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The Forum Games Sheepish Advent Calendar 2020!

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  • #482
    Siobh73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭Siobh73


    hurlingman97 wrote: »
    I was 90% sure the answer was 0.
    Glad I decided to guess now :')

    I was worried about that possibility too!


  • #483
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,003 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I'm slightly reassured by the posts since the actual number was announced...... I wonder am I the outside outlier this time???

    Shuda gone with my first instinct :mad: (maybe?)


  • #484
    Reberetta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭Reberetta


    My lead is gone anyway.


  • #485
    mirrorwall14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,730 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    I chose 17. Because I like the number lol

    I did hover on zero for quite a while but I was pretty sure it was mentioned at least once or twice


  • #486
    Purgative
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Purgative


    mirrorwall14 wrote: »
    I chose 17. Because I like the number lol

    I did hover on zero for quite a while but I was pretty sure it was mentioned at least once or twice


    Me too. Then I changed to something ridiculous.


    In reality I was just trying to protect Reberetta's lead :)


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  • #487
    davetherave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭davetherave


    mirrorwall14 wrote: »
    I chose 17. Because I like the number lol

    Snap, so did I. I don't know if there was some little post-it stuck on the back of a page full of doodles in a folder in a filling cabinet in the old brain bag that did actually know or hear the answer was 17 (or close to it), or it really was a case of Oh God, I don't know, sod it 17 will do.


  • #488
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 26,347 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    From YLYL.
    Beric Dondarrion wrote: »
    AxfN74Vm.jpg


    www.christmasboards.com



  • #489
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,037 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Purgative wrote: »
    In reality I was just trying to protect Reberetta's lead :)
    source.gif
    Purgative and Reberetta


  • #490
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,037 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    OK, let's go!

    The median today was 17!
    So, so close, the wisdom of crowds is a thing :p

    The standard deviation was a pretty whopping 29, meaning even if you'd said zero (no one did) you'd have got 7 points. If you guessed triple figures though, there's bad news coming...

    3 people get full marks, 22 people get 9+


  • #491
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,037 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Q4: Christmas mentions in Die Hard

    Player | Guess | Score
    bubblypop | 2 | 7.4
    Reberetta | 2 | 7.4
    Ted_YNWA | 4 | 7.8
    Homer J. Fong | 6 | 8.1
    Builebeag | 7 | 8.3
    Mollyb60 | 7 | 8.3
    Spook_ie | 8 | 8.5
    JohnGreenFan | 10 | 8.8
    mustang shelly | 10 | 8.8
    TRS30 | 10 | 8.8
    Zaph | 11 | 9.0
    hurlingman97 | 12 | 9.1
    Irish Aris | 12 | 9.1
    Trigger | 12 | 9.1
    aaronjennings | 12 | 9.1
    ShaneU | 12 | 9.1
    Declan A Walsh | 14 | 9.5
    Loughc | 14 | 9.5
    Necro | 15 | 9.7
    Neowise | 15 | 9.7
    Posy | 15 | 9.7
    Toto Wolfcastle | 15 | 9.7
    kitten_k | 17 | 10.0
    mirrorwall14 | 17 | 10.0
    davetherave | 17 | 10.0
    DvB | 18 | 9.8
    Skyler Scarce Frown | 18 | 9.8
    cee_jay | 20 | 9.5
    khalessi | 20 | 9.5
    tscul32 | 20 | 9.5
    Ectoplasm | 22 | 9.1
    Also Starring LeVar Burton | 23 | 9.0
    Siobh73 | 25 | 8.6
    Collie D | 30 | 7.8
    Kolido | 32 | 7.4
    Purgative | 34 | 7.1
    rainbowtrout | 37 | 6.6
    the purple tin | 42 | 5.7
    Barney92 | 45 | 5.2
    Green&Red | 50 | 4.4
    Strawberry Milkshake | 62 | 2.3
    duffman13 | 75 | 0.1
    Mam of 4 | 79 | -0.6
    Hyblaeus | 100 | -4.2
    Sephiroth_dude | 100 | -4.2
    HeidiHeidi | 142 | -11.4


