Family Feud 2014

[Quizmaster]

Noble answers

1. Would you like to be a male or female guest? No scoring, but your choice will influence future questions.

male: grams88, Minim, Timballisto, Akseli
female: Simon, möbius, Insane Steve, NaOH, ccexplore, geoo

No points here, but interesting reasons: NaOH is extremely happy to be female, putting the thumbs-up emoticon. möbius wants to be a woman with big berbs because he doesn't want to work anymore.

2. Welcome to the noble hall of this exclusive casino, where only the most dapper ladies and gentlemen What item of clothing is mandatory for the gentlemen here? Normal feud scoring.

suit (1 point): Minim, NaOH, geoo
tie (2/3 points): ccexplore, Akseli
top hat (2/3 points): möbius, Timballisto
monocle (1/3 point): Insane Steve
tuxedo (1/3 point): Simon
suit and tie (1/3 point): grams88

The subclass rule screws grams here. Even though both suit and tie were excellent answers, using both cannot be counted as either. Same for the tuxedo, I believe it's not synonymous with suit.

grams88: Suit and Tie, the men must look presentable and be as uncomfortable as possible.
Insane Steve: The most dapper of monocles. AND ONLY THE MOST DAPPER OF THEM
geoo: suit (though really I think it should be a top hat)

Yes, geoo could have chosen the top hat and still come out on top hat.

3. What kind of drink do you choose at the entrance? Normal feud scoring.

martini (1 point): möbius, NaOH, ccexplore, Akseli
wine (1/4 point): grams88
beer (1/4 point): Minim
milk (1/4 point): Timballisto
water (1/4 point): geoo
champaign (1/4 point): Simon
Spyritus 192 Proof (1/4 point): Insane Steve

Dangit, martini seems like an obivous answer now.

Insane Steve: A LITERAL TEN GALLON HAT OF SPYRITUS 192 PROOF LET'S GET WRECCCCCCKKKKKED
möbius: martini [in the capybara pic] I also want to bet that I am wrong on this question, I wager 0.3 points that I will not get top answer.

No, möbius, you've lost this bet! But unfranchised gambling is forbidden, so you shall keep your wager.

4. Such a nice gathering of dapper Lemmings players. Secretly, you're looking for a date! For simplicity, we assume heterosexuality. Guess whether there are more, fewer, or equally many players of the other gender. You win 0.7 points if you're right. If you guess "equally many", you get an extra 0.3 points, no matter whether you're right.

We have 6 ladies and 4 gentlemen at this noble meetup.

male, guessing more (0.7 points): grams88
female, guessing fewer (0.7 points): geoo, Simon
guessing equally many (0.3 points): Minim, ccexplore
male, guessing fewer (no points): Timballisto, Akseli
female, guessing more (no points): möbius, NaOH, Insane Steve

NaOH: More male players. Just guessing most forum-goers will not cross-dress for this dapper event. And what do you mean heterosexuality is simpler? X-(
Insane Steve: More male players, but I mean if there aren't more this may say one of at least two things that are both equally awesome about this board.
grams88: More of the other gender, I hope this tactic works. *thumbs up*

5. Let's play Texas Hold'em Poker together, because that's a very emotional game, a good choice for fiery lovebirds. You're dealt a pair of aces. What are your aces' two different suits? Normal feud scoring, order of suits is ignored.

hearts and spades (1 point): möbius, Insane Steve, Minim, NaOH, Timballisto, Akseli
hearts and diamonds (1/2 point): grams88, ccexplore, Simon
spades and clubs (1/6 point): geoo

Minim: Spades and Hearts (Because they both look too similar)
Insane Steve: Spades and Hearts, let's lose to that idiot who flats a raise and 3-bet pre with 93 sooooted in clubs YEA
5. spades and hearts. I also want to wager 0.3 points that I will not get top answer on this question.

Möbius, you lose the bet once more. You must answer the feud more weirdly to win such a bet!

Of course, 5 happy lovebirds have called your raise and the flop brought a lovely 4, 5, 6, with two clubs. geoo stands to hit the double-runner flush!

