The results for the first round moderated by geoo that actually features lemmings questions are out!
I admit, the level questions probably took a bit more time than usual, and the last two didn't even work out that nicely.
Anyway, on to the results:
1. Name a country that features lemmings.
Norway: 6
Canada: 1
Ironically, the player closest to Norway picked Canada (which is definitely correct as well):
Well, I know that we have lemmings in Finland and in our northern neighbour Norway, but nobody won't answer those :--D)
I suppose some people remembered my trivia question: "Which (of the following) territories belonging to Norway feature the Norway Lemming (
lemmus lemmus)?"
2. Name a country that features clams.
New Zealand: 6
USA: 1
Clam sums it up nicely:
clams are everywhere, but there's only one Clam
3. Name a country that features capybaras.
Brazil: 4
Peru: 1
USA: 1
Germany: 1
Clam followed the same logic as the previous question, and picked Germany:
anyone who answers different obviously looked it up
Steve on picking USA:
Yea I know that capybaras aren't in the US but I don't think many people actually do and this is more a dump answer
4. What's the greatest enemy of a green haired lemming?
This is a fun one! Let's see:
water/liquid (I grouped these two answers together as they were close enough): 2
clam: 1
nuke: 1
a blue haired lemming: 1
chameleon: 1
player incompetence: 1
I was contemplating grouping Clam with player incompetence.
5. Which year will Simon finish Lix? (NEVER is a valid answer)
Never: 6
2015: 1
Simon put it in all caps and with an exclamation mark!
Steve's comment:
serious answer: ... probably not never, but I mean
6. Which year will Insane Steve finish his 11th levelpack ISteve11? (NEVER is a valid answer)
For the record, his 10th pack was 30% finished in 2006 and finished in 2009, Steve wrote in June 2011 the ISteve11 needs only 2 or 3 more levels.
Never: 3
2013: 3
2014: 1
I noticed the same thing, but I'm trustful.
We can only hope.
Simon's (and also geoo's) rationale behind picking 2013:
because Steve will get encouraged by this question
Steve answered 'never', noted however:
serious answer: knowing me, probably 2015 when I decide that Lemmix is really neat one random day again
7. Which year will ccexplore's level "Brickout" be backroute-free? (NEVER is a valid answer)
Background: "Brickout" is a very hard level for Lix by ccexplore, which had at least 10 iterations of backroutes and backroute-fixes. The first version was released in early February 2012, and the last (up to now) in March 2012, and it has been backrouted. So right now there is no backroute-fixed version.
Never: 6
2013: 1
THE BACKROUTE IS NEVER END
ccexplore's comment on answering 'never':
for feud purposes only, I hope
Simon answered NEVER!!!!
And that is not because the game is glitchy! It's because the skills are too versatile!
Lemmings level questions8. It's Hero Time! You got one of each skill, 1 minute, and 25 lemmings at release rate 99.
Pick some out of the available 8 skills that are sufficient to save 24/25. (I'm easy on you, you don't have to save everyone!).
If someone else solves it with a subset of the skills of your choice, their solution is strictly superior and you get nothing.
If not, you get 1/x points where x is the number of players who picked exactly the skill combination as you.
geoo: blocker, digger, miner
Simon: climber, floater, basher, miner, digger
Gronkling: bomber, blocker, miner, digger
Steve: floater, blocker, miner, digger
Akseli: floater, blocker, miner, digger
Clam: bomber, miner, digger
ccexplore: floater, blocker, builder, miner
geoo's skillset is a subset of each of Steve's, Gronkling's and Akseli's, so those three get 0 points.
geoo, Simon, Clam and ccexplore get 1 point.
Simon is really lucky here, as basher, miner, digger is also a valid skillset, so he even has 2 surplus skills, but no-one picked this skillset.
ccexplore's solutions is my favourite, at least I like the solution that I found for this skillset. Perhaps his intended solution is different?
9. Fun 20, "We are now at LEMCON ONE". Saving 30/50 required, 20 (14 if there's only 5 players, 17 if there's only 6 players) of each, release rate 10, 5 minutes.
Give a skillset with which you can solve the level. There's one issue though: the skills have to be shared
among all players. It might be that for some skill, the demands of all players add up to more than 20 (or 14 or 17).
In that case, the players with the highest demand for that skill (descendingly) lose, until the total demand
of the remaining players is at most 20 (or 14 or 17). Winning is only rewarding if someone else loses, so if no-one has lost
until now, the player(s) using the most skills in total lose. Everyone who doesn't lose wins and gets a point!
The only skill count that goes above 20 is the basher with 23. Gronkling's solution uses 7 bashers and 2 builders, so everyone but Gronkling get a point.
The detailed list is in the attached spreadsheet.
The builder count is exactly at 20, all other skills are not even close to 20. I think I should have lowered the allowed skill counts in general to get a more conflicts.
10. Now we play Fun 26, "Nightmare on Lem Street". 2/2 lemmings to save, release rate 30, 5 minutes. 20 builders,
but 10 of everything else! (Adapted skillset for the purpose of this challenge.)
Pick a skillset of at most 12 skills that allows to solve the level.
However, there's only limited supply of skills. Again, if the total demand of all players is higher than the available skill amount,
a conflict arises, but this time everyone who needs this skill loses.
Winning is only rewarding if someone else loses, so if no-one has lost
until now, the player(s) using the most skills in total lose. Everyone who doesn't lose wins and gets a point!
Builders are essential in this level. Steve requests 12 builders ("some men just want to watch the world burn"), so the total builder count goes up to 30. Everyone loses.
Details, again, in the spreadsheet. Perhaps I should have asked for solutions that use exactly 2 builders.
Adding up the scores, these are the final results:
1. Simon & geoo: 8.5
3. Clam: 8.25
4. ccexplore: 7.08
5. Gronkling: 7
6. Steve: 6.75
7. Akseli: 4.17