Just like with The Spread, completing this came down to the same two people keeping me from reaching my goal, with AMR* being the biggest thorn in my side again. Greek was all kinds of disappointing and will now have to wear a Scarlet (brown really) Letter C for the rest of his days. As for the rest of you, while there were much fewer of you to deal with, you made it all the much harder with your bunches of sorta-the-same, sorta-right answers.
The high scorer of the week won that honor by a nose (a red one that is). Let’s see how the rest of you misfits did.
GROUP 1
31 – Kelly
30 – Rhubarb
27 – AMR
25 – Greek
GROUP 2
32 – Beau
27 – Dean
24 – Margaret
24 – Novak
Spreadsheet: Click here
Kelly, Rhubarb, Dean and Beau advance to the final round of Splattergories. The four of you receive 5 points for advancing. In round 3, the winner will take home 10 more points and second place 5 more.
Special Answers
Members of two generations > Papasan > Things you sit on
Egyptian key > Rosetta Stone > Computer Software
Squirrel Squash > Acorn (Watership Down) > Animal Characters in Books/Movies
I know one of you didn’t know you got the papasan special answer, and I know all three of you couldn’t spell it correctly. I had the hardest time coming up with the A special answer. I originally had “Arthur” but couldn’t decide on a clue that wasn’t too hard or too easy. So naturally I went with the very obscure answer.
Other Random Bits
- Favorite answer: AMR’s “Adobery” for “People you avoid”. I burst out laughing at that one.
- Favorite answer that didn’t count (because of a bomb): Greek’s “Anthropomorphics” for “Animal characters in Books/Movies”
- Other favorite answer: Rhubarb’s “altered” for “States”
- Out of the thousands upon thousands of words ending with “ER”, Dean and Novak somehow managed to put down the same one. LOL
- Our two resident alcoholics were two of the only three to get credit for beers. Maybe rhubarb tosses them back too.
- Dean get’s the award for trying to turn the most answer’s into doubles. He attempted 10. Only 5 of them counted (4 in my opinion).
- Power flippage: Margaret, who used all her powers in one board last time only used two total. On the flip side of flippage, Dean, who used no powers last round, tried to use two extra powers this time.
- I apologize for having two animal character categories. I don’t know if you guys interpreted them to just name an animal, or did so because you couldn’t come up with character names. I was debating on making the plain animal answers invalid without other judge’s input. Which leads to the next bullet…
- Thank you to Spooky for bombing Animal Characters in books/movies and to Dean for bombing Animals that advertise products.
- It is Amy Aardvark and Andy Anteater.
- All three Special Answer category answers were bombed (attempted anyway).
- Apparently you all like to watch Roger Rabbit while eating a bowl of Rocky Road.
- It was a dream board for Greekhouse and he bricked it. Not a whiff of poop to be found. “Words ending in ER”, he went with “popper” instead of “pooper”? For “Things that smell bad” he didn’t answer “poop”? Not even an answer of “people’s faces” for things you sit on. We’ve all died a little inside today I think.
Final round to come in the not too distant future along with a deadline you can choose to loosely interpret.
*AMR contacted me well ahead of time about deadline issues and would have been done at the original deadline had I made him.
December 15, 2013 at 10:18 pm
It didn’t say U.S. States!
Also, the roast beef answers should have cancelled out. Just because someone adds something more… If I had written “roast beef and radishes with raddichio on rye” would I have gotten 4 points? BOOOOOO.
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Thanks. It was fun!
December 15, 2013 at 10:21 pm
I don’t think any of us limited it to the U.S. I certainly wasn’t. From what I came across, Albania was listed as a country, sometimes a republic but not a state. Maybe there’s another Albania, or I didn’t google enough. Or maybe republic means state.
You could be right on the roast beef thing.
December 15, 2013 at 10:22 pm
Albania is like, a state of mind, man.
December 15, 2013 at 10:24 pm
Country = state. Heads of state. Has a government, etc.
Absolutely on the roast beef thing. Cancel out Dean’s 2 points, give me one for Albania, and let’s go to the tie-breaker. Since Dean used extra powers, I win!
December 15, 2013 at 10:26 pm
How can you say country = state?
December 15, 2013 at 10:27 pm
If you can find one of these for “roast beef and radishes with raddichio on rye” I’ll listen.
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/roast-beef-on-rye-sandwiches-10000001980353/
December 15, 2013 at 10:28 pm
Besides, Dean would still get one point for Roast Beef because he protected it.
December 15, 2013 at 10:28 pm
Because the word “state” is frequently used to apply to countries. It isn’t just a subdivision of a country. See, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_%28polity%29
December 15, 2013 at 10:29 pm
KG – My point was that Dean and Beau’s should still cancel each other out, even with the addition of the extra words. But with the protect, Dean still wins.
