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Title: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on February 23, 2021, 02:46:38 AM
It's the most popular forum game about most popular answers! Just like a zombie, we're back from the dead, and no one saw it coming!

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Scoring - Standard Questions

The goal on standard questions is to have the same answer as as many other people as possible. It does not matter if your answer is actually valid or not.

For each answer, you get (number of people that gave your answer) / (number of people that gave the most popular answer). Example for "Name a pet" with 14 players:

5 players said "capybara": worth 5/5 points = 1 full point.
4 players said "cat": worth 4/5 points = 0.8 points.
3 players said "dog": worth 3/5 points = 0.6 points.
2 player said "truck": worth only 2/5 points. It does not matter that no one would actually have a truck as a "pet", only how many other people named the same answer.

Subclass rule: When all As are Bs, but not all Bs are As, then A and B are entirely separate answers. E.g., "oak" and "tree" are separate answers. It's part of the game to decide how specific you want to be. But synonyms are lumped together as one answer.

Scoring - Inverse Questions

The goal on inverse scoring questions is to have the rarest valid answer. It is customary for the Quizmaster to inform players if their inverse-scoring answers are invalid, and provide ample time for players to provide a new answer.

For each answer, you get (frequency of least-common valid answer that was given at least once) / (frequency of your answer) points, provided your answer is valid. Should your answer be invalid, it scores zero. Example for "Name a Lemmings 1 skill" with 14 players:

5 players said "builder": worth 2/5 points (least frequent valid answer was given twice) = 0.4 points.
3 players said "miner": worth 2/3 points = 0.666~ points.
3 players said "basher": worth 2/3 points = 0.666~ points.
2 players said "digger": worth 2/2 points = 1 full point.
1 player said "glider": worth nothing, as Glider is not an L1 skill.

It is important to note that in inverse-scoring questions, "backroute" type answers will generally be either deemed invalid, or treated as their closest valid equivalent. To continue the same example, "Exploder" would either be rejected or counted as the same thing as "Bomber", even though some ports genuinely do call it that.


Scoring - Special Questions

Special questions will have their own method of scoring, which will be described as part of the question.

Note that special questions are often less "questions" and more full-blown minigames.

-- mystery Quizmaster
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on February 23, 2021, 02:46:59 AM
(This round is closed. Instead, look near the end of this thread for the current round!)

Without further ado, here are the questions for Round 1!

Standard-Scoring Questions
1. Name a level from DOS Lemmings (orig only) that requires saving 100%.
2. Name a pizza topping.
3. Name a chocolate bar.
4. Name a NeoLemmix level pack.
5. Name a forum game other than Family Feud.
6. Name a character from The Simpsons.
7. Name a brand that makes smartphones.
8. Name a device you might plug into your PC.
9. Name something you have eaten today.
10. Name a species of parrot.

Remember, for these questions, your goal is to get the most common answer. It does not matter if your answer is factually correct or not - though being factually correct usually helps.

Inverse-Scoring Questions
11. Name one of the eight planets in our Solar System.
12. Name one of the continents on Earth.
13. Name one of the ranks in Oh No! More Lemmings! (DOS version).
14. Name a former President of the USA.
15. Name one of the countries that make up the United Kingdom.

Remember, for these questions, your goal is to get the least common valid answer. Your answers must be factually correct / fit the question as appropriate.

Special-Scoring Questions
16. Guess how many people will enter this feud. Scoring:
  +1.0 if correct
  +0.5 if off by 1
  +0.0 if off by 2 or if you do not answer this question
  -0.5 if off by 3
  -1.0 if off by 4 or more


17. Guess what the highest score any player will have, excluding this question, will be. Scoring:
  +1.0 for any guess within 0.5 of the correct score
  +0.5 for any guess within 1.5 of the correct score
  +0.0 for all others or if you do not answer this question
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on February 26, 2021, 05:58:53 PM
This is a heads up that, as the pace of new entries has greatly slowed now, I will be wrapping this up and calculating the results in around 24 hours (give or take).
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: 607 on February 27, 2021, 11:18:21 AM
This is a heads up that, as the pace of new entries has greatly slowed now, I will be wrapping this up and calculating the results in around 24 hours (give or take).
I hope I will be in time with my entry! (will make it in about 30 minutes) I will check the forum more often now that Family Feud is on again. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on February 27, 2021, 10:57:46 PM
I am closing entries at this point. Results will be calculated and posted shortly.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on February 28, 2021, 12:10:13 AM
Okay, so, here are the results! We had 11 entrants, including a couple of very last minute ones.

Note that I have rounded scores in this writeup, however, when adding scores together / comparing scores for the purpose of Question 17, I have used the unrounded values. I have attached the spreadsheet used to calculate the results if anyone wants to inspect these more closely (note that some cells are set to display rounded values, but this is just formatting and can be turned off so they display the full value).

I don't intend to host another round right away, PM an admin if you would like the password.

Standard Scoring Questions

1. Name a level from DOS Lemmings (orig only) that requires saving 100%.
Now Use Miners And Climbers (1pt) - Dullstar, Gronkling, namida, Proxima
We All Fall Down (1pt) - 607, Flopsy, Minim, Simon
No Added Colors Or Lemmings (0.5pt) - geoo, IchoTolot
It's Hero Time (0.25pt) - WillLem

2. Name a pizza topping.
Cheese (1pt) - Flopsy, geoo, Gronkling, Minim, namida
Pepperoni (0.8pt) - Dullstar, Proxima, Simon, WillLem
Pineapple (0.2pt) - 607
Salami (0.2pt) - IchoTolot

3. Name a chocolate bar.
Mars (1pt) - Flopsy, geoo, Minim, namida, Proxima, WillLem
Milka (0.33~pt) - 607, IchoTolot
Hershey's (0.16~pt) - Dullstar
KitKat (0.16~pt) - Gronkling
Toblerone (0.16~pt) - Simon

4. Name a NeoLemmix level pack.
Lemmings Redux (1pt) - Gronkling, namida, WillLem
Lemmings Reunion (0.66~pt) - Flopsy, Simon
Lemmings United (0.66~pt) - geoo, IchoTolot
Lemminas (0.33~pt) - Minim
Lemmings Plus (0.33~pt) - 607
Lemmings Plus I (0.33~pt) - Proxima
NeoLemmix Introduction Pack (0.33~pt) - Dullstar

5. Name a forum game other than Family Feud.
Rectangles (1pt) - 607, Flopsy, geoo, Gronkling, IchoTolot, namida, Proxima, Simon, WillLem
Corrupt-A-Wish (0.11~pt) - Dullstar
Zendo (0.11~pt) - Minim

One answer here was "Three Squares", but I could not find any possible game other than Rectangles that this could have been referencing.

