Countdown Scattergories III
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Countdown Scattergories III
Here is the third installment of the Countdown Scattergories game. Below are 10 word rounds and for each round you are to find a word of a specific length. The idea is to come up with a word, that you think will be the least mentioned by the other players. For each round, there are only 8 possible answers (well hopefully ).
R01: N A B S F L I E S - 7 Letter Word
R02: I N S O L A T E D - 8 Letter Word
R03: G R I T F I N I S - 6 Letter Word
R04: L A R G E S I G N - 8 Letter Word
R05: U S U R P Q U I D - 5 Letter Word
R06: B O L A S W O R M - 6 Letter Word
R07: T E X T C H A I R - 7 Letter Word
R08: V O C A L S I R E - 8 Letter Word
R09: T A J R I T Z E S - 7 Letter Word
R10: T O K E N Y E A R - 6 Letter Word
How To Enter
Please PM me with your answers for each round . You can do this by viewing my Profile and clicking on the PM icon, to send me a private message .
Rules
1. Check that your words are allowed before submitting your entry. The best way to do this (because not everyone will have an OED2r) is to use the Stemmer feature on Apterous. To use the feature, just type in your word but leaving out one letter (eg if word was APTEROUS, type in APTEROU etc) and then it should come up below.
2. Check that your words match the length required for each round before submitting.
3. Check that your words match the selection for each round before submitting.
4. Check that you have spelt your words correctly before submitting.
5. If your word breaks any of the rules above (1 - 4), then you will be allowed to have another attempt for the round. However you will then only score half the points for the word. (Eg if in Game 1, Round 1 you came up with HEARING, which is too short and then after being allowed to guess again, you then said CHEATING, you would then have only scored 3.5 points).
6. Once you have submitted a word, that is acceptable for the round, you can not change your answer.
7. Once you have submitted an entry, you are not allowed to delete it, before I have read it. If this happens, you will be allowed to have another go, but your overall score, at the end, will be halved.
Scoring
Each word is scored by the number of times that it has been mentioned. If a word is only mentioned once, then it will get 10 points, a word mentioned twice will get 9 points and so on down to 0 points for words mentioned more than 10 times. If you end up having another guess for a round, you will then get half the overall score for that word (see rule 5 above).
Time Limit
The competition will close on Thursday 8th January at 12 am . All entries received after this time, will not be counted.
R01: N A B S F L I E S - 7 Letter Word
R02: I N S O L A T E D - 8 Letter Word
R03: G R I T F I N I S - 6 Letter Word
R04: L A R G E S I G N - 8 Letter Word
R05: U S U R P Q U I D - 5 Letter Word
R06: B O L A S W O R M - 6 Letter Word
R07: T E X T C H A I R - 7 Letter Word
R08: V O C A L S I R E - 8 Letter Word
R09: T A J R I T Z E S - 7 Letter Word
R10: T O K E N Y E A R - 6 Letter Word
How To Enter
Please PM me with your answers for each round . You can do this by viewing my Profile and clicking on the PM icon, to send me a private message .
Rules
1. Check that your words are allowed before submitting your entry. The best way to do this (because not everyone will have an OED2r) is to use the Stemmer feature on Apterous. To use the feature, just type in your word but leaving out one letter (eg if word was APTEROUS, type in APTEROU etc) and then it should come up below.
2. Check that your words match the length required for each round before submitting.
3. Check that your words match the selection for each round before submitting.
4. Check that you have spelt your words correctly before submitting.
5. If your word breaks any of the rules above (1 - 4), then you will be allowed to have another attempt for the round. However you will then only score half the points for the word. (Eg if in Game 1, Round 1 you came up with HEARING, which is too short and then after being allowed to guess again, you then said CHEATING, you would then have only scored 3.5 points).
6. Once you have submitted a word, that is acceptable for the round, you can not change your answer.
7. Once you have submitted an entry, you are not allowed to delete it, before I have read it. If this happens, you will be allowed to have another go, but your overall score, at the end, will be halved.
