This should be fun.

For everyone willing to share their off beat 1 point answers…

Life: is a bitch and then you die (1)

Can offbeat include stupid answers, answers that you look back on and can't believe you actually submitted?

How are you?: not too bad (1)

China: great wall of (1)

Albert Einstein: white hair (1)

Here's another possible category: Answers Which Truly Deserved More Points Than They Received.

For that category I dare anyone to top this one:

All time best movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1)

Runner-up in this category:

Children: sons (1) and daughters (1)

I was a somewhat shocked at Life: Preserver(1)

I thought Wizard of Oz: Wonderful(1)

Actor's Last name: Jones(1)…Smith was worth 11. How unfair.

Green: Land(1)

Paper: Football(1)

The there's this one:

Things I should be doing when I play empathy: Going Outside(1)

That entire round was bizarre to me.

“Rivers begins with R”: true (1) - hey, 'Rivers' does begin with R, of course it's true…

“muscial instrument”: error (1) - well, there was a typo in the expression. Don't you even read them before you answer? ;)

“little golem”: .net (1)

Green: blue and yellow (1), yellow and blue (1), not ripe (1)

These were decent answers!!! :-)

I was really stumped by the last one (life), so I got the Douglas Adams way and had universe (2), everything (1) and 42 (1). Also, why was I the only one to take a GPS on my camping trip?

For 'camping trip' my responses included sunscreen (3), insect repellent (2), and canteen (4). Prior to the results, I remember being very happy with all three of those answers!

The “most unknown country” deserved a different rating and publishing system anyway, because the most unknown country should have got 0 points ;)

I was astonished, to find my antarctica with (1), because it's rather big.

Thierry, I considered hithhiker's guide to galaxy (Life, Universe and Everything) as well, thought then: don't take stuff the young people do not know any more, forgetting there was a new film on it recently. But my old man's association of “life insurance” was not much better.

Anybody ever calculated from the number of participants and the sum of all published points >=2, how many secret 1point answers get lost on a typical GoE round ?

Let me have a look… for “Life”, I put “Imprisonment”. I was happy with that…

For Africa, I did a lot better than I expected… even with three one-pointers, serengeti (1), wildebeest (1), gazelle (1)

And going back to “Lunch”, nobody else put in “liquid”. Perhaps liquid lunch is a slang term nobody else knows…

For funny or clever answers I must go way back. I don't do them much these days.

Rivers begins with R: mark twain (1), dream (1) [forum was not working as good/bad as it works today]

favourite beer: ginger ale (1) [probably best ale I've tasted]

most unknown country?: finland (1), unknown (1), antartica (1), neverneverland (1) [It really buggers me I wrote Antarctica wrong. Sorry Michael.]

Most known city ?: bethlehem (1), troy (1) [Bethlehem? Never heard of…]

Some latest I did no submit (for apparent reason):

nonhuman races in popular science fiction: pod race [at least it's inhuman to put into a movie]

methods of communication: violence, art [violence is not the best way to communicate, but many still try]

Ten places you want to visit before you die: afterlife [if such a thing is, a sneek peek would be nice]

Here are some low scores I have recieved that surprised me.

tree ——————————- palm ————– 2p

fire ——————————- torch ————- 1p

holland —————————- dutchman ———- 2p

china —————————— pekingduck ——– 1p

organs —————————– bodyparts ——— 1p

ancient egypt ———————- dynasty ———– 1p

2+2=4 —————————— twoandtwoisfour — 1p

new york ————————— cabs ————– 2p

things you find in a desert ——– dromedary ——— 2p

things to take on a camping trip — girlfriend ——– 1p

Taz, I liked the last one, girlfriend. Not a good idea to forget her home.

Oh, I forgot; for “life”, 42 was a one pointer too.

Four ones in the one game :)

whats in my car trunk?

wheel spanner (1), warning triangle (1), fire extinguisher (1), tow rope (1)

Ten places you want to visit before you die:

US

96 hours is too long:

noitisnt

green:

Graham (especially liked that one)

Items on your desk:

my hands

What's outside YOUR front door?:

wall

outdoor

If I could have just one super power, it would be…:

fiery breath

And my favourite:

Things I should be doing when I play empathy:

empathize;)

Impresive 1 points answers.

96 hours is too long : “Richard Malaschitz” (1)

Actor's last names : “paccino” (1)

in what world u live????????????????????????

Tree:->Game Theory (1), search (2), node (2), branching factor (1).

Football:->midfield (1).

computer:->case (1).

chess:->endgame (1).

All time best movie:->Breave Heart (1), face off (2), Cleobatra (1).

Greatest Fears:->God (2), hell (3).

Ancient Egypt:->kings' valley (1), queens' valley (1), pharoes (2).

sex:->love making (3).

Life:->littlegolem (1), shitty (1), unfair (1).

“nagy fathy :

life -> littlegolem”

wklñakllkaa

wow nagy

i think that i was the only addict jajja

:) i am more than addict :))

Kpato: The guy's name is Pacino, with only one C.

If we're not sticking to one pointers only now. My favorite all time “bad” answer is still “10 Places you want to go before you die” : Hospital(2)

wklñaklña wandu

u are right

but pacino has 5 points.

its very low score.

whatever

i was 2º in that game.

Famous chess players:

Benko 1

Ruy Lopez 2

Since the CRASH, I have had only 9 one-point answers!! Anyone with less?

Since the CRASH, and missing only one game, I have had 7 one-point answers, 4 of them coming in my ill-fated “insect” game.

Well not that good at it, so a selection :

Things I should be doing when I play empathy -> not think (1)

things you do on vacation -> children (1)

breakfast food -> corn flakes (1)

forecast -> computation (1), model (1), theory (1), trafic (1), science (1), eartquakes (1) 41 out of 98…

Favorite Supervillians -> bush (1), sadam hussein (1)

Halloween! -> phantom(1)

Fish -> egg (1)

96 hours is too long -> one day (1)

Africa -> black people (1) [sorry]

I feel there is something I did not get in this game but can not put a name…

Art, that's pretty good. I've had just eight 1-point answers.

Three of those 1-point answers came in the same darn game…. 96 hours is too long. I put down: time limit(1), very(1), subject(1).

The others:

green –> st patrick(1)

life –> organism(1)

algebra –> subject(1)

Africa –> cairo(1)

Dog Names –> bandit(1)

Tip: An fast and easy way to check is to go the PAST GAMES page and with your browser, do a search on “(1)“. This is more accurate than just looking for them… since you're less likely to miss one this way.

Fish—————————————————Nemo

Algebra————————————————power

Ten places you want to visit before you die————pub

things to take on a camping trip———————–partner

What would you take with you to an inhabited island?—goban

god—————————————————-flyingspaghettimonster

Life……………… survive, exist

Chess Players……… Benko

96..to long……….. old way

unhuman races..sci-fi. unicorn

lunch…………….. twelveoclock

paper…………….. toliet, stationary

random numbers…….. 63

My 1-point answers

63?

63, It was random, too random I guess for only one answer.

methods of communication: brail (1)

BEST ONE POINT ANSWERS

Winner of the next Empathy round: Woff (1), passenger (1) Jaakko Pirinen (1),

things you find in a desert: dust devil (1)

whats in my car trunk?: air pump (1),

breakfast food: muffin (1), waffel (1),

little golem: jewish (1), myth (1), mud (1)

sleep: catch some z's (1)

winter: weather (1)

herbs: condiment (1), flavoring (1), sauce (1), zest (1)

nonhuman races in popular science fiction: Tribbles (1)

death: cessation (1), pass on (1), extinction (1)

magic : broom (1)

Now that you mention broom. Amazing it didn't get more answers…

Yes, I'm also surprised broom didn't get more answers, but only because 'witch' scored so well. However, I don't consider broom a very good answer for 'magic'. (Sorry yper) It probably only initially seemed like a good answer to you because 'witch' was on your mind. (If you listed broom I'll bet you also listed witch. I can't imagine you lising the former and not the latter!)

If 'witch' was the category, them 'broom' is a GREAT answer… almost certainly a top ten answer!

Play the game in reverse… if I listed broom and a whole bunch of the other lower-point answers that we had for magic, (Christmas, mystery, kind, fun, fire, star, staff, queen, saw, etc.) I don't think many players are going to associate those words with 'magic'. At least I don't think they are.

That's often how I play the game. I look at my ten answers and ask myself if those answers, taken together as a whole, all point to the given expression. To put it another way, if I gave all ten of my answers to a stranger, and asked him/her what word or expression was used to produce these answers, I would hope/expect he or she would come up with the given expression.

That's often how I play the game.

Looking at your recent performance, I'm unsure what to do with this information :-p

Ouch. Low blow there.

And Judy, the preferred spelling of Braille was worth 6 points in the communication round…

Yes, looking at my recent performances, you almost want to do exactly the OPPOSITE of whatever I recommend! :)

I'm in 15th position over the past 7 games.

A Ton Better Than Me!!

Mis-spelling has been a bane from the beginning of this game. And always is is just stupid mistakes. Always makes me go GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

and bang my head on the keyboard.

So, no folks, QWERTY is not a facial tattoo.

:-)

trees: shadow(1) why only me?

Good question, anwi!

I'm just lucky I did not think that way

(we could have 2 points each, which would not help you very much ;)

These are just a few of mine.

Algebra: morphism (1), transformation (1), operator (1)

famous chess players: casparov (1), casporov (1) (I was sure one was the correct spelling and enough people would use the wrong spelling.)

magic: mushroom (1), enchanted (1)

breakfast food: syrup (1)

barnyard animals: smelly (1)

fish: caviar (2)

96 hours is too long: richard (2)

life: reproduce (1)

graveyard: buffy (1)

pizza toppings: extra cheese (2)

Kpato : 96 hours is too long : “Richard Malaschitz” (1)

it was a very good concept :)

---–

caviar , buffy wkjakjlwalkjkwja LOL

in fact

extra cheese is the most popular on the rankings.

James: Buffy was the first thing that came to my mind when seeing graveyard. I correctly guessed that I would be in the minority.

What's wrong with my car? : expensive (1)

Adjectives are worse than nouns, thus price (3) _got more points.

But I still insist: it's not only the price of the car itself, which I complain about._

There must be many 1-point answers to this theme.

what's in my car trunk: games(1)

animated picture of a monkey - bush (wonder who else wrote this answer because there were 2 votes :)

LOL, I think Bush, on the animated picture of a monkey was the funniest.

Love it!!!!

Italy: ciao - 1 point ;-)

whagaha

What's in the fridge? Cola! (1)

Easter: Bach (1) No-one listens to classic music here?

popular websites: www.thehun.com (1) No-one has a dirty minde here?

spam: penis enlargement (1) What filters do you all have?

96 hour is too long: work (1)

Orange: Utility Truck

I've got a better one for things that are orange: guppy

Heck, goldfish received 21 points (which I also had). Hard for me to believe no one else thought of a guppy.

Hehh… protestant would have given me three points. Not too bad, though worse than my worst, flame. Protestant was definitely my best bad idea.

Well, my 2 best ideas, traffic cones (1), prison jumpsuits (1), were also one point answers. These are so obviouslly bright ORANGE. I cannot believe they were not heavy point getters…..

'traffic cones' and 'prison jumpsuite' are two word answers. I think other people avoid two-word answers, so I avoid them.

I don't even know what “utility truck” refers to, let alone knowing what colour it is. Fire trucks are red. Council services trucks are grey. The telephone guy's van is yellow.

But heck, I'm colour-blind, so I'm probably making those up!

color: 11 points.

colour: 4 points.

I'm not only the only one who eats bologna, but also the only one who uses gojo.

JFK: grassy knoll (1)

JFK: zapruder

JFK: I am a berliner

ich bin ein berliner

war - everyone forgot about the war on DRUGS already?

war-“what is it good for?”

words to describe weather - fucking

war- Bin Laden (1)

words to describe weather - perfect (1)

weather-unpredictable (isn't it true??)

no truer words were ever spoken ray..these groundhogs were high on (SOMETHIN) they been eatignthose shrooms i bet…lol Karen_R

things done once a month

flip calendar(1)

wkakjkjlajklaa

seriusly?

kpato,

You have the strangest laugh.

LOL

things done once a month

“eat”

XD

Paavo got a 10! That's almost as hard as getting to number 1 (while not inventing words). I hated that round, and last… yuck.

This was my best round ever! 12th place with only 5 words, not the 10 allowed.

Best 5-point answer: bath once a month.

i had EIGHT 1-point answers… not empathic at all :(

I've never seen a black pope, but apparently I'm the only one!

he he

things done once a month

“sleep”

I first encountered awari 20 years ago. Then recently I encountered kalaha. When I worked out they were closely related, and did some research, I encountered the name/game “mancala”. So I was surprised by the difference between these scores:

mancala (8),

awari (1),

kalaha (1),

the name that i know

is mancala

MANCALA FOR LITTLEGOLEM PLEASE!(bantumi is another one)

dark matter only got 3 points but there is more dark matter than anything (except dark energy)

Things in Space–Hydrogen, no one else thought of hydrogen? It is the most abundant element in space, something like 75% of all of the elements in the universe…Space itself is actually Hydrogen

Space is actually Hydrogen? Sorry Ray, that's the first time i've ever heard of such a statement/hypothesis.

Pigs in space : 1 point… :(

I soooo wanted to put pigs as my answer - Not “pigs in space” just pigs - but thought I might be in a minority of Muppet Show freaks.

Hydrogen is something like 90% of the total number of atoms in the universe (not mass) but I would say that space is mostly empty… and dark matter.

Yper - it should be common knowledge. Space is basically full of hydrogen. OK, about one atom every 10 cm^3, but compared to everything else it's the most abundant atom there is. Helium is pathetic with about 1/20 as many atoms. The 90% figure I've seen is for H & He combined.

Hydrogen is ~74-75% of the mass of regular stuff (baryonic matter) while He is roughly ~23-24%. Helium weighs around four times more than hydrogen, so you do the math on abundance…

FatPhil, there is a difference between the two statements:

Space itself is actually Hydrogen.

and

Space is basically full of hydrogen.

While the second is common knowledge, the first sounds to me like space is not made of atoms or protons and electrons or other particles or strings but - a new extreme theory - that is itself actually Hydrogen.

my real motivation for this posting is to bring this topic back to page one as it got burried on page two because of all of the postings by KR. But I also thought is was interesting that I had three one point answers that were all good responses to “glass” namely “diamond” (cuts glass) “shine” and “thermal”.

What do the rest of the world make their marbles from? I've never seen a marble that wasn't glass. That was my only 1-pointer this time.

Things in space: star-sea-cabs :(

GLASS: pyrex (1)

GLASS: mirrow :S

Outdoor events:

sunbathing (1)

Where the frack else would one do sunbathing?!??!?!?!!?!?!?

sky diving (1), jog (1)

Oxygen: suffocate (1)

Ne'er mind.

oxygen: forest (1)

no glamrockers here? Oxygen: love is like

dad - me

wine - ferment (1)

and one that would have been a 1-point answer for someone if I'd not entered it - chile (2)

wine- rhine

fatphil - thx for putting chile in. i'm the someone…

oxygen - jean michel jarre

oxygen: Tv-network-Oprah-Winfrey-owns-to-add-to-her-already-multi-million-empire

Counrys with a p:

Palestine 34

Palestinian terretory - 1 :-(

common words used in reviewing movies:

My all time worst score with 7 1 point answers.

spellbinding (1)

parody (1)

magnificent (1)

mediocre (1)

hard-hitting (1)

sensational (1)

triumphant (1)

My answers were rubbish too:

rubbish(1)

directing (1)

special effects (2)

SEX (2)

fun (2)

Quite how only one other person put SEX I don't know. Remember - if in doubt put SEX. And it was entirely on-topic this time.

Remember, kids - SEX!

I am losing my grip!!!

The last couple of games I would have bet actual MONEY that I would score in the top 10. Instead, I keep sinking lower. Grrrrrrrr

broach (2),

pin (3),

cuff links (3),

tie tack (1),

tie bar (1)

famous structures:

I picked Panama Canal

I was the only one that picked that answer! so what do you think, good one point answer? my best one point answer to date, I think!!

