Alright, the way too long awaited reveal! 7 entrants this time, may make scoring a bit interesting.
1) What is the worst level of Lemmings 1?
1 point: Hunt the Nessy (Insane Steve, Akseli, geoo, ccexplore)
3/4 point: We All Fall Down (Simon, Clam Spammer, möbius)
A nice split here. Simon was the only one to explicitly list a difficulty of WAFD but I just lumped them all together.
2) Name a tribe from Lemmings 2.
Classic: 1 point (Insane Steve, Simon, Clam Spammer, möbius, geoo, ccexplore)
Beach: 1/6 point (Akseli)
A near consensus here.
3) Who on the forums is the best Lemmings player?
1 point: ccexplore (Simon, Clam Spammer, möbius, geoo, ccexplore)
2/5 point: geoo (Insane Steve, Akseli)
möbius said that it was actually a tie between these two, but wisely listed ccexplore as his official answer.
4) You're at a restaurant. What do you order to drink?
1 point: soda (Insane Steve, Simon, möbius)
2/3 point: water (Akseli, geoo)
1/3 point: beer (ccexplore)
1/3 point: Diet Lemmingaid (Clam Spammer)
I was a bit generous here -- I grouped Simon's "coke" with soda. There are people in the US who will call any kind of soda a Coke. Even non-cola soda. This bothers me a lot more than it should.
5) Did you eat breakfast today?
1 point: Yes (Simon, Clam Spammer, möbius, Akseli, ccexplore ["but only for Feud purposes"])
2/5 point: No (Insane Steve, geoo)
möbius makes another wise decision and changes his answer to this one. You people really need to try the university "get up at 1 and don't eat breakfast" thing, it's pretty awesome.
6) Name any food (I'm a bit hungry if you can't tell).
1 point: Pizza (Insane Steve, Clam Spammer, möbius, Akseli, geoo, ccexplore)
1/6 point: Steak (Simon)
You have no idea how ostracised I feel sometimes for being a freak who doesn't like pizza
7) What number birthday is the best one?
1 point: 21st (Insane Steve, Clam Spammer, möbius, geoo, ccexplore)
1/5 point: 50th (Simon)
1/5th point: 20th (Akseli)
YEA DRINKING
boo USA's ridiculously high legal drinking age
once again möbius make a wise last second switch here
Puzzle tiiiiiiiime. Each of you have the ability to fill in 100 pieces into a jigsaw puzzle per hour, and you all have an hour to kill. There is a 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 piece puzzle. Pick a puzzle. If you have enough people to finish in the hour, you feel a great sense of accomplishment, but that diminishes somewhat if you have too many people working on it. Your score is equal to the number of pieces you individually filled into the puzzle (so, (n/100)/number of people working, where n is the number of pieces in the puzzle). If you don't finish within the hour, you get frustrated and flip the table over. Also, you don't get any points.
100 piece (1 point): möbius
200 piece (1 point): geoo, ccexplore
300 piece (3/4 points): Insane Steve, Simon, Clam Spammer ("because THIS IS (a jigsaw of) SPARTAAAA!"), Akseli
Everyone finishes their puzzles with relatively good efficiency, and the poor janitor of the puzzle piece room gets a day off from cleaning the broken dreams of jilted puzzlers from the ground.
möbius switched off of 500 to 100. Are you a wizard?
9) There is another cave with possible treasure to explore! Yay! This one only has four branches, also. You hear that there might be dragons in the cave, though, so you hope to stick together as much as possible before reaching the possible treasure. At every turn, score .05 points * the number of people still with you. There aren't actually any dragons, though, and there is treasure -- in every single branch, in fact! The problem is that if you get to the end with someone else, you'll fight over how to divide the treasure and an imp will steal it all before you can get any. If you're alone, well, you don't have that problem. Score an additional .5 points if you are alone at the end of the cave.
