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New game workshopping and brainstorming

Baggly

Please use this thread to brainstorm any new games for the forum.

Please feel free to contribute to others suggested games.

Once a game is launched, we will create a dedicated thread to that game instead of discussing it here.

BLOCKBUSTERS

Hey guys so it came up in a codenames game that blockbusters would be fun to do, so I reckon we give it a shot?

Setup should be simple enough...I'll generate an Excel sheet later to represent the board, and then we can have teams of 2 to guess each word?

We can do solo teams as well....?

Something for discussion, could we have teams of 2 and it would work as below;

Guesser from Team A pick 'o'

Picker from Team B creates an 'o' clue and asks the opposite team that question.

Guesser from Team A tries to answer the question.

If they get it right they pick another word, if they get it wrong Team B gets to pick a letter and roles are reversed (Team A gives clue).

Thoughts?

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Loughc

If I want to throw my name into the ring to host a tournament game in December, where do I do that. I just want to make sure I don't jump the queue or step on any toes.

Ted_YNWA

Ooooh new games.

That sounds like a through a few darts at the dart board & see what number you get kind of game Nitty.

Upcoming new games can be advertised here Loughc

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057987935

Electric Nitwit

Cheers guys, think we have a goer then!

Based on what Deja said I think I'll flip the scores around so high scores are better. The detail may be messy but it'll be easy to understand once it's running, I think!

Right, I've a month to come up with the questions, easy!

Ted_YNWA

Question 1 -> How many versions of the formulas did I have to try to get this to work?

Electric Nitwit

I'm sure no-one really cares but... I think I'll score it as 10 - 10*abs(score-av.score)/SD
That way a perfect answer scores 10, better answers get higher scores and really bad answers get negative scores (sod the christmas spirit, mwah-ha-ha!)

Redone examples (with proper averages this time aaron!)

Example one - average answer 1 million
Player | Guess | Score
A | 1,060,000 | 8.3
B | 1,000,000 | 10.0
C | 310,000 | -10.1
D | 1,160,000 | 5.3
E | 1,490,000 | -4.3
F | 1,160,000 | 5.3
G | 960,000 | 8.8
H | 1,350,000 | -0.2
I | 820,000 | 4.8
J | 980,000 | 9.4
K | 1,060,000 | 8.3
L | 840,000 | 5.3
M | 600,000 | -1.7
N | 420,000 | -6.9
O | 1,090,000 | 7.4
P | 970,000 | 9.1
Q | 1,130,000 | 6.2
R | 770,000 | 3.3
S | 1,840,000 | -14.5
T | 990,000 | 9.7

Example two - average answer 10
Player | Guess | Score
A | 15 | 0.2
B | 2 | -5.7
C | 12 | 6.1
D | 6 | 2.2
E | 6 | 2.2
F | 10 | 10.0
G | 8 | 6.1
H | 11 | 8.0
I | 21 | -11.5
J | 8 | 6.1
K | 12 | 6.1
L | 12 | 6.1
M | 9 | 8.0
N | 17 | -3.7
O | 16 | -1.7
P | 4 | -1.7
Q | 12 | 6.1
R | 3 | -3.7
S | 13 | 4.1
T | 3 | -3.7

Electric Nitwit

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Question 1 -> How many versions of the formulas did I have to try to get this to work?

Only a few

Edit: although I think that's giving too many negative scores so I'll probably be tweaking again!

Deja Boo

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

...That way a perfect answer scores 10, better answers get higher scores and really bad answers get negative scores (sod the christmas spirit, mwah-ha-ha!)

Grinch baaannnnned!*

*but not really

tusk

The rejuvination of Catchphrase has made me wanna come up with MOAR GAMES

WE NEED MOAR GAMES.

How about.... 'The Missing Link' ?

Same flow as catchphrase, as in play passes to the first person who gets the right answer.

Basically, you post your two 'words', 'pictures', 'songs', 'movies'....etc. etc. whatever you want that have some sort of secret link behind them. FGers have to figure out what it is.

Here's an example:

[Deleted User]

Leonardo

Is that it? Good game, I'll play

tusk

bubblypop wrote: »

Leonardo

Is that it? Good game, I'll play

Correcto!!!

