bird: feeder (1)

bird: an infinitude of 0 point answers! Looks like RoRoRo's reminder completely failed to achieve its intended purpose.

bird: claw (1)

Why? T_T

bird: early (1)

bird: twitter (1)

Poker: I hardly knew her (1)

saimon, I'm surpised anyone gave any “birds” answer other than the name of a bird! But that's why I finished poorly. :)

body fluids:

phlegm (1)

I thought I had learned something while browsing dictionaries, but did not follow Thierry's rule # 8 (If you feel it might be wrong, it is)

Commodore 64: brown (1)

Chuckeled @ Foul Ole Ron's brown - I don't even know why. But this is so far best 1-pointer of the decade!

Have you seen one (Commodore 64)? Can you remember the colour of the keyboard/mainboard/computer?

I do indeed, still.. :-)

Glass: empty

Glass: full

glass: wine(13)

I know it's not an 1-point but it counts as one :)

@yper:

Well, if you played this “glass” round without spying Past Games, Congratulations, just 3 below max !!!

(But I guess you found 'glass' in the 'wine' round and replaced 'cup' to be super smart ;)

No, I looked at the Past games, I just took a bet that a glass of wine would be better than a cup (related to glass).

8 people played “cup” (besides the 8 PastGamers who won the round) while 12 played “wine” from a total of 30 (NonPastGamers). I needed 4 more “winers” to become a winner and not a whiner :)

So is that how 8 people tied for a perfect score this game… by looking at a past Empathy game?

Yep, at least 9 people looked at previously played games and 8 decided to follow the exact 10 words that won iin th eprevious round of “glass”.

It doesn't always work but most of the times when a topic is repeated, replaying winning words will get you to a - crowded - first place.

Hey, I didn't know it was played before :/

… more than 2 years ago!

and besides the really questionable choice “cup” ( I had similar thoughts like yper, just eventually favoring “crystal” ),

the hardest part of that round was skipping glasse, who won so many of those past games!

palindromes: detartrated

LOL! I love that one! (detartrated)

hello to the othe player who played ABBA :)

Australia: Syndey ( a 2 pointer even = bad luck for both of us )

Now we know why Sydney got 29 while kangaroo 31.

My contribution to Australia: shark (2)

I was really disappointed to get only 1 point on emu.

atom:

Democritus (1)

atom:

clock (1)

atom:

smasher (1) … it was the first answer I thought of!

atom: I had to fill in this one quickly. But still, I think these deserved more:

quantum mechanics (1)

chemics (1),

Einstein (1),

Mass (1)

Body fluids: perspiration (1)

big european companies: Elf (1)

Commodore 64: microcomputer (1), color (1)

Australia: crocodile (1)

atom: LHC (1)

@ypercube: I thought of Democritus (and “uncuttable”), so I was with you in spirit.

World's best cuisines: food (1)

estonia, canada, belgium: Land (1)

I got only 1 point for Madagascar. I also misspelt Libya (did Libia)…

things you find in the ocean: trash. 1 point!???

Guys, wake up!

aganju, i was only more specific: plastic (1). And: Watr. Damn!

I got 1*37 and 9*1 in things found in the ocean game :(

somar96, please tell us these 9 things :)

well, I had imagined it's like something you can get when you go fishing, e.g. shoes, rubbish and such types of things :)

Opposite of safe: sorry

[I really planned to change this, but didn't get around to it]

Opposites of: …, green : yellow (1)

4 ole: nice one anyway!

I got 2 for opposite of green: blue

while you lose on time in all of your games… nice behaviour…

I couldn't help it. I started 1100 games at once…

I'm not timing out anymore though

1100 games, on first thought, wow!

On second thought, not so wow. Can you start 1100000 games?

no you can't. because games will start ending. but 3000 is possible I say.

the question should be how many can you start and seriously play (without timing any out)

I know you can do 500. Did so for a while. 1000 is a real stretch, but if you play full time (like 14 h a day, 7 days a week) it should work. That would be about the limit though, or you would go crazy.

@somar96: No, we don't want you to try it.

should have known that only Floridians would write 'Gator' (1 point). And it does taste like chicken.

tastes like chicken: flavor (1)

I wrote “everything” and I got full 5 points!

lol I put everything too. But I mean its true… Everything seems to taste like chicken!

Opposite of safe: out (1)

tastes like chicken: babies (1) Nobody else is a big Eddie Izzard fan?

bird: worm (1)

Card Games: Rook(1)

Gaw, haven't you guys played rook?!

no Magic the Gathering either.

Tarot however got 5 points, the highest from non-standard-deck card games.

Card Games:

Go Fish (1)

freecell (4) only!

freecell is not a card game, but a computer game (that displays cards)… Maybe that's why?

Tarot? Thats not even a game its a fortune telling tool. lol

OKAY GUYS! Moment of truth is approaching. I have a feeling there are going to be A LOT of 1-pointers this time, and I bet the top ten scores will be unusually low… This is a topic that there are so many more than 10 answers. I bet there will only be a 3-4 answers worth more than 20 points, and the rest will be 12 or below… Lets see if I am right… I hope I'm wrong…=P

war movies: apocolypse now (1)

Tarot is a game. :-)

Any “fortune telling tool” is just a game :-)

MichaeI X, I disagree. It is a blatant offense to any self-valueing game to count things like Tarot as one! Tarot might have its values and reasons for existence, and I actually find it interesting (though I don't believe in it), but is is *not* a game.