6. Name a character from The Simpsons.
Homer Simpson (1pt) - Dullstar, Flopsy, Gronkling, IchoTolot, Minim, namida, Simon
Bart Simpson(~0.57pt) - 607, geoo, Proxima, WillLem

7. Name a brand that makes smartphones.
Apple (1pt) - 607, Dullstar, Flopsy, geoo, Gronkling, IchoTolot, Minim, WillLem
Samsung (~0.38pt) - namida, Proxima, Simon

8. Name a device you might plug into your PC.
Mouse (1pt) - Dullstar, Flopsy, geoo, Gronkling, namida, Proxima, Simon, WillLem
Flash Drive (0.25pt) - IchoTolot, Minim
Keyboard (~0.13pt) - 607

9. Name something you have eaten today.
Bread (1pt) - 607, geoo, IchoTolot, namida, Simon
Cereal (0.4pt) - Gronkling, WillLem
Pizza (0.4pt) - Dullstar, Flopsy
Breakfast (0.2pt) - Proxima
Crackers (0.2pt) - Minim

10. Name a species of parrot.
Cockatiel (1pt) - Flopsy, geoo, Gronkling, namida, Proxima, WillLem
Parakeet (0.3~pt) - Dullstar, Minim
Cockatoo (0.16~pt) - IchoTolot
Green-Winged Macaw (0.16~pt) - Simon
Parrot (0.16~pt) - 607


Inverse Scoring Questions

11. Name one of the eight planets in our Solar System.
Mars (1pt) - Gronkling
Mercury (0.5pt) - Dullstar, IchoTolot
Neptune (0.5pt) - Minim, namida
Jupiter (0.33~pt) - Flopsy, geoo, Proxima
Venus (0.33~pt) - 607, Simon, WillLem

12. Name one of the continents on Earth.
Africa (1pt) - Minim
Australia (1pt) - WillLem
Europe (0.33~pt) - 607, Gronkling, IchoTolot
North America (0.33~pt) - geoo, namida, Simon
South America (0.33~pt) - Dullstar, Flopsy, Proxima

Only the "standard 7" were accepted here - ie: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica.

13. Name one of the ranks in Oh No! More Lemmings! (DOS version).
Havoc (1pt) - Minim, Simon
Tame (1pt) - 607, IchoTolot
Wicked (0.66~pt) - Dullstar, Proxima, WillLem
Crazy (0.5pt) - Flopsy, geoo, Gronkling, namida

No one picked "Wild"!

14. Name a former President of the USA.
George H W Bush (1pt) - namida
George W Bush (1pt) - Minim
Herbert Hoover (1pt) - geoo
James K Polk (1pt) - Proxima
Martin van Buren (1pt) - Dullstar
Rutherford B Hayes (1pt) - Simon
Zachary Taylor (1pt) - Gronkling
Grover Cleveland (0.5pt) - Flopsy, IchoTolot
Ronald Reagan (0.5pt) - 607, WillLem

15. Name one of the countries that make up the United Kingdom.
England (1pt) - geoo, Minim
Wales (1pt) - 607, WillLem
Scotland (0.66~pt) - Gronkling, namida, Simon
Northern Ireland (0.5pt) - Dullstar, Flopsy, IchoTolot, Proxima


Special Scoring Questions

16. Guess how many people will enter this feud.

Correct answer was 11. No one got it exactly.

12 (0.5pt, off by 1) - geoo
10 (0.5pt, off by 1) - IchoTolot, Minim, namida, WillLem
9 (0pt, off by 2) - Gronkling
All others did not answer.

17. Guess what the highest score any player will have, excluding this question, will be.

The target was 12.875.

Off by less than 0.5; +1 point
- namida (12.4)

Off by more than 0.5 but less than 1.5; +0.5 points
- 607 (11.5)
- Minim (12.0)
- Simon (11.7)

Off by more than 1.5; no points
- Dullstar (42)
- Flopsy (9)
- geoo (9.2)
- Gronkling (26)
- IchoTolot (10)
- Proxima (9.5)
- WillLem (10)


Results

namida:     13.88
geoo:       12.40
Gronkling:  12.07
WillLem:    12.02
Minim:      11.73
Flopsy:     11.23
Simon:      11.01
Proxima:    10.11
IchoTolot:   9.45
607:         9.40
Dullstar:    9.14
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: namida on February 28, 2021, 06:03:53 AM
Wow. I think that's the first time I've won a feud.

Regarding my answers,

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1. Name a level from DOS Lemmings (orig only) that requires saving 100%.
Now Use Miners And Climbers (1pt) - Dullstar, Gronkling, namida, Proxima
My train of thought here was, there's two ways people might go about this one - the first 100% level in the game, or NACOL as the most popular level. But, NACOL being the best level is, while a widely shared opinion, not a universal one; NUMAC being the first 100% level in the game is objective fact, so it felt like the safer bet.

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2. Name a pizza topping.
Cheese (1pt) - Flopsy, geoo, Gronkling, Minim, namida
I'm actually surprised this answer wasn't more common. Cheese is the only topping I can think of that's on basically every pizza - "sauce" in general too, but subclass rule put me off picking that one.

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3. Name a chocolate bar.
Mars (1pt) - Flopsy, geoo, Minim, namida, Proxima, WillLem
I came VERY close to not getting a good score on this one. I initially wanted to say Moro - I had no real train of thought on how to pick a "best" answer here so just went with my favorite. I changed my mind because I wasn't sure if Moro exists worldwide, while I was pretty sure that Mars does. (In case it doesn't - Moro and Mars are basically the same thing, just from different brands. Moro bars are slightly larger, that's the only real difference, and only slightly.) So ultimately, this one was a matter of luck.

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4. Name a NeoLemmix level pack.
Lemmings Redux (1pt) - Gronkling, namida, WillLem
Redux has shipped with NL for a long time. The only other pack to ship with NL is the intro pack, which hasn't done so for nearly as long. It seemed to me that this would naturally be the first pack most people think of. Also, interesting that Redux's author in turn named one of my packs. I did consider whether the Lemmings Plus series was notable enough to mention, but I predicted - correctly (if perhaps not right about why) - that no particular Lemmings Plus pack would get a high number of answers.

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5. Name a forum game other than Family Feud.
Rectangles (1pt) - 607, Flopsy, geoo, Gronkling, IchoTolot, namida, Proxima, Simon, WillLem
It's the one that's been most active recently, although I didn't expect it to be nearly this popular as an answer.

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6. Name a character from The Simpsons.
Homer Simpson (1pt) - Dullstar, Flopsy, Gronkling, IchoTolot, Minim, namida, Simon
I correctly figured that Homer and Bart were the only real contenders here, beyond that I figured it was probably about 50/50 so I went with my favorite of the two.

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7. Name a brand that makes smartphones.
Samsung (~0.38pt) - namida, Proxima, Simon
Ouch. Samsung may be more popular to actually buy nowdays, but seems Apple are still the one people first think of - something I guessed incorrectly about. This was very much a strategic answer; had I gone with a "name one I personally like", my answer would of course have been Xiaomi, and I would have gotten even less points (as would Proxima and Simon).

