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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2021
« 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. ;)

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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2021
« 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
  • Name a line/theme of LEGO products
  • Name something you take with you on vacation
  • Name a Flash game
  • Name a language other than English that you'd like to speak
  • What is your favourite colour?
  • Name a type/species of flower
  • Name a Disney film
  • Name a genre of music
  • Name a mythical creature
  • Name a type of vegetable

Enjoy!

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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2021
« 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

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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2021
« 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

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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2021
« 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

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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2021
« 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?

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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2021
« on: March 19, 2021, 07:19:14 PM »
Entries are now closed. Results will follow shortly.

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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2021
« on: March 18, 2021, 03:26:20 AM »
As a heads up, I will be closing entries in about 24 hours.

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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2021
« 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).

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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2021
« 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

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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2021
« on: February 27, 2021, 10:57:46 PM »
I am closing entries at this point. Results will be calculated and posted shortly.

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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2021
« 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).

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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2021
« 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

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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
   
  • 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

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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2018
« on: September 16, 2018, 09:05:33 PM »
We have the results! 13 people participated, DeadOnArrival is my sister.

1. Name a time in clock hours when a dinner is eaten.
6 pm / 18:00 (1 pt) -- IchoTolot, mobius, namida, Flopsy, Nessy, Crane, ccexplore
5 pm / 17:00 (0,57 pts) -- Akseli, SQron188, grams88, DeadOnArrival
7 pm / 19:00 (0,29 pts) -- bsmith, Simon

Quote from: Simon on September 11, 2018, 07:24:42 PM
19:00 (Unless you're single and a student, in which case, 06:00.)


2. Name a comic series.
Spider-Man (1 pt) -- SQron188, grams88, Nessy, DeadOnArrival
Superman (0,75 pts) -- Akseli, Simon, ccexplore
Batman (0,75 pts) -- IchoTolot, namida, Flopsy
Garfield (0,25 pts) – bsmith
Peanuts (0,25 pts) -- mobius
Marvel Comics (0,25 pts) – Crane

3. Name a geometric shape in three-dimensional space.
cube (1 pt) -- bsmith, IchoTolot, SQron188, grams88, namida, Flopsy, Nessy, Simon
ball / sphere (0,50 pts) -- Akseli, Crane, DeadOnArrival, ccexplore
polygon (0,13 pts)—mobius

Quote from: Simon on September 11, 2018, 07:24:42 PM
Cube (Sphere could be a serious contender to Cube, let's see. Point, Empty set, or All of R^3 seem like more natural answers, but not good for the feud.)


4. Name a board game other than chess.
checkers / draughts (1 pt) -- bsmith, SQron188, mobius, namida, Flopsy, Crane, DeadOnArrival, ccexplore
Monopoly (0,63 pts) -- Akseli, IchoTolot, grams88, Nessy, Simon

Quote from: Simon on September 11, 2018, 07:24:42 PM
Monopoly (the real answer should be Go, but I feel that Go is a weak feud answer)

Quote from: grams88 on September 09, 2018, 02:02:23 PM
4) Monopoly (Actually monopoly can be a very unfair game if everyone gangs up on you, need to hear Simon's opinion on this one)


5. Name a fast food restaurant other than McDonald's.
Burger King (1 pt) -- bsmith, IchoTolot, namida, Flopsy, Nessy, Simon, Crane, ccexplore
Subway (0,25 pts) -- Akseli, grams88
KFC (0,25 pts) -- SQron188, DeadOnArrival
Dairy Queen (0,13 pts) – mobius

Quote from: ccexplore on September 16, 2018, 08:38:46 AM
5. Burger King
(Surprisingly hard to guess this one!  Will talk more about it on the forums once the round is over and scored.)


6. Name a science fiction author.
Isaac Asimov (1 pts) -- IchoTolot, grams88, mobius, ccexplore
Douglas Adams (0,75 pts) -- namida, Simon, DeadOnArrival
Jules Verne (0,5 pts) -- Akseli, Flopsy
Peter Telep (0,25 pts) – bsmith
George Lucas (0,25 pts) -- SQron188
Ray Bradbury (0,25 pts) – Nessy
Arthur C. Clarke (0,25 pts) – Crane

Quote from: Simon on September 11, 2018, 07:24:42 PM
Douglas Adams (I don't like the Hitchhiker much, but it's extremely well-known. Star Wars or Star Trek are more popular science fiction, but those are known for their shows, not books.)


7. Name a material for a clothing.
cotton (1 pt) -- Akseli, bsmith, SQron188, mobius, Flopsy, Simon, Crane, DeadOnArrival, ccexplore
wool (0,11 pts) -- IchoTolot
silk (0,11 pts) -- grams88
cloth (0,11 pts) -- namida
denim (0,11 pts)—Nessy

8. Name a sports video game series.
FIFA (1 pt) -- Akseli, IchoTolot, SQron188, grams88, Flopsy, Nessy, Simon, Crane, DeadOnArrival, ccexplore
Madden NFL (0,30 pts) -- bsmith, mobius, namida

Quote from: Simon on September 11, 2018, 07:24:42 PM
FIFA (Quote Flopsy: People play only two video games! Call of Duty and FIFA! It sucks! Hey dude, let's come over to my place to play FIFA! Nobody ever plays anything else!)


9. Name a weather condition that makes people avoid going out.
rain (1 pt) -- Akseli, bsmith, IchoTolot, SQron188, grams88, Flopsy, Simon, Crane, DeadOnArrival, ccexplore
hurricane (0,20 pts) -- mobius, namida
thunder/lightning storm (0,10 pts) – Nessy

10. In years, what is an average age for a person visiting Lemmings forums?
25 (1 pt) -- IchoTolot, SQron188, mobius, namida, Flopsy, Nessy, Crane, DeadOnArrival
30 (0,38 pts) -- Akseli, bsmith, Simon
27 (0,13 pts) -- grams88
20 (0,13 pts) – ccexplore

Quote from: Simon on September 11, 2018, 07:24:42 PM
30 (Both 30 and 25 seem good feud answers, but 25 feels slightly too young already. Old gramps remembers his vivid youth where he would have put 20.)

Quote from: ccexplore on September 16, 2018, 08:38:46 AM
10. 20 (though I suspect the real answer is probably higher, sigh)


Results:
1. Flopsy -- 9,25 :tal-gold:
2. IchoTolot -- 8,49 :tal-silver:
3. ccexplore -- 8,38 :tal-bronze:
4. SQron188 -- 8,07
4. DeadOnArrival -- 8,07
6. Crane -- 8,00
7. Simon -- 7,79
8. namida -- 7,11
9. Nessy -- 7,09
10. grams88 -- 6,68
11. Akseli -- 6,57
12. bsmith -- 6,46
13. mobius -- 6,00

Flopsy manages to find the top answer in 8 different questions and triumphs on the top of the scoreboard, congratulations Flopsy! :thumbsup: And thank you everyone for participating!

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