6. Would you like to join the noble Gentlemen's Pipe Smoker's Club? Normal feud scoring, almost -- if you're female and join the club, you must buy a fake mustache before you're allowed in. The mustache costs 0.3 points, this is deducted from your overall score.

don't join (1 point): möbius, Minim, NaOH, ccexplore, geoo
join as a male (1 point): grams88, Timballisto, Akseli
buy mustache and join (0.7 points): Insane Steve, Simon

The Pipe Smoker's Club turned out just as attractive as the Baccarat table. After composing the feud, I felt unsure whether the penalty for longest Baccarat gambling was necessary. Apparently, it didn't entice everybody into smoking after all.

Insane Steve: Um yes, I mean as a biological male I'll grow a mustache, and then pur-stache the MOST DAPPER OF UPGRADES as the ultra-discerning male pretending to be a female pretending to be a male here

7a. If you're a member of the pipe club: How many pipes do you smoke at the club? You must smoke at least one.

7b. If you're not a member of the club: How long do you play Bacarrat, waiting for the smokers to return? You can play any number of full hours, including zero.

• Merged feud scoring: Answers to question 7a/7b from both groups are merged, then normal feud scoring applies to the merged answers. For this, x pipes is treated as equivalent to x hours of Baccarat. Exciting! In addition:
  
• Puff-Puff Duel Winner: If you smoke exactly 1 more pipe than another member of the pipe club, you win an extra 0.3 points.
  
• Desperate Gambler: If nobody plays Baccarat for longer than you, you lose an extra 0.2 points. For this, all pipe smokers play 0 hours of Baccarat.
  

0 hours of Baccarat (1/6 point): ccexplore
1 hour of Baccarat (0.8 points): möbius, Minim, NaOH, geoo
1 pipe in the club (1 point): grams88, Akseli
3 pipes in the club (1/3 point): Timballisto, Simon
420 pipes in the club (1/6 point): Insane Steve

Together, 1 hour of Baccarat and 1 pipe in the club were named 6 times out of 10. But only the 1 pipe scores 1 point, the 1 hour of Baccarat scores 0.8 points due to the Desperate Gambler penalty.

Despite trying very hard, nobody has won a puff-puff duel. But Insane Steve got eyeballs larger than the moon now:

7a) 420 pipes BLAZE THEM GET THE HIGHEST OF HIGH BLAZE ALL THE PIPES ALL OF THEM
7b) I'm pretty sure I walk into the baccarat room high and absolutely wasted and play 3 hours of this in the absolutely wrecked gambling realms, so yea. (Accept 7a answer. 7b answer is a joke and I'm pretty sure it didn't happen but I can't remember?!)

8a. If you're male: You may now flirt with the ladies and buy them drinks. Each drink costs 0.1 point. How many drinks do you buy for the ladies? A total of 2 points will be distributed evenly among those gentlemen who buy the largest number of drinks. A total of 1 point will be distributed amonst those who chose the next-highest occuring value. Beware, you can easily make a loss at this question.

8b. If you're female: How many drinks do you expect the men to buy for you? If all men have bought fewer drinks than your expectation, you win nothing, you demanding fury. Otherwise, you win 1/n points, where n is the amount of gentlemen who have bought at least your expected number of drinks. So, maybe you don't want to be the easiest girl around either.

8c. Screw this? Old video games are what's important in life, not dating? Regardless of your gender, you can take 0.3 points for free instead of answering 8a/8b. However, you'll probably make the dating game easier for others.

Only a single person bought drinks: Minim bought 5 drinks for a total of 0.5 points. Congratulations, you make a net profit of 1.5 points! All the real ladies, feud-wannabe-ladies, and female spambots on this board are throwing themselves all over you like walruses!

möbius, geoo, and Insane Steve win 1 point each for question 7b. möbius and Insane Steve guessed 2 or more drinks, geoo guessed 1 or more drink. Insane Steve felt inclined to reveal his subtle reasoning for all three questions:

8a) I am biologically male and would buy 0 drinks irl, but am FFuedly female so this is ignored
8b) There is a weird psychological barrier to "2 drinks." So, given that "at least" is the wording here, 2.
8c) I get blackout drunk and win a "Super Mario 3 no warps" race after the dating is done, despite being do wasted I transcend space, time, and biological sex here. (not taking 8c points)

grams88, Timballisto and Akseli play video games for 0.3 points each.