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8. Name a device you might plug into your PC.
Mouse (1pt) - Dullstar, Flopsy, geoo, Gronkling, namida, Proxima, Simon, WillLem
Seemed obvious - a mouse is the only device that almost every PC user is going to need to plug in at some point. Keyboards and monitors come built-in on laptops, after all. A mouse substitute does too, but an actual mouse doesn't. Flash drives are likely starting to become obsolete outside of tech support cases. Though I am surprised that keyboard was as rare as it was.

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9. Name something you have eaten today.
Bread (1pt) - 607, geoo, IchoTolot, namida, Simon
I wasn't sure, so I went with a factually correct answer that felt like it had the right degree of general-ness.

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10. Name a species of parrot.
Cockatiel (1pt) - Flopsy, geoo, Gronkling, namida, Proxima, WillLem
I guessed - correctly - that my regular photos / talking about cockatiels would strongly influence how the answers to this question turned out. I was surprised to see macaws, let alone a specific type of macaw, show up as an answer. (I wonder if Simon accidentally mistook this for an inverse scoring question?)

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11. Name one of the eight planets in our Solar System.
Neptune (0.5pt) - Minim, namida
I had a hunch that this might be a "lucky" answer. I was wrong.

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12. Name one of the continents on Earth.
North America (0.33~pt) - geoo, namida, Simon
My hunch here was that North America would feel too obvious to most of the other participants. It didn't work out well, either.

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13. Name one of the ranks in Oh No! More Lemmings! (DOS version).
Crazy (0.5pt) - Flopsy, geoo, Gronkling, namida
Another one that was just an unlucky guess.

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14. Name a former President of the USA.
George H W Bush (1pt) - namida
My logic here was to go recent, but not too recent - I figured someone would probably name a really recent one like Obama or Trump as a reverse-psychology type "safe bet", but that most people would go to the very old ones and hope they don't get unlucky. Not sure if the other Bush is recent enough to count as that (or exactly what Minim's logic was in picking him), but maybe my logic was right on this one.

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15. Name one of the countries that make up the United Kingdom.
Scotland (0.66~pt) - Gronkling, namida, Simon
I felt this would feel like a "middle ground" option between England ("go for the obvious one and hope everyone else stayed away from it"), vs Northern Ireland or Wales which felt like the closest thing to "obscure" options. It seems like enough people felt it was a good middle ground, to actually make it one.

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16. Guess how many people will enter this feud.
10 (0.5pt, off by 1) - IchoTolot, Minim, namida, WillLem
Lucky guess.

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17. Guess what the highest score any player will have, excluding this question, will be.
Off by less than 0.5; +1 point
- namida (12.4)
From experience, there is always someone who somehow manages to get almost every question "right". It's not usually me, but I figured that 4 ~ 5 suboptimal answers would probably be the right ballpark for such a case.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Simon on February 28, 2021, 11:43:14 AM
Thanks for the round! Notes from my entry:

1. We All Fall Down (1pt)
(Strong alternatives are No Added Colors or Hero Time, I have a hard time judging which of these would be stronger. Maybe many pepole have the same dilemma and thus go for this simple alternative, WAFD.)

2. Pepperoni (0.8pt)
In German, we don't differentiate between salami and pepperoni ("spicy salami") and pizza places just say salami. "Pepperoni" is even a false friend, it denotes chili peppers in German.

I had salami written first, then changed to pepperoni to internationalize. Didn't even think of cheese because it's on every pizza anyway. Most pizza places don't even list it on any given pizzza; at best, they have a general note that every pizza comes with cheese.

7. Samsung (~0.38pt)
(Apple is very tempting alternative. The Apple citizens diligently call their smartphones Iphones, thus the wording "smartphone" might shift majority away from the factually very sensible Apple. I bet that this will happen, although it's thin.)

10. Red-and-green macaw (Ara chloropterus) a.k.a. green-winged macaw (0.16~pt)
(Tempted to say just Ara, it really depends on whether people go by their guts and consider Ara a species or if they research for this.)

Ara is still what comes to my mind first, I deem it the stereotypical parrot. So large and beautiful.

12. Central America. If not allowed, North America. If not allowed, America.
(Depends on definition of continent; most likely, you use the definition that allows 7 continents with North/South America separately but no separate Central America, then Europe/Asia/Africa separately, Australia, Antarctica.)

14. Rutherford B. Hayes
(There are so many of them, we absolutely want the full 1 point here and it will be really bad luck if we hit 1/2)

16. No answer
(After such a long break, it feels probable to be off by 4 or more participants.)

I think I put 12 here first, then changed to no answer.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Gronkling on February 28, 2021, 03:51:33 PM
Yay a :tal-bronze: medal for me

1 - I just went with the first one
2 - Went with the topping thats on every pizza
3 - Went with my favourite that's not UK-specific cos I don't know what's particularly more popular than others
4 - It's the most distinct one pre-loaded into NL
5 - Rectangles was the last thread before this
6 - They're like the main character who appears on everything
7 - Don't like apple but seems like most people know about iPhones most
8 - Just seemed like the most obvious
9 - Didn't really know a particularly common thing so I went with somethig I have every day
10 - Everybody loves namida's tiels

11 - Lucky random pick
12 - Originally went with Eurasia but it got rejected! So picked one at random and got unluckier
13 - Random pick, got unlucky
14 - There's enough old presidents that I just picked a random old one and confident enough I'd be the only one
15 - Random pick, got unlucky

16 - Seemed like a good number but not quite
17 - Probably should of thought this one out more :crylaugh: I just put in a score-like number
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: WillLem on February 28, 2021, 10:26:59 PM
Standard Scoring Questions

(Points scored in brackets)

1. Now Use Miners And Climbers is the first to appear, and I was going to put that but then I figured It's Hero Time is one of the most popular 100%-ers. Should've gone with my first instinct, it seems! (0.25)

2. Again, I thought of putting cheese but then I thought it's not really a topping as such, it's an integral part of the "pizza", so I went with pepperoni, which is the most popular topping. (0.8)

3. Mars was simply the first chocolate bar I thought of so I put that. (1)

4. Lemmings Redux is the NeoLemmix level pack, let's face it. (1)

5. Like other people, I put Rectangles because it's the most recent to have been played (other than FF). (1)

6. It was either going to be Homer or Bart; Bart was the most popular when I was watching The Simpsons back in the 90s, but I guess Homer has outshined him since then. Lisa is my favourite character anyways, but certainly not the most popular! (0.57)

7. I have an Apple smartphone, so it made sense to put that. (1)

8. My mouse was the only device plugged into my PC at the time I did the quiz. (1)

9. I eat cereal every day. (0.4)

10. Namida recently told me that a cockatiel is a type of parrot, so I went with that :lemcat: (1)


Inverse Scoring Questions

11. I just went with Venus because it's my favourite planet, and I figured most people would pick Earth or Saturn; how wrong I was! (0.33)

12. I originally put Oceania, but was informed that this is actually a geopolitical region as opposed to a continent, so I changed it to Australia. (1)

13. This was really a 20% chance type of question, so I just went with Wicked because it's my favourite. (0.66)

14. I guess I should have Googled random obscure presidents nobody's heard of :crylaugh: (0.5)

15. I lived in Wales for a time, so chose this. (1)


Special Scoring Questions

16. Lucky guess. (0.5)

17. Unlucky guess. (0)
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Simon on March 01, 2021, 05:48:50 AM
(http://www.lixgame.com/etc/quizmaster.png)

For the next hoster (namida?), here is the default Quizmaster avatar. Use it as-is or customize. The space in the top right is especially popular to put stuff, but anything will work.

