Interesting observation about the last topic.

I've played this game for several rounds and I am always fascinated every round by something different. It seems there are always unique little oddities about each game. I'd like to see hear any observations you guys see at the ends of each round. I'll start.

Did you notice that there was not 1 person from France in the top 10 for the topic: "What can you say in French?"

Souvenir from Holland:

3-way tie for the dutch players: #9.

Who would take a windmill as souvenir??? I mean how do you get it home? Those things are multiple-story buildings, and the flaps are easily 20 feet long each. Who in the world would take that as a souvenir?

I have a 15-cm windmill that my grandparents brought back from Holland as a souvenir.

austria - hungary: 58 players! Nice!

oh no -that was for the last 7 games :-(

lol. an interesting observation of the last game is that I came 7th, even though I got 1 1-point answer and 1 2-point answer

3 letter body parts

Very interesting that those copying the "correct" google (yahoo) answer, only came in 4th to 9th.

Of course the censored ass is much more common than recognizing gum as a body part. (I thought they use silicone, not gum ;)

My deepest sympathy for RoRoRo. I guess, not understanding the topic his only 3 letter words were "the" and "are", and he did not dare to enter "3", which is not in his GWG list ;)

I can't believe only one other player put Yoda.

Bravo to those 3 who put Sooty. I have fond memories of Sooty. (memories that failed me when I was trying to think of famous puppets, but fond now that I've been reminded)

I put gum rather than ass, not because of any self-censorship, but because ass as a body part is an Americanism, and a slang term - The English equivalent is arse which is 4 letters. The gum is an actual proper name for a part of the body (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gums) although it would usually be used in the plural.

where water comes from: comets (2)

just 2???

LOL. Better than supermarket(1)

London: The "single words are best" rule did not apply, this time.

Sure, "Big Ben", "Buckingham Palace" or "Hyde Park" need a space in the middle.

Amazing (for me):

- "Tower of London" (12)

- "Tower Bridge" (11)

- "Tower" (7)

My Picadilly (1) would not have gained much without the typo, however :-(

I was always thought (too) that it was "London Tower" and not "Tower of London".

So I got: Tower (7)

Also:

rain (3)

fog (2)

wembley (2), arsenal (2). no football fans?? :(

It's Tower of London, not London Tower - I used to live near it!

There's also The White Tower, which is a tower within a tower, a part of Tower of London. Did anyone get that? It's where the Coronation Jewels are - or maybe a facsimile of the real thing - that I don't know.

Oh yes, and the name London Bridge is often mistakenly applied to Tower Bridge, which is the next bridge downstream.

Carl Sagan? I'm sorry to say I never heard of the guy (I heard of SETI, but Carl Sagan??). How come I win this topic after 5 minutes of Wiki?

Amsterdam - I scored 8 points with the soccer team I hate most :-(

Outdoor Sports without a playing field:

Tennis(5). Duh. And I always thought those white lines meant something.

Basketball(3). Yeah, too.

Playing field to me meant grass/astroturf.

Basketball Court, Tennis Court!

interesting.

Whenever something comes up that seems to me to be a "series" (primes, letters of the alphabet, etc.) I'm always torn between putting the first ten terms, or the most "common" ten terms. This time (consonants) everyone chose the first ten consonants in the English alphabet... Except me, I forgot j.

i forgot h :)

Islands - a repeated topic. The 'repeaters (141 points) were defeated by ladymarius (150). Well done!

Yes, congratulations to ladymarius. IIRC it's only happened once before, by FatPhil.

LOL. It took me a while, but now I get it. ypercube forgot h.

I didn't know about the repeat and scored only 85 points :(

How did ladymarius win? Where did those 9 points come from? I don't get it.

somar, with a little research I think you can answer your own question. First, did ladymarius get the top 10 answers? Second, which were the answers of those who played the repeat?

As somar96 must have seen by now, piece of cake: ladyme did get the top 10 answers in this game. From the previous occurence of "islands" as a topic 2 words didn't repeat the top10: ocean (7 points this time) and sea (6). They were replaced by japan (worth 13 points this time) and australia (9). Obviously, (13-7)+(9-6)=9 (Q.e.d.). Curiously enough, only the 6 repeaters played sea this time. The one benefit of players decrease seems a longshot chance for non-repeaters winning.

I still don't get the logic of "Australia" as an answer for "islands".

The only reason Australia is not an island in convention. Looks like one to me - water all around it = island.

Like if pluto is a planet or not.

It's something more like "Australia has a continental shelf, but Greenland doesn't," but don't hold me to the details.

ok, but does New Zealand have a continental shelf or is it an island? Maybe there is a clear rule, but my point is that the rule is arbitrary, as nature did not give a clear demarcation line between island and continent; it's our interpretation.

I could get used to call Australia an 'island'. Or America.

In my opinion, the biggest island is "Eurasia" ;-)

I looked it up in wikipedia, and my impression of what I learned in 8th grade does not hold up. Greenland has continental shelf after all. The boundary between the smallest continent and largest island is arbitrary.

@DukeOfPrunes Eurassica is bigger. Australia is the third largest land mass. (And no, the Suez Canal doesn't change anything, unless you consider all other canals that connect rivers with different estuaries to do likewise.)

But I was wrong. Antarctica is 3rd. Australia is 4th. America is 2nd.

I was sure Enterprise would be the number one answer. There have been three Star Trek TV series each with a distinct Enterprise, plus I'm not sure how many in the Star Trek movies, plus the prototype Space Shuttle.

I had the right ships to win, but lost 14 points because I spelled Millennium with one 'n' and Endeavour without the rather British-looking 'u'. D'oh!

dog names - another repeat -but a very very old one. LADYMARIUS DID IT AGAIN! Beating repeaters! Incredible!!!

I won the "snooker players" game?? I hate snooker and I know nothing about it so I just went to wikpiedia, copied a few names from the top and I am a winner by myself :o

I'm glad my 'ways to misspell daughter'-suggestion finaly made it. Roro had 11 points. What was his 2-points answer?

'son' made 4 points, never tought of that one!

I had son and glad it got that much :)

And my topic made it for the first time (Polish Cities), let's see bith how well I go and how people will cope with the Polish speeling :D

spelling**

***please do not discuss the ongoing game, you are already ruining it! ***

I don't think anything I said may ruin the game but I agree best keep quiet.

The misspelling of daughter has shown up many times as a proposed topic. Who suggested it?

Marley's - read! Just a few lines before your post I said I did... I have hardly any inspiration for other topics ;-)

Somar, Hjallti is right: the golden rule is ***never*** say ***anything*** about the ongoiing game, or you'll be cursed with a terrible headache caused by 'the blue eyes problem'. (anyone has a link?)

The blue-eyed islanders puzzle

http://bit.ly/ir9eMv

@slaapgraag: D'oh! Maybe I need more sleep, too.