At least not what 99% of readers here would mean when they say 'Tarot'. I am aware that there is a game with the same name in existence, but it is not well known, and it is not what people would think is meant with 'Tarot'.

not well known to who ? in france it is very well known (i think…)

I had never heard of Rook or Tarot (as a game) before.

I'm sure Tarot is popular in France and Rook in (US ?).

Barcelona: Parc Guell

Barcelona: bullfight (1)

card games: snap(1) :-(

lol. I got 3 highest answers, 2 low ones and 5 1s…

I knew 'Rubio' would be one point, it really was my first thought though!

Ice Cream Flavors - Moose Tracks (1)

Ice cream - none what about the lactose intolerant?

lol

left (1), right (1), cat (1), dog (1), three (1), one (1), two (1), house (1)

2 or 3 people spoiled a perfect game with goodbye and hello.

When

nothing (7)

is worth more than

anything (1)

That was a hard game! I didn't know whether to put English words that I knew the French for or the actual French word that I know.

Resume(1)… That is a French word isn't it? lol It sounds French.

@dgreen11235 glad I wasn't alone, the question was posed in english so I answered in english.

If resume is french it isn't part of basic vocab I was taught.

actually I got some points on “French” :P

The french word is Resumeé (if your browser does not show that, two 'e' at the end, and the latter one has an upward accent); it is spoken the same way. 'Resume' is the americanised version.

volcanoes: dormant (1)

What can you say in french: restaurant.

square: 'hip'. Hewie Lewis and the news!

honey - I schrunk the kids (1) - would be 1 too without a misspelling ;-)

sport in water: boat racing (1)

kinds of music: oldies (1)

It's my favorite kind. :)

I lost 23 points on writing classic instead of classical…

classic mistake ;)

me too (classic)

spring: love(2) - where did this world go….

high voltage: tower (1)

I'm very surprised to have won the round despite having a one-point answer.

I had so nice answers and came 16th :((

Ac/Dc was the 11th answer. Still no-one voted for “rock'n'roll'(1)?

What can you say in French: camembert (1)

I had AC/DC too. as the first thing. but song(1)…

Paris: La Tour Eiffel (1)

To be wors I changed capital (17) to 'La Tour Eiffel'

Paris: lovers (1)

Paris: Tour d'Eiffel(1) - are there no french people around that know how to the name really is?

Tour Eiffel(1) - LG could have joined us to 3 points each ;)

Souvenir from Holland:

gouda(1)

Souvenir from Holland: Snowglobe (1)

I'm glad 2 of you want to take ajax with them PLease, do! Let's get rid of them here!

The Middle ages: joust (1), feudal (1)

pope(1)

what's a 'joust'?

south africa: australopithecus (1)

A joust is a contest between two knights in armor riding horses. They try to unseat each other with lances.

I was quiet sure that I don't receive points,

but :

mousse au chocolat (1)

and

mojito (1)

should be the top 2 answers ;-)

lol what are they

Vitamins: connections (1)

Does nobody remember that colloquial use? Like in 'you need vitamin c to get a good job'?

top 10 most important vitamins: B complex (1)

hardest languages to learn: indonesian (1)

Ai speek ol doze languiziziziz floontly

dessert:

- calories(1) hmm…

- cigarette(1) good!

- skip(1)

big bang:

- live(1)… life would have given (3) only too.

big bang:

- expanding (1)

- Dark matter (1)

- Dark energy (1)

- cosmic microwave background (1)

- relativity (1)

@Elisa: You are much too deep into that… I dropped all those terms, as only insiders would know them…

@Elisa, Aganju: I tried to avoid the specialist terms, but..

big bang:

blast (1), shot (1)

none (1), zip (1), zero (1), zilch (1), nada (1), nought (1), nullus (1), nix (1), niemand (1), ninguna (1)

“Best teams at WC ““soccer”” 2010!!

Things that don't exist:

- Global Warming(1) - I'm actually glad I got only 1 point for that one.

- simultaneity(1) - nobody here knows quantum mechanics and general relativity theories?

- wormhole(1)

- superheros(1)

- free lunch(1)

and - lol - 'honest politicians'(5) - I'm not alone…

Things that don't exist: flying saucers (1), werewolf (1)

@Aganju – I had “wormholes” until the last hour, when I changed it to “tooth fairy”.

same game: Mermaids (1)

Marley's: werewolf is a very nice answer. Didn't think of that. Thought of satan (5) but skipped it. Damn!

Same game:

jesus (2) while God his father got 24 non-existence points!, universe (1), things (2), Electric Sheep (1), intelligence (2 who else?), little green men (1), time (1 no one heard of Rovelli?), me (2 another me?).

Aganju - your free lunch was brilliant - I wish I'd have thought of it, I'd gladly have swapped out my santa(3) and shared 2 points with you!

Carroll - I would have been a jesus(3) until I swapped him for the even more charismatic 13-point unicorns, sorry for breaking the trinity.

OMG….

Bad spelling FTW!!!

