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The Forum Games Sheepish Advent Calendar 2020!

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    #2432
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,460 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Electric Nitwit wrote:
    If you keep going North there's a point where you go over the top and start going south on the other side, you've just passed the North Pole!

    Don't you just fall off the earth if you go north of the North Pole? :P

    #flatearthlogic


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    #2433
    JohnGreenFan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭JohnGreenFan


    Bad start to the morning when I misread the bit about Malin Head and tried to calculate the distance between Kerry and the North Pole... oops!


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    #2434
    Purgative
    Registered Users Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭Purgative


    Oh dear just googled it :(


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    #2435
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Purgative wrote: »
    Oh dear just googled it :(

    I second that. :o
    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #2436
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,286 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Having plunged down the table yesterday I'm going full on kamikaze today for the craic... sod the maths, first number that comes in to my head gets the gig...

    Happy christmas y'all.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #2437
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,565 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    I did the same thing. First big number that popped into my little brain won the day! :pac:


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    #2438
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Posy wrote: »
    I did the same thing. First big number that popped into my little brain won the day! :pac:

    Same. I almost forgot to submit an answer so I just PM’d a pure guess.


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    #2439
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,286 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Great to see the christmas forum regulars being great minds (cough cough) that think alike :p
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #2440
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users Posts: 21,911 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    For the first time I've googled the answer .
    Oh good lord is all I'm saying :(


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    #2441
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    My usual strategy didn't really help me here because it relies on me knowing how many digits the answer should contain. Picked the middle of three options and added 'how big is the world' to my list of things to learn.


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    #2442
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Reasonable enough question, surely cant be far out with an educated guess.

    Answer in, Im off to Google it now.


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    #2443
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Kolido wrote: »
    Reasonable enough question, surely cant be far out with an educated guess.

    Answer in, Im off to Google it now.

    I'm back

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    #2444
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,330 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    For the first time in this competition, I did actual maths.

    Let's see how far that's got me! :rolleyes:


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    #2445
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    I solved this with physics! Now if only all questions could be like this! Having said that, an accurate answer means absolutely nothing around here


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    #2446
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,429 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    So I thought of a number. That seems reasonable (assuming that somewhere in the lump of porridge that is my brain the answer is probably lurking), then I think, oh no I'd better assume that magic number is miles, so I'll convert it to km. No valid reason for this, just - you know, lump of porridge etc. So I come up with a randomly larger number and submit it. Damn.

    Checks again, oh no, that would have got me there and back. Ah well.


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    #2447
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    looksee wrote: »
    So I thought of a number. That seems reasonable (assuming that somewhere in the lump of porridge that is my brain the answer is probably lurking), then I think, oh no I'd better assume that magic number is miles, so I'll convert it to km. No valid reason for this, just - you know, lump of porridge etc. So I come up with a randomly larger number and submit it. Damn.

    I converted from miles to km as well! :)
    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #2448
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,330 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Declan A Walsh wrote: »
    I converted from miles to km as well! :)

    I converted from nautical miles to km - how's that for fancy?? ;):D


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    #2449
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    I converted from nautical miles to km - how's that for fancy?? ;):D

    That's what I should have done and I might have been nearer to the right answer! :)
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    #2450
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,330 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Declan A Walsh wrote: »
    That's what I should have done and I might have been nearer to the right answer! :)

    Hmmmm.... I couldn't remember if a NM was longer or shorter than a land mile..... looks like I went the wrong way! Or I went astray in my calculations somewhere. Or both, possibly......

    Still, the right answer means nothing, right?


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    #2451
    ShaneU
    Registered Users Posts: 14,845 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    Google maps has the North Pole in a very different place than I was expecting :eek:

    Is this question about the fictional or real North Pole? :D


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    #2452
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    I did the miles to kilometre conversion and added a bit for luck, then rounded up.


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    #2453
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I used many scientific principles for this the most important one being the lyrics of a song :D


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    #2454
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,330 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    ShaneU wrote: »
    Google maps has the North Pole in a very different place than I was expecting :eek:

    Is this question about the fictional or real North Pole? :D

    The real North Pole is moving all the time.....


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    #2455
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    ShaneU wrote: »
    Google maps has the North Pole in a very different place than I was expecting :eek:

    Is this question about the fictional or real North Pole? :D

    I was thinking of the pub near Malin Head :D

    public-bar-bed-and-breakfast.jpg


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    #2456
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    The real North Pole is moving all the time.....
    Only when you're not looking at it ;)


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    #2457
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    So I think I have a pretty well educated guess at it, probably close enough.

    But you lot and your takes of woe are making me think I'll be way way away from the median!


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    #2458
    [Deleted User]
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    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    I was thinking of the pub near Malin Head :D

    public-bar-bed-and-breakfast.jpg

    How many stones throw are there in a KM?

    :D


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    #2459
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Damn it, I hate distance questions. Any number I give you here could either be the distance between Donegal and Sligo or the distance between Donegal and Saturn, and I'd be none the wiser. :(


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    #2460
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    I was thinking of the pub near Malin Head :D

    public-bar-bed-and-breakfast.jpg

    It's amazing how the North Pole and South Pole are both in Ireland :pac:

    south-pole-inn.jpg


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    #2461
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Geography 101

    A great circle ( longitude ) is the same length as the equator
    There are 360 degrees in a circle
    So length of each degree of a circle is equator/360
    Turn it through 90 degrees so you are working with Longitude instead of Latitude and you end up with Marley Park in July, simple really the answer is between 2/7/2021 and 4/7/2021

    https://www.longitude.ie/


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