World Tour REVEAL -- Wed 27th May 8 p.m.

M.T. Cranium

Join me for the REVEAL of the World Tour on Wednesday 27th May at 8 p.m.

I hope to have this organized in such a way as to reveal the results in stages by about 9 p.m. same evening.

Just starting the thread now so I have some place to organize the results.

No strict deadline, have asked that the thread be tagged "closed to entries" but if you beat the moderator, you're in.

Trigger

My feeling at the start of this reveal



Me after the second question:

Ted_YNWA

My journey on this reveal summed up here.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

My journey on this reveal summed up here.

Irish Aris

I have no worries whatsoever.
Mid-table it is!!!

Due to the negativity regarding this lovely island, I bought it cheap.

M.T. Cranium

Ready for the reveal ... tried to post but I have two devices open, lost my post (backed up so no worries) ... back in a min or two with the opening salvo.

M.T. Cranium

Good evening, and welcome to the World Tour. There were 28 entrants, just about a full crew. I will reveal the results in the most interesting and dramatic way possible rather than going through the questions in the order presented. This is because I am a cantankerous old geezer. Speaking of such, these are the travel companions you selected (I mean really guys, what were some of you thinking?) ...

Please note, I have done my best to be accurate in the scoring tables as we go, but you should check your score as shown in each discussion and verify that your ongoing total is right. Of course I will amend any errors we find. I have decided to post two questions at a time for a while here, since the first part of this does not separate people out very much ... here we go then ... next post will be in about 15-20 minutes (I am still working on the last two segments so I hope to get the final values in place by 9:30-10:00 pm if you can stand the tension and sheer excitement. I know I can.

(Q10 _ Travel companion)

First order of business here is to get John Daly out of jail (again) so we can depart. Okay, having taken care of that, please note, we have 28 entrants and 25 travel companions. All were checked for their qualifications (being alive, Open Champions, or UK PMs, or US Presidents, or Oscar winning actresses). Nobody brought aboard a "ringer" but two of our winning actresses only won best supporting actress (bsa in the scoring summary). Never mind, I did not rule that out. So they are eligible.

Your keen logical mind will have deduced that for 28 entrants to choose 25 individuals, three chose two identical guests apiece. And it was John Major, Jimmy Carter and Frances McDormand who are here at the invitation of two different world tour entrants each. I leave the logistics of that up to you.

Under the rules, those four will start the world tour at a handicap of one point, a reminder (try not to doze off here) that you score ten for a unique guess and one less for every shared guess you offer (by number of shares) so for two sharing, it's nine points out of ten.

Here is the complete list of our world tour entrants, and their travel companions. I note in short form what earned them the right to join us in this mighty conquest of land, sea, air and possibly other things too. This list is chronological, later in the reveal, the points list will switch to order of points scored. But for now, this shows the order in which your entries reached my inbox.

(Too many actress possible choices to list non-selections, but nobody took a chance on such famous golfers as Tiger Woods, Tom Watson, Jack Nicklaus, or Phil Mickelson -- last four winners Henrik Stenson, Jordan Speith, 2018 champ Francesco Molinari and too obvious choice Shane Lowry also left at the gate). Two of five living presidents, Clinton (his wife well whatever) and Obama were not required for this flight either. Go figure. I think each UK PM except Cameron and Johnson were selected, don't totally quote me on them being the only overlooked choices.) A golfer was probably your best bet as there are more selections available. Louis Oosthuizen even travels with his own bed (bad back).


ENTRANT ________ GUEST ____________________ Points so far


Heidi Heidi ________ Louis Oosthuizen (Open 2010) _ 10

Quickbeam ________ Theresa May (UK PM 16-19) ___10

Hello2DPersonBelow_ Jimmy Carter (US Pres 39) _____9

Sawduck ________ Frances McDormand (Oscar 2017)_ 9

Collie D __________ John Daly (Open 1995) _______ 10

Rainbow Trout ____ John Major (UK PM 90-97) ______ 9

The Purple Tin _____Jimmy Carter (US Pres 39) _____ 9

Irish Aris _________ Cate Blanchett (Oscar 2013) ___10

Gru _____________ Paul Lawrie (Open 1999) ______10

Strawberry Milkshake_ John Major (UK PM 90-97) ___ 9

Declan A Walsh ___ Bill Rogers (Open 1981) _______ 10

Trigger __________ Greg Norman (Open 86,93) ____ 10

Lassykk _________ Tom Weiskopf (Open 1973) _____10

Bubblypop ________Tony Blair (UK PM 97-07) ______10

sKeith ___________ Viola Davis (Oscar 2016) bsa ___10

Dave the Rave _____Emma Stone (Oscar 2016) ____ 10

3 More Big Sleeps __ Marion Cotillard (Oscar 2007) __10

Homer J Fong _____ Julianne Moore (Oscar 2014) __ 10

Yozico ___________ Stewart Cink (Open 2009) ____ 10

Reberetta ________ Sandra Bullock (Oscar 2009) __ 10

Aaron Jennings ____Melissa Leo (Oscar 2010) (bsa) _10

Ted_YNWA _______ Gordon Brown (UK PM 07-10)__ 10

Sixtoes __________ George Bush (US Pres 43) ____ 10

A.S.Levar Burton __ Natalie Portman (Oscar 2010)__ 10

Rikand __________ Sandy Lyle (Open 1985) ______ 10

Mehaffey1 _______Frances McDormand (Oscar 2017)_9

Zaph ___________ Ben Curtis (Open 2003) _______10

Y0ssar1an22 _____ Donald Trump (US Pres 45) ___ 10

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(Q9) Your travel budget

We might as well get this out of the way, after my fees of 85,000 euros are deducted, that leaves you with 15,000 euros plus the amount shown here (your 100,000 to 100,030 guess) and with 28 people trying to pick a unique value out of 31 available (0 to 30 being 31), you did fairly well here, only two guesses attracted three choices (100,012 and 100,027 -- each worth 8/10) while nine others had two each (100,000, 100,009, 100,010, 100,011, 100,013, 100,017, 100,023, 100,024 and 100,028 -- each worth 9/10). That left four of you with unique guesses (all low amounts, 100,003, 04, 05 and 08) worth 10/10 each. Three of those four had also scored 10/10 with their guest, so three out of 28 board the plane to the first destination with 20/20 points as shown.