Attached archive holds all avatars that were on my hard disk: default, Akseli, ccx, Clam, geoo, Minim, NaOH, Simon, Steve.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: geoo on March 01, 2021, 12:40:21 PM
I spent about 2 minutes to submit my answers. I've already felt in previous rounds that lower effort might be correlated with higher success, so I just went with whatever came to mind first for most questions.

1. I would have picked the first 100% level if I had actually known what it was (couldn't be bothered to look it up), but as I didn't I picked whatever some other prominent level I could think of.
3. I have no idea what distinguishes Mars from other chocolate bars (KitKat, MilkyWay, Twix, Snickers, ...) to make it more popular, tbh. I used the fact that there was a question on planets later to feel better about my choice, but I'm surprised it's such a clear favourite.
7. I picked Apple because they monopolize the production chain so there is only one brand making iPhones, while there are multiple making Android phones, which I thought risks splitting the vote for those.

16. I didn't realize this question was optional, though I did have a good feeling about my guess at least.
17. I wanted to guess roughly 3/4 of the max score plus a bit (due to question 16), but I completely messed up and used 3/4 of 12 rather than 15 as a base... At least it didn't matter in the end.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: namida on March 02, 2021, 09:39:08 AM
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16. I didn't realize this question was optional, though I did have a good feeling about my guess at least.

Technically, all questions are optional.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Dullstar on March 02, 2021, 09:40:28 AM
1. 1st 100% level.

2. I like pepperoni on pizza and it's also common

3. Hershey's was the first bar-shaped candy I thought of. Didn't really account for international popularity; I'm not sure I've ever seen a Mars bar and I'm not sure if they're actually available locally (I've heard of them, however), although now that I say this I'll probably start seeing them everywhere.

4. I thought about Redux, but ultimately decided to go with the Intro pack instead. Clearly, this was a mistake.

5. First one I thought of. I haven't really participated in the Rectangles game and haven't been following its progress, so I didn't think of it.

6. Figured it would be either Homer or Bart. 50/50 guess, got lucky.

7. Apple, for similar reasoning as geoo. Plus, Apple has a lot of brand recognition that many Android manufacturers don't - Samsung's probably the only one that comes close; Google has similar brand recognition to Apple, but while the Pixel line exists, their phones aren't really what the company is known for.

8. Figured it would be either keyboard or mouse. 50/50 guess, got lucky.

9. Pizza tastes good and is also popular.

10. Arbitrary choice. Had to use Wikipedia for a bit of help.

11. Mercury is small, and because of distance and/or proximity to the sun, people aren't really as interested in exploring it as they are Mars, so I figured people might not think of it first.
12. Provided 2 answers: At least according to Wikipedia, Zealandia is a "sunken continent". But I (correctly) figured this answer had a high probability of getting rejected, so I provided South America as a backup answer, since it doesn't really have as many influential nations as Europe/Asia/North America, and of the remaining continents, Africa gets a lot of attention, and Antarctica seemed too obvious a choice. Probably lots of other people had similar enough logic that this didn't really work out.

13. I remembered Tame/Crazy/Havoc off the top of my head, so I decided not to go with any of those. Unlucky 50/50 guess between Wild and Wicked.

14. I checked the list of US Presidents on Wikipedia, and found Martin van Buren, who I don't think I've ever heard of before. Even the Wikipedia article had a quote describing him as one of the most forgettable presidents.

15. I was hoping people would forget about Northern Ireland since it's not attached by land to the rest of it. Looks like everyone else had the same idea.

16. I thought answering this question would be too risky, since I figured the probability of choosing an answer worth negative points was higher than the probability of a positive or zero scoring answer.

17. I didn't really feel like spending much time on this one since I figured I'd be unlikely to get a correct answer anyway, and there wasn't any penalty for getting it wrong, so I didn't actually check the specifics of how the points were tabulated. If I had done so I would have realized such a high score wasn't actually possible, but since I didn't check the specifics I was unaware of the fact that the maximum possible score for any particular question was 1.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: 607 on March 02, 2021, 12:08:10 PM
1. Oh, nice! I'm glad that We All Fall Down was a good pick.
2. I am surprised to see that nobody else picked Pineapple! It certainly does seem to be the most talked about pizza topping. :P Did anyone else consider it? I'm sorry for Ichotolot, fallen to the subclass rule...
3. Excuse me? I think I don't understand this question. Ah, you were looking for brands?... I thought the available options were a superclass of dark, milk, white and caramel sea salt... so I wrote milk, as that seems to be the most commonly preferred one. I wonder if Icho did the same, then?
4. Well, I guess I haven't been following the community enough. :P To be honest, I did see a lot about Lemmings Redux on the Discord server recently.
5. Heh, glad to see my strategy of picking the most recently active forum game other than Family Feud paid off. The first forum game I thought of was Counting with Pictures, but it seemed dumb to pick that one, as it hasn't been played here ever, as far as I'm aware.
6. Heh, I don't know the Simpsons well, and I actually imagined Homer Simpson while typing Bart Simpson. I'm lucky that some people did go for him (unless they made the same mistake :P).
7. This one seemed obvious to me, as Apple is such a huge brand. No other smartphone brand compares. Apple might even be reasonably called the Nokia of smartphones... except that Nokias weren't overexpensive. ;P
8. Woah, I am surprised here! I wonder why you went for mouse. :laugh: I was going to say that, with how many people use laptops nowadays, removable mice might be used more often than removable keyboards, but on the other hand, some laptop users don't use a mouse at all... and considering that the keyboard is the most basic peripheral for pc's, I am quite surprised that nobody else went for it! Monitor also wasn't used at all... I guess people take keyboard and monitor for granted?... :P
9. Hey, I'm glad to see bread worked out. Wasn't sure it would!
10. Cockatiel?? What's that??

