What Were You Thinking XIV! (Game over)

[StrangerCoug]

Current Standings and Question

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2
3	racefan12
4	DeasVail, mallowgeno, SleepyKrew
5	Cephrir, Haschel Cedricson, Iprobablysuck, JerryArr, N, pablito, VashtaNeurotic
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7	Ariel, Aureal, biancospino, Cheery Dog, Datisi, DragonEaters70, Farren, Ircher, Merlyn, Save The Dragons, Silverclaw, Skygazer

Q27: Would you rather have immortality or infinite money?

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Submission due in: (expired on 2023-11-30 19:08:17)

Scoreboard

* = Not eligible to win

X

= A strike for no answer submission; three strikes removes you from competition eligibility
n/a = No submission (if not eligible to win)

Red

numbers are the lowest score in a round

Blue

numbers are the highest score in a round

Underlined

numbers are a perfect score (defined as scoring the maximum amount of points possible in a given round)

Italicized

numbers are a score a submission would have scored if the submitting player were eligible to win.

SETUP RULES

• A game will be played with as many players as would like to sign up. I require that there be at least 15 players signed up to play before we begin.
  
• Players are welcome to join whenever they'd like, but any player that starts after the first round has ended will start on the same level as the player in last place.

Previous Iterations

What Were You Thinking XIII!

(Mod: Xalxe; Winner: D3f3nd3r)

What Were You Thinking XII!

(Mod: StrangerCoug/Aurathebirb; Winner: JerryArr)

What Were You Thinking XI!

(Mod: Xalxe; Winner: DeasVail)

What Were You Thinking (COTM Challenge)

(Mod: CuddlyCaucasian/xofelf; Winner: The Transclassroomental Railroad)

What Were You Thinking X!

(Mod: Xalxe; Winner: pablito)

What Were You Thinking IX!

(Mod: CuddlyCaucasian; Winner: n/a)

What Were You Thinking VIII!

(Mod: RedCoyote; Winner: PrivateI)

What Were You Thinking VII!

(Mod: Mastermind of Sin; Winner: ShadowLurker)

What Were You Thinking VI

(Mod: MeMe; Winner: pablito)

What Were You Thinking? 5

(Mod: MeMe; Winner: Kelly Chen)

What Were You Thinking IV

(Mod: MeMe; Winner: logicticus)

What Were You Thinking III

(Mod: MeMe; Winner: Mastermind of Sin)

WWYT 2

(Mod: MeMe; Winner: LoudmouthLee)

What Were You THINKING?

(Mod: MeMe; Winner: LoudmouthLee)

DA RULES (shamelessly stolen from Xalxe)

Wheaton's Law

Don't be a dick.

Object

• The player with the lowest position when one player reaches the highest position (position seven) is the winner. If more than one player is tied for the winning position, those who've reached position seven are out of the game and the rest will continue until there is a clear winner.

How to Play

• A category will be given each round such as "Name Five Fruits" or "Which Player Reads the Most Novels." All players must then PM me their choices as answers for the current category.
  
• I will give a deadline for PM submissions of your answers and, at deadline, will post them all. The point is not to give the correct answer(s), but to give the most popular answer(s).
  
• Outside help (e.g. Internet searching and/or discussion of the current topic with other players) is
  disallowed
  ; answers must be actual attempts to fit the category -- none of this giving of answers that don't fit just for laughs or to match others outside of the category.
  
• If a player plans to be away from the website for a period of time, they are allowed to PM me in advance so that I may send them upcoming question(s) to answer preemptively.
  
• Players that do not submit answers before the deadline will automatically drop a position in addition to the player with the lowest score. All players are given three "strikes". If you do not submit your answers before the deadline on three occasions, you will be dropped from the competition officially (although you are still welcome to continue playing for fun).
  
• At least one in every three questions will be a question with either a binary choice or a limited number of possible answers, to keep the game moving and hopefully provide more chances to even the playing field.

Scoring

• All players start at the same position (position zero) and only move from this position if they have the lowest score in any given round, or fail to submit.
  
• If there is a tie for least number of points, all those involved in the tie move forward. If all players tie, all will move forward.
  
• Players score zero points if they give an answer that matches no other player during a round.
  
• Players that give the same answer score a total amount of points equivalent to the number of players that also gave that answer.

Example Play

Okay! Everyone, PM me five fruits. Your deadline is 3 days... go!

hmmm... my answers are

apple, banana, cherry, grape and pineapple

!

Thanks for bringing this game back, btw. You're a great mod and I love you.

As the god of freedom I think everybody should be free to eat as much fruit as they wish.

Pineapple, apple, banana, strawberry and blueberry

lmao fruits are hard

Let's go with

Apple, grape, banana, cherry and kumquat

.

nom nom fruit flies

All three players have got their answers in. Here are the totals.

Apple (3) - Desna, Eloritu, Hylax
Banana (3) - Desna, Eloritu, Hylax
Cherry (2) - Eloritu, Hylax
Grape (2) - Eloritu, Hylax
Pineapple (2) - Desna, Eloritu

Non-Scoring Answers
Blueberry - Desna
Kumquat - Hylax
Strawberry - Desna

Eloritu scored 12 points.
Hylax scored 10 points.
Desna scored 8 points.