Timballisto: 8c. @#$% it - where did I put those quarters...

NaOH (guessed 6), ccexplore (guessed 6) and Simon (guessed 8) don't win anything here.

9. Exhausted and tired, you wind up with a decent partner in the taxi back home. Do you go to your place or to your partner's? Normal feud scoring.

partner's (1 point): grams88, Insane Steve, Minim, NaOH, Akseli, Simon
own place (2/3 points): möbius, Timballisto, ccexplore, geoo

Quite frankly, Q9 and Q4 were the only question in which I (Simon) did well.

geoo: my place (so I don't have to figure out how to get home at some point)
Insane Steve: Ummmm, partner, in some weird space time rift where I andfskdhjhefuioerufioeuo --passes out

Minim's closing words:

{I'm not into nightclubs so don't expect me to top this list}

Not at all, you're a nightclub king. You've made first place!

Total scores

6.850: Minim
6.133: möbius
5.967: Akseli
5.800: NaOH
5.583: geoo
5.083: grams88
4.450: Insane Steve
4.300: ccexplore
4.217: Timballisto
3.817: Simon

What a hard feud, the next one will be easier for certain. Thanks for playing!

-- Simon

[ccexplore]

Interesting that it ends up more female than male.  At the start I intuitively thought it might be more male than female, but as I go through the questions that are gender-dependent, it becomes less and less clear which gender has advantage, to the point that I cross-dress myself and wussed out on question 4.

Unfortunately I didn't take heed to that when looking at question 8, somehow thinking that there are still enough males and at least one crazy one that may pick a high number just to screw with other males.  Then again maybe it's for the best that things didn't go that direction: cross-dressing, drunk and in the company of the same (biological) gender can't possibly end well. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/XD.gif" alt=":XD:" title="XD" class="smiley" /> http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/winktounge.gif" alt=";P" title="Wink-Tongue" class="smiley" />

3. What kind of drink do you choose at the entrance? Normal feud scoring.
milk (1/4 point): Timballisto
water (1/4 point): geoo

Really?  http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/shocked.gif" alt=":o" title="Shocked" class="smiley" /> If you're going to give up, at least come up with something funny or crazy? http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" class="smiley" />

I'm genuinely surprised with #5 though.  Diamond is the other red suit! (plus you know what they say are a girl's best friend...)  Or maybe you folks are all into goth chicks wearing black lipstick? http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/winktounge.gif" alt=";P" title="Wink-Tongue" class="smiley" />

#7 is one question where common sense totally escaped me for some reason, in hindsight 1 is so obvious and logical. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/XD.gif" alt=":XD:" title="XD" class="smiley" />  Oh well, at least I screwed the other baccarat players there. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/winktounge.gif" alt=";P" title="Wink-Tongue" class="smiley" /> (probably the only screwing that happened on this noble evening)

Finally totally forgot to mention this remark for #9:  if I don't plan to see that person again, she can come to my place and be grossed out at its messiness, otherwise I better get to her place instead. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/undecided.gif" alt=":-\" title="Undecided" class="smiley" /> (a 2nd, wink emoticon retracted as it can unintentionally put the final part of the sentence in a rather dirty light)  [For the feud though, I was thinking exactly the same line of thinking as geoo's.]

[mobius]

for once I got a lot of top answers but do not realize it at all, and that same time I choose to wager that I'd lose (honestly thinking I would), http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/XD.gif" alt=":XD:" title="XD" class="smiley" /> http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/XD.gif" alt=":XD:" title="XD" class="smiley" /> thankfully Simon didn't allow the wagering.