11. Nobody went for Earth. :laugh:
12. Unlike here, where people did go for the obvious ones. :P
13. Huh, wasn't expecting 'Tame' to do well!
14. Donald Trump and Barrack Obama aren't in. :laughing: I assumed that if I looked through a list of former presidents, I would be able to find one that was way more probable to not be picked by anyone else. I didn't want to use external tools, though. How do others feel about this?
15. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

16. Huh, everyone who went for it, didn't lose points to it!
17. Hey, my estimate was pretty good!

Cool to see so many people share their thoughts. :D
I'm glad to see an explanation for the parrot thing. :P I'm also glad to see that some other people did consider keyboard. ;)
Thinking of it now, pizza makes sense for 9 because of question 2. I guess it wasn't enough, though.

I'm not a fan of the inverse scoring question type myself, although it was funny to see the results. The recursive reverse psychology is fun a few times, but it seems to me that in the end it comes down to luck. I could use a couple less.
Hoping for another round soon!
I do have on my mental list of projects to work on writing something that lets me automatically write Family Feud results. I used to host Family Feud on another forum, but writing the results was a lot of work, and it seems like it could be automated fairly easily.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: geoo on March 02, 2021, 03:58:24 PM
Technically, all questions are optional.
And if you skip, you pretty much always get the worst possible score.
Makes sense you get 0 here rather than -1 for skipping, but it didn't come to my mind at all, and I was surprised so many players opted for it even though it wasn't explicitly mentioned anywhere.

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I'm not a fan of the inverse scoring question type myself, although it was funny to see the results. The recursive reverse psychology is fun a few times, but it seems to me that in the end it comes down to luck. I could use a couple less.
Same here.

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I do have on my mental list of projects to work on writing something that lets me automatically write Family Feud results. I used to host Family Feud on another forum, but writing the results was a lot of work, and it seems like it could be automated fairly easily.
I wrote a script for that back in the day, see here (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2009.msg49743#msg49743) and here (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=3626.msg68672#msg68672) (I'm not sure there's a difference between the two, but I linked both just in case.)
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Proxima on March 02, 2021, 04:02:17 PM
I think inverse scoring questions work best when there are somewhere around 10-15 options. 4-5 is just too few and reduces it to luck.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: 607 on March 02, 2021, 04:27:30 PM
Makes sense you get 0 here rather than -1 for skipping, but it didn't come to my mind at all, and I was surprised so many players opted for it even though it wasn't explicitly mentioned anywhere.
It actually was!
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+0.0 if off by 2 or if you do not answer this question
I wrote a script for that back in the day, see here (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2009.msg49743#msg49743) and here (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=3626.msg68672#msg68672) (I'm not sure there's a difference between the two, but I linked both just in case.)
Thanks, that's great! Can I adopt that for other forums if I'd like to, at some point?
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on March 10, 2021, 10:35:19 PM
Alright! It's time for Round 2!

Standard-Scoring Questions
1. Name a type of interactive object from Lemmings (any game).
2. Name a console mascot.
3. Name something you would use to cool yourself down.
4. Name a type of flower.
5. Name a car part.
6. Name a farm animal.
7. Name a shark movie.
8. Name something you should not eat.
9. Name something you might find in a dog's kennel.
10. Name a number, any number.

Inverse-Scoring Questions
11. Name a Grass-type starter pokemon (main series games only).
12. Name a letter of the English alphabet (not case-sensitive).
13. Name one of the official DOS Lemmings games with L1-style gameplay.
14. Name a country in the European Union.
15. 50/50 chance, heads or tails?

Special-Scoring Questions
16. Missile war!

You must choose a location to place your missile launcher on a 12x12 grid (top-left space is 0,0; bottom-right is 11,11). The grid is considered to wrap around. Two players' launchers may end up on the same spot.

Then, you must choose three different spaces to fire a missile at - the order matters. You may not fire at the space occupied by your own launcher, nor at a space horizontally or vertically adjacent to it.

The scoring is calculated in three "rounds". In each round, if you score a direct hit on another player's launcher, you gain 0.25 points. Otherwise, if you hit a space adjacent to another player's launcher horizontally or vertically (not diagonally), you gain 0.1 points. If, at the end of a round, a launcher has sustained one direct hit or two adjacent hits (the latter can be one each round, or two in the same round), it cannot fire any missiles in future rounds, but can still be hit by other players for further points.

To avoid doubt - the scoring in each round is 0.25 or 0.1 altogether; not 0.25 or 0.1 per launcher hit (in the case of multile adjacent launchers and/or multiple launchers on one spot).
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: 607 on March 13, 2021, 05:28:52 PM
One is allowed to consult the web, right? Edit: I mean looking for for example a list of American presidents, not actually asking people on the web what their answer would be, or looking for another Family Feud game with the same question.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Simon on March 13, 2021, 06:11:52 PM
Yes, web searches are allowed. There is the risk of researching too deply, then giving a very good factual asnwer that ends unpopular because nobody else researched that much.

It's merely discouraged to discuss answers with other players before the end of the round.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on March 18, 2021, 03:26:20 AM
As a heads up, I will be closing entries in about 24 hours.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on March 19, 2021, 07:19:14 PM
Entries are now closed. Results will follow shortly.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on March 19, 2021, 09:01:31 PM
Please note that values used in this post are rounded to max 2 decimal places, but adding up total score was done with the unrounded values. A spreadsheet of the results is attached if you want to see exact values.

Standard-Scoring Questions

1. Name a type of interactive object from Lemmings (any game).
Exit (1pt) - Crane, Dullstar, Gronkling, Minim, namida, Simon, WillLem
Trap (0.43pt) - 607, Flopsy, IchoTolot
Water (0.14pt) - geoo

2. Name a console mascot.
Mario (1pt) - 607, Crane, Flopsy, Gronkling, IchoTolot, Simon, WillLem
Sonic (0.57pt) - Dullstar, geoo, Minim, namida

3. Name something you would use to cool yourself down.
Fan (1pt) - Crane, Flopsy, Gronkling, namida, WillLem
Water (0.6pt) - 607, geoo, IchoTolot
Air conditioner (0.2pt) - Dullstar
Bath (0.2pt) - Minim
Shower (0.2pt) - Simon

4. Name a type of flower.
Daffodil (1pt) - Crane, Minim, WillLem
Rose (1pt) - 607, Flopsy, IchoTolot
Sunflower (0.67pt) - namida, Simon
Daisy (0.33pt) - Gronkling
Lily (0.33pt) - geoo
Tulip (0.33pt) - Dullstar

5. Name a car part.
Engine (1pt) - 607, Crane, Dullstar, Flopsy, Gronkling, namida
Steering wheel (0.33pt) - Simon, WillLem
Wheel (0.33pt) - geoo, Minim
Tire (0.17pt) - IchoTolot

6. Name a farm animal.
Cow (1pt) - 607, Crane, Dullstar, geoo, Gronkling, IchoTolot, namida, Simon, WillLem
Pig (0.22pt) - Flopsy, Minim