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  • #492
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,190 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    FFS ! 🤬🤬🤬


  • #493
    Trigger
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,051 Mod ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    Not bad, recovered a bit after the last feck up

    HEIDI! WTF! That would mean it was said at greater than one every minute :pac:

    Moderator: Forum Games, Conspiracy Theories, Current Affairs/IMHO



  • #494
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,037 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    So Reb holds on at the top... just! It's very close up there
    And it's a bad tumble for Heidi and Hyblaeus

    I've added yesterday's position in brackets...

    Place | Player | Old total | Today's score | Total
    1 (1) | Reberetta | 27.3 | 7.4 | 34.8
    2 (5) | davetherave | 24.8 | 10.0 | 34.8
    3 (6) | kitten_k | 24.4 | 10.0 | 34.4
    4 (3) | Siobh73 | 25.3 | 8.6 | 33.9
    5 (7) | Loughc | 23.9 | 9.5 | 33.4
    6 (11) | Irish Aris | 23.3 | 9.1 | 32.5
    7 (13) | khalessi | 23.0 | 9.5 | 32.4
    8 (12) | mustang shelly | 23.2 | 8.8 | 32.0
    9 (2) | Green&Red | 27.1 | 4.4 | 31.4
    10 (15) | TRS30 | 22.5 | 8.8 | 31.3
    11 (8) | bubblypop | 23.7 | 7.4 | 31.2
    12 (18) | DvB | 21.2 | 9.8 | 31.0
    13 (19) | Neowise | 21.2 | 9.7 | 30.8
    14 (21) | ShaneU | 21.1 | 9.1 | 30.2
    15 (9) | rainbowtrout | 23.5 | 6.6 | 30.1
    16 (20) | JohnGreenFan | 21.1 | 8.8 | 29.9
    17 (23) | hurlingman97 | 20.7 | 9.1 | 29.9
    18 (17) | Collie D | 21.5 | 7.8 | 29.3
    19 (22) | Builebeag | 20.9 | 8.3 | 29.2
    20 (25) | Zaph | 20.1 | 9.0 | 29.0
    21 (24) | Homer J. Fong | 20.7 | 8.1 | 28.8
    22 (16) | the purple tin | 22.0 | 5.7 | 27.8
    23 (27) | Ectoplasm | 18.5 | 9.1 | 27.6
    24 (28) | Declan A Walsh | 18.0 | 9.5 | 27.5
    25 (30) | mirrorwall14 | 17.4 | 10.0 | 27.4
    26 (29) | Posy | 17.7 | 9.7 | 27.3
    27 (26) | Ted_YNWA | 19.4 | 7.8 | 27.2
    28 (32) | Necro | 17.2 | 9.7 | 26.8
    29 (31) | cee_jay | 17.3 | 9.5 | 26.8
    30 (33) | Also Starring LeVar Burton | 16.8 | 9.0 | 25.8
    31 (36) | Skyler Scarce Frown | 14.8 | 9.8 | 24.7
    32 (37) | Toto Wolfcastle | 13.9 | 9.7 | 23.6
    33 (10) | duffman13 | 23.4 | 0.1 | 23.5
    34 (39) | Trigger | 13.4 | 9.1 | 22.5
    35 (38) | Spook_ie | 13.4 | 8.5 | 21.9
    36 (34) | Barney92 | 15.9 | 5.2 | 21.1
    37 (4) | Hyblaeus | 25.2 | -4.2 | 21.0
    38 (40) | Kolido | 13.2 | 7.4 | 20.6
    39 (43) | aaronjennings | 11.1 | 9.1 | 20.3
    40 (42) | Mollyb60 | 11.3 | 8.3 | 19.6
    41 (35) | Mam of 4 | 15.7 | -0.6 | 15.1
    42 (44) | Purgative | 7.8 | 7.1 | 14.9
    43 (46) | tscul32 | 4.3 | 9.5 | 13.8
    44 (14) | HeidiHeidi | 22.6 | -11.4 | 11.3
    45 (41) | Sephiroth_dude | 12.3 | -4.2 | 8.1
    46 (45) | Strawberry Milkshake | 4.6 | 2.3 | 6.9


  • #495
    Necro
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 57,891 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Bah, I knew the answer. But it cost me 0.1 of a point going for 15 so I'll get over it somehow :D

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling, State Benefits



  • #496
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,003 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    My most spectacular fail yet, in these forum games.