I hardly felt motivated to understand the complicated questions but enjoyed reading the answers for some reason; "420 pipes in the club (1/6 point)..." made me  http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/laugh.gif" alt=":D" title="Laugh" class="smiley" /> for some reason.

[geoo]

3. What kind of drink do you choose at the entrance? Normal feud scoring.
milk (1/4 point): Timballisto
water (1/4 point): geoo

Really?  http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/shocked.gif" alt=":o" title="Shocked" class="smiley" /> If you're going to give up, at least come up with something funny or crazy? http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" class="smiley" />

By my hazy memory water was actually a popular choice last time the question was about a beverage (I seem to recall at least Akseli went for that), and if you think about something to drink without any context that's actually the most basic and natural choice. I did actually think of martini due to the capybaras, but didn't expect it to be so popular.

I'm surprised at the suits of the aces too. Last time I think spades was popular when a suit of cards was part of the question, and I thought I'd just match it up with the other black suit, naturally. Well at least I'll get some big money from Steve with my clubs flush.

I love how Steve still finished before ccx, Tim and Simon despite his junk answers.

[NaOH]

This was a cool feud. I loved the fancy party theme. Thanks for hosting, Simon!

1. Would you like to be a male or female guest? No scoring, but your choice will influence future questions.

male: grams88, Minim, Timballisto, Akseli
female: Simon, möbius, Insane Steve, NaOH, ccexplore, geoo

No points here, but interesting reasons: NaOH is extremely happy to be female, putting the thumbs-up emoticon. möbius wants to be a woman with big berbs because he doesn't want to work anymore.

Wow, this one surprised me. I mean no offence, but in the past I've noticed males tend to get flustered about showing signs of femininity, so I figured, given the gender distribution on this forum, female wouldn't be a popular choice. I must be very close-minded, then!

I was actually tempted to cross-dress myself, since I felt the odds were slightly skewn in favour of males, but I thought the feud would be more interesting with at least one female player. If only I'd known. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/laugh.gif" alt=":D" title="Laugh" class="smiley" />

Anyway I probably would have bought the women ladies a ton of drinks and ended up broke. Shucks.

hearts and spades

Hearts is fairly straight-forward. Spades is the other defacto special suit; it's highest in poker (IIRC) and in the game Hearts the Queen of Spades is the only non-heart card to award points.

Also, spades just seem daring to me. Clubs are boring and diamonds are what people buy when they want to get something special but have no good ideas.

NaOH (guessed 6), ccexplore (guessed 6) and Simon (guessed http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/cool.gif" alt="8)" title="Cool" class="smiley" /> don't win anything here.

Shucks, I was too greedy to get Minim's drinks. Or maybe I got the five drinks and am still not satisfied. I hope they're not alcoholic drinks...

[Timballisto]

....I just genuinely enjoy drinking milk >_>

[ccexplore]

To my surprise, after some reluctant initial semi-joking prodding on IRC, it looks like I might actually have enough decent questions to consider hosting the next round (8/8.5 at the moment, still thinking through a game-style non-feud question to finish).  I'm still happy at this point to defer to someone else to host (especially if popular demand demands so), but otherwise there's a good chance I'll host the next feud round for real within the next 3-4 days.

[Quizmaster]

Sorry for the delay! http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/sad.gif" alt=":(" title="Sad" class="smiley" /> And a preemptive sorry if this round's questions aren't that great, being my first time and all. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/undecided.gif" alt=":-\" title="Undecided" class="smiley" />

Family Feud 2014 Round 13

Except for question 9 (and 4B, which isn't so much a separate question as just a bonus attached to 4A), questions will be scored via standard feud scoring.  A few questions may explicitly specify certain answers or categories of answers as forbidden, in which case any forbidden answers received will be scored 0 instead.  The QuizMaster will reply via PM as soon as possible to warn participants of submissions with forbidden answers.  (For the most part you shouldn't need to worry, I'm not trying to trick anyone.)

