QuikSand
02-27-2004, 07:44 AM
IWS #59 – The results are in…
It’s a Chariots of Fire kind of finish… a huge uspet! After all this *tension* ...
Let’s go through the questions, shall we?
1. Name a color
blue - 24
red - 18
black - 6
white
green
Good old standard question… and lots of people got right in the two-part wheelhouse of blue and red, which I expected to finish in that order. As you later gathered, my main interest in this question was to set up #4, which I thought was much more interesting.
2. Name a “good luck” superstition
four leaf clover - 19
rabbit’s foot – 16
knock on wood – 3
horseshoe – 3
find a penny heads up – 2
rewearing clothing – 2
crossing fingers – 2
jumping over chalk lines in baseball
putting on right shoe first
lucky penny
I expected “crossing fingers” to make a better showing, but the distribution here wasn’t much of a surprise to me, overall. I though the top two here might determine the winner of the whole contest… but rabbit’s feet made a late rally to allow those entries to have a shot.
3. Name a “bad luck” superstition
black cat – 18
broken mirror – 13
walk under a ladder – 8
Friday the 13th – 5
number 13 – 3
broken window
step on a crack…
stepping on the foul line
I’m a little surprised here… I thought that Friday the 13th might win this, and I think that would have been my answer. I would have been an also-ran in my own contest, I’m sure.
4. Name a color, other than what you named for #1
red – 22
blue – 16
green – 6
white – 5
black
I loved the idea of this question, even though it had the potential to make this pair of questions a real feast-or-famine double shot. Unfortunately, the results here pretty paired-up (as I had feared they might get) -- I didn’t want to see people who submitted red then blue get a giant penalty, even though they might have had the “right” two answers, in the wrong order. Alas, the major key to this contest was submitting the two most popular colors… blue/red was the best choice, then red/blue… if you picked anything else, you got flattened.
5. Name a non-integer number, greater than one
pi – 17
1.5 – 9
1.1 – 7
3.14 – 5
1.01 – 2
2 – 2
2.5 – 2
none – 2
5/3
3
100
69
I loved this question, and would have predicted the top three responses, but I didn’t see the runaway win for pi. Yes, I know, it’s harsh to declare that 3.14 is a different response than pi… but really now, the game rules are very clear and you know who’s running the show this time, gang. If you wanted pi, you could say pi – I can handle it. (It didn’t affect the overall winner, fortunately) I graciously combined the two non-answers into a match, though… I’m really not such a bad guy. By the way, it was my intention to make this a puzzle that did not require any “googling” research… but certainly the word integer can be quickly researched, though that prospect didn’t occur to me originally.
6. Name a three-letter acronym that nearly everyone recognizes
NFL – 16
FOF – 10
USA – 5
FBI – 3
IRS – 3
IWS – 3
CIA – 2
GOP
lol
AVG
ADD
MIA
www
AAA
PAT
Okay, here’s where I would have fallen totally off my own wagon, as I would have gotten a lousy score here. The bottom line seems to be: when you heard “everyone” did you interpret that as “the whole population” or as “everyone at FOFC.” It looks like the latter prevailed (or at least people had their minds on football) and so the runaway winning guesses were football-related. In designing the contest, I did not have that in mind at all… and I really struggled with this one until deciding that USA was going to be the “right” answer. ::buzzer sound::
- - -
And with all that behind us, let’s see how things finished up. We had no prefect score (I’m glad) and the entry I was watching as I tallied things up held on to win it all… are you sitting down?
