Pyramid – Round 1 Results

February 3, 2015 in Game Shows by adobery | 42 comments

Only the top four scores advance. Will it be four teams, five teams, six teams or even more?
Find out after the break.

Those of you who played before will have to let me know if you like the new partner format over the solo format. One thing new I like is new Colin. He’s even more friendly, more enthusiastic and more badass. Hell, he’s got ‘wolf’ right in his name. He completed all his boards right away in both rounds which I love. The guy is geared up for these games. Look at the picture he sent me of his setup.

Enough about new Colin though, let’s get to the results.

Team	Total
Pete / Beau	21
Christina / Brooks	21
Zee German / Novak	18
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named / Gilman	17
Colin / Kelly	16
Dean / Margaret	14
Punman / Annette	14
Melissa / Jonathon	14
TDO / Bret	11

So back to new Colin. He and Kelly just miss out on advancing to the next round. The top four teams advance, and will each pick one category from a list of 6 to form our second round boards. Each of the winners post your choice of category below (no repeats). You may or may not have any idea what the category implies, just like the real show. Except I will not be telling you what ties all the words together, you will just have to figure it out from the seven words. So you better clue your partner well. Pick from below.

Fiction 59
Machine of Death
Fortunately, Unfortunately
Meeting of the Mimes
Bantam Bulwyr
Rashomon

Don’t despair bottom teams, despite what I said at the onset, you’ll still get to play and earn consolation points if your are the best of the rest. But since it appears you have no clue, you will not be giving any. Once the top 4 have clued their boards, I will let those who want to play choose which clue giver/board they want to guess from. Each member on your team will be responsible for two boards. Don’t worry about the details now though, I will email you when the time comes.

Here are some of my favorite clues from this round.

Apron (Christina) – wear this to protect clothing; or to be a 50s housewife

Lava Tag (Jonathan) – Game, You’re it, you might die.

Flash (Melissa) – When that guy walks up to you in the bus, opens his jacket and says, “LOOK AT THIS!” And he’s naked.

Exposure (Melissa) – This is what happens when the naked dude from the first clue goes outside in the cold and then dies. He dies of ____.

Aperture (Pete) – ___ Science (company from Portal games)

Cattails (Margaret) – a plant of feline fluffiness

Turtle (Novak) – One Teenage mutant ninja

Lastly, Here are all the answers.

Say, Cheese!
Flash, Lens, Aperture, Exposure, Shutter, Memory Card, Backdrop
Yes, Chef!
Cutting board, Mandoline, Stove, Sauce pan, Blender, Apron, Slotted spoon
On Golden Pond
Turtle, Cattails, Algae, Lilypads, Bluegill, Dragonfly, Millfoil

Going to the Park

Kickball, Monkey bars, Wood chips, Lava Tag, Slide, Swings, Gazebo

Tags: $20000 Pyramid, pyramid02

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spookymilk on February 3, 2015 at 11:04 am

Ohhhhhh…snap. That’s a heartbreaker.

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Mbnovak on February 3, 2015 at 11:05 am

Fortunately, Unfortunately.

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1. adobery on February 3, 2015 at 11:17 am
  
  I should probably have mentioned you should confer with your partner on your team’s choice.
  
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  1. Mbnovak on February 3, 2015 at 11:21 am
    
    Oh, team choice. Hmm, I didn’t read very carefully. Or count, apparently. Withdrawn, we’ll consult.
    
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Mbnovak on February 3, 2015 at 11:05 am

No love for Tipper then? 😉

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1. adobery on February 3, 2015 at 11:43 am
  
  I’m actually making a rule based on your clue.
  
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nibbish on February 3, 2015 at 11:08 am

Glad to see the practicing maid off.

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1. nibbish on February 3, 2015 at 11:08 am
  
  “Paid” off. Whatever. Beau and I rule.
  
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spookymilk on February 3, 2015 at 11:14 am

I want to mention that I got “aperture” from Colin’s clue “Fancy term I don’t know how to describe. 3 syllables”

Did I get the point for typing “SD Card?” I sell cameras, and we never call them “Memory Cards” but always “SD Cards.”

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1. Colin Wolfson on February 3, 2015 at 11:18 am
  
  Yeah… I was thinking I would call that an SD card too. I said football instead of kickball 🙁
  
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  1. spookymilk on February 3, 2015 at 11:25 am
    
    I even included that you use your feet!!!! Oh, Colin, you broke my heart….
    
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    1. spookymilk on February 3, 2015 at 3:10 pm
      
      And I just now remembered that I said it was similar to Barry Bonds’s sport!!! How is baseball similar to football?! Colin…seriously, I need to kill you here.
      
