BRF wrote:

So on my exit, I wanted to say a few things. 

There were three times in this contest when I was down to my last guess with a 50/50 shot and hit them. I thought “you won’t last too much longer doing that”. And it finally happened. 

I was done in the “Elements of Joke Telling”. I had three, but couldn’t come up with the fourth. My guessing didn’t work. I never heard of  “callback”. WTF is that?

But, I’m honored to have hung in there with the players in our Connections League on the OC.  I’ll gladly take 3rd place. 

One suggestion……maybe in the next contest, we come up with a scoring system for daily results. That way, a limit could be set on the number of days played in the contest.  gut seems to know about some sort of scoring system. 

I’ve been out for 2 weeks…I already have the scoring system ready so losers like me can keep playing 

If this one ever ends we’ll take about a week break and start it up. Will be 10-12 days or a race to a point total

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I last another day. Pretty easy one. 

BRF wrote:

So on my exit, I wanted to say a few things. 

There were three times in this contest when I was down to my last guess with a 50/50 shot and hit them. I thought “you won’t last too much longer doing that”. And it finally happened. 

I was done in the “Elements of Joke Telling”. I had three, but couldn’t come up with the fourth. My guessing didn’t work. I never heard of  “callback”. WTF is that?

But, I’m honored to have hung in there with the players in our Connections League on the OC.  I’ll gladly take 3rd place. 

One suggestion……maybe in the next contest, we come up with a scoring system for daily results. That way, a limit could be set on the number of days played in the contest.  gut seems to know about some sort of scoring system. 

A callback is a punchline that references a joke earlier in the set. 

We keep going another day.

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BRF wrote:

  gut seems to know about some sort of scoring system. 

I don't really care to make the effort to get harder colors first.  It's also become a guessing game where the colors no longer perfectly correlate with difficulty, hardly at all.

A "perfect" ranges from 95 to 99 (couldn't code a 100?).  I'm not sure how they score misses.

brutus161 wrote:

A callback is a punchline that references a joke earlier in the set. 

Wow.  Never heard of it. I’d like to “callback” my last guess!

I’ll do horrible on a point system because I fall for the obvious every time

sportchampps wrote:

I’ll do horrible on a point system because I fall for the obvious every time

We can fight for last….but my money is on me

Easy day.

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I hope I don't win on a default.

justincredible wrote:

I hope I don't win on a default.

If he dies…he dies

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I almost forgot to play, then green almost took me down. 

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We are through Day 21

You almost got it yesterday 

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I saw blue immediately, but thought it was one of the misleading categories. 

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another day

I just need to outlast you for another week-ish.