Learned League

Kind of all over the map for me. In terms of correct answers, I went 6-2-3-6-5.

FWIW, I'd never heard of Mezzogiorno.

i went beretta/indigo/tailor

enfield/lilac/teamster here lol

So about Q4.

Yesterday's, re Devanagari etc? Reasonably well done I thought; a nice way of getting around the difficulty of marking a question like "Devanagari is the fourth most used what?", where it may be hard to draw a clear line in a spectrum of plausible answers encompassing "writing systems", "scripts", "alphabets", "abjads", "abugidas", "written languages", etc etc.

Since I'm quite familiar with what Devanagari is myself, I was at first a bit confused by how easy the question looked to me ("Name one of the three most common writing systems in the world"), before I noticed that "writing system" was nowhere mentioned, and that the essence of the question was knowing what kind of thing Devanagari is. Still played harder than I guessed it would.

(if you mean today's, we should probably not discuss it until tomorrow obv)

No, that’s what I meant. I couldn’t figure out quite what he was getting at and ruled out characters for some reason so I put hiragana.

Some discussion on the message board. A few others are annoyed with the wording.

I really enjoy those ones where I have no idea and I just let my mind relax and something like "Joker's Wild" bubbles up and I'm just like, OK, brain, I don't really know what that is but but if that's the response to the stimulus I gave you let's go with it

i had no idea what devanagari was and guessed "bikram" lol

You are not the only one, apparently.

i went with English which is my own fault for not thinking. Then I watched an old episode of Only Connect last night WITH THE SAME QUESTION SET and the guy also answered English. At least I know where they got it from.

Really? Do tell.

Was there some kind of hidden theme then?

Broke my losing streak, still in relegation. Somehow I keep facing opponents with QPs of over 70% -- what are these people doing in C?!

Speaking of QPs, I can never seem to relocate the place where the stats abbreviations are defined.

Oh, section 8.5 of the rules, I think, shows most of them: https://www.learnedleague.com/thorsten/therules.php

I also tried to mouse over and hover but didn’t seem to work.

Oh wait on Player Tracker it does

Was there some kind of hidden theme then?

basically everyone who plays Learned League should be watching Only Connect and vice versa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wheelsongen/

oy... here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wheelsongen

oh ffs
search "wheelsongenius" on youtube

This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9xj-uxVPXU

You set the question set/ Were there five similar questions?

At minute 16.

i had no idea what devanagari was and guessed "bikram" lol

― na (NA), Tuesday, March 2, 2021 10:29 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I almost guessed "yoga," which I remembered was part of a set (the six orthodox systems of Hindu philosophy, though I couldn't have told you that). Then I changed my mind and went with "ayurvedic." Good question, though.

yup, that's the one.

I really enjoy those ones where I have no idea and I just let my mind relax and something like "Joker's Wild" bubbles up and I'm just like, OK, brain, I don't really know what that is but but if that's the response to the stimulus I gave you let's go with it

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, March 2, 2021 10:04 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ha, that one was kind of the same for me. Although maybe in the back of my mind was a dim memory of when the same question was asked in 2014.

"Yoga" was my first thought, too. But then I reasoned "OK surely it's possible there is some set of traditional Indian physical/mental practices of which yoga is the most famous and devenagari is #3 or #4 but I can't think of any other besides yoga, and if divanagari were the #3 or #4 most popular type of yoga I would have heard of it, so it just can't be that." I think what really helped me is the word "system" -- not that many things are customarily described as systems. Yoga isn't, for instance.

when the same question was asked in 2014.

I didn't know they repeated questions!! I honestly feel kind of disillusioned.

I kind of love that best wrong answer though.

There aren't too many repeats. I'd say maybe a couple of times a season. And it's usually from at least a few years ago.

I do sometimes wonder to what extent Thorsten is aware of it, though. If I were him, I'd probably do a search of the archive just to see if and when a question was last asked, so I'm guessing that when it happens, it's because he figures it's been long enough that he can go back to the well.

my brain spat out this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYlcim0Dc60

and i WATCHED joker's wild as a kid so i KNEW that

thought the three mile island question was very awkwardly phrased too, although there remains only one reason to know the name of any island in the susquehanna

Upset! I won 6(3) to 5(4) against my 80% QP opponent. I have my pisspoor food and drink score to thank for giving me a 3 for Stroganoff, which was on my mind as I made a vegan version a couple weeks ago. Inexplicably got a point for Moors too, despite literature being my second best category.

Whoops, I got a 2 for Stroganoff, 3 for Uganda.

how in the fuc am i supposed to defend this

https://i.imgur.com/gCcK45C.jpg

hope for another velocity of money question?

invite them over for dinner

I faced the rundle leader yesterday, who ended up forfeiting. I know that other players often voice dismay at forfeit wins, but it's lifted me into the middle of the pack out of the relegation zone.

i shouldn't complain bc i've been on a hot run but i boned myself out of a 9(6) yesterday by misreading "formally" as "formerly"

Saw people talk about that on the LL Message Board.

And some of us who read it correctly were still thrown off by the word "formally."

(I feel like "formally" must have been included to guide people away from Seward's Folly, but it created the impression that the question was looking for something other than the common name of Alaska.)

yeah, i kinda hedged my bets with "Alaska Territory" which was taken. Having a lucky start to my season so far and cracked the top five.

let me tell you, i spent half the day trying to figure out the clay question and was deeply happy when my subconscious spat up "potsie"

After I submitted and read the question again and saw his last name I felt kind of bad.

Also I put the Gadsden Purchase, although I probably spelt it wrong, was hoping that was when they bought Alaska.