Santa Clause (1), Tooth Ferry (1)

I lost 18 points because I didn't spell check myself… lol the Tooth Fairy I was talking about was a dentist office that operated on a Ferry Boat… Which I guess they don't Exist either… And the Santa Claus I was talking about is part of his contract he has to sign every year…FML

My … hurts:

wallet(1)

punch(2)

everybody listed only body parts… think outside the box!

places to hide: refugee camp (1), duck blind (1), in plain sight (1), sanctuary (1), Switzerland (1)

and

witness protection program (1)

Switzerland? Why?

Switzerland was a good place to hide money, in earlier times.

weekend home(1)

mountain cabin(1) - every mystery book, that's where they hide!

far away(1)

Cornfield, IA(1)

Siberia (1) - I would have expected some more points with this one

castles: Chateau (1)

I'm surprised Windsor got more votes than Buckingham.

Windsor (7) and Windsor Castle (6) :(

should have done both!

Castles:

battlements (1)

soldiers (1)

MG - Buckingham's a palace, not a castle!

castles: europe. Where to find alhabra, windsor, neuschwanstein?

basketball: Yao Ming (1)

Pau Gasol (1)

johnson (1)

Basketball: bounce(1)

And I was so close with slam dunk(2) too!

biggest diispointment wc:

OK,

“Spain losing their opening game to Switzerland” was a long shot, but

anelka (1) and Christiano Ronaldo (1) sure did deserve more!

Players that appeared in the results:

7.

Rooney - (rooney 4 + Wayne Rooney 3)

4+1.

Ronaldo - (ronaldo 4 + Christiano Ronaldo 1)

4.

Messi - (messi)

3.

Drogba - (Didier Drogba)

2.

Torres - (Fernando Torres)

Fabregas - (Cesc Fabregas)

Besides Ronaldo, the others too may have got more 1-point results. One-pointers are not published.

Coaches that appeared in the results:

None! Nodody thought of putting Maradona ?

biggest disappointment of the world cup:

penalties (1), results (1)

octopus :

doctor (1), spiderman (1), takoyaki (1)

I'm reading too much comics and mangas :(

Austria-Hungary: XIX Century

Austria-Hungary: moravia (1), slavonia (1),

Sisi (1)

Anyone chose the Austrian spelling “Sissi” or Sissy ?

According to the movies about that period, she was the most important empress of Austria-Hungary.

Yeah but her name is Elisabeth. Sissy is just the nickname/movie title. And she supposedly looked better.

(nothing against Romy)

Where water comes from:

leak (1)

wouldn't that be where water goes lol

Water has apparently never come from a pump(1).

Where water comes from: bladder (1)

I could just as well have taken Michael X's answer.

Computer Languages:

At the last minute, I swapped out Cobol(15) for Brainfuck(1). WIth the extra 14 points, I'd have won :-(

Well, kingofthebest, what comes in is also what goes out - well, almost - it goes out into the toilet - I refuse to say restroom, you cannot literally REST there for ever - and eventually comes in as tap water!

Animal diseases: Despite my position, I was carrying a one-pointer - Scurvy (1)

diseases of animals: kennel cough (1), vet (1), heartworm (1)

I got 6 1-pointers in this one…

Silver: prize, sport… horse, away… Haven't you ever heard about the Lone Ranger? ;-)

dental equipment (1), keys (1)

@pensando: I had the Lone Ranger in my list until I realized “silver” was a repeat.

meat animals: snail (1)

yum!

Holy bollocks! I'd not seen the results until now - I got all top 10 answers!

As you can guess, I'm no vegetarian.

Congrats! You did get the top 10 answers.

I'd add that you missed 100% performance by just 1 point :)

Did you play rabbit or horse?

Rabbit was my weak entry.

Whilst horse salami is one of my favourites, I don't know if I'd ever have thought it would be an empathic answer, so would never have opted for that and got the theoretical maximum.

Is horse really that commonly considered food internationally? To a brit, according to my parents' tales, it was only a last resort during the war years, and nothing that you'd now chose to eat. Ditto rye bread. (Which is completely crazy - the Estonians have it right and so prefer their rye-bread that it has a complimentary name, and white bread has an almost insulting name, it's almost not considered real bread.)

tuna (1). I knew this wouldn't be a top-5 but I expexxted 10 points at least!

vuvuzela (1) recorder (1)

Rome: Eternal (1)

I guess Rome's designation as the Eternal City didn't quite last that long.

Rome: Last Judgment (1)

And I misspelled - Colosemum (1)

I also meant to write Forum Romanum (as it is in Polish), but then I read the English name is Roman Forum… (1) instead of (4)

Then Saint Peter's Basilica (2) instead of St. Peter's Basilica (6)

Lost 28 stupid points… would have been 6th place…

Rome : wasn't build in a day (1)

I haven't played GoE for a very long time but I still ocasionaly follow it. About Rome I thought “wasn't build in a day although a funny answer will be probably be a one-pointer”. It seems I was right. On the other hand, I though that “roads” would be worth a few points since the saying “all roads leads to Rome” but here seems that I was wrong.

colliseum (1)

ouchhhh

famous women: Jennifer Lopez (1), Nancy Pelosi (1)

Madona (1)

Nicole Kidman won the famous redhead round! (1), Billie Jean King (1)

Poetry: alliteration (1), foot (1), refrain (1)

Poetry: T. S. Eliot (1)

No one saw the musical “Cats”? OK, I didn't either.

