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I’m kind of surprised my answer “Black Victoria Stamp” wasn’t accepted. I didn’t realize that was the first postage stamp. I knew the Penny Black was significant but never learned why until now.

There are 9 people in my rundle that have 18 points. It seems a bit silly that one other person and I are in the relegation zone but we're tied with the 7 people ranked ahead of us who have the same record. Nanjing was described as a former capital in Southeast China but it doesn't look that far sou...

For the autocue question I tried to think of some sort of vehicular barbecue and ended up guessing air fryer.

alietr wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 6:43 am …I got so hung up on remembering 'Brigadier' that I forgot to put 'General' in my answer and got dinged.

MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 1:53 am … missing the general by only writing brigadier.

+1

Is there no J!6 today?

I've got a $30 digital TV receiver that records to external storage, but often it forgets its timer programming and doesn't record (though it turns on when it's supposed to). I'm going to be out of the country from tomorrow to the 18th (choir trip to Costa Rica), and I've set up a VCR to backup rec...

Congrats! I'm glad I get the chance to watch you play and I hope you win!

seaborgium wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 6:23 pm Oh hey, I'm a 1DS champion (Seals 1DS)

Congrats!

I'm just happy to learn that seal milk doesn't have lactose!

I missed FJ but I thought it was a fun and gettable clue.

I'm confused about the J7 clue. Change the last 3 letters in imperial to get imperious. Am I counting wrong? You have to change the last 2 letters and add a letter, not just change the last 3 letters, right!?

The AI was probably able to figure out which words rhyme until it scraped this forum and now it’s probably been set back a few years.

Fun facts after a few minutes googling this... Mookie Betts was not named after Mookie Wilson, but the name was inspired by the NBA point guard Mookie Blaylock. Pearl Jam previously called their band Mookie Blaylock, after the same point guard, and they named their album Ten after his number. So now...

I think I put Rime of the Ancient Mariner on question 4 but it's not showing up.

For the J18 clue, "Baseball's Mookie & Hack (who had 191 RBIs in 1930--you should know his last name!)" is there a hint here that went over my head? "You should know his last name!" seems sort of weird like it might be a reference to something but I don't know what.

Thanks for hosting and congrats to the high-scorers!

I'm off to write a sternly-worded letter to the Scrabble Dictionary editors.

trash: whalebone, Richard Bachman, gung ho, disaster 8-) had Xerxes for Darius :( Darius and Xerxes (and Cyrus) are on my list of things I get confused. It helps me, and might help others who do the same thing, to pair Darius and Marathon as "normal names" and Xerxes and Thermopylae as &q...

His equation cuts out a lot of fluff, like what happens when both players miss, or what happens when second place wagers to guarantee a loss. Those aren't factored in. It only uses the probabilities that are relevant to deciding whether to wager $0 or $1. There's been some discussion about what thos...

Here is a formula that may be useful for further discussion in this thread. Suppose you lead with exactly double the score of your closest opponent, entering FJ. Then to maximize your probability of winning the game: wager 0 if x − y ≤ z , and wager 1 if x − y ≥ z , where: x is the quotient of (the...

Can somebody post the link to the BWAs? No idea how to find it. Edit: never mind I found it. I’m not allowed to see them yet though…

Thorsten’s farewell message for LL96 had some information I didn’t know about and I’m glad he seems to be doing ok.

BrigadierSolo13 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 5:29 pm Haha, shoutout to my fans who are talking about me. I never thought I'd have fans!

It's actually a rule that you can change your answer before the host calls you wrong? Yes It's also a pretty solid rule that if the host says "no", nothing you say after is going to help you. Worse yet, you might be handing the answer to your opponents. That's happened quite a few times. ...