle, constant, infinite, irational)?
Plus, there was even a clue in my first post of this round representing the decimal point.
3 pt
1
4
:-D
6 points
Well I hereby feel like an idiot.
2 points
Congrats Gurok. (nod)
I would have never guessed it, I'm sure.
1 points
Bob eats bananas.
0 point
Oh Wow! Really clever one Stupot+ and pretty nice catch, Gurok!
2 points
Bob eats bananas.
0 points
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
0 points
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0 points
A B C o'clock D o'clock E.
4 points
Well I hereby feel like an idiot.
2 points
Bob eats bananas because he likes bananas.
1 point
o'clock o'clock
2 points
o'clock
1 points
oho oho
3 points
Apple banana celery
5 points
Ant Bug Colt
0 points
Babenost
0 points
ll pp oo
1 point
ll ll ll
3 points
Ant Ant
1 point
Won't Won't Won't
0 points
Wont Wont Wont
0 points
Aristotle.
1 point
aa bb cc dd ee ff gg hh ii jj kk ll mm nn oo pp qq rr ss tt uu vv ww xx yy zz
AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LL MM NN OO PP QQ RR SS TT UU VV WW XX YY ZZ
0 points
Aristote.
0 points
As far as I can tell there's something going on with L's but I can't seem to figure it out because there appears to be more than just that.
6 points
But still I think I'm climbing the wrong tree.
2 points
An adventure game forum where people have given up on a good puzzle.
I think people might have just put it on hold to solve murders, but I've been here... waiting.
Ryan Timoothy: 2 points!
Also, we're not really chasing a squirrel this time. It's more like the mouse from Hickory Dickory Dock. I hope that's a clue and doesn't just confuse people more.
Haven't given up, but am out of ideas... or time. (roll)
Hickory Dickory Dock? That clock rhyme? So the puzzle has to do with the time of the post? But I really can't see a connection or find a rule atm.
I think it's more of a rhyming thing but I also think I'm truly wrong.
Cassiebsg: 1 point
Kumpel: 4 points
Ryan Timoothy: 1 point
Madam, I'm confused. I'd honestly prefer prison flog.
prison flog? isn't that an anagram sentence? "Golf? No sir, prefer prison flog." Damn gurok, you are confusing me more and more! Please go on :=
Kumpel: 5 points
Wait, I think I've got it.
It it how many possible palindromes are in the post?
...
Looking at some of the previous posts, nope, that seems wrong. Damn. >:(
I'm going to say no because I don't know what "possible palindrome" means, but the squirrel chirps, jumps up and down, whatever squirrels do to show they're excited.
Danvzare: 4 points
? sdrow sdrawkcab gnitnuoc uoy era ?
Cassiebsg: 0 points
That's part of it, but you also need some forwards words.
Golf? No sir, prefer prison flog
Kumpel: 13 points
bb bb bb
AAA AAA AAA
Danzvare: 2 points
Must be something else counting, cause I only count 12 in Kumpel's post. Unless I can't count (so very true! (laugh) )
Are you counting every word and sentence that appears both forwards and backwards if you remove all spaces?
nope, I counted characters... there are 12 and meet at the middle by one single f, so I'm not counting the f, spaces, or punctuation... I did however no check if there's some other hidden "msg" into Kumpel's nick or msg, or counted "words+reverse"
i guess it's something about words that have reverse words inside them. And maybe two combined words are also counted as one word (which makes my sentence countable in the way it has been counted)
But I have the feeling Gurok is missing some words. I'll check that in my next posts.
ab are prefer golf
Cassiebsg: 4 points
Danzvare: 2 points
Cassiebsg: 7 points
Kumpel: 8 points
Kumpel: 1 point
I'm going to say Cassiebsg miscounted. :O
No Sir, prefer prison.
Kumpel: 9 points
Damn...it seems a game I made gained some traction and actually got popular...
Now, go fly my minions!!!
Spread this game to the furthest reaches of internet forums!
But just remember to say my name...
Heisenberg Mandle....
"You're goddamn right!"
(No need to score this post...I'm just ducking in and out...)
Mandle: 5 points
A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama
frog gorf
Kumpel: 11 points
Cassiebsg: 4 points
Weird Science?
Plastic tubes and pots and pans... I mean
Stupot+: 0 points
Mississippi
Stupot+: 1 point
frog a gorf
Mississippi
Cassiebsg: 5 points
Kumpel: 1 point
dock rhyme post butt
Kumpel: 1 point
Ah... think I got it now... no idea how to formulate it though... will need to think about it
I got nothing so far. The points for my last post threw me of the track now completely. It's definitely not just something like "one point for every word, that includes the same/another word if read backwards.
Cassiebsg: 2 points
Kumpel: 3 points
rhyme post
Kumpel: 1 point
It's got nothing to do with whether the words rhyme.
1789 2 9871
Cassiebsg: 5 points
0987 567 7890
Cassiebsg: 5 points
09875677890
Cassiebsg: 5 points
nope... still confused (roll)
(laugh)(laugh)(laugh)
SOS SOS SOS
Cassiebsg: 1 point
Kumpel: 1 point
Note: I am counting the (laugh) (laugh) (laugh) from those emoticons. Without that (just "SOS SOS SOS"), it would be:
Kumpel: 5 points
And if it were just SOS, it would be:
Kumpel: 2 points
And if it were just O, it would be:
Kumpel: 1 point
Sorry. I am not trying to middle in your affairs, Kumpel. As for Cassie, there are a lot of clues I've centre (and others). She was really close, but just couldn't work out where the last point was coming from. Come on, someone has to get this! :P
I know from my experience it's getting boring very fast if no one seems to have a clue what the puzzle solution is (laugh)
PS: I have NO CLUE! (wrong)(wtf)(laugh)
>_<
Kumpel: 3 points
Stupot+: 0 points (there's nothing palindromes care about in that message)
Boring I Know!
Gnirob I Wonk!
wait! emoticons count minus? (wtf)
Kumpel: 0 points
Cassiebsg: 0 points
Cassiebsg (without the emoticon): 2 points
Punctuation does not count, just like palindromes. For instance,
Madam, I'm Adam.
Full stops, apostrophes and commas don't matter.
Your emoticon contains wtf in text form, and so, shifts the centre of the palindrome.
YEEEEEZ Guroks way of declaing point rules is way to elaborate for me. I have still no idea when a word counts and when not. My sentence "Boring I Know" reversed contains the words rob and won. So why didn't they count? and which other words in my 3-points-quote
Quote from: Kumpel on Tue 12/04/2016 09:52:58
I know from my experience it's getting boring very fast if no one seems to have a clue what the puzzle solution is (laugh)
PS: I have NO CLUE! (wrong)(wtf)(laugh)
have been counted? ??? :confused: ??? :confused: ??? :confused: ???
Does anyone have an idea?!?
So the two points in "wait! emoticons count minus?" are emoticons = tome and minus = uni?
You gave so many clues/hints (or the solution?) that I'll risk trying to formulate a solution for you. :P
Solution: 1 point for each character matching a palindrome. Counting from the center of the sentence each character that is in the same place ... and the last point that was eluding me was the center character, that can be read from left to right and right to left, as I only counting when there were two matching characters... (roll) spaces and special characters do no count.
Correct, Cassiebsg! Congratulations!
Basically, yes, one point for every character matching a palindrome. My definition was: one point for each time a letter or number can be found equidistant from the beginning and end of the message (not counting spaces or punctuation). With that, I was counting the middle character if there was one.
To illustrate:
Madam, I'm Adam
madamimadam
######
6 instances of the same letter/number occurring the same distance away from the left as it does the right
= 6 points
Now I know what makes an easy/difficult puzzle when it comes to these things. Thanks everyone for staying with it. It was fun... in the beginning.
Okay, next puzzle, Cassie!
YESSSS finally! Cassie I raise my hat off to you ;-D
This has been one tricky puzzle!
let's be fair, Danvzare was the first to mention or even notice palindromes... and Guroks tons of clues... including the "shifts the centre of the palindrome." was what gave it away... the rest I had help with a Wiki... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome , cause I wasn't sure what the rules were for a palindrome. (roll)
I'll see if I can thing of someone decent as follow up, in the mean time, if anyone has go ahead and jump in. ;)
Okay, got one. Not sure if it's going to turnout too hard, or even impossible, though. :-[
Kumpel: 0 pts
Here we go!
abcdfeghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 123456789 8-)
Kumpel: 0 pt
Kumpel: 1 pt
Palindromemordnilap
Stupot+: 0 pts
:) ;) ;-D :-D :( >:(
I like bread and butter
Danvzare: 0
Gurok: 0
1,2,mic-check
selmiak: 0
aeiou
kumpel: 0
8-)
kumpel: 0
b1 cc2 ddd3 ffff4 ggggg5 hhhhhh6 jjjjjjj7 kkkkkkkk8 lllllllll9 mmmmmmmmmm10 :-\
Testing :)
One ;-D
Two :-D
Three 8-0
Kumpel: 0
Danvzare: 0
n pp qqq rrrr sssss tttttt vvvvvvv wwwwwwww xxxxxxxxx yyyyyyyyyy zzzzzzzzzzz :=
Kewpie mayonnaise, avocado, sesame seeds, short-grain rice, apple cider vinegar, salt, sugar, nori. Stir well.
Kumpel: 0
Gurok: 1 pt
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Danvzare: 0
apple cider vinegar, salt, sugar, nori. Stir well.
Gurok: 1 0 pt
Edit: Sorry, just realized I messed up. :(
apple cider vinegar, salt, sugar, nori. Stir well.
apple cider vinegar, salt, sugar, nori. Stir well.
apple cider vinegar, salt, sugar, nori. Stir well.
Kumpel: 0 pt
(sorry, just I messed up on Gurok's post). :(
Banana
Danvzare: 0 pt
solution: every second post after your last count gets one point. Maybe every third gets two and so on. The counter restarts after your next count.
Let's all post a bunch before Cassie's next update.
Sorry for the double post.
Kewpie mayonnaise, avocado, sesame seeds, short-grain rice
Rice-grain shorts
The full thing is my recipe for avocado sushi, BTW. Not the stir well part.