    Morto!!


  • #497
    Trigger
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,051 Mod ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    My most spectacular fail yet, in these forum games.

    Morto!!

    Maybe you were hearing Christmas for each bullet sound

    Moderator: Forum Games, Conspiracy Theories, Current Affairs/IMHO



  • #498
    Reberetta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭Reberetta


    I dodged a bullet much like Bruce Willis himself. Warning: I won't make the same mistake again.*





    *Yes I will.


  • #499
    Purgative
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Purgative


    Trigger wrote: »
    Not bad, recovered a bit after the last feck up

    HEIDI! WTF! That would mean it was said at greater than one every minute :pac:


    Mind you one stage I thought - what if he fired a machine gun and said Christmas (very fast indeed) when he fired it. Thankfully I discarded that idea quite quickly.


  • #500
    Reberetta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭Reberetta


    I just googled.Die Hard is 132 minutes long.

    HeidiHeidi said 142. ;)


  • #501
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,003 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Reberetta wrote: »
    I just googled.Die Hard is 132 minutes long.

    HeidiHeidi said 142. ;)

    :eek:

    I did try and figure that equation out, but lost interest fairly quickly....

    And can I just reiterate - I'VE NEVER SEEN THE FILM!!

    (I accept if I'd bothered doing the maths I might have come up with a marginally better answer!)


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  • #502
    Reberetta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭Reberetta


    Only 21 days to go, looks like I'm home and dry. Call it now Electric Nitwit.


  • #503
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,405 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    EN, a few of those scores don't add up in the table. The ones I've spotted, including my own, are out by 0.1. Might make a difference at the end.


  • #504
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    FFS ! 🀬🀬🀬

    The spoon is in your sights!!! Do it for mam!!! :D


  • #505
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,190 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    8.1 points what an fupping joke like!


  • #506
    davetherave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭davetherave


    Maybe everybody else is wrong, and there is a cd playing at the party that is just Fairy Tale of New York and Last Christmas playing on repeat and everytime a scene cuts back to the office floor it is playing in the background and Heidi is right :eek:


  • #507
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,037 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Zaph wrote: »
    EN, a few of those scores don't add up in the table. The ones I've spotted, including my own, are out by 0.1. Might make a difference at the end.
    Phew, you had me worried there but it's just rounding in the display, the spreadsheet is working to god-knows-how-many decimal places. Your scores are actually...
    Zaph | 20.059 | 8.975 | 29.034


  • #508
    Skyler Scarce Frown
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Skyler Scarce Frown


    Next year you should offer participants a choice of Beginner, Intermediate or Expert level questions.


  • #509
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,405 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    Phew, you had me worried there but it's just rounding in the display, the spreadsheet is working to god-knows-how-many decimal places. Your scores are actually...
    Zaph | 20.059 | 8.975 | 29.034

    Ah right, I didn't realise it went to more than one decimal place. As I may have mentioned earlier, I don't understand standard deviation. :D


  • #510
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,037 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Zaph wrote: »
    Ah right, I didn't realise it went to more than one decimal place. As I may have mentioned earlier, I don't understand standard deviation. :D
    Yeah, it's doing its own thing there :D
    Just looked again, your score is 29.0340643392!

    I thought that was too precise though :pac:


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  • #511
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,003 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The spoon is in your sights!!! Do it for mam!!! :D

    Eh, hello??

    There might be another challenger for that spoon.....

    And if not, I think there should be a special prize for the biggest minus score, which I'm fairly sure I'll easily claim !!


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