What Were You Thinking XIII! (Congrats D3f3nd3r!)

[Xalxe]

Current Standings and Question

0	D3f3nd3r
1	CaptainMeme, N, StrangerCoug
2	Morning Tweet, SleepyKrew
3	Cephrir, Datisi, Felissan, racefan12, VashtaNeurotic, xofelf
4	Ircher, pablito, Shadoweh, Save the Dragons
5	Cheery Dog, DeasVail, Nancy Drew 39
6	Noraa
7	Menalque, PookyTheMagicalBear

Q28: D3f3nd3r!

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Submission due in: (expired on 2022-02-19 00:45:23)

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)

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 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

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).
  
• New this edition
  : 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.

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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.

[Xalxe]

After a four-year hiatus, the smash hit game that's got everybody talking is back! Signups are open now; simply PM me your answer to this question to join.

Q1: Name three countries where you wouldn't want to live.

Once I have 15 signups, a 48-hour timer will start; once it concludes, round 1 will be closed. Future rounds will have at least a 72-hour timer; with the upcoming holidays, deadlines will be adjusted to accommodate.

[xofelf]

Yaaaay, it's back!

[SleepyKrew]

here to make fun of people that accidentally post instead of PMing

[N]

/in

[D3f3nd3r]

/in

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

/in

[Morning Tweet]

/in

[Felissan]

It's back!

Spoiler: Which means...

[Datisi]

/in

[StrangerCoug]

/in

[Xalxe]

I now have the requisite 15 entries, so I will set the deadline for this round at 72 hours after the thread was posted, or (expired on 2021-11-17 20:27:00) from now. Don't delay, submit today! The more the merrier!

[racefan12]

Because everyone else is doing it, /in

[Nancy Drew 39]

/in

[Cheery Dog]

I just noticed the examples have changed.
I don't recognise any of those names.

[D3f3nd3r]

I just noticed the examples have changed.
I don't recognise any of those names.

Xalxe finally realized that there isn’t much correlation between MS users and people that use gym equipment!

[Xalxe]

Just under six hours left to submit your answers! Don't delay!

[Xalxe]

Round 1 Results

Scoring Answers

North Korea (13)

- Cephrir, D3f3nd3r, Datisi, DeasVail, Felissan, N, pablito, PookyTheMagicalBear, racefan12, Shadoweh, StrangerCoug, SleepyKrew, VashtaNeurotic

United States (9)

- Aronis, Cephrir, Cheery Dog, D3f3nd3r, DeasVail, Save the Dragons, Shadoweh, StrangerCoug, xofelf

Afghanistan (7)

- CaptainMeme, Felissan, Haschel Cedricson, N, PookyTheMagicalBear, racefan12

China (7)

- Cheery Dog, DeasVail, Felissan, Shadoweh, SleepyKrew, StrangerCoug, xofelf

Russia (7)

- Cephrir, D3f3nd3r, Datisi, pablito, Save the Dragons, SleepyKrew, xofelf

Iraq (3)

- Haschel Cedricson, pablito, racefan12

Saudi Arabia (3)

- CaptainMeme, Datisi, VashtaNeurotic

United Kingdom (2)

- Ircher, N

Syria (2)

- Haschel Cedricson, Morning Tweet

Venezuela (2)

- Aronis, Morning Tweet

Non-Scoring Answers

Africa - Aronis Modnote: what, the whole continent?
Brazil - CaptainMeme
France - VashtaNeurotic
Iran - Morning Tweet
Japan - Ircher
Mexico - Save the Dragons
Yemen - PookyTheMagicalBear
Zimbabwe - Ircher

Irrelevant Players

Xalxe (29)

- North Korea, United States, Russia

Commentary

Welcome to the game, everyone! We currently have 21 lucky players, all vying for the title of "Best Thinker," which is a title I just made up! Glad to see we started off with a serious answer in first position and a joke-but-also-is-it answer in second place, well done everybody.

This round we had five perfect scores, likely in part to the three-way tie for third place: Cephrir, D3f3nd3r, DeasVail, Shadoweh, StrangerCoug! On the smaller end, our first drop is

Ircher

, earning just two points for the United Kingdom. Alas!

I'm including screenshots of both the overall scoreboard and the individual scoring for this round; in the future it'll just be the overall scoreboard, but as I built this spreadsheet from scratch, I wanted to give the eagle-eyed among you a chance to check my work. (I don't know why the scoreboard image is so big but I'll beat it into shape for future rounds)

[Xalxe]

Q2: Name five fictional families.

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Submission due in: (expired on 2021-11-20 23:21:14)

[Ircher]

Wait, are we going for the most points or least points?

[DeasVail]

My USA answer was not a joke

[xofelf]

Neither was mine ._.

[Cheery Dog]

My name is missing from the list of people that choose Afghanistan.
It's still counted for points though.

[Felissan]

France - VashtaNeurotic

<3
(unironically)

[Nancy Drew 39]

/in

Just in case this got missed