Am I right? 8-0 8-0 8-0 8-0
Kumpel: Nope
Stupot: 0 pt
Stupot: 1 pt
Gurok: 0 pt
Stupot: 0 pt
Gurok: 2 pt
Kumpel: 0 pt
Bob eats bananas.
avocado sushi
Ryan Timoothy: 0 pt
Danvzare: 0 pt
The full thing is my recipe for avocado sushi, BTW. Not the stir well part.
Kumpel: 1 pt
Mayonnaise in sushi? Use wasabi instead!
cat: 0 pt
The full thing is my recipe for avocado sushi, BTW. Not the stir well part.
The full thing is my recipe for avocado sushi, BTW. Not the stir well part.
The full thing is my recipe for avocado sushi, BTW. Not the stir well part.
Kumpel: 3 pts
BTW. Not the stir well part.
Kumpel: 0 pt
recipe for avocado sushi,
The full thing is my
Kumpel: 0 pt
Kumpel: 0 pt
So it's a connection of words/letters...
Kumpel: 0 pt
Now now... should I drop a hint or two? :P
You guys need more data! Play with the ones you know give points... expand or cut on that! No point insisting on zero pts post. ;)
So it's a connection of words/letters...
So it's a connection of words/letters...
The full thing is my recipe for avocado
sushi, BTW. Not the stir well part.
Cat: 0 Pt
Danvzare: 2 pt
Danvzare: 0 pt
avocado for recipe my is thing full The
Kumpel: 0 pt
The full thing is my
recipe for avocado
Danvzare: 0 pt
Danvzare: 0 pt
full thing is my recipe for
Danvzare: 0 pt
What's going on in Cassie's mind?
Stupot: 0 pts (that you still have too little data? or maybe a wild guess will do. (roll) )
thing is my recipe for avocado
Recipe is my avocado for thing!
Danvzare: 0 pt
Gurok: 0 pt
Recipe for avocado is my thing!
The full thing is my recipe for avocado
Stupot: 0 pt
Danvzare: 1 pt
Ok, now I'm totally confused.
That got two points last time?
Danvzare: 0 pt (and yup, yes it did, and I did not miss count. ;) )
(and yup, yes it did, and I did not miss count. ;) )
This full thread is a recipe for confusion.
The fill full fill thing fill is fill my fill recipe fill for fill avocado
cat : 0 pt
Stupot: 2 pt
Kumpel: 1 pt
This full thread is a recipe for confusion.
.confusion for recipe a is thread full This
Gurok is a recipe for a full thread.
Kumpel is also a recipe for a full thread.
(laugh)(laugh)(laugh)
Gurok and Kumpel are the vital ingredients of a full thread.
Kumpel: 0 pt
Gurok: 0 pt
Gurok: 0 pt
Kumpel: 0 pt
Stupot: 1 pt
(laugh)
Full avocado
Full thing for avocado
Full thread
Vital full
I have a full thing for avocado.
Kumpel: 0 pt
Gurok: 0 pt
This is my ISIS island.
Gurok: 0 pt
(http://blog.longislandivf.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/nww-10-10-12-squirrel-FDP.jpg)
How cute!
cat: 0 pts
OMG! I killed the thread! :~(
Even waited for you guys to post and have better chance to score. :P
Quote from: Cassiebsg on Mon 16/05/2016 13:55:08
OMG! I killed the thread! :~(
Even waited for you guys to post and have better chance to score. :P
I'm sure you didn't kill the thread... although a hint would be nice.
Danvzare: 2 pts :-D
Hint 1
Spoiler
You just quoted the hint! (roll)
Hint 2
Spoiler
Posting a line that scores more often, might give another hint...
EDIT: Ooops: I meant to type hide, not quote. (roll)
a line that scores more often
Haggis: 0 pts (laugh)
Hint 3:
Spoiler
Not enough of the correct letters in there to score anything. (roll)
The full thing is my recipe for avocado
Gurok
cat
Gurok: 0 pts
Cat: 1 pt
cat: 1 pt
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7087/7402687046_140b588593_b.jpg)
SOLUTION: 1 point for each set of all letters of the previous poster's name.
Cat: Correct! (nod)
PS - Good job cat! But I already knew you had the solution as soon as I saw your posts. (nod);)
I love those squirrel pics!
Ok, let's do a very easy one for a change:
Cassiebsg: 2 pts
Oops... I ruined your points by editing my post. :-[
Luckily it's still the same :)
Cassiebsg: 4pts
How did no one get that solution! 8-0
It seems so simple now.
Cause you guys forgot to add more data to the equation and test the posts that gave points? ;)
Cassie that is all we ever did :D
Yay. Next one! .....
I see a little squirreletto of a man. Squirreloosh! Squirreloosh. Can you do the Squirrel-dango?
have a feeling that it might no be so much what we type that score points... let us see :D
/me waves a Squirrel at cat
Sorry, due to the forum downtime I couldn't answer earlier.
Danvzare: 6pts
Cassiebsg: 7pts
Kumpel: 8pts
Stupot+: 9pts
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Cassiebsg: 2pts
uhm... 4 pts?
Yes, indeed! I said it would be a quick and easy round ;)
Cassiebsg: 4pts
Well, I haven't figured out the reset... :-\
6 pts?
solution: every dot (!?.i ...) in poster's name and posting gets a point.
Cassie has got it. I won't piggy back this one :-)
uhm... 4 pts?
Cassiebsg: 6pts
Kumpel: No.
Stupot+: 8pts
Danvzare: 9pts
Come on Cassiebsg, almost there!
This one's for you, Cassie.
Am still missing the reset rule... unless it's at 10.
Stupot+: 2pts
Cassiebsg: 3pts
Do I see a squirrel approaching?
Blablabla
Blablabla
Blablabla
Blablabla
8 pts?!
Solution: 1 pt for every post, resets at 10. (roll)
Not sure how to formulate it better, sorry.
At one point I wasn't sure if the reset was 10 or Squirrel... (laugh)
Kumpel: 5pts
Kumpel: 6pts
Kumpel: 7pts
Kumpel: 8pts
Kumpel: 9pts
Cassiebsg: No.
Does it really reset?
When I see a post score more than 9, then I'll say... no. :P
solution: the post has the same amount of points as the last digit of the thread's number.
(wrong)
solution: first post gets 2 points. the next 7 each one point more. resets after the 8th post (9 points) back to 2 points for the next first post in the row. and so on
Solution: isn't it just a cycle 1-9? So basically, the number goes up by one for each post as long as it's in single digits.
Bear in mind cat is counting her own posts, but obviously not giving herself a score.
Yeah you are right. The cycle is 1-9 but this is exactly what Cassie said, isn't it?
Yeah. I think cat and Cassie just have slightly different mental images of what's happening.
Maybe cat sees it more as a constant cycle rather than something that is reset. Like a watch doesn't reset to 12 o'clock every midnight. That's just the next number in the cycle.
Cassiebsg: 3pts
Kumpel: No
Kumpel: No
Stupot+: No
Kumpel: 7pts
Stupot+: 8pts
Quote from: Kumpel on Wed 18/05/2016 23:33:25
first post gets 2 points.
Why is that so? Now that's something where you can start thinking about.
Only because you are a tricky little orange cat! That's why! :=
:P
Kumpel: 1pt
Solution: We need to guess cat's exact wordings for the rule to be accepted... (laugh)
Cassiebsg: No.
You just have to figure out the rule that is applied to each individual post.
Solution: the points for each post are always one number higher than those post preceding it, except when the post preceding it got 9, in which case you get 1.
Stupot+: No.
I see a squirrel approaching!
Solution: First post = 1 pt, 2nd Post = 2 pts... 9th Post = 9 pts... 10th Post = 1 pt... (roll) Included are hosts post in the counting.
8 points?
Cassiebsg: No. (I mean, that's what happens, as you have figured out, but it's not the rule)
Stupot+: 8pts (and I figured that out, without checking the points of the previous posts...)
Solution: first you take sum of all the digits in the reply number (1+4+7+7=19) then take that number and keep adding them together until you have a single digit (1+9=10, so do it again, 1+0=1) so the answer for this post is 1
Hooray! ;-D
The name for this calculation is digit sum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_sum).
The rule was simply "The digit sum of the reply numer".
So, Stupot+ is next (nod)
Ahhhh... math... I had no chance to get that... (roll)
Good job Stupot. :-D
So it WAS the reply number. Mind blown! But you could have said that my crossed out idea had some squirrelish feeling :P
That turned out not to be such a hard one but we were so put off by the fact that the numbers were just cycling in such a regular pattern.
Here's one:
Cat: 24
Cassiebsg: 9
Kumpel: 114
?!
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Good thing this is the Rumpus room, or I would get banned for spamming! (laugh)
Kumpel: 0
Cassiebsg: 9
Cassiebsg: 9
Cassiebsg: 9
Cassiebsg: 63
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Good thing this is the Rumpus room, or I would get banned for spamming! (laugh)
Stupot, Stupot, where are you?
Danvzare: 8
Cat: 21
Cassiebsg: 171
Oh dear... why do I have the feeling I'll have to do math again? (roll)
Quote from: Stupot+ on Wed 25/05/2016 02:05:06
Car: 21
(http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/cat-car-meow-david-karasow.jpg)
Cassiebsg: 135
cat: 51
Good thing this is the Rumpus room, or I would get banned for spamming! (laugh)
Cat: 21
Damn, thought I had a good idea for the solution, but I ended up with 22 pts to cat, instead of the 21... so on with the show. (nod)
Cassiebsg: 36
We need moar dataz!
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Uhm, that was a low score. :-\
1
Gurok: 45
Cassiebsg: 189
Kumpel: 0
We need more data.
Moar Moar Moar
Moar Moar Moar
We need more data.
How much is the fish?
How much is the fish?
the fish is How much?
How fish is the much?
How much is the fish?
Also, what's a piecost?
Hooray for data!
Cat: 69
Kumpel: 78
Cassiebsg: 117
Cassiebsg: 207
Kumpel: 48
Cassiebsg: 72
Cassiebsg: 180
Kumpel: 48
Gurok: 40
Gurok: 5
How much is the fish?
