We're not talking about ringing in and guessing blindly on regular clues. We're talking about FJ, where not writing any response guarantees that you'll get it wrong.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:02 pm Also, yesterday on the Oceans category, I WAGged on five clues and was wrong all five times. THAT is why I don't guess.
Friday, September 20, 2019 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
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and you are supposed to work in the music industry? even i knew that and i hate the beatlesTenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 7:28 pm That eBook clue seemed poorly pinned. I don't know how there could've been an ebook in 1991.
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Sacco + Vanzetti and Beatles playing in Hamburg seemed obscure for the top box.
U.S. Currency seems like an easy narrow category... No idea who would've been a "foe of" Hamilton's legacy, because none of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, or Grant seemed to fit. Why put down a guess, no matter what I put down will be wrong.
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only foe i knew of hamilton was that burr dude...had no idea if that dude had ever been on currency and relegated to another piece before being permanently erased...so that is what i went with
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Hey John! It's Barbara from Wednesday. You and Heather both did great! Enjoyed watching your game.LanceJ wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 1:49 pm It’s me! Can’t wait to watch tonight!
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Also, that signaling device is a real trickster! Good game, y’all. What a blast.Spoiler
i thought of Jackson immediately, but realized he was the “obvious” one since the $20’s been in the news. I was crushed so I needed a solo get for 2nd and decided to veer to another possible but unlikely answer assuming Heather would answer Jackson given how strongly she played all game. Oops! let that be a lesson to the potential contestants reading this—don’t get too clever! FJ is unpredictable! just answer correctly if you think you know it!
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Re: Friday, September 20, 2019 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
But there have been dozens and dozens and dozens of times where I've put down a WAG on FJ! and it was just as wrong as a blank (most recently yesterday). And literally ZERO where I've put down a WAG that has ended up being right.hbomb1947 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:07 pmWe're not talking about ringing in and guessing blindly on regular clues. We're talking about FJ, where not writing any response guarantees that you'll get it wrong.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:02 pm Also, yesterday on the Oceans category, I WAGged on five clues and was wrong all five times. THAT is why I don't guess.
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And yet you want to be on the show? Why?TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:36 pmBut there have been dozens and dozens and dozens of times where I've put down a WAG on FJ! and it was just as wrong as a blank (most recently yesterday). And literally ZERO where I've put down a WAG that has ended up being right.hbomb1947 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:07 pmWe're not talking about ringing in and guessing blindly on regular clues. We're talking about FJ, where not writing any response guarantees that you'll get it wrong.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:02 pm Also, yesterday on the Oceans category, I WAGged on five clues and was wrong all five times. THAT is why I don't guess.
Re: Friday, September 20, 2019 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Because I apparently tested well enough for my guessing skills not to matter. What I want to know is... HOW is my luck so abysmal that every time I DO guess I'm just as wrong? How do I constantly fail on even 1-in-3s in maingame play? How do I literally always pick the wrong side of a coin flip?!
For some reason a lot of the clues have felt very "off" to me this week. Like there's a lot of top box stuff that seems far more YEKIOYD than usual (e.g. Hull House = Chicago). Between that and utterly sucking at LL (hi Josh), I think a lot of the frustration is coming out way too early.
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You must have missed that show-stopping track on the Lin-Manuel Miranda cast recording, "President A Billion Years Prior".
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no idea...seeing he wasn't born in usa he could never have been presidentTenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:03 pmWhy do I keep thinking Hamilton was a President?
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FJ: WECIB? Jefferson is on the $2 but that only started in the 70’s, right?
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His contemporaries who became president weren't born in the USA either.CasketRomance wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:10 pmno idea...seeing he wasn't born in usa he could never have been presidentTenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:03 pmWhy do I keep thinking Hamilton was a President?
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Uhhh why? It's just a commercial, lol. James brought in the ratings, it makes sense why they would center it around him. Plenty of great players in this year's ToC, I can't wait.
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born on what ended up being us soilseaborgium wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:36 pmHis contemporaries who became president weren't born in the USA either.CasketRomance wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:10 pmno idea...seeing he wasn't born in usa he could never have been presidentTenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:03 pmWhy do I keep thinking Hamilton was a President?
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Jefferson on the $2 started in 1976, yes. But the $2 bill in general has been around a lot longer than that.
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Jefferson appeared on the $2 as early as 1869, but not consistently until (I believe) 1918.
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"or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution" — Article II, US Constitution, on who is eligible for the presidencyCasketRomance wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:53 pmborn on what ended up being us soilseaborgium wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:36 pmHis contemporaries who became president weren't born in the USA either.CasketRomance wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:10 pmno idea...seeing he wasn't born in usa he could never have been president
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DD: 0/3
FJ:
My purpose for being at this week's tapings was to support my boy LanceJ. All day I was hoping he wouldn't have to face off against Jason. Alas, he had to face The Quiet Buzzsaw. If only he had hit that DD asking about his home state. What might have been.
On FJ!, I never seriously considered anyone other than Jackson. "Foe of his legacy" seemed to suggest someone who came after Hamilton's death, and Jackson's shutting down of the national bank seemed to fit the bill (heh).
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My purpose for being at this week's tapings was to support my boy LanceJ. All day I was hoping he wouldn't have to face off against Jason. Alas, he had to face The Quiet Buzzsaw. If only he had hit that DD asking about his home state. What might have been.
On FJ!, I never seriously considered anyone other than Jackson. "Foe of his legacy" seemed to suggest someone who came after Hamilton's death, and Jackson's shutting down of the national bank seemed to fit the bill (heh).
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My problem was that I Pavloved from "Hamilton" and "foe" to Burr, knew he wasn't on money, then pivoted to the president he was VP under. Then I remembered my days as a little child looking up "money" in the encyclopedia, and seeing an old $10 bill with the "wrong" president on it. Of course it was Jackson, but in that moment where I had already arrived at Jefferson, I couldn't see anyone but him on it.
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That is what I call the innominate situation. Heather desperately needed to get within 50% of Jason. By suddenly springing into action, John slit both their throats. Today it didn't matter because no one got FJ.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:08 am
Heather got that $800 clue to put her at 9200 and the lock broken with those six top clues remaining. John woke up for three of them and Jason picked up two of them before time ran out to get to the last one.
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