The Forum Games Sheepish Advent Calendar 2020!

Collie D

I looked at a picture. It’s more like a snow hill with a snow tower sticking out of it. I’m calling bull**** on that 38 metres.

I’m not too far off the correct answer. But that means nuttin.

Electric Nitwit

OK, let's go!

Today's median was 30m, not too far off!
8 people scored the maximum 10pts

Shelly and Shane got a bit excited...

Player | Guess | Score
Declan A Walsh | 4.5 | 3.5
looksee | 6 | 3.8
Mam of 4 | 7 | 4.1
Purgative | 7 | 4.1
Collie D | 10 | 4.9
Homer J. Fong | 10 | 4.9
Ted_YNWA | 10 | 4.9
the purple tin | 12 | 5.4
Also Starring LeVar Burton | 12.8 | 5.6
TRS30 | 15 | 6.2
Barney92 | 17 | 6.7
aaronjennings | 20 | 7.4
Mollyb60 | 20 | 7.4
Trigger | 20 | 7.4
Zaph | 20 | 7.4
mirrorwall14 | 23 | 8.2
Hyblaeus | 25 | 8.7
cee_jay | 30 | 10.0
Ectoplasm | 30 | 10.0
JohnGreenFan | 30 | 10.0
Loughc | 30 | 10.0
rainbowtrout | 30 | 10.0
Sephiroth_dude | 30 | 10.0
Toto Wolfcastle | 30 | 10.0
tscul32 | 30 | 10.0
Strawberry Milkshake | 31 | 9.7
Reberetta | 33 | 9.2
Siobh73 | 33 | 9.2
kitten_k | 35 | 8.7
Necro | 35 | 8.7
Posy | 35 | 8.7
khalessi | 37 | 8.2
Green&Red | 38 | 7.9
duffman13 | 40 | 7.4
HeidiHeidi | 40 | 7.4
Skyler Scarce Frown | 40 | 7.4
hurlingman97 | 42 | 6.9
bubblypop | 50 | 4.9
DvB | 50 | 4.9
Irish Aris | 50 | 4.9
Kolido | 50 | 4.9
Neowise | 50 | 4.9
Spook_ie | 50 | 4.9
davetherave | 53 | 4.1
Builebeag | 56 | 3.3
mustang shelly | 90 | -5.4
ShaneU | 100 | -8.0

Electric Nitwit

GnR and Duffman score similarly, but the chasing pack is gaining on them!

At the bottom, ASLB closes the gap on Declan, could the great escape be on?

Place | Player | Old total | Today's score | Total
1 (1) | Green&Red | 182.1 | 7.9 | 190.1
2 (2) | duffman13 | 182.1 | 7.4 | 189.5
3 (4) | JohnGreenFan | 176.9 | 10.0 | 186.9
4 (3) | Siobh73 | 177.2 | 9.2 | 186.5
5 (5) | rainbowtrout | 176.0 | 10.0 | 186.0
6 (6) | Loughc | 175.6 | 10.0 | 185.6
7 (9) | cee_jay | 172.1 | 10.0 | 182.1
8 (11) | Toto Wolfcastle | 171.3 | 10.0 | 181.3
9 (8) | Necro | 172.1 | 8.7 | 180.9
10 (12) | Posy | 170.5 | 8.7 | 179.2
11 (10) | hurlingman97 | 171.7 | 6.9 | 178.7
12 (7) | DvB | 173.1 | 4.9 | 178.0
13 (14) | Reberetta | 164.8 | 9.2 | 174.1
14 (13) | Trigger | 165.1 | 7.4 | 172.6
15 (15) | Zaph | 164.0 | 7.4 | 171.4
16 (17) | mirrorwall14 | 162.8 | 8.2 | 171.0
17 (16) | Homer J. Fong | 162.9 | 4.9 | 167.7
18 (19) | khalessi | 159.0 | 8.2 | 167.2
19 (18) | davetherave | 159.8 | 4.1 | 163.9
20 (20) | TRS30 | 156.0 | 6.2 | 162.1
21 (22) | Collie D | 151.4 | 4.9 | 156.2
22 (25) | HeidiHeidi | 147.7 | 7.4 | 155.1
23 (24) | Irish Aris | 150.0 | 4.9 | 154.9
24 (27) | tscul32 | 144.7 | 10.0 | 154.7
25 (23) | Builebeag | 151.2 | 3.3 | 154.6
26 (28) | Ectoplasm | 142.8 | 10.0 | 152.8
27 (26) | Neowise | 147.6 | 4.9 | 152.5
28 (29) | Hyblaeus | 139.3 | 8.7 | 148.0
29 (32) | Sephiroth_dude | 136.7 | 10.0 | 146.7
30 (21) | ShaneU | 152.2 | -8.0 | 144.2
31 (30) | Kolido | 137.4 | 4.9 | 142.3
32 (33) | aaronjennings | 134.4 | 7.4 | 141.9
33 (31) | Mam of 4 | 136.7 | 4.1 | 140.8
34 (34) | Spook_ie | 133.7 | 4.9 | 138.6
35 (35) | bubblypop | 127.4 | 4.9 | 132.2
36 (36) | Barney92 | 125.4 | 6.7 | 132.1
37 (39) | Mollyb60 | 114.9 | 7.4 | 122.3
38 (38) | Ted_YNWA | 117.3 | 4.9 | 122.1
39 (40) | the purple tin | 112.5 | 5.4 | 117.9
40 (43) | Strawberry Milkshake | 107.9 | 9.7 | 117.6
41 (41) | Skyler Scarce Frown | 109.4 | 7.4 | 116.8
42 (42) | Purgative | 108.6 | 4.1 | 112.7
43 (37) | mustang shelly | 117.4 | -5.4 | 112.0
44 (44) | kitten_k | 97.9 | 8.7 | 106.6
45 (45) | looksee | 96.9 | 3.8 | 100.8
46 (46) | Declan A Walsh | 96.3 | 3.5 | 99.8
47 (47) | Also Starring LeVar Burton | 91.5 | 5.6 | 97.1