Finally!!!! I have been suggesting “poetry” as a category since the times when people were complaining about the commonality of “sex” as an answer to almost any category, and similarly about the lack of choices that would preclude “sex”. (So this was long before “sex” was outlawed). I guess it's been in the 8 on offer at least a dozen times in that time, and now it's chosen I can finally start suggesting something new!

Alas it was a crap category for me:

Blank Verse (1), Quatrain (1), Iambic pentameter (1)

I won by myself!! For the first time in 7 months!! :D

that's a matter of point of view… you sucked least? ;-)

Just kidding. Congrats, good job!

lol, thanks. now aiming for top 5 in last 7 days :)

Vietnam… 1 point?

does Vietnam end with an 'n'? or what am I missing?

Azerbaijan (4) why so little?

is it because people found it hard to spell and chose something else instead?

Tokyo: Ginza (1)

Doesn't anybody else go shopping in Tokyo? :)

Tokyo:Tokyo Rose, suprised I only got 1 point for this but I guess ww2 was a while back.

Greater Tokyo Area (1), Izu (1), Ogasarawa (1)

metropole (1)

Go(2)

Who was the other one?

I won again despite 2 1-point answers!

died people, but still famous: Columbus (1)

I got 8 1-point answers :((

indian tribes: Zuni (1), Nipmuc (1)

what makes live worth it:

I think 's*x' would have been a valid answer this time.

that makes life worth living: power(1)

I agree with you, Aganju.

froze:

weather(1), pond(1)

Famous cops/detectives/PIs:

Eliot Ness (1)

Famous cops/detectives/PIs:

Barney Miller (1), Barnaby Jones (1), Dick Tracey (1)

“Dick Tracy 6!!” Unlucky with the spelling!

I didn't choose her because I was afraid receiving less points, but

perhaps I should open the thread best 0-point answers ?

Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson

Yes, the topic was heavy with fictional answers. Real cops/detectives/PIs aren't nearly so famous.

Non-European/American/Japanese car manufacturers:

Sabra (1), Chinkara (1), Phuket (1)

important years-79 a.d. the year that ended Pompeii and Herculaneum

European Sights: tour eiffel (1), forum romanum (1), street of the gods (1), colloseum (1), tower of pisa (2), neuschwanstein (1), hagia sophia (1)

not very lucky this time…

strangely, lots of people eat this!: squid (1), gazelle (1), antelope (1), buffalo (1), bison (1)

I got 1st place despite a few very bad answers, such as blood (2) or food (3) (really didn't know what to place!). I was surprised that dog (21) got such an advantage over the 2nd word!

strangely, lots of people eat this!

I share 1st place with:

Bird's Nest (1) and

Hakarl (2)

nice topic. Google made me find:

Bull penis, kangaroo, tarantula (1). And I'm Dutch: raw herring (1) (But i'm a veggie!)

Thanks to you and the other 31 who played it, and of course to those who chose it! I have no idea what made me think of the topic, but as soon as I did I knew at least I'd have some fun with it.

My 1-pointers were veal (1), raw fish (1), lutefish (1)

strangely, lots of people eat this!:

sausage (1) - did you ever see what goes in there? I wouldn't touch that with gloves

gator (1) - tastes like chicken… (the american way of saying you don't want to try this)

tomato (1) - yuck. I know there are some people who think they taste good, but no.

vegetables (2) - not exactly a one pointer but still. When I look around me, I would have expected at least a hundred million Americans to vote for that. At least.

Lucky numbers : 42 (1)

well Paul, 42 is not lucky. It is the answer to all questions, the universe and life, and to 'what is six multiplied by nine'. ;-)

P.S. If I would not have missed the deadline, I would have probably taken it too.

wait, what? we only have 10 days of the New Decade and we have that lot of posts already? :P

I don't like tourists from…:

New York (1), anywhere (1)

I'd put New York, but changed it at the last second to New York City. One day I'll learn not to second guess myself.

Sorry I am really dissapointed of the GoE community.

I would have expected some creative answers like anywhere/nowhere….

So, I am proud of my answers like cemetery,jail,mars,prison,…

I thought everbody would nominate his own country, so I got Netherlands (2), Finland (1) and serbia (1)

(This tactic still got me France(23), which I wouldn't have entered otherwise)

Greek gods: Olympus (1)

it seems, Marley, that people got this game as “list of gods” game :)

prime numbers: 1 (10 people thought so - or did they only think that others would think so?)

Otherwise a rather disappointing topic. 19 of 34 players were able to produce the first 10 prime numbers. The others either weren't able or thought there would be more people who could/would not do so.

FatPhil: RoRoRo mailed me that ' unfortunately he didn't see me under the top ten'. Well, I'm in (shared) first place; I would count that as in the top ten?

prime numbers: mathematics (1)

I thought more people would include a category word, so I listed only the first 9 primes.

Carl Sagan: universe (1)

Aganju - he doesn't understand draws. His list of top-10 players is just an array indexed 1-10.

amsterdam: joint (1)

outdoor sport formula one (1), beach volleyball(1)

Amsterdam: Schiphol(1)

A misspelling of Windsurfing cost me 2 points :( - happens often by me…

Alpine Skiing (1)

Outdoor sports without a playing field: frisbee (1)

weapon: mass destruction (1)

That's what I get for trying to be topical.

truncheon (1) fist (1) baton (1) mace(1)

Q words without U: Qom (1), faq (1)

I really wonder what Diamante, ypercube and Rororo submitted to get 10,5 and 6 points…

Egypt: tahrir (1), protest (1)

That's what I get for trying to be topical.

