# Ok - who's gonna toss the spear with me? (warning: Addictive as hell) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whos-gonna-toss-the-spear-with-me-warning-addictive-as-hell/130920 "2002-10-05T01:41:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whos-gonna-toss-the-spear-with-me-warning-addictive-as-hell/130920/41 "2002-10-06T05:12:23Z")
522.8 – Fair. 556.something – Foul. And I thought fooling around with emacs was addictive. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whos-gonna-toss-the-spear-with-me-warning-addictive-as-hell/130920/42 "2002-10-06T05:28:47Z")
How do you get the spear angle to change? I can’t figure that out (admittedly, I’m always bad at these types of things.) ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whos-gonna-toss-the-spear-with-me-warning-addictive-as-hell/130920/43 "2002-10-06T12:21:06Z")
Want me to make it worse. If you look in the upper right corner, it says home. Click that, then click games. I’ve been completely sucked in by Archery lately. Can’t get past the round where you need 45 to move on. Oh well. Time to try again. Note: my high is 177, I think ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whos-gonna-toss-the-spear-with-me-warning-addictive-as-hell/130920/44 "2002-10-06T14:24:37Z")
514.93 on the Spear Toss. For a while the spear kept going straight up and straight down…thanks **TV Guy** for helping me figure out what I was doing wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whos-gonna-toss-the-spear-with-me-warning-addictive-as-hell/130920/45 "2002-10-06T16:24:24Z")
absolute lowest- .02 when clicking ASAP Lowest- 35.084 when making him commit suicide absolute highest- 620 something on a foul highest- 531 something on fair ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whos-gonna-toss-the-spear-with-me-warning-addictive-as-hell/130920/46 "2002-10-06T16:40:59Z")
They have archery? God help me… ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whos-gonna-toss-the-spear-with-me-warning-addictive-as-hell/130920/47 "2002-10-06T16:58:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TVGuy \* > \*\*OK - try waiting until the tip of the spear JUST gets to the last palm tree, click the mouse. Now let the guy run as far up to the foul line as possible and let go. We’re aiming for the perfect 45 degree launch angle here, I think. > > Cool ballistics demonstration, all in all. > > I can quit any time I want to … really. No, I can, honest. > > (the first step is admitting that you have a problem…) \*\* I was using that method at first too, then I realized he was taking 8 steps before he crossed the foul line. Click the mouse button again right after the 6th step, and of course release it when he gets to the foul line. My top so far 530.104, not bad for only playing about 5 minutes. E3 ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whos-gonna-toss-the-spear-with-me-warning-addictive-as-hell/130920/48 "2002-10-06T17:24:41Z")
Fouls DO NOT count!!! 533 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whos-gonna-toss-the-spear-with-me-warning-addictive-as-hell/130920/49 "2002-10-06T17:27:16Z")
Hell Yeah on the Archery! My best score so far 201. I think I made it to “50 pts” round only twice! E3 ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whos-gonna-toss-the-spear-with-me-warning-addictive-as-hell/130920/50 "2002-10-06T17:41:11Z")
Actually, if you start wind-up right at the 6th step that’ll get you your longest throws. Play with the timing. And yeah, archery’s a time suck too, but i can’t get past the 45 round ---
**Author:** ![BZ00000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@BZ00000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BZ00000)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whos-gonna-toss-the-spear-with-me-warning-addictive-as-hell/130920/51 "2002-10-06T20:40:03Z")
Low Score .02 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whos-gonna-toss-the-spear-with-me-warning-addictive-as-hell/130920.md?page=2)