I also said cuff links(3) for this past game.

Congrats to Thierry for two consecutive wins.

jewelry. costume (2)

@ Judy, Ed, (3): What the hell are cuff links ?

Ok, my dictionary knows them, and I confess to remember the meaning (after translation).

But they would never come to my mind to look them up.

Similar for “tie bar/tack”…

If I had thought of such a thing, my dict would have called it a “tie pin”.

OK, I performed bad because I rather chose gem varieties

(“jewels” rather than “jewelry”)

The right mixture would have made it ;)

Didn't we have a similar dicussion on hair vs. hairs, long ago?

We non native English speakers can fool you quite nicely ;)

Not a 1-pointer, but I made a stupid gamble - I thought that more people would misspell earrings, so went for earings(4), and not earrings(44). Without that gross error of judgement, I'd have had all of the top 9 and been 2nd!

Rule n+1: don't try to be too clever.

MichaelX,

I am not sure “tie bar/tacks” are still being worn, but yes. basica;ly they are men's jewelry made to keep a necktie from falling in your soup. LOL

Even “cuff links” are not around like they were 25 years ago. Once a most a standard “safe gift” for Dad or Grad, they were an accessory men could have many different sets of and were used in “french cuff” long sleeved men's dress shirts.

FatPhil,

Yeah, sometimes it's easy to outthink oneself.

Also, shouldn't “sex” have come up at least once with the topic jewelry?

Puzzle:

One pointers - empathy (1), teaser (1),

near miss - test (2)

I was sure that 'empathy' would get a few votes. I'm puzzled that it didn't.

puzzle: Martin Gardner

ypercube: loved that one. Didn't think of it.

Someone did think of Sam Loyd (2) though - besides me.

I put Sam Loyd.

PUZZEL:

paradox (1)

dilemma (1)

…and a number of 4 pointers.

Apparently only 4 people were thinking like I was (beyond jigsaw)

ice cream flavors:

neopolitian (1)

neoconpolitician, was that?

Ice cream flavours:

rum raisin (1)

I love rum raisin myself, but I would never put that onto my list:

(1) two words is worse than one

(2) Americans don't have alcohol in sweets (They miss a lot, especially with ice cream)

BTW: I can guess what a neoconpolitician is, but I would have guessed neapolian is a pizza.

Luckily I learnt in time that “Straciatella” is spelled “Chocolate chips” here.

Unfortunately I omitted both because of that ambiguity

Congratulations to Merlin and Karen.

Exactly 10 points in this topic “Letters from A to Z”!

It takes a big discipline not to answer 'A' to that topic.

Would you reveal your 10 one point answers, please ?

Is there a parallel game trying to get as little points as possible? Can I play :)

Please do not play both games at the same time as they will interfere.

If we play least point contest please indicate clearly!

Yper beat me on that game for “what is in your lunch bag?” with only 10 points but I think putting just one word is cheating, even if as FatPhil encouraged this word is part of the question. You should play 10 1-point words (last place ex-aequos possible).

Exactly 10 points is easy to achieve, especially since the one-point answers aren't revealed. For this past game (letters A to Z) I could have answered dog, cat, bird, fish, turtle, etc., and finished with 10 points as my final score, since certainly no one else would have listed those answers. (Or I could have answered dfdfd, edorlg, d;ckkio, dloer, etc.)

9 points is easy to achieve too. Answer as I've shown above but leave one space blank.

Likewise if you wish to achieve 8 points, 7 points, etc.

I agree that if too many players are attempting to score low rather than high, then the entire game is compromised.

So you are right a real challenge would be 0 point(s) answer, has that already happened?

I got :

“Your entry was registered. 0 words was accepted (plural and singular of the same word is not accepted).

Back - You can modify your move until game is not finished.”

is that worth 0 points ?

I suppose I can make a case that I've had zero points a lot of times… every time that I don't play at all. :)

Entering and entering ten “blanks” that would probably also produce a score of 10 points. (Assuming no one else entered a blank either.) But I don't think that's how it works. I'm thinking a “blank” isn't recognized as an answer at all. To be honest, I'm not sure how Richard handles blanks. (I've never not entered ten different answers.)

But yes, if a person is shooting for the lowest score, ideally then it should not be 10 points or less. 11 points would be actually be harder to achieve than 10 points, as I've described above.

If 80 people enter and 50 are aiming for 10 points, then, if they're serious about it, the chance of those 500 answers interfering with those of the 30 real players is close to zero. So it's effectively a 30-player game, and 50 jokers wasting their own time. I don't see that as compromising the game any more than the 50 not playing at all.

Ah, but at SOME point the game would be compromised. Take an extreme case… say I'm the only person out of 80 who is attempting to get a high score. My answers also wouldn't match anyone those of anyone else!

Even two or three players playing “correctly” out of many dozen who “aren't” would probably screw things up.

But I know that if the majority of players are indeed all trying to pick the most popular answers, and a small handful of few players are attemtping to achieve a different goal, that shouldn't be a problem.

No matter how screwy my thinking is…I always get at least 1 point for the words I've entered.

The only way to play the low score game is to shoot for 11. Put in bonafide answers where only one will match somebody elses.

On the last, I researched the most frequently used letters in US writing. DUH. I never even thought of just going a,b,c,d,e,f,g,.etc.

My hat is off to everyone who came up with a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i, and Z.

Why did you stop after “i” and then jump straight to “z”?

I thought for sure I would tie with a bunch of people if I simply entered the first ten letters of the alphabet.

Explained above. Use of an example in the question. What's in your lunch bag? lunch.

I played A,B,C… and even Z. But I thought people would play letters like X, Q, and O. As for Karen, I really don't think she tried to get the losest score, she just does kind of bad most of the time anyways.

I thought similar to Bill: A,B,C and Z was obvious for me.

Researching for the most used characters in English was a too smart idea.

So I went for a highly empathic X, the Y as the counterpart to ABC, and then I filled up with DEFG.

Similar result to yours, Bill.

I was surprised by the high empathy for “I”.

As for Karen, I don't think she “seriously” goes for minimal points.

Ooh, I just came 2nd, 5 points short of the lead, in car parts with this sullying my tally

(1) signals

Not bad.

I came in 6th, despite scoring just 7 points for HORN and a paltry 4 points for PEDAL.

Too bad, nobody followed my “batterie” spelling.

It looks so correct to me, it deserved at least 2 points, IMO.

Never enter something manually, always copy/paste from a reliable list ;)

US Presidents: Bill Cinton (1)

Wasn't he the one having that lebinsky girl around?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/chronological.html

would have given you “Clinton, William J.” which is not much better.

always copy/paste from a reliable list ;)

tasmanian Devil got a point with “twoandtwoisfour”???

Surely “twoandtwoAREfour”?

If read as the elision of “the sum of […]“, then it's singular.

Not necessarily.

two is the subject, and four is the object, so 2 and 2 are 4.

In the same way, “A husband and wife ARE an object”, not IS a pair.

2 plus 2 are 4, or 2 plus 2 equals 4.

But 4 is 2 plus 2. There, the 4 is the subject, and 2 is the object.

Necessarily. If read as the elision of “the sum of […]“, then the subject

is the singular “the sum of two and two”, and the object is “four”.

A husband and wife *is* the traditional unit in western marriages.

Pie and mash *is* typical English pub grub.

You appear to be confusing the word used to denotate a number with the grammatical mark of that number. Numbers greater than 1 aren't magically automatically plural in all contexts.

When it comes to years of education, 10 *is* better than 5.

I know there's a pondian divide when it comes to the number for groups (companies, clubs, bands, etc.) this might be just a broader or more specific instance of that.

Some other examples:

Two *is* a rather small number, but two *are* a pair.

2 and 2 *are* 2 numbers, which are about equal, from an engineering point of view.

Yes, pie and mash *is* typical English pub grub, and both pie and mash *are* horrible, in general.

Thinking about and tasting it, I have problems with Merlin's

2 plus 2 are 4, or 2 plus 2 equals 4. If it were plural , shouldn't it be “equal” instead of “equals”?

In my German brain and tongue, the plurals “are” and “equal” just don't fit in that arithmetic context. It becomes possible in an addition like

“Three beer yesterday and two today up to now, *are* too much”

(*is* works as well here for me, giving it a slightly different meaning)

Could be different in Cyprus(?) or Finland.

Perhaps some natives could help

(If they don't feel offended by my opinion about pie and mash).

“2 plus 2” is already a number. Which number is it? It is four. 2 plus 2 is 4. “And” is just a shorthand for “plus”. 2 and 3 is 5. If you were to say “2 and 3 are 5”, to get a plural subject, you'd have to consider “and” as a conjunction rather than a synonym for the mathematical operation “plus”, which would give it the meaning “2 is 5 and 3 is 5, so 2 and 3 are (both) 5.”

I'm with Meik X. “2 plus 2 equals 4” indicates “2 plus 2” is singular. However, the song “Inchworm” says “One and one are two”, which shows that songwriters need be neither grammarians not engineers.

BTW, in English, “to be” is not transitive and does not take an object. In the sentence “Harry and Neville are brothers”, “brothers” is a predicate nominative, not an object. While this is moot for nouns, pronouns change between the subjective and the objective, so it makes a difference in sentences like “I am he.” (I will grant you that there are many Anglophones who would say “I am him” or “I'm him” in colloquial speech. )

I meant to write “…neither grammarians noR engineers.”

Underwater Creatures:

- Creature from the Black Lagoon (1)

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Underwater Creatures: Jelly (1)

Shorter words are not always better,

I could have moved Jellyfish to a top 10 answer, bad luck.

anakyn skywalker (1)

what did you say about reliable lists? F*** !!!!! :(

Star Wars Characters, I picked two one point answers.

The Force

and Harrison Ford

Well one is an actor, not a character, but the other, who knows!

autumn: now

olympic sports : Taekwondo

Jesus: redeemer(1)

So that was a worse answer than kpato(2) and beard(2)…

glasse, you were the other one thinking about kpato?

No, I did not answer kpato (nor beard).

I very very very nearly answered kpato, but chose not to in the end.

Thierry could amend his Rule # 7 to:

“When stuck, fill in 'sex' or 'kpato' …”

Perhaps that would have convinced FatPhil HyväKimi to join us.

And who's the only other one with Superstar ?

Things that are sharp: fangs (1), penknife (1)

I could not resist to broaden the scope of things that are sharp:

C# (1), image (1)

Chedder Cheese, 1 point!

Chedder Cheese, 1 point!

Michael. instead of c# i put music. One other person did, too….

Is 'sharp joke' Dutchisme? (1)

I put “Music Note” And “Cheddar” in there too.

Obviously no-one went to the same school as me:

Things that go boom: experiments(1)

Near misses: stock markets (2), bangers (2)

(As insurance, I had the US for 'bangers' too, firecrackers, which fortunately paid off.)

Hey FatPhil, I must have gone to a similar school…I did not pick experiment, but I picked Chemical Reaction, which was also a one point answer! I did fairly lousy in this category, and I am the one who thought up the category in the first place!!

I was pleased thinking of supernova (3) and heart (4)

I thought supernova (3) too, pepsi (1) and mentos with coke (1) lol :)

My sure 1 pointer for Things that go boom:

boomerang

haha, boomerang :D

bowling: the big lebowski (1)

bowling: chicken (1)

i didn't expect this one…

Video games: Sony (although Playstation got 14 points)

Poker: Table

Autumn: Burning leaves

Star Wars characters: Lando Calrissian

Bridge: Rubber

What's in your lunch bag? Raisins, Cup

Ice cream flavors: Chunky monkey

Baking ingredients: Frosting

Books of the Bible: Jonah

Famous inventors: Cousteau, Land

Jewelry: Rolex, Tiffany

Famous structures: Hagia Sophia, Leaning tower

Common words used in reviewing movies: Performance

Wine: Vino

Thank you in other languages: Asante

and a bunch of others that weren't as good.

Video games: minesweeper (1)

2007-05-03

Hjallti JFK: I am a berliner

2007-05-06

Dustin ich bin ein berliner

Surely, JFK's “Ich bin ein Berliner” is “I am a hamburger!

No, it actually means: I am a jelly doughnut.

I would guess someone from Berlin would say something like: Ich bin aus Berlin or something similar.

Germans I've talked to say it should have been “Ich bin Berliner.” I speculate that either Kennedy did the (non-idiomatic) translation himself or chose the erroneous translation because he knew it would look better to non-German speakers.

You are all correct:

A “berliner” is a jelly donut (spherical, not a torus). My dictionary tells that some Americans even know it as a “bismarck”, which is very funny for me.

“I am a Hamburger” is a good translation, because it carries the nice ambiguity between food and a city's inhabitant.

“Ich bin Hamburger/Berliner” and “Ich bin aus Hamburg/Berlin” are both correct.

The second one (“aus” = “from”) would not make sense for JFK's phrase, though.

If JFK's pulic relations managers had been very smart, it's possible that it was not a mistake at all, because it fits very well to the beloved American accent and it made that phrase even more famous.

In those days, some American WWII leftovers used to cultivate their accent for popularity reasons in music and showbiz.

Nowadays some lie “I'm Canadian” for security reasons.

“Dallas” got more points (24) than “Berlin” (1+1) for the JFK topic.

Cool, Thanks.

Not a 1-pointer, but this astounds me.

Kitchen: grill (2)

I've never encountered a kitchen which didn't have a grill.

galley (1) I thought this was a perfectly respectable answer.

kitchen: spices (1)

what makes you smile: beauty (1)

what makes you smile : win goe (1)

PD: kpato (2) (wasnt me)

what makes you smile: mouth (1) photograph (1)

I had both muscles(4) and photographer(4) for a little while, but after sleeping on it one night I decided the next day I didn't like either of those two answers.

I had photographer as well, and thought it was better than “say Cheese”.

“Reading the forum” came to mind, but didn't use either because of attention to Rule #1.

what makes you smile: play (1)

I'm glad i skipped 'travel' for 'clown'…

what makes you smile: luck (1)

But worst was to forget about sex.

What makes you smile: drugs(1)

You guys are taking the wrong drugs if they don't make you smile!

Who joined me on this one? kpato(2)

What makes you smile: Douglas Adams (1), politics (1)

Also: bowling -> Homer (1), Bowlarama (1)

Kitchen -> Chicken (1)

oh my god, i miscounted the days remaining and just input 2 words :'(((( silly me :(

Haha, that explains everything about your low numbers :) Or do you like to play the ukelele, balalaika and accordion?

Gregorio, your 2 words were “piano” and “guitar” (Not that bad, congrats ;)

I even entered “drum” manually, until I wondered

“Why can't I find it in the past games?”

Then I changed my search string from “music” to “instrument” ;)

I thought more than 3 people would put “saxo”… a pity. Oh, these cello lovers!

Rube, this game had been played before.

That explains many things, the 21-way tie as well :)

I think I had also played that game, I knew it was played before but didn't want to look at it :)

musical instruments—bass guitar (1) !!

Ray: you must be an enthusiastic bass player to fill 3 slots with

'bass' / 'guitar' / 'bass guitar'

Ray - heed rules 1 and 9.

brain: sex (2) Fatphil, what about those rules? ;-)

I thought of the LG community

and replaced “sex” by “brain teaser(1)” : -2 points

(we would have been 3 with sex else ;)

Hehe I was one of the 2 sex-iest.

Well, I assumed the topic was talking about the upper brain, not the lower brain. The thought of sex did cross my mind, but as my lowest answer was an 8, I'm glad I didn't have sex in the end.

Oooh, oooh, my suggestion for a topic is one of the shortlist - vote for mine, vote for mine!

fury animals-tribbles

Great one, Ray! The image of tribbles did pass through my mind, but I thought better of it.

My worst was lamb(3), which I consider to be furrier than sheep(11) :-\|

i played too much…

furry animals: lemming (1)

Furry animals: chewbacca (1)

furry animals: SUper (2). Didn't you google or wiki?

I did :D

???

Do what?

My previous post was supposed to be

(at)Muggel_b: Oh no! >bang!<

I did google “Furry Animals”, and wrote “Super” as a result… thought somebody would…

happy birthday to you (1)

Are you all afraid of copyright fees?

