The Forum Games Sheepish Advent Calendar 2020!

Siobh73

hurlingman97 wrote: »

I was 90% sure the answer was 0.
Glad I decided to guess now :')

I was worried about that possibility too!

HeidiHeidi

I'm slightly reassured by the posts since the actual number was announced...... I wonder am I the outside outlier this time???

Shuda gone with my first instinct :mad: (maybe?)

Reberetta

My lead is gone anyway.

mirrorwall14

I chose 17. Because I like the number lol

I did hover on zero for quite a while but I was pretty sure it was mentioned at least once or twice

Purgative

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

I chose 17. Because I like the number lol

I did hover on zero for quite a while but I was pretty sure it was mentioned at least once or twice

Me too. Then I changed to something ridiculous.


In reality I was just trying to protect Reberetta's lead

davetherave

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

I chose 17. Because I like the number lol

Snap, so did I. I don't know if there was some little post-it stuck on the back of a page full of doodles in a folder in a filling cabinet in the old brain bag that did actually know or hear the answer was 17 (or close to it), or it really was a case of Oh God, I don't know, sod it 17 will do.

Loughc

From YLYL.

Beric Dondarrion wrote: »

Electric Nitwit

Purgative wrote: »

In reality I was just trying to protect Reberetta's lead

Purgative and Reberetta

Electric Nitwit

OK, let's go!

The median today was 17!
So, so close, the wisdom of crowds is a thing

The standard deviation was a pretty whopping 29, meaning even if you'd said zero (no one did) you'd have got 7 points. If you guessed triple figures though, there's bad news coming...

3 people get full marks, 22 people get 9+

Electric Nitwit

Q4: Christmas mentions in Die Hard

Player | Guess | Score
bubblypop | 2 | 7.4
Reberetta | 2 | 7.4
Ted_YNWA | 4 | 7.8
Homer J. Fong | 6 | 8.1
Builebeag | 7 | 8.3
Mollyb60 | 7 | 8.3
Spook_ie | 8 | 8.5
JohnGreenFan | 10 | 8.8
mustang shelly | 10 | 8.8
TRS30 | 10 | 8.8
Zaph | 11 | 9.0
hurlingman97 | 12 | 9.1
Irish Aris | 12 | 9.1
Trigger | 12 | 9.1
aaronjennings | 12 | 9.1
ShaneU | 12 | 9.1
Declan A Walsh | 14 | 9.5
Loughc | 14 | 9.5
Necro | 15 | 9.7
Neowise | 15 | 9.7
Posy | 15 | 9.7
Toto Wolfcastle | 15 | 9.7
kitten_k | 17 | 10.0
mirrorwall14 | 17 | 10.0
davetherave | 17 | 10.0
DvB | 18 | 9.8
Skyler Scarce Frown | 18 | 9.8
cee_jay | 20 | 9.5
khalessi | 20 | 9.5
tscul32 | 20 | 9.5
Ectoplasm | 22 | 9.1
Also Starring LeVar Burton | 23 | 9.0
Siobh73 | 25 | 8.6
Collie D | 30 | 7.8
Kolido | 32 | 7.4
Purgative | 34 | 7.1
rainbowtrout | 37 | 6.6
the purple tin | 42 | 5.7
Barney92 | 45 | 5.2
Green&Red | 50 | 4.4
Strawberry Milkshake | 62 | 2.3
duffman13 | 75 | 0.1
Mam of 4 | 79 | -0.6
Hyblaeus | 100 | -4.2
Sephiroth_dude | 100 | -4.2
HeidiHeidi | 142 | -11.4

Sephiroth_dude

FFS ! 🤬🤬🤬

Trigger

Not bad, recovered a bit after the last feck up

HEIDI! WTF! That would mean it was said at greater than one every minute :pac:

Electric Nitwit

So Reb holds on at the top... just! It's very close up there
And it's a bad tumble for Heidi and Hyblaeus

I've added yesterday's position in brackets...

