What Were You Thinking XV! (Question 6)

[StrangerCoug]

Current Standings and Question

0	Ircher, Jake The Wolfie, Searl, tris
1	biancospino, Cheery Dog, Datisi, DeasVail, imaginality, JerryArr, mallowgeno, N, racefan12
2	Aureal
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4
5
6
7

Q6: Which is more important in a date: looks or personality?

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Submission due in: 0 days, 9 hours, 46 minutes

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.

Magenta

numbers indicate that everybody in the round had the same score.

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 XIV!

(Mod: StrangerCoug; Winner: racefan12)

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]

WWYT XV is now underway! To /in, all you have to do is PM me your response to this question:

Q1: Name five people on this site who are fun to play with.

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

[Jake The Wolfie]

Some people will say that by posting this message, I have rigged the game.

I am some people. I'm rigging the game as I speak.

[N]

Panicked for a moment as I tried to remember how to pm on phone

[Datisi]

oh hell yeah i love this game

[StrangerCoug]

Still room for three more people at least, so invite your friends No deadline just yet.

[Cheery Dog]

I did end up doing this right?

[StrangerCoug]

I did end up doing this right?

Yes, I have an answer from you

[StrangerCoug]

I now have 15 official entries, so starting the clock for anyone else who wants to join on Question 1.

Submission due in: (expired on 2024-04-14 20:13:15)

[StrangerCoug]

Q1: Name five people on this site who are fun to play with.

StrangerCoug (8):

biancospino, Charles510, DeasVail, imaginality, Jake The Wolfie, JerryArr, N, tris

xofelf (7):

Cheery Dog, Datisi, DeasVail, Ircher, mallowgeno, racefan12, Searl

Jake The Wolfie (6):

biancospino, Charles510, DeasVail, Ircher, Jake The Wolfie, JerryArr

Cephrir (4):

Cheery Dog, Datisi, mallowgeno, Searl

the worst (3):

Datisi, Ircher, Searl

Ariel (2):

N, tris

Datisi (2):

biancospino, tris

Doctor Drew (2):

Aureal, biancospino

Firebringer (2):

Aureal, imaginality

Haschel Cedricson (2):

DeasVail, mallowgeno

N (2):

Charles510, DeasVail

Not_Mafia (2):

biancospino, Jake The Wolfie

Save The Dragons (2):

racefan12, Searl

SleepyKrew (2):

N, tris

VashtaNeurotic (2):

Cheery Dog, mallowgeno

Non-scoring answers

Aisa: Aureal
ambic: Cheery Dog
Ausuka: racefan12
Bingle: Datisi
Charles510: Charles510
Cheery Dog: N
coolcatjune: racefan12
Dannflor: Datisi
DragonEater70: Ircher
Farren: Charles510
GeorgeBailey: Jake The Wolfie
JacksonVirgo: Jake The Wolfie
Jingle: imaginality
Lukewarm: imaginality
Malkon05: racefan12
mallowgeno: JerryArr
mastina: Ircher
Morning Tweet: imaginality
Mystic Sailboat: JerryArr
PookyTheMagicalBear: Aureal
PrivateI: mallowgeno
Ranger: Aureal
schadd_: N
Searl: Cheery Dog
Skygazer: tris
Thestatusquo: Searl
Xalxe: JerryArr

Irrelevant players

DragonEater70 (7): Dannflor, the worst, Firebringer, Datisi, fireisredsir
StrangerCoug (8): DragonEater70, biancospino, StrangerCoug, Ircher, DeasVail

DragonEater70 wanted only to spectate, so he is not being officially counted as in.

Don't feel bad if two people didn't pick you and/or you picked somebody nobody else did: I think all 15 of you are fun to play with, as are all of your choices. Picking just five was the hard part.

The wide variety of answers prevented anybody from starting out with a perfect score, but DeasVail came the closest with 25 points.
Aureal has the lowest score with only 4 points and is our first drop to level 1.

[StrangerCoug]

Q2: Name five Olympic events.

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Submission due in: (expired on 2024-04-17 22:02:15)

[Jake The Wolfie]

I told you I was rigging the game by posting :3

[N]

You might not want your answers public :P —SC

[racefan12]

Continuing my talent of getting the lowest nondropping score

[Searl]

egoposting

[StrangerCoug]

Q2: Name five Olympic events.