Scoring
Each word is scored by the number of times that it has been mentioned. If a word is only mentioned once, then it will get 10 points, a word mentioned twice will get 9 points and so on down to 0 points for words mentioned more than 10 times. If you end up having another guess for a round, you will then get half the overall score for that word (see rule 5 above).
Time Limit
The competition will close on Thursday 8th January at 12 am . All entries received after this time, will not be counted.
Last edited by Joseph Bolas on Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
Without meaning to be too picky here, do you mean Thursday 8th January 11:59pm or Friday 9th January 00:01 or even Thursday 8th January 00:01? You'll learn from train timetabling that trains are never set to depart at 00:00 to avoid confusion!Joseph Bolas wrote:
Time Limit
The competition will close on Thursday 8th January at 12 am . All entries received after this time, will not be counted.
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
What I mean is that on Wednesday 7th at 23:59 (11:59 pm), there would be only 1 minute left to submit entries thus when it turned midnight and the start of Thursday 8th, the competition closes. I could change the time if you prefer .Kirk Bevins wrote:Without meaning to be too picky here, do you mean Thursday 8th January 11:59pm or Friday 9th January 00:01 or even Thursday 8th January 00:01? You'll learn from train timetabling that trains are never set to depart at 00:00 to avoid confusion!Joseph Bolas wrote:
Time Limit
The competition will close on Thursday 8th January at 12 am . All entries received after this time, will not be counted.
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
Thanks Joseph. I'll try to read the instructions carefully this time, and hopefully get my submission in correctly.
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
Thankyou for this, Joseph. I appreciate the honest response without a sarcastic tone to the message.Joseph Bolas wrote:
What I mean is that on Wednesday 7th at 23:59 (11:59 pm), there would be only 1 minute left to submit entries thus when it turned midnight and the start of Thursday 8th, the competition closes. I could change the time if you prefer .
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Oh no, I wasn't being sarcastic at all Kirk, and I do apologise if you thought I was .Kirk Bevins wrote:Thank you for this, Joseph. I appreciate the honest response without a sarcastic tone to the message.Joseph Bolas wrote:
What I mean is that on Wednesday 7th at 23:59 (11:59 pm), there would be only 1 minute left to submit entries thus when it turned midnight and the start of Thursday 8th, the competition closes. I could change the time if you prefer .
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Haha - no you weren't! My message was totally sincere. It's some other people who post on the forum nowadays who I would imagine would have replied to my message regarding 11:59 etc with some abuse.Joseph Bolas wrote: Oh no, I wasn't being sarcastic at all Kirk, and I do apologise if you thought I was .
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
Rule 4 obviously doesn't apply to the competition itself.Joseph Bolas wrote:Here is the third installment [sic] of the Countdown Scattergories game.
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4. Check that you have spelt your words correctly before submitting.
On a less pedantic note, there is nothing in the rules about how to submit entries. I presume the only acceptable method is via private message (PM) to you, Joseph, but perhaps the rules should make this clear.
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
My bad . Yeah, if you PM your results, it keeps them hidden from other playersPhil Reynolds wrote:On a less pedantic note, there is nothing in the rules about how to submit entries. I presume the only acceptable method is via private message (PM) to you, Joseph, but perhaps the rules should make this clear.
I have now included that in the rules above and also have included a link in my signature to the PM feature (if it works )
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
Further pedantry would state that midnight is simply 12 midnight, it's not 12am as it's not ante meridien until a minute later.
Now I write however, I'm thinking that this argument only applies to midday. Oh knowledgeable ones, put me out of my misery, for everyone's sake.
Now I write however, I'm thinking that this argument only applies to midday. Oh knowledgeable ones, put me out of my misery, for everyone's sake.
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
12 am is ambiguous..... The RAF operates on a 24 hour system, and certainly used to refer to 0001 or 2359 for midnight, and used 1200 for noon. Presumably they still do?
