ShibbOleth is #48.
- Shoe
- Yellow
- Tennessee
- Marvin Gardens
- Water Works
- Free Parking
- Boardwalk
- Luxury Tax
- Second prize in a beauty contest!
- Star Wars
- Wheelbarrow
- Blue
- Indiana
- Baltic
- WaterWorks
- Chance
- Boardwalk
- Doctors Bill
- Beauty Contest Winner
- Star Wars
My first thought for the state space was “Illinois,” I wish I’d chosen it! But I’m from, you know, Kentucky, so I naturally chose it. Looks like I’ll be a cheese standing alone, there.
- Car
- Green
- Tennessee Avenue
- Marvin Gardens
- Water Works
- Free Parking
- Boardwalk
- Doctor’s fee
- Annuity matures
- Here & Now/World Edition
ETA: Sominabitch!
Oops! I knew all those years of not playing monopoly would haunt me.
On Sopranos, Janice gets that card and Tony says something like, “First prize was a shaved German Shepherd’s asshole.”
- Shoe
- Blue
- New York Avenue
- Mediterranean Avenue
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- Free Parking
- The nearest utility
- School tax
- Winning second prize in a beauty contest
- Simpsons Monopoly
I’ve notified the mods. Scoring this afternoon. These last few have been moving right along!
- The dog
- Blue
- Pennsylvania Avenue
- Mediterranean Avenue
- St. Charles Place
- Free Parking
- Reading Railroad
- Tax payment
- Won a beauty contest
- Simpsons Monopoly
Sorry, Meeko. Your post has been disqualified for failure to follow the formatting rules.
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Yours is DQ’d as well, 5 time champ. Please don’t use the list function in the future.
We have a list function? Ohh. Color me surprised.
I’m half done - I got busy with work.
I’ll finish in the morning.
I have a bit of a conundrum…
Question 8 asks “Name a reason that you might be told to pay money by a Chance or Community Chest card.”
Lots of people said various forms of specific taxes; Luxury tax, Income Tax, etc.
12 people said just generic “taxes.” There are no cards that say a generic tax. I feel it unfair to group all the generic taxes together, as that will be the top answer in the category. I also don’t want to unfairly penalize the people that answered “correctly.” I don’t want to discard the generic answers, as that’s not fair either, because there are no “right” answers in the Feud.
How should I handle this? I’m leaning toward lumping everything that said tax together. What do y’all think?
Works for me.
If they’re disqualified, does that mean I get in?
If it’s what people said, I think you have to count them together (ie., just “taxes”). I think you should count the ones that were more specific separately, though. I mean, 90% of the Chance and Community Chest payments are taxes of some sort.
Yes, you and Sternvogel are in.
Thanks for your input. I’ll wait until 10:30 to get a (small) concensus.
Which is, as she said, ‘penalizing people for being right’.
Lumping is the only thing you can do that’s fully in the spirit of the game.
Counting generic ‘tax’ separate than ‘income tax’, ‘poor tax’, ‘luxury tax’, etc, would poison the results by making the correct answers to the question less valuable than an incorrect answer.
Tossing the non-specifics out is against the ‘no wrong answers’ spirit of the game.
Perhaps, in future, a ‘be specific’ caveat should be included for questions like this.
That’s true.
Yeah, but that penalizes those of us who actually went for specifics of actual cards, rather than a catch-all. Personally, I think they should all be lumped together.
However, Luxury Tax is an interesting one, because there is no Luxury Tax in the cards. It’s a spot on the board between Park Place and Boardwalk. ($75 in tax.)
So you have specific that is wrong. (I’m reminded of the alcohol thread where everyone says calling Jack Daniels “bourbon”.) I don’t know how we want to treat that one.
Edit: Yeah, what Tengu said. I actually like his suggestion of a “be specific” for cases like this. And I guess letting the people who are wrong with their “Luxury Tax” be counted with the rest of us is okay from that perspective. (But you’re still wrong.)