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Forum Games / Family Feud 2021
« 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!
The Quizmaster account is always run by a normal forum member; it's merely to keep game-related private messages sorted apart from normal private messages.
How to play
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
The Quizmaster account is always run by a normal forum member; it's merely to keep game-related private messages sorted apart from normal private messages.
How to play
- Anybody may play! Freely drop in and out after each round.
- Look near the end of the thread for the most recent round.
- Send your answers to the Quizmaster by private forum message.
- As long as the Quizmaster hasn't announced the round is closed, you may change your answers by sending another private message with a new complete set of answers.
- Your scores are tallied across all questions for the round. Highest total wins!
- Questions may have Standard, Inverse or Special scoring. See below for descriptions of how each one works.
- After 5-7 days, the Quizmaster will reveal and score everybody's answers. Until then, please don't discuss your secret answers.
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