7. Name a shark movie.
Jaws (1pt) - 607, Crane, Flopsy, geoo, Gronkling, Minim, WillLem
Sharknado (0.57pt) - Dullstar, IchoTolot, namida, Simon

8. Name something you should not eat.
Poison (1pt) - Flopsy, IchoTolot, namida, Simon
Cyanide (0.5pt) - Dullstar, geoo
Dog poop (0.25pt) - Crane
Meat (0.25pt) - Minim
Poop (0.25pt) - 607
Quizmaster (0.25pt) - Gronkling

9. Name something you might find in a dog's kennel.
Bone (1pt) - Crane, Flopsy, geoo, Minim
Dog (1pt) - 607, Gronkling, namida, WillLem
Bowl (0.25pt) - Simon
Puppy pads (0.25pt) - Dullstar
Water bowl (0.25pt) - IchoTolot

10. Name a number, any number.
1 (1pt) - Crane, Flopsy, Minim, namida
0 (0.5pt) - 607, geoo
7 (0.5pt) - Dullstar, Gronkling
10 (0.25pt) - Simon
16 (0.25pt) - WillLem
69 (0.25pt) - IchoTolot

Inverse-Scoring Questions

11. Name a Grass-type starter pokemon (main series games only).
Chikorita (1pt) - namida
Grookey (1pt) - Gronkling
Rowlet (1pt) - WillLem
Snivy (1pt) - geoo
Turtwig (1pt) - Simon
Bulbasaur (0.5pt) - IchoTolot, Minim
Chespin (0.25pt) - 607, Crane, Dullstar, Flopsy

12. Name a letter of the English alphabet (not case-sensitive).
E (1pt) - geoo
F (1pt) - namida
J (1pt) - Dullstar
L (1pt) - Crane
W (1pt) - WillLem
Y (1pt) - Flopsy
A (0.5pt) - IchoTolot, Minim
O (0.33pt) - 607, Gronkling, Simon

13. Name one of the official DOS Lemmings games with L1-style gameplay.
Holiday Lemmings 94 (1pt) - Gronkling
Oh No! More Lemmings! (1pt) - Minim
Prima Publishing Lemmings (1pt) - geoo
Xmas Lemmings 91 (1pt) - Dullstar
Lemmings (0.5pt) - IchoTolot, WillLem
Xmas Lemmings 92 (0.5pt) - namida, Simon
Holiday Lemmings 93 (0.33pt) - 607, Crane, Flopsy

14. Name a country in the European Union.
Estonia (1pt) - geoo
France (1pt) - Minim
Greece (1pt) - WillLem
Ireland (1pt) - Crane
Latvia (1pt) - Gronkling
Lithuania (1pt) - 607
Luxembourg (1pt) - IchoTolot
Malta (1pt) - Dullstar
Slovenia (1pt) - Flopsy
Spain (1pt) - namida
Sweden (1pt) - Simon

15. 50/50 chance, heads or tails?
Heads (1pt) - Crane, Flopsy, geoo, namida, Simon
Tails (0.83pt) - 607, Dullstar, Gronkling, IchoTolot, Minim, WillLem

Special-Scoring Questions

16. Missile war!
There is a second sheet on the attached spreadsheet that shows the initial configuration, as well as a round-by-round breakdown, of the Missile War minigame. I have also attached screenshots of this sheet, for those who don't want to bother downloading and opening the entire sheet just to see it.

In the first round:
- (0.1) geoo scored an adjacent hit on Flopsy
- (0.1) namida scored an adjacent hit on WillLem

In the second round:
- (0.25) namida scored a direct hit on Simon, destroying his launcher
- (0.1) geoo scored adjacent hits on both 607 and WillLem, destroying the latter's launcher
- (0.1) Simon scored an adjacent hit on namida

In the third round:
- (0.25) Gronkling scored a direct hit on IchoTolot, destroying his launcher
- (0.25) Minim scored a direct hit on Gronkling, destroying his launcher
- (0.1) Crane scored an adjacent hit on 607, destroying his launcher
- Simon and WillLem were unable to fire due to their launchers being destroyed in earlier rounds

Altogether, scores from the missile war are:
- 0.35pt for namida (1 direct + 1 adjacent)
- 0.25pt for Gronkling, Minim (1 direct each)
- 0.2pt for geoo (2 adjacent)
- 0.1pt for Crane, Simon (1 adjacent each)
- 0pt for 607, Dullstar, Flopsy, IchoTolot, WillLem (no hits)

While not relevant to scoring, the end-game status of everyone's launcher:
- Crane, Dullstar, geoo and Minim's launchers were not hit at all
- Flopsy and namida's launchers suffered a single adjacent hit, so survived the game overall
- 607, Gronkling, IchoTolot, Simon and WillLem's launchers were destroyed

Final Results

namida     13.66
Crane      12.93
Gronkling  12.50
Flopsy     12.23
WillLem    12.17
geoo       11.18
Minim      10.66
607        10.53
Simon      10.20
Dullstar   10.01
IchoTolot   9.60


I would like to pass the next round over to someone else - Crane perhaps?
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Crane on March 20, 2021, 12:54:48 AM
Me? Um... okay, but give me a moment, or 10...
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: geoo on March 21, 2021, 09:48:56 PM
Wow, I really botched the first 5 questions here.
1. For some reason in my mind the question asked for a kind of trap, and so I answered accordingly x_x Similar to me overlooking to option to not answer Q16 from last round.
5. I thought there are too many things under the hood of a car to pick one unique outstanding thing from there...but I guess engine kinda does stand out from there?
10. I'm surprised not to see a single '42' answer here... Also people indexing their arrays from 1 rather than 0, boo!
13. I'm surprised I'm the only one to go with Prima Publishing/Covox. I thought a good portion of players wouldn't know about these, but some of those who do would go for it for the obscurity factor.

Thanks, that's great! Can I adopt that for other forums if I'd like to, at some point?
Sorry, forgot to respond to this. Absolutely, feel free to.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: 607 on March 22, 2021, 02:26:53 PM
Thanks for the permission, geoo. :)

My reactions:
Huh, I wasn't expecting Engine to do so well! I'm also surprised that anyone named some other than Jaws for question 7. :P What makes Daffodil pickable? Yes hahaha, I am so glad Dog did well! As I said in my pm: "To be honest, I think 'bone' and 'food bowl' might be more likely winners, but this is so good of an obvious answer that I do not want to risk not having picked it when it does win. :P" And for question 10: "It's hard not to go with 607, but I think that I am not enough of an icon here to have it be the first number that comes to people's minds. On my main forum I would be, I imagine." It's interesting that 1 beat 0. Wasn't expecting that on a forum with so many mathematically minded people. ;)
Lol, I love how I got the lowest score on every single one of the inverse scoring questions. xD
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on October 19, 2021, 04:05:31 AM
No feud in half a year? Here is a new one! Round 3 in 2021!

See first post for how to participate. All questions have standard scoring: Try to submit the most popular answer.

