Alphabet Sheep - Alternate way of doing it

Rikand

Time for some more alphabet sheep - however this one is different to the last one


EACH OF YOUR ANSWERS MUST START WITH A DIFFERENT LETTER. There are 26 questions, so that means that you will have to use each letter exactly once. Any answers which start with a letter you've already used will score zero.

Due to the nature of this game, all answers which start with different letters will be grouped separately, even if they refer to the same thing. For example, if asked to name a country, "America", "USA", and "The United States of America" would be grouped separately or if asked to name a supermodel, "Heidi Klum" and "Klum, Heidi" would not be grouped together.



^^ thats right.

Of course you could answer in alphabetical order, but your answers may not represent the best sheep answers. Who knows!

Here are your questions ::

A shape
An alcoholic Beverage
A Beatles Album
A traffic Light Color
An insect
A Russell Crowe movie
A girl from this season of Love Island
A part of the body
A royal title
An animal you might see on an African safari
A spice girl
A citrus fruit
An Irish President
An Irish City
An item from your cuttlery drawer
A rank in the army
A member of Little Mix
A musical Instrument
A 21st Century US President
An Asian Country
A technology Company
An Irish Political Party
A non-alcoholic Beverage
A guy from this season of Love Island
A green vegetable
A letter of the alphabet


When you submit your answers by pm, please do not include the questions. Just give me the list of your answers only. Saves me so much time in editing the files afterwards for entering into my sheepulator.

Closing Date for Entries is 9pm Wednesday 19th June, 2019

Reveal to take place at 10pm on Wednesday and 10pm on Thursday or after Necro's day2 reveal whenever that finishes. My own reveal will likely take 2 days too.

As this is a sheep game, Research/google IS allowed. Whether you choose to is up to you


P.S. I have already submitted an entry for myself cause I wanna play too. I hope people will trust my game integrity to take me at my word when I say that I have already submitted. I love this form of alphabet sheep

Rikand

An example from 2+2 of how this works. https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/59/puzzles-other-games/no-such-thing-too-much-alphabet-sheep-reveal-1182472/

Rikand

Just to give people a guide on this because its easy to lose track of yourself with your alphabet and your answers.

Open 2 notepad files on your computer. On one of the files, have the list of questions and on the other file, have the letters of the alphabet in order.

As you answer one of the questions, copy your answer into the alphabetised list. This will help you keep track of your letters and what letters you have left. It will also help prevent you having any duplicates. This particular version of sheep is difficult enough without adding this conundrum to the mix lol

sKeith

that was tuff!

osh

You're telling me. Did my anwers and am now left with 2 letters for the last two that don't fit. Have to go back over it at some stage

sKeith

osh wrote: »

You're telling me. Did my anwers and am now left with 2 letters for the last two that don't fit. Have to go back over it at some stage

hint: the pick a letter of the alphabet is for the left over letter.
dont answer that one first hehe.

osh

That's true, I picked that first actually Still not sure if it would help. Some answers have loads of options so might just redo it and pick them last

Deja Boo

wooden spoon here I come - probably all aces but submitted

very creative sheep rikand, well done!

daheff

oooooo.... this ones gonna be interesting!


i'll need to think about this for a while.

osh

Entry sent.

This game is going to be crazy with so many different possible answers.

Necro

I love how some are relatively limiting yet there's a huge scope on others.

Entry sent after banging my head off the wall a couple of times when certain things wouldn't fit :pac:

Mollyb60

This is actually requiring a lot of research. I love it.

Mollyb60

Well I thoroughly enjoyed that! Had to shuffle a few things around to fit in the end. Will be really interesting to see how it turns out.

quickbeam

Yeah was fun. Getting answers wasn’t hard but getting popular answers was hard and took a bit of juggling. I’ve entered but might juggle some more and re-enter.

tusk

Rikand, you are a mentalcase genius with these games!

This make take a while.

Is there really that many contestants in Love island

Rikand

tusk wrote: »

Rikand, you are a mentalcase genius with these games!

I'm not the Creator or even Jesus

I'm just a prophet spreading the good word

Necro

Rikand wrote: »

I'm not the Creator or even Jesus

I'm just a prophet spreading the good word

Rikand

Deleted User wrote: »

This make take a while.

Is there really that many contestants in Love island

That would be an ecumenical matter

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

This make take a while.

Is there really that many contestants in Love island

Around about an hour jesus, thank feck there is golf on

I'd like to sign up please. Do I send my answers in alphabetical order or in the order the questions were asked?

sKeith

it would be my understanding that it should be in the order of question asked.

Rikand

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'd like to sign up please. Do I send my answers in alphabetical order or in the order the questions were asked?