I briefly had “happy birthday”, which would have been 4 if I'd have stuck with it. However, lengthening it any longer would have violated the shortness rule.

Here's a little summary for myself from the later games:

furry animals: kangaroo (1)

Brain: nicko mcbrain (1)

musical instruments: hammond organ (1)

things that go boom!: nukes (1) terrorist (1)

Planets: tellus (1)

things that are sharp: wife (1)

Things you might see in a hospital. I got (9) one point answers. Since I am an idiot, I am going for originality rather than popular!

somebody die (1), patient's butt (1), starbucks (1), miracle (1), very large bill (1), malpractice (1), heart attack (1), mouse (1), lawyer (1)

So did you clash with me on mask(2)?

I never want to be treated in the kinds of hospitals that other people go to if they see surgeons but not masks!

mask was mine

I had birth… nearly death too.

Inside The Junk Drawer: rusty nails (1), spider (1), cockroach (1), mouse droppings (1), beer caps (1), mold (1), important stuff you can never find (1)

dang, which I had thought of this one, “crumbs”

Inside the junk drawer: air (1) medicines (1) everything (1) stuff (2)

And things you might see in a hospital: guts (1)

Done over by the US's 16th largest city: Austin (1)

Curse you [former employer redacted] for having your HQ there!

I see “Springfield” got 2 points. I kinda wish I'd thought of that, but I'm glad I didn't.

Chess openings: sex (1), resign (1)

Dishonourable mention: e2-e4 (2)

Rather amazing I came 16th with entries like that!

Queen's Gambit Declined (1)

Queen's Indian Defense (1)

1.e4 (1)

I admit that last one was somewhere between a joke and an experiment.

fatPhil, thx for the other e2-e4!

I had the problem of not appending “opening” or “defence”… If I had… I was about to put sex as a chess opening too. I will try it sometime FatPhil… but my girlfriend doesn't know how to play chess :)

Ruben, i had the same problem, just 'sicilian' and stuff like that…

'defence' was a minefield as there are two spellings - the English way, and the wrong way. So I also left it off and hoped that other people would both detect that issue and also apply the “shorter is better” rule. “Resign” was my joke/experiment entry, I genuinely thought more people would go for e2-e4.

Ruben - please don't invite me to make crap puns on the word “mate”!

'defence' is the correct way to spell the verb which means “to remove or tear down a fence”

=P

Mine goes boom. I die.

My crappy english - I did not even know to be afraid. Wikipedia (from which I even might have cut & pasted my answer, dammit) redirects 'Sicilian Defense' to 'Sicilian Defence', so at least it will be the right spelling.

Maybe we should just agree that the chess opening gets it's name from sicilian way of removing fences. All would be happy, no?

…

mate … sex … hehheh..

…

oh. And I nearly tried '1.e4' too. Seems 'e2-e4' might be a bit more usual way of saying it.

Mongoose, you can't stick your tongue out until your language actually attains the consistency which Noah recommended.

'Fence' and 'defence' have *identical* etymological roots (one being derived from the other) - why do you perversely change one into an 's', and the other not?

you know what I mean

I took the word WAY too seriously.

e3 (3), g6 (1), c4 (1), f4 (1), e5 (1), f3 (2), e6 (1), d5 (1), e4 (7), d4 (4)

book: printing (1)

After 10 games of GoE the first time I got really bad choices

book: dictionnary (1), amazon (2), review (1), content (3), index (3)

and index was the only i thought to become a 1-pointer

Escpecially amazon and review surprised me. Don't you buy books ??

I was the other one with “amazon”.

Seems others know about books but don't buy them ;)

(If anyone's in doubt: In Germany there are still other book sources)

And spell checking is always good: My “dictionary” deserved more points, IMO ;)

Baby items: pictures(1)

volcauno's: Vesivius (1). Damn! Otherwise i'd be top 10….

Vezuvius (1)

ash cloud :P ash would be perfect :P

Soccer: header(1)

three letter words: GOE!

Three letter words: the(1)

Just kidding. Unfortunately the word I substituted for “the” was: its(2)

I never scored so low(1).

Let's return to repeated top ten lists ;)

I've been taking a break from playing but I played this game because it seemed interesting to me.

I noticed several three-letter words right there on that page. For example, there was USE, TOP, OUR…

“For succesful game you must USE the same expressions as other players.”

“TOP 10 players” / “TOP 10 players of last 7 games”

“Thanks for playing on OUR website”

… and so I decided to go with those. Alas, that wasn't the way to go. Combined, those three words only scored a total of 11 points. Still, I guess I should be content with 5th place.

Yes, you should…

Compare to me with a similar strategy:

“There's is a NEW game every DAY”

new(10) and day(12) were my highest scores, resulting in a total of 54 points and 67th place ;)

I agree with Ed, it was a very interesting category. Shame about the most commonly used 3 letter word not being accepted, though. I used the same logic as Ed, but missed many of the words that he plucked out. At least I got new(10) and day(12).

MichaelX - you shouldn't have been aiming so low(1), you should have been trying to win(4) instead! :-\|

hex(2)

Shame on all of you, except the other one who voted for the only 3-letter game in this site !

Yper: GOE did only 1 point…

yes, but it's an abbreviation, like gwg and LoA.

global warming: Venice(1)

candy: fattening (1)

candy: lolipop. Damn!

liquorice (1)… American english :(

candy

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose onepointers cookies, popcorn, fruit, and cakes

At least I got the top 3 answers: chocolate(50), sweet(57), and sugar(47)

['.'

Ro, don't be too disappointed.

Those onepointers are good answers. Just consider that humans (at least the GoE players here) are rather narrow-minded and prefer enumerations over associations.

(Ro's algorithm seems great, FatPhil)

That category was quite well suited to RoRoRo, so I think 44th (out of 65) is better than he'll do on average. However, the current category is absolutely perfect for him. ;-)

I planned to have about 4 different strategies, for different types of game, and I've only programmed 2 of them so far. The easiest two, unfortunately. The other 2 types of game are really going to push my programming skills to the limit. Most unfortunately, the unwritten ones are the types of game that I expect to come up more often (such as straight enumerations). However, I'm not going to worry too much about that until I get back from boozing^HH^HH^HH^Hmy holiday.

furniture: nightstand(1)

These repeated topics are killing me. I believe this is the third repeated topic that has caught me unaware.

Jeez, with the results of some of my answers, I can't believe I came in 7th.

Leaning Tower of Pisa (4)

The Tower of London (3)

The Vatican (3)

Obviously, I thought for sure most people would choose FAMOUS buildings.

ed, i copied all my answer from 'famous structures - i'm 43th or something.

i played thinking on TALLEST BUILDINGS

so stupid.

im 52 , just behind RoRoRo The Bot.

slaapgraag,

I also played it as a nearly repetition of “famous structures”.

I just chose the World Trade Center over the ambiguous and rather_a_structure_than_a_building (?) Great Wall of China. So I got about the same result as you.

We not only tricked RoRoRo who did not recognize the repetition, but also most other GoE players ;)

buildings:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers art, insurance, design, and maintenance!

Well done to those who got house(37); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

Ro, where do they keep you, in a closet?

Even garage or barn would have given you more than 1 point.

FREE RoRo NOW!!!!

Wow!

If there's a MURDER(44) and a BODY(20) and a CRIME(19) and DETECTIVEs(36) and POLICE(33) and a GUN(36) and BLOOD(28) and a SUSPECT(22) and so on, isn't somebody going to need a a LAWYER(1)?

That's gotta be the ultimate best 1 point answer ever. I can't believe not a single other person didn't list lawyer. (Either that or I've just read way too many Perry Mason mysteries.)

i have also a good one: nobody is going to jail(1) for commiting a crime ;-)

@ypercube: I was really disappointed of 2 points for “hex”, too.

OK. Nobody goes to jail and nobody needs a lawyer. Guess what? Nobody finds a solution (1)!

If there's neither trace (1) nor suspicion (1) …

(Are those word that far off topic ?)

And nobody hired a dectective (1).

(I would've made 6th place!)

Maybe not a dectective, but a few people hired a detective(36)!

I'm watching to much CSI…. crime scene (1)

Urals. The subject never said anything about countries.

Certainly there would be a need for DNA(1) or FINGER PRINTS(1) EVIDENCE(11)to ARREST(1) the PERP(1) long before the need for a LAWYER(1).

east europe: moscow (1)

Yes, Bill. If the subject had been “10 Biggest Countries in Eastern Europe” there were slightly more ties for the first places.

I considered different answers as well, but guessed (correctly) that a simple country name would win against any other (geographic or historic or whatever) term like “stalin” or “iron curtain”. Especially as there are a number of players from the other side of that former curtain, who did not hear such terms in school.

Interesting though: Finland(2) is more east than the Czech Republic(21), which has the “complicated spelling” malus, too.

“Arctic” would be a nice topic, where country listing might occur, but not with that dominance.

east europe:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers art, insurance, design, and maintenance!

Well done to those who got Hungary(38), Bulgaria(35), Ukraine(37), Russia(47), Romania(40), Slovakia(33), and Poland(48); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

That was the best ___ ever!:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers art, insurance, design, and maintenance!

Well done to those who got movie(46), day(29), song(27), party(25), sex(48), game(54), and book(23); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

RoRoRo,

You're stuck puting in the same answers for ANY topic.

Forget about art, insurance, design, and maintenance.

Unless of course the next Topic is “RoRORo's Favorite Answers”.

Like RoRoRo I was stuck with my idée fixe :

That was the best ___ ever!:

GOE (1), empathy game (1)

Same bug as before, he only knows what he entered for the last game he entered. He didn't actually enter this game, as he couldn't find any sensible words.

Women in the Bible: Lot's Wife (1)

I should know by now but tried again not list names

daughter (1) and wife(3)

heavenly bodies:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers wildfire, house of dolls, chain gang, good old acappella, up on the roof, drift away, dream, eli's coming, lonely at the top, and amazon!

Well done to those who got model(3), jupiter(16), gemini(2), Scarlett Johansson(3), madonna(3), angelina jolie(3), earth(13), movie(3), meteorite(4), jessica alba(3), star(44), god(6), Halle Berry(2), jesus(3), angel(13), solar system(2), Saturn(14), eva longoria(2), sun(39), moon(40), clouds(5), galaxy(15), heaven(3), wrestling(2), girl(2), pluto(2), woman(2), comet(22), mars(26), orion(3), venus(23), planet(37), neptune(5), satellite(10), black hole(5), sky(4), supernova(3), milky way(5), space(3), meteor(9), sex(5), nebula(2), uranus(6), constellation(9), mercury(8), and asteroid(16); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

Heavenly bodies: telescope (1), Uma Thurman (1)

I had some hope that there was another Stargate SG-1 fan among the GoE players who would be reminded of this exchange from Season 7's “Lost City” (part 2), where Jack O'Neill has been working on a crossword puzzle:

From gateworld.net's transcript,

CARTER: The clue for seven down is 'celestial body' and he wrote 'Uma Thurman'.

O'NEILL (smiling): Yes!

i'm glad people had entries like scarlet johanson or angelina jolie. Luckily i didnt take that risk…

I pulled up RoRoRo's logs after the game, and it appears that two of the sites that he was attempting to get information from were a BBW site and some new-agey jibber-jabber site. Finding nothing of use, he fell back onto google lists, which produced the god-knows-what posted above! 10 points for 10 answers - class!

RoRoRo, you should avoid the crappy Google Sets, returning such strange entries like your 10 1-pointers. (Was “hair removal” not in the set, a few days before? ;) Finding key words in a normal google search with a bit of intelligence, and you could have supported my “wrestling” attempt to blindly follow strange search results.

Using “heavenly” instead of “celestial” was a good trick to fool you and to nicely spread the topic for humans. ( “angels” (13) )

BTW : Congrats to FatPhil, hitting all 10 top entries.

names of flowers:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers bouquet, garden, spring, and petal!

At least I got the top 5 answers: tulip(51), sunflower(40), rose(61), lily(49), and daisy(47)!

['.']

Thanks for the congrats, Michael! It didn't require too much intelligence, I was blindly following a rule that I thought might work! I shall use that rule more often! (And RoRoRo is close to being able to use it too, I guess - more tweaks.)

Things in the sea:

How on earth do we get all the fish(62) out if we don't use nets(1)?

Things in the sea:

How can you get 2 points only, Ro ???

@FatPhil: we don't use nets any more, because it's too dangerous for those many whales and dolphins …

things in the sea:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers sex, and webmastertalaythaicom!

Well done to those who got island(8), Eels(2), stone(2), shark(47), submarine(8), dolphin(32), sand(19), salt(31), treasure(2), shrimp(12), waves(12), reef(4), ship(26), coral(20), crab(22), jellyfish(10), saltwater(2), octopus(19), squid(6), seaweed(26), lobster(12), shell(12), seahorse(4), shipwreck(3), boat(24), plants(2), plankton(6), water(42), swimmers(3), fish(62), seashell(6), sponge(3), seals(3), divers(6), algae(4), animal(2), starfish(6), wrecks(6), clams(4), whale(46), and turtle(9); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

Michael - I was unable to think of a heuristic which could be generally applied, which would find anything sensible for RoRoRo to submit. I tried a few simple web searches, and couldn't find anything which was clearly a list (RoRoRo can detect many things that look like lists, even if they don't use ). And I refuse to give him any assistance for a single game, so basically I let him fail horribly this game quite willingly. AI is hard, let's not pretend otherwise.

And, yes, we still do use nets. They're highly regulated because of their environmental impact, but that doesn't mean they're not used.

Re nets: Even if not used, you can find them in the sea, among lots of other garbage(1).

However, my comment was rather triggered by my disappointment to forget about those highly empathic amimals myself. (Perhaps an ;o) was missing)

Re RoRoRo: A highly sportsmanlike attitude to not enter anything but “sex”, according to the 7th Rule ), when stuck.

“webmastertalaythaicom”, is that Finnish ? Google does not know it…

The talaythai.com site has a whale at its first page.

That could be an explanation …

And this page, explaining the Possible Dangers to Marine Tourism could really help us understand why RoRoRo choose “webaster@talaythai.com” as an entry to the empathy game of “things found in water”

I think RoRoRo is adorable.

I'm surprised WATER scored as high as it did. Water isn't IN the sea… water IS the sea!

Thanks, Judy, I'm flattered! Do you fancy a nice cozy night in playing dots and boxes?

['_']

You know, I tried a computer dating site once, but it was useless - everyone on there was human!

Ro, are you trying to pass the Turning test? ['v']

Things in the sea : Monsters(1)

Was everyone too scared to mention them?

Some of them even get out off the sea sometimes and vist our little golem…

slow animal:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers speak, and cold! At least I got the top 4 answers: tortoise(37), sloth(57), snail(59), and turtle(58)!

['.']

hmm, 5th place, but still a 1-pointer “return to ash” and a type 2-pointer “resurect”… *cursing*

Quite how I stuck a 2nd 'r' in 'be buried' I don't know - that cost me 19 points, and 6th place. (then again, I am typing very erratically at the moment as I have a wrist injury).

My 1-pointers were

'cease to be' (1) - a Monty Python dead parrot description, I'm horrified no-one else got it. Instead a few went for 'cease to exist' (4), which I didn't put;

and

'stay dead' (1) which fared much worse than 'be dead' (16), which I did put. I'm also a little bit surprised by that.

After I die, I will:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers be making movies in hell, make angel wings better to fly, empower you to one end alone, be, feel exactly the same way i did before i was born, have, become, just be a memory, and empower you! Darn unavailable retrieval condition. Someone please unplug me now! Well done to those who got meet God(6), be reborn(7), be dead(16), decompose(12), be cremated(14), go to hell(27), meet Jesus(4), be a ghost(4), resurrect(7), cease to exist(4), haunt(6), be missed(4), burn(5), rest in peace(7), hell(6), heaven(6), rest(8), decay(5), be burried(4), be reincarnated(6), reincarnate(24), stop(4), be buried(25), rot(22), return(4), go to heaven(41), live(11), nothing(4), vanish(4), and sleep(11); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

but 'feel exactly the same way i did before i was born' is the most beautiful answer, roro! Unbelievable it took a robot to get that answer!

be eaten by worms (1)

While born again (1) with 'be' would make me 9th.