How much is the salmon?
How much are the sardines?
Cat: 24
Cat: 24
Cat: 24
How
Cassiebsg: 72
How much
How
How fish
How now
hOw
hoW
HOW
Kumpel: 48
Kumpel: 48
Kumpel: 48
Gurok: 40
Cassiebsg: 72
Cassiebsg: 72
Cassiebsg: 72
Fish
Kumpel: 36
Who
ohw
Xenon
Cassiebsg: 207
Cassiebsg: 135
Kumpel: 144
woh
Cassiebsg: 207
(roll)
It must have to do with the posters name and at least the first letter of the post. Cat's posts where way lower than Cassies. is it because she has just three letters and Cassie has 9? I also think it is not a puzzle of math but a puzzle of where the letter is in the alphabet. But it is not a simple transfer of the letter's number or at least not only that...
Cassiebsg: 0
Kumpel: 54
Solution: Position of the first letter in the alphabet times the number of letters in the poster's name.
Quote from: Gurok on Mon 06/06/2016 01:12:45
Solution: Position of the first letter in the alphabet times the number of letters in the poster's name.
Ding Ding Ding!
Yep. Well, done Gurok :-)
Kumpel can have it. He did most of the work.
Quote from: Gurok on Mon 06/06/2016 03:18:40
Kumpel can have it. He did most of the work.
hehe, he pretty much solved it without realising. Cassie did a good job of narrowing it down too. I thought she was on the squirrel's trail.
8-0 8-0 8-0
It was definitely too late at night...
New game coming soon (laugh)
How on earth did anyone manage to figure that out! 8-0
This has been confusing me for weeks.
I had a suspicion, yes. But haven't really had time to analyze the data. ;-D
Good job Gurok and Kumpel. (nod)
Nice one! Looking forward to the next round.
Okay. here it goes!
Danvzare: 10 pts.
Cassiebsg: 6 pts. CORRECTED
cat: 3 pts.
Okay. here it goes!
Nice one! Looking forward to the next round.
Okay. here it goes!
Okay. here it goes!
cat: 2 pts.
Gurok: 12 pts.
Stupot+: 8 pts.
Cassiebsg: 2pts.
Okay. here it goes!
Whoops, there it is!
[embed=640,390]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCEr327W44[/embed]
Oh shit. Is it 'whoomp?' I always thought it was 'whoops' (laugh)
Ehhh, whoomp/whoops, it's cool. Everybody thought it was that.
I'll be your DJ for the evening while we wait for Kumpel to return.
[embed=640,390]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hiUuL5uTKc[/embed]
Danvzare: 1pt.
Stupot+:11pts.
Gurok:10pts.
Srupot+: 9pts.
Gurok: 15pts.
Okay. here it goes!
cat: 2 pts.
here it goes!
I love orange soda.
cat: 5 pts.
Stupot+: 11 pts.
Okay.
cat: 2 pts.
I love orange soda.
cat: 5 pts.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Cassiebsg: 2 pts.
ae
Cassiebsg: 2 pts.
a
e
Cassiebsg: 2 pts.
Cassiebsg: 2 pts.
.
uhmmmm
interesting
ae
æ
Cassiebsg: 1 pt.
Cassiebsg: 3 pts.
Stupot+: 8 pts.
Gurok: 11 pts.
a
æ
cat: 2 pts.
Danvzare: 1 pt.
Hope someone is getting close to a solution, cause I got nothing. :-\
Cassiebsg: 13 pts.
Me neither. Like a limbless cricketer, I'm stumped.
Stupot+: 9 pts.
Absolutely no clue.
cat: 4 pts.
Need a squirrel attractant? :p
Not yet, but tks. :-D
Cassiebsg: 5 pts.
Solution: 1 point for each (english) word, including nickname. ???
Edit: Never mind, doesn't apply to all posts.
Cassiebsg: 2pts.
I can see a tiny squirrel. But it seems to be far away...
It's time for more data, data, data!
Aaaaa
Gurok: 11 pts.
Data? Is that dayta or dadda?
I always say dadda. Think it's more like Latin that way (dah-toom). It's also the way everyone else says it here.
We don't say wer-bah-toom for verbatim (ver-bay-tim) though.
Quote from: Gurok on Mon 20/06/2016 01:33:34
I always say dadda. Think it's more like Latin that way (dah-toom). It's also the way everyone else says it here.
We don't say wer-bah-toom for verbatim (ver-bay-tim) though.
I say dayta. Probably because of Star Trek.
Stupot+: 8 pts.
Gurok: 14 pts.
Danvzare: 2 pts.
It's time for more data, data, data!
Cassiebsg: 8 pts.
Blade Runner?
Stupot+: 9pts. (Wrong thread? (wtf) )
You guys seem to have no clue, eh?
Any theory at all? Any insight? Just throw it in the room!
Is this game dying out? 8-0
Well, busy to give it a hard thought.
Maybe once I reach Beta I'll have a bit of time.
Cassiebsg: 9 pts.
More data!
Stupot+
Stupot+: 9 pts.
Cassiebsg: 2 pts.
Could anyone get that squirrel from the other side of the world? :=
An Australian squirrel?
Not for you!
cat: 4 pts.
.
.
.
An Austrian squirrel?
Cassiebsg: 1 pt.
Cassiebsg: 1 pt.
Cassiebsg: 1 pt.
cat: 4 pts.
yep!
Does Cassiebsg have a Danish squirrel?
Or a Portuguese one?
Let's us meet in the middle and say France. (laugh)
And no, still haven't a clue.........
cat: 7 pts.
cat: 5 pts.
Cassiebsg: 10 pts.
cat, the squirrel is in ya face now!
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/5a/8f/48/5a8f48433c0ed6a33536bc21dc1631d2.jpg)
Cassiebsg: 1 pt.
Squirrel
Cassiebsg: 2pts.
Sorry I am in a hospital at the moment. (got a black eye for real. left-sided optic nerve inflammation killed my left eyes view :( hopefully back on track at next weekend) So I won't be on a lot.
The squirrel cat found, is the biggest one I've ever seen!
Just think outside the box.
Get well soon...
Uhm... points based on our location? 8-0
Cassiebsg: 4 pts.
Almost there! The Squirrel is dancing on both of your noses now. Can you elaborate on that?
(Thanks!)
No sorry, still can't see the squirrel...
/me cleans up glasses
Cassiebsg: 8pts.
Germany
Denmark
Germany
Cassiebsg: 2 pts.
Cassiebsg: 2 pts.
Cassiebsg: 2 pts.
ahhhhhhh
I'm still clueless. Hmmmm
I gave up long ago.
These Points Games are just way too hard for my simple mind.
Germany
I tried that, but only gave me the same points...
It's obvious that what you type matters. But how does it relate to our location and/or previous poster/host location, I'm entirely clueless. :-\
Cassiebsg: 2 pts.
Stupot+: 10 pts.
Danzvazare: 5 pts.
Stupot: 8 pts.
Cassiebsg: 11 pts.
The squirrel wants you to know, that it always travels first class. Only then it gets bonus miles.
Come on guys! just count it together and find the outside of the box thingy! :=
Sorry, I'm still out of ideas. :-[
Cassiebsg: 8 pts.
Spoiler
HINT: This inglorious squirrel uses two things added together. One is text based and the second is location based.
Sorry, I'm still out of ideas. :-[
Stupot+: 14 pts.
Solution: is ut the number of words in the first line of your post + the time difference between the UK and the poster's location?
Stupot+: Nope, but sooo close!
Solution: is ut the number of words in the first line of your post + the time difference between the host's location (Germany) and the poster's location?
(Just stealing Stupot's line and idea...)
Cassiebsg: nope, stupot+ has been closer ;)
Solution: is it the number of words in the first line of your post minus the time difference between the UK and the poster's location?
Because I have no idea what the solution is, and I figure I might be able to figure it out by just changing small aspects of the solution that Stupot+ came up with.
Danvzare: nope. Wrong turn!
Solution: Number of words in poster's post + difference of location time to the previous poster
(roll)
Cassiebsg: nope. That sounds crazy complex :-D
Trying again a variation of Stupot's solution...
Solution: is ut the number of words in the first line of your post + the time difference between GMT and the poster's location?
Cassiebsg: Nope. Just one word is wrong ;)
Solution: is it the number of words in the first line of your post + the time difference between GMT and the poster's location?
Solution: the number of words in the first line of poster's post + the time difference between GMT and the poster's location?
Danvzare: Nope. still the wrong word there.
Cassiebsg: Nope. Same as Danvzare.
please explain every relevant part of how to get a point as you say it, maybe I am just interpreting it wrong, or maybe give me an example (roll) (nod)
I can't work with the solution like that.
No worries, we're just making wild guesses cause we still haven't figured it out... (laugh)
Solution: The number of words in the first 'sentence' plus the time differrnce between the UK and the poster's location?
(I don't think it's GMT. But then there's other questions like 'do emoticons count?' And whatever else)
OH MY GOD HE GOT IT!
Congratulations Stupot+ :)
It's my bad I forgot to consider the summertime/wintertime thingy. My idea has been GMT and every timezone higher getting it's bonus points, every time zone lower getting there equivalent minus points, but first thing was, nobody from america wanted to do my points game so you guys never got confronted with that and second thing was, that of course atm the it is not GMT in the UK, like I thought it was. So I accidently used BST the whole time :D
Nice Stupot! (nod)
I knew it had to be you. (laugh)
Quote from: Stupot+ on Sat 06/08/2016 11:08:12
Solution: The number of words in the first 'sentence' plus the time differrnce between the UK and the poster's location?
OMG!!! I can't believe how far the game has got in its level of sophistication...From counting vowels and verbs to this insane level!
Now I just want to win a round so as to be able to include the exact coordinates of the International Space Station at the time of post and/or the wind speed at Ohare Airport (This was actually a factor in a very old and dear to my heart mystery game I ran in a different forum)...