Order of questions asked

sKeith

must say, it would be an interesting reveal if it was alphabetical.

Thanks! I've pm'd mine. I didn't do research.. other than checking the names of love island contestants and little mix members! It was fun shuffling stuff around and trying to make it all fit. Something to do on this miserable rainy day. I suspect I won't do very well though!

Pretzill

In...at the end of my list the last question kept changing

tusk

Deleted User wrote: »

Thanks! I've pm'd mine. I didn't do research.. other than checking the names of love island contestants and little mix members! It was fun shuffling stuff around and trying to make it all fit. Something to do on this miserable rainy day. I suspect I won't do very well though!

Samesies. spent 9 minutes overall. Hopefully do better than last time hahah.

Deja Boo

tusk wrote: »

Samesies. spent 9 minutes overall. Hopefully do better than last time hahah.

Me three about Little Mix and Love Island, but with added Spice Girl and Russell Crowe google-ups.

(I am out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.)

Rikand

Remember folks. You should have 26 answers at the end. Please count how many answers in your list at the end. Nothing worse than having your scores skewed by having a missed answer.

I'll be keeping an eye on the pms and I will contact anyone who does not have 26 answers if I see it. But the onus is on the competitor to make sure his/her list is complete

Thoroughly enjoyed working out answers for this one. I use my phone for boards so I opened notepad and wrote A-Z then I copied the questions and then pasted it twice in notepad. So I’d write the answer against its letter then I’d delete the question from list 1 and then write over list 2 with the correct answer in the correct position.

It was trial and error before I realised what worked best for me. At one stage I had one list and would delete when I answered but then copped the answers were just in a-z order! A few times I had to look up the answers again when I had to make things fit. Was great fun. My fave so far and we haven’t even had the reveal.

Mam of 4

I have mine written out , pen and paper , lots of scribbling out . As usual , done the one's I knew answers to first then made some dubious looking , but legit answers for the others (I hope !)

Now to pm them in the right order though ..

sullivlo

Inski. Harder than anticipated. Can’t wait for the reveal.

Rikand

17 entries in so far!

Sixtoes

Rikand wrote: »

17 entries in so far!

Make that 18!

daheff

question on names, is the letter for the first name or surname?


actually- make that where there is more than one name in the answer (eg also political parties)

sKeith

daheff wrote: »

question on names, is the letter for the first name or surname?


actually- make that where there is more than one name in the answer (eg also political parties)

example was given in OP

if asked to name a supermodel, "Heidi Klum" and "Klum, Heidi" would not be grouped together.

So, you could choose to use H or K to answer the same question, just by providing the answer in different format.

daheff

sKeith wrote: »

example was given in OP

if asked to name a supermodel, "Heidi Klum" and "Klum, Heidi" would not be grouped together.

So, you could choose to use H or K to answer the same question, just by providing the answer in different format.

i did read this. and for some reason i didnt register it! Doh!


thanks!

daheff

and i'm in!! tough one

Mam of 4

Rikand , before I send off my answers , did you spell Peehs wrong in the game title ?






(No hope of you saying yes I suppose dammit )

Rikand

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Rikand , before I send off my answers , did you spell Peehs wrong in the game title ?






(No hope of you saying yes I suppose dammit )

That would be an ecumenical matter


I mean, no, its definitely sheep

Mam of 4

Rikand wrote: »

That would be an ecumenical matter


I mean, no, its definitely sheep

Was worth a try !

May redo some of my inspired answers so

sKeith

I'm just glad i was able to do it. not gonna play with faith after getting it to fit!

rainbowtrout

I'm in too! Getting the last couple to fit was .... interesting.

Ted_YNWA

First time dipping my toes into the water here, assume you don't have to go A-Z in sequence for the questions.

Or are you that dastardly?

sKeith

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

First time dipping my toes into the water here, assume you don't have to go A-Z in sequence for the questions.

Or are you that dastardly?

correct.


any order, but once a letter is used for one answer, you can't use it for another.

tuisginideach

quickbeam wrote: »

Yeah was fun. Getting answers wasn’t hard but getting popular answers was hard and took a bit of juggling. I’ve entered but might juggle some more and re-enter.

Have I missed something here - 'getting popular answers' - is the idea to get the same as everyone else or just an answer with each letter???

Rikand

You're hoping to get the same answer as everyone else

tuisginideach

Ah, I see - I am way off so!

Rikand

22 hours to go!

22 entrants in!

Need moar!

Reveal will probably start at about 10:30 pm tomorrow. I'm going golfing straight after work lol

tusk

Can't wait for this reveal. Going to be hilarious!

Green&Red

tusk wrote: »

Can't wait for this reveal. Going to be hilarious!

Theres a high possibility of people finishing on 26 points