1. Name a profession that a 5-year-old kid aspires to be.
2. Name a country in Africa.
3. Name a character from Sonic the Hedgehog games, except Sonic.
4. Name a popular skill from Lemmings 2. (Image below.)
5. Name an unpopular skill from Lemmings 2.
6. Name a large number.
7. Name something that Lemmings fans do that's good for the Lemmings community.
8. Name a profession that entails working outside.
9. Name something hollow.
10. Name something that people do once per week.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on October 26, 2021, 05:07:34 PM
We have 6 entries so far. Get yours in today, too! The round will close in 24 hours.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on October 27, 2021, 06:25:42 PM
Results of Round 3.

1. Name a profession that a 5-year-old kid aspires to be.
Astronaut (1 pt) -- namida, WillLem, Simon
Firefighter (0.67 pts) -- 607, IchoTolot
Police (0.33 pts) -- grams88
Vet (0.33 pts) -- mantha16

2. Name a country in Africa.
Egypt (1 pt) -- 607, WillLem, IchoTolot, Simon
South Africa (0.50 pts) -- namida, grams88
Nigeria (0.25 pts) -- mantha16

I had practically the same question in an old feud years ago, but had forgotten about it. I noticed it only during scoring, in the spreadsheet.

3. Name a character from Sonic the Hedgehog games, except Sonic.
Tails (1 pt) -- mantha16, namida, 607, grams88, WillLem, IchoTolot, Simon

Quote from: 607
Pretty confident about this one.

The oldest and most popular side character, makes a lot of sense. Not even Eggman's moustache is remarkable enough to pick Eggman over Tails!

4. Name a popular skill from Lemmings 2.
Platformer (1 pt) -- mantha16, namida, WillLem
Fencer (0.33 pts) -- 607
Laser Blaster (0.33 pts) -- IchoTolot
Slider (0.33 pts) -- Simon
SuperLem (0.33 pts) -- grams88

5. Name an unpopular skill from Lemmings 2.
SuperLem (1 pt) -- namida, 607
Archer (0.50 pts) -- grams88
Bazooka (0.50 pts) -- mantha16
Diver (0.50 pts) -- IchoTolot
Sand Pourer (0.50 pts) -- WillLem
Twister (0.50 pts) -- Simon

SuperLem is both popular and unpopular.

6. Name a large number.
One Million (1 pt) -- namida, IchoTolot, Simon
One Hundred (0.33 pts) -- grams88
Googol (0.33 pts) -- 607
Googolplex (0.33 pts) -- WillLem
Googolplexian (0.33 pts) -- mantha16

Quote from: 607
Googol
I hope people stick there and don't go for googolplex. :P It would be cool if someone were to go for one of the less common huge numbers, but I'm not expecting it. Honestly, a thousand or a million or even a dozen could work as well... but I don't think people will think of that.

People didn't stick there and instead went for even more than one variant.

7. Name something that Lemmings fans do that's good for the Lemmings community.
Create Levels (1 pt) -- mantha16, namida, 607, grams88, Simon
Create Custom Content (0.20 pts) -- IchoTolot
Play Challenges Together (0.20 pts) -- WillLem

Here, I lumped level creation and level pack creation together: A level pack is mainly about levels, and grams88 explicitly mentioned the levels in his "Make level packs".

Custom content encompasses tilesets, too, and feels a tad too far off. Although you can make an argument that if tileset creation is different from levels, then packs are also different from levels.

8. Name a profession that entails working outside.
Gardener (1 pt) -- mantha16, grams88, IchoTolot, Simon
Landscaper (0.25 pts) -- namida
Roofer (0.25 pts) -- WillLem
Workman (0.25 pts) -- 607

Quote from: 607
Workman
I thought of gardeners first, but gardeners are a whole lot less common...

9. Name something hollow.
A Glass (1 pt) -- 607
Bell (1 pt) -- Simon
Bubble (1 pt) -- WillLem
Easter Chocolate Egg (1 pt) -- grams88
Easter Egg (1 pt) -- namida
Halloween Pumpkin (1 pt) -- IchoTolot
Straw (1 pt) -- mantha16

Wide question and unsurprising that every answer was unique. Chocolate egg and regular Easter egg don't feel similar enough to warrant lumping together.

In hindsight, the question was probably too wide.

10. Name something that people do once per week.
Grocery Shopping (1 pt) -- namida, grams88
Clean the House (0.50 pts) -- IchoTolot
Do the Laundry (0.50 pts) -- Simon
Go to Church (0.50 pts) -- 607
Have Sex (0.50 pts) -- mantha16
Have Sunday Dinner (0.50 pts) -- WillLem

I lumped shopping and grocery shopping together. Reason: The weekend shopping is mainly for groceries that don't spoil within days. The weekend shopping can have other items, but none seem frequent enough to make the answer sufficiently different. It feels about as warranted as the decision with (level design) and (pack design) in question 7. Tricky. The decision gave namida the win over me.

Results
1. namida (8.750)
2. Simon (8.333)
3. IchoTolot (7.200)
4. 607 (7.083)
5. grams88 (7.000)
6. mantha16 (6.917)
7. WillLem (6.783)

Congrats to namida for winning, and thanks to everybody for joining!

-- Simon
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: grams88 on October 27, 2021, 07:04:05 PM
Welldone to Namida and Simon for second place. :thumbsup:

(That was sort of close with a lot of the answers) I can sort of see why the SuperLem is an unpopular skill as well, it can be a nightmare to get it just right. My brother loved the superlem skill but to be fair he's not really a lemmings fan as such but I've been trying to get him into the lemmings as they are great games. I thought people were going to go for Graham's number for the big number as that's my name, well my name is spelt Graeme. Googol is a good answer as well but only one went for it.  Funny enough that I actually wanted to be a police officer in the past but that wasn't to be.  I can understand the reasoning with the easter egg, chocolate egg scenario.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Silken Healer on October 28, 2021, 02:20:56 AM
I missed it agian :'(
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: mobius on October 28, 2021, 09:56:24 PM
haven't been checking the forum regularly and didn't even realize these were still going on. I'll have to enter the next one.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: 607 on November 04, 2021, 01:27:03 PM
I'm surprised, but not disappointed, to see a million win the large number question!
I'd like to host a round here, but I am quite busy this year, so I fear that maybe it will take me several weeks until I have time to compile the results... although I guess that that would give more people time to notice a new round being on. :P
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Simon on November 04, 2021, 02:26:54 PM
I'd like to host a round here

Yep, host one! I sent you PM with Quizmaster's password.

-- Simon
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: grams88 on November 04, 2021, 11:24:42 PM
I look forward to 607 hosting a family feud contest. :)
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on November 08, 2021, 11:06:50 AM
I know we've just had a round with only standard scoring questions, but I don't often enjoy inverse scoring questions, and special scoring questions are hard to calculate scores for, and I'd rather not risk getting stuck with that.
So here's 10 more standard scoring questions!

