I've been playing since I was a kid (so about 30 years now) - it's become a favourite game - and I vaguely recall hearing it once (I think it has to do with "skunking", but I'll have to look it up)econgator wrote:
I've played a lot of cribbage and have never heard of the term "left in the lurch" as it relates to it (or did I mishear?).
Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Yeah ... after a little digging around, I find that it apparently means that you don't pass the halfway point prior to the other person winning.dhkendall wrote:I've been playing since I was a kid (so about 30 years now) - it's become a favourite game - and I vaguely recall hearing it once (I think it has to do with "skunking", but I'll have to look it up)econgator wrote:
I've played a lot of cribbage and have never heard of the term "left in the lurch" as it relates to it (or did I mishear?).
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For the same reason you're suggesting she bet 50%.Category 13 wrote:So many contestants just don't recognize when they're at that 'Now or Never' point when trailing badly in the DJ round and the 2nd DD comes into their hands.
How many clues were left when Christi hit that last DD? In any case she failed on the wager. How can she not bet at least 50%?
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Left in the lurch was not an unfamiliar phrase to me, but in cribbage I have no recollection of hearing it previously. Skunk and double skunk is the lingo I grew up using.
Sally was a good sport for getting run over in the game.
The players did all right in Oldies, so I'm surprised no one could figure out Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons with two well-known songs given. I guess it's one of those things where singing the songs in the head and pegging the group in time won't always happen. Easy trash for many of us at home.
Kay did well across the categories, but especially cleaned up in Henry VIII's wives. It will be interesting to see how Monday goes with the game unlikely to feature such a specialized easy to learn narrow category.
Alex was wrong last night when the FJ! category had indeed been used previously. Famous Locales on the other hand shows no hits in the archive.
I played it straight up tonight with no precalls. 1933/Tibet - Done. Alex was not even close to finishing reading the clue.
My 4th 4/5 week in a row. Perfectos are nice, but I would gladly take 80% every week instead. 10 regular play games to go in the season? Not that I think she was even in danger of actually being excluded, but Rani Peffer breathes easier every day.
Sally was a good sport for getting run over in the game.
The players did all right in Oldies, so I'm surprised no one could figure out Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons with two well-known songs given. I guess it's one of those things where singing the songs in the head and pegging the group in time won't always happen. Easy trash for many of us at home.
Kay did well across the categories, but especially cleaned up in Henry VIII's wives. It will be interesting to see how Monday goes with the game unlikely to feature such a specialized easy to learn narrow category.
Alex was wrong last night when the FJ! category had indeed been used previously. Famous Locales on the other hand shows no hits in the archive.
I played it straight up tonight with no precalls. 1933/Tibet - Done. Alex was not even close to finishing reading the clue.
My 4th 4/5 week in a row. Perfectos are nice, but I would gladly take 80% every week instead. 10 regular play games to go in the season? Not that I think she was even in danger of actually being excluded, but Rani Peffer breathes easier every day.
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
How much do you think Trebek got paid for that 5 min TCM infomercial during the interview?
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Ennui is also the 5-letter English word for boredom. When seeing it in writing, I have always assumed the pronunciation was like en-you-eye. Now I know better.
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I had a nice run in the Jeopardy Round for the "Newbies" category (5/5) and "On the Left" (4/5), and surprising considering those categories encompassed many different subjects.
Double Jeopardy, I complete struggled, and even like a sports fan for me, "Weird Sports" was difficult as only got 2/5 there, however felt that I should've gotten slopestyle.
Now I do have a question, there was a response where the correct answer was "Monotonous". If I said "Monotone" would that've counted?
Also, I don't know if anyone has posted this, but here is the blog that Christi Esterle runs about Bad Musicals: http://musicalhell.blogspot.com/
Double Jeopardy, I complete struggled, and even like a sports fan for me, "Weird Sports" was difficult as only got 2/5 there, however felt that I should've gotten slopestyle.
Now I do have a question, there was a response where the correct answer was "Monotonous". If I said "Monotone" would that've counted?
Also, I don't know if anyone has posted this, but here is the blog that Christi Esterle runs about Bad Musicals: http://musicalhell.blogspot.com/
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Went with Xanadu over Shangri-La.
If she doesn't like the category, a small bet on the DD isn't that bad. It still left her in contention and she almost got back into it. Had she only bet $1,000 on the DD, she is not locked out.
I'd have bet it all on the Henry VIII category. His wives should definitely be on your short list study guide if you get the call.
Edit.....Well, crap. Xanadu was a real place.
If she doesn't like the category, a small bet on the DD isn't that bad. It still left her in contention and she almost got back into it. Had she only bet $1,000 on the DD, she is not locked out.
I'd have bet it all on the Henry VIII category. His wives should definitely be on your short list study guide if you get the call.
Edit.....Well, crap. Xanadu was a real place.
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The response was accepted under Valse pretenses
More critically, the distinction needed to be made between Johann Strauss (1804-1849) and his son, Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), both of whom were noted for their Viennese waltzes, though Junior eclipsed his father's fame, became known as "The Waltz King" and was largely responsible for popularizing the music and dance throughout Europe and the Americas.Leander wrote:Surprised there was not a BMS on the Strauss answer in the Opera category, given there is Johann and Richard, the latter being a more well known opera composer.
