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Old 04-13-2023, 10:21 AM   #1
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FOFC Game: Guess the Median Number

Here's the game:

Send me, QuikSand, a PM with a number, by the time I get around to sorting through them next Friday evening (April 21). Just a number.

I will sort through them all, and will award the glorious title of WINNER to each and every person who submits the exact number that sits as the median number from among all those I receive.

Go.

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Old 04-13-2023, 12:41 PM   #2
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I love this. This is so QS

Hopefully he is using this to improve his algorithm to surpass ChatGPT

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Old 04-13-2023, 01:53 PM   #3
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Old 04-14-2023, 09:35 AM   #4
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Looks like y'all are playing by rules not stated. Collusion is just fine.
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Old 04-14-2023, 04:55 PM   #5
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Well, damn - I failed on that account. Should have colluded to do better. I just had 2 numbers in mind when I saw the question and went with one. Figured that IWS type rules were just understood.

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Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out!

Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!"
Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!"



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Old 04-18-2023, 08:20 AM   #6
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So, hypothetically... you know what would help the odds of someone who already submitted 21 of winning this? Saying so.
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Old 04-18-2023, 10:27 AM   #7
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I'm really confused the point of this experiment but since QS seems to be encouraging table talk, and I'm a blabbermouth who want some boring fun, so here goes:

I was thinking either 5 or 50 would be nice median numbers. But 5 seemed too low so I went with 50.

I also thought about lying and saying I had put 100 to try and get more people higher since he seems to be putting his thumb on the scale for 21. But that seemed way too easy to have more people do 100 and then I'd get overshot. And, let's be honest - I'm not very good at trickery or hiding it. So I'll do better by playing it straight.

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Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out!

Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!"
Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!"



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Old 04-18-2023, 10:30 AM   #8
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I sent quicksand my social security number.
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Old 04-18-2023, 10:42 AM   #9
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I'm just trying to give this enough oxygen to see whether it could turn into a low-effort "thing" around here. We actually did this game at least once here, years ago, and it sorta worked, but got drowned out by the popular-for-a-while game of I'm With Stupid.
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Old 04-18-2023, 08:40 PM   #10
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21

If you don't win this time, do 2121 next time.
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Old 04-18-2023, 09:56 PM   #11
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I feel like I should just PM QS with 15 different numbers


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Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out!

Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!"
Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!"


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Old 04-19-2023, 10:38 AM   #12
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Negatives in play? Irrationals?
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Old 04-19-2023, 11:10 AM   #13
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Imaginary?
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Old 04-19-2023, 06:29 PM   #14
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I think this is now really a game where we watch QS try and reverse-engineer a game from a bunch of random and nonsensical input numbers.
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Old 04-19-2023, 09:23 PM   #15
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Old 04-19-2023, 09:31 PM   #16
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Old 04-20-2023, 09:21 AM   #17
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Old 04-20-2023, 09:49 AM   #18
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50, you say?


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Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out!

Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!"
Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!"


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Old 04-23-2023, 10:37 AM   #19
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Okay, lessee what we got here...

2/3
13
42 42 42
50 50 50
1,121

Congrats to NobodyHere, Fidatelo, and britrock88 for gathering the answer to life, the universe, and everything... or at least the median answer, this time.
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Old 04-23-2023, 10:40 AM   #20
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Interesting that several submissions were posted publicly, but none of the 42s.

Also some posts here didn't result in submissions - I'll suggest maybe they were strategic attempts to see if they could gin up conversation but then follow any emerging consensus later (a smart strategy of you really cared) but then were revealed to not care.

Anyway, I'd play if someone else were to start a round two.
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