1. What's the correct answer to this question?

2. We all know Akseli's king of pounding the mattress.  Who on the forums is the second-best mattress pounder?

3. We all know Simon lives to shower.  Who on the forums do you suspect showers the least?

4A. Fill in the blanks below with the funniest responses [note: no implied restrictions on number of letters or words]:

    I will give ____ (someone from here) ____ (something) for the holidays because ____ (something that person did or said recently).

For 4A scoring purposes, only your "something" response (ie. second blank above) will be used, with standard feud scoring.  The "someone" and "reason" responses are there just to open up the possibilities, and also for 4B below.

4B. Holiday bonus time!  Obviously the QuizMaster was inspired by something semi-random that someone here did or said recently, when coming up with 4A.  In other words, there were specific responses in mind filling in the blanks above, at the time QuizMaster begin formulating question 4A.  Let's call them the "inspiration responses".

For the same answer you gave in 4A, if by miracle all 3 of your responses match those in the inspiration responses, you will earn a bonus 0.2 points.  If 2 out of 3 matches, you will earn a bonus 0.1 points.  Matching is done semantically (ie. wording doesn't have to be exact, and will basically be treated reasonably leniently in favor of scoring you max bonus). For fairness:
   - The QuizMaster himself (shall he choose to participate) is not eligible for the bonus.
   - Shall the QuizMaster participate, even though there would be no bonus anyway, his answer for 4A will not be the inspiration responses.  (He thinks the inspiration responses would have been too random to work well for feud scoring in 4A anyway.)

5. Speaking of holidays, what's the best thing about Christmas?

6. You are asked to create a hazard object (ie. can kill lemmings) for the Christmas graphics set, for a remake of Holiday Lemmings (as you might know, the original Holiday Lemmings feature no deadly objects on purpose).  You are also forbidden to reuse the following hazards featured in Oh No! More Lemmings's Snow set:  icy water, icicles, and what http://tle.vaarties.nl/ohnomore/gameplay/" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">The Lemmings Encyclopedia called the "nitrogen trap" (http://tle.vaarties.nl/images/ohnomore/trap_nitrogen.gif" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">link to picture). So what would you use?

7. The music of Lemmings and Holiday Lemmings contain potentially-too-obvious answers, so: which of the following music from Oh No! More Lemmings is the most Christmas-y?  Please refer to your answer using letters A-F as used below (click on link to listen):
  A) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojrtWBEFMHk" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojrtWBEFMHk
  B) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EkZYqb0Stc" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EkZYqb0Stc
  C) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eauv0M96zI" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eauv0M96zI
  D) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RPzTySHlcs" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RPzTySHlcs
  E) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ldSABWG6A" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ldSABWG6A
  F) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRVw8Mp5tfI" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRVw8Mp5tfI

8. What would a person who does not celebrate Christmas eat on Christmas day for lunch or dinner?  Restriction:  your answer must be specific to at least a type of food, cuisine or diet--answering "same thing they'd eat normally" is for example forbidden.  Rule of thumb: if you give the answer as-is to a cook with infinite knowledge of food, the cook should know what kinds of food/dishes to prepare, without having to know the specific person, or be so generic that practically anything could be prepared.

Some examples of acceptable answers:
  - "dinosaur" (specific animal, vegetable, mineral, or really whatever random thing you can think of; an actual dish is of course also a fine choice)
  - "Martian cuisine"
  - "a high-lead diet" (amongst many possible dietary plans, including those with brand names attached if you so choose)

Note: to avoid skewing the results, the example answers given above ("dinosaur", "Martian cuisine", "high-lead diet") will also all be forbidden.