Place | Player | Old total | Today's score | Total
1 (1) | Reberetta | 27.3 | 7.4 | 34.8
2 (5) | davetherave | 24.8 | 10.0 | 34.8
3 (6) | kitten_k | 24.4 | 10.0 | 34.4
4 (3) | Siobh73 | 25.3 | 8.6 | 33.9
5 (7) | Loughc | 23.9 | 9.5 | 33.4
6 (11) | Irish Aris | 23.3 | 9.1 | 32.5
7 (13) | khalessi | 23.0 | 9.5 | 32.4
8 (12) | mustang shelly | 23.2 | 8.8 | 32.0
9 (2) | Green&Red | 27.1 | 4.4 | 31.4
10 (15) | TRS30 | 22.5 | 8.8 | 31.3
11 (8) | bubblypop | 23.7 | 7.4 | 31.2
12 (18) | DvB | 21.2 | 9.8 | 31.0
13 (19) | Neowise | 21.2 | 9.7 | 30.8
14 (21) | ShaneU | 21.1 | 9.1 | 30.2
15 (9) | rainbowtrout | 23.5 | 6.6 | 30.1
16 (20) | JohnGreenFan | 21.1 | 8.8 | 29.9
17 (23) | hurlingman97 | 20.7 | 9.1 | 29.9
18 (17) | Collie D | 21.5 | 7.8 | 29.3
19 (22) | Builebeag | 20.9 | 8.3 | 29.2
20 (25) | Zaph | 20.1 | 9.0 | 29.0
21 (24) | Homer J. Fong | 20.7 | 8.1 | 28.8
22 (16) | the purple tin | 22.0 | 5.7 | 27.8
23 (27) | Ectoplasm | 18.5 | 9.1 | 27.6
24 (28) | Declan A Walsh | 18.0 | 9.5 | 27.5
25 (30) | mirrorwall14 | 17.4 | 10.0 | 27.4
26 (29) | Posy | 17.7 | 9.7 | 27.3
27 (26) | Ted_YNWA | 19.4 | 7.8 | 27.2
28 (32) | Necro | 17.2 | 9.7 | 26.8
29 (31) | cee_jay | 17.3 | 9.5 | 26.8
30 (33) | Also Starring LeVar Burton | 16.8 | 9.0 | 25.8
31 (36) | Skyler Scarce Frown | 14.8 | 9.8 | 24.7
32 (37) | Toto Wolfcastle | 13.9 | 9.7 | 23.6
33 (10) | duffman13 | 23.4 | 0.1 | 23.5
34 (39) | Trigger | 13.4 | 9.1 | 22.5
35 (38) | Spook_ie | 13.4 | 8.5 | 21.9
36 (34) | Barney92 | 15.9 | 5.2 | 21.1
37 (4) | Hyblaeus | 25.2 | -4.2 | 21.0
38 (40) | Kolido | 13.2 | 7.4 | 20.6
39 (43) | aaronjennings | 11.1 | 9.1 | 20.3
40 (42) | Mollyb60 | 11.3 | 8.3 | 19.6
41 (35) | Mam of 4 | 15.7 | -0.6 | 15.1
42 (44) | Purgative | 7.8 | 7.1 | 14.9
43 (46) | tscul32 | 4.3 | 9.5 | 13.8
44 (14) | HeidiHeidi | 22.6 | -11.4 | 11.3
45 (41) | Sephiroth_dude | 12.3 | -4.2 | 8.1
46 (45) | Strawberry Milkshake | 4.6 | 2.3 | 6.9

Necro

Bah, I knew the answer. But it cost me 0.1 of a point going for 15 so I'll get over it somehow

HeidiHeidi

My most spectacular fail yet, in these forum games.

Morto!!

Trigger

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

My most spectacular fail yet, in these forum games.

Morto!!

Maybe you were hearing Christmas for each bullet sound

Reberetta

I dodged a bullet much like Bruce Willis himself. Warning: I won't make the same mistake again.*





*Yes I will.

Purgative

Trigger wrote: »

Not bad, recovered a bit after the last feck up

HEIDI! WTF! That would mean it was said at greater than one every minute :pac:

Mind you one stage I thought - what if he fired a machine gun and said Christmas (very fast indeed) when he fired it. Thankfully I discarded that idea quite quickly.

Reberetta

I just googled.Die Hard is 132 minutes long.

HeidiHeidi said 142.

HeidiHeidi

Reberetta wrote: »

I just googled.Die Hard is 132 minutes long.

HeidiHeidi said 142.

:eek:

I did try and figure that equation out, but lost interest fairly quickly....

And can I just reiterate - I'VE NEVER SEEN THE FILM!!

(I accept if I'd bothered doing the maths I might have come up with a marginally better answer!)

Reberetta

Only 21 days to go, looks like I'm home and dry. Call it now Electric Nitwit.

Zaph

EN, a few of those scores don't add up in the table. The ones I've spotted, including my own, are out by 0.1. Might make a difference at the end.

Sephiroth_dude

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

FFS ! 🀬🀬🀬

The spoon is in your sights!!! Do it for mam!!!

Sephiroth_dude

8.1 points what an fupping joke like!

davetherave

Maybe everybody else is wrong, and there is a cd playing at the party that is just Fairy Tale of New York and Last Christmas playing on repeat and everytime a scene cuts back to the office floor it is playing in the background and Heidi is right :eek:

Electric Nitwit

Zaph wrote: »

EN, a few of those scores don't add up in the table. The ones I've spotted, including my own, are out by 0.1. Might make a difference at the end.

Phew, you had me worried there but it's just rounding in the display, the spreadsheet is working to god-knows-how-many decimal places. Your scores are actually...
Zaph | 20.059 | 8.975 | 29.034

Next year you should offer participants a choice of Beginner, Intermediate or Expert level questions.

Zaph

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Phew, you had me worried there but it's just rounding in the display, the spreadsheet is working to god-knows-how-many decimal places. Your scores are actually...
Zaph | 20.059 | 8.975 | 29.034

Ah right, I didn't realise it went to more than one decimal place. As I may have mentioned earlier, I don't understand standard deviation.

Electric Nitwit

Zaph wrote: »

Ah right, I didn't realise it went to more than one decimal place. As I may have mentioned earlier, I don't understand standard deviation.

Yeah, it's doing its own thing there
Just looked again, your score is 29.0340643392!

I thought that was too precise though :pac:

HeidiHeidi

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The spoon is in your sights!!! Do it for mam!!!

Eh, hello??

There might be another challenger for that spoon.....

And if not, I think there should be a special prize for the biggest minus score, which I'm fairly sure I'll easily claim !!