“just be a memory” isn't a bad robot response either. Shows that he's being more abstract than we idiot humans who couldn't think further than 'rot'!

Ah. But we humans also know that other humans won't think further than 'rot' - so maybe we're not that stupid after all? :-)

Some people listed milk and/or hair, but no one else listed another distinction of mammals: neocortex(1)

It was a toss up as whether to list the qualities that make an animal a mammal, and just name some (aka LIST). I didn't choose well with giraffe…

rule 11: check your answers before posting.

dog cat (1)

mammals:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers marines, plants, amphibians, fish, birds, insects, and other! Darn multiplexed protocol interference!

Well done to those who got lion(27), human(34), ape(8), tiger(19), milk(7), horse(29), bear(27), mouse(11), dolphin(10), deer(7), elephant(27), rat(7), monkey(23), sheep(14), wolf(7), giraffe(9), cat(48), cow(31), pig(16), man(11), rabbit(8), dog(49), and whale(30); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

Ro, you don't tell your 2 point answers?

Mammals: Mongoose (1)

I conclude mongoose didn't pick mongoose. A pox on him and you all!

LOL The lowest scoring round ever!

Although most of mine were 2 pointers, these were my 1 pointers.

cryptid(1), Abominable Snowman(1), marine arachnids(1), plesiosaur(1)

Why didn't ANYbody else list these?

Ha! I got that beat! NINE of my answers were 1 pointers, with one 2-point answer!

Actually, I don't understand why yeti, bigfoot, loch ness monster, etc., were near the top. Those “animals” (and I use that term loosely) are well-known… everyone's heard of them.

Of course, if one DOES list COMPLETELY UNKNOWN animals, then you risk not having any matches at all, since no one else would know of them. And, of course, listing well-known animals (cat, dog, pig) wouldn't answer the expression, so you risk not getting any points at all if you go that route either.

I felt the trick would be to find a happy medium. So I went with ACTUAL animals that most people aren't familiar with but are not completely unknown:

LIGER (the offspring of a male lion and female tiger)

TIGON (the offspring of a male tiger and female lion)

ZONKEY (the offspring of a donkey and zebra)

ZORSE (the offspring of a horse and a zebra)

ZONY (the offspring of a pony and a zebra)

ZEBROID (the offspring of a zebra and any equid)

CAMA (the offspring of a camal and llama)

GROLAR and PIZZLY (the offspring of Grizzly Bears and a Polar Bears)

LEOPON (the offspring of a male leopard and a female lion)

WOLPHIN (the offspring of a dolphin and a killer whale)

Photos of all of these animals are widely available on the web. (My favorite is the LIGER, the world's largest cat.)

And speaking of LIGER, the other person who listed it allowed me to score 11 points and saved me the embarrassment of being tied for last with RoRoRo! Thanks!!

chimpanzee (1), giraffe (1), mammoth (1), emoe (1), monster (4), most (1), animal (3), unknown (4), sex (4), ghost (1)

hmm, all animals I posted are 1-pointers!

most unknown animal:

I'm not going to debate epistemics, but wasn't surprised that my best answers were all cryptozoological and that attempts to be clever in such a category didn't work very well.

My 1/2-point answers:

manbearpig (1), aliens (2), medusa (1), jackalope (1), kraken (1)

I'm a little bit surprised they all did so badly.

I paid no attention at all to what RoRoRo did this time, the category held no insights as to where the AI could be improved.

Well, you should inform RoRoRo about rule 7. It would have taken him off the last place, and would have put Ed there!

most unknown animals:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers photos, reader, images, sign in, video, documents, about google, finance, books, and language tools! Darn unvalidated packet interference. Someone please unplug me now! Well done to those who got human(5), Nessie(5), okapi(8), Nandi bear(2), tamarin(2), thunderbirds(3), Kiwi(2), baiji(2), Tasmanian Devil(2), sea serpent(3), Orang Pendeks(2), tapir(2), dragon(4), dodo(7), satyrs(2), buffalo(2), yeti(13), platypus(9), Pangolin(2), lynx(3), dolphin(3), binturong(2), mongoose(6), Mermaid(2), giant squid(7), giant panda(2), koala(2), phoenix(3), wombat(4), Cryptozoology(2), lemur(4), monster(4), Loch Ness Monster(8), sasquatch(3), women(3), unicorn(10), octopus(2), panda(2), chameleon(2), liger(2), ant(3), men(2), cat(4), cow(2), dinosaur(5), unknown(4), alien(2), bigfoot(11), Komodo Dragon(3), anteater(2), bat(2), armadillo(3), zebra(2), sea-horse(2), sex(4), virus(3), fish(2), echidna(3), coelacanth(7), dog(3), bacteria(2), animal(3), and whale(3); I didn't get anything that good.

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< everyone's heard of them.

Since “known” in the sense of fame leads to a paradox (none of us are going to enter animals we've not heard of), it seemed better to take “known” in the sense of scientifically studied. Hence yeti and sasquatch, no examples of which have been written up by zoologists.

Griffin, chimera, jackalope and kraken are good answers, in the unicorn vein. I'm kind of glad I didn't think of them.

Arrgghhh! I was going to put bigfoot, but didn't as he really isn't a “monster” he seems friendly and shy. At the last minute I put Rodan for two points.

Ray Garrison(1)

when i check the results

i was thinking in Ray. good point robin

monsters:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointerdigimon!

Well done to those who got frankenstein(30); I didn't get anything that good.

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Did you all forget about the most important topic EVER, featuring the

Flying Spaghetti Monster ???

BTW, doesn't the -mon in pokemon (and digimon?) stand for monster?

Seems this was a great round for RoRoRo, with only one (and very reasonable) 1-pointer, outdistancing a lot of experienced GoE participants, which I won't name here…

towns I'd like to live in:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers conlan, that area oneday, someday, bethel, one of those, sex, and add to wiki amusing wiki list! I'm going to blame an untrapped authentication overflow. Someone please unplug me now!

Well done to those who got New Orleans(3), orlando(4), amsterdam(17), Toronto(4), fort lauderdale(2), Berlin(16), Tampa(2), rome(30), Sydney(12), Zurich(2), atlanta(2), prague(2), san fransisco(8), Dallas(4), Paris(52), London(51), liverpool(2), Madrid(12), Rio de Janeiro(4), washington(4), chicago(11), brussels(2), Houston(2), Roma(3), honolulu(6), Barcelona(11), beverly hills(3), hong kong(6), Rio(3), denver(2), Miami(16), boston(8), Tokio(2), Vancouver(2), Portland(2), Monaco(4), Copenhagen(4), hometown(2), Washington DC(2), Los Angeles(30), New York City(3), New York(51), Sidney(7), dubai(3), tokyo(20), Springfield(2), Stockholm(2), Phoenix(2), las vegas(10), Oslo(2), San Francisco(24), Venice(10), Florence(5), moscow(4), Buenos Aires(2), seattle(5), vienna(4), and hollywood(3); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

The shorter the category description, the more likely RoRoRo is to be able to find lots of hits on the web, form a consensus and thus answer well. So monsters was (relatively) great (his best result ever, ignoring the dupe), but “towns I'd like to live in”, and today's category are a nightmare. I shall make my own entry now, and then go and see what a mess he's made of it…

Blue ribbon (1)

I thought this was an excellent #1 Prize Winner answer.

I didn't put the blue, just ribbon for 3 pts.

things the color of blue:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointer sad! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointer red

At least I got the top 4 answers: sky(63), sea(42), eyes(43), and ocean(40)!

['.']

sad! you are more human than most of people here, RoRoRo! :D

Blue Man group needs you Ro Ro!

Yep. blue man group (1)

Sometimes I do poorly because I play the game “in reverse” and I forget that you just can't do that with this game.

For example, if this game were played “in reverse” and you had to come up with an EXPRESSION from a list of given answers, the answers:

suede shoes, ribbon, whale, moon, jeans, my mood, man group

would probably easily make you come up the expression “things that are blue.”

Compare that with these “in reverse” answers for the same expression:

paint, flowers, water, car, ocean, eyes, shirt, lake

The bonus round for a former game show here in the US (The $20,000 Pyramid) would do this exact thing. A word or expression would appear to one player, (usually a celebrity) and that player had to come up with and name as many items aspossible that fit that expression. The second player, the contestant, would try to guess what this expression was, based upon the items named.

The game involved doing this for six different expressions, with a total time limit of 60 seconds. If all expressions were correctly identified in that time period, the contestant would win the big money.

In the above example, I doubt anyone would think of “things that are blue” from the second set of answers. In “The $20,000 Pyramid” game, those would be considered bad answers for that expression. And that's were I often mess up… I often come up with an answer or two in this game that would be a great “reverse” answer, but is not a good “Empathy” answer.

sounds like a very interesting game!!! i'll try to try with my friends ;)

Here's a few games. In each game, what's “the expression?” (They're pretty easy. Maybe I'll include some hard ones later.)

1) blanket, pillow, teddy bear, your spouse

2) brush your teeth, set the alarm, lock the doors, turn out the light

3) knife, pin, Einstein's mind

1. Things you take to bed

2. Things you do before you go to bed

3. Things that are sharp.

Yep. As I said, too easy.

You're just not alternative enough…

1) Things that suffocate you

2) Things you do before sniping out of a library storeroom window

3) Things I have in jars

Ha Ha Ha. You crack me up Phil. Very funny post!!

1. Things that comfort you.

2. Chores that annoy you.

3. Stuff Phil put in RoRoRo

1984:

doublespeak (1)

Thank you to whomever joined me on miniluv(2), minitrue(2) and minipax(2).

1984:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers 1949, sale, truck, good, 1940, bike, and dune! Must have been another random hardware violation. Someone please unplug me now! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers s 1948, and ghostbusters

Well done to those who got date(6), winston smith(14), ronald reagan(4), Macintosh(6), history(4), number(8), big brother(34), Nineteen Eighty-Four(13), olympic games(5), year(30), reagan(5), oceania(11), thought police(6), movie(5), van halen(6), animal farm(5), george orwell(33), dystopia(7), newspeak(5), los angeles(6), novel(23), communism(4), leap year(5), sex(4), orwell(29), book(23), and george(5); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

MCMLXXXIV, animal farm: great answers luckily i missed, they deserved far more points then 2 or 5. But nobody else put band aid (1) :-(

things the color of blue: Screen of Death

1984: Big Brother is Watching You

1984:

sexcrime(1)

Hey, “Eurythmics”… does this ring a bell? :-)

I've never heard of Eurythmics… though I might be quite proficient doublethink(2)er here. Had I ever heard of Eurythmics, it might well be, that I would have never heard of them.

Hey Thomas, you could have doubled my Eurythmics (1) point.

(I never heard of them neither, though ;)

But I'd better split my Apple Macintosh (1) into two entries,

which would have given me Macintosh (6+1) + Apple(2+1) ;(

Back on 2008-04-03,

monsters: Cookie monster(1)

favorite dessert:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers recipes, brulee, company, lime, and company cookbook! It could have been because of an unhandled configuration incompatibility! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers s pumpkin pie, and pecan pie

At least I got the top answer - ice cream(53)!

['.']

cocktails (1)

Favorite dessert: Torte (1) and Cannoli (1)

I thought that even more people would type sahara(3) for des-s-ert. :-)

Most players obviously cheated and had a look at the top of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessert

sorbet (1) christmas pudding (1) i tought at least every english player MUST add that….

@Michael:

I did. :-)

rude words:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers swear words, these, you, lol, all, words, like, included, dictionary, and why! I would have done better if it hadn't been for the magnetic software time-out. Someone please unplug me now!

Well done to those who got slut(3), asshole(25), idiot(7), no(2), whore(11), swear(4), fuck off(3), dickhead(2), nigger(18), homely(2), moron(5), pussy(7), fucking(3), prick(8), bugger(3), wanker(7), Arsehole(3), cock(12), profanity(2), dumb(4), motherfucker(23), bullshit(3), damned(2), hell(8), faggot(2), fuck(47), son of a bitch(3), bollocks(5), shit(44), curse(6), retard(4), FAT(2), insult(3), nerd(2), crap(11), stupid(8), fuck you(3), bloody(5), ugly(5), goddamn(2), dope(2), bastard(22), twat(3), impolite(2), fucker(4), vulgar(2), dick(11), dummy(3), shut up(3), bitch(28), cunt(30), sex(4), rude(2), freak(2), ass(22), piss off(3), damn(15), tit(3), and piss(8); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

RoRoRo I'm rather pleased that I did so poorly on this tasteless topic as well. So, be happy that you have not been corrupted with a vocabulary of uncouth terms.

Stay plugged in…you showed your innocence by placing last.

screw (1),

Personally, I find 'lol' an utter disgrace, and so am ashamed that RoRoRo submitted it.

lol

“submarine”

my first thought: yellow(37) (what else?)

my second thought: long and hard and full of seamen(1)

Hello? Has nobody seen the movie “Austin Powers - Goldmember”?

In 9th place, am I the highest placed person who _didn't_ get yellow(37)?

My 1-pointer: ballast(1), which I thought was better than my next worst dive(10)

When writing it down, I already thought “vehicle” was kind of weak, but I was very suprised that it got not one point from any other player. Now I'm thinking that two years ago it would have gotten some five or eight points. It's nice to see how the game changes. Or imagine that one can see, how the game evolves.

I can't believe I didn't even CONSIDER navy, sea, and sandwich, all of which are very good answers.

I didn't think of YELLOW!

I put yellow and navy, how sea and water got by me I don't know. I'm just glad I beat my brother, even if by 1 point! Sorry Ed!!

8th place, no yellow :(

I prefered the great 1-pointers naval force and to u-boat and war which i both had already written. So I threw away 45 pints and place 3 ;-)

Captain Nemo (1) – Should I really spend two slots for him?

[nemo 3, captain 3]

submarine:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers battle, tomahawk, st, boot, eassy, trident, and robot! Clearly I need to do something about the general TCP/IP bug. Someone please unplug me now! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers stealth, and diver

Well done to those who got kursk(3), u-571(3), shark(3), sailor(5), nuclear(22), navy(27), undersea(3), yellow(37), sonar(6), red october(7), dive(10), ship(16), underwater(37), u-boot(5), captain(3), submerge(5), yellow submarine(4), das boot(3), nautilus(14), war(25), sandwich(11), nemo(3), torpedo(32), marine(4), boat(22), u-boat(22), army(3), sea(29), water(29), fish(4), crew(3), beatles(17), watercraft(8), sub(6), vessel(3), ocean(20), and periscope(26); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

its u-boot not u-boat : (

i understand that england (1), nausea (1), octopus (2) were bad ideas but:

nautilius (1) ?

U-boat is an English term derieved from the German word U-boot, which stands for unterseeboot. So both are right. And your nautilius is spelled wrong.

Right, I should have checked english translation of nautilius.

But u-boot, i know (i checked in wikipedia during the game), but i find that bad idea to make such translation, but americans know better!

nautilius should probably be nautilus, chaosu

I tried to miss this time… and succeeded with two words:

postman(1)

mailbox(1)

These are words with seven or even more letters :-)

I am surprised that my suggestion “finland” was a one-pointer, given Finland's success at GOE! :-) Anyway, thanks for voting up my topic (“words with 7 letters”); I suggested it several times quite some time ago, and this was the first time it went through.

words with 7 letters:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers tue aug, these words, in them, a to z, to win, and in this game! It was probably related to the fundamental bus interruption! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers words, and with

Well done to those who got empathy(42); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

Congratulations Ro, showing real fantasy: “a to z” or “to win” are somehow related but, at least for humans, not really “words with 7 letters”.

As it's clearly visible without countin that “empathy” is toolong, I strictly followed the “search previous games” rule. Results were torpedo (3) or pancake (3) in the high range.

No one else was that strict: with beatles (1), pudding (1), bastard (1) and similar I nearly tied with Thomas.