__ 20/20 so far ___ Irish Aris, Zaph, Sixtoes ____

The lowest points total is just three behind at 17/20.

(Note, the scores are still ranked by order of entry -- this will change when we start the tour) ...

These amounts were not picked -- 100,001, 02, 06, 07, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 29, 30


ENTRANT _______100,000+ __ Points previously __ New Points __ TOTAL so far


Heidi Heidi ________ 17 _________ 10 __________9 _______19

Quickbeam ________ 11 _________10 __________ 9 _______19

Hello2DPersonBelow __27 _________9 __________ 8 _______17

Sawduck ___________12 _________9 __________ 8 _______17

Collie D ____________17 ________10 __________ 9 _______19

Rainbow Trout _______9 _________9 __________ 9 _______ 18

The Purple Tin ______ 12 ________ 9 __________ 8 _______ 17

Irish Aris ___________3 ________ 10 _________ 10 _______ 20

Gru _______________23 _______ 10 __________ 9 ________19

Strawberry Milkshake_ 0 _________9 __________ 9 ________18

Declan A Walsh _____27 ________10 __________ 8 ________18

Trigger ___________ 27 _______ 10 ___________8 ________18

Lassykk ___________12 _______ 10 ___________8 ________18

Bubblypop _________24 _______ 10 __________ 9 ________ 19

sKeith ____________ 28 _______ 10 __________ 9 ________ 19

Dave the Rave _____ 24 _______ 10 ___________9 ________ 19

3 More Big Sleeps __ 10 ________10 __________ 9 _________19

Homer J. Fong _____ 28 _______ 10 __________ 9 _________19

Yozico ____________13 _______ 10 __________ 9 ________ 19

Reberetta _________ 9 ________10 __________ 9 _________19

Aaron Jennings ____ 10 _______ 10 ___________9 ________ 19

Ted_YNWA ________13 _______ 10 ___________9 ________ 19

Sixtoes ___________ 4 _______ 10 __________ 10 ________ 20

A.S.LevarBurton ___ 23 _______ 10 ___________ 9 ________ 19

Rikand ___________11 _______ 10 ___________ 9 ________ 19

Mehaffey1 _________8 ________ 9 ___________10 ________ 19

Zaph _____________5 _______ 10 ___________10 ________ 20

Y0ssar1an22 _______0 _______ 10 ___________ 9 ________ 19

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M.T. Cranium

Getting ready to post again, do people prefer that I just post one after another or leave time for any banter, insults, recriminations?

You do you MT. Can’t believe someone else picked John Major. I thought it was gonna be the other south Londoner who went there but rainbowtrout???

y0ssar1an22

whatever suits yourself!

i just hope the great lakes are fresh water!

y0ssar1an22

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

You do you MT. Can’t believe someone else picked John Major. I thought it was gonna be the other south Londoner who went there but rainbowtrout???

and how was i the only trump picker?

y0ssar1an22

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

and how was i the only trump picker?

Always go for the obvious.

Collie D

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

and how was i the only trump picker?

Russians fiddled the numbers

Speaking of Trump. Does anyone here look at TikTok? There’s a woman who does a voiceover impersonation of him and her facial expressions are brill.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Can't believe I'm the only one who wanted Natalie Portman as a travel companion... Not that I'm complaining...

M.T. Cranium

The horror, the horror ... I am scoring part nine as we speak, so will post parts three and four (as designed) and come back in another few minutes after that.


Q8 _ The airline)

Lots of airlines, lots of grounded planes ... let's find out who wants to fly which airlines.

The scoring will now switch to rank order (rather than order of entry as before) ...

I will list the airlines selected, starting with unique choices and working down to non-unique choices. As with other categories, you lose a point for every PEEHS who turns into a SHEEP.

Airlines selected by one world tour entrant ...

Etihad -- Y0ssar1an22

British -- Rikand

Air Canada -- Sixtoes

Air France -- Three More Big Sleeps

Fiji Airways -- sKeith

FinnAir -- Bubblypop

Singapore -- Irish Aris

Lufthansa -- The Purple Tin

Hainan --- Rainbow Trout

All Nippon -- Sawduck

Aeroflot -- Ellie Wailing Schoolmaster

Malaysia -- Quickbeam


These airlines were selected by two or more entrants:

(2 guesses, 9/10)

El Al --- Homer J. Fong, Dave the Rave

Air NZ -- Mehaffey1, lassykk

Qatar --- Declan A. Walsh, Zaph

American -- Reberetta, Gru

KLM -- Trigger, Collie D


(6 guesses, 5/10)

Qantas -- AS LeVarBurton, Ted_YNWA, Aaron Jennings, Yozico, Strawberry Milkshake, Heidi Heidi

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The updated standings after airline selection ...


ENTRANT _________ guest __ budget __ airline ___ TOTAL


Irish Aris __________10______ 10 ____ 10 _____30

Sixtoes ___________ 10 ______10 ____ 10 ____ 30

Rikand ___________ 10 _______ 9 ____ 10 ____ 29

Y0ssar1an22 ______ 10 _______ 9 ____ 10 _____29

Zaph _____________10 ______10 _____ 9 _____ 29

Quickbeam ________ 10 ______9 _____ 10 _____29

Bubblypop _________10 ______9 _____ 10 _____29

sKeith ____________ 10 ______9 _____ 10 _____29

3 More Big Sleeps ___10 ______ 9 _____ 10 ____ 29

Collie D ___________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Rainbow Trout ______9 _______9 _____10_____ 28

Gru ______________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Reberetta _________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Dave the Rave _____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Homer J. Fong _____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 9 _____ 28

Mehaffey1 _________ 9 _______10 _____9 _____28

Hello2DPersonBelow _ 9 ______ 8 _____ 10 _____27

Sawduck __________ 9 ______ 8 _____ 10 _____ 27

The Purple Tin ______9 _______8 _____ 10 _____ 27

Declan A Walsh ____ 10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ______ 27

Trigger ___________10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ______ 27

Lassykk __________ 10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ______ 27

Heidi Heidi ________10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

Aaron Jennings ____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

Ted_YNWA ________10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

Yozico ___________ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

A.S.LevarBurton ___ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 24

Strawberry Milkshake_9 ______ 9 _____ 5 ______ 23

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(Q 2) Lake you wanted to visit

Hello, and thank you for flying Qantas, the choice of Irish travellers. Apparently. There's a free Fosters for everyone who chose us, and you still have seven chances for redemption. This is but one of them ... we will fly over every freshwater lake you chose, as long as it made the Wikipedia top thirty list. Now about that list -- M.T. Cranium had to write his own list when he found out that wikipedia had thrown in salt lakes (expressly forbidden see the rules) so that takes us down to about number 35 on their list, if we exclude the salty ones. Now, if you did not read the fine print and chose a salty one, you're advised to buckle up, turbulence is reported just ahead of us, advises the captain whose name of course is Bruce.

