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Semi Irish Alphabet Sheep (Sheep at its most luxurious!)

  • 25-01-2021 10:39pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,421 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    This game works like regular sheep in that your goal is to give the most popular answer for each item. There is one important twist for this game:

    EACH OF YOUR ANSWERS MUST START WITH A DIFFERENT LETTER OF THE ALPHABET. There are 26 questions, so that means that you will have to use each letter exactly once. Any answers which start with a letter you've already used will score zero.

    Due to the nature of this game, all answers which start with different letters will be grouped separately, even if they refer to the same thing. For example, if asked to name a country, "America", "USA", and "The United States of America" would be grouped separately or if asked to name a supermodel, "Heidi Klum" and "Klum, Heidi" would not be grouped together.

    Please submit your answers to me via PM in an unnumbered list, following the same order of the list given.

    A color
    A county in Ireland
    A phone manufacturer
    A type of fish
    A President of Ireland
    An Irish Lake
    A book from the Bible
    A type of tooth
    An Irish river
    An Irish city
    A hair color
    A food served on a full Irish breakfast
    An Irish mountain
    A chemical element
    A sport popular in Ireland
    A lizard
    A weapon
    A letter of the Greek alphabet ( it's English spelling )
    A planet in our Solar System
    An Irish Olympic medal winner
    A fictional superhero
    A brand of footwear
    A Province in Ireland
    A Saoirse Ronan Movie
    An item of clothing
    The remaining letter you didn't use


    And if you're still confused, just ask me :D

    Hoping to reveal in about 10 days or so :D


    -EDIT1-

    SUBMIT ANSWERS IN THE ORDER OF THE LIST GIVEN


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Comments

  • Registered Users Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭Sawduck


    I'm loving all these new twists on these games


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    This is a brilliant idea.
    Rules are easy to understand but gonna be really bloody difficult to score well in this!

    EDIT: Should we send our answers in alphabetical order, or in the order of the items on your list?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Madness, absolute madness. I love it :D

    Edit, just spotted the last question. You're a psychopath!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    This is a brilliant idea.
    Rules are easy to understand but gonna be really bloody difficult to score well in this!

    EDIT: Should we send our answers in alphabetical order, or in the order of the items on your list?

    giphy.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,421 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    This is a brilliant idea.
    Rules are easy to understand but gonna be really bloody difficult to score well in this!

    EDIT: Should we send our answers in alphabetical order, or in the order of the items on your list?

    Order of the list


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,421 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Original post edited for clarification of question asked :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,421 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    And Homer is the first man in :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,530 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Oh, I like the sound of this!

    I suspect I'll like it a lot less when I actually sit down and try to answer it :D


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Will get an entry to you tomorrow Rikand :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭aaronjennings


    Very interesting concept, will definitely get an entry in for this

    Even coming up with any set of 26 answers is going to be a challenge, and that's not even taking in to account you're trying to pick 'good' answers


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Ok I am in!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Answers in. That was a fun one. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,149 ✭✭✭Irish Aris


    and in!!!

    giphy.gif


  • Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Kassandra Panicky Peppermint


    No idea if I used all the letters or if I repeated them or whatever.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭wrestlemaniac


    I'm in


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,421 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Loads of people in. Keep them coming :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,530 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Jesus, that was HARD! But I'm in.

    (Note to self, don't try this at 2am next time :rolleyes: )


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I’m in. Love this one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,421 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    I'm provisionally planning a closing date of Tuesday the 2nd of February with a reveal on Wednesday the 3rd of February. All depends if my mother in law takes the kids for child minding or not :)

    Players in so far (17)

    Homer J Fong
    the purple tin
    aaronjennings
    necro
    Collie D
    ASLB
    Irish Aris
    H2DPB
    Zaph
    Sawduck
    wrestlemaniac
    Toto Wolfcastle
    ShaneU
    HeidiHeidi
    ScoobyDosent
    Strawbs
    JGF


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I had a dream last night that it was reveal day and I realised that I’d doubled up on G. Then two minutes before the reveal I realised I’d doubled up on B and C too. The panic!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    In please.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Ah sure - might as well do this one as well!:)

    Might be an idea to put this up on the upcoming forum games thread as I only stumbled upon it today by chance.


