# St. Paddy's Day Feud \[Game Over\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-paddys-day-feud-game-over/683351>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 10, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-paddys-day-feud-game-over/683351 "2014-03-10T15:02:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 5

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-paddys-day-feud-game-over/683351/81 "2014-03-18T05:02:43Z")

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Hey, wait, if I was 9 for 10 and The Quiet Man got 25 votes, how am I 42 below a perfect score? If that’s right, getting all 10 of the top answers would still just get me 478, way below the perfect score of 498. 😕

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-paddys-day-feud-game-over/683351/82 "2014-03-18T05:09:50Z")

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> [@Rebo](#):
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> I may start again. Maybe start one a month or so.

That would be great. But either way, I want to thank you for all the feud threads you’ve already done.

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-paddys-day-feud-game-over/683351/83 "2014-03-18T16:41:32Z")

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> [@pravnik](#):
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> Hey, wait, if I was 9 for 10 and The Quiet Man got 25 votes, how am I 42 below a perfect score? If that’s right, getting all 10 of the top answers would still just get me 478, way below the perfect score of 498. 😕

On second thought, nevermind this. I wouldn’t have won regardless and I had fun. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-paddys-day-feud-game-over/683351/84 "2014-03-18T19:16:31Z")

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> [@Rebo](#):
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> I may start again. Maybe start one a month or so.

This post has made my day, month, and (hopefully) YEAR

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