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I thoroughly enjoyed the '37 film 'Lost Horizon', it's a classic and you can't go wrong with Ronald Coleman -- as with any novel-based movie, there are naturally less details and subplots than the book itself with the time constraints and editing. 'The Good Earth' from around that same time period is also a favorite of mine. Definitely agree about the '73 version of LH -- can't believe that's gotten the blu-ray treatment before the original. I have not read either novel, but would like to at some point. I got FJ not instantly, but pretty close. Also, got lach trash on Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (surprised a TS with the ubiquitous "Jersey Boys"), H. G. Wells, & rhododendron.Spaceman Spiff wrote:FJ was an instaget; I re-read Lost Horizon a couple of years ago as a beach read. Excellent book, better than the late 1930s movie (and don't bring up that dreadful early 1970s musical version that was so bad that it broke up the songwriting team of Hal David and Burt Bacharach).
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
He must be friends with Robert Osborne, ha ha.chalupabatman786 wrote:How much do you think Trebek got paid for that 5 min TCM infomercial during the interview?
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Yeah, it seemed as if he didn't realize there was still another category left and he was about do his customary "... the final clue is yours and it's the DD", but caught himself.econgator wrote:I noticed that, too. Odd.StevenH wrote:It seemed like Alex accidentally hinted that the J! round DD was coming up before Kay actually chose the clue, though I don't think that it made a difference in this case.
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I figured out the phrase "left in the lurch" despite knowing nothing about cribbage. Shangri-La came easy in FJ today. Definitely have to read a Wikipedia article on Henry VIII as I only got a couple of his wives correct.
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I always thought it meant tired or lack of energy, who knew?cosmos wrote:Ennui is also the 5-letter English word for boredom. When seeing it in writing, I have always assumed the pronunciation was like en-you-eye. Now I know better.
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I wish Christi had gone TDD and gotten it right. Kay still would have led entering FJ, but at $30,200 to $29,600. That would have been wild!
Here's an FJ clue for an idea I came up with while precalling. The wording is why I'm not a Jeopardy writer:
One Greek-derived and one an anagram, these two titular place names from 1516 and 1872 books express their own fictionality.
Here's an FJ clue for an idea I came up with while precalling. The wording is why I'm not a Jeopardy writer:
One Greek-derived and one an anagram, these two titular place names from 1516 and 1872 books express their own fictionality.
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
seaborgium wrote:I wish Christi had gone TDD and gotten it right. Kay still would have led entering FJ, but at $30,200 to $29,600. That would have been wild!
Here's an FJ clue for an idea I came up with while precalling. The wording is why I'm not a Jeopardy writer:
One Greek-derived and one an anagram, these two titular place names from 1516 and 1872 books express their own fictionality.
Spoiler
Utopia and Erewhon
Good one Stefan.
Good one Stefan.
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I noticed Alex say something like "and now" before the J! round DD, as though it were the last clue on the board.
Six Wives strikes me a category worth taking in order given that it's likely to eliminate choices before you get to the difficult clues.
I could only guess Middle Earth for FJ.
Six Wives strikes me a category worth taking in order given that it's likely to eliminate choices before you get to the difficult clues.
I could only guess Middle Earth for FJ.
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Nope. Clue implied the method was a non-traditional way, meaning anything -except- rockets basically.TenPoundHammer wrote: Anyone think "Cool" for $600 was a huge negbait for rocket, since it involved shooting things into space?
Having recently finished The Tudors off Netflix, this category was a snoozer.StevenH wrote:That category was funny. I knew the Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boelyn, and Catherine Parr/Catherine Howard clues right away. I made the lucky guess on the Jane Seymour DD. I then got the Anne of Cleves clue, but I was only able to get that one from process of elimination.econgator wrote: The Henry VIII DD would have been an all-in wager. Those were all easy clues.
(Not that I wouldn't have gotten them before, I'm just not sure I would have gotten them in time before)
Final, instant. Pretty sure I can hat-tip Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow for teaching me Shangri-La's location.
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I can at least recognize their names, but nothing about them. I've tried. I know AT once had some kinda non-pattern about divorced, beheaded, tickled to death, went down in an airplane, fried getting suntanned, fell in a cement mixer full of quicksand, but I never found it of much help.Bamaman wrote:I'd have bet it all on the Henry VIII category. His wives should definitely be on your short list study guide if you get the call.
What in the clue implied non-traditional? And heck, what led to cannon?Volante wrote:Nope. Clue implied the method was a non-traditional way, meaning anything -except- rockets basically.TenPoundHammer wrote: Anyone think "Cool" for $600 was a huge negbait for rocket, since it involved shooting things into space?
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Re: Friday, July 4, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Cannon might have been a know it or not part (I said slingshot), but I forget the actual wording.TenPoundHammer wrote:What in the clue implied non-traditional? And heck, what led to cannon?Volante wrote:Nope. Clue implied the method was a non-traditional way, meaning anything -except- rockets basically.TenPoundHammer wrote: Anyone think "Cool" for $600 was a huge negbait for rocket, since it involved shooting things into space?
On the same line I don't know what explicitly gave me the hint it was a non-traditional answer, but if they use "X wants to send stuff into space using Y" and X is not Goddard, Y is not rockets. Cause we've always used rockets.
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