The Forum Games Sheepish Advent Calendar 2020!

Sephiroth_dude · 16-12-2020 07:48PM

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Anyone got a picture of Sephi? He's the only dog missing today

Oh Hai En

:pac::pac:

looksee · 16-12-2020 07:50PM

Er... EN, do us a favour, would you, just stick a zero on my answer...

16-12-2020 07:53PM

looksee wrote: »

Er... EN, do us a favour, would you, just stick a zero on my answer...

And knock a zero off mine.

Jaysus I was waaaay out!!!!

Toto Wolfcastle · 16-12-2020 07:57PM

Oh ffs.

Mam of 4 · 16-12-2020 08:06PM

Oh lord, my answer was pitifully low

Posy · 16-12-2020 08:06PM

Me right now

aaronjennings · 16-12-2020 08:20PM

I wasn't far off, you lot had better not have sabotaged me now

Electric Nitwit · 16-12-2020 08:26PM

Early on the median was around 15, I was shocked, but it settled into the right area and landed on 100, with a few maximum scores...

Player | Guess | Score
the purple tin | 4 | 4.4
Also Starring LeVar Burton | 7 | 4.6
looksee | 9 | 4.7
JohnGreenFan | 10 | 4.8
khalessi | 10 | 4.8
kitten_k | 10 | 4.8
Loughc | 10 | 4.8
rainbowtrout | 13 | 4.9
Necro | 15 | 5.1
Ectoplasm | 17 | 5.2
Purgative | 18 | 5.2
Neowise | 24 | 5.6
Mam of 4 | 25 | 5.6
Strawberry Milkshake | 25 | 5.6
Trigger | 25 | 5.6
Homer J. Fong | 50 | 7.1
mirrorwall14 | 50 | 7.1
Declan A Walsh | 57 | 7.5
DvB | 60 | 7.7
Ted_YNWA | 82 | 9.0
Barney92 | 86 | 9.2
aaronjennings | 100 | 10.0
davetherave | 100 | 10.0
Green&Red | 100 | 10.0
Irish Aris | 100 | 10.0
TRS30 | 100 | 10.0
Spook_ie | 101.5 | 9.9
Posy | 110 | 9.4
Siobh73 | 110 | 9.4
cee_jay | 125 | 8.5
Sephiroth_dude | 145 | 7.4
bubblypop | 150 | 7.1
HeidiHeidi | 150 | 7.1
Hyblaeus | 150 | 7.1
mustang shelly | 150 | 7.1
tscul32 | 150 | 7.1
Collie D | 164 | 6.3
hurlingman97 | 168 | 6.0
duffman13 | 170 | 5.9
Reberetta | 175 | 5.6
Toto Wolfcastle | 178 | 5.5
Zaph | 192 | 4.6
Skyler Scarce Frown | 200 | 4.2
ShaneU | 200 | 4.2
Kolido | 250 | 1.3
Builebeag | 300 | -1.6
Mollyb60 | 400 | -7.5

Zaph · 16-12-2020 08:26PM

I included Stephen's Day as well in my answer. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Electric Nitwit · 16-12-2020 08:28PM

Siobh holds on, but it's anyone's game!
(well, not literally anyone's, obviously!)

Place | Player | Old total | Today's score | Total
1 (1) | Siobh73 | 128.6 | 9.4 | 138.0
2 (4) | Green&Red | 126.5 | 10.0 | 136.5
3 (2) | duffman13 | 127.3 | 5.9 | 133.2
4 (3) | JohnGreenFan | 127.2 | 4.8 | 132.0
5 (10) | davetherave | 121.2 | 10.0 | 131.2
6 (5) | rainbowtrout | 125.6 | 4.9 | 130.6
7 (7) | Toto Wolfcastle | 124.1 | 5.5 | 129.6
8 (6) | Loughc | 124.4 | 4.8 | 129.1
9 (9) | DvB | 121.3 | 7.7 | 128.9
10 (8) | hurlingman97 | 122.0 | 6.0 | 128.1
11 (15) | Posy | 117.2 | 9.4 | 126.6
12 (17) | Irish Aris | 116.3 | 10.0 | 126.3
13 (11) | Necro | 120.8 | 5.1 | 125.9
14 (12) | bubblypop | 118.4 | 7.1 | 125.5
15 (14) | mirrorwall14 | 117.4 | 7.1 | 124.4
16 (13) | Reberetta | 117.5 | 5.6 | 123.1
17 (19) | cee_jay | 114.2 | 8.5 | 122.7
18 (18) | Trigger | 115.5 | 5.6 | 121.1
19 (16) | Zaph | 116.4 | 4.6 | 121.1
20 (21) | Homer J. Fong | 112.4 | 7.1 | 119.5
21 (20) | khalessi | 113.2 | 4.8 | 118.0
22 (26) | TRS30 | 103.5 | 10.0 | 113.5
23 (27) | Spook_ie | 102.9 | 9.9 | 112.8
24 (23) | Collie D | 106.5 | 6.3 | 112.8
25 (25) | Ectoplasm | 105.2 | 5.2 | 110.4
26 (24) | ShaneU | 105.9 | 4.2 | 110.0
27 (28) | HeidiHeidi | 101.6 | 7.1 | 108.7
28 (22) | Builebeag | 109.6 | -1.6 | 108.0
29 (29) | tscul32 | 99.8 | 7.1 | 106.9
30 (30) | Neowise | 97.6 | 5.6 | 103.2
31 (31) | Kolido | 93.8 | 1.3 | 95.1
32 (33) | Sephiroth_dude | 87.6 | 7.4 | 95.0
33 (36) | Barney92 | 85.3 | 9.2 | 94.5
34 (32) | Mam of 4 | 88.9 | 5.6 | 94.5
35 (38) | aaronjennings | 84.3 | 10.0 | 94.3
36 (34) | Hyblaeus | 86.6 | 7.1 | 93.7
37 (37) | Purgative | 84.7 | 5.2 | 90.0
38 (39) | Declan A Walsh | 81.7 | 7.5 | 89.2
39 (41) | mustang shelly | 79.4 | 7.1 | 86.5
40 (40) | kitten_k | 81.3 | 4.8 | 86.1
41 (35) | Mollyb60 | 85.6 | -7.5 | 78.1
42 (43) | Ted_YNWA | 67.2 | 9.0 | 76.2
43 (42) | the purple tin | 68.4 | 4.4 | 72.8
44 (44) | Skyler Scarce Frown | 66.1 | 4.2 | 70.2
45 (45) | Strawberry Milkshake | 64.2 | 5.6 | 69.9
46 (46) | looksee | 61.9 | 4.7 | 66.6
47 (47) | Also Starring LeVar Burton | 47.2 | 4.6 | 51.7