So, just for your edu-ma-cation, here are the eligible lakes in order, an idea of where they might be found, and the names of those who really really wanted to see them on this tour. Should they be so lucky as to be the only one, it's worth ten points. Every name associated costs each of them a point. Here we go. Remember now, the Caspian Sea is not a fresh-water lake, it may be number one for wikipedia, but for this contest, it is dead to us. But not as dead as the Aral Sea, 90% of which dried up (whoops, Uzbek cotton crop needed the water in 1960s).

1. Lake Superior -- Great Lakes -- Ted_YNWA, Strawberry Milkshake (9 pts)

2. Lake Victoria --- Africa

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crocodiles a problem?

3. Lake Huron

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Great Lakes -- Y0ssar1an22, Yozico, Homer J. Fong, Heidi Heidi (7 pts)

4. Lake Michigan -- Great Lakes -- Dave the Rave, Collie D (9 pts)

5. Tanganyika

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Africa

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Lassykk (10 pts)

6. Baikal

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Siberia

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Irish Aris (10 pts)

7. Great Bear

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n. Canada --- Gru (10 pts)

8. Malawi

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Africa

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Quickbeam (10 pts)

9. Great Slave

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n. Canada --- Rikand, Aaron Jennings, Trigger, Rainbow Trout (7 pts)

10. Erie (fresh? maybe not) GL --- Reberetta, Declan A Walsh (9 pts)

11. Winnipeg

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Canada

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Sawduck (10 pts)

12. Ontario

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Great Lakes -- not that into it myself

13. Ladoga --- east of St. P in Rus - big weekend destination for Novgorodites

(note next entry is salt, Balkhash in central Asia)

14. Bangweulu -- Africa

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I can't find it either

15. Vostok -- under the ice, Antarctica (dodgy, nobody chose it anyway)

16. Onega -- southeast of Lake Ladoga -- only for the select few, so I'm told

17. Titicaca -- Andes, South America -- The Purple Tin (10 pts)

18. Nicaragua

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Nicaragua

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sKeith, Ellie Wailing Schoolmaster (9 pts)

19. Athabasca --- n. Canada

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Three More Big Sleeps (10 pts)

20. Taymyr

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n. Russia

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AS Levar Burton (10 pts)

21. Reindeer Lake -- Canada

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Mehaffey1 (10 pts) It thaws out just in time to freeze up

(note, Turkana in Africa, Issyk-Kul and Urmia in Asia, all salty) thank Allah nobody chose these

That gets us to 26 on the wikipedia list, five to this point are salty and aren't eligible.

The Aral Sea used to rank larger than Lake Huron back in the day, now it's just a few ponds.

22. Vanern

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Sweden

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Bubblypop, Zaph Wallander often finds corpses near here

23. Winnipegosis -- Canada

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not a disease, but a lake west of Lake Winnipeg

24. Albert

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Africa

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Sixtoes this one feeds one of the Nile headwaters, Dr Livingstone I presume?

25. Mweru

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Africa

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sure it's lovely enough

Now we are at 30 on the list, but the next five (fresh) would count if anyone picked them.

26. Nettilling ---- Baffin Island, Canada --- I saw this from a plane, biggest lake on an island, ice free for ten minutes in August

27. Nipigon

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north of Lake Superior -- the islands and bays are for sportsmen (also)

28. Manitoba ---- Canada

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it's a twin of Winnipegosis, much easier to say

29. Saimaa

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Finland

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Wonder if it means reindeer, then there's two

30. Lake of the Woods -- U.S.-Canada border -- It's a maze of islands, don't go out there without a map and a valid will.

(34 on their list, Qing'hai in China, also salty).

Anyway, nobody chose those last five that got onto the list when the salt lakes dropped out.

(as would have been any other salty lake or sub-top-thirty, first of which by the way is that one Khalka, just outside Vladivostok, I'm sure you've often dreamed of spending a weekend there between Russia and China, pretty high on my bucket list after maybe Gary, Indiana? The mosquito-bear combo is to die for.)

So with the lake visited, points are now as follows:


ENTRANT ________ guest __budget __airline __lake ___ TOTAL


Irish Aris __________10______ 10 ____ 10 ____10 ____ 40

Sixtoes ___________ 10 ______10 ____ 10 ____10 ____ 40

3 More Big Sleeps ___10 ______ 9 ____ 10 ____10 ____ 39

Quickbeam ________ 10 ______9 _____ 10 ___ 10 ____ 39

Bubblypop _________10 ______9 _____ 10 ____ 9 ____ 38

sKeith ____________ 10 ______9 _____ 10 ____ 9 ____ 38

Gru ______________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____10_____ 38

Zaph _____________10 ______ 10 _____9 ____ 9 _____38

Mehaffey1 _________ 9 _______10 _____9 ____10 ____ 38

Collie D ___________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 _____ 37

Reberetta _________10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 _____ 37

Dave the Rave _____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 _____ 37

Sawduck __________ 9 ______ 8 _____ 10 ____10 ____ 37

The Purple Tin ______9 _______8 _____ 10 ___ 10 ____ 37

Lassykk __________ 10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ____ 10 ____ 37

Rikand ___________ 10 ______ 9 ____ 10 ____ 7 _____ 36

Y0ssar1an22 ______ 10 ______ 9 ____ 10 ____ 7 _____ 36

Hello2DPersonBelow _ 9 ______ 8 _____10 ____ 9 _____36

Declan A Walsh ____ 10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ____ 9 _____ 36

Rainbow Trout ______9 _______9 _____10____ 7 _____ 35

Homer J. Fong _____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 9 ____ 7 _____ 35

Trigger ___________10 ______ 8 _____ 9 ____ 7 _____ 34

A.S.LevarBurton ___ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ____10 _____ 34

Ted_YNWA ________10 ______ 9 _____ 5 _____9 _____ 33

Strawberry Milkshake_9 ______ 9 _____ 5 _____9 _____ 32

Heidi Heidi ________10 ______ 9 _____ 5 _____7 _____ 31

Aaron Jennings ____ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 ____ 7 _____ 31

Yozico ___________ 10 ______ 9 _____ 5 _____7 _____ 31

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So in the lakes round, ten had unique guesses and scored the max, eight shared seven points for being in foursomes, and everyone else was paired off (in five pairs) for nine points each. Nobody is out of the contest yet, I would say ... next reveal will be the sea, or see the bee? Here again, a lot of seas in this world, but they have to be oceanic ... uh oh ...

rainbowtrout

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

You do you MT. Can’t believe someone else picked John Major. I thought it was gonna be the other south Londoner who went there but rainbowtrout???