Yesssssss

Purgative

I thought it was a couple of lads with shovels, probably after a rake of pints.


Didn't imagine diggers and snow canons:(

Posy

I'm in... I've... I have made it to the TOP 10!!!!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

My first thought was to go 33... Kicking myself now, could've gotten out of last place for a day before ending up back there tomorrow...

Necro

God dammit now I've got the Great Escape theme in my head.

*wanders off whistling*

Electric Nitwit

Purgative wrote: »

I thought it was a couple of lads with shovels, probably after a rake of pints

Wait until Shelly hits the sherry!

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

God dammit now I've got the Great Escape theme in my head.

*wanders off whistling*

You're slipping out of the top ten, you should think more about the Self Preservation Society

hurlingman97

Posy wrote: »

I'm in... I've... I have made it to the TOP 10!!!!

This hurt more than I'm willing to admit •́ ‿ ,•̀

Necro

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

You're slipping out of the top ten, you should think more about the Self Preservation Society

Does this mean you don't see me winning this EN :eek:

I mean... it's starting to look slightly unlikely I guess...

ShaneU

Some of these records are seriously unimpressive, we can do better :pac:

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

Does this mean you don't see me winning this EN :eek:

I mean... it's starting to look slightly unlikely I guess...

looksee

Declan, how did you manage to guess less than me? You needed so little to overtake me but there we all are in the same order huddled at the bottom of the list.

Electric Nitwit

ShaneU wrote: »

Some of these records are seriously unimpressive, we can do better :pac:

If it snowed here as much as Spook_ie thought, it would cover a tree as tall as Aaron can imagine. Stick a face on that and you've got a snowman bigger than even you can believe, Shane!

looksee

I don't think it counts as a snowman unless you can roll a big round snowball for a body and a smaller one for a head, then lift the head onto the body. All these machines and gimmicks and gizmos are cheating!

Green&Red

Current mood

Sephiroth_dude

OMG 10 Points and up 3 places !

Collie D

looksee wrote: »

I don't think it counts as a snowman unless you can roll a big round snowball for a body and a smaller one for a head, then lift the head onto the body. All these machines and gimmicks and gizmos are cheating!

I have serious doubts about whether the nose is actually a carrot too.

Bull**** snowman.

Spook_ie

We should organise a large hat of bin liners and some wheely bins (black for the eyes and mouth, orange for the nose ) and next time we have snow in the Dublin Mountains turn the Sugarloaf into a giant snowman 500m tall

Declan A Walsh

Spook_ie wrote: »

We should organise a large hat of bin liners and some wheely bins (black for the eyes and mouth, orange for the nose ) and next time we have snow in the Dublin Mountains turn the Sugarloaf into a giant snowman 500m tall

The Sugarloaf is in Wicklow!

Declan A Walsh

looksee wrote: »

Declan, how did you manage to guess less than me? You needed so little to overtake me but there we all are in the same order huddled at the bottom of the list.

I just need to get just over 1 point more than you to overtake you... so watch out!

tscul32

My first 10 pointer and I have my little fact eating elf to thank for it. He told me it was around 37m but we decided people would guess 30. Showed him the answer and he said that record was only made this year and he hasn't got the new book yet. It was 37.x before! Sometimes kids come in handy.

OH FOR **** SAKE AKE

Electric Nitwit

Good morning elves, welcome to day 23 of the Forum Games Sheepish Advent Calendar!


Getting close to the big man's arrival now!


For the sake of argument, let's assume Santa's first stop is in Ireland, specifically Malin Head...
Q23: How far, in kilometres, is it from the North Pole to Ireland?

As always, PM me your answer before 7pm.
Reveal around 8ish

Necro

Wild uneducated guess submitted.

And now we play the waiting game....

Oh........ Maybe this sounds stupid, where is the North Pole??????

I know Santa lives in Finland........ But is that the North Pole? Am I showing my ignorance.......
Perhaps I'm overthinking...... It probably doesn't matter what the correct answer is!!!

Electric Nitwit

bubblypop wrote: »

Oh........ Maybe this sounds stupid, where is the North Pole??????

I know Santa lives in Finland........ But is that the North Pole? Am I showing my ignorance.......
Perhaps I'm overthinking...... It probably doesn't matter what the correct answer is!!!

If you keep going North there's a point where you go over the top and start going south on the other side, you've just passed the North Pole!

Or imagine a globe (with or without drinks hidden inside it), the North and South poles are where it's held in place