9. Newsflash: the QuizMaster has just successfully hacked Santa! http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/devil.gif" alt=":evil:" title="Evil" class="smiley" /> http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/party.gif" alt=":party:" title="Party Time!" class="smiley" /> The following knowledge and capabilities have been gained as a result:

• Apparently for years now, Santa had been replaced with a robot http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/shocked.gif" alt=":o" title="Shocked" class="smiley" />, whose behavior can now be influenced by the hack!  (The QuizMaster was originally just hoping to hack his naughty/nice list.)
• Besides completely bypassing the naught-list check for everyone, with the hack you can now also direct Santa-bot to arrive at your place on a specific time of your choosing, ranging from 12:00 midnight up to 5:00 morning (inclusive), down to the minute.
• Unfortunately due to technical limitations, the hack is unable to directly command Santa-bot to give you the best gifts.  What it can achieve though, is to influence Santa's gifting behavior via the cookies he may be offered during his visits prior to and at your house.  Basically Santa on fuller stomach will now give better gifts.  You will see this reflected in the scoring details, as explained below.

With that in mind, choose a time between 12:00 midnight to 5:00 morning (inclusive, down to the minute) for Santa's arrival, and decide on the number of cookies (can be zero) you'll offer Santa.  Alternatively, you may choose to be a decent person and refrain from directly taking advantage of the hack (say "no hacking" as your answer, which also implies you'll offer no cookies).  Scoring will be carried out as follows:

• Each cookie a participant offers to Santa will incur a cost (ie. points taken away from your score) of 0.2 points, whether or not Santa ends up consuming it.
   
• cookie and gifting mechanics:  Santa's "stomach" can hold up to 2 cookies at any moment (well it's really just simulation being a robot and all, but don't tell that to the children!).  Each cookie will last exactly 30 minutes from the time it is consumed, gone exactly on the 30-minute mark.  (For example, if Santa consumed a cookie of yours at 12:00, that cookie will be considered in his stomach from 12:00-12:29 inclusive, and no longer so at 12:30.)  Upon visiting a participant, Santa will start by expiring any cookies that are offered exactly at or more than 30 minutes prior to the current visitation time, then consume as many cookies offered by the participant as there's now room in Santa's stomach.  Then the participant will receive presents worth a score of 1 + C x 0.4 points, where C is the total number of cookies now in Santa's stomach (ie. ones he just ate, as well as the ones offered during previous visits before yours, if they happened less than 30 minutes ago).
  
  [Note: it is always a whole number of cookies--it's not like there is digestion simulation leaving fractional decrease of cookies from minute to minute.]
   
• visitation schedule:  For the hackers, Santa will visit them exactly on their specified time, except for the cases where two or more hackers happened to have chosen the same time.  For the rest of non-hackers as well as the hackers with time collisions:
  
  • In terms of scoring, they will effectively all have a visitation time exactly N x 6 minutes after the latest time (including those with time collisions) requested by a hacker, where N is the total number of hackers (including those with time collisions).
  • Due to bugs triggered by the time collision, Santa will not consume any cookies offered by the time-collided hackers. [Hey, consider yourself lucky that you even get a visit; it could've easily been triggering some other bug that would've exploded Santa-bot or something. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/scared.gif" alt=":scared:" title="Scared" class="smiley" />]  But the scoring effect from however many cookies still remain in Santa's stomach at this special "6N minutes after" visitation time, those will still be in effect for the gift score, for time-collided hackers and non-hackers alike.

[Quizmaster]

Ok, 4 people responded so far. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/XD.gif" alt=":XD:" title="XD" class="smiley" /> Given this round's theme however, I guess I'll wait until after the 25th to score this, probably the 26th or 27th since some people will presumably be busy with real gifts on the 25th.

(Although if anyone's itching for a new round, I'm not opposed to wrapping this one up earlier. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/undecided.gif" alt=":-\" title="Undecided" class="smiley" />)

[Quizmaster]

Also until further notice, please keep to the old forums (ie. this one) for now when PMing Quizmaster with your responses.  Amongst other things, I don't currently know what the QuizMaster password is on the new forum since it's based on the January backup, and I suspect no one else remembers either.

[Quizmaster]

Sorry for delay, but I've greatly underestimated time spent on real-life activities and will probably not be able to get to scoring the round (due to some traveling that's happening) until 12/28. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/XD.gif" alt=":XD:" title="XD" class="smiley" /> Happy holidays! [edit: correct typo--I meant to say 28th]

[Simon]

The quizmaster is not me, but ccexplore. So, you can safely stroke the corresponding rodent behind the ears and tell it's all right, no problem with the little delay.