MIJB#19 24 16 18 22 17 16 41361408
sterlingice 24 19 13 22 17 16 35473152
Buccaneer 18 16 18 16 17 16 22560768
Anxiety 24 19 8 22 17 16 21829632
spleen1015 24 19 13 22 9 16 18779904
Alf 18 19 18 16 7 16 11031552
panerd 24 16 18 22 17 3 7755264
finkenst 24 16 3 22 17 16 6893568
wheels 24 19 13 22 17 3 6651216
TheLionKing 24 16 8 22 5 16 5406720
ardent anthusiast 18 19 18 16 5 10 4924800
kingfc22 24 16 18 6 7 16 4644864
Masked 18 19 3 16 17 16 4465152
The herd 18 19 18 16 9 5 4432320
FishFan 18 16 18 16 5 10 4147200
GoSeahawks 24 16 13 22 2 16 3514368
John Galt 18 19 18 6 17 5 3139560
Dutch 24 16 18 22 2 10 3041280
Sublime 24 2 18 22 9 16 2737152
Maple Leafs 18 16 3 16 17 10 2350080
VPI97 24 2 18 22 17 5 1615680
RPI-Fan 18 16 13 16 17 1 1018368
Silver Owl 24 19 18 22 5 1 902880
MizzouRah 24 19 8 22 1 10 802560
mauboy1 18 16 18 16 9 1 746496
Ramzavail 6 19 8 5 9 16 656640
wade moore 24 16 8 6 2 16 589824
msf518 18 19 5 16 7 3 574560
Marmel 18 16 1 22 9 10 570240
nol 18 19 5 16 2 10 547200
digamma 24 2 18 22 9 3 513216
Crim 6 16 18 5 17 3 440640
albionmoonlight 24 1 18 22 9 5 427680
Sun Tzu 18 19 18 6 1 10 369360
AgPete 18 19 13 16 1 5 355680
Solecismic 24 1 13 22 17 3 350064
EaglesFan27 24 3 13 22 1 16 329472
General Mike 24 19 13 22 2 1 260832
Woflpack 18 3 13 16 7 2 157248
corbes 24 2 8 6 17 3 117504
fantastic flying froggies 6 19 5 22 2 3 75240
tucker342 24 2 8 22 7 1 59136
JeeberD 6 3 8 5 5 16 57600
MikeVic 6 19 13 5 7 1 51870
sooner333 6 2 5 5 17 10 51000
SirFozzie 1 16 13 1 17 10 35360
Aylmar 1 3 13 16 7 3 13104
Barkeep49 18 3 5 16 2 1 8640
wbatl1 18 1 1 16 9 1 2592
cartman 24 3 1 6 2 2 1728
As usual, the formatting will be all screwed up… but all you need to see is in the upper left corner.
Congratulations, Matthijs, you have climbed the mountain! With the biggest IWS contest in quite some time (I think), you prevailed… and are the rightful winner of IWS #59!
Meep! Meep! Zzzzzoooooooofffffff!
It’s a Chariots of Fire kind of finish… a huge uspet! After all this *tension* ...
Let’s go through the questions, shall we?
1. Name a color
blue - 24
red - 18
black - 6
white
green
Good old standard question… and lots of people got right in the two-part wheelhouse of blue and red, which I expected to finish in that order. As you later gathered, my main interest in this question was to set up #4, which I thought was much more interesting.
2. Name a “good luck” superstition
four leaf clover - 19
rabbit’s foot – 16
knock on wood – 3
horseshoe – 3
find a penny heads up – 2
rewearing clothing – 2
crossing fingers – 2
jumping over chalk lines in baseball
putting on right shoe first
lucky penny
I expected “crossing fingers” to make a better showing, but the distribution here wasn’t much of a surprise to me, overall. I though the top two here might determine the winner of the whole contest… but rabbit’s feet made a late rally to allow those entries to have a shot.
3. Name a “bad luck” superstition
black cat – 18
broken mirror – 13
walk under a ladder – 8
Friday the 13th – 5
number 13 – 3
broken window
step on a crack…
stepping on the foul line
I’m a little surprised here… I thought that Friday the 13th might win this, and I think that would have been my answer. I would have been an also-ran in my own contest, I’m sure.
4. Name a color, other than what you named for #1
red – 22
blue – 16
green – 6
white – 5
black
I loved the idea of this question, even though it had the potential to make this pair of questions a real feast-or-famine double shot. Unfortunately, the results here pretty paired-up (as I had feared they might get) -- I didn’t want to see people who submitted red then blue get a giant penalty, even though they might have had the “right” two answers, in the wrong order. Alas, the major key to this contest was submitting the two most popular colors… blue/red was the best choice, then red/blue… if you picked anything else, you got flattened.