Desna moves down a position this round for having the lowest score.

[StrangerCoug]

It's our first WWYT game in almost two years To sign up, all you have to do is submit your answers for this question:

Q1: Name five cities notorious for their traffic congestion.

Once I have 15 signups, I will set a timer for 48 hours; future rounds will have a 72-hour timer. While not required, it helps me if you start the subject line of your PM with "What Were You Thinking" or "WWYT"—that will sort your PM in the folder I have created for this game.

[StrangerCoug]

"What Were You Thinking" or "WWYT"—that will sort your PM in the folder I have created for this game.

If it starts with "Re: What Were You Thinking", it now also sorts into that folder. I'll be playing for fun, my submissions will not be official.

[mallowgeno]

Super pumped about this, I have been hoping this would be run again!

[StrangerCoug]

The links to the past games should now be correct; I forgot to change it from WWYT XII (and

then

accidentally changed the link for XII to the one for XIII ).

[Silverclaw]

ego

[Cheery Dog]

Do we no longer have a PM user button on posts?

Nevermind, found where it's hidden

[Skygazer]

howdy

[StrangerCoug]

Acknowledging that there are now 15 submissions (even though I've yet to read the 15th), so setting the deadline to be (expired on 2023-08-31 22:57:31) from now. Since the deadline expires in the late evening for me, if you submit after the deadline but before I've started processing, I will still accept it.

[N]

phew I made it in time

[racefan12]

I'm thinking I should go ahead and make a post here before I forget to.

[StrangerCoug]

Submissions are now closed for Question 1. Processing answers.

[StrangerCoug]

Q1: Name five cities notorious for their traffic congestion.

New York (18):

AniX, Cephrir, Cheery Dog, DeasVail, Farren, Haschel Cedricson, Iprobablysuck, JerryArr, mallowgeno, Merlyn, N, pablito, racefan12, Save The Dragons, Silverclaw, Skygazer, SleepyKrew, VashtaNeurotic

Los Angeles (17):

AniX, Cephrir, Cheery Dog, DeasVail, Farren, Haschel Cedricson, Iprobablysuck, JerryArr, Merlyn, N, pablito, racefan12, Save The Dragons, Silverclaw, Skygazer, SleepyKrew, VashtaNeurotic

London (11):

DeasVail, JerryArr, mallowgeno, Merlyn, N, pablito, racefan12, Save The Dragons, Silverclaw, Skygazer, VashtaNeurotic

Chicago (7):

AniX, Cephrir, DeasVail, Iprobablysuck, JerryArr, mallowgeno, SleepyCrew

Boston (6):

AniX, Cheery Dog, Iprobablysuck, Skygazer, SleepyKrew, VashtaNeurotic

(New) Delhi (5):

biancospino, Cheery Dog, N, pablito, VashtaNeurotic

Beijing (4):

Cephrir, Haschel Cedricson, racefan12, Silverclaw

Paris (3):

mallowgeno, Merlyn, Save The Dragons

San Francisco (3):

Cheery Dog, Farren, Silverclaw

Tokyo (3):

N, pablito, Save The Dragons

Mumbai (2):

AniX, Cephrir

Philadelphia (2):

Iprobablysuck, mallowgeno

Washington (2):

Haschel Cedricson, Skygazer

Non-scoring answers

Bangkok: Merlyn
Detroit: JerryArr
Hong Kong: racefan12
Houston: Farren
Jakarta: biancospino
Moscow: Haschel Cedricson
Naples: biancospino
Phoenix: biancospino
Rio de Janeiro: biancospino
Seattle: Farren
Shanghai: SleepyKrew
Toronto: DeasVail

Irrelevant players

StrangerCoug (52): Los Angeles, New York, Beijing, London, Tokyo

Nobody starts with a perfect score, but VashtaNeurotic comes the closest—only two points away!—with 57.
biancospino, matching with only one answer, is the lowest score and drops to level 1.

[StrangerCoug]

Q2: Other than food or drink, name three things that you might buy at a supermarket.

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Submission due in: (expired on 2023-09-05 17:43:39)

Adding another 24 hours so the deadline doesn't fall on Labor Day.

[Silverclaw]

I really considered using 4 US cities too... Damn

[StrangerCoug]

I miscredited Silverclaw as Save The Dragons for their Beijing answer; that has now been fixed. Both Silverclaw's and Save The Dragons' scores were already correct.

[Skygazer]

I almost picked Delhi over Boston but figured this site would lean heavily towards the US

I guess DC itself isn't tooooo bad but the beltway is an abomination

[Charles510]

/in

[StrangerCoug]

/in

You can submit for the current question and start at level 1

[Silverclaw]

[oops

[AniX]

Posting so this gets into my ego

[N]

How do I pm on mobile

[Cheery Dog]

Posting so this gets into my ego

Wait, you actually need to egopost? I thought your name appearing in the scores would be enough for you.

[AniX]

I made a "mistake" backstage and named all my reform threads after myself, so until reforms end and people stop posting in those threads my name search is a little depreciated.

[Iprobablysuck]

I…did not put down Moscow?