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For some reason I've always interpreted 12am as midnight - maybe it's just something you do if you're used to counting from 0, rather than 1?
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
Joseph, you already have 11 replies on this thread, which started out as an announcement rather than a discussion.
I would be interested to know whether you got that many entries in the same time .
Rosemary
I would be interested to know whether you got that many entries in the same time .
Rosemary
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I so far have recieved 13 entries for this competitionRosemary Roberts wrote:Joseph, you already have 11 replies on this thread, which started out as an announcement rather than a discussion.
I would be interested to know whether you got that many entries in the same time .
Rosemary
When I did the first Countdown Scattergories game, I was struggling with my table design and so decided on a set maximum of 15 players. Now after a redesign of the table (basically just changing the font), the maximum number of players I can have now, is about 30 players.
EDIT: There is now only approximately 30 minutes left to get your entries in, before the competition closes.
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It's time to close this competition and annouce the winner
The winner of the third Countdown Scattergories game is Kirk Bevins
The overall scoreboard came out as follows:
1st - Kirk Bevins: 85
2nd - Frank Rodolf: 84
3rd - Kai Laddiman: 83
3rd - Naomi Laddiman: 83
5th - Stewart Scott: 81
5th - Rosemary Roberts: 81
7th - Callum Laddiman: 79
7th - Dinos Syfris: 79
9th - Jon O'Neill: 78.5
10th - Phil Reynolds: 78
11th - Howard Somerset: 77
12th - Oliver Garner: 76.5
13th - Jimmy Gough: 76
14th - Michael Wallace: 75
14th - Ian Volante: 75
Everyone's guesses and scores can be found here.
Thank you to all who participted and well done to Kirk
Here are the available words (I had) for each round, that were not mentioned:
R01: FABLESS, FINLESS, SALINES, SILANES
R02: DIASTOLE, TOENAILS
R04: GEARINGS, REGALING
R05: PUDUS
R06: MASOOR
R07: TECTRIX
R08: CALORIES, CLAVIERS, VISCERAL
R09: ARTIEST
R10: EATERY, RYOKAN
The winner of the third Countdown Scattergories game is Kirk Bevins
The overall scoreboard came out as follows:
1st - Kirk Bevins: 85
2nd - Frank Rodolf: 84
3rd - Kai Laddiman: 83
3rd - Naomi Laddiman: 83
5th - Stewart Scott: 81
5th - Rosemary Roberts: 81
7th - Callum Laddiman: 79
7th - Dinos Syfris: 79
9th - Jon O'Neill: 78.5
10th - Phil Reynolds: 78
11th - Howard Somerset: 77
12th - Oliver Garner: 76.5
13th - Jimmy Gough: 76
14th - Michael Wallace: 75
14th - Ian Volante: 75
Everyone's guesses and scores can be found here.
Thank you to all who participted and well done to Kirk
Here are the available words (I had) for each round, that were not mentioned:
R01: FABLESS, FINLESS, SALINES, SILANES
R02: DIASTOLE, TOENAILS
R04: GEARINGS, REGALING
R05: PUDUS
R06: MASOOR
R07: TECTRIX
R08: CALORIES, CLAVIERS, VISCERAL
R09: ARTIEST
R10: EATERY, RYOKAN
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
Hmm, maybe I need to rethink my 'strategy'...
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
My best result so far has been in the one for which I missed the deadline. So maybe that should be my strategy next time.
Thanks, Joseph.
Thanks, Joseph.
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My strategy failed the moment I could only see LESBIAN! Ironically I was eating out that very evening
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
Do any of you really list all Joseph's eight words for each round and then pick one? I have great difficulty finding more than a couple in some rounds, which makes my choices more than usually random. Or possibly less, Charlie?