I couldn't be bothered looking up golfers or actresses

James Carter is all mine. Back off, bitches.

Oh hello. Here I am in my comfortable spot near the bottom rung. I blame it on my vertigo

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Didn't read the small print for anything. Wouldn't know the difference between salt-water lake or fresh-water lake and was worried my old nemesis SALT was going to screw me over yet again, but thankfully not this time!!!

y0ssar1an22

jesus, canada is like cavan with all the lakes

Irish Aris

I don't think I have ever been on top at any stage of any sheep/peehs/heeps!!!

rainbowtrout

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

jesus, canada is like cavan with all the lakes

Never thought I'd ever see Canada and Cavan being compared anywhere

M.T. Cranium

Just part five in this post, going to slow down a tad so I can keep ahead ... yes Canada, lots o' lakes ... maybe almost too many? Lots o' islands also. Big uninhabited freezing cold islands.

Q6 _ Seas the moment)

The rules clearly (by my standards) stated that your choice of sea had to be part of the global ocean, not land-locked such as the Caspian Sea. After all, we can't afford to haul the luxury cruise ship we rented (dirt cheap, I must admit) across land and then leave it for who knows how long ... I refer you once again to the fine print. Here's your list of seas, any of them is valid -- no top thirty, if it exists and you can get there from an ocean, then it's all good. I was able to steer a few clear of the shoals.

Here again, I reserve the more popular choices (that you didn't want) to the end of this list.

10 points for these solo mariners ...

Irish Sea -- Y0ssar1an22

Davis Sea -- Zaph

Black Sea -- Sixtoes

Weddell Sea -- Aaron Jennings

Molucca -- Quickbeam

Norwegian -- Rainbow Trout

Aegean Sea -- Homer J Fong

Amundsen -- Three More Big Sleeps

Adriatic -- Declan A Walsh


9 points for these selections ...

Coral Sea -- Mehaffey1, AS LeVar Burton

Sargasso Sea -- Rikand, The Purple Tin

Bering -- Strawberry Milkshake, Gru

Tyrrhenian -- sKeith, Heidi Heidi

North Sea -- Yozico, Ted_YNWA


8 points for those who shared with two other choices ...

South China Sea -- Reberetta, Dave the Rave, Collie D

Baltic -- bubblypop, Irish Aris, Ellie Wailing Schoolmaster

Arabian -- lassykk, Trigger, sawduck




The updated points from previous rounds with this one:


ENTRANT ________ guest __budget __airline __lake __ sea ___ TOTAL


Sixtoes ___________ 10 _____10 ____ 10 ____10 ___10 ___ 50

3 More Big Sleeps ___10 _____ 9 ____ 10 ____10 ___10 ____ 49

Quickbeam ________ 10 _____9 _____ 10 ___ 10 ___10 ____ 49

Irish Aris __________10_____ 10 ____ 10 ____10 ___ 8 ____ 48

Zaph _____________10 _____ 10 _____9 ____ 9 ___10 ____ 48

sKeith ____________ 10 _____9 _____ 10 ____ 9 ___ 9 ____ 47

Gru ______________10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 10 ___ 9 ____ 47

Mehaffey1 _________ 9 _____10 _____9 ____10 ___ 9 _____ 47

Bubblypop _________10 _____9 _____ 10 ____ 9 ___ 8 ____ 46

The Purple Tin ______9 ______8 _____ 10 ___ 10 ___ 9 ____ 46

Y0ssar1an22 ______ 10 _____ 9 ____ 10 _____7 ___ 10 ____ 46

Declan A Walsh ____ 10 _____ 8 _____ 9 ____ 9 ____10 ____ 46

Collie D ___________10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 ___ 8 _____ 45

Reberetta _________10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 ____8 _____ 45

Dave the Rave _____ 10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 9 ___ 8 _____ 45

Sawduck __________ 9 _____ 8 _____ 10 ____10 ___8 _____45

Lassykk __________ 10 _____ 8 _____ 9 ____ 10 ___ 8 ____ 45

Rikand ___________ 10 _____ 9 ____ 10 ____ 7 ____ 9 ____ 45

Rainbow Trout ______9 ______9 _____10____ 7 ____10 ____ 45

Homer J. Fong _____ 10 _____ 9 _____ 9 ____ 7 ___ 10 ____ 45

Hello2DPersonBelow _ 9 _____ 8 _____10 ____ 9 ____ 8 ____ 44

A.S.LevarBurton ___ 10 _____ 9 _____ 5 ____10 ____ 9 ____ 43

Trigger ___________10 _____ 8 _____ 9 ____ 7 ____ 8 ____ 42

Ted_YNWA ________10 _____ 9 _____ 5 _____9 ____ 9 ____ 42

Strawberry Milkshake_9 _____ 9 _____ 5 _____9 ____ 9 ____ 41

Aaron Jennings ____ 10 _____ 9 _____ 5 ____ 7 ___ 10 ____ 41

Yozico ___________ 10 _____ 9 _____ 5 _____7 ____ 9 ____ 40

Heidi Heidi ________10 _____ 9 _____ 5 ____ 7 ____ 9 ____ 40

Irish Aris

Irish Aris wrote: »

I don't think I have ever been on top at any stage of any sheep/peehs/heeps!!!