Insane Steve: RRRR (Against my best instincts, since SAS wasn't available for dragon frequency analysis)
Simon: LLRR
Clam Spammer: RRLL
möbius: LLLR
Akseli: LLLL
geoo: LLLL
ccexplore: RLRR
Insane Steve: .3 + .1 + .05 + 0 + .5 = .95
Simon: .3 + .15 + .15 + 0 + .5 = 1.1
Clam Spammer: .3 + .1 + .05 + 0 + .5 = .95
möbius: .3 + .15 + .15 + .1 + .5 = 1.2
Akseli: .3 + .15 + .15 + .1 + 0 = .7
geoo: .3 + .15 + .15 + .1 + 0 = .7
ccexplore: .3 + .1 + 0 + 0 + .5 = .9
möbius changes his answer again from something to the best possible answer. Everyone leaves with treasure except geoo and Akseli who have both been taking their advice from Lemmings level titles a bit literally. Turns out that I was mistaken and there actually were dragons in the cave, but fortunately we all avoided them.
10) Insane Steve's House For the Situationally Disadvantaged, which is far and away better than every one of those soup kitchens out there that refer to their patrons as bums behind their backs, is offering food today. One-armed Jack (see, we even HIRE the situationally disadvantaged, too!) makes the soup with love and care, but he can only make .15 li^H^H quarts (almost forgot I was American there) of soup a hour (you try making soup with one arm). Pick a time to come in and get soup -- you get whatever soup has been made at that time, and one point per quart of soup. You split the soup if you pick the same time as someone else.
Alternatively, because we're even more awesome than soup kitchens, you can get a delicious salisbury steak instead of your soup. The problem being that we're currently having a bit of a row with our suppliers about matters that do not concern you and only get three steaks a day -- at midnight, 8:00, and 16:00. If you come for a steak at the same time as someone else, you'll have to share it. Score 1 point divided by the number of people who show up for a steak as you. You may only choose one of either soup or steak, though, and may only pick one time of the day to come in. Insane Steve's House For the Situationally Disadvantaged is a non-profit organization and is not made of money.
Akseli: steak at 8:00 (1 point)
möbius: steak at 8:23 (0 points, Akseli already ate the steak at 8:00 and the midnight steak went bad)
Insane Steve: steak at 16:00 (1 point)
ccexplore: soup at 5:57 (.8925 point)
Simon: soup at 19:20 (2.0075 points)
geoo: soup at 22:54 (.535 points)
Clam Spammer: soup at 23:45 (.1275 points)
möbius a bit confused at when the steaks arrive and misses his chance to get one. Simon hogs almost all of the soup, leaving not very much for the latecomers.
11) Time paradox! Guess how many people will finish ahead of you, as of scoring by this question. Score 1 point if correct, .8 points if off by 1, .6 if off by 2, etc. You cannot score negative points for this question. If the scores are close enough, you will create a TIME PARADOX. Time paradoxes are awesome. Gain an additional .5 points if your overall rank improved as a result of this question for each rank you improve. If this bonus causes another time paradox, score another .5 points, etc., until a stable time loop is reached.
ccexplore: 9.1258 points
Simon: 8.9742 points
möbius: 8.95 points
Insane Steve: 8.5 points
geoo: 8.3017 points
Clam Spammer: 7.9108 points
Akseli: 6.8833 points
Some close scores at the top, let's see if a TIME PARADOX is reached:
Insane Steve: 3 (1 point)
Simon: 2 ( .8 point)
Clam Spammer: 4 (.8 point)
möbius: 2 (1 point)
Akseli: 3 (.4 points)
geoo: 2 (.6 points)
ccexplore: 3 (.4 points)
Adding up the scores:
möbius: 9.95 + 1 = 10.95 points
Simon: 9.7242 points
ccexplore: 9.5258 points
Insane Steve: 9.5 points
geoo: 8.9017 points
Clam Spammer: 8.7108 points
Akseli: 7.2833 points
möbius successfully TIME PARADOXES his way to the top of the leaderboard, and picks up some extra style points for good measure.
Thanks for playing everyone!