Wedge (1)

Greece: Hellas(1)

sorry mean athens

Athens: classic (1)

Leonardo da Vinci: Adoration of the Magi (1), La Gioconda(2)

Leonardo da Vinci: piero (1) [his middle name]; vegetarian (1) [yes he was one]

La Gioconda = Mona Lisa

important wars in world history: War of the Roses (1)

Persian Wars (1)

Most ridiculous littlegolem user names:

�� (1)

(this is the most ridiculous in my opinion!)

kiwiyeti (1)

I was especially surprised kiwiyeti did not get more votes. If you click on Main>List of Players kiwiyeti shows up as the first name (I wonder why it is not in alphabetical order?)

:) never saw this player with the crazy name.

The list is alphabetically ordered, I guess kiwiyeti has a space or something in front of his name and the full string is used for sorting, but for the html output the name gets trimmed.

Why on earth would you search for a player list if there are, on the very page you have to fill in two lists of 10 players. It just doesn't make sense to do that.

Because the topic was ' most ridiculous player names' and not ' any ten player names'??

Was a reason for me.

Names of spaceships: red dwarf (1) and near-miss nostromo(2)

I guess Red Dwarf never made it far outside the UK. But the general lack of other Nostromos is a bit sad.

rama (1). Seriously?

No 'Prometheus'? I thought Star Gate was bigger…

Aganju, I would have listed Prometheus, but I didn't think there were many Stargate fans here. I would like to have listed the General Hammond, in honor of Don S. Davis, but that surely would have been a 1-pointer.

Serenity (1)

At least, the Tardis got 3 :)

frink (1), snake (1)

FatPhil I was the one to insert nostromo as well :)

I absolutely misunderstood the intention of the topic,and I inserted spaceships from books, games, films etc. Ended up with 11 points, nostromo being the only 2-pointer…

Dog names: Scooby-doo (2) - expected much more here :)

High 5 somar96! I was the other Scooby-doo too!

:)

mirage (1), bellagio(1), royale (1), mgm grand (1)

casino: online (1)

Elisa, YOU a one-pointer? That's unique!

I got 5 1-pointers lol

slaapgraag, that's not unique. Even in this thread you can see lot of them. In total I have 320 one-pointers, but I post them only when they are interesting.

unities of length: pace (1). Knowing from reading comics as a child (obviously got some other source to check but didn't re-check for the actual game) that the original Roman mile was 1000 paces, I really thought that at least a few players would list pace.

looks like not too many Romans are playing GoE… ;-)

I can offer: angstroem (1). Thought more science nerds are around here.

who else chose cubit?

sorry, I'm not catholic.

Why catholic?, I not aware of cubit being anything to do with catholics.

I just couldn't think of anything unless I wanted to exploit the metre/meter loophole or go to google!

It was supposed to be a joke, playing on an old and famous joke (two hobos talk, one says 'do you know what soap is?' - 'No, I'm not catholic').

And actually, cubits are first mentioned in the bible. So I thought it would be funny.

units of lenght: verst! (1)

satsuma (1), tomato (1), coconut(1)

This time I got only 1 1-pointer, and it was correct(1)

I was sure that why?(2) would be a 1-pointer, but it seems that everyone thought exactly the same :)

Look down: what do you see? Enough people went for keyboard, but only I went for qwert (1).

spin (1), count (1)

[Democracy] Ok, I misspelled parlament (1). And I knew for sure that May15 (1) was an 1-pointer. But, Pericles (1)? Once again, I must ask: Seriously? I could live with 3 or 4, but no one else?!

Athens and Greece was all I chose in that erea

I'm surprised that 'USA', 'America', and 'United States' all three made it in the list, the only other country aside from Greece. As if they had the greatest democracy. It's more a republic, where people vote for the representative with the most signs with his name out on the street, and the representatives then vote for their party. Whoever has the most votes does not necessarily win, it's rather by arbitrary historical weighting. And if the current person in power doesn't like the result, he makes them recount, until he likes it. Is that democracy? [Warning, there is sarcasm hidden in this paragraph]

Actually, I'm not surprised. Americans are much more convinced than any other country that they have the best democracy in the world, and so it was to be expected. I actually made points on predicting it too.

Your favorite LG games: EwN (1), Einstein Wuerfelt Nicht (1)

I knew the umlaut was going to be trouble. There were 18 votes for Einstein würfelt Nicht, spread among two without umlaut (1 for EwN and 9 for “Einstein”) and three different ways of representing the umlaut (1 for so-called Swiss form, 5 for one non-ASCII form and 2 for a different non-ASCII form).

game playing (1)

my magic powers: wand (1), hat (1), rabbit (1), mirror (1), trick (1)

I don't think I've ever had five 1-pointers before. I guess it shows that I don't believe in magic.

my magic powers: wine to water (1) - I heard of someone that got seriously famous for that magic trick. Or at least a very similar one.