Quote from: Mandle on Sun 07/08/2016 17:44:46
Now I just want to win a round so as to be able to include the exact coordinates of the International Space Station at the time of post and/or the wind speed at Ohare Airport (This was actually a factor in a very old and dear to my heart mystery game I ran in a different forum)...
I'll remember this for whenever you win this points game.
Then I'll win. Mwa ha ha haa! (laugh)
I need more points games! 8-0 Stupot are you on vacation or what? (laugh)
As it happens, I'm in Taiwan but I fly back today.
Here's an wasy one (starting from Dan as Mandle's post was too long for me :-) )
Danvzare: 0
Kumpel: 2h
2 hours or 2 points? (laugh)
Points... There's only a certain number if typos I can be bothered to correct these days. Autocorrect is fucking bullshit and having to go back and correct my typos was starting to drive me properly insane (it might already be too late)
Cassie: 1
2 hours or 2 points? (laugh)
on or
Kumpel: 1
Cassie: 2
I told you it was easy (or wasy)
more vacation or on
Got two theories that fit, so going with one. (roll)
Solution: 1 point for every word starting with an o.
Yep. Nice one Cass :-)
What? 8-0
I miss this thread. :~(
So I'm necroposting to bring it back! :-D
Danvzare: 40pts
Been waiting forever for someone to post!
Nice you grabbed the ball, cause it's been so long that I forgot what the rule I had. (laugh)
Cassie: 58pts
Oops, sorry Cassie for the intercepting of your pass...
I also thought the game had died.
Whose line is it anyway?
CaptainD: 66pts
No worries! :)
And if we keep the tendency we'll soon break the high score... (laugh)
Quote from: Mandle on Mon 10/10/2016 15:45:17
CaptainD: 66pts
:shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked:
Well there goes my theory that it was linked to letter count!
I'm going to take what appears to be a random guess, but obviously isn't.
Does it include the exact coordinates of the International Space Station at the time of post and/or the wind speed at Ohare Airport? (laugh)
Nah, that would be way too easy!
The coordinates of the ISS + number ISS on the post * distance to the ISS / speed of the ISS = rounded to the nearest full point... (laugh)(roll)
Cassie: 71 pts
CaptainD: 72 pts
Danvzare: 77 pts (and no)
Cassie: 82 pts (and no)
This has got to be some kind of cumulative score, but I can't isolate what the points are for. Wondered if it was punctuation marks.
CaptainD: 32 pts
Quote from: Mandle on Tue 11/10/2016 15:09:37
CaptainD: 32 pts
And there goes another theory... :-[
This has got to be some kind of cumulative score, but I can't isolate what the points are for. Wondered if it was punctuation marks.
8-0 ;-D
CaptainD: 37 pts
Danvzare: 39 pts
CaptainD: 41 pts
This has got to be some kind of cumulative score, but I can't isolate what the points are for. Wondered if it was punctuation marks.
Have a feeling it might have something to do with the post's clock, since it seems to go up... and "resets" with the new day...
Or resets if a certain letter / word is used?
Always the possibility, yes. (nod)
Yay, the game is back!
It seems more points are given when someone has a go at solving the problem.
Cassie: 54 pts
Cassie: 56 pts
CaptainD: 61 pts
Cassie: 62 pts
Cat: 67 pts
Stupot: 77 pts
It seems more points are given when someone has a go at solving the problem.
Cat: 21 pts
Hm :-\
It seems more points are given when someone has a go at solving the problem.
reset! (laugh)
Cat: 28 pts
Selmiak: 40 pts
Cassie: 43 pts
Let's try this...
...and that.
and the other.
I think it's time related.
Cat: 86 pts
Cat: 87 pts
CaptainD: 88 pts
Cat: 90 pts
sneaks in
Let's see what happens now.
+1
got a theory... trying to see it fits... hate math! :p
No matter, scoring on the previous page didn't fit my theory.
Think we need to figure out we it resets, and from there maybe find a passing theory
I think it resets with about 100
okay, then we need to force it to come to 99
It surely should have reached / passed 99 by the time of this post (when Mandle gives us the scores)?
I guess once he gets online and has time to count all our nonsense... (laugh)
Cassie: 4 pts
Cat: 6 pts
Cassie: 7 pts
Cassie: 8 pts
Cassie: 9 pts
Cat: 10 pts
Cassie: 11 pts
CaptainD: 16 pts
Cassie: 23 pts
The quick brown jackdaw jumps over the lazy quartz.
Gurok: 55 pts
What now?
Cat: 63 pts
Gimme more!
Cat: 68 pts
more
Cassie: 6 pts
oh
Cassie: 73 pts
oh my oh my
Solution: Mandle rolls a 10-sided dice and adds the number to the total and resets at 100
Cassie: 79 pts
Stupot: Nope
lol
Cassie: 4 pts
Have a feeling it resets at Japan 00:00:00... that's UTC+9
26 pts?
Cassie: 12 pts
Cassie: 13 pts
rats, there went my theory. (wrong)
Cassie: 27 pts
Solution: There is no solution. Mandle will keep this game going forever. Except, paradoxically, I have just guessed that there is no solution, which is the solution, so I win... but then if I win, then there was a solution, which means my initial solution that 'there is no solution' must be false, so there IS no solution... but then... WOOOOOAH!
*My head a splode*
Quote from: Stupot+ on Mon 17/10/2016 00:31:44
Solution: There is no solution. Mandle will keep this game going forever. Except, paradoxically, I have just guessed that there is no solution, which is the solution, so I win... but then if I win, then there was a solution, which means my initial solution that 'there is no solution' must be false, so there IS no solution... but then... WOOOOOAH!
*My head a splode*
Hahaha.... no, there is a solution, and a pretty simple one as well. And by "simple" I don't mean that it's easy to solve, just that the method of determining the points is not complex.
And your paradox only works if one accepts that "there is no solution" can be counted as a solution, which I think may be a logical falsity... :-D
point
Cassie: 35 pts
ho
oint
Ho
ho ho ho
YitComics: 82 pts
Gurok: 83 pts
YitComics: 85 pts
Stupot: 87 pts
hmm im working on a thoery but im not sure
Stupot: 11 pts
hope you get better luck than me
I've been in a "1 point for each reply in the same "10" minutes, 2 points is in the next 20minutes, etc... but only seems to fit once in a while... the again my math skills aren't that good...)
Cassie: 13 pts
I'm still not sure if the points depend on the previous post or not.
Cat: 16 pts
well... I have a feeling not so much, but you can't get the same points, so the next post will always be 1 point higher (untill the "reset" that is)
Now that we have a few days of test/try I'm wondering if a post made at the same time as a previous post, will score roughly the same points. ???
Ah, that's a good one.
yeah, doesn't seem to have a fix (time) reset...
/me goes back to the drawing board
Cassie: 20 pts
Cassie: 21 pts
Cat: 23 pts
Cassie: 29 pts
Hello my
I haven't got a Scooby Doo.
name is
Yitcomics
Ah, sorry Yit. I interrupted your plan.
Lol no worries, im just testing a theory
YitComics: 70 pts
Stupot: 71 pts
YitComics: 72 pts
YitComics: 73 pts
Stupot: 75 pts
YitComics: 76 pts
Partial-Solution (or not): I think you have a rating system where you score each post based on how close you judge it to be to solving the rule.
Quote from: Mandle on Wed 19/10/2016 13:48:04
YitComics: 70 pts
Stupot: 71 pts
YitComics: 72 pts
YitComics: 73 pts
Stupot: 75 pts
YitComics: 76 pts
I don't get it, why did Stupot got 2 points,that's still a mystery. ???
Solution(in progress): My theory is that the points are slowly accumulating to 100 through 2 ways,each time someone made a post,one point will be added to the overall score. And there is also a timer where each time 15 minutes (I'm just guessing the number) has passed 1 points will be added to the overall score. Once the score has reached 100 it will reset.
But maybe there's more to it since Stupot got 2 points, because we both made the post at
13:02.Maybe my theory is all wrong (I've been spending way too much time on this... :P)
Stupot: 81 pts
YitComics: 82 pts
Hm, 15 minutes...
Cat: 84 pts
selmiak: 85 pts
cat: 86 pts (is this still in 1 point time range?)
peep
Aloha
Testing theory
BOBO
Ah, sorry Yit. I interrupted your plan.
Dance like a monkey.
Selmiak: 86 pts
Cat: 87 pts
Cassie: 92 pts
Stupot: 6 pts
Yitcomics: 14/15/16/17 pts
Quote from: Mandle on Thu 20/10/2016 04:08:01
Selmiak: 86 pts
Cat: 87 pts
Cassie: 92 pts
Stupot: 6 pts
Yitcomics: 14/15/16/17 pts
SOLUTION: My theory is that the points are slowly accumulating to 100 through 2 ways:
The reason why Stupot got 2 points last time and I only got 1 point with the same post is because Stupot made the post after I post twice in a row. I'm guessing if I had post 4 times consecutively, anyone else that post after me will gain 4 points which will be added to the overall score.
I'm guessing that since the person before me posted 1 time, I only gain 1 points and each time I post something it will be refer back to how much the previous person post consecutively, meaning if the person before me made 2 post and and then I made 4 post consecutively, I will gain 2 points for each post that I made.
There is also a timer where i'm guessing each time 10-15 minutes has passed, 1 points will be added to the overall score. Once the score has reached 100 it will reset.
Quote from: Yitcomics on Thu 20/10/2016 04:34:55
SOLUTION: My theory is that the points are slowly accumulating to 100 through 2 ways:
The reason why Stupot got 2 points last time and I only got 1 point with the same post is because Stupot made the post after I post twice in a row. I'm guessing if I had post 4 times consecutively, anyone else that post after me will gain 4 points which will be added to the overall score. But the person that made the 4 post consecutively only gain 1 points per post.
There is also a timer where i'm guessing each time 10-15 minutes has passed, 1 points will be added to the overall score. Once the score has reached 100 it will reset.
Wrong, I'm afraid. It's not even nearly that complicated. The correct solution can be described in a sentence or two.
lol I just edited my answer again right after you made your post.