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I'm not sure if you're mocking (or even aware of) my annoyance with abuse of the word "random", but anyway. I'm pretty sure that having only a subset of the words makes your choices less random, because your pick will tend to be biased towards the words which are easier to spot. The most random approach (as in highest entropy, at least) would be to list all of the words and then pick one uniformly at random, but I'm pretty sure no one does that.Rosemary Roberts wrote:Do any of you really list all Joseph's eight words for each round and then pick one? I have great difficulty finding more than a couple in some rounds, which makes my choices more than usually random. Or possibly less, Charlie?
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Not mocking you, no, mocking the very common misuse of the word. As a mathematician I would expect you to take umbrage at it. But within the small scope of my capability, finding very few words does make my chance of winning (in the popular sense) random. On the other hand, it has already been pointed out that there is no skill involved in this game, which implies that it is not possible to depart from random, no matter how faulty one's reasoning.Charlie Reams wrote:I'm not sure if you're mocking (or even aware of) my annoyance with abuse of the word "random", but anyway. I'm pretty sure that having only a subset of the words makes your choices less random, because your pick will tend to be biased towards the words which are easier to spot. The most random approach (as in highest entropy, at least) would be to list all of the words and then pick one uniformly at random, but I'm pretty sure no one does that.Rosemary Roberts wrote:Do any of you really list all Joseph's eight words for each round and then pick one? I have great difficulty finding more than a couple in some rounds, which makes my choices more than usually random. Or possibly less, Charlie?
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No skill involved in this game? Hmm, I've entered twice and won twice. It surely can't be random?Rosemary Roberts wrote: it has already been pointed out that there is no skill involved in this game, which implies that it is not possible to depart from random, no matter how faulty one's reasoning.
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Although Kirk's two wins don't necessarily mean it isn't random... it isn't random.
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I should have thought that was proof of it being totally random.Kirk Bevins wrote:No skill involved in this game? Hmm, I've entered twice and won twice. It surely can't be random?Rosemary Roberts wrote: it has already been pointed out that there is no skill involved in this game, which implies that it is not possible to depart from random, no matter how faulty one's reasoning.
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Oooohhh was that a cheap dig at me? Nice one.David O'Donnell wrote:
I should have thought that was proof of it being totally random.
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I think you're misremembering who is who. Charlie is the CompSci PhD student, Junaid is the maths PhD student and I'm the statistics PhD student, so you probably want me or Junaid if you need a mathematician to be annoyed at people using the word 'random'.Rosemary Roberts wrote:Not mocking you, no, mocking the very common misuse of the word. As a mathematician I would expect you to take umbrage at it.
I disagree with the claim that there is 'no' skill involved (I also disagree with Kirk's "surely it can't be random", but am going to give him the benefit of the doubt and presume he was being tongue in cheek, because I'd be a bit shocked by a maths teacher saying stuff like that seriously). In particular, I noticed that a lot of the words that no-one gets tend to be pretty obscure ones, which would suggest that going for the more obscure ones you can find may yield better results.
Of course, it's not as straight forward as that, but the fact that (presumably) not everyone finds all 8 words means that there's going to be at least some skill involved, even if the skill is just in finding the obscure words rather than selecting the 'best' one. The only way there'd be no skill (as far as I can tell) is if everyone found all the words and then just picked one at random, as has already been mentioned.
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I told you that your card was marked.Kirk Bevins wrote:Oooohhh was that a cheap dig at me? Nice one.David O'Donnell wrote:
I should have thought that was proof of it being totally random.
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This is where I reveal my extreme age: in my day there was no difference between computer people and mathematicians. And I was both, although at no time in my career did I learn any statistics (I've always considered that quite an achievement).Michael Wallace wrote:I think you're misremembering who is who. Charlie is the CompSci PhD student, Junaid is the maths PhD student and I'm the statistics PhD student, so you probably want me or Junaid if you need a mathematician to be annoyed at people using the word 'random'.Rosemary Roberts wrote:Not mocking you, no, mocking the very common misuse of the word. As a mathematician I would expect you to take umbrage at it.
