What Were You Thinking XII! (Game Over)

[StrangerCoug]

I apologize for the slowness of the ruling. I had one in mind; I just wanted a second opinion from Xalxe.

Cheery Dog has been ejected. The "no looking answers up" rule includes cases when I rule an answer too ambiguous and ask you to clarify. I'm sorry.

The scores for this round will be tallied as if Cheery Dog did not submit, and the results will be up tonight at the earliest.

[Iprobablysuck]

The mod has spoken. It's time for you to go.

[StrangerCoug]

Scoring Answers

William Shakespeare (23)

- Aronis, Aurathebirb, Assemblerotws, Cephrir, Creature, D3f3nd3r, DeasVail, Felissan, Haschel Cedricson, Iprobablysuck, JerryArr, KingdomAces, LlamaFluff, mallowgeno, McMenno, Mjollnir, N, Plotinus, Radja, randomidget, Save The Dragons, Xalxe, xofelf
L

in-Manuel Miranda (6)

- Aurathebirb, Assemblerotws, Haschel Cedricson, JerryArr, LlamaFluff, Xalxe

Oscar Wilde (6)

- Aurathebirb, DeasVail, LlamaFluff, Mjollnir, randomidget, Save The Dragons

Arthur Miller (5)

- D3f3nd3r, Haschel Cedricson, randomidget, Xalxe, xofelf

Tennessee Williams (5)

- Cephrir, Haschel Cedricson, KingdomAces, Save The Dragons, xofelf

Christopher Marlowe (4)

- Cephrir, Plotinus, randomidget, xofelf

Sophocles (4)

- Creature, D3f3nd3r, Haschel Cedricson, Iprobablysuck

Euripedes (3)

- Cephrir, Iprobablysuck, KingdomAces

Andrew Lloyd Webber (3)

- Aurathebirb, Cephrir, KingdomAces

Edward Albee (2)

- DeasVail, xofelf

Aristophanes (2)

- Creature, Iprobablysuck

Samuel Beckett (2)

- Felissan, LlamaFluff

T. S. Eliot (2)

- DeasVail, Mjollnir

Oscar Hammerstein II (2)

- Assemblerotws, JerryArr

Victor Hugo (2)

- KingdomAces, Radja

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2)

- Aronis, mallowgeno

Plato (2)

- JerryArr, Radja

Richard Rodgers (2)

- Assemblerotws, JerryArr

J. K. Rowling (2)

- Aronis, N

Non-Scoring Answers

Aeschylus - Iprobablysuck
Hans Christian Andersen - Mjollnir
Ernst Bach - mallowgeno*
L. Frank Baum - Aronis
Ludwig van Beethoven - mallowgeno
Irving Berlin - Assemblerotws
Ray Bradbury - Aronis
Anton Chekhov - LlamaFluff
Roald Dahl - DeasVail
Ben Elton - Mjollnir
Henrik Ibsen - Save The Dragons
Eugène Ionesco - Felissan
Franz Liszt - Plotinus
Imre Madách - Plotinus
Molière - Felissan
Harold Pinter - randomidget
Plautus - Felissan
George Bernard Shaw - Aurathebirb
John Smith - N
Stephen Sondheim - Xalxe
Aaron Sorkin - Xalxe
John Philip Sousa - mallowgeno
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Plotinus
Thornton Wilder - Save The Dragons
August Wilson - D3f3nd3r

* Based on context, I think mallowgeno meant Johann Sebastian Bach. However, he didn't write any plays, musicals, or operas, and Ernst Bach is the only other person I found with that last name who fits the category. It doesn't affect mallowgeno's score either way.

Irrelevant Players

Cheery Dog (30) - Oscar Hammerstein II, William Shakespeare, Andrew Lloyd Webber, J. K. Rowling
StrangerCoug (28) - William Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill, Neil Simon, Arthur Miller, Molière

Scores

A few of you freaked out about getting an activity strike for not having your full five, but I'm a nice kitty So long as you gave at least one valid answer within the time limit, I didn't give you an activity strike. Also, note the footnote in Non-Scoring Answers to see what I was ruling as acceptable

This was another question that kicked some people in the butt, and we once again go without anybody getting a perfect score. However, Haschel Cedricson came the closest with 43.
McMenno failed to get even one valid answer that wasn't what everybody else said too, leaving him with 23 points and making this the third round in a row where he drops

McMenno drops to Level 3.

[StrangerCoug]

Question 8

) Name five things that you might keep in a safe or lockbox.

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Submission due in:

(expired on 2017-09-10 20:23:37)

[Cheery Dog]

Noone even listed that particular person, why the hell does that even matter?
I gave you two messages, one of which was thoughts before I had done research.
I should have a C. Boyd as a non-scoring answer imo.
Just because whoever it is isn't actually a famous playwright from me getting the wrong initial.

You're telling me that others submitted less than 5 answers, they're perfectly fine continuing with that, but ambiguity about one person takes out my whole answer?
I actually know of who my other four answers were, even thought my mind combines Rodgers & Hammerstein into one person. (Why I didn't just list the second)

[Cheery Dog]

Nah you're fine, I've definitely done that before in games onsite (not sure if I have in this game, but definitely others).

This. If you submit your five answers, then look up what you could've answered, you're on the honor code not to change them. I come up with my five answers before I read any of your PM's.