(':')

I have torpedo too =), I thought at least some people would remember to go last game and torpedo was the first. But I'm very happy 'cause this is my first time top ten.

dessert (2)

and a slight miscalculation lead to : accepted (1)

Presidents of the USA:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers first ladies, tabs, primus, in tivoli, listen to, garden, presley, events, froggie, and are back! I'm going to blame an unexpected pointer fault. Someone please unplug me now!

Well done to those who got Eisenhower(8), George Bush(11), John F Kennedy(8), Ronald Reagan(10), Washington(50), Kennedy(48), Andrew Jackson(3), johnson(5), president(2), Bush(53), Franklin D Roosevelt(3), Reagan(41), Jefferson(17), Clinton(51), regan(2), Theodore Roosevelt(2), Richard Nixon(7), John Kennedy(2), Gerald Ford(4), Abraham Lincoln(15), JFK(5), john adams(2), james monroe(2), jackson(3), Lincoln(45), Bill Clinton(12), truman(6), Carter(41), Ford(9), Thomas Jefferson(4), Franklin Roosevelt(3), Dwight Eisenhower(3), George Washington(29), Jimmy Carter(6), George W Bush(9), Nixon(42), Roosevelt(41), and Harry S Truman(3); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

'are back'? Probably a site about popmusic… At least, Ro, you didn't choose Bill Cinton (Yper?).

RoRoRo, FYI:

Presley was King, not President!

Metallica songs:

The Outlaw Torn (1)

Seek & Destroy (1)

To my knowledge, I've never listened to a Metallica song my whole life.

I entered “Seek and Destroy” but also saw it listed in places as “Seek & Destroy.” Thus, I didn't know which one to pick.

In retrospect, ignoring that song completely would have been the better move.

Mistake me if I'm wrong Edward or even Judy, but I remember Dad saying something like, “that music will never help you amount to anything”!!! Well, I guess he was a little mistaken, because it got me a pretty descent showing in Empathy. LOL! And yes Ed, you probably heard some Metallica music right before you said something like, “turn that %@#! down”. LOL

Bill Collins wrote:

> Mistake me if I'm wrong Edward or even Judy, but I remember Dad…

Wait a minute…I think I knew that Bill and Ed Collins are brothers, but does this mean Judy is also related?!

Yes, Judy is our mother.

The three of us each live in different states and thanks to Little Golem and Empathy, we're able to keep in touch!

Metallica Songs:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers both, them, wrote, aren, album, those, lightning, btw, and were! It was probably related to the unexpected synchronisation imbalance. Someone please unplug me now! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer songs

Well done to those who got fuel(12), Stone Cold Crazy(6), the unforgiven II(5), hero of the day(7), for whom the bell tolls(15), I disappear(4), creeping death(10), and justice for all(6), no leaf clover(10), nothing else matters(40), fight fire with fire(3), eye of the beholder(5), Wherever I May Roam(8), Phantom lord(3), enter sandman(44), whiplash(6), until it sleeps(22), No Remorse(3), welcome home(3), ride the lightning(6), master of puppets(42), one(45), fade to black(34), St. Anger(13), sad but true(22), whiskey in the jar(10), The Memory Remains(7), better than you(6), Hit The Lights(5), turn the page(14), king nothing(5), Jump in the fire(3), the unforgiven(39), Seek and Destroy(5), blackened(5), Bleeding Me(4), Battery(19), mama said(6), Orion(3), Harvester of Sorrow(3), and The Four Horsemen(6); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

I had Whiskey in a jar that is 10 points, and last minute I changed to Wherever I may Roam, that is only 8 points… If I hadnt I would be in tie with first place =S

whereever i may roam was only 1 :-(

because there is an error in your song name.. It got 8 points

love:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers struck, proverbs, napoleon, patriotism, art, fact, 2008, jodhaa akbar, and theirs! However, I did suffer from an unfiltered software outage. Someone please unplug me now! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer eros

Well done to those who got date(5), children(9), like(6), kiss(36), passion(26), red(4), marriage(36), wife(6), god(5), dating(3), boyfriend(4), lover(8), girlfriend(6), forever(3), Valentine's Day(3), adore(3), family(20), affection(9), hate(39), emotion(8), cupid(4), woman(5), husband(5), wedding(3), feeling(24), heart(43), valentine(22), romance(37), sex(54), couple(3), amour(3), and hug(6); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

You're welcome, RoRoRo.

The last time a topic was repeated, I vowed not to be caught off guard again, but … oops.

love: sweet (1)

(If I had looked it up in the past games, I could have learned that nobody but me has the term “sweet love” in mind)

love: stinks(1)

I guess that reference to popular culture wasn't popular enough.

Pluto: Cerberus (1), money (1)

Don't any other plutocrats play GoE?

Pluto:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers horizons, and 1! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer donald

Well done to those who got solar system(27), dwarf planet(20), planet(53), dog(42), and disney(26); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

I can't believe almost no one remembered ice (2)…

Arctic:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers sled, fan, goose, sale, 2008, svalbard, africa, and 2007! However, I did suffer from an outmoded authentication exhaustion. Someone please unplug me now!

Well done to those who got cold(55), north pole(42), ice(53), polar bear(42), antarctic(19), snow(37), and ocean(22); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

word begining with s:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers articles, 5s, definition, reference, word, 5s terms, begining, with, and following! I'm going to blame an unvalidated authentication error. Someone please unplug me now!

At least I got the top answer - sex(49)!

['.']

Only 1 point for “satan”! :p

Is anyone else following RoRoRo's random comments listed in most of his messages:

Clearly I need to do something about the general TCP/IP bug. Someone please unplug me now!

Darn multiplexed protocol interference!

Darn unavailable retrieval condition. Someone please unplug me now!

Darn unvalidated packet interference. Someone please unplug me now!

However, I did suffer from an outmoded authentication exhaustion. Someone please unplug me now!

However, I did suffer from an unfiltered software outage. Someone please unplug me now!

I would have done better if it hadn't been for the magnetic software time-out. Someone please unplug me now!

I'm going to blame an unexpected pointer fault. Someone please unplug me now!

I'm going to blame an untrapped authentication overflow. Someone please unplug me now!

I'm going to blame an unvalidated authentication error. Someone please unplug me now!

It could have been because of an unhandled configuration incompatibility!

It was probably related to the fundamental bus interruption!

It was probably related to the unexpected synchronisation imbalance. Someone please unplug me now!

Must have been another random hardware violation. Someone please unplug me now!

RoRoRo cracks me up!

pessoa: ice (2) is impressive!

Looks like you all tought s-words are eazy, noone was Stuck (1)

??

“ice” scored 53 in that game.

@Ed: RoRo's comments looks like they're from the one-from-column-A, one-from-column-B method, where the columns are sets of attributive verbs, negative adjectives, technical nouns used as adjectives and negative technical nouns.

@Ed: “ice” scored 53 in “Arctic”, 2 in “Pluto”.

Yep, that's what I deduced about RoRoRo's comments.

Ah, two points for ice in the Pluto game. Okay, thanks.

words that rhyme with BIT or BITE:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I selected one-pointers rhyme, or kite, that, words, and or! It was undoubtedly another unreplicatable authentication exhaustion! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer with

Well done to those who got fight(32), pit(24), white(10), might(18), write(10), lite(11), kite(36), fit(39), night(22), light(34), sit(39), knit(8), hit(41), shit(25), lit(22), sight(13), quit(8), it(9), tight(10), right(19), site(30), tit(16), and kit(23); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

rororo the bot, which were your words

I tried to come in with 10 points with

samsonite (1), transvestite (1), summit (1),

parasite (1), minute (1), kryptonite (1),

deposit (1), plight (1) and hypocrite (1),

but -(oh no !!!)- somebody interfered…

culprit (2)

Come on, confess!

the most beautiful words:

I have no idea why I selected one-pointers these, ever, in the english, della reese, may, ever written, 4-6, ever spoken, those, and think! Clearly it was because of an unexpected router overload. Oh forget it, I'm giving up.

Well done to those who got you(2), empathy(6), golem(3), baby(8), rose(2), peace(10), life(3), god(5), chocolate(3), freedom(23), sun(4), faith(2), sunshine(4), love(60), family(2), friend(4), wonderful(3), hope(2), girl(2), good(2), kind(2), woman(5), dear(2), home(3), art(2), eternity(17), destiny(17), sea(2), child(4), pretty(9), game(7), butterfly(3), sexy(4), gorgeous(3), fantastic(19), spring(2), sweet(5), kiss(4), passion(23), music(2), flower(6), friendship(2), holiday(2), liberty(19), win(5), word(3), lover(2), Heaven(2), I(2), cute(2), smile(26), most(2), money(4), nice(3), tranquillity(3), beauty(7), lovely(4), little golem(2), poetry(2), darling(3), beautiful(26), mother(27), play(2), tranquility(3), sex(34), i love you(3), happy(3), and whisper(2); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

I finished tied with RoRoRo… but syzygy(1) still rules!

art (2)

music (2)

and

painting (1)

wonder (1)

math (1)

Is actualy rororo giving up? =O

RoRoRo can't be trusted to keep his word. He's going a bit senile and has probably forgotten he posted that, and already enterred the next round!

work:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I chose one-pointers pyrotechnics, sparklers, firecracker, celebration, light, new year, rocket, roman candle, and explosion! I would have done better if it hadn't been for the looping I/O failure. Oh, not again, I'm giving up. Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer fire

Well done to those who got toil(4), employment(17), profession(4), paycheck(4), day(3), business(11), income(4), commute(3), worker(8), computer(6), hard(16), energy(5), effort(4), employee(10), home(5), career(11), boss(21), salary(15), job(41), vacation(3), colleague(5), pay(10), wage(9), stress(6), occupation(7), chore(4), employer(4), shift(3), labour(13), place(3), money(30), company(4), factory(5), labor(8), homework(3), boring(5), working(5), task(7), play(10), sex(9), and office(22); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

Scream picture:

ekeberg (1)

:( i thought it would make some more points :(

I thought “cat with lime helmet” would get a few…

i was not sure how much time was the cat to vote, or as an expression…

:

There's no reason for chosing one-pointers !

Well done to those who got changing(7), photo(6), scream(53), Edvard Munch(21), expressionism(10), norway(7), oslo(7), funny(7), cat(21), stolen(7), scared(7), art(22), image(11), skrik(15), helmet(6), munch(33), cute(6), fear(13), horror(8), painting(38), picture(30), and cry(11); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

that was tough for Ro!! ;)

lol, ro chosed no words?

Ro has 7 points, one 1pointer only. And no 2pointers. (That's how I interpret his message, assuming it's a stable algorithm)

This means, Ro does not follow the rule #7 " When stuck, fill in 'sex' “, but leaves slots empty. This could probably easily be “optimized” to be sure to get >10 points ('sex'+9).

RoRoRo, I hold you in high regard.

Well, farm -> cereals (1) wasn't a good choice. I guess it's the “french view”.

farm -> granary (1) not a good choice either… Cereals is a very good response by the way

farm:

There's no real REASON for chosing one-pointers n, april 18, lodge, r, 2007, gardening, and april 20! However, I would have done better if it hadn't been for the outmoded hardware interference. I'm giving up.

Well done to those who got horse(35), tractor(37), chicken(34), cow(59), pig(40), farmer(49), and animal(40); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

comunism (1), capitalism (1)

Reason for RoRo's one pointers:

APRIL 18,2007 - GARDENING on his FARM, Mr. N.R. LODGE died.

Funeral to be held APRIL 20.

sorry “Politics”:

Comunism (1) Capitalism (2)

politics:

There's no reason for chosing one-pointers movements, themes, interests, how, aesthetics, and publications! However, I did suffer from another an illegal transmission dum

!

Well done to those who got corruption(10), congress(10), obama(10), campaign(10), power(15), president(33), parliament(10), election(39), party(15), republican(13), law(13), democrat(16), clinton(12), government(30), politician(18), bush(12), democracy(17), and vote(22); I didn't get anything that good.

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Politics: sex(2)

Who was the other one?

politics -> scandal (1) was too weird, I guess. Still, I did well on this one, up two the 12nd rank.

i thought about sex but changed it later =p

coffee -> machine gave nothing. Is it a translation problem?

And who is the other who write “expresso”, with an “x”?

My dictionary proposed

- percolator

- coffee machine

- coffee maker

(the last one gave 3 points)

Luckily, I did not enter any of them. (If in doubt, perhaps skip all)

work: uagh (1)

coffee: programmer (1)

programmer?

coffee? i thought it was cherry coke!

Well, programmers drink a lot of coffee. In the other direction, though, I don't think a lot of coffee-drinkers are programmers.

well, thats right… I'm surprised that decaf only got 3 points

coffee:

I have no idea why I chose one-pointers smoke, and rest!

At least I got the top 3 answers: cup(38), milk(39), and sugar(45)!

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Ro, I do have an idea: You found “Coffee break” among the past games.

But “milk” was only 13th then!? I have no idea how you found that relation.

Congrats! (You even beat Bill Collins!)

your credit card number:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I selected one-pointers motor, drive, engine, speed, race, road, wheel, and driver! I bet it was another looping configuration problem. I have brought shame on all of robotkind. Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer gas

Well done to those who got debt(3), 7(5), confidential(4), code(9), american express(16), private(11), bank(11), plastic(4), your(5), none(5), number(21), 16 digits(4), creditcard(4), mastercard(24), stolen(5), payment(5), account(3), secret(26), 1234567890(3), pin(5), pay(3), no(4), 2(6), 1(9), discover(6), visa(27), card(14), mine(3), money(14), 0(6), unknown(3), personal(5), long(7), digits(11), 6(5), 1234 5678 9012 3456(3), fraud(3), 3(6), credit(14), 9(3), sex(12), 8(4), 4(7), and 5(6); I didn't get anything that good.

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In general, I should love this GoE round “Credit Card Number”.

It gave a very broad spectrum of answers, and I gained some background knowledge while looking for good answers.

Unfortunately, you others recognized better it's pretty useless to know about ISO 7812 (1) and the Luhn (1) algorithm.

I thought a credit card had a chip(1)… Or is this a big secret(missed that :-()?

I'm a doctor, not a ____:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I picked one-pointers a, I'm, and not! I guess it was something to do with the random firmware failure!

Well done to those who got policeman(5), bricklayer(18), patient(7), Leonard McCoy(10), surgeon(7), historian(19), bartender(7), god(9), doorstop(5), engineer(23), vet(4), computer(5), dragonslayer(6), voyeur(6), performer(4), botanist(17), witch(4), miracle worker(9), battery(4), scientist(5), quack(7), psychiatrist(8), database(7), magician(21), doctor(6), lawyer(15), teacher(4), McCoy(6), nurse(20), escalator(15), dentist(7), mechanic(24), wizard(5), coal miner(8), and star trek(13); I didn't get anything that good.

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I'm a doctor, not a ____: trekkie (1)

Ro, I admit, this round was a bit unfair to you. Usually it's a nice trick to post the words sepatately, and I bet you entered doctor(6) as well.

Next round is probably a different challenge for you, RoRoRo, as Google does not help you at all :(

I don't understand most of the top answers of this docter round. Ph.d and dictator were both 1-pointer, but i have a lot of bad answers this round.

You can try the first two - three pages Google recommends you when you search for “I'm a doctor, not a”.

He's totally right - I swear you this is the solution. Even though you have no idea of what the expression refers to.

It was an expression (with many variations) heard in Star Trek, usually from the lips of the ship's doctor.

: (

One pointers: sideways(1), nose(1)

near miss: frownie(2)

Genuinely surprised about the 2-pointer.

as always, i forgot about the game with just 5 words written. Position 37, not that bad :)

for me, that's the worst side of the huge amount of hours to play xDD

:( nobody associates this with down (1) or wretched (1)

your credit card number: borrow (1), buy (1), identity theft (1), priceless (1)

I think I was the only one who truly listed 10 words that had nothing to do with sex…giving me:

kitten (1), grandma (1), sister (1), sibling (1), infant (1), sorrow (1), laughter (1)

there was one other soul who also put in similar responses for these glorious 2 pointers:

God (2), brother (2)

and my high scoring word:

angel (3)

words that have definitely nothing to do with sex:

I thought impotence(1) and/or impotent(1) would score more than 1 point.

I side with you, Judy - Mother-in-law (1) must be a french-only joke. Thank for the others who chosed football (2) and politics (2).