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      1. Inkarnit on February 3, 2015 at 7:15 pm
        
        You said feet and similar to baseball so I was thinking soccer or football because I don’t think of kickball like ever.
      2. spookymilk on February 3, 2015 at 7:20 pm
        
        Again, those sports are not similar to baseball. Kickball is played the exact same way as baseball.
        
        Also, where does this idea come from that football uses the feet? There are no kickers or punters in playground football. “Football” is such a stupid name for American football.
      3. Inkarnit on February 3, 2015 at 8:43 pm
        
        You’re totally right. I just thought the feet part was literal in the name, not literal in usage. Even if I got that though we would have lost the tiebreaker.
2. adobery on February 3, 2015 at 11:45 am
  
  While I did not count several “flash drives”, I did count SD card. Your team’s score was iffy, so thankfully I didn’t have to mess with a tie. I was supposed to remove the “3 syllables” part of his clue, as I did for other teams. You probably would have got it anyway knowing you. I also threw in a clue after conferring with Colin, since he was the first to go and I messed up one of the words. It was fixed for everyone else.
  
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  1. spookymilk on February 3, 2015 at 11:48 am
    
    I wondered about that “three syllables” thing. I do think I would have gotten it anyway, as I thought “aperture” was the fanciest term that you were still likely to include.
    
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  2. daneekasghost on February 3, 2015 at 1:25 pm
    
    Did I get two points for saying both SD Card and Memory Card?
    
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    1. adobery on February 3, 2015 at 1:38 pm
      
      One regular point and one Adobery Point^TM
      
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Colin Wolfson on February 3, 2015 at 11:17 am

By 1! I demand a recount!

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Colin Wolfson on February 3, 2015 at 11:19 am

Oh… and wtf is Lava Tag? I have kids and never heard of this crap.

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1. spookymilk on February 3, 2015 at 11:23 am
  
  I played a lot of versions of tag and I actually don’t remember Lava Tag either.
  
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  1. nibbish on February 3, 2015 at 11:33 am
    
    Beau gave a great clue, and I got it even though I’ve never heard of such a thing. Apparently, it’s a game where if you touch the ground, you’re ‘it’.
    
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    1. spookymilk on February 3, 2015 at 11:43 am
      
      That actually sounds familiar, in the vaguest of ways.
      
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      1. nibbish on February 3, 2015 at 12:01 pm
        
        We played lots of “don’t touch the ground” games, but very few of them had anything to do with tag.
      2. AMR on February 3, 2015 at 12:08 pm
        
        Right, this wasn’t a game as such, but tag could be played over “lava”.
        Especially in living rooms.
daneekasghost on February 3, 2015 at 11:25 am

How does Melissa have time to write these story-clues?

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1. MelissaDiamondPhillips on February 3, 2015 at 1:59 pm
  
  Magic fingers.
  
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2. ZG on February 3, 2015 at 2:08 pm
  
  I wondered this as well.
  
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daneekasghost on February 3, 2015 at 11:32 am

After brief consultation with my teammate, we have decided we want to be called “Ghost Pepper”.

The category thing for the next round didn’t come up.

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1. adobery on February 3, 2015 at 11:46 am
  
  🙂
  
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AMR on February 3, 2015 at 12:12 pm

I had forgotten that Adobery and I were sworn enemies.
Thanks for the reminder, you fiend!

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AMR on February 3, 2015 at 1:00 pm

Gilman and I are in for “Machine of Death”

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nibbish on February 3, 2015 at 1:25 pm

Did anyone get ‘mandoline’?

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1. daneekasghost on February 3, 2015 at 1:26 pm
  
  I misspelled it, but yes.
  
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  1. mbnovak on February 3, 2015 at 1:40 pm
    
    Same.
    
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daneekasghost on February 3, 2015 at 1:25 pm

Fiction 59

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nibbish on February 3, 2015 at 1:47 pm

We’ll take Bantam Bulwyr

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mbnovak on February 3, 2015 at 2:16 pm

It’s not letting me duplicate my comment where I said “Fortunately, Unfortunately.”

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1. adobery on February 3, 2015 at 2:23 pm
  
  Dumb filters. I’ll mark you down. 2nd categories have been set.
  
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margaritamartini on February 3, 2015 at 3:18 pm

Wait what? So of course we still want to play! So I should talk to Dean so that we can pick two categories for the consolation round and two people of the remaining eight? Can we pick a category that someone else already picked?

Also – I know nothing about cameras, apparently. Or millfoil. Is that a Minnesota thing? 😛

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1. adobery on February 3, 2015 at 3:23 pm
  
  Don’t worry about it for now. I will email the rest of you about how to proceed after the top 4 are done with their next step. There is nothing for you to do right now.
  
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