# The Anti-Match Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 6, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196 "2020-04-06T16:10:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [April 20, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/21 "2020-04-20T05:12:47Z")
If RivkahChaya doesn’t wish to, I’ll figure out the scores tomorrow. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/22 "2020-04-20T17:35:46Z")
Scores: Bayaker - 90 divemaster - 90 FastDan1 - 90 Little Nemo - 90 panache45 - 90 Biotop - 85 SuperAbe - 85 jtur88 - 80 Locrian - 80 Spoons - 80 Knowed Out - 75 Prof. Pepperwinkle - 75 ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/23 "2020-04-20T18:46:12Z")
Sorry-- we’ve been closing on this property, and I’ve been distracted. Thanks, Nemo! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/24 "2020-04-20T19:27:48Z")
YAY! Tied for first! Thanks so much Rivkah and Nemo. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/25 "2020-04-20T22:45:40Z")
Those among the top five winners who send me their snail-mail addresses will be sent a first prize of one roll of toilet paper. Worth its weight in gold these days. Deadline to email me your shipping address is May 1, 2020, 11:55pm. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/26 "2020-04-20T23:35:57Z")
Pfui. Ah, well, fun game anywho. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/27 "2020-04-21T04:16:43Z")
Thanks, **Rivkah** and **Nemo**. That was fun! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/28 "2020-04-21T14:40:04Z")
Ooh! I missed this one! The Anti-Feud. ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/29 "2020-04-21T15:23:08Z")
Thanks for the game. I’m all good on TP. I’ll graciously decline the offer. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/30 "2020-04-21T19:52:48Z")
> [@FastDan1](#): > > Thanks for the game. I’m all good on TP. I’ll graciously decline the offer. Me too. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/31 "2020-04-21T20:10:52Z")
> [@FastDan1](#): > > Thanks for the game. I’m all good on TP. I’ll graciously decline the offer. > [@panache45](#): > > Me too. Thanks! Same here. I’ll just bask in the glow of being one of the many FIRST PLACE WINNER! ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/32 "2020-04-24T13:26:26Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > Same here. I’ll just bask in the glow of being one of the many FIRST PLACE WINNER! Me too! Of course, due to our magnificent alphabet, I am literally the winner IN FIRST PLACE! 🙂 This is one of those rare situations where being a weirdo pays off. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/33 "2020-04-24T14:11:30Z")
I’m not going to mess with the scores as they stand, but for the record, some people would have lost points for naming a **lawyer** , not a **detective** , from _Law & Order_. It’s on me for not doing the scoring myself, but the question specifically said “detective,” not “character.” ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196/34 "2020-04-24T14:33:24Z")
Oh, and BTW, no shock that 37 was the number that matched. According to Penn & Teller, the most common number people will name when asked to name a number between 1 & 100 is 37. I used to always say my age, until I realized that biased me toward lower numbers. If I needed a unique number for some reason, I started subtracting my age from 100, until I hit 40. Then I started giving my mother’s age. Reminded me of some advice I saw on playing the lottery. There’s really no way to increase your chances of winning, other than to buy lots of tickets with different numbers, but there are ways to decrease your chances of sharing they prize with someone who picked the same numbers, and one is to play numbers too high to be a birthday, because huge numbers of people play birthdays. Another is to play smaller jackpots. They have fewer entrants. Having $10 million to yourself is better than sharing $100 million with 25 people, because 25 times as many people played the $100 million dollar jackpot. Personally, I never play the lottery, though, after Fran Leibowitz commented that the odds are essentially the same whether you buy a ticket or not. I will say, though, that my grandmother used to buy me scratch-offs, and I had a real talent for getting $20, or $50. Except for one $200 prize, I never won anything bigger than $50, but I nearly always won something. It might just be $2, or a free ticket, but it was pretty rare that I busted. Drove my cousins nuts. You had to scratch off three of six items, and if you matched two, you got the prize. Sometimes, if you busted, you’d scratch them all off, and there never was a match, but sometimes you scratched them all off, and found that you’d missed $10, or $20. I just had a knack for finding those. I think it had something to do with my cousins always starting with the first one on the left, and I never did. I started with a random one. I dunno. I always bought myself a book, or something, but then I’d get everyone ice cream, or candy, depending on how much money. There wasn’t a lot to do at my grandmother’s back in the 70s, when we were kids, but there was a mall, with a book store, a toy store, a candy shop, and ice cream store, and an arcade. Oh, and four movie screens. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anti-match-game/851196.md?page=1)