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Come get me!

I think Weyoun will definitely pass me, and probably GGossage. I don't know how many days the rest of you had built up.

Internet Police are bad, bad peoples.

I won't be able to catch you.

I made two mistakes and the site made one mistake so I am too far behind you to catch up. I was hoping for a top 10 finish this month.

you are safe from me. I was a lot smarter in the first half of the month.

mrkelley23 wrote:Come get me!

I think Weyoun will definitely pass me, and probably GGossage. I don't know how many days the rest of you had built up.

Well, I screwed up a vocab question.

GGossage is my father.

I can't catch you. I'm too old and slow, plus I missed three q's. ear and 10s dude could be lurking. Oh well, tomorrow is another month.

I had a bad string to end the month and dropped out of the Top 100.

I think I missed the last 4 questions.

LOL - you are talking that quiz thing spoof a something! I got it.

This is the first time I am in triple digits!

I am quite proud.

I screwed up on today's question.

I knew the answer and clicked on it and sent my answer. Emma, who was standing next to me said that the click didn't register, but I had already hit the send button.

Oh well.

Tomorrow is another month.

I had an admiral question today.

How can this be a real contest if we don't get the same questions?

peacock2121 wrote:I had an admiral question today.

How can this be a real contest if we don't get the same questions?

My question was about turrets.

I didn't have a question in my inbox today. Who did I tick off?

Since I didn't join until mid-April, I wasn't anywhere close to a leaderboard. We'll see what happens in May.

hermillion wrote:I didn't have a question in my inbox today. Who did I tick off?

You can go to the site and look for the Command Center and get your question there.

Okay, you've done it now. I am in!

I got 1353 on my first Q. Is that good?

Of course it doesn't take long to WAG and randomly pick one.

christie1111 wrote:Okay, you've done it now. I am in!

I got 1353 on my first Q. Is that good?

Of course it doesn't take long to WAG and randomly pick one.

That is fast. I think you get 1000 for being correct and the rest is a bonus for being fast.

I don't think I have ever gotten 400 or more for speed.

I think if everyone got the same question this might lead to cheating.......not that anyone on this board would do such a thing.

ulysses5019 wrote:I think if everyone got the same question this might lead to cheating.......not that anyone on this board would do such a thing.

It would be easy enough to set up two accounts and see the question on one account for practice, then have another account that is competitive.

I enjoy the randomness of the questions.

ulysses5019 wrote:I think if everyone got the same question this might lead to cheating.......not that anyone on this board would do such a thing.

No, not that that could, would or has happened.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:I think if everyone got the same question this might lead to cheating.......not that anyone on this board would do such a thing.

It would be easy enough to set up two accounts and see the question on one account for practice, then have another account that is competitive.

I enjoy the randomness of the questions.

I want you as my partner if I ever decide to commit a crime.

Congratulations on your good showing this month. I still don't know exactly how Sploofus scoring works. I think I missed two questions in April, so I still have room for improvement. I also think I lose at least 100 points per day because I use a cumbersome pointing device instead of a mouse, but if I really cared, I'd do something about that.

I'm not clear on what happens when people don't answer their questions on the day they are sent. I think you can save up a backlog of questions for up to about two weeks before they expire. So if I started May with about 14 unanswered questions from April, could I answer them all at once on 5/1 and jump into a huge lead for May? Or do questions sent in April only count toward the April scoreboard? If that's true, can you answer April questions in May and have them count toward the April scoreboard, or does the April scoreboard get locked at whatever the results are as of midnight tonight?

Don't worry about me catching you. I'm through for the month.

TheConfessor wrote:Congratulations on your good showing this month. I still don't know exactly how Sploofus scoring works. I think I missed two questions in April, so I still have room for improvement. I also think I lose at least 100 points per day because I use a cumbersome pointing device instead of a mouse, but if I really cared, I'd do something about that.

I'm not clear on what happens when people don't answer their questions on the day they are sent. I think you can save up a backlog of questions for up to about two weeks before they expire. So if I started May with about 14 unanswered questions from April, could I answer them all at once on 5/1 and jump into a huge lead for May? Or do questions sent in April only count toward the April scoreboard? If that's true, can you answer April questions in May and have them count toward the April scoreboard, or does the April scoreboard get locked at whatever the results are as of midnight tonight?

Don't worry about me catching you. I'm through for the month.

I don't always get to mine the day they're sent, but the e-mail message indicates that the link expires after a specified length of time, so they can't be "saved up" for very long.

I tested some of this stuff a few months ago. I think you can "save up" questions for ten days before they start expiring. If the end of the month intervenes, you're out of luck, because they stop the leaderboard at midnight local time on the last day of the month.

When you first join Sploofus, they do give a stern warning about creating multiple accounts, but I'm not sure what their enforcement is like, if they even have any. I can't imagine people would cheat too much -- first of all, there're too many ways to earn "overall" points. Second, there's only a few categories for QOTD, and you can even exempt one of those.

I'm sure there are some lightning Googlers out there who can get the right answer before time runs out, but the speed bonus kind of minimizes that, as well.

earendel wrote:I don't always get to mine the day they're sent, but the e-mail message indicates that the link expires after a specified length of time, so they can't be "saved up" for very long.

Today's e-mail stated that the question expires 5/10/08. Apparently the questions are good for ten days. So my original question about the scoring is valid.

I still want to figure out how to access a prior month's Leaderboard. The Archive link only goes up to September 2007.

So, tomorrow, it will be impossible for me to find out how April ended.

hermillion wrote:I didn't have a question in my inbox today. Who did I tick off?

My e-mail didn't come till 11:30 this morning. It's usually here when I start work at 7:30.

Ritterskoop wrote:You can go to the site and look for the Command Center and get your question there.

This is what I do. When I click on the e-mail link, I always get an error rmessage.