Edit: replaced the Quizmaster's porcupine with the spinning hamster.

-- Simon

[Quizmaster]

Holiday 2014 answers

1. What's the correct answer to this question?

what (1 point): Simon, geoo
yes (1 point): Timballisto, NaOH
the most popular answer (0.5 points): Akseli
42 (0.5 points): mobius
I don't know (0.5 points): ccexplore

No points, but Akseli earns one bonus cookie for his answer.

2. We all know Akseli's king of pounding the mattress.  Who on the forums is the second-best mattress pounder?

Simon (0.5 points): Simon, ccexplore
geoo (0.25 points):  Timballisto
mobius (1 point): geoo, Akseli, NaOH, mobius

2. me [hopefully since I was the first to say that quote (from The Godfather)...]

3. We all know Simon lives to shower.  Who on the forums do you suspect showers the least?

geoo (1 point): Simon, Timballisto, geoo, ccexplore
mobius (0.5 points): Akseli, mobius
Akseli (0.25 points): NaOH

I guess someone's getting deodorant for Christmas.   For the record:

3. geoo (The one who complains about Simon's showering the most. Or maybe Akseli using sauna as a substitute?)

3) geoo [reasoning: he seems to do the most traveling out of all of us, and there's slightly more of a chance of skipping or otherwise unable to shower during traveling circumstances]

3. Akseli only uses saunas and never needs a towel

3. Me, because I may have been talking to "dirty" lately on IRC 

Hmm, admittedly the sauna theory is a sound one, maybe geoo should start trying that?

4a. (the holiday 2014 LemmingsForums gifts exchange)

Simon: I will give namida 10 euros for hosting the next forum.
Timballisto: I will give geoo a shower because he needs them the most.
geoo: I will give Akseli a towel for the holidays because it'll allow him to cover his privates.
Akseli:  I will give Simon Wurst for the holidays because he gave us all light entertainment in the Lix chat.
NaOH:  I will give Akseli a towel for the holidays because he has no shame
mobius:  I will give Akseli towel(s) because he doesn't have one for the sauna.
ccexplore:  I will give ccexplore a dress for the holidays because he said he liked the crossdressing aspect of the previous feud round.

Well that was obvious in hindsight...and looks like I might've just solidified my newfound status as the community weirdo.  Then again, Tim apparently wants to give geoo a hot, steamy shower, possibly without any towels...

Anyhow...1 point each to geoo, NaOH and mobius, and 0.333 points each to everyone else.  Plus a huge stack of towels for Akseli, by popular demand.  And geoo would like to offer an extra present:

[I wanted to write "wear a turban in the sauna" but as there's 0.1 point to be gained here I'm going for the more likely answer]

4b. No one got bonus points here--frankly I called it a "bonus" but didn't honestly expect anyone to get anywhere close to this; just figures having it might add some fun and variety to 4a.  Here's my original inspiration thought:

I will give NaOH spades (ie. the tool) for the holidays because she apparently preferred them over diamonds accordingly to her comments on the previous feud round.

Also, spades just seem daring to me. Clubs are boring and diamonds are what people buy when they want to get something special but have no good ideas.

5. Speaking of holidays, what's the best thing about Christmas?

food (0.25 points): Simon
time off (0.25 points): Timballisto
presents (1 point): geoo, Akseli, NaOH, ccexplore
Christmas Lemmings (0.25 points): mobius

One bonus Surprise Package awarded for mobius' answer--the only correct answer for a true Lemmings fan.