Which is obviously helpful if one of your answers could refer to multiple people

[Cheery Dog]

Oh, that second message was poor wording from me.
I had meant it to convey just cometary about where I was actually trying to aim and not be a continued submission.

[Iprobablysuck]

Ludwig van Beethoven - mallowgeno

um what

[StrangerCoug]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelio

I counted all forms of musical theater as plays

[mallowgeno]

Ludwig van Beethoven - mallowgeno

um what

lol I don't know any play writers or anything

[LlamaFluff]

I think I win "most useless swap" changing Tennessee Williams to Miranda... either of which was good for six points for me.

[StrangerCoug]

The four answers I trust Cheery Dog not to have looked up will be listed under Irrelevant Players. (

Update:

Edited in.) While I stand by my ruling that he cheated by looking up George Boyd's first name when I asked for clarification on "Boyd", he is welcome to continue submitting answers for this question and future ones.

[Plotinus]

After I submitted, I looked up who wrote the other plays I could think of and knew I never would have thought of their names on my own.

[McMenno]

hey, I'm pretty sure I answerer aristophanes

[StrangerCoug]

hey, I'm pretty sure I answerer aristophanes

Whoops :$

I'm too busy processing the pending answers to rescore right now, but that means you're saved from the drop while Felissan, mallowgeno, and N get a three-way tie for last. Until I update, pretend you have three more points while Creature and Iprobablysuck have one more point.

[Randomnamechange]

drama

[Felissan]

I don't think I've ever sucked that hard at WWYT. I guess there's a first time for everything!

[StrangerCoug]

I see the responses of everyone else I needed in my PM box, so I'm going to rule everyone's answers locked in. Chances are I won't do the scoring until tomorrow—I promised I'd start Wheel of Fortune back up before the end of the weekend, and I have to be up early tomorrow.

[DiplomatDC]

I have returned.

PM in a moment

[StrangerCoug]

Scoring Answers

Cash/Money (23)

- Aronis, Assemblerotws, Aurathebirb, Cephrir, Creature, D3f3nd3r, DeasVail, DiplomatDC, Felissan, Haschel Cedricson, Iprobablysuck, JerryArr, KingdomAces, LlamaFluff, mallowgeno, McMenno, Mjollnir, N, Plotinus, Radja, randomidget, Save The Dragons, xofelf

Jewelry (19)

- Aronis, Aurathebirb, Cephrir, Creature, D3f3nd3r, DeasVail, DiplomatDC, Haschel Cedricson, JerryArr, KingdomAces, LlamaFluff, mallowgeno, McMenno, Mjollnir, N, Plotinus, Radja, Save The Dragons, xofelf

(Important/legal) documents (12)

- Aronis, Assemblerotws, Creature, DeasVail, Felissan, KingdomAces, McMenno, Mjollnir, Radja, randomidget, Save The Dragons, xofelf

Passport (11)

- D3f3nd3r, DiplomatDC, Haschel Cedricson, JerryArr, LlamaFluff, McMenno, N, Plotinus, randomidget, Save The Dragons, Xalxe

Firearm/Gun (9)

- Assemblerotws, Cephrir, DeasVail, Haschel Cedricson, LlamaFluff, mallowgeno, Plotinus, randomidget, xofelf

Gold (6)

- Aronis, DiplomatDC, JerryArr, N, Radja, Xalxe

Art/Paintings (5)

- Creature, KingdomAces, McMenno, N, xofelf

Heirloom (5)

- Aronis, Assemblerotws, JerryArr, mallowgeno, Mjollnir

Keys (4)

- Assemblerotws, DeasVail, DiplomatDC, Radja

Will (4)

- Haschel Cedricson, mallowgeno, Plotinus, randomidget

Birth certificate (2)

- Iprobablysuck, Xalxe

Diamonds (2)

- Aurathebirb, Xalxe

Non-Scoring Answers

Al Gore - Save The Dragons
Ammunition - Iprobablysuck
Car registration - Iprobablysuck
Collection - Creature
Computer - D3f3nd3r
Contract - Felissan
Credit Cards - D3f3nd3r
Deed - LlamaFluff
Diary - Aurathebirb
Diploma - Felissan
Evidence - Cephrir
Love letter - Xalxe
Memorabilia - KingdomAces
Phone - Aurathebirb
Photo album - Mjollnir
Series of nested lockboxes - Cephrir
Tampon - Iprobablysuck
Trophy - Felissan

Irrelevant Players

Cheery Dog (63) - Money, Guns, Private documents, Jewelry, Collectibles
StrangerCoug (34) - Money, gun, valuables, birth certificate, medicine

Scores

First of all, don't feel like correcting the scores in #177 because I'm a lazy bum Everyone should have the correct scores for the question as well as the correct level below, however; if there are still any mistakes, give me a yo.

With that out of the way, still no perfects, but McMenno comes the closest with 70.
Xalxe, who had been doing well before, was the only one

NOT

to answer cash or money this question and scored no better than 11 on any single answer, giving him only 21 points and the next drop.

Xalxe falls to Level 2.

[StrangerCoug]

Question 9

) Name five scummers that are fun to play Mish Mash games with.

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Submission due in:

(expired on 2017-09-14 20:37:14)

[Xalxe]

Ughhhhhh

[Iprobablysuck]

damn that was close

[Haschel Cedricson]

By what metric is a will not a legal document?

[Iprobablysuck]

or a birth certificate for that matter ^