There’s only one direction ya can go when you’ve reached the top

Irish Aris

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

There’s only one direction ya can go when you’ve reached the top

Yes, and it just begun!!! :pac:

y0ssar1an22

10 points separating top from bottom!

and go on the irish sea, was the only one i could think of

M.T. Cranium

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Bering -- Strawberry Milkshake, Gru

I SEA you have crabs too

M.T. Cranium

Somebody said Baring Sea, not bloody likely ...

Declan A Walsh

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

10 points separating top from bottom!

........

All to play for so!

M.T. Cranium

This is part six and not only that, the second half of the reveal. As you know that can be much nicer than the first part.

Concentrate ...


(Q2) _ Longest Rivers

Now it is time to go inland, on the world's greatest rivers. Just like with the lakes, I am going to force you to read the entire list. No fine print details to worry about here, first thirty on the list are good-good. So long as your guess identifies any reasonably long portion of a complex river system as named by the wikipedia list, then you're fine. (e.g., Mississippi-Missouri, either of those alone would suffice).

Sorry but two chose a famous and almost long enough river (Ganges), I would have thought it was top thirty also, but apparently not. I did try to vet the entries for errors, but like I said blah blah passenger assumes the risk blah blah. Also it's not part of the Brahmaputra, they try to form one river at the mouths but I am told by very reliable sources (experts like) that they are separate river systems (they certainly come at the Bay of Bengal with a vengeance from two different directions anyway). For you two, I will put totals in brackets that represent what you would have scored at any stage from now on, had we counted your guess (nine points).


Rank __ River (s) ____ chosen by __________ Points

__ 1 __ Nile _________ Ted_YNWA, lassykk __ 9

__ 2 __ Amazon ______ The Purple Tin _____ 10

__ 3 __ Yangtze ______ Rikand ___________ 10

__ 4 __ Miss-Miss _____ nobody dared ______ ---

__ 5 __ Yenesei _______ Aaron Jennings ____ 10

__ 6 __ Yellow (Hwang Ho) _ Heidi Heidi _____ 10

__ 7 __ Ob-Irtysh ______ (none) __________ ---

__ 8 __ Parana _____ Trigger, Ellie Wailing Schoolmaster _ 9

__ 9 __ Congo _________ (none) __________ ---

__10 __ Amur __________(none) __________ ---

__11 __ Lena ________ Sixtoes, Rainbow Trout __ 9

__12 __ Mekong __ Reberetta, Yozico, bubblypop, Quickbeam __ 7

__13 __ Mackenzie ____ Bob, Doug Mackenzie ___ beauty eh?

__14 __ Niger ________ (none) ______________ ---

__15 __ Brahmaputra __ (none) ______________ ---

__16 __ Murray Darling _ sheep dip nearby ____ ----

__17 __ Tocantins _____ first of the Amazon tribs, not selected

__18 __ Volga ________ Dave the Rave, Strawberry Milkshake __ 9

__19 __ Indus ________ no takers, lots of fakirs ________ ---

__20 __ Euphrates ____ afraid not _____________________ ---

__21 __ Madeira ______ sKeith __ another Amazon trib _ 10

__22 __ Purus ________ Zaph, sawduck __ ^^ ditto ^^ __ 9

__23 __ Yukon _______ AS LeVar Burton, Gru __ big nuggets they're findin' (9)

__24 __ Sao Francisco _ Three More Big Sleeps ________________ 10

__25 __ Syr Darya ____ done with that Aral Sea nonsense __ ---

__26 __ Salween ______ That's Myanmar, no it's myanmar. ______ ---

__27 __ St Lawrence ___ mostly lakes when you get down to it __ ----

__28 __ Rio Grande ____ Mehaffey1, Declan A Walsh __________ 9

__29 __ Lower Tunguska _ (none) _________________________ ---

__30 __ Danube ______ Irish Aris, Collie D __________________ 9

__35 __ Ganges ______ Y0ssar1an22, Homer J Fong __________ 0 (not top 30)

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As we are now into part two or the second half, the scores will be posted as totals only (from the existing first half totals which you can check back in the previous section).


ENTRANT ______ First half __ Rivers __ TOTAL


Sixtoes ___________ 50 _____ 9 ____ 59

3 More Big Sleeps ___49 _____10 ____59

Irish Aris __________48_____ 9 _____57

Zaph _____________48 _____ 9 ____ 57

sKeith ____________47 _____10 ____ 57

Gru ______________47 _____ 9 ____ 56

Mehaffey1 _________47 _____ 9 ____ 56

Quickbeam ________ 49 _____7 ____ 56

The Purple Tin _____ 46 _____10 ____ 56

Declan A Walsh ____ 46 _____ 9 _____ 55

Rikand ___________ 45 _____10 _____55

Collie D ___________45 _____ 9 _____54

Dave the Rave _____ 45 _____ 9 _____54

Sawduck __________45 _____ 9 _____54

Lassykk __________ 45 _____ 9 _____54

Rainbow Trout _____ 45______9 _____54

Bubblypop _________46 _____ 7 ____ 53

Hello2DPersonBelow _44 _____ 9 _____53

A.S.LevarBurton ____43 _____ 9 _____52

Reberetta _________45 _____ 7 _____52

Trigger ___________ 42 _____ 9 _____51

Ted_YNWA ________ 42 _____ 9 _____51

Aaron Jennings ____ 41 _____ 10 ____ 51

Strawberry Milkshake_41 _____ 9 ____ 50

Heidi Heidi ________40 _____10_____ 50

Yozico ___________ 40 _____ 7 _____ 47

Y0ssar1an22 ______ 46 _____ 0 _____ 46 (55)^^

Homer J. Fong _____ 45 _____ 0 _____ 45 (54)^^

^^ points without Ganges d.q. (nine additional)
(just for interest)

Irish Aris

phew, that was very close with Danube, I thought it would be higher

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I'll just be happy if I don't come last. I rushed in with some answers and didn't really read the instructions properly.

y0ssar1an22

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I'll just be happy if I don't come last. I rushed in with some answers and didn't really read the instructions properly.

i kinda want the wooden spoon :pac:

M.T. Cranium

I will be happy if I stay awake until question ten, this was a lot more work than I figured it might be (rookie mistake) ...

Anyway, on to part seven I think it would be, now we're getting into the back stretch jostling and shoving part.


(Q3) _ Largest Islands

Time now to go island hopping, and yes it cannot be Australia or Greenland, cleared that up with one or two of you, anyone seen John Daly since we left? Or that actress? The pretty one?

