Yay!!! My second first place victory! To be fair, this feud was like that episode of Cheers where Cliff goes on Jeopardy and every category is his area of expertise
Al right! Two times in last place and I hardly ever play. I’m the man baby. Whoot! Whoot!
Shouldn’t the rule be something like this doesn’t get scored as a 1.
It is admitting they have no answer. Why should it get a 1 just like a real answer?
Obviously I’m in a solid last place. It just occurs to me that while the current system rewards matching the most people, and not needing to be correct, that something like the following shouldn’t get any points.
Don’t know
NA
That’s hard
or a blank
Wait until the day where a few people put na and get high points for it.
Maybe that wouldn’t be a bad thing. If several people need to “pass” because they have no idea on a particular answer, then that could be counted as a legitimate answer since it’s the response they chose.
Does that make sense? Say five people put, “pass” or “??” or some other indication of “have no idea,” that could count as five people giving the same answer.
All answers that only have 1 don’t get any points at all, because they have not matched anyone. The numbers you see next to the answers represent number of matches, not points. Points are (in this case) 100/47 = 2.12 times the number of answers. So, for example, #1 had 32 matches and is equal to 32x2.12=67.84 pts per person who answered “Asimov.” (The spreadsheet has some kind of rounding built in so the fractions don’t add up quite correctly, but the placement of everyone is still correct.)
That’s also why I keep all the “pass” type answers unique, so they don’t get any matches and therefore no points.
You answer whatever you think most people will answer. The goal is not to be “right,” the goal is to guess the “number 1” answer - the most popular answer. You want your answers to match the most number of people.
Look at the All American Feud from a few days ago. There was a question that was something like “Besides July 4, name a holiday celebrated only in America” - the most popular answer was “Thanksgiving” which wasn’t a “right” answer (in my opinion) since Canada also celebrates Thanksgiving.