Mandle what's the answer, I just don't get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EDIT:Quote from: Stupot+ on Wed 19/10/2016 13:02:55
Ah, sorry Yit. I interrupted your plan.
Let's figure this out one by one, I made the same post as stupot and only gain 1 points from my post, it shows that anything stupot said in the post wasn't affecting the score, but when he decide to post it.
We both made a post at 13:02, I made the post first before him, so if he gains 2 points was because of time, I would have gotten it instead of him. The only thing that was out of norm was that I posted twice in a row if that has any significant
Quote from: Mandle on Wed 19/10/2016 13:48:04
YitComics: 70 pts 13:01
Stupot: 71 pts 13:01
YitComics: 72 pts 13:01
YitComics: 73 pts 13:02
Stupot: 75 pts 13:02
YitComics: 76 pts 13:03
Each time we post something, 1 point is added to the over all score, if we let some time pass and post something again we can see that the score has gotten higher. Until it reached 100 im guessing it will reset once more. What are we missing?
Yitcomics: 27 pts
seems like whenever mandle posts inbetween another point is added for his point, even when the post is within the 15min range. So +1 pt for every post and every 15 min timeframe...
Selmiak: 40 pts
point
Cassie: 51 pts
point
point
What's the point?
/me is pointless
Cassie: 90 pts
Yitcomics: 91 pts
Stupot: 0 pts
Cassie: 2 pts
So?
YES! Stupot made 0! :-D (nod) Now we have something to work with! Good job Stupot! (nod) :-D
pts: cat+1
Cat: 38 pts
Cassie: 39 pts
Solution: It's the last two digits of the id of the message.
I.e: this post is msg=636546255 so it's worth 55 points.
Oh! That is evil! (laugh)
Oh shit!
Quote from: CaesarCub on Sun 23/10/2016 14:11:47
Solution: It's the last two digits of the id of the message.
I.e: this post is msg=636546255 so it's worth 55 points.
EXACTLY!!!
Over to you CaeserCub, if you wish to host a round...
Nah, I'll let someone else host.
Okay....first taker then?
I still can't remember my evil one... so I'll make a new one (not evil)... ;)
CaesarCub: 4 pts
Mandle: 19 pts
Solution: Is it the count of letters and/or symbols (not including . and ,) up until the first apostrophe (or possibly the first l)?
Mandle: Nope
Hmmm
Hey. Did we really go the whole of the last round without any squirrels?
Quote from: Mandle on Sun 23/10/2016 23:09:24
Quote from: CaesarCub on Sun 23/10/2016 14:11:47
Solution: It's the last two digits of the id of the message.
I.e: this post is msg=636546255 so it's worth 55 points.
EXACTLY!!!
Over to you CaeserCub, if you wish to host a round...
What grinds my gear was Mandle's Points Game,
oppss... wrong thread (laugh)(lol i'm kidding)
Oh well time to move on...
Quote from: Stupot+ on Mon 24/10/2016 13:02:54
Hey. Did we really go the whole of the last round without any squirrels?
It's been a while, but squirrels are pointers in the right direction from the host if I remember?
I wouldn't do anything like that unless my round got so ridiculous that I realised that it couldn't possibly be solved without hints in the right direction...And I would feel bad for having to do that as it would tell me that my rules had been unfair and had been flawed from the outset... For me, the game has always been about the players fighting against a host who should act like a machine in how they dole out the points, and the host's rule should be simple and solvable without any other feedback other than the bruteforce post-then-points feedback...
For example: My last round was quite hard to solve it seems, but all it really needed for someone to solve it was for that person to click on the "quote" button above a post and look at the numbers, which I felt someone would figure out given the feedback of resetting every 100 points but not within any kind of logical time frame: It only depended on how often anyone else posted on AGS forums. I was a bit disappointed that the strategy of posting a lot of posts within the same minute did not lead to more confusion by somebody just happening to post on another thread in between, and then the count would have jumped by 2 instead of 1... That would have been funny to see...
(Cassie this is just a reflective post and no need to do the point count if it's too long ;) ...You know the game as well so you probably saw what I just did there though...)
Mandle: 19
Stupot: 3
Yitcomics: Post out of bounds
Mandle: Post out of bounds
Don't sweet it, Mandle. (laugh)
Hmmm
Kumpel: 3 pts
This
And that
and the other
CaesarCub: 3 pts
CaesarCub: 3 pts
Mandle: 18 pts
Mandle
Kumpel: 3 pts
:P
NO PIXEL LEFT BEHIND!!!
Why is he so special?! 8-0
Mandle: 18 pts
Kumpel: 20 pts
Gotcha!
Solution: One point for every uppercase letter in tbe nick name, tag line and posting
Oh wow, well done Kumpel! That's certainly correct!
And, in a way, I was the key, so I'm kinda stoked about that (laugh)
That is correct Kumpel. (nod) Also signature, though none of them that posted had anything in their sig. (roll)
And damn you Mandle for screaming like that. I decided on the rule and then looked at your post and though "s%!" (laugh)
Okay. Nsxt one is up!
Mandle: 5pts
Cassiebsg: 0pts
Oh wow, well done Kumpel! That's certainly correct!
Hm...
Ooh matron!
Cassiebsg: 5pts
Cat: 5pts
Stupot+: 1pt
Hm...
Hmmm?!?!
Hm...
we need more data
Cassiebsg: 5pts
Cat: 5pts
Stupot+: 5pts
Cassiebsg: 22pts :=
we need more data
Stupot+: 22 pts
we need less data
Cat: 22pts
we need more beer
We need more data!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Kumpel you forgot to count my post: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=52687.msg636546725#msg636546725 :~(
cat: 5pts
Stupot+: 22pts
Mandle: 6pts
Cassiebsg: 4pts
we need more beer
ab cdef ghij klmn
Stupot+: 5pts
Cassiebsg: 13 pts (updated the post where I missed you)
data
atad
d a t a
Data
data
Geordi La Forge
l o l
Cassiebsg:3pts
Cassiebsg:3pts
Cassiebsg:3pts
Stupot+:3pts
Stupot+:3pts
Gurok: 2pts
Cassiebsg:0pts
a
d
t
data
lore
Cassiebsg:1pt
Cassiebsg:4pts
Cassiebsg:20pts
Stupot+:3pts
Gurok: 7pts
/me is totaly confused ???
lol
lo
l
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Yitcomics: 0pts
Yitcomics: 3pts
Yitcomics: 12pts
1
2
3
4
5
Cassiebsg: 0pts
Cassiebsg: 0pts
Cassiebsg: 0pts
Cassiebsg: 0pts
Cassiebsg: 0pts :=
l
lol
Trololololol
Okay... I got a theory, but haven't figured the rule yet...(roll)
EDIT: Think I have it now!
Solution: The subtraction of the 1st and last letter in the post. Each letter in the alphabet gets the points of it's position in the alphabet. A = 1 pt, B = 2 pts, ... Z = 26 pts. :-D
Nice one Kumpel! You got me totally confused!
By Jove, I think you done it 8-0
Yep! You got me. You only missed the fact that I wrote the absolute value of this subtraction. This way the points go up even if the first letter is a smaller number than the last one ;)
Your turn!
Guess I could have written "the biggest value minus the highest" or "negative points, lose the minus and became positive" ;)
I was the a, d, t post that gave it away.... once I understood how those scored, it was just finding the right rule... 1st I thought it was the 1st and 2nd letter of the post... but after checking the other posts I realized that wasn't it.
I haven't thought of a new rule, so anyone feel free to jump in. :D Otherwise I'll think of a new rule and start scoring tomorrow... ;)
Stupot: 1 pt 2 pts
Kumpel: 19 pts (after counting 5 times, I decided this was the right amout... hope I didn't goofed)
EDIT: Oops, goofed on Stupot, sorry. :-[
By Jove, I think you done it 8-0
Kumpel: 2 pts
I've corrected Stupot's points... goofed there. (roll)
Data Data Data
Kumpel: 3 pts
Daytona
Stupot: 1 pt
Data ataD Atad
Kumpel: 3 pts
D D D
Kumpel: 0 pts
(are we playing alone in the park? ??? )
Ta Ta Ta ata ata ata aa aa aa
Kumpel: 6 pts
I think you done ???
There we go.
Kumpel: 1 pt
cat: 1 pt
this and that
cat: 2 pts
this, that and something else
cat: 3 pts
squirrel
secret
And now for something completely different.
Stupot: 0 pts (no squirrels for you :P )
Gurok: 1 pt
cat: 3 pts
Squirerel :=
Kumpel: 0 pts (no squirrels for you either! :P )
Maybe we need giraffes instead?
cat: 1 pt (they have long necks)
secrete
secretary
Gurok: 1 pt
Stupot: 1 pt
rerererere
ececececec
Gurok: 0 pts
Gurok: 0 pts
tata
Kumpel: 1 pt
ata
Kumpel: 1 pt
At et it ot ut ta te ti to tu
Ab eb ib ob ub ba be bi bo bu
Skiby-do-bit-ba-ba I'm the Scatman
Kumpel: 10 pts
Stupot: 0 pts
Gurok: 3 pts
ttttt
Words containing the letter 't'
Stupot: 1 pt
Cat: 4 pts (you do need to add "solution" to your post... (roll) )
Solution: Words containing the letter 't'
POINT to cat (nod)
We need more players! (nod)
POINT to cat.
(http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/knight12374/182581.jpg)
LOL
And it even looks worried! (laugh)
Wow. that took a lot more than it should have... ^^
Probably cause everyone were thinking of complicated rules. ;)
Wait, so this was correct? I'll think of a new rule.
Edit: Ok, let's go!
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Stupot+: 1pt
Cassiebsg: 5pts
Kumpel: 5pts
Cassiebsg: 3pt
Yes, it was correct. (laugh)
Also think you meant to type:
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Stupot+: 1pt
Cassiebsg: 5pts
Cassiebsg Kumpel: 5pts ???
Cassiebsg: 3pt
Ooops, sorry, Kumpel of course.
Cassiebsg: 9pts
we need more data
Cassiebsg: 2pts
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz :=
but y?