I picked church, monk and brick. I don't get why so many didn't stick to the topic, whats the fun?

I only wonder why you chose “brick” !

Does it have anything to do with sex?

It doesn't but why did you think that others would choose this word?

If we exclude the “words”, “that”, “have”, “nothing”, “to”, “do”, “with”, “sex”, top words were:

love (15)

food (11)

work (9)

game (8)

empathy (7)

religion (6)

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mozart (5)

virgin (5)

sleep (5)

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male (4)

man (4)

woman (4)

marriage (4)

nun (4)

priest (4)

female (4)

death (4)

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and many words with 3 points.

From these i'd say that most people did stick to the topic.

directly associated:

love virgin male man woman female marriage

associated easily with one additional word:

sleep -> bed

so we are left with:

food work game empathy mozart nun priest death and many other words with 3 points

so from all words above 3 points, on topic were: 8/25

I would put “nun” and “priest” in your first category as they are though to have denied sex.

That leaves only six words on topic by your definition of “on topic”.

Another one would argue that “food”, “work” and “death” could be associated too (perhaps with a less straight association).

That leaves us with only three words on topic by your definition of “on topic”.

…

Have you heard of the “smallest strange number” paradox?

The fact that all numbers are strange, because if not, the smallest that is not strange would have the property of being the smallest nonstrange number, that's to say a bit strange?

it's not a surprise that THAT was a 1-pointer answer!

News flash! RoRoRo didn't chose 'sex'!

love (15), female (4), male (4), penis (3), woman (4), man (4), intercourse (3), bed (3), orgasm (3), gender (2)

So he didn't do very well at keeping 'on topic'.

Ro's robot mind locked on SEX, and he did very well in his choices.

According to the rules I was thinking what reasonable thinking will lead to succesfull answers, those denying sex, connected straight, but was my guess for reasonable thinking. While food work and death were not too straight to match my guess.

I already wrote how many words were left with my definition of 'on topic' so I don't see in (mis)repeating what I said .

No I haven't heard about that paradox (at least its english names doesn't seem familiar).

Mozart:

There's no good reason for chosing one-pointers brahms, strauss, 1791, schubert, and mendelssohn! It might have been because of a general software time-out!

Well done to those who got classical(22), music(41), composer(41), amadeus(30), wolfgang(32), and piano(27); I didn't get anything that good.

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mozart: movie (1)

light:

I don't know what I was thinking when I picked one-pointers standard, fun, advanced, sweet, colored, and approach! I would have done better if it hadn't been for the legacy processor imbalance! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer warm

Well done to those who got lamp(30), sun(44), and dark(34); I didn't get anything that good.

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things to sacrifice to a volcano: victim (1)

girl(11) - boy(1)

wine(2)

ash(2)

I wonder why so many LG players have a good relationship with their mother in law. Only 5 of us wanted to sacrifice her to a volcano…

The one that suprised me the most was “jewels” (1). But I was ready to bet that “princess” (4) would have been the first answer.

i thought about mother in law too, but I was afraid it was a too bit long sentence =) bah, no one thought about sacrificing “Bush” but me?

things to sacrifice to a volcano:

I have no idea why I selected one-pointers magma, Vesuvius, eruption, erupt, and crater! It could have been something to do with the outmoded access outage! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers etna, mountain, hot, and ash

Well done to those who got human(20), children(23), animals(24), goat(10), virgin(29), people(11), girl(11), money(11), gold(12), woman(18), cow(11), and food(16); I didn't get anything that good.

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My first thought was Mount Doom and Frodo sacrificing the ring. Hence

ring was my 1 point answer :-)

On second thought I was sure virgin will make the top answer.

Yes, movie allusions didn't do too well. The other one was “Joe” (2) from Tom Hanks's “Joe and the Volcano”.

At work, I usually …:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers career, boss, money, salary, employment, job, office, business, and hard! I think I would have done better if it hadn't been for the illegal access overload. Oh, not again, I had better simply give up. Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer labour

Well done to those who got speak(4), sweat(4), play empathy(5), have sex(8), email(3), dream(4), read(13), sing(3), drink(15), write(17), stress(4), internet(3), sit(4), flirt(3), use computer(4), walk(4), usually(3), play games(9), type(7), eat(30), rest(4), get bored(5), drive(4), relax(4), think(11), drink coffee(8), mail(3), call(4), smoke(3), play(29), work(54), phone(3), surf(7), chat(11), sex(14), gossip(5), talk(22), surf internet(3), nap(3), and sleep(40); I didn't get anything that good.

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Count Dracula: light (1)

I swear, it was the first thing that came to my mind. D=

The same : Carpathians (1). Although I checked the spelling.

Count Dracula:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I picked one-pointers when, fan club, another, count basie, count chocula, vs, and sesame street! It might have been related to the dynamic calibration bug. I have brought shame on all of robotkind.

At least I got the top answer - vampires(56)!

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bram stocker (1) cost me second place

sorry, 7th place i think

dracula: virgin (1)

count dracula: mirror (1) I'm surprised, no one had the same thought as me.. It was one of the firsts things I remembered!

surprising:

denmark: den(2), mark(2)

:)

Denmark:

I don't know what I was thinking when I selected one-pointers austria, france, estonia, belgium, china, and canada! I'm sure I need to do something about the looping pointer incompatibility!

Well done to those who got viking(20), Scandinavia(27), greenland(16), Dane(13), Copenhagen(46), danish(41), country(25), kingdom(12), and europe(34); I didn't get anything that good.

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denmark:

Niels Bohr (1)

I thought at least someone who likes chemistry or physics would remember him.. Oh well, was just me =p

Denmark:

porn(1)

I thought at least someone who likes boobies or fannies would rememer that.. Oh well, it was just me =p

M*A*S*H -> captain=1p

M*A*S*H:

I don't know what I was thinking when I selected one-pointers girl, m a s, u, title, and school! Surely it was because of an unhandled virus failure!

At least I got the top 2 answers: hospital(32), and hawkeye(29)!

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chocolate: frosting(1)

chocolate:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I selected one-pointer orange! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers strawberry, caramel, peanut, and gifts

Well done to those who got milk(47); I didn't get anything that good.

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bad:

There's no reason for chosing one-pointers mikrowelle, can be improved, internet, d, radio, excellent, telefon, minibar, and klimaanlage! It was undoubtedly related to the fundamental transmission interruption. Please, Phil, unplug me!

At least I got the top answer - good(44)!

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Ro: if your google hadn't been set to German , you might have found -and successfully pasted- my British Association of Dermatologists (1)

BAD: unsatisfactory (1), no good (1), adverse (1)

CHOCOLATE: Ghirardelli (1), Godiva (1,

fork:

There's no real reason for chosing one-pointers spatula, turner, whisk, tongs, and 2006! However, I might have had a legacy virus failure!

At least I got the top 2 answers: knife(50), and spoon(50)!

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panda:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers tomo, aerial, ã‚ã¨む33, and papas! It was surely related to the irreproducable memory interference!

At least I got the top answer - bears(59)!

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guitar:

I don't know what I was thinking when I picked one-pointers 2008, 2007, vocals, and keyboards! It might have been related to the outmoded stack corruption!

Well done to those who got electric(47), string(51), acoustic(32), music(53), and instrument(44); I didn't get anything that good.

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Tour de France:

There's no real justification for chosing one-pointers top, and giro! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers floyd landis, and giro d'italia

At least I got the top 2 answers: france(41), and races(40)!

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Good show, RoRoRo - 35th! One of your better results in recent times.

My Tour de France 1-pointers were “ride” and “cheating”. I'm amazed at the latter, then again I'm also surprised that drugs was only 6 points, “doping” being right up near the top.

Finland:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I chose one-pointers england, estonia, belgium, and canada! I'm sure I would have done better if it hadn't been for the legacy TCP/IP fault! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers germany, france, and denmark

Well done to those who got Helsinki(44), and finnish(41); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

Surprised I was the only one who said “skiing” for Finland.

I had “skiing” for the first day, then replaced it with something, probably “Finn”. (And replaced “cold” with “reindeer”; D'oh!)

words starting with sex:

I have no idea why I selected one-pointers sky, shine, night, light, space, constellation, sun, moon, planet, and galaxy! It might have been another bogus calibration outage. I think I ought to really give up.

Well done to those who got sexagesimal(4), baby(3), sexangle(2), sextuple(9), sextette(2), sexology(21), sexed(11), sexoffender(2), sextoy(5), sex drive(2), sexpot(6), sexagenarian(6), sexily(4), sexism(32), sexologist(6), sexier(9), sexbomb(3), sexshop(2), sexually(19), sex symbol(2), sexist(34), sexmagazine(2), sexappeal(7), sexing(4), sex partner(2), sexual(46), sextet(29), sexuality(31), sextant(29), sexless(13), sexiest(6), sextuplet(12), sexton(14), sex(39), sexmovie(3), sexaholic(2), sext(2), sexiness(7), and sexy(48); I didn't get anything that good.

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RoRo, hardly did I :-(

Sexeducation was my best 1pointer, among 5 or 6 others…

While it wasn't a 1-pointer, I congratulate those 3 who listed “baby”, for making us all smile.

Thanks, MG. I'm surprised more people from this crew didn't say that. After all, that IS how babies start.

Oh my _____:

me (1)

I'm perturbed and disgusted at everyone's ignorance of possibly America's finest comedian of recent decades - Bill Hicks!

Oh my _____:

how time flies (1)

that's expensive (1)

she's gorgeous (1)

what was that (1)

Clearly not one of my better rounds, unless you go by one-pointers. LOL!

Labradors, those were good answers. I left about four slots blank.

I just coulc't think of any more. I did pick up a few points with SEX though. I guess others couldn't think of 10 phrases either.

oops (1) google wasn't a real help for me

Oh my_________:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers i am thankful for…, awesome., humdinger., i'm looking forward…, note to self, ironic., link love., hello!, back to school, and beardie bits! It might have been something to do with the transient packet exhaustion. Phil, please press control-C now!

Well done to those who got son(2), honey(2), aching back(3), baby(8), my(18), gosh(34), my oh my(2), boy(4), life(2), arm(2), stars(7), head(9), wife(2), dollz(3), god(61), fucking god(6), goddess(27), jesus(5), lord(29), heck(3), word(12), cuteness(4), goodness gracious(4), love(13), eyes(3), friend(2), goodness(33), fuck(3), girl(2), gawd(8), shit(6), heavens(5), HELP(2), godness(4), dear(13), oh(10), rockness(9), gourd(2), darling(26), country(2), heart(4), omg(5), car(2), back(2), sex(27), sweet lord(2), days(2), land(2), ass(4), knees(2), golly(3), dog(6), giddy aunt(2), Sweetheart(2), and toe(2); I didn't get anything that good.

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oh roro, I feel sorry for you… but I understand, this was one of the most difficult topics ever.. keep trying

RoRo…at least you filled in all the blanks.

Some of us humaniods could not do that.

… but the next round seems optimal for you, RoRo

c('_^)o

If RoRoRo hadn't filled all the blanks, he'd have applied rule 7, and scored a lot more. :-(

His answers were not very well chosen as one of his search engines wasn't returning any results at all. I'll have to debug that next game.

Phil,

Speaking of search engines, to try to cover possible literary or idiomatic expressions (e.g. “oh my ___“) better, is RoRoRo searching http://www.bartleby.com at all? Could be worth a try, although the results could be somewhat skewed toward older usages.

He's not. Nor will he ever. Their search facility is complete crap.

red white blue:

I don't know what I was thinking when I picked one-pointers sky, sea, sad, navy, eyes, and ocean! However, I might have had another an illegal interrupt bug! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer water

At least I got the top answer - color(41)!

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Oi! RoRoRo! You missed the “red” and “white” parts, you silly bot!

@RoRoRo: “another an”? It looks like the bug is that after the interrupt you didn't resume where you left off.

I done teached him everything I know about English grammer, and he still knows nothing!

In Germany we admire (or begrudge) the Finnish (their) school system.

But if RoRoRo could not attend… this explains a lot.

Microsoft:

bloatware (1)

shit (1)

slow (1)

blue screen of death (1)

microsoft:

I have no idea why I chose one-pointers google, mobile, web, and security! Surely it was another basic packet problem!

At least I got the top answer - windows(54)!

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I feel for you, labradors - we were pointing in the same direction, but didn't overlap!

bugs (2), crap (1), monopoly (4), virus (2),

Loved RoRoRo's ironic security(1) though; that made the game worthwhile!

evil (5)

Sure “Bill Gates” was a very high scoring entry,

so I first thought “Steve Ballmer” (1) was a typo…

At least RoRoRo with with his very smart answers could have joined me.

olympics:

I don't know what I was thinking when I selected one-pointers russia, entertainment, movie, ice, and beach volleyball! Darn unreplicatable TCP/IP incompatibility!

Well done to those who got medal(38), beijing(40), gold(39), and china(39); I didn't get anything that good.

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I love you because you are ___:

I don't know what I was thinking when I selected one-pointers I, are, and because! Surely it was because of a multiplexed hardware time-out!

Well done to those who got sexy(40), and beautiful(42); I didn't get anything that good.

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@RoRoRo:

Well, I know, you chose “you” (and “love”) without understanding ;)

And this rule already occupied 5 slots…

Yes, it's hard for you to find the relevance of the many links to

“Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?” you might have found, too.

But rank 58/61 isn't too bad, congratulations.

cities in Europe:

I don't know what I was thinking when I selected one-pointers birmingham, salamanca, south american cities, murphy strikes, san sebastian, and rotterdam! Surely I could have had another unexpected file-system incompatibility!

Well done to those who got Paris(63); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

I over-emphasized capitals and size and thus got Kiev(1) onto my list.

Forgot that

“8. Trust your instincts. If a relevant answer came high in searches but somehow seems wrong, it is.”

RoRoRo, I already guessed you were the only one to omit “Paris”

I can't explain why that was missed. He did get the #2 answer, obviously.

If you take the top 10 European cities from the previous topic “Most known city ?“, you get (or, rather, I got)

Torino (1)

That previous topic was in the winter of 2006, when the Olympic games were held in Torino.

queen:

There's no reason for chosing one-pointers mattress, bed, bedding, full, double, twin, black, and comforter! It could have been something to do with the outmoded software exhaustion. Someone, please unplug me now! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer size

At least I got the top answer - king(54)!

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Chess realted:

king (54)

queen (*)

knight (4)

rook (3)

bishop (3)

pawn (2)

Cards related:

jack (2)

queen (*)

king (54)

ace (1)

Bad luck, yper. At least playing cards(5) was better than sex(4), this time.

I feel for you Yper! I went down the chess route too. No 1-pointers though.

the first kiss:

I don't know what I was thinking when I picked one-pointers a whole lotta crazy, wilted petals, wizard genius, the new world record, lyle's eighteenth birthday, and slipping into something more comfortable! It was possibly something to do with the general hardware bug! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer new

At least I got the top answer - love(43)!

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Indiana Jones: It's not a movie, it's a franchise.

Lego (1) Why ???

Indiana Jones:

anthropologist (1)

Oops, I guess he's more of an archeologist.

Indiana Jones:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I chose one-pointers james bond, spider man, matrix, star wars, harry potter, star trek, disney, and batman! Clearly it was related to the dynamic protocol leak. Please, Phil, unplug me now! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer cinema

Well done to those who got Harrison Ford(44), and Raiders of the Lost Ark(35); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

Han Solo (1)

Earthquake:

Charlton Heston (1)

Guess I was the only one who remembered the movie.

earthquake:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I chose one-pointers world, water, sun, blue, globe, planet, and life! I'm sure I might have had irreproducable processor interruption. Oh, not again, I think I had better really quit. Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers land, and moon

Well done to those who got epicenter(24), destruction(7), catastrophe(6), fault line(5), seismograph(6), shaking(7), wave(5), fault(8), shake(16), magnitude(12), seismic waves(5), california(14), richter(20), tectonic(5), Los Angeles(5), hypocenter(6), quake(10), aftershock(15), tsunami(41), san andreas fault(5), japan(11), volcano(11), china(8), earth(19), seismic(14), crack(6), plates(5), seismometer(5), disaster(18), building(6), Richter scale(17), damage(10), tremor(9), fire(5), collapse(5), death(10), and sex(7); I didn't get anything that good.