  • Registered Users Posts: 23 ms.crackerz


    Just for clarification. for names is it their first name or surname that the letter counts for.

    So for John Smith is that classed as S or J ? Thanks :o


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Just for clarification. for names is it their first name or surname that the letter counts for.

    So for John Smith is that classed as S or J ? Thanks :o

    It’s entirely up to you what letter you want it used against.

    John Smith would be under J
    Smith, John would be under S


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    I'm in.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,365 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    Count me in please.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Brilliant concept. I’m gonna enter


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,551 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Almost there


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


    Don't close up until you have the winning entry (mine), coming soon to an inbox near you.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,421 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    25 people in!

    keep em coming :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,753 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Will there be traps?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭aaronjennings


    After sending 3 different sets of answers - sorry Rikand :D - I'm finally happy with my submission

    Looking forward to all my efforts being rewarded with mid-table mediocrity as usual


  • Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A lot of crossing out and changing answers later, then changing answers I was very happy with cos of other answers I couldn't get......finally, I am in!

    Lots of aces I'm sure!


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    Will there be traps?
    Please God no! :eek::(

    They should be banned under the Geneva Convention.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,365 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    It's trickier than it looks, at first glance.

    I haven't been on many of these threads, but even if I come bottom of the class :D I must say I had fun doing the list!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭Mutleyboo


    That was different! I confused myself with different systems to make sure I got the letters, then remembered it was sheep so god knows... but was good fun filling it out!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,442 ✭✭✭davetherave


    Entry in. Brain melted. Can't guess how the scoring will work with this. Look forward to the reveal thread and seeing peoples explanations and systems for picking answers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,530 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Entry in. Brain melted. Can't guess how the scoring will work with this. Look forward to the reveal thread and seeing peoples explanations and systems for picking answers.
    Systems?



    SYSTEMS??? :eek:


    I started off all "this is a SHEEP, lets go for nice well-known answers".



    By the finish, I was substituting all over the shop, just to shoehorn an answer, any answer into the more awkward letters.


    Nightmare!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    I'm in and I feel really confident. This always happens, I presume midtable obscurity awaits!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    I'm in and I feel really confident. This always happens, I presume midtable obscurity awaits!

    Mid table obscurity is what this forum is all about!:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,421 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    35 entrants in!

    i forget what the maximum number of entrants is on the sheepulator but lets keep em coming! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,421 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Entrants so far :: 34

    My count above was a miscount as I forgot that some people had changed their entries a multiple of times. We've had some more entrants since then :D

    if you're name is not on the list and it should be, just let me know :cool:

    34 players:

    aaronjennings
    Aidan Harney
    Alex86Eire
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    beakerjoe
    bubblypop
    BuileBeag
    cee_jay
    cj maxx
    Collie D
    davetherave
    Declan A Walsh
    Electric Nitwit
    HeidiHeidi
    Kassandra Panicky Peppermint
    HildaOgdenx
    Homer J. Fong
    Irish Aris
    jimbobaloobob
    JohnGreenFan
    ms.crackerz
    Mutleyboo
    Necro
    Neowise
    Omackeral
    rainbowtrout
    Sawduck
    ScoobyDosent
    ShaneU
    Strawberry Milkshake
    the purple tin
    Toto Wolfcastle
    wrestlemaniac
    Zaph


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭aaronjennings


    giphy.gif


  • Registered Users Posts: 520 ✭✭✭hurlingman97


    Rikand wrote: »
    if you're name is not on the list and it should be, just let me know :cool:

    I submitted earlier today too but could've been after u compiled the list. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭Ectoplasm


    Nearly finished my entry but brain is fried. Will submit soon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭ari101


    I've sent you an entry this eve too, first time to play a game like this on boards :-)

    Also a learning experience in remembering how to PM :o:D

    Thanks!


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,766 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    In


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,421 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Just under 24 hours to get your entries in

    Signups close at 1 minute to midnight (23:59) on Tuesday, 2nd of February :D Reveal will hopefully kick off at around 9PM Wednesday evening as long as the kids get off to sleep easy enough lol :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,474 ✭✭✭Niska


    Had to use the sort function in Excel, making this feel like work


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Niska wrote: »
    Had to use the sort function in Excel, making this feel like work

    I did the same. It was then I realised that I had two letters left!


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