Kolido · 16-12-2020 08:29PM

Ah lads...with the way some of ye were talking I was expecting to see some picking 50,000. Bad day at the office for me.

Posy · 16-12-2020 08:39PM

I'm in 11th place??!!

Necro · 16-12-2020 08:41PM

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Early on the median was around 15, I was shocked, but it settled into the right area and landed on 100, with a few maximum scores...

Of course it did :mad:

Ectoplasm · 16-12-2020 08:41PM

That went...

better than expected

16-12-2020 08:44PM

**** this.

I'm outta here.

looksee · 16-12-2020 08:52PM

My only consolation is that most of ye were as bad as me!

looksee · 16-12-2020 08:56PM

What's with the 101.5 of a baby?

Necro · 16-12-2020 08:57PM

looksee wrote: »

What's with the 101.5 of a baby?

Half came out before 12 midnight?

Green&Red · 16-12-2020 09:04PM

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Ooookay, 60ish thousand babies a year I think, but no elective caesarians or inducements scheduled for Dec 25th I assume... sigh.

Don’t like 60k take the LC every year? But then there’d be inductions won’t happen etc

So theres 60,000 odd births a year, are half of them c-sections? I should know this given I've just had a kid

I have done a bit of research into this in the past, although can't remember exact numbers. I'd estimate around 55,000 births in 2019 which would give an average of about 150 a day. I know some days are way more popular to give birth on though, and I'd say Christmas is one of the least likely days. I doubt many planned Caesareans are scheduled for Christmas day for example (although these probably make up less a small enough percentage of total births).

A lot of us with exactly the same thinking

khalessi · 16-12-2020 09:05PM

I just remember a 1000+ born in the same month when one of the kids born

and

I dont want to surprise people but I dont think I will win somehow

Electric Nitwit · 16-12-2020 09:07PM

Kolido wrote: »

Ah lads...with the way some of ye were talking I was expecting to see some picking 50,000. Bad day at the office for me.

I've noticed a lot of "that went terribly" messages from people who did OK

khalessi · 16-12-2020 09:09PM

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I've noticed a lot of "that went terribly" messages from people who did OK

Well it did if you are trying to get back up the board and slowly am heading downwards. I have enough wooden spoons

Mollyb60 · 16-12-2020 09:10PM

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Can't believe we're on day 16 already. This is insane. I haven't a clue at all about babies. I wouldn't even know how many are born in a year because who would know that ****? So I'm guessing. As usual. Had a chat with hubs and he's ****ting all over my thought process. So we're pushing the number up.... Which I think is insanely high. And I'll be beating him if it's wrong.

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Early on the median was around 15, I was shocked, but it settled into the right area and landed on 100, with a few maximum scores...

Player | Guess | Score
Mollyb60 | 400 | -7.5

My original guess of 25 would've got me 5.6 points. You better believe that's a paddling.

Neowise · 16-12-2020 09:18PM

Yay, back in the triple digits, now to try and stay there.

Declan A Walsh · 16-12-2020 10:15PM

I am only (48.2) 48.8 points behind the leader. Now, if I get 10 points every day from now on and everyone in the Top 10 gets a few negative scores, I am definitely in contention! Edit: or maybe the Top 20!

Electric Nitwit · 17-12-2020 09:46AM

Good morning elves, welcome to day 17 of the Forum Games Sheepish Advent Calendar!

Today, we're sticking on the newborn theme, specifically...

Q17: We now all know there were 60,000 babies born last year. How many of them were called Mary?

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

Mollyb60 · 17-12-2020 09:54AM

*rolls up sleeves*

Mary's of the world unite!!

Ted_YNWA · 17-12-2020 09:55AM

Answer in already, busy day today. I need my lap to be vacated.

Necro · 17-12-2020 09:57AM

To echo my PM

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

looksee · 17-12-2020 10:47AM

Do people still call their boys Mary? I knew a whole family of about 7 all with the middle name of Mary.

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