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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!

Okay, I just posted a link to the current Rolling ILB thread.

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

Finding out that quite a few people read the relevant WIkipedia page before doing a 1DS. I guess this is common practice, don't really feel like doing it myself too much. Good thing for a smith to know, though.

What was this in response to?

That was how to place highly.

Recap's up!

Cool! Heading over there now.

Was going to ask, when you get your intraday updates does it give you a ny kind of list of what answers are being received?

My 1DS is Just Audio: Familiar Songs (May 3!). My previous 1DS's were Flops, Title Lines, and Apologies.

When your 1DS goes live you get a full running list throughout the day of all answers people gave that have something like 5 or more responses.

I always write my recaps up in advance off site.

I have only studied for a 1DS on one occasion - MTV Video Music Awards, and my scan of the Wikipedia page of notable events and winners of video of the year got me like 4 answers I otherwise would have missed. It felt kind of hollow though and I've never one it again.

The list of answers given so far is on the Smith's page by the way.

That’s what I figured, thanks so much for confirming. Assuming that allows you to add scoring notes for the commissioner on the fly.

I guess when you write the recap offline you just add in the stats at the end and any comments about ease of play, congrats to winners, etc.

Also have I mentioned: my fingerprint, it me.

Now feeling I should have done slightly better on Leee’s 1DS because of Reading Ulysses

Feel like there's definitely a divide between people who deliberately study for 1DSes and MLs and those who don't. I guess I'm more interested testing what I already know than what I can recall after cramming.

Btw, just noticed that Chicago improv legend TJ J@g0d0wsk1 finished 46th in Improv. We both went 11/12 and missed the same question, but I did a better job with moneying.

Do you do improv, jaymc?

Came to say I am getting crushed in both MLs. I wasn’t expecting to do well, just wanted to be one of the gang, not too mumped up but still.

I did improv in college (with Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper), took a few classes at iO about 12 years ago, and have had friends in the Chicago scene.

Does anyone want to briefly explain MD2 of the GKPL to me? I see that "straight" is a "hand" in poker, but that may be a red herring, since I can't make sense of any of the other.

Does anyone want to briefly explain MD2 of the GKPL to me? I see that "straight" is a "hand" in poker, but that may be a red herring, since I can't make sense of any of the other.

The first five answers all correspond to playing card rankings in descending order:
K (abbreviation for strikeout)
Q (first letter in quartermaster)
J (shape of candy cane)
10 (Hamilton is on the $10 bill)
9 (Ode to Joy = 9th Symphony)

I get it now that I saw the smith's recap, but there was absolutely no way I was going to figure that one out myself.

Ah! Somewhat fiendish, but not utterly impossible, I guess. I like the out-of-the-boxness of J for candy cane. Thanks!

American revolution: a victory! a victory!

1(1)-0(0), granted, but I'll take it.

Just noticed that forks and I are in the same General Knowledge Puzzle League ML group and are facing each other today. Good luck!

That ML has been challenging but rewarding. American Revolution, on the other hand, might be the hardest ML I've ever played. I'm no American Revolution buff, but I'm interested enough in American history that I thought I might do a little better than I am. Feels like there are a LOT of YEKIOYD answers and not many alternative entry points.

lol i am dead last in the general knowledge quiz, not doing well!

I am getting crushed in both of those, but once in a while manage to eke out a win in GKPL. Think the best I have done in AmRev is a 0(0)-0(0) tie.

As someone who takes this stuff way too seriously, I'm glad I'm not doing any of the current MLs.

That said, I did really well in the New Year's 1DS, which is especially pleasing because it wasn't even on my radar till the day of.

Are you going to do the next two MLs that are queued up?

Just LGBT2. It's been a long time since I try to maintain literary pretensions, so probably wouldn't do well in 21st C Lit (ahem).

i was interested in both of those but i don't like doing multiple mini leagues at the same time, so i ended up just picking 21st century lit

Yeah, two MLs at once can be kind of fatiguing

Ive somehow clawed my way to 2nd in puzzle league due to ridiculous luck in schedule. I face 1 and 3 this week tho, let's see how far that luck can stretch