Until I find some other problem.
December 15, 2013 at 10:37 pm
Alright, I see country and state can be used interchangeably. I’ve been edumacted. For future boards I will clarify to mean something other than this.
December 15, 2013 at 10:19 pm
Potential versions for future competitions:
Flattergories – bonus points for responses that butter up the judges
Battergories – only baseball or baking terms permitted
Lattergories – Mormon-themed
Cattergories – The Internet’s favorite game
Edwardgoreys – All Victorian child murder all the time
December 15, 2013 at 10:21 pm
Can I include castle-storming terms in Battergories?
December 15, 2013 at 10:26 pm
That’s reserved for Knock-em-flattergories.
December 15, 2013 at 11:57 pm
And Shat-ergories, although Greek would clean up
December 16, 2013 at 2:39 pm
Someone had better clean up after Greek.
December 15, 2013 at 11:12 pm
Really you guys didn’t give a point to Albania? I mean another word for country is state…
December 15, 2013 at 11:42 pm
Holy crap…I meant to type “amethyst” and “amaryllis” came out. That’s incredible. I didn’t even realize I’d done it until now.
Also, I have never seen papasan spelled before now. Huh.
December 15, 2013 at 11:59 pm
Thank you for that non-amethyst, btw.
Any pride I had for (the poorly spelled) “putrescine” was cancelled out by choking with “robots” in the kitchen.
December 16, 2013 at 10:54 am
I can’t believe “Attacked by Aunt” and “Rancid Ravioli” didn’t get double points. Those were genius!
December 16, 2013 at 11:09 am
I can’t believe “Rancid Ravioli” didn’t get negative points, since it’s another example that Ryan specifically said wouldn’t work…using words that are not typically in front of other words as a descriptor.
December 16, 2013 at 11:26 am
You still get a point for ravioli. At least that’s how we play it in person.
December 16, 2013 at 11:50 am
I was joking for the sake of ragging on Dino, man.
December 16, 2013 at 2:03 pm
Nope, too late, I’m taking up the thread. Dean gets a negative point, and I advance to the next round!
December 16, 2013 at 3:22 pm
I’d say it’s pretty obvious that I’m not a close reader of the instructions. However, any cafeteria worth it’s salt would advertise their entry as rancid ravioli in the name of full disclosure.
December 16, 2013 at 2:33 pm
Are you serious about Amy Aardvark and Andy Anteater? I just made up Amy Anteater because nothing else came to mind and if I was right it was two points.
December 16, 2013 at 2:34 pm
Am I ever not serious?
December 16, 2013 at 2:38 pm
I can never tell.
December 16, 2013 at 2:45 pm
I was serious, but double checking, it was just a meme. It wasn’t going to count anyway cause of the bomb, so I didn’t look real hard.
December 16, 2013 at 2:41 pm
Also wasn’t sure about Rocky Raccoon. I only know the Beatles sang a song.
December 16, 2013 at 2:45 pm
Ya, you shouldn’t have got any points for that. I hit the “I” key or something and looked up Ricky Raccoon, not Rocky. Bad judge.
December 16, 2013 at 2:37 pm
I don’t remember seeing the beer category. I can’t believe I missed that.
I think my states should count. You asked for “states” and I gave you states. Kelly and Greekhouse only gave you one each.
I went 50-50 on Reuben over Rachel. Dangnabbit.
December 16, 2013 at 2:51 pm
If you’re serious…really?
If not…someone beat you to the joke on this category with their made-up Novakian reasons.
December 16, 2013 at 3:04 pm
I also found it funny that both Erik and I scored AMR’s “Adobery” answer jokingly without knowing the other had.
December 16, 2013 at 8:04 pm
Just give me one more chance, adobery. I’ll give you all the scatalogical humor you can handle. I swear.
December 18, 2013 at 11:19 pm
I tried to get in my games this evening, but got no reply back. Guess I’ll try again in the morning.
December 18, 2013 at 11:33 pm
They worked for me yesterday.
December 19, 2013 at 7:49 am
’twas old man’s disease. Too many email addresses, not enough links to timers and instructions. Hope none of you brought your A-games, because I tripped and fell down the proverbial staircase.
December 19, 2013 at 8:55 am
Looking back at my answers for round one, I was extremely disappointed, left a lot of points on the table.
December 19, 2013 at 2:33 pm
I’d say I brought my B game. Tough letters.
December 19, 2013 at 2:35 pm
Well there you go. You needed to bring your D, C and O game!