Kumpel: 1pt
selmiak: 1pt
abcdefghijklmn
opqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmn opqrstuvwxyz
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Cassiebsg: 0pts
Cassiebsg: 1pt
abcdefghijklmn abcdefghijklmn bb
selmiak: 3pts
Solution: 1pt for every word or letterhive with the letter b in it at least once
No.
yes! 8-)
selmiak: 0pts :P
la la la
Gurok: 3pts
aeiou
Stupot+: 1pt
abc abc abc
1234567890
Kumpel: 3pts
Stupot+: 0pts
abc def ghi jkl
selmiak: 4pts
I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.
Blade Runner?
Gurok: 6pts
Stupot+: 1pt
Do you pronounce it dayta or darta?
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
abc cde efg ghi ijk klm mno opq qrs stu uvw wxyz
ab cd ef gh ij kl mn op qr st uv wx yz
Stupot+: 4pts
Cassiebsg: 13pts
Stupot+: 7pts
Cassiebsg: 7pts
Solution: 1 point for each word, or set of characters, that start with a character from the 1st half of the alphabet (a to m) ?
Correct! ;-D
Nice :D
Daaaaiiing!
Give us a new puzzle!
Give me a day to think about one (empty head right now)... and if someone thinks of one before me... fell free to start counting. ;)
Stupot+: 5 pts
cat: 4 pts
Solution: one point for every letter that has already occured at least once.
Nope
hm
Kumpel: 1 0 pt
h m
Kumpel: 1 0 pt
Anus horribilis.
Stupot: 3 2 pts
Edit.. oops. 8-0
A member named "Squirrel" has a birthday today! :-D
cat: 15 pts
Just bumping! :D
abcabdab
Kumpel: 1 pt
Gurok: 8 pts
(This was hard, been so long that I had forgotten what the rule was! :-[ Luckily I had sorta wrote it down on a txt file. :-D )
100 pages!
Not bad!
Mandle: 8 pts
Lol Mandle. Your "100 pages!"-post killed the thread :D ??? :~( (roll)
Kumpel: 14 pts :-D
Lol Mandle.
Kumpel: 3 pts
Lol Mandle. lol mandle
Kumpel: 6 pts
lol
Kumpel: 0 pts
Mandle man dle
kumpel: 6 pts
Mandle
Stupot: 3 pts
man
Kumpel: 1 pt
dle
Stupot: 2 pts
dl
Kumpel: 1 pt
ade
Kumpel: 3 pts
abcdef
Kumpel: 6 pts
has a birthday today
Kumpel: 7 pts
g
not
Kumpel: 0 pts
Kumpel: 0 pts
1234567890
Kumpel: 10 pts
Solution: One point for each of the letters a to f and any number in the post.
darn... only #1975 and #1977 don't fit...
And now they do... (roll) It's been a long time, so maybe I either made a mistake or was counting in the nickname too. :-[
Yes, that is the solution, though I was expecting a more fancy answer from a bunch of devs... (laugh) 0123456789ABCDEF .... and we have? ;)
Oh noooes Hexadecimal! :D Of coooourse
I can't believe it, someone finally figured it out! :shocked:
The thread lives again!
Danvzare: 1P
Well, it wasn't that hard! (wtf)
Cassiebsg: 0pts
Kumpel is now taking revenge on me and giving me 0 pts! :shocked: (laugh)
Cassiebsg: 1pt (nod)(laugh):-*
I can't believe it! Another points challenge!
Gurok: 1pt
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Danvzare: 0pts
we need more data
Cassiebsg: 0pts (Oh yes, you do. A LOT more)
we.
need.
more.
data.
Cassiebsg: 0pts (C+P(roll))
We need A LOT more data. :P
Riaise: 0pts (and where are they? :P)
So far highest score is one. we can score more by making one basket in basketball.
I can't believe it! Another points challenge!
Kumpel is now taking revenge on me and giving me 0 pts! :shocked: (laugh)
dayowlron: 1pt
Cassiebsg: 2pts
I can't believe it!
Another points challenge!
Cassiebsg: 0pts
Cassiebsg: 0pts
This is interesting. Rather very interesting. I'm out of ideas right now though.
Cassiebsg: 1pt
<--- The guy who revived and instantly killed the thread once more. (roll)
Just took another look at this thread. Thought I had an idea but then my own score was not correct with the rule I had in mind!
Kumpel: 1pt
dayowlron: 3pts! :D
You scored yourself and I still beat you?
Still no theories at the moment. sorry... :~(
There's just not enough d4t4! 8-0
2 < d4t4 !!! W3 n33d m0r3 d4t4! (laugh)
Cassiebsg: 0pts. (roll) (Anyone still alive in here? (wtf) )
4 post and all we get is one misely zero to me? 8-0
Lazyness is NOT and option! :P
Cassiebsg: 1pt.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
Just took another look at this thread.
Solution: 1 point for each word that rhymes with another word? (Including duplicates)
Morgan LeFlay: 0pts. (Welcome to the Points Game, mate!)
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
Morgan LeFlay: no. (but what a great idea :D )
Thought I had an idea but then my own score was not correct with the rule I had in mind!
Cassiebsg: 2pts. (I am having a dejavu...)
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
I do not understand. We shall understand this. You need to give us points!
Morgan LeFlay: 3pts.
Cassiebsg: 1pt.
A bc def ghij klmno pqrstu vwxyz.
Morgan LeFlay: 0pts.
not
Four
I
You need to give us points! I do not understand. We shall understand this.
You need to give us points! We shall understand this.
I do not understand.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
Morgan LeFlay: 0pts.
Morgan LeFlay: 0pts.
Cassiebsg: 1pt.
Cassiebsg: 1pt.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
Aaaa, bbbb, cccc, dddd, eeee, ffff, gggg, hhhh, iiii, jjjj, kkkk, llll, mmmm, nnnn, oooo, pppp, qqqq, rrrr, ssss, tttt, uuuu, vvvv, wwww, xxxx, yyyy, zzzz. Aaaa, bbbb, cccc, dddd, eeee, ffff, gggg, hhhh, iiii, jjjj, kkkk, llll, mmmm, nnnn, oooo, pppp, qqqq, rrrr, ssss, tttt, uuuu, vvvv, wwww, xxxx, yyyy, zzzz.
You need to give us points!
We shall understand this.
points are not that easily come by in this one.
Morgan LeFlay: 0pts.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
dayowlron: 1pt. (Is that so? :-D )
points are not that easily come by in this
are not that easily come by in this one.
points are not that easily come by in this one. points are not that easily come by in this one.
Cassiebsg: 1pt.
Cassiebsg: 1pt.
Morgan LeFlay: 1pt.
are not that easily come by in
that easily come by in this one.
that easily come by in this
p o i n t s a r e n o t t h a t e a s i l y c o m e b y i n t h i s o n e
pointsarenotthateasilycomebyinthisone
.eno siht ni yb emoc ylisae taht ton era stniop
8-0
(wtf)
(laugh)
Every post: 0pts.
You deen to give su points! we shlla unerdstand this.
one shall one shall one shall
Thought I had an idea but then my own score was not correct with the rule I had in mind!
are not that easily by in this one.
are not that come by in this one.
are not easily come by in this one.
TomatoesInTheHead: 0pts.
gurok: 0pts.
dayowlron: 2pts.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
Cassiebsg: 0pts.
Almost certainly wrong as I haven't really checked back very far but:
1pt for every repeated pronoun?
Thought of an idea to get points.
Cool, what is it?
will have to see how he scores these posts.
are that easily come by in this one.
Good luck with the points hunting. I'm still very clueless... 8-0
this and that.
Mandle: No
dayowlron: 0pts
Gurok: 0pts
dayowlron: 0pts
Cassiebsg: 0pts
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Cassiebsg: 0pts
Well it was not what I had in mind.
Good to look at all the other posts. Are you sure you scored them all correctly?
dayowlron: 0pts.
dayowlron: 1pt. (yes. Never thought this round could be that hard := )
1 pt for which quote?
At first I thought maybe it was 1 point for each consecutive vowels in a word, but that score did not work out for some of the phrases, then I thought it might be for repeated words but it did not work out either, then I thought it was if the letters in the word were alphabetical, but then again the scores did not pan out. Now I am totally lost to what it could be.
The nuts you are throwing around are not big enough for this squirrel. #itsback
dayowlron: 0pts.
dayowlron: 8pts! 8-0 8-0 8-0 8-0 8-0
Kumpel: 1pt.
Well, it would seem that sentences that are split into many parts get more points, or sentences that have multiple parts, or run-on sentences do too, but I just don't understand how that translates into points, and I don't understand which rule is being followed.
Morgan LeFlay: 3pts. (That's a good start! Now you have to find the hook this point game is hanging on and finally why the counting seems so choosy (nod) )
oh, it's this thread again where I always post and have no idea how it works this time :)
There once was a Kumpel, that made such a rule, that got us all so baffled. I have zero theories on how this goes. Do you think he's counting some words or combination of letters, that spell something obscure? Or do we have to do take a degree in rocket science to figure this one out? (roll)(laugh)
I am wondering if the rule he has made up is so complex he needs a program to score it correctly.
selmiak: 2pts. (Oh, it's this thread again, where I reply and everyone thinks to have no idea how it works this time (roll) )
Cassiebsg: 6pts. ( (laugh) (laugh) (laugh) )
dayowlron: 2pts. (Nope. Not yet := )
Are you laughting at me? Well? Are you laughting at me? You not allowed to laught at me! No sireee... (laugh)
Cassiebsg: 2pts
There once was a Kumpel, that made such a rule, that got us all so baffled. I have many theories on how this goes. Do you think he's counting some words or combination of letters, that spell something obscure? Or do we have to do take a degree in rocket science to figure this one out? (roll)(laugh)
Morgan LeFlay: 4pts. (Finally a new strategy!)
There once was no Kumpel, that made such no rule, that got us not so baffled. I have zero theories on how this goes. Do you think he's counting no words or combination of letters, that spell nothing obscure? Or do we have to do take no degree in rocket science to figure this nothing out? (roll)(laugh)
abcdefabcdefabcdef abcdefabcdefabcdef
Are you laughting at me? Well? Are you laughting at me?