I disagree with the claim that there is 'no' skill involved (I also disagree with Kirk's "surely it can't be random", but am going to give him the benefit of the doubt and presume he was being tongue in cheek, because I'd be a bit shocked by a maths teacher saying stuff like that seriously). In particular, I noticed that a lot of the words that no-one gets tend to be pretty obscure ones, which would suggest that going for the more obscure ones you can find may yield better results.
Of course, it's not as straight forward as that, but the fact that (presumably) not everyone finds all 8 words means that there's going to be at least some skill involved, even if the skill is just in finding the obscure words rather than selecting the 'best' one. The only way there'd be no skill (as far as I can tell) is if everyone found all the words and then just picked one at random, as has already been mentioned.
You're right, of course, as in the real game the skill is in spotting all the words. But I'm working on it.
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
For anyone who wants to partake in the next game, it will be up and running from around midnight tonight
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
I was indeed saying that it's not random and that I use skill by trying to find a relatively obscure word that other people probably won't get (if I can find one).Michael Wallace wrote:
I disagree with the claim that there is 'no' skill involved (I also disagree with Kirk's "surely it can't be random", but am going to give him the benefit of the doubt and presume he was being tongue in cheek, because I'd be a bit shocked by a maths teacher saying stuff like that seriously).
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Can you make it a hat-trick thoughKirk Bevins wrote:I was indeed saying that it's not random and that I use skill by trying to find a relatively obscure word that other people probably won't get (if I can find one).
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Hmmm, but wouldn't there be merit in trying to choose the most obvious word, on the basis that everyone else will be avoiding it? Although of course, people may have already thought of that, making it not such a good strategy after all...
Interstingly, there's nothing in the rules says you can't use word-finding software, which would mean the skill was purely in trying to predict which words will be most commonly picked.
And yes, while Kirk's two wins don't prove it isn't completely random, they do provide *some* evidence that it might not be. Particularly given that we all know he's a very clever chap.
Interstingly, there's nothing in the rules says you can't use word-finding software, which would mean the skill was purely in trying to predict which words will be most commonly picked.
And yes, while Kirk's two wins don't prove it isn't completely random, they do provide *some* evidence that it might not be. Particularly given that we all know he's a very clever chap.
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Indeed, this was the 'tactic' adopted by several players in the first round (and mine for the next two as well, since I'm lazy).Clare Sudbery wrote:Hmmm, but wouldn't there be merit in trying to choose the most obvious word, on the basis that everyone else will be avoiding it? Although of course, people may have already thought of that, making it not such a good strategy after all...
I'd be interested to know if anyone actually did this, since I'd've thought it implicit that one shouldn't.Clare Sudbery wrote:Interstingly, there's nothing in the rules says you can't use word-finding software, which would mean the skill was purely in trying to predict which words will be most commonly picked.
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
"implicit"
Why, if not stated? Purely as a problem-solving approach, my first thought was to use software.
Don't worry though, I've never yet used software for Countdown. My abysmal performance on Apterous should bear that out (don't pay attention to my rating, apparently there's a bug - look at my number of wins instead). And anyway I'm practising to go on the show, where no software will be available!
Why, if not stated? Purely as a problem-solving approach, my first thought was to use software.
Don't worry though, I've never yet used software for Countdown. My abysmal performance on Apterous should bear that out (don't pay attention to my rating, apparently there's a bug - look at my number of wins instead). And anyway I'm practising to go on the show, where no software will be available!
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If one were allowed to use an anagram solver, why not just provide the list of available words with the selection and save us all the bother?Clare Sudbery wrote:Why, if not stated? Purely as a problem-solving approach, my first thought was to use software.
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Re: Countdown Scattergories III
Controversial I know, but looking stuff up can be part of the fun. Like using a dictionary. Don't worry, I'm playing devil's advocate really. Worth explicitly stating in the rules though.
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Apparently so.Clare Sudbery wrote:Worth explicitly stating in the rules though.
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