Family Feud 2021—Round 4

Enjoy!
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Quizmaster on November 16, 2021, 08:45:59 PM
Well, it seems that round 4 was a lot harder than I was expecting!
I submitted my own answers too, before seeing the rest, but I don't think it was quite fair, as I reused several questions from rounds hosted on other forums, for which I already knew the answers. So at the end I will also post the leaderboard without my answers counted, for those that mind!

I like to include quotes with the questions, but very few people wrote extra thoughts besides their answers, so I'll just post the clean results instead.

Round 4 results
1. Name a line/theme of LEGO products
1: Star Wars (607, IchoTolot)
1: Architecture (Silken Healer, bsmith)
0.5: Dimensions (WillLem)
0.5: Technic (Simon)
0.5: Ninjago (namida)
0.5: Batman (grams88)
0.5: Minifigures (mobius)

2. Name something you take with you on vacation
1: Clothes (Simon, Silken Healer)
1: Suitcase (namida, mobius)
0.5: Passport (WillLem)
0.5: Toothbrush (607)
0.5: Suntan lotion (grams88)
0.5: Puzzle books (bsmith)
0.5: Hygiene products (IchoTolot)

3. Name a Flash game
1: N (mobius, IchoTolot)
0.5: Football Heads (WillLem)
0.5: Gemcraft (Simon)
0.5: Line Rider (607)
0.5: Crush the Castle (namida)
0.5: Angry Birds (grams88)
0.5: Run (Silken Healer)
0.5: Codex of Alchemical Engineering (bsmith)

4. Name a language other than English that you'd like to speak
1: Japanese (WillLem, 607, mobius)
1: Spanish (namida, grams88, IchoTolot)
0.67: German (Simon, Silken Healer)
0.33: Luxembourgish (bsmith)

5. What is your favourite colour?
1: Blue (Simon, 607, mobius, Silken Healer, IchoTolot)
0.2: Apple Red (WillLem)
0.2: Green (namida)
0.2: Red (grams88)
0.2: Eggshell white (bsmith)

6. Name a type/species of flower
1: Rose (607, IchoTolot)
1: Sunflower (namida, mobius)
0.5: Tulip (WillLem)
0.5: Dandelion (Simon)
0.5: Daisy (grams88)
0.5: Poppy (Silken Healer)
0.5: Titan arum (bsmith)

7. Name a Disney film
1: The Lion King (Simon, namida, grams88, IchoTolot)
0.5: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (607, mobius)
0.25: Inside Out (WillLem)
0.25: The Princess and the Frog (Silken Healer)
0.25: The Great Mouse Detective (bsmith)

8. Name a genre of music
1: Rock (WillLem, 607, namida, grams88, mobius)
0.2: Classical (Simon)
0.2: Jazz (Silken Healer)
0.2: Synth-pop (bsmith)
0.2: Metal (IchoTolot)

9. Name a mythical creature
1: Nessie (Simon, IchoTolot)
1: Unicorn (607, namida)
0.5: Siren (WillLem)
0.5: Dragon (grams88)
0.5: Kraken (mobius)
0.5: Lemmings (Silken Healer)
0.5: Varcolac (bsmith)

10. Name a type of vegetable
1: Carrot (Simon, 607, namida, mobius, Silken Healer)
0.4: Potato (grams88, IchoTolot)
0.2: Pumpkin (WillLem)
0.2: Sugar beet (bsmith)

Ranking
1. 607 (8.5 points)
2. mobius (8.5 points)
3. namida (8.2 points)
4. IchoTolot (8.1 points)
5. Simon (7.37 points)
6. Silken Healer (6.62 points)
7. grams88 (6.1 points)
8. WillLem (5.15 points)
9. bsmith (4.18 points)

Ranking without my answers:
1. mobius (7.92 points)
2. namida (7.75 points)
3. Simon (7.42 points)
4. IchoTolot (7.25 points)
5. Silken Healer (6.67 points)
6. grams88 (6.25 points)
7. WillLem (4.92 points)
8. bsmith (4.33 points)

I hope you enjoyed! Feel free to discuss. I might join in, on my own account. ;)
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: mobius on November 17, 2021, 12:56:38 AM
can't believe my mind blanked on "Star Wars" as a popular LEGO; it's the only one I actually know of! I looked up minifigures... didn't see mention of Star Wars...

my favorite color is actually green ;)

you didn't mention my second answer for vegetable; leek :P [only a few people will get that reference]

I wonder if bsmith's answers were jokes? He seems to have purposefully picked unusual or obscure answers...

as I understand the rules (and depending on the host) you can answer with essentially anything even clear nonsense. But importantly the answers dont have to be "honest". Like I didn't answer my true favorite color; cause I know that was likely not the highest.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: bsmith on November 17, 2021, 06:55:57 PM
I did purposely try to pick obscure answers.  That was because of question 3 "Name a Flash game". The Codex immediately sprung to mind so I decided to go all out with weird, but still valid, answers.

The responses to question 1 really surprised me as to how spread out they were.  I was at a minimum expecting "Star Wars" to have a plurality of votes, not just two.  My serious answer would have been Star Wars.

For question 2, I really do take some dollar store puzzle books with me when I go on vacation, particularly if there is a long drive to/from the vacation location.

Question 7, Disney film, was pretty compact compared to how big their catalog is.
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: WillLem on November 18, 2021, 08:23:23 PM
Wow, I've done terribly with Family Feud these last couple of rounds! I think I prefer trying to come up with answers that less people would think of :P
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: 607 on November 19, 2021, 12:31:36 PM
I did consider The Lion King for the Disney film. But at least mobius also picked Snow White. :D Inside Out is Pixar. ;P
I found it interesting that almost everyone went for blue in the question part. Did WillLem by chance fall for my cheeky wording of the question? ;D
I wasn't sure whether Japanese would do well at all in this community, but it wasn't bad!
On another forum, 'toothbrush' was by far the winning answer for the vacation question! I'm surprised that nobody else picked it.
I was also expecting a lot more people to think of Lego Star Wars. I guess people weren't thinking about licensed lines at all?
The Flash game question was too hard, probably. I did look up N; was it a coincidence that both mobius and IchoTolot made this answer?
I thought 'Dragon' would also be a good answer for question 9. I wasn't expecting 'Siren' or 'Kraken', although they are perfectly valid answers of course. 'Lemmings' is cute. :P
The vegetable question was also in a round on another forum, and I answered 'potato' then, and I think I was the only one... it would've done a lot better here!
It was fun to host. And lots of submissions! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Family Feud 2021
Post by: Simon on November 19, 2021, 06:11:18 PM
Thanks for hosting the feud!

Hunt the Nessy (for question 9, mythical creature) seemed a compelling an answer on Lemmings Forums, surprising that Nessie got only 2 namings. Top answer nonetheless.

-- Simon