I'll whip up an OP.

tusk

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=115137057#post115137057

Deja Boo

Does anyone know of a sheepulator that is Chromebook compatible?
...and without access to Excel (only Google Sheets).

Neowise

Deja Boo wrote: »

Does anyone know of a sheepulator that is Chromebook compatible?
...and without access to Excel (only Google Sheets).

I'll look into this.

Edit:
Starting point.

Deja Boo

Neowise wrote: »

I'll look into this.

Very kind, thank you Neowise

If I recall, someone else (who ran a sheep several months ago) was having the same issues... Reberetta maybe.

JP Liz V1

Has a tournament for best Christmas film been done before, if so did Die Hard win

if not someone should do to coincide with best Christmas song

Kolido

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Has a tournament for best Christmas film been done before, if so did Die Hard win if not someone should do to coincide with best Christmas song

Ran last year by QB, I won't spoil the surprise for you.

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2058036877/1

[Deleted User]

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Has a tournament for best Christmas film been done before, if so did Die Hard win if not someone should do to coincide with best Christmas song

We need a greatest Disney movie tournament.

the purple tin

Could somebody please do the boardsies decide the greatest ever movie villain contest?

Neowise

If neither nerco or omackrael bite, i'll do it

Kolido

the purple tin wrote: »

Could somebody please do the boardsies decide the greatest ever movie villain contest?

That is one I had in mind but I wont get around to it for awhile.

ShaneU

Had an idea for a new kind of Walrus game. It would be a weekly competition with the category changing each week. Users post their own song in the thread (with an optional few sentences to why they choose it). The song with the most thanks at the end of the week wins. The winner chooses the song category for the next week.

Weekly Walrus I call it, inspired I know. What do you think, any suggestions? Perhaps thanks not the best way to judge the winner but I can't think of a better one.

tusk

LOVE IT.

could just do it the way the other persistent games go. i.e, you start and your winner goes next with their category and so on

ShaneU

tusk wrote: »

LOVE IT.

could just do it the way the other persistent games go. i.e, you start and your winner goes next with their category and so on

Yes that was the plan

tusk

I mean, category chooser chooses the winner, nix the thanks thing like u say

Also Starring LeVar Burton

ShaneU wrote: »

Had an idea for a new kind of Walrus game. It would be a weekly competition with the category changing each week. Users post their own song in the thread (with an optional few sentences to why they choose it). The song with the most thanks at the end of the week wins. The winner chooses the song category for the next week.

Weekly Walrus I call it, inspired I know. What do you think, any suggestions? Perhaps thanks not the best way to judge the winner but I can't think of a better one.

I think it sounds good.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

tusk wrote: »

I mean, category chooser chooses the winner, nix the thanks thing like u say

The problem there would be, some weeks the person could take forever to pick a winner, and the game would end up being stalled for ages. I'm guessing Shane's idea is to keep things moving and that there's always a slice of Walrus happening, while people take their sweet ass-time hosting the regular Walruses...

Trigger

Use thanks! Thats what its there for, I used it in the ms paint tournament and it works fine.. you can thank more than one if you can't choose between them and in the even of a draw the cat chooser decides the winner.

ShaneU

We'll go with thanks then. Thread incoming

Electric Nitwit

Sounds like a good idea Shane

One thing I'd consider is still having entries by PM, with a very tight deadline (maybe 24hrs)

The reason I say it is that I think it's better if all the songs land at once. Otherwise, say Person A puts a song up, people listen and like it, then two days later person B sticks one up, they're at a disadvantage I think...?

Also, then it's anonymous, which is fairer on Trig

(only joking Trig, but you were the last post!)

Trigger

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Sounds like a good idea Shane

One thing I'd consider is still having entries by PM, with a very tight deadline (maybe 24hrs)

The reason I say it is that I think it's better if all the songs land at once. Otherwise, say Person A puts a song up, people listen and like it, then two days later person B sticks one up, they're at a disadvantage I think...?

Also, then it's anonymous, which is fairer on Trig

(only joking Trig, but you were the last post!)

Fair comment

Could do, 3 days submission window, no thanks allowed, then 4 day voting window