I'm afraid to say that you must suffer through one more list of thirty and for the umpteenth time I will mention Greenland is verboten from this whole conversation. Frankly, I don't believe there's an island under that ice, just lots and lots of ice, and if it all melted, the place would hardly be green anyway, so I'm done with that whole business, sue me Eric the Red (who probably wasn't red).

So if we totally ignore Greenland and take the wiki-list from 2 to 31 as being really 1 to 30, these are the possible guesses and how you fit into this complicated almost insoluble puzzle. Well it's nowhere near insoluble, I am just waiting for the kettle to boil as I need coffee and I need it bad or this whole 8 p.m. reveal is going to be an 8:30 hey sorry I'm late which I know from past experience is not a good idea with pro golfers and presidents, actresses maybe can handle it.

We were talking about islands ...

Rank __ Island _____ You guessed it ______ Your points

_ 01 __ New Guinea __ none ________ ---

_ 02 __ Borneo ______ Ted _ YNWA _______ 10

_ 03 __ Madagascar __YOssar1an22, Strawberry Milkshake, Heidi Heidi __ 8

_ 04 __ Baffin _______ Sixtoes, Ellie Wailing Schoolmaster, Collie D ___ 8

_ 05 __ Sumatra _____ none ________ ---

_ 06 __ Honshu ______ Yozico, Homer J Fong, Gru, Irish Aris ____ 7

_ 07 __ Victoria ______ none ___________ ---

_ 08 __ Great Britain __ Dave the Rave, lassykk _______ 9

_ 09 __ Ellesmere _____Three More Big Sleeps ________10

_ 10 __ Sulawesi ______none ___________ ---

_ 11 __ South Island NZ __ __" ___________ ---

_ 12 __ Java _________ Trigger, sawduck ___ 9

_ 13 __ North Island NZ _ Rikand _________ 10

_ 14 __ Luzon _________ Rainbow Trout ___ 10

_ 15 __ Newfoundland __ none __________ ---

_ 16 __ Cuba _________ Mehaffey1, bubblypop __ 9

_ 17 __ Iceland ________ none __________---

_ 18 __ Mindanao ______ none __________ ---

_ 19 __ Ireland ________ The Purple Tin ______ 10

_ 20 __ Hokkaido _______ none _________ ---

_ 21 __ Hispaniola ______ sKeith _____________ 10

_ 22 __ Sakhalin _______ AS LeVar Burton ______10

_ 23 __ Banks Island __ Zaph ________________ 10

_ 24 __ Sri Lanka _____ Reberetta ____________ 10

_ 25 __ Tasmania _____ Declan A Walsh _______ 10

_ 26 __ Devon Island __ Aaron Jennings _______ 10

(none of 27-30 were guessed)

_214 __ Maui _________ Quickbeam __________ 0

(will show scores for this guess being acceptable in brackets later)

With that exception, island scoring was quite good, making only minor changes in the standings, which are now as follows:

ENTRANT ______ First half+Rivers __ Islands __ TOTAL

3 More Big Sleeps __________59 _____10 ____69

Sixtoes __________________ 59 _____ 8 ____ 67

Zaph ____________________57 _____10 ____ 67

sKeith ___________________57 _____10 ____ 67

The Purple Tin ____________ 56 _____10 ____ 66

Mehaffey1 ________________56 _____ 9 ____ 65

Declan A Walsh ___________ 55 _____10 ____ 65

Rikand __________________ 55 _____10 ____ 65

Irish Aris _________________57_____ 7 _____ 64

Rainbow Trout ____________ 54_____ 10 _____64

Gru _____________________56 _____ 7 ____ 63

Dave the Rave ____________ 54 _____ 9 _____63

Sawduck _________________54 _____ 9 _____63

Lassykk _________________ 54 _____ 9 _____63

Collie D _________________ 54 _____ 8 _____ 62

Bubblypop _______________ 53 _____ 9 _____62

Reberetta ________________52 _____10 ____ 62

A.S.LevarBurton __________ 52 _____10 _____62

Ted_YNWA _______________51 _____10 _____61

Aaron Jennings ___________ 51 _____10 _____61

Hello2DPersonBelow _______ 53 _____ 8 _____61

Trigger __________________51 _____ 9 _____60

Strawberry Milkshake_______50 _____ 8 ____ 58

Heidi Heidi _______________50 _____ 8_____ 58

Quickbeam ______________ 56 _____ 0 ____ 56 (66) **

Yozico __________________ 47 _____ 7 _____ 54

Y0ssar1an22 _____________ 46 _____ 8 _____ 54 (63)^^

Homer J. Fong ____________ 45 _____ 7 _____ 52 (61)^^

^^ points without Ganges d.q. (nine additional)
(just for interest)

** points without Maui d.q. +10 (just for interest)


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Also Starring LeVar Burton

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

i kinda want the wooden spoon :pac:

Been there, done that...

aaronjennings

Forgot this was tonight, just caught up now

y0ssar1an22

aaronjennings wrote: »

Forgot this was tonight, just caught up now

you're closer to winning than you are to the wooden spoon

Declan A Walsh

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

you're closer to winning than you are to the wooden spoon

By 1 point!

aaronjennings

Yay, well done, me-from-several-days-ago :pac:

y0ssar1an22

i need to study my world geography

M.T. Cranium

Posting 8 and 9 together ... as I need to edit on a screen I can actually see ... which is this one ...


(Q4) _ Largest cities

We need a bit of night-life, not sure if these thirty largest cities can help or not. Wikipedia's list had mind-numbing variations on the theme but I mentioned "metropolitan area population" as the criterion. Will be somewhat lenient here as the list contains some blanks in that department for cities that obviously have more people than they can shake a stick at.
The only real question marks in this list of cities you provided would be London which is a bit lower in the table than 30th but as I count up metropolitan totals as opposed to UN estimates which seems to form the basis for ranks, London makes it into the top 30 there, and also Santiago (Chile) which is even more marginal, but could be in the top thirty in the category I specified, so I am going to count all entries as valid.
You know the drill, it’s ten points if you are alone with your selection, nine if you share with one other, eight for two others. The points are shown after your name(s). A new subtotal will follow.