Morgan LeFlay: 4pts.
Selmiak: 0pts.
Cassiebsg: 1pt.
There once was no Kumpel, that made such no rule, that got us not so baffled. I have zero theories on how this goes. Do you think he's counting no words or combination of letters, that spell nothing obscure? Or do we have to do take no degree in rocket science to figure this nothing out? (roll)(laugh)
Cassiebsg: 6pts.
Oh oh, it's variable points with nickname variable! 8-0
I thought this was excluded in previous posts, but guess not. 8-0
Cassiebsg:2pts.
Are you laughting at me? Well? Are you laughting at me?
Morgan LeFlay: 0pts.
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post points previously
Morgan LeFlay: 0pts.
Morgan LeFlay: 8pts.
Danvzare: 0pts.
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Morgan LeFlay: 2pts.
2 points for the 3x post?
What about the 20x post?
Okay so I am noticing a pattern. When I divide the number of words by the number of letters in the username, and round down, quite often that is the number of points. But some posts don't count for any points for whatever reason, and there are some exceptions like Kumpel's scoring of Kumpel's old post.
Quote from: Morgan LeFlay on Thu 29/06/2017 21:42:19
Okay so I am noticing a pattern. When I divide the number of words by the number of letters in the username, and round down, quite often that is the number of points. But some posts don't count for any points for whatever reason, and there are some exceptions like Kumpel's scoring of Kumpel's old post.
Then I must have been counted something wrong because...
YOU SOLVED IT!The Solution: The rounded down result of the number of all grammatically right written english words in the post, divided by the number of letters in the username of the poster.
Your turn, Morgan!
Oh wow. I'll try to think of a good rule and start it tomorrow.
Ah... I knew I had zero change to figure this one out... (laugh)
Okay. Begin!
you could score what Cassie sent to begin with.
Yup, scoring posts, the more the merrier! (nod)
Because the more posts that are scored that better change we have to figure out the rule. ;)
Scores:
Cassiebsg: 26 points
Morgan LeFlay: 25 points
dayowlron: 25 points
Cassiebsg: 25 points
Cassiebsg: 69 points
Thats my rule! just multiplied with 25 :P
Kumpel: 25 points.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Cassiebsg: 130 points
what? 8-0
Cassiebsg: 23 points.
.
25
Cassiebsg: 0 pts
Kumpel: 0 pts
Abc
Kumpel: 3 points
def
abc
Kumpel: 30 points
Cassiebsg: 12 points
Oh rats, forgot to add the other posts, since this think wants me to wait 20s before a new post. :-[
Abc
def
Cassiebsg: 23 points
Cassiebsg: 3 points
Cassiebsg: 6 points
A
a
Cassiebsg: 1 point
Cassiebsg: 1 point
I am confused too Cassie. you enter Abc and get 3 points, you enter abc and get 12 points but A and a get 1 point each.
Yes, very interesting. Now I suppose the rule must be figured out to why. (Your post = 25 points)
I am confused too Cassie. you enter Abc and get 3 points, you enter abc and get 12 points but A and a get 1 point each.
Cassiebsg: 50 points
Cassie
I miscalculated the last 2 scores and have corrected them sorry.
Cassiebsg: 19 points
Oh dear... I had counted 25 pts to dayowlron yesterday too, for a rule I was testing... (roll)
But seems like I need to get a calculator now to figure out how mine turned into 19. (laugh)
Cassiebsg: 25 points
25? Shoots, there went my theory out the window. :~(
Cassie
Cassiebsg: 25 points
Kumpel: 95 points 8-0
Cassie
dayowlron: 19 points
eissaC
Kumpel: 19 points
Cassie
Kumpel: 95 points
CASSIE
95 points.
Kumpel
dayowlron: 189 points.
Kumpel
Kumpel: 21 points
Feel free to do multiple posts if you would like. (This post = 130 points)
I don't have a clue but it obviously has something to do with the player's Name.
Feel free to do multiple posts if you would like.
dayowlron, that's my guess too, but I fear that we might be a bit too few playing to be able to figure this one out. 8-0
I don't have a clue but it obviously has something to do with the player's Name.
Feel free to do multiple posts if you would like.
I don't have a clue but it obviously has something to do with the player's Name.
There you go. I'm useless at this game, but hopefully I can help someone else work it out!
dayowlron: 88
dayowlron: 25
Cassiebsg: 25
Cassiebsg: 22
Cassiebsg: 25
Riaise: 25
Riaise: 25
Now let's see if any of these posts were helpful :)
Eissac Kumpel
Kumpel: 21 points
There you go.
Lost in space
Riaise: 125 points.
Cassiebsg: 100 points.
There
Eissac and Kumpel together made 21? Okay, so the word with the highest number is counted. But why on earth are getting some words these huge numbers?!
Riaise: 20 points
Kumpel: 125 points (And that's the puzzle isn't it?)
There you go
Kumpel: 25 points
you go.
Feel free to leave multiple posts, I am usually waiting for more people to post before I grade them.
Riaise: 125 points
Morgan LeFlay: 161 points
Sorry, I'm just out of ideas. :-\
I don't have a clue but it obviously has something to do with the player's Name.
Cassiebsg: 25 points
Kumpel: 25 points
had a look at this thread yesterday and the latest challenge baffles me too. Perhaps it has something to do with the "last" total points of a given user, rather then any attribute of the users nick its self. There "seems" to be a pattern of subtraction and addition from the last points total of a given user depending on the users reply. I am probably way off but just maybe this long paragraph might help lol
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly: 25 points (Your line of thinking is starting to explore options that might help, though indeed you're a ways off.)
you go.
Riaise: 25 points
:smiley:
Is this one too hard? Should I give a hint?
i think so
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly: 0 points
Morgan LeFlay: 0 points
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly: 20 points
I guess the hint that I will give is that most of the posts follow a certain rule and there are a few outliers. Find the usual rule first, and then figure out why some of the posts are so different.
Another hint: The username itself is not used in point calculations.
I am pretty stumped dude, is it something to do with post number + unique words or letters that a user has said in context to something else they said in a previous post? Stumpted
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly: No. (25 points.)
Further hintage: The minimum score is 0 (though usually 1) and the maximum score is 676.
You will have to look outside of your own post to figure out the solution..
That's a lot of points 8-0
I think I'll begin giving hints every 24 hours so to not hold up this post on just mine :P
Alright so the hint for today is that the maximum number of points (676) is 26 x 26, which is important. How could the number 26 be related to word puzzles, I wonder..
Cassiebsg: 20 points
Morgan LeFlay: 25 points
Morgan LeFlay: 130 points
Sorry, I don't do math
Well first off when u mentioned the maximum score was 676 I knew that was 26 x 26 and with 26 letters in the alphabet it would be something related to the alphabet.
Also seeing a lot of scores of 20, 25, then your 156.
20 = 10x2 or 5x4 or 20x1.
25 = 25x1 or 5x5
156 = 12x13 or 26x6.
Assuming you did not mix up the letters and A=1 to Z=26 or the reverse A=26 to Z=1, the easiest one to figure out would be 25. that is either AxY, ZxB, ExE or VxV. hmmmmm.
My 156 was actually 130.
Oh, ok. well 130 is 13 x 10 or 26 x 5.
Cassiebsg: 25 points
dayowlron: 26 points
Morgan LeFlay: 25 points
dayowlron: 23 points
J
a. b. c.
Morgan LeFlay: 10 points
Cassiebsg: 30 points
ab. cd. de.
Cassiebsg: 5 points (I'm counting that all as one post)
Considering that I've only made one post, I woudld be surprised if you counted it as more than one. (laugh)
A
B
A
B
Cassiebsg: 25 points
Riaise: 1 point
Gurok: 2 points
Cassiebsg: 4 points
you
you
dayowlron: 25 points
Cassiebsg: 375 points
something gives me the feeling nobody is going to figure this out. if anything all the clues make it more confusing (laugh)
I believe it is the product of 2 numbers. One of the numbers is the maximum sequence number of the letter in the message where a=1 and z=26. I have not been able to figure out the other number, but I am thinking this message will score 26 since I have a "z" in the message.
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly: 25 points.
dayowlron: 26 points.
You're correct that the 26 comes from your "z". The multiplier is taken from something outside of your own post.
JT
you
If I have the scoring right then the next scoring should show:
Morgan LeFlay: 20
dayowlron: 260
dayowlron: 375
Is it maximum sequence number of the letters in your post multiplied by the minimum sequence letter of the prior post?
Morgan LeFlay: 20 points
dayowlron: 250 points
dayowlron: 375 points
And correct!
The solution: The smallest letter of the previous post multiplied by the largest letter of your post.
Huh. Nice work, Dayo! And good puzzle Morgan. It's these deceptively simple ones that are the most satisfying.
Well done, dayowlron! :)
Stupot: 5 points
Riaise: 12 points
abcdefgh
abcdefgh
Cassie: 64 points
Morgan Leflay: 64 points
sorry mis-scored prior post. corrected.
abcdefg
abcdefgh
Morgan LeFlay: 49 points
Stupot+: 64 points
If you keep doing the alphabet you will never solve this.
gfedcba
Maybe I won't solve it that way, but I'm already noticing something...
Morgan Leflay: 7 points
Morgan Leflay: 69 points
hijklmn
Itstenchars
weneedmoredata
we need more data
Morgan Leflay: 0 points
Kumpel: 0 points
Gurok: 23 points
Morgan Leflay: 23 points
Just like the last one 676 is max points and the end leads to one of the multipliers.
you CANNOT give me 0 points! It's against EVERY rule I know! (wrong)(wrong)(wrong)
Kumpel: 20 points
I figured out one of the multiples but the only rule I could think of for the second multiple only works in one case. In any case I'm pretty sure my next post will score max points.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwwxyz
Morgan LeFlay: 5 points.
Morgan Leflay: 676 points.
and even though it is max points does it help in any way?
Which multiple have u figured out?
The number of the last character counting from the left that many spaces is the first multiple.
The second multiple is hard.
AAAD
Morgan Leflay: 14 points and yes that is 1. i thought the other multiple would be easier but guess not.