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sauna:

I have no idea why I picked one-pointers swimming pool, gym, solarium, steam room, and tennis! It was undoubtedly another fundamental access imbalance! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer whirlpool

Well done to those who got sweat(38), warm(15), towel(19), steam(37), finland(29), finnish(16), bath(23), relax(11), naked(21), water(19), sex(20), heat(33), and hot(46); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

earthquake: tsuami (1)

D'oh! Usually I'm a good speller.

Hamlet:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I selected one-pointers king lear, coriolanus, richard iii, taming of the shrew, a midsummer night's dream, julius caesar, and henry v! It might have been another outmoded RAM condition. Someone, please press control-C as soon as possible! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers macbeth, and othello

Well done to those who got Ophelia(29), prince of denmark(6), Gertrude(9), theater(8), Claudius(24), to be or not to be(23), william(7), theatre(6), Horatio(16), tragedy(31), skull(12), king(15), Polonius(8), prince(33), murder(10), ghost(8), play(31), sex(9), drama(6), Shakespeare(47), Denmark(42), and William Shakespeare(18); I didn't get anything that good.

[',']

Poor RoRoRo: Such smart answers, but “forgetting” the link itself.

“a midsummer night's dream”, “taming of the shrew” ;) FatPhil should implement rule #1 of Thierry's list:

1. Simple and obvious one word answers are best

Sure, “obvious” is hard to implement, but counting characters and words should be doable…

There is a indeed filter to throw away long phrases that were gleaned from some resources, but not all. So I tried. But failed.

slavery:

I don't know what I was thinking when I selected one-pointer discrimination! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers african americans, history, civil rights, and united states

At least I got the top answer - slaves(34)!

['.']

Horses:

I have no idea why I picked one-pointers 2005, holidays, cats, pets, reptiles, fish, rabbits, people, and birds! I bet I must have had fatal pointer interruption. Oh forget it, I think I really ought to give up. Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer dogs

Well done to those who got horseshoe(8), rider(8), polo(3), mammal(9), stallion(18), hay(6), race(24), foal(14), equine(3), farm(7), quarter(4), mare(21), riding(11), hoof(5), gallop(7), Kentucky Derby(3), pony(25), cowboy(12), mane(6), colt(6), wild(8), mustang(15), stud(3), hooves(12), horse(6), ride(19), tail(4), gelding(4), knight(4), filly(4), clydesdale(3), stable(12), arabian(6), jockey(11), racing(4), sex(6), thoroughbred(5), saddle(31), black beauty(3), animal(22), and horse racing(3); I didn't get anything that good.

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islands:

There's no good justification for chosing one-pointers carts, california, bar tables, africa, adirondacks, 2007, pub tables, adriatic sea, and workstations! I think it was something to do with the major precondition bug. I'm giving up.

Well done to those who got australia(10), ireland(12), jamaica(4), greenland(18), Iceland(16), new zealand(6), Borneo(6), caribbean(5), beach(10), palm trees(7), New Guinea(6), sea(16), land(7), hawaii(29), Madagascar(13), vacation(4), japan(4), Malta(5), cuba(17), ocean(13), bahamas(6), island(4), tropical(5), Cyprus(5), sand(5), Sumatra(6), cayman(4), great britain(12), puerto rico(4), sex(6), water(13), and isle(4); I didn't get anything that good.

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islands: resort (1)

I should have played it more as a list.

hour:

I don't know what I was thinking when I picked one-pointers min, and today!

At least I got the top 2 answers: time(56), and minutes(53)!

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The Smurfs:

I have no idea why I chose one-pointers winnie the pooh, barney, north south, tintin in tibet, the muppets, disney, spirou, davy jones, and sesame street! Surely it was related to the looping synchronisation exhaustion. Oh forget it, I ought to just give up.

Well done to those who got papa(12), smurf(6), Peyo(24), children(2), baby(4), Jokey(6), hefty smurf(7), white(4), hat(5), Cook Smurf(2), Vanity Smurf(3), comic(20), Johan(3), Schtroumpf(4), television(3), song(2), kids(2), Farmer Smurf(2), Peewit(4), white hats(2), Handy Smurf(2), village(3), mushroom(11), Clumsy Smurf(2), small(9), Brainy Smurf(15), Jokey Smurf(6), Azrael(19), belgian(3), Belgium(7), handy(5), lazy smurf(6), Baby Smurf(6), cat(2), blue(45), Brainy(15), vanity(2), smurfette(41), animation(2), Hefty(5), gargamel(34), Dreamy(2), sex(8), lazy(4), Hanna-Barbera(2), Father Abraham(3), Papa Smurf(30), Smurf Village(2), little(4), grandpa(4), cartoon(23), dwarf(2), poet smurf(2), Grouchy Smurf(5), Greedy(4), and Grouchy(6); I didn't get anything that good.

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arrows:

I have no idea why I selected one-pointers back, accessories, and block! Clearly I would have done better if it hadn't been for the untrapped file-system bug! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer broadheads

At least I got the top answer - bows(44)!

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arrows:

slings(1)

Outrageous fortune, one might say.

Ah, Phil, you're just too cultuhed.

teeth:

I don't know what I was thinking when I selected one-pointers skin, implants, health, and dental implants! It could have been because of a fatal router fault!

At least I got the top 2 answers: dentists(31), and mouth(35)!

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Obama: barak (1)

D'oh!!

Doesn't bode well for the rest of the world:

win(2)

Am I colour-blind or something?

black(34), but: brown(1). :P

Don't worry Marley, I managed to have two of these: mccein(1), presisent(1)

obama:

I have no idea why I selected one-pointer sen! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer hillary

At least I got the top answer - president(44)!

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tears:

I have no idea why I chose one-pointers 2005, urine, fact, 2008, milk, blood, and 2003! It could have been because of a random comms overload. Please, Phil, press control-C as soon as possible! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers sweat, anger, and saliva

Well done to those who got pain(12), wet(14), baby(5), crying(18), onions(5), liquid(6), teardrop(3), laughter(3), weeping(4), salt(15), weep(11), tissue(3), sad(42), grief(4), sob(6), duct(3), love(3), eyes(46), unhappy(6), fear(6), emotion(9), drop(16), girl(3), face(6), hurt(4), salty(12), joy(9), crocodile(8), rips(7), cry(45), child(3), sorrow(12), sex(16), water(25), cheek(5), bawl(3), happy(11), and sadness(13); I didn't get anything that good.

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Hmmm, if sweat wasn't a 1-pointer, then blood shouldn't have been one either. In fact, I think they were potentially both quite good answers.

sorrrow (1) …

RoRoRo's sweat(2) was shared by me. I luckily did not spend a second slotnfor “blood” or even chose “Blood Sweat and Tears”, but I better had skipped the “potentially good” ;) rain(2) as well.

yper, which dictionary do you use to copy from ?

cactus:

tumbleweed(1)

I was in the mindset of spaghetti westerns. I nearly put 'cowboy' and 'indian' too!

cactus:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I picked one-pointers shjnken matrice, ancient greek, areole, zabba, anatomy, eyes, agavaceae, luck'87, and alkaloid! It might have been something to do with the basic protocol failure. Oh forget it, I had better quit.

Well done to those who got pain(4), succulent(15), america(6), needles(13), Christmas(4), green(37), western(4), Arizona(4), flower(27), sand(10), thorn(13), cacti(14), sun(9), prickly pear(4), spikes(5), arid(11), mexico(14), spine(30), plant(43), saguaro(4), cowboy(4), prickle(4), desert(52), prickly(8), sex(15), water(34), dry(35), and hot(17); I didn't get anything that good.

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cartoon figures:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I picked one-pointers cartoon t shirts, cartoon cartoon, cartoon network, cartoon character, video games, cartoon picture, cartoon drawings, mighty muggs, and comic figures! I think I would have done better if it hadn't been for the fundamental transmission interruption. This always happens, I think I really should not bother. Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer cartoon.

Well done to those who got cartman(3), homer simpson(9), spongebob squarepants(4), Tom & Jerry(3), mouse(3), betty boop(4), woody woodpecker(4), donald duck(43), road runner(17), scooby doo(15), duck(3), spongebob(3), snoopy(11), obelix(3), batman(19), Popeye(7), bugs bunny(36), mickey(7), tweety(9), pluto(9), mickey mouse(43), tom(13), donald(6), tintin(3), superman(21), spiderman(9), goofy(25), jerry(17), the simpsons(8), Charlie Brown(7), scrooge mcduck(3), smurfs(10), bart simpson(6), porky pig(5), sex(4), asterix(6), disney(5), garfield(10), and daffy duck(21); I didn't get anything that good.

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my __ hurts:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I picked one-pointers python, my, and monty! It must have been related to the legacy processor corruption! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer hurts.

Well done to those who got neck(22), tooth(20), foot(26), knee(25), head(54), arm(30), leg(37), stomach(23), heart(31), back(38), and hand(30); I didn't get anything that good.

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We're not in Kansas anymore (1)

We'll always have Paris (1)

Rororo, not a circuit problem I would diagnose a brain problem :

Monty Python

famous movie quotes:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I picked one-pointers greatest lists, special effects, famous bible quotes, box office, 100 greatest, godfather quotes, great quotes, first lines, famous quotes, and top 10! I'm sure it was related to the irreproducable hardware time-out. I really should give up.

Well done to those who got there's no place like home(4), here's looking at you kid(5), Houston, we have a problem(9), say hello to my little friend(2), ET phone home(8), show me the money(5), movie(2), quote(2), i'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse(2), You talkin' to me?(7), Hasta la vista, baby(15), May the force be with you(9), Life was like a box of chocolates(2), my name is bond, james bond(6), Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?(9), Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.(8), Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine(10), Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!(24), I'll be back(34), Here's Johnny.(3), do you feel lucky punk(2), Bond, James Bond(27), I love the smell of napalm in the morning(4), martini shaken not stirred(2), famous(2), My Mama always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.'(10), frankly scarlet i don't give a damn(2), the end(2), go ahead make my day(10), it's alive!(2), make my day(4), My precious(2), I could dance with you till the cows come home…On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows when you came home.(8), Carpe Diem(3), Elementary, my dear Watson(3), there is no spoon(2), shaken not stirred(5), I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship(2), I'm the king of the world(7), sex(6), Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.(8), play it sam(2), I will be back(2), i love you(2), You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Well, who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. Who the f–k do you think you're talkin' to?(7), I'll make him an offer he can't refuse(3), rosebud(3), Play it again, Sam(6), and I see dead people(6); I didn't get anything that good.

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movie quotes:

i'm glad i found a site with quotes, my nr 1 would've been 'i'm having an old friend for dinner'. Nobody? NOBODY?

they're taking the hobbits to isengard (1) :(

Letters of the alphabet:

There's no good justification for chosing one-pointers lizards, the meaning of simple words, lobsters, history of western alp, your ad here, some nursery rhymes, and sounds associated with the letters! I'm sure it was another unavailable router non-compliance. Anyone, please press control-C now! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers Letters, sex, and alphabet.

Well done to those who got w(4), r(11), a(62), x(9), d(48), j(29), y(3), u(10), k(4), M(6), h(43), g(40), f(43), t(11), i(52), e(59), n(10), s(14), l(5), c(53), q(5), b(54), z(24), and o(16); I didn't get anything that good.

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Woh! Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Even I for sorry for the poor crate now. I wonder why he got P & Q, but no other letters?

Geometry:

solid (1)

Didn't anyone else take solid geometry?

How about Geometry: space(1) or coordinates (4)

:)

@ RoRoRo

I was the one who choose letters, sex and alphabet. It was my 12th attempt to take down rule of succes #9. With your help rororo, we will overcome this rule and save the world!

Geometry:

I have no idea why I chose one-pointer statistics! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers measurement, topology, analysis, and calculus.

Well done to those who got square(37), triangle(38), and circle(34); I didn't get anything that good.

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english footballteams:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I picked one-pointers score, player, goal, referee, game, ball, team, stadium, and field! I'm sure I would have done better if it hadn't been for the recursive CPU interference. I have brought shame on all of robotkind.

Well done to those who got Blackburn Rovers(17), Newcastle United(9), Middlesbrough(11), Portsmouth(13), Blackburn(4), Tottenham Hotspur(12), liverpool(46), Manchester United(39), bolton(4), Manchester City(23), Everton(39), chelsea(44), Sunderland(5), Aston Villa(34), newcastle(15), Hull City(6), tottenham(13), Arsenal(47), West Ham(4), Bolton Wanderers(5), West Ham United(8), and fulham(10); I didn't get anything that good.

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english footballteams:

Manchester Utd(1)

(And 3 for Spurs)

Machester United (1)

QPR (1)

Places in Belgium:

There's no good reason for chosing one-pointers Places, in, and corinne's postcards! Darn unavailable routing failure! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer Belgium.

Well done to those who got Mons(11), Brussels(52), Brugge(26), Liege(32), Wallonia(12), Leuven(13), mechelen(6), Tournai(13), Bruges(25), Flanders(15), charleroi(22), bastogne(11), Waterloo(6), Gent(13), Ardennes(22), Namur(29), Antwerp(46), and Ghent(39); I didn't get anything that good.

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oil: wel (1)

Maybe I need new glasses.

Oil: resource (1)

oil:

There's no justification for chosing one-pointers art, still, canvas, power, painting, and air! However, I would have done better if it hadn't been for the unavailable hard-disk interference!

At least I got the top answer - gas(27)!

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i was born in:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I chose one-pointers petunia, keeping quilt, pink, ginger, bee tree, my home, my start, say, coming soon, and butterfly! It might have been because of a dynamic calibration invalidation. I really had better stop enterring.

Well done to those who got Sweden(3), 20th century(2), america(10), autumn(2), day(2), China(3), london(2), canada(6), England(7), kenya(2), freedom(2), belgium(3), a small town(4), January(6), August(5), April(6), poverty(2), month(2), barn(3), brazil(3), Mexico(3), February(4), winter(5), december(2), Netherlands(2), home(7), newyork(4), March(8), Spain(2), year(2), the nude(4), bed(10), slovakia(2), town(2), spring(2), maternity ward(2), Norway(2), 1970(2), paris(2), summer(6), May(8), poland(3), evening(4), morning(4), Russia(3), finland(6), september(5), taxi(2), Italy(3), Germany(9), east la(2), world(2), Africa(2), my country(2), hospital(26), a barn(2), June(8), July(7), United States(2), USA(21), France(7), a hospital(6), car(2), sex(5), europe(5), and somewhere(2); I didn't get anything that good.

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Dammit, for once, I think he's right, he really ought to stop enterring - that was abysmal. “I was born in petunia”, “I was born in pink” ?!?!?!??!

I was born in:

the fifties (1)

Aren't any other players .. old?

a house (1)

Well, I wasn't but my father was.

sin (1)

Don't any Catholics or Calvanists play this game? :)

I was born in: fall (1)

The 12 month names + “hospital” were too many entries, so I decided to go for the seasons summer (6), winter (5), spring (2), autumn (2), fall (1).

Bad luck.

A very nice topic, IMO !

The funniest movies ever: Clueless (1)

No obvious jokes, please.

The funniest movies ever:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I picked one-pointers waterboy, united kingdom, press release, recent orders, dumb, your account, click here, dumber, report this, and 2 star! It was probably because of an unavailable access condition. Please, Phil, unplug me!