Swimming (8):

Cheery Dog, Datisi, DeasVail, imaginality, Ircher, N, racefan12, tris

Gymnastics (7):

Aureal, Cheery Dog, Datisi, DeasVail, Ircher, racefan12, tris

100m (dash/sprint) (5):

biancospino, Datisi, imaginality, JerryArr, Searl

Marathon (5):

Aureal, biancospino, Datisi, imaginality, Jake The Wolfie

Figure/Ice skating (4):

Aureal, Ircher, mallowgeno, tris

Track (and field) (4):

Cheery Dog, N, racefan12, tris

Long jump (3):

Datisi, Jake The Wolfie, JerryArr

Pole vault (3):

Jake The Wolfie, JerryArr, Searl

Basketball (2):

JerryArr, N

Boxing (2):

Cheery Dog, imaginality

Curling (2):

JerryArr, tris

Discus throw (2):

Jake The Wolfie, mallowgeno

Diving (2):

Jake The Wolfie, racefan12

(Downhill) skiing (2):

Aureal, Ircher

Soccer (2):

DeasVail, N

Non-scoring answers

Archery: Cheery Dog
Bobsled: N
Clay pigeon shooting: biancospino
Cycling: DeasVail
High jump: biancospino
Hockey: Aureal
Hurdles: Searl
Javelin: Searl
Pentathlon: biancospino
Running: DeasVail
Shot put: mallowgeno
Table tennis: mallowgeno
Triathlon: mallowgeno
Triple jump: Searl
Volleyball: Ircher
Weightlifting: imaginality
Wrestling: racefan12

Irrelevant players

StrangerCoug (19): Biathlon, Swimming, Gymnastics, Figure skating, Wrestling

Datisi answered with more than one running event and several people answered with multiple track and field events (with Searl's submission consisting entirely of them), so specific running or track events couldn't be merged into the general categories. I did, however, grant you the benefit of the doubt if you just said 100m—there are 100m swimming events, but nobody answered with a specific one.

Datisi takes home the gold this question with 28 points, just one point shy of a perfect score.
mallowgeno is the lowest score and drops to level 1.
Charles510 failed to submit, so he gets an activity strike and also drops to level 1.

[StrangerCoug]

Q3: Does a hot dog count as a sandwich?

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Submission due in: (expired on 2024-04-21 10:55:41)

Adding 12 hours to the deadline to make it sometime I'm more likely to be up (processing answers

does

take time )

[Jake The Wolfie]

No, hot dogs are inanimate objects and therefore cannot count, whether they are a sandwich or not.

[StrangerCoug]

I do like the joke, but no discussing the current question, please.

[Jake The Wolfie]

Unrelated, Has anyone seen my deck of GIM cards? I swear I put them right here, on the edge of this cliff.

[StrangerCoug]

Our unscientific survey says...

Q3: Does a hot dog count as a sandwich?

No (8):

Aureal, Cheery Dog, Ircher, Jake The Wolfie, mallowgeno, racefan12, Searl, tris

Yes (6):

biancospino, Datisi, DeasVail, imaginality, JerryArr, N

Irrelevant players

StrangerCoug (8): No

We had an almost even split here! We had a player fail to submit, but we do have a majority among those who did submit, so I'm not dropping everybody down a level this question—only seven of you (counting the player who didn't submit):

biancospino, Datisi, DeasVail, imaginality, JerryArr, and N drop to level 1.
Charles510 fails to submit and so gets his second activity strike and drops to level 2. If he fails to submit again, he will be eliminated.

[StrangerCoug]

Q4: Name three things to which people get addicted.

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Submission due in: (expired on 2024-04-24 12:09:31)

[Cheery Dog]

No, hot dogs are inanimate objects and therefore cannot count, whether they are a sandwich or not.

I think that would mean yes, because sandwiches themselves also are inanimate objects and therefore also can't count.

[N]

Should've stuck with my first thought on that one. I tried to guess where the majority would be

[Jake The Wolfie]

What was Jake thinking when I declared ownership of this pagebottom?