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Is something wrong with Sploofus?

#1 Post by Bob Juch » Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:57 am

None of us are in the top 20 and Pea is 27th (at this time).
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Re: Is something wrong with Sploofus?

#2 Post by peacock2121 » Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:21 pm

sploofus is stoopid.

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#3 Post by Ritterskoop » Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:21 pm

Bob Juch wrote:None of us are in the top 20 and Pea is 27th (at this time).
You are an ass.
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Re: Is something wrong with Sploofus?

#4 Post by peacock2121 » Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:25 pm

Ritterskoop wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:None of us are in the top 20 and Pea is 27th (at this time).
You are an ass.
LOL - made me laugh!

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Re: Is something wrong with Sploofus?

#5 Post by peacock2121 » Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:31 pm

plasticene is # 22

skoop is # 30

Uday is # 32

VaDame is # 47

nitrah is # 75

maybe others haven't played yet.

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#6 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:38 pm

I'm #1144.

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Re: Is something wrong with Sploofus?

#7 Post by silvercamaro » Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:51 pm

It's awfully early to worry about standings.

We all have 28 more questions to go this month, and people who haven't yet played every January day have more than that.
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#8 Post by ne1410s » Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:10 pm

#1157

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#9 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:26 pm

I got my three questions right, but I'm below the Top 200.

I guess I was too slow on my three questions.

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#10 Post by lv42day » Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:38 pm

I guess I too am too slow to get too high as well. But generally speaking, I don't place too much significance on where I rank on any Internet listing, for it is way too easy, theoretically speaking of course, for people to cheat. All they have to do is play the game on their friend's computer and then go home to their own computer and they know all the answers.
Of course, No one on this Bored would cheat, but sometimes I wonder about those on the Sploofus listing, who based on their scores, seem to know all the answers almost immediately.

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#11 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:03 pm

lv42day wrote:I guess I too am too slow to get too high as well. But generally speaking, I don't place too much significance on where I rank on any Internet listing, for it is way too easy, theoretically speaking of course, for people to cheat. All they have to do is play the game on their friend's computer and then go home to their own computer and they know all the answers.
Of course, No one on this Bored would cheat, but sometimes I wonder about those on the Sploofus listing, who based on their scores, seem to know all the answers almost immediately.
The QoDs are random for each player. Not everybody gets the same question each day.

It is theoretically possible to Google the answers, but that should result in very few bonus points [edit: it used to say "questions"].

If someone is getting over about 1350 on a question, it means that person has a fast, stable connection and either knew the answer immediately or made a quick lucky or educated guess.
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Re: Is something wrong with Sploofus?

#12 Post by lv42day » Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:25 pm

Wouldn't you think though that eventually the questions that you may have gotten on your friends' computers will eventually pop up on your computer, or do you think they are operating from a database of hundreds if not thousands of questions for the QoD?
I don't expect you to know the answer to this question, but I do think there are some people out there so much wanting to be #1 on some computer list, that they will play maybe a game on several friends' computers to give them some sort of advantage.

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#13 Post by Thousandaire » Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:42 pm

A recent question for me was "How many hours are in a day?"

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#14 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sat Jan 03, 2009 4:01 pm

I cudda used a 50/50 today.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#15 Post by peacock2121 » Sat Jan 03, 2009 4:01 pm

Thousandaire wrote:A recent question for me was "How many hours are in a day?"
Did you get it right?

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#16 Post by Rexer25 » Sat Jan 03, 2009 4:02 pm

peacock2121 wrote:
Thousandaire wrote:A recent question for me was "How many hours are in a day?"
Did you get it right?
Who cares?
Enough already. It's my fault! Get over it!

That'll be $10, please.

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#17 Post by peacock2121 » Sat Jan 03, 2009 4:03 pm

Rexer25 wrote:
peacock2121 wrote:
Thousandaire wrote:A recent question for me was "How many hours are in a day?"
Did you get it right?
Who cares?
You bad boy


bad

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#18 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Sat Jan 03, 2009 5:13 pm

Thousandaire wrote:A recent question for me was "How many hours are in a day?"
Did the question state what planet?

For example, you could make a case for 17 hours being correct if your were on Uranus.

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#19 Post by OCDer » Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:05 pm

silvercamaro wrote:It's awfully early to worry about standings.

We all have 28 more questions to go this month, and people who haven't yet played every January day have more than that.
The reason we start with the top 3000, and then only after the 1st week.
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#20 Post by SportsFan68 » Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:14 pm

lv42day wrote:I guess I too am too slow to get too high as well. But generally speaking, I don't place too much significance on where I rank on any Internet listing, for it is way too easy, theoretically speaking of course, for people to cheat. All they have to do is play the game on their friend's computer and then go home to their own computer and they know all the answers.
Of course, No one on this Bored would cheat, but sometimes I wonder about those on the Sploofus listing, who based on their scores, seem to know all the answers almost immediately.
I doubt that cheating is possible. I do think there are hundreds of thousands of questions, making a repeat question unlikely.

And I know that I am too slow to get a good ranking, even when by some miracle I get the first three or four correct -- same reason I will never try for Jeopardy! Or Password.
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#21 Post by peacock2121 » Sun Jan 04, 2009 6:55 am

SportsFan68 wrote:
lv42day wrote:I guess I too am too slow to get too high as well. But generally speaking, I don't place too much significance on where I rank on any Internet listing, for it is way too easy, theoretically speaking of course, for people to cheat. All they have to do is play the game on their friend's computer and then go home to their own computer and they know all the answers.
Of course, No one on this Bored would cheat, but sometimes I wonder about those on the Sploofus listing, who based on their scores, seem to know all the answers almost immediately.
I doubt that cheating is possible. I do think there are hundreds of thousands of questions, making a repeat question unlikely.

And I know that I am too slow to get a good ranking, even when by some miracle I get the first three or four correct -- same reason I will never try for Jeopardy! Or Password.
I have never and will never try out for Jeopardy, not because I am not fast, but because I don't know enough things. Password - I am fast enough and know enough for Password.

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#22 Post by littlebeast13 » Sun Jan 04, 2009 6:56 am

I am already 1 for 4......

I may be in the Bottom 20.....

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#23 Post by peacock2121 » Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:18 am

I missed today's - a movie I had never even heard of!

Watch me slide!

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#24 Post by christie1111 » Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:00 am

Today I got an 'RO2' error message for a correct answer.

I reported it, but I would have been 4/4 if it had been accepted. I took awhile to guess so I don't think I would have had a high score, but it was right.
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