5. Name a non-integer number, greater than one
pi – 17
1.5 – 9
1.1 – 7
3.14 – 5
1.01 – 2
2 – 2
2.5 – 2
none – 2
5/3
3
100
69
I loved this question, and would have predicted the top three responses, but I didn’t see the runaway win for pi. Yes, I know, it’s harsh to declare that 3.14 is a different response than pi… but really now, the game rules are very clear and you know who’s running the show this time, gang. If you wanted pi, you could say pi – I can handle it. (It didn’t affect the overall winner, fortunately) I graciously combined the two non-answers into a match, though… I’m really not such a bad guy. By the way, it was my intention to make this a puzzle that did not require any “googling” research… but certainly the word integer can be quickly researched, though that prospect didn’t occur to me originally.
6. Name a three-letter acronym that nearly everyone recognizes
NFL – 16
FOF – 10
USA – 5
FBI – 3
IRS – 3
IWS – 3
CIA – 2
GOP
lol
AVG
ADD
MIA
www
AAA
PAT
Okay, here’s where I would have fallen totally off my own wagon, as I would have gotten a lousy score here. The bottom line seems to be: when you heard “everyone” did you interpret that as “the whole population” or as “everyone at FOFC.” It looks like the latter prevailed (or at least people had their minds on football) and so the runaway winning guesses were football-related. In designing the contest, I did not have that in mind at all… and I really struggled with this one until deciding that USA was going to be the “right” answer. ::buzzer sound::
- - -
And with all that behind us, let’s see how things finished up. We had no prefect score (I’m glad) and the entry I was watching as I tallied things up held on to win it all… are you sitting down?
MIJB#19 24 16 18 22 17 16 41361408
sterlingice 24 19 13 22 17 16 35473152
Buccaneer 18 16 18 16 17 16 22560768
Anxiety 24 19 8 22 17 16 21829632
spleen1015 24 19 13 22 9 16 18779904
Alf 18 19 18 16 7 16 11031552
panerd 24 16 18 22 17 3 7755264
finkenst 24 16 3 22 17 16 6893568
wheels 24 19 13 22 17 3 6651216
TheLionKing 24 16 8 22 5 16 5406720
ardent anthusiast 18 19 18 16 5 10 4924800
kingfc22 24 16 18 6 7 16 4644864
Masked 18 19 3 16 17 16 4465152
The herd 18 19 18 16 9 5 4432320
FishFan 18 16 18 16 5 10 4147200
GoSeahawks 24 16 13 22 2 16 3514368
John Galt 18 19 18 6 17 5 3139560
Dutch 24 16 18 22 2 10 3041280
Sublime 24 2 18 22 9 16 2737152
Maple Leafs 18 16 3 16 17 10 2350080
VPI97 24 2 18 22 17 5 1615680
RPI-Fan 18 16 13 16 17 1 1018368
Silver Owl 24 19 18 22 5 1 902880
MizzouRah 24 19 8 22 1 10 802560
mauboy1 18 16 18 16 9 1 746496
Ramzavail 6 19 8 5 9 16 656640
wade moore 24 16 8 6 2 16 589824
msf518 18 19 5 16 7 3 574560
Marmel 18 16 1 22 9 10 570240
nol 18 19 5 16 2 10 547200
digamma 24 2 18 22 9 3 513216
Crim 6 16 18 5 17 3 440640
albionmoonlight 24 1 18 22 9 5 427680
Sun Tzu 18 19 18 6 1 10 369360
AgPete 18 19 13 16 1 5 355680
Solecismic 24 1 13 22 17 3 350064
EaglesFan27 24 3 13 22 1 16 329472
General Mike 24 19 13 22 2 1 260832
Woflpack 18 3 13 16 7 2 157248
corbes 24 2 8 6 17 3 117504
fantastic flying froggies 6 19 5 22 2 3 75240
tucker342 24 2 8 22 7 1 59136
JeeberD 6 3 8 5 5 16 57600
MikeVic 6 19 13 5 7 1 51870
sooner333 6 2 5 5 17 10 51000
SirFozzie 1 16 13 1 17 10 35360
Aylmar 1 3 13 16 7 3 13104
Barkeep49 18 3 5 16 2 1 8640
wbatl1 18 1 1 16 9 1 2592
cartman 24 3 1 6 2 2 1728
As usual, the formatting will be all screwed up… but all you need to see is in the upper left corner.
Congratulations, Matthijs, you have climbed the mountain! With the biggest IWS contest in quite some time (I think), you prevailed… and are the rightful winner of IWS #59!
Meep! Meep! Zzzzzoooooooofffffff!