Multilingual countries: A big thank you to the other person who went for the sure-fire 1-pointer Estonia, thus making it a 2-pointer, and giving me enough for victory! :-D

Multilingual countries: Florida(1). I knew it would cost me some points, but I was hoping someone else from FL plays. Just walk in a Wal-Mart and see all the big advertisements in Spanish, and you know what I mean (they don't care about PC and official - their customer base is majority Spanish speaking, so ads are in Spanish).

Multilingual countries: I knew that East Timor (1), although “correct” (in the sense that this is indeed a m.c.) was a one-pointer. No idea I had that it would cost me the first place.

I'm so dumb…absoltuely forgot to insert Canada, and instaed of shared 3rd I'm on place 21…

Florida is no country, but a province or state of department of the country USA

the fact that Florida is bilingual makes USA a good answer.

I am in fact surprized that there was a single top answer. I would have guessed that Belgium and Switzerland are as obvious as Canada.

By the way the topic was my suggestion

Me too, thought that Belgium and Switzerland were as obvious than Canada. As for USA, I thought of it for the many native Indian languages present there (same reason why I've chosen Brazil).

In your answer Marius I see that native languages are considered, I think that apart from the city-states than every single nation is multilingual. At the wikipedia page I saw they are very inconsequent in doing so.

united states of america :(

creatures of the night: wraith(1), lich(1) - AD&D, anyone??

cotn: Prostitute. Never trust google.

only 2 for badger cost me the win.

Is there any way to check what onepointer(s) I had in a game (Creatures of the Night specifically)? Or do you all write your answers down?

There is a small link called 'Past Games', right under the submit button, which lists all games ever played, together with the ten entries you sent for each one.

Note: The page takes very long to come up (because of its size), so you need to be patient. Really, I mean patient. One minute or even two.

Or even more… just do something else: open past games before you play your regular games and look to it after you played…

A while ago, I made a suggestion to Richard to make the list static in stead of dynamic and let the system re-create it only once every 3 days (after a game is finished) in stead of at every request. He liked the idea, but I think he waits for David J Bush's approval to start working on it…

creatures of the night: Mosquito (1)

I think it would do to have two links - 'Past three games', and 'All past games'.

I nearly joined slaapgraag in having a prostitute, but thought better of it.

However, I'm proud to be the other part of KoTI's 2-point badger, whic I thought was a dead-cert top-few answer.

I like the idea of a 'recent few games' link. The full list can be burried under that.

“recent few games”: great idea! I'd do few=seven instead of three, though.

'look up - what do you see':

fan(4) - not so many players south of NY?

google(2) - if I look (something) up, I see Google. Who else does?

look up - what do you see: skylight (1)

Mine uses even less electricity than a CFL.

heaven (1), rainbow (1)

I didn't think of Google for a second…. Nice answer!

space (1) (stars was 33), lightbulb (1) (light was 11), shelf (1)

skyscraper(1)

orion (1) and eclipse (1) - I would guess that due to the recent lunar eclipse this would get at least a few (like 4 or 5) points.

Islands in the Atlantic ocean: Nantucket (1)

There once was a man from Nantucket…

Islands in the Atlantic ocean: Lofoten(1) Why in the world did I take that??

How many games in progress have you got?: 42 (1)

223(1) :D

How many games in progress have you got?: some(1)

Generally, my estimates were much too high; 150(1); 200(2).

Looks like most people just answered 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 without too much reality to it.

Worst countries to visit: Colombia(1). I'd ten times rather go to China(10) then get in the hands of the FARC.

Yeah, my second cousin (who is Dutch) used to think just like you, so he decided to go to Madri, Spain for vacations. There he was beaten in the head by muggers, in consequence of which he's now permanently confined to a wheel chair… So, you never now when (and where) S%¨& will happen!

It's quite interesting that Isreal got more points than Israel.

Pop singers of the 50's and 60's: The Monkees (1)

Tennis Martin a typo of Martina.

Dance Latin, Rhumba

bob dylan albums: i changes the times are achanging for MTV unplugged (1). The best of bob dylan (1)

LIPS:

- piercing (1)

- whistle (1)

Lips:

Hot (3)

healthy food: legumes (1), soybean (1), whole grains (1), vegan (1), organic food (1), nuts (2)

healthy food:

- water (only 2) !?

Quick, catch the …!: waiter (1)

I want to pick up the check.

Quick, catch the cheese (1)

I hoped more people had found this one.

BTW: Congrats, Marley. A nearly perfect empathy (I count 9 of the top 12 + 1)

I wonder where … is , was certainly full of 1-point answers,

but I wonder why my Santa (1) is among them.

Barack Obama (1), George Bush (1), lady gaga (1), chuck norris (1)

wrestlers: Olympics (1), arena (1), belt (1)

silence: mouse (1)

silence: depeche mode (enjoy the silence) one of my favourites

Who else chose kasparov and fischer thought more people would chose them only 2 for each!

I chose 'fischer'. But don't ask me why 'kasparov' didn't came in my mind.