London _____ YOssar1an22, lassykk ... 9

Tokyo ______ Strawberry Milkshake ... 10

Paris _______ Mehaffey1 ... 10

Chongqing __ Zaph ... 10

Mexico City __ Rikand, Trigger, Irish Aris, The Purple Tin ... 7

Los Angeles __ AS LeVar Burton, Ted_YNWA, Dave the Rave .... 8

Beijing ______ Sixtoes .... 10

Osaka _______ Aaron Jennings .... 10

Manila _______ Reberetta, Quickbeam .... 9

Dhaka _______ Yozico, Declan A Walsh .... 9

Karachi ______ Homer J Fong, Ellie Wailing Schoolmaster .... 9

Kinshasa _____ Three More Big Sleeps, Rainbow Trout .... 9

Moscow ______ sKeith .... 10

Istanbul _____ bubblypop .... 10

Santiago ____ Gru .... 10

Lagos ______ Heidi Heidi, Collie D .... 9

Sao Paolo __ sawduck .... 10


UPDATED POINTS TOTAL

ENTRANT _______ After “Islands” __ City __ TOTAL

3 More Big Sleeps _________ 69 _____ 9 ____ 78

Sixtoes __________________ 67 _____10 ____ 77

Zaph ____________________67 _____10 ____ 77

sKeith ___________________67 _____10 ____ 77

Mehaffey1 ________________65 _____10 ____ 75

Declan A Walsh ___________ 65 _____ 9 ____ 74

The Purple Tin ____________ 66 _____ 7 ____ 73

Rainbow Trout ____________ 64_____ 9 _____73

Gru _____________________63 _____10 ____ 73

Sawduck _________________63 _____10 _____73

Lassykk _________________ 63 _____ 9 _____72

Rikand __________________ 65 _____ 7 ____ 72

Bubblypop _______________62 _____10 _____72

Irish Aris _________________64_____ 7 _____ 71

Dave the Rave ____________ 63 _____ 8 _____71

Collie D _________________ 62 _____ 9 _____ 71

Reberetta ________________62 _____ 9 ____ 71

Aaron Jennings ___________ 61 _____10 _____71

A.S.LevarBurton __________ 62 _____ 8 _____70

Hello2DPersonBelow _______ 61 _____ 9 _____70

Ted_YNWA _______________61 _____ 8 _____69

Strawberry Milkshake_______58 _____10 ____ 68

Trigger __________________60 _____ 7 _____67

Heidi Heidi _______________58 _____ 9_____ 67

Quickbeam ______________ 56 _____ 9 ____ 65 (75) **

Yozico __________________ 54 _____ 9 _____ 63

Y0ssar1an22 _____________ 54 _____ 9 _____ 63 (72)^^

Homer J. Fong ____________ 52 _____ 9 _____ 61 (70)^^

^^ points without Ganges d.q. (nine additional)
(just for interest)

** points without Maui d.q. +10 (just for interest)

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(Q5) _ Football match

As to the football question, I have found scoring this to be an enormous challenge without checking the history of every football team I may or may not have heard of, so as long as I cannot spot any obvious error in your choice (as to countries that made the final four of the World Cup) then I'll give you a pass on how, when and where they won a championship, sure there's so many ways almost anyone could do it almost by accident (thinking of Leicester City) -- obviously top of a league table, winning the national Cup final, maybe even qualifying for Europe, or whatever -- let's get this cruise back to port, we've already lost three golfers, a former president, and a serving one too.

At some point we switched from the airplane to a boat, I don't know, very confusing these world tours.

The thread will remain open forever in case anyone wants to challenge any aspects of scoring, I will promise to give it my divided attention but my main focus is on spending the 28 times 85,000 euros which I think is going to work out pretty high up there, just at a guess, over a million anyway (math not my strong suit) ... one million dollars that's for sure, right Donald? Donald? Anyone seen the President?

(I did check one or two of these and all seems legit)

Scoring here is mainly all 9s and 10s ... except that Real Madrid was chosen by four and worth only seven points (and a hundred billion euros) ...


Barcelona ___ Rainbow Trout (10)

Ajax ________ Mehaffey1 (10)

Feyenoord ___ Heidi Heidi (10)

A.C. Milan ____ sawduck (10)

Porto _______ Ellie Wailing Schoolmaster (10)

Chelsea _____ AS LeVar Burton (10)

Arsenal _____ Irish Aris (10)

Leicester City _ Sixtoes (10)

Atletico Madrid _ Collie D (10)

Danubio (URU) _ Aaron Jennings (10)

Bursaspor ____ Reberetta (10)

Basaksehir ___ Yozico (10)

Beziktas _____ Homer J Fong (10)

Monaco ______ Three More Big Sleeps (10)

Estudiantes de la Plata __ sKeith (10)

Pohang (SK) __ lassykk (10)

Dinamo Zagreb __ Trigger (10)

Bayern Munich ___ Declan A Walsh (10)

Fenerbache __ Y0ssar1an22, bubblypop (9)

Montpellier ___ Zaph, Gru (9)

Inter Milan ___ Rikand, Dave the Rave (9)

Real Madrid ___ Ted_YNWA, Strawberry Milkshake, Quickbeam, The Purple Tin (7)

Updated scoring after football ...

ENTRANT _______ After “City” __ Football __ TOTAL

3 More Big Sleeps _________ 78 _____10 ____ 88

Sixtoes __________________77 _____10 ____ 87

sKeith ___________________77 _____10 ____ 87

Zaph ____________________77 _____ 9 ____ 86

Mehaffey1 ________________75 _____10 ____ 85

Declan A Walsh ___________ 74 _____ 10 ____ 84

Rainbow Trout ____________ 73_____10 _____83

Sawduck _________________73 _____10 _____83

Gru _____________________73 _____ 9 ____ 82

Lassykk _________________ 72 _____ 10 _____82

Rikand __________________ 72 _____ 9 _____ 81

Bubblypop _______________72 ______ 9 _____81

Irish Aris ________________ 71_____ 10 _____ 81

Collie D _________________ 71 _____ 10 _____ 81

Reberetta ________________71 _____ 10 ____ 81

Aaron Jennings ___________ 71 _____10 _____81

The Purple Tin ____________ 73 _____ 7 _____ 80

Dave the Rave ____________ 71 _____ 9 _____ 80

A.S.LevarBurton __________ 70 _____ 10 _____80

Hello2DPersonBelow _______ 70 _____ 10 _____80

Trigger __________________70 _____ 10 _____77

Heidi Heidi _______________67 _____ 10_____ 77

Ted_YNWA _______________69 ______ 7 _____76

Strawberry Milkshake_______68 ______ 7 _____75

Yozico __________________ 63 _____ 10 _____ 73

Quickbeam ______________ 65 ______ 7 ____ 72 (82) **

Y0ssar1an22 _____________ 63 _____ 9 _____ 72 (81)^^

Homer J. Fong ____________61 _____ 10 _____ 71 (80)^^

^^ points without Ganges d.q. (nine additional)
(just for interest)