6.  For the Christmas graphics set for a remake of Holiday Lemmings, what would you use as a hazard object (ie. can kill lemmings)?

ice machine [from Lemmings 2 Polar tribe practice level] (1 point): Simon, geoo
empty light socket (0.5 points): Timballisto
Santa Claus (0.5 points): Akseli
fireplace (0.5 points): NaOH
snowman (1 point): mobius, ccexplore

real life answer (if it were a real thing): A MUTANT ZOMBIE SANTA CLAUS THAT EATS OFF YOUR FACE

7. Which music from Oh No! More Lemmings is the most Christmas-y?

C (1 point): Simon, Timballisto, geoo, ccexplore
A (0.5 points): Akseli, NaOH
B (0.25 points): mobius

bells and whale's singing for the win

Though to Akseli and NaOH's credit, in the Amiga version of the music I linked to, I think A actually does feature more bell-like sounds than C.  (And since geoo asked: the ordering of the music choices is based on the Amiga version, it looks like.  The PC version is A, B, C, F, D, E I think.)

8. What would a person who does not celebrate Christmas eat on Christmas day for lunch or dinner?

pizza (0.5 points): Simon
toast (0.5 points): Timballisto
wurst (1 point): geoo, Akseli
leek (0.5 points): NaOH
turkey (0.5 points): mobius
chicken (0.5 points): ccexplore

9. (hacking Santa with cookies)
ccexplore: 12:00, 2 cookies (which carried over to geoo's stop)
geoo: 12:26, 1 cookie
NaOH: 1:02, 1 cookie  (which carried over to Simon's stop)
Simon: 1:21, 0 cookie
mobius: 2:00, 4 cookies
Timballisto: 3:00, 1 cookie
Akseli: no hacking (which by the given rules, implies a visit at 6x6 = 36 minutes after 3am, ie 3:36. So unfortunately no cookies left in Santa's stomach by then)

ccexplore: 1 + 2x0.4 - 2x0.2 = 1.4 points
geoo: 1 + 2x0.4 - 1x0.2 = 1.6 points
NaOH: 1 + 1x0.4 - 1x0.2 = 1.2 points
Simon: 1 + 1x0.4 - 0x0.2 = 1.4 points
mobius: 1 + 2x0.4 - 4x0.2 = 1 point
Timballisto: 1 +1x0.4 - 1x0.2 = 1.2 point
Akseli: 1 point

Total scores:

geoo: 9.6
ccexplore: 7.233
Simon: 6.983
NaOH: 6.95
Akseli: 6.333
Timballisto: 6.033
mobius: 6
Congratulations to geoo (practically a perfect score!), and merry holidays and a happy new year to all!

[geoo]

Wow, I certainly didn't expect this outcome considering how hard this round was. Almost a perfect score (could have scored 1.8 on the last one), and way ahead of everybody else!

Re: my answer with the turban, what I mean was that I'd give Akseli a towel so he can fold it into a turban to wear in the sauna because I don't believe in the necessity of covering your privates in a sauna. I opted for the obvious answer as I thought that might be the one to get 0.1 points for (so in that regard the bonus points limited rather than extended the creativity of the answer).

I think this was a very nice round with all questions ending up with good point distributions (never everyone or no-one getting the same answer), the description for the Santa round was quite lengthy but the idea was in essence not too complicated, so at least I had a good intuition for what to do.

So who's up for hosting the next round? Akseli?

[NaOH]

Congratulations to geoo for winning another feud! Doing well on these requires knowing the rest of us really well. And thank you ccexplore for hosting a fabulous round. The Santa Claus question was rather overwhelming, but the other questions were really stellar brainfood. The references to the latenight IRC conversations made me chuckle.

(Actually most of those weren't truly late at night for me, but there's always some time zone in latenight for any conversation.)

4b. No one got bonus points here--frankly I called it a "bonus" but didn't honestly expect anyone to get anywhere close to this; just figures having it might add some fun and variety to 4a.  Here's my original inspiration thought:

I will give NaOH spades (ie. the tool) for the holidays because she apparently preferred them over diamonds accordingly to her comments on the previous feud round.

Also, spades just seem daring to me. Clubs are boring and diamonds are what people buy when they want to get something special but have no good ideas.

I don't think I'd have guessed this in a million years Oh well, that's why it's a bonus question.

So who's up for hosting the next round? Akseli?

Akseli. Seconded.