I choose Kasparov and Carlson…

You mean Carlsen?

best golem bot: NanoBrain-ai (1), Ring von Fehler (1)

I'm surprised nobody else chose NanoBrain. It's been playing at the top level of StreetSoccer for the last few championships.

calfornia costs me a top spot

In chess: remis (1)

Johnny Carson: Late (1)

Too much of a double entendre?

humour (1), laughter, (1)

Johnny Carson: jc (1)

hour (1),bravo two (1), in (1), luck (1)

zero: false (1), nul (1)

rolex (1), festina (1), casio (1)

duration(1)

student: discount (1)

marks(1)

as a student, I expected it to get much more points…

How to recognise different types of trees from a long way: come closer(1) :D

How to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away: foliage (1)

water: juice (1), fish (1)

I loled when I read water: fish(1), because I was thinking of water that comes from frozen fish when you cook it, then I realized fish lived in water a loled even more :-)

trains: coal (1)

Chess tournaments: I had 9 scoring entries (and won with only 35 points). The only onepointer was… Little golem!

Reggio Emilia (1), Aeroflot (1)

robot: Robby (1), droid (1)

best job to have: game player (1), game tester (1), chairman (1), executive (1), financier (1)

bed tester (1)

footballer (1)

Christmas: eve (1), december 25 (1)

brian cox (1)

physics: Chu (1), LHC (1), laws of motion (1)

I believe it was physicists not physics!

Revolution: 1776 (1)

Too chauvinistic?

> kingofthebesI wrote: brian cox (1)

If it's any consolation, Cox was high on my list too, but just outside the top 10.

I'm glad you went with the “rock star of physicists” though, allowing me to nick you by one point for the win… :-)

[ Yay, i finally have posting privileges! ]

cave: ice (1)

I thought that worked in a couple of ways (e.g. ice cave). Maybe it's a Canadian bias. :-)

wet (2) was another lemon.

I agonized over keeping or dropping stalagmite (10) and stalactite (10), but eventually dropped them. Upgrading with either one would have given me three wins in a row, which would have been a nice debut… :)

mathematicians better known for something else:

Unabomber (1)

Kaczynski (1)

von Neumann (1)

Nash (1)

The first two were my top two picks. Ted Kaczynski got (2), but i whiffed on both.

2nd with no search engine use is fine by me!

In the game “mathematicians better known for something else”:

2. thomsen nielsen (50)

4. Finn Th. Nielsen (48)

Are these two nicks the same person? I hope not – self-collusion is not fair play.

It looks like it has been going on for quite some time…

category: games

computer (1)

I also had “abstract” and “pieces” on my shortlist, but fortunately passed on those.

category: Nobel Prize

committee (1)

This was a very popular associated word, but no support here. Sweden (10) was one of the first words i thought of, but ended up dropping it… and missed first place by 7 points. :-/

new york: my 1st entry was Frank Sinatra (1). United states (1)

chocolate: frosting (1), sauce (1), caramel (1)

I thought everyone loved chocolate sauce as much as I do.

wookie (1), leah (1), lucas (1)

names for money: dead presidents (1)

No no, it's all about the Benjamins these days. Benjamins was also a whiff.

My lemon was gold (1). I'm gonna go ahead and say that my 1-pointer was *vastly* better than your 1-pointer. :-p

silent: golden (1), auction (1), scream (1)

silent: film (1)

Also hill (1), but i admit that that was just dumb. :-p (The 2006 movie kept showing up in every search i did… but i didn't see it, and would have hated it:).

But silent letter, silent majority, silent treatment, and Silent Bob all would have had a similar result. :)

names for coke: soda pop (1)

FWIW, soda pop (1) was high on my list of alternates.

new coke (1)

coke classic (1)

coca-cola classic (0 or 1)

cocaine (0 or 1)

most common last name: Singh (1), Smirnov (1),Suzuki (1), Sato (1), Wang (2)

My attempt to think international ended badly.

It's an interesting feature of the game. The “right” answers are often wrong, because the scoring rewards the most popular answers, even if they aren't accurate.

I rejected a host of very common Chinese names and Spanish names (including two that are now in the top 10 of the USA, in addition to South America).

Being logical and correct often interferes with tuning into the hive mind… :-)

category: “neutrino”:

photon (1)

Oh sure, neutron (6) and proton (5) are good, but not an actual elementary particle… :-p

neutrino: speed of light (1), c (1), accelerator (1), energy (1), sun (1)

I thought someone else would also allude to the alleged faster-than-light neutrinos.

neutrino: foton (1), weak force (1)

darse, my mistake cost you 1 point. :)

Marleys: FASTER than light! (1) You said it yourselve in the last line! Speed (1) would do it, too…

Famous theorems: Cantor's Theorem (1), Sum of a Geometric Series (1)

I can't believe I didn't think of the Four-color theorem. D'oh!

@slaapgraag: I guess I just couldn't believe they go faster than light.

kiss: Sweet (1), boy (1). Used to be among the 10 best at 'first kiss'…

kiss: rock band (1), jean simmons (1), man (1), woman (1), baby (1), Hershey (1)

I don't think I've ever had six 1-pointers before. :(

heart: card (1)

heart: card suit (1)

Dice : alea (1), alea jacta est (1)

Picnic: outdoors did 9, ouside (1) :-(

ouTside…

Battery : empty (1)

Battery: Rechargable (1)

Battery: dc (1)
and rechargeable (5)

coma (1), aspirate (1), concussion (1), sprained (1), broken (1), ache (1), bruise (1)
We are playing the gameshow pointless aren't we?

egg: eggnog (1)

sleep: pajamas (1), lullaby (1)

Restaurant at the end of the universe:
And Another Thing… (1)

I knew it was gonna be a one pointer. I don't know why I still tried it.

heart of gold (1) Ford (1)

park:
picknick (1). Dutch spelling costs me 10 points and a 3d place :-(

park: Jurassic (1)

park: Place (1), Drive (1)

park: south (1), linkin (1)

“things you lose” pieces (1)

@kot - couldn't say it better! 8-)

Thought someone else would have chose it!