** points without Maui d.q. +10 (just for interest)


This brings us to the penultimate scoring total heading into the SHEEP dip ...

aaronjennings

Delighted with 10 points for Danubio, I was worried it would be so obscure that more people would pick it

y0ssar1an22

aaronjennings wrote: »

Delighted with 10 points for Danubio, I was worried it would be so obscure that more people would pick it

ah yeah, named after the danube by 2 bulgarians!

M.T. Cranium

So now we change the paradigm (in mid-flight, who wants to join me on the wing?) ... and look for a popular answer instead.

How ridiculous is that?

Good question, here's the answer to all that. I had no idea this was going to happen until it did ... could be sorting this out with the UN and various other stakeholders for many days to come.

Now for that final and perhaps decisive category, SHEEP to the front please ... this one depends on your choice being popular. Can you imagine it? I have simplified some guesses here so basically it's either a country, city or well known attraction, if one said Eiffel Tower and another one said Paris, same thing in my mind, or Egypt and pyramids, Canada and mind-numbing boredom of the lockdown extending, wait a minute nobody's going to choose that. Surprised nobody chose Ystad what with the great popularity of Wallander and the obviously liberal attitudes of the beautiful women and handsome men who live there (supposedly). But it is fictional I suppose.

Here we have a very clustered result. Half of you chose Paris and I think almost without exception the wording was either Paris -- Eiffel Tower or just Eiffel Tower. So that half of the field will score the maximum of ten points. It should be 14 points but I don't think it will affect the outcome (I wasn't expecting this question would score more than ten, were you?) ...

Two locations had two votes each (New York City and Egypt) so those four entrants will share two points each, while ten other locations had just one big fan (and one big point).

Paris ______ Mehaffey1, Zaph, Rikand, Aaron Jennings, Yozico, Homer J Fong, Dave the Rave, bubblypop, lassykk, Strawberry Milkshake, Gru, Rainbow Trout, Ellie Wailing Schoolmaster, Heidi Heidi

New York City ___ Declan A Walsh, Irish Aris

Egypt _____ Purple Tin, Sawduck

Amsterdam _ AlsoStarring LeVarBurton

Dublin (guinness) _ Sixtoes

Washington DC __ Ted_YNWA

Disney World ____ Reberetta

Disneyland ______ Collie D

Australia (Uluru) _ Three More Big Sleeps

Grand Canyon ___ sKeith

Costa del Sol ____ Trigger

Rome _____ Y0ssar1an22

Majorca ___ Quickbeam

(Disneyland is the attraction in California and Disney World in Florida, so I considered these to be different entries).

So with that last explosion of points, here's the final standings:


ENTRANT _______ After 9 PEEHS __ SHEEP __ TOTAL


Zaph ____________________86 ____ 10 ____96 winner winner chicken dinner

Mehaffey1 ________________85 ____ 10 ____95 2nd overall -- well done

Rainbow Trout ____________ 83_____10 ____93 Bronze medal

Gru _____________________82 ____ 10 ____92

Lassykk _________________ 82 ____ 10 ____ 92

Rikand __________________ 81 ____ 10 ____ 91

Bubblypop _______________ 81 ____ 10 ____ 91

Aaron Jennings ___________ 81 ____ 10 ____ 91

Hello2DPersonBelow _______ 80 ____ 10 ____ 90

Dave the Rave ____________80 ____ 10 ____ 90

3 More Big Sleeps _________ 88 _____1 ____ 89

Sixtoes __________________87 _____1 ____ 88

sKeith ___________________87 _____1 ____ 88

Heidi Heidi _______________77 ____ 10 ____ 87

Declan A Walsh ___________ 84 _____ 2 ____ 86

Sawduck _________________83 _____ 2 ____ 85

Strawberry Milkshake_______75 ____ 10 ____ 85

Yozico __________________ 73 ____ 10 ____ 83

Irish Aris ________________ 81 _____ 2 ____ 83

Collie D _________________ 81 _____ 1 ____ 82

Reberetta ________________81 _____ 1 ____ 82

The Purple Tin ____________80 _____ 2 ____ 82

A.S.LevarBurton __________ 80 _____ 1 ____ 81

Homer J. Fong ____________71 ____ 10 ____ 81 (90)^^

Trigger __________________77 _____ 1 ____ 78

Ted_YNWA _______________76 _____ 1 ____ 77

Quickbeam ______________ 72 _____ 1 ____ 73 (83) **

Y0ssar1an22 _____________ 72 _____ 1 ____ 73 (82)^^


^^ points without Ganges d.q. (nine additional)
(just for interest)

** points without Maui d.q. +10 (just for interest)

________________________________________________

As it happens, none of the d.q. situations really cost anyone the top prize ... which is good.

This contest was fun to organize and score, hope you enjoyed it.

I will return to the thread after I get some rest, kind of extended my day from yesterday into today and not too sure what to plan next, will return when I can deal with any requests or amendments that people might discover, as I feel like there has to be at least one blunder here somewhere.

As to mixing PEEHS and SHEEP in the same contest, was that a good thing or a bad thing? I am leaning towards bad thing, but hey, in the advanced sciences, you have to blow up a few grad students before you can get that Nobel prize.

Thank you for being my collateral damage. Still wondering what happened to Daly.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Not last. I'll take it.

Great game Cranium!

Congrats Zaph!!!

aaronjennings

Congrats Zaph

And huge thanks for the game and the reveal, MT, you clearly put a massive amount of work into this, fair play to ya

Zaph

Holy crap, I was not expecting that!

MT, that was a truly Herculean effort, thanks for running such an epic game.

Well done Zaph!
Congrats on that spoon yosser!

Thank you so much for hosting MT. That was fun

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