undyingking | Inspiration Turn 10 results and final wrapup!

The final turn! The answer was Niggardly, and my question was "2,For using what word did David Howard lose his job as head of the Washington DC Office of Public Advocate?" Again I thought this was pretty obscure, but again I was wrong as there were two essentially similar questions, which were also counted as correct. Ah well, see below for thoughts about this sort of thing.

Correct guessers were:
brixtonbrood
jiggery_pokery
liriselei
thecesspit

The clear favourite was

mooism's "6,What word is too stingy to mean black?" -- very neat, seemed to be the verdict.

Voted-for points went 1 to

brixtonbrood and 3 each for

bateleur (looks like your suggestion wasn't so bad after all!) and

jiggery_pokery.

This leaves the final score table like this:

player	favourite	correct	voted-for	total	turns
mooism	3	4	11	18	9
bateleur	2	4	9	15	8
fractalgeek	0	2	10	12	7
jiggery_pokery	0	5	7	12	10
bibliogirl	0	4	7	11	7
brixtonbrood	0	7	3	10	7
dr_bob	0	3	7	10	8
liriselei	2	7	0	9	10
queenortart	0	2	6	8	8
cuthbertcross	0	3	4	7	7
nickeyb	0	1	3	4	4
wimble	1	1	2	4	5
thecesspit	0	3	0	3	5
al_fruitbat	0	1	0	1	1
ar_gemlad	0	1	0	1	1
jackfirecat	0	1	0	1	1
rotwang	0	1	0	1	1
cardinalsin	0	1	0	1	2
karohemd	0	0	0	0	1
verlaine	0	0	0	0	1

So there you have it -- a good push from

bateleur at the end, but not enough to deny

mooism's well-earned triumph. Hoorah!

(Interesting to note that

liriselei and to a lesser extent

brixtonbrood did very well on favourites and correctness, but were unable to get sufficient people to vote for their suggestions.)

Thanks all for taking part ( / putting up with it) -- I had fun, hope you did too!

I had some thoughts about what worked and what didn't. My principle when setting the answers and thus my own questions was for them to be independently verifiable (ie. no "What have I got in my pockets?"), and ideally with more than one non-trivial alternative (to allow for different right-looking alternatives) and a load of trivial ones (to allow for amusement value and for people who couldn't find a right-looking one). A few of them fell short of this ideal unfortunately, mostly because I was usually doing it in a bit of a rush. Ah well.

In one approach, I would have said from the beginning that no-one should use any form of reference either tocome up with questions or to check the accuracy of other people's suggestions. That would have made it more a contest in plausibilty a la Call My Bluff. However I thought that didn't really make sense for an online game -- looking things up could be a fun part of it (particularly as any bar would be unenforceable!) However if you know that people are going to be Googling stuff, it makes it a lot more difficult to come up with good answers -- because they need to be ones that are findable but which don't leap out.

Well, if anyone else wants to have a go at running the game some time in the future, I'm sure you'll be able to improve on this effort ;-) but for now that'll do I think!