Morgan Leflay: 4 points
BCED
BBCCCEEEED
Morgan Leflay: 0 points on both
AABBCCG
FEDCBAG
Morgan Leflay: 21 points
Morgan Leflay: 7 points
Think you got it now. or at least you should have it.
I really don't though. I know that my 21 point word is referencing a C and the 7 point word is referencing an A but I don't understand how. Something in my earlier posts is causing it to reference something that doesn't exist hence 0 points. I guess I am just not seeing it.
Morgan: 14 points
Think sequence
BBCD
BCCD
BCDD
Once upon a time there was a point, that was mystical and mysterious, some people tried to solve it, but only one figured it out.
SOLUTION:
Multiple 1: Counting from the left a number of spaces equal to the last letter's value
Multiple 2: The maximum number of letters found in sequence starting from A? (So a found anywhere is 1 point, ab 2 points, abc 3 points, etc.)
???
You got it Morgan LeFlay. your turn.
Congrats Morgan. (nod)
dayowlron: 1 point
Cassiebsg: 0 points
Congrats Morgan. (nod)
Riaise: 0 points
abcde
Riaise: 0 points
Right, I'll just post an actual sentence and see how that goes, then. (laugh)
You got it Morgan LeFlay.
your turn.
Riaise: 4 points
dayowlron: 0 points
dayowlron: 1 point
Right, I'll just post an actual sentence and see how that goes, then. (laugh)
dayowlron: 4 points
We need more data
Lots more data...
Some very huge amount of data, to be evaluated by clever minds. (laugh)
Cassiebsg: 1 point
Cassiebsg: 0 points
Cassiebsg: 2 points
Fixed one of cassiebsg's scores.
clever minds.
Riaise: 1 point
clever minds
clever
minds
Cassiebsg: 1 point
Cassiebsg: 0 points
Cassiebsg: 1 point
mind
Cassiebsg: 1 point
min
in
Cassiebsg: 0 points on both
so what is so special about that d?
dayowlron: 0 points
turn
dayowlron: 1 point.
mind turn
dayowlron: 2 points
I want more points. Give me mooooooooore points! Not 1, not 2 and certainly not 0 points. More, more, more, more! >:(
Kumpel: Ok, have 5 points.
more more more more more
not more mind and turn
Cassiebsg: no no no no no (0 points)
dayowlron: 2 points (back where you started)
certainly mind turn
dayowlron: 2 points
kind
Riaise: 0 points
mint
Riaise: 1 point
mine
Riaise: 1 point
want more points
dayowlron: 2 points
So as you guys have probably figured out by now, each word is worth 0 point or 1 point. What's similar about the ones that score? :)
Bad mad sad lad find kind hind bind bud rud mud do did done dog damn
I thought I was onto something but it turned out to not be a valid rule for all of the cases, so I am thinking if I do figure this one out I will use that for my next puzzle.
Kumpel: 8 points
dayowlron: 10 points
I'm not saying I never made a mistake with scoring, but in general my scores should be accurate.
Point the doint
went running for the joint.
Then he come back
but it was too pack.
Cassiebsg: 5 points
Pointy Doint was running from the joint.
He went back to his rat pack.
Gurok : 5 points
If people think this is too difficult, I can start highlighting the words that gain points, but if you want to keep figuring it out that's fine too.
point joint he went back pack
dayowlron: 4 points
I want to figure this out so I am not giving up. seems like most of the words that give points are four letter words. Wondering if that is some sort of clue.
dayowlron: 13 points (good luck, then!)
Can I get one clue? Basically want to know if there is a minimum number of letters that have to be in a word to score a point?
want figure this giving seems words that four letter sort clue
dayowlron: 10 points, and no, number of letters is irrelevant.
dayowlron: 7 points, I didn't see your second post.
I a is to of be in if it
dayowlron: 0 points
Noticed another word in your other post so increased the points to 12
I a is to
dayowlron: 0 points
Bleh, some words are harder to judge/obscure with the rule I have in mind.
As such the word that I had previously assigned 1 point I will instead be assigning 0. Editting posts accordingly.
figure this giving that four letter sort
dang, thought I might be onto something but the word "is" should score a point.
dayowlron: 4 points
dayowlron: 5 points
You got a problem if even you can't decide what gives a point and what doesn't... :-\
One thing is counting wrong because of an error another is not being in accordance with your own rule... :P
Cassiebsg: 6 points, and I'm sorry, I'm not perfect, but it's mostly due to error and if I notice I was wrong, I go back and correct it.
this that four sort
1 point
This dingo thinks in points.
I've never played this. Looks like fun. What are my points?!
Cassiebsg: 2 points
HanaIndiana: 4 points
figure giving
dayowlron: 2 points
this that
0 points
letter sort
2 points
Words that have been solved so far in scoring 1 point: minds mind turn mint mine figure giving letter sort
want more
dayowlron: 1 point
more points
dayowlron: 1 point
want points
dayowlron: 2 points
Words that have been solved so far in scoring 1 point: minds mind turn mint mine figure giving letter sort want points
Should I start giving hints?
Egg try bee ham ate men hid one foe exe ale
Kumpel: 3 points
Egg Bee Exe
Kumpel: 1 point
bee ate one
dayowlron: 0 points
Exe ham men
dayowlron: 1 point
hid foe ale
dayowlron: 0 points
egg try ham
egg try men
dayowlron: 3 points
dayowlron: 2 points
Words that have been solved so far in scoring 1 point: minds mind turn mint mine figure giving letter sort want points egg try ham
With giving "try" a point, you vaporated all my theories...
Kumpel: 3 points, and I tend to do that sorry :P
Hint for those who want it:
Spoiler
The rule isn't mathematical in nature.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
I'm gonna have to say 0 points.
reviving the thread...
but I think we do need another hint. every rule i think of seems to have at least one word that should or shouldn't have scored a point do the opposite. just tell me if all letters are taken into account or just specific ones like first and last?
It has nothing to do with the letters of the words. It has to do with the properties/definitions of the words themselves.
turns yours receiving numbers meat
dayowlron: 3 points
Big hint, just because I think my rule is too hard and it's killing the thread:
Spoiler
Sometimes this word is ______, but other times it is ______.
Find the conditions to make the scoring word true.
turns receiving meat
sometimes the word is a noun other times it is a verb?
turns numbers meat
Quote from: dayowlron on Tue 29/08/2017 19:29:01
sometimes the word is a noun other times it is a verb?
Yes, that is correct!
Full solution: 1 point for every word that could either be a noun or a verb in American English.
Sorry if this one was too hard, it seemed that everyone lost interest so I kind of needed to hint.
I believe people have just gotten busy with other things. Not sure how difficult mine will be but ready to go....
HIJK
1 2 3
0 points on both.
I ate an apple.
a e i o u
0 points on both.
Like Morgan's some words get 1 point, other words get no points just a different rule to earn a point so doing the alphabet is not gonna help.
^ post 3 points
Like Morgan's some words get
0 points
so doing the alphabet is not gonna help.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Morgan Leflay: 0 points
Kumpel: 2 points.
1 point, other words get
the quick fox jumps the dog
Morgan LeFlay: 1 point
Kumpel: 1 point (that didn't help much did it?)
no points just a different
Morgan LeFlay: 2 points
point points
Morgan LeFlay: 1 point
point
Morgan LeFlay: 0 points.
Ok word list that receives a point found so far:
points
words
other
words - 0 points
other - 1 point
just
1 point
words that create a point found out so far:
points, other, just.
I he she me him her
They them
Morgan LeFlay: 1 point
Morgan LeFlay: 2 points
Words that score a point:
points,other,just,they,them
joints appoints bother mother another bust dust lust must rust thing throw
6 points
bust dust lust must rust
5 points words list is growing:
points,other,just,they,them,bust,dust,lust,must,rust
You have a rule yet?
At first I was thinking words that have certain consonant combinations, but not all of the words I guessed scored points so I'm not sure what more specific criteria I should be looking for.
I am noticing that a lot of the words can be rearranged to form other words, or remove 1 letter and form other words, but beyond that not sure.
Morgan LeFlay: 13 points.
Well you are along the correct path, but just need to take it a step farther. The one that would probably throw you off the most is the word "points".
joints
1 point
list paints
2 points although 1 point could be argumentative
*crickets*
do i need to provide a clue?
Orange oranges rang. Snow scares scows. Twine wine honey.
Klatuu: 9 points. got a rule yet? or were u just lucky?
Is it: one point for each word that forms another word if you remove the first and last letters?
Darn, I was pretty close if that's the rule.. I guess oint is a word, just not one defined by dictionary.com
Except "oint" is not a word so "points" doesn't make sense.
Also "hin" is a noun but that might have just been overlooked for the word "thing": an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about one and one half gallons (5.7 liters).
Klatuu is correct and oint is a word according to http://www.thefreedictionary.com/oint
and I guess I did miss hin. oops.
Thank you! I've got a new rule ready; I apologize in advance if it's too hard, too easy, or it's been done before.
Begin!
well I think we will need more data.
dayowlron: 7 points
wow, strong start. wondering if a word can score more than 1 point
well I think we will need more data.
well think we will need more data.
dayowlron: 7 points
Morgan LeFlay: 7 points
dayowlron: 7 points
Hint:
Spoiler
It is not word-based, like the previous couple of rounds.
everyone seems to be scoring 7 points. so ok, most of the words have been the same.
dayowlron: 8 points
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Morgan LeFlay: 8 points
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Morgan LeFlay: 9 points
Wow
Morgan LeFlay: 1 point
W
Morgan LeFlay: 0 points
Wo
Morgan LeFlay: 1 point
Woo
Morgan LeFlay: 1 point
Wood
Morgan LeFlay: 1 point
Wooden
Morgan LeFlay: 3 points
Woode
Morgan LeFlay: 2 points
Enwood
Morgan LeFlay: 2 points
Feelgood
Gurok: 1 point
A hint that may help or hinder:
Spoiler
The rule is case-sensitive.
WOODEN
Morgan LeFlay: 0 points
wooden
Morgan LeFlay: 3 points