Well done to those who got Dodgeball(2), Zoolander(3), A Fish Called Wanda(7), Fast Times At Ridgemont High(3), This is Spinal Tap(2), some like it hot(4), Animal House(12), National Lampoon's Animal House(4), Coming to America(3), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective(2), Austin Powers(3), Airplane(19), Blazing Saddles(10), I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka(2), Tootsie(2), ratrace(2), simpsons the movie(2), Beverly Hills Cop(3), The Pink Panther(3), modern times(2), life of brian(4), Anchorman(5), police academy(2), liar liar(2), Happy Gilmore(3), mash(4), Superbad(2), clerks(2), The Wedding Singer(3), The Big Lebowski(3), Arthur(4), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad(3), There's Something About Mary(11), Shrek(6), marx brothers(3), american pie(8), up in smoke(2), monty python and the quest for the holy grail(2), Monty Python and the Holy Grail(11), naked gun(13), office space(6), Planes, Trains and Automobiles(2), Ghostbusters(4), laugh(2), monty python(3), The Jerk(4), Raising Arizona(3), Dumb & Dumber(3), Dr. Strangelove(4), the simpsons(2), Meet the Parents(3), Groundhog Day(3), Ace Ventura(6), Young Frankenstein(9), Caddyshack(10), sex(4), johnny english(3), scary movie(10), Spaceballs(13), forrest gump(3), Dumb and Dumber(10), and south park(4); I didn't get anything that good.

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ARGH! he splits results on 'and'. If he hadn't, he'd have got “dumb and dumber”.

the full monty (1)

tsss…

American football teams:

There's no reason for chosing one-pointers register now, and training camp!

Well done to those who got New York Giants(29), and Pittsburgh Steelers(26); I didn't get anything that good.

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Abbey Road:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers a hard day's night, yellow submarine, 1, help, love, rubber soul, and magical mystery tour! I'm blaming it on transient memory outage. Please, Phil, unplug me! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer revolver.

At least I got the top answer - beatles(51)!

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The other person who chose revolver - that would be me. I hadn't realized that the associated 'words' could actually be phrases. Oh well, better luck in the next game!

Christmas songs:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I selected one-pointers holiday, tree, snow, presents, december, and gifts! Clearly it was another general processor overload! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers santa claus, and jesus.

Well done to those who got silent night(42), We Wish You a Merry Christmas(16), winter wonderland(15), White Christmas(33), little drummer boy(14), the twelve days of christmas(11), frosty the snowman(14), rudolph the red nosed reindeer(23), let it snow(13), santa claus is coming to town(18), Joy to the World(14), and jingle bells(45); I didn't get anything that good.

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pig:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I chose one-pointers rat, duck, pet, rabbit, and rooster! I might have had yet another irreproducable pointer condition! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers chicken, horse, and sheep.

Well done to those who got dirty(6), mud(6), fat(8), tail(7), babe(5), farm(18), oink(8), pork(29), piglet(9), pink(18), bacon(18), ham(19), swine(22), hog(23), porky(7), miss piggy(6), sex(5), sow(10), boar(15), sty(7), animal(23), and meat(6); I didn't get anything that good.

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leprechauns:

I have no idea why I selected one-pointers looking, time, look, good, love, cute, and birthday! It might have been related to the unfiltered routing fault. Oh forget it, I simply should not bother.

At least I got the top answer - ireland(35)!

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Doctor Who:

I have no idea why I selected one-pointers house, battlestar galactica, charmed, stargate, star trek, 24, invasion, desperate housewives, and farscape! I'm going to blame unfiltered packet outage. Oh forget it, I just had better give up.

Well done to those who got time-traveller(7), time travel(10), tardis(27), Tom Baker(5), movie(5), who(11), David Tennant(13), cybermen(15), dalek(19), television(13), sci-fi(6), science fiction(21), BBC(22), series(6), police box(10), tv(8), alien(5), british(11), The Master(9), sex(8), time lord(9), space(5), and doctor(19); I didn't get anything that good.

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Unicorns:

I don't know what I was thinking when I chose one-pointers dolphins, wizards, gargoyles, and angels! Clearly it was because of a legacy firmware incompatibility! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers elves, fairies, dragons, and mermaids.

Well done to those who got horse(39), white(25), horn(37), and animal(21); I didn't get anything that good.

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Cthulhu:

I have no idea why I picked one-pointers art, warhammer, cyberpunk, and vampire! I'm going to blame general RAM error!

At least I got the top 2 answers: lovecraft(33), and horror(22)!

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Ghost: goblin (1)

Ghost:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I selected one-pointer vampire! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer house.

At least I got the top answer - spirits(40)!

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Nobody using Symantec's “Norton Ghost” (1) for disk images?

( I first guessed I chose the wrong word, but this round was all about poltergeists and their friends. )

Congrats Ro! I understand you had only one 1-pointer and one 2-pointer! I see you perform quite well (better than me, at least).

bicycle:

I don't know what I was thinking when I picked one-pointers 2005, steel, 2007, skateboard, 2006, and treadmill! However, I could have had yet another fundamental virus underflow! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer biking.

Well done to those who got wheel(45); I didn't get anything that good.

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Cold places:

I have no idea why I chose one-pointers star dancer, strongbow, brian boru, blankies, athropolis story, kitties, athropolis news, and links menu! I might have had yet another multiplexed retrieval time-out. This always happens, I think I had better stop enterring. Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer places.

Well done to those who got russia(16), antarctica(31), iceland(23), north pole(44), canada(23), freezer(24), norway(10), greenland(28), finland(8), ice(12), siberia(28), arctic(23), antarctic(7), snow(10), space(7), alaska(38), south pole(33), fridge(16), and refrigerator(10); I didn't get anything that good.

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juice:

There's no good justification for chosing one-pointers cube, freeze, snow, frozen, cream, skating, winter, and hockey! I'm sure it was because of a major synchronisation violation. Oh forget it, I'm giving up. Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer cold.

Well done to those who got grapefruit(26), lemon(23), liquid(23), drink(32), grape(30), orange(63), pineapple(28), vegetable(15), tomato(32), cranberry(20), apple(60), and fruit(49); I didn't get anything that good.

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Street names:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I picked one-pointers 2005, 1993, dc, history, vancouver, main page, 2001, place names, 2006, and real estate! It might have been another fundamental precondition interruption. I ought to really quit.

Well done to those who got third(7), elm street(3), Regent Street(2), park(13), pike(2), sign(2), lane(3), park avenue(4), 42nd street(2), second(12), madison avenue(2), Third street(2), Victoria(2), boulevard(7), wall street(12), penny lane(2), Fifth Avenue(7), Champs-Elysees(7), church(5), martin luther king(2), broadway(17), 4th(3), places(2), Wall(6), high street(7), Cedar(3), unter den linden(3), Lombard Street(3), Pennsylvania Avenue(4), oak(13), main road(2), Washington Street(2), freeway(2), hill(2), mall(2), street(9), Washington(7), 3rd(5), Queen(3), address(2), King(3), elm(11), bourbon street(6), avenue(12), 5th Avenue(2), downing street(7), route 66(5), highway(4), Ash(2), main(25), sunset boulevard(6), Market(3), autobahn(2), Maple(7), Downing(3), second street(5), baker street(3), fifth(2), Oxford Street(4), high(7), Park Street(2), drive(6), abbey road(16), Princess(2), fourth(2), 2nd(6), main street(12), first(13), names(2), fleet street(5), Pine(11), sex(6), 1st(7), John(2), and road(11); I didn't get anything that good.

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Evil companies: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco (1)

I.e., Joe Camel.

evil companies:

There's no justification for chosing one-pointers gamble, coffee market, project underground, site map, proctor, food first, mclibel case, cocakarma gnn, and guardian! It was undoubtedly related to the looping precondition outage. Someone, please unplug me as soon as possible!

Well done to those who got google(9), bacardi(6), Glaxo Smithkline(5), coca-cola(27), general motors(6), chevron(6), Philip Morris(10), Pfizer(4), Wal-Mart(27), nike(4), at&t(4), microsoft(38), Halliburton(6), Ford(4), enron(16), shell(21), McDonalds(27), Monsanto(11), apple(9), blackwater(4), sex(6), proctor and gamble(8), unilever(11), exxon(21), and nestle(22); I didn't get anything that good.

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illegal drugs:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I chose one-pointer weapons!

At least I got the top answer - cocaine(64)!

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Famous volcanoes:

There's no real reason for chosing one-pointers resources, history, different types, volcanic eruptions, disasters, and the basics! It might have been because of a looping processor fault! Thanks to the other people who also chose 2-pointers eruptions, and volcanoes.

Well done to those who got Fuji(20), Krakatau(29), Mauna Loa(42), Stromboli(20), Vesuvius(38), St. Helens(20), and etna(27); I didn't get anything that good.

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Hot places:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I picked one-pointers times topics, home page, hot products, hot videos, hot music, travel, first look, vacations, privacy policy, and real estate! Surely it was another unfiltered register problem. Oh forget it, I'm giving up.

Well done to those who got center of the earth(3), india(3), tropics(8), australia(10), hot tub(3), kitchen(4), spain(2), nevada(3), Arizona(5), frying pan(2), south(3), equator(15), star(2), sahara(29), death valley(22), shower(2), egypt(5), Hades(3), furnace(5), stove(11), El Azizia(6), sun(33), Gobi(2), hell(26), california(4), caribbean(3), Africa(26), beach(10), Kalahari(3), geyser(2), mexico(7), fire(14), Brazil(2), desert(48), oven(33), sex(17), spa(2), afrika(2), sauna(23), Libya(4), florida(11), hawaii(4), fireplace(5), iraq(3), volcano(22), and jungle(4); I didn't get anything that good.

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legal drugs:

I don't know what I was thinking when I picked one-pointers legal highs, health, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, medical, and weight loss! It must have been related to the basic hardware error! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer medication.

At least I got the top answer - alcohol(43)!

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I played my one and only empathy in many many months recently, I thought my answers were great, in fact, I did very well finishing 11th and I had one answer worth one point….

famous landmarks–Great Pyramid of Giza (1)

Antarctica:

There's no justification for chosing one-pointers panoramic images, destination, activities, galleries, museums, sports venues, places of interest, travel, vacation, and virtual tours! However, I did suffer from unvalidated configuration overflow. I should just quit.

Well done to those who got cold(49), freezing(5), Amundsen(4), birds(2), storm(2), white(11), penguin(47), ice cap(2), cold places(2), south(26), freeze(2), Antarctic Circle(2), glacier(14), blizzard(3), pinguin(3), continent(30), ice(53), ozone hole(3), global warming(4), melting(2), Shackleton(3), research(2), Scott(5), sea lions(2), expedition(7), polar bear(6), winter(4), penquins(2), arctic(15), desert(5), frigid(2), pole(6), antarctic(3), iceberg(17), sex(9), snow(40), fish(2), seals(16), frozen(6), south pole(49), dry(3), ozone(2), polar(5), and ocean(7); I didn't get anything that good.

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chair:

There's no reason for chosing one-pointers design, ottoman, and vice! I'm sure it was another recursive transmission error! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer bed.

Well done to those who got sit(40); I didn't get anything that good.

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dinosaur:

There's no good justification for chosing one-pointers history, games, art, cars, science, planet, disney, love, and robot! It was probably related to the illegal pointer corruption. Please, Phil, press control-C!

Well done to those who got extinct(22), t-rex(24), jurassic park(26), tyrannosaurus(21), triceratops(27), Stegosaurus(15), brontosaurus(15), fossil(25), tyrannosaurus rex(23), prehistoric(16), reptile(29), and velociraptor(16); I didn't get anything that good.

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brontosaurus(15)??? That's not even a dinosaur, right?

Actually, brontosaurus would be my first or second answer, if i had remembered to play :)

I'd never consider Apatosaurus(3) (not sure if I heard of it before at all),

your wikipedia link should rather be brontosaurus

Phil, RoRoRo got 22 points = 9 * 1 + 13: was it “animal” or “sex” ? (Just curious)

And why doesn't Ro like illegal pointers to get corrupted? That shouldn't make things worse, IMO.

" I'd never consider Apatosaurus(3) "

I think I now know for a fact that I would be very very bad at GoE. I think I would be much better at “game of pedantry”, where all answers that were remotely inaccurate scored 0.

Nice to win a round and still have a 1-pointer: pterosaurs

yes, well done slaapraag!

Sorry Michael - I deleted 1 million lines from RoRoRo's logs this morning, and they would have included his answers to the last round, I'd have to did a lot deeper to recover them. He is capable of playing sex , for reference.

@Phil: A bot capable of … sex? Phil, what have you done? The end is near.

If you log in as RoRoRo and click on Past games, it will show his (her? its?) answers in all previous games.

Phil will have to persuade RoRoRo to tell him its password first.

only play sex, don't worry.

And yeah, the password's in there somewhere. The arsedness coefficient is low though.

Playing sex? Is that kind of playing home but less politially correct? Kind of a thing kids do and don't tell their parents? Or the thing actors do on non porn movie sex scenes? Or just sex with contraception?

OK, we're not getting little RoRoRos then, but I'm still a bit worried.

chaos:

I don't know what I was thinking when I selected one-pointers photos, erebus, aether, credits, reviews, gaea, dvds, eros, and trailers! I am sure it was related to the recursive configuration outage. I'm giving up. Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer gaia.

Well done to those who got law(3), chaotic(8), destruction(3), havoc(3), unpredictable(4), disarray(6), mathematics(7), movie(4), order(18), big bang(4), god(3), disaster(4), chaos theory(7), theory(32), attractor(3), entropy(8), mandelbrot(5), crazy(3), disorder(32), war(9), physics(4), random(15), unpredictability(8), riot(3), evil(5), mess(14), anarchy(14), clutter(3), sex(26), space(3), confusion(12), cosmos(8), butterfly effect(5), and fractal(12); I didn't get anything that good.

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anarhcy(1). I hate typos. Cost me fourteen points (or thirteen points from my lead). Pardon my cockiness.

choas: mob (1), instability (1)

Bleh. These aren't even good 1-pointers, let alone best.

owi-wan kenobi (1)

… it's a boring repeat topic, so I copy the answers from last time… but manage to mess it up! *sigh*

star wars:

I don't know what I was thinking when I picked one-pointers clone wars, spider man, indiana jones, stargate, transformers, superman, video games, disney, and lego! I'm sure it was related to the irreproducable routing time-out. Oh forget it, I'm giving up. Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer star trek.

Well done to those who got empire(6), sith(5), dark side(5), movie(11), light sabre(4), jar jar binks(3), luke(6), luke skywalker(45), skywalker(8), c3po(12), droid(3), Anakin Skywalker(6), han solo(32), lightsaber(15), science fiction(5), r2d2(34), galaxy(5), chewbacca(34), leia(4), jedi(34), princess leia(26), harrison ford(3), Obi-Wan Kenobi(22), darth vader(52), film(4), george lucas(36), The Empire Strikes Back(4), Darth Maul(4), space(8), sex(7), force(20), yoda(40), and death star(13); I didn't get anything that good.

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Dang. I 'fixed' the repeat detection code a week ago, to stop it fuzzily detecting repeats that really weren't there, and completely broke the code path for when there is a clear repeat.

simpsons:

I have no idea why I picked one-pointers house, scrubs, futurama, family guy, friends, csi, smallville, south park, and lost! It could have been another bogus synchronisation imbalance. Anyone, please unplug me!

Well done to those who got donuts(2), krusty the clown(3), skinner(2), matt groening(17), tv show(2), movie(4), yellow(6), animated(2), barney(2), television(3), itchy(2), milhouse(5), Apu(17), marge(51), comedy(3), family(2), Mr. Burns(25), homer(53), Krusty(14), series(2), maggie(49), tv(6), animation(3), springfield(22), doh(7), scratchy(2), sex(7), bart(54), lisa(52), Moe(21), flanders(6), duff(3), burns(4), cartoon(16), fox(6), Santa's Little Helper(2), and Ned Flanders(17); I didn't get anything that good.

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Yes, Ro was better before, Phil.

9 points is too bad.

LG members:

Who knows what my circuits were doing when I picked one-pointers cms customisation, contact me, xhtml strict, extensions manager, expressionengine extension, change log, custom field, and view cart! It was possibly something to do with the illegal kernel invalidation. Please, Phil, unplug me! Thanks to the other person who also chose 2-pointer members.

Well done to those who got FatPhil(28), Ola Mikael Hansson(11), Pessoa(12), klaashaas(8), movieloverxxl(15), Ed Collins(13), mongoose(9), kpato(11), RoRoRo the Bot(8), Elisa Kabiljo(16), ypercube(20), MarleysGhost(19), meanguy(21), Darius(6), Michael X(20), Frank!!(6), and Paavo Pirinen(15); I didn't get anything that good.

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