Learned League

today's "instructions" is INSANE

My brane hurt! Some people have too much time on their hands!

I ain't reading all that

It’s like the worst excesses of the NPL Enigma puzzles

xp yeah i accidentally wasted like well over an hour on that and im pretty mad at myself for it

like that's time i dont have doing a thing i dont particularly like and am not particularly good at lmao

I remember doing the Pen and Paper Math one weekend and spending a lot of time and getting maybe 9/12, maybe one stupid error and two others that were quite hard computations then seeing how many people got 12/12 and wondering how much time they had spent or how in practice they were.

Famous crossword solver was one of the top three among many.

...and the same thing just happened to me on Optimizations. Got nine right and was ranked in the 600s.

I got 8, which is pretty good for me, especially on a 1DS that I didn't expect to participating in.

And interesting that all of the questions except two in Optimizations were worth < 50 points.

Oh yeah. I couldn't quite conjure up either of those two *sigh*.

In other news: The Loneliness of the LLama Smith Waiting for 1DS Feedback

Anyway, who else is signed up for the American Revolution ML?

hi dere!

I'm surely gonna get hammered; expect a lot of USers are experts on that; I hardly know my Saratoga from my Yorktown.

expect a lot of USers are experts on that; I hardly know my Saratoga from my Yorktown.

lol, you're giving the American school system too much credit.

Yeah, I am expecting to get krushed as well.

Only three of us are doing it as far as I can get. Quite a few more for the General Knowledge Puzzle League though.

I'm doing American Revolution and it is tuned very hard imo

I overthought the Phillis Wheatley question and thought that the reference to "religion" in the Jefferson quote was a clue pointing to Mercy Otis Warren.

Maybe I should have submitted on Dude, Where's My Car? It was fun to review after the fact, in any case, more than I can say for Instruct 2.

I picked up on the "liberty"/"death" clue in Q1 of American Revolution, but then answered...Thomas Paine. D'oh.

I got an email about my 1DS marking the midpoint, and it sez that so far we've had a total of 142 submissions. Obviously there's still a whole half day left, but still, oof!

I didn't realize you had one up! Having now taken a look, I'll give it a go, but I will say that this is not a 1DS that I would normally have done (and, since I've never read the book, do not expect to do very well on).

oh yeah (i said yeah i said yeah) i can't hang with that one!

I liked yours, but made a dumb mistake. We’ll see.

I am not expecting even that much turnout for mine.

The turnout- and high scoring! - for Optimizations gives me a good idea about the makeup of a good bit of LL.

I wouldn’t worry about the turnout though, I just looked back at some single artist musical 1DSes that I participated in as well as some literature ones and the results were of similar orders of magnitude.

P-Funk 90
Frank Zappa 70
Beastie Boys 99
Led Zeppelin 132
Humphrey Bogart 183
Hemingway 222

Always remember that Zappa one since I finished pretty high ranking-wise if not percentile-wise despite not being a fan, only getting four right and not even moneying all four of those.

P. G. Wodehouse 114 (!)

I did a Neil Young 1DS with only 48 participants, but that was back in 2013, when the league was much smaller.

Yeah, was wondering about that too.

That makes me feel a little better! I think my current hope is that we at least beat the turnout for John Grisham.

If your May 1DS is the one I think it is, it's at least about a medium that should attract more players. And FWIW, I had briefly thought that the turnout for my and forks's was going to be low, but we ended up breaking 1000 (and in fact it had the most players of that day's topics).

No, that does not sound like my 1DS. Did you guys already prepare your recap minus the stats?

Also, finally got feedback from a second (!) reviewer

No, that does not sound like my 1DS.

Oh man, I misread Greg's post as yours! Are you comfortable sharing the topic or date here, as I don't know your username?

Did you guys already prepare your recap minus the stats?

A little bit yes, though not every smith ends up putting up a recap.

I kind of hate it when there is no recap. One of the reasons I was so gung-ho helping to write the recaps for the 60s Music ML.

I can't be too secretive about my identity, especially since I am following most of you on player tracker. My 1DS is on Isaac Newton.

Hey, made 82nd-percentile on yours despite screwing up one of my monied questions. A certain music was almost top ten. And your turnout was ultimately not too bad.

I am always too scared to money the ones I'm not totally sure about, even though there's basically no chance of a high score unless you money some hard ones.

Sometimes I will money when I am less than sure because of the greater upside. This time I moneyed because I thought I knew it but I had misremembered something.

Looks like I finished right around the middle of the James Joyce 1DS. The back half of the quiz was much easier for me than the front half; I basically just moneyed the last 5 and got 4 of them right.

Unsurprisingly, I did much better in Improv. If I'd remembered that Aisha Tyler is the current host of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, I'd have managed to tie for first place.

heyyyy my friend (and referrer) placed 7th on your 1DS! which makes sense considering he's a professor of studying it

I playtested Improv. Didn't get too many right but thought it was well done.

Your friend isn't teh pinefox, is he?

(i got halfway through that sentence and realized i have no idea what his position is exactly but i know he is a professor and that was part of his focus at some point)

xp if that is a reference to the book u should be asking him not me!! (if that's not a reference, no, i don't think so... i don't know who the pinefox is)

No, I guess not. teh pinefox is an old school ilx0r. Still here, actually.

many xps!

The alternative is to get all of the questions right (which I've done once, and I've gotten 11/12 once too).

This was obviously a hard one, and I would've gotten the music question wrong. Anyway, my co-smith's recap is in, so I'll have the recap up hopefully by day's end today.

Same here on the Improv (except I finished in the 55th %ile). I could picture Tyler but completely blanked on her name.

Hah, I sometimes forget how many Joyceans are on this board.

omg its a user here. LOOK I DIDNT GET MY ADHD MEDS TODAY OK

xp lol i looked it up and got deeply embarrassed

Should we ask teh pinefox to take the quiz?

Absolutely!