If Gelfand was a member here he'd say queen

things you lost: heart (1) no romantics here?

@slaapgraag - it's more shredded than lost 8-)

things you lose: bets (1) No gamblers here either.

words that end in 'art': Sweetheart (1)

climb: vine (1)

amazing: “horse”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUl9_5kK9ts (1)

There is plenty “covers”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKvlnMAt-bM of this.

It looks like others went rather for synonyms than amazing things. :)

god names: Brahman (1), Om (1), holy father (1). I even missed the #1`answer Zeus :-(

brown: suit (1), eggs (1), berry (1), shoes (1)

rock: lobster (1)

flying spaghetti monster (1) (name for god)

metamorphic (1) molten (1),legend (1) (rock)

rock: hudson (1)

drill (1), Brigade (1)

Why didn't you chose my topic: repeat got (5), but 'Repeated topic only 1!

Why didn’t you chose my topic: it is repeat (1), already played (1), repetition (1)

it was in japanese (1) you can't google it (1)

I ____ you: played (1), agree with (1)

great britain (1), russia (1)

Famous outlaws: Bernie Madoff (1)

Batman (1)

obstacles to teaching: administration (1), tuition (1)

start: car (1)

types of milk: magnesia (1)

Monty Python: life of bryon (1), john clease (1)

I really must pay more attention to spelling.

mirror: Alice (1), Daily (1)

I'm soooooooooo dissapointed in all of you…. Bat: Meatloaf (1)

mother: apple pie (1)

two: tango (1)

Nice one, Tom! I had 'set (1)

chocolate (1), Patzer (1)

rabbit: magic (1), hat (1), magician (1)

Jessica (1)

dark: Noir (1)

as in film noir or bete noir

Dark # (Ness)

Spanish words most used by non-native speakers. (We can try a new line: MOST one-point answers?) manjana (1), espanol (1), luna (1), amor (1),sol (1), juego (1), Espana (1)

Greece : Hellenic Republic (1), homer (1)

I stopped playing for a while, now I'm back, and still emphatic as a brick.

men: two and a half (1)

Cat: hairball (1)

Indian tribes: inka (1) , maya (1)

weather: temperature (1), high (1), low (1)

I thought high and low would be great because they apply to both temperature and pressure.

first: ordinal (1)

first: francis! You didn't watch the news lately? ;-)

flood: sandbag (1)

homer: Odysseus (1)

homer: ilias, groening, matt groening, maggy

things you can drink from: ladle (1), chalice (1),

Organs: hammond (1)

I must have misunderstood the word camping, as it would mean in Norway, so I wrote such things as:
barbeque (1), party (1), beer (1)

camping: wilderness(1)

Norwegian camping sounds like more fun.

san francisco: frisco
@illuvator: I was on vacation, else you'd have 2 for hammond!

hammond !!! wjajwjajwajajaa
nice one!

speed: rocket (1), f1 (1), moving (1), cheetah (1)

As usual I got bad result when my topic is selected.

speed: v (1)

Spiderman: web got 11 points (spiderweb:1)

farming:
I changed crops (12 points) to singular crop :-)

kfas: no prob, singular and plural are the same: look at the past game link.

Ok. Thanks for help :-) I found the poits for crop, but I did change animal to livestock(1)

ice cream: chocolate sauce (1)

You folks don't know what you're missing!

holiday country: belgium (1)

You folks don’t know what you’re missing!

In each restaurant you can get a dame blanche, which is ice cream with chocolate sauce :-)

I've put Serbia (1) which means Elisa is going abroad for vacation :-)

:)

Silence: sensory deprivation (1)
(and loads more other 1's that I'm embarassed by)

Things to do when sick:
among 3 oneponters i didn't expect:'eat fruit' (1).

Things to do when sick: take temperature (1)

Things to do when sick:

Play games (1)
read a book (1)
chat (1)
take a shower (1)

Marley's, i had 'temprature'(1)….

things that should not be painted:

water (1)
photo (1)
color (1)
whiteboard (1)

bottle:
blue (1)

underwear: t-shirt (1)

underwear: dirty (1)

Favourite comics characters (euro/us/jap or others): Naruto(1) Astro Boy(1) and (sadly) Mafalda(1)

Egypt: Hieroglyphics (1)

Famous Inventions: Coca Cola (1), Televison (1), Aeroplane (1), Microwave (1)

You can't get much more famous than coke.

ways to cook chicken: extra crispy (1), original recipe (1)

sins: forgive (1)

ball: Cinderella (1)

key: west (1)

board: pieces (1), square (1), tiles (1), stones (1), map (1)

Moon: green cheese (1)

horse: zebra (1)

Perhaps it's because in Chinese zebra is translated as 'striped horse' lol…

Poland: Marie Curie

Cards: dices

How can I see my 1-point answers?

For last 60 games you can go to 'Past games' page. For earlier games, I don't know how.

Two single points for Mariam and Marie in the game Mary. The Spanish Maria would have been better (3 points).