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lexprod · NOT not a title

Dunno how many of you have found the site sporcle.com but I have about a year ago and love the site. It has thousands of quizzes such as "can you name all the presidents?" or "can you name the TV show from opening theme lyrics?" with time limits. Fun alone or with friends, everyone shouting their answers.

Best part is that users can make their own, and I figured we could make a thread of any games that GLers make or would be of interest to other GL members.

In that vein: Name the board game from extreme close-up!

Some a co-wrote with my roommate (typically from 1-3am)

Video Game Character by Sidekick
Name the movie by what it's fictional prequel would be called

And a quiz in which you find 3-word common bonds like Fire/Last/First all can end in Place. Then three of those sets chain to another word, and twice more. Just ignore my bad explanation and play it

lexprod · NOT not a title

I didn't make that last one, just thought puzzlers would enjoy it.

Quailman · His Postmajesty

I got 22 of the movies. I only got about 4 board games, though. I couldn't spell Mille Bornes correctly.

...and on the 3x3x3x3 I got 31 of 52 (or 26/40 since some words count twice). I got one of the upper level words by guessing wrong on a lower level word.

lexprod · NOT not a title

LordKinbote · Daedalian Member

groza528 · No Place Like Home

9/15 Board Games, would have been 10 but my version of Pit is too old-- doesn't have sugar in it.
23/25 Movies, wouldn't have gotten the other two
Only 9/25 for sidekicks
32/53 on the 3x3x3

Poisonium · annoyed by the old

1/15 on the boardgames from a random guess. I was only familiar with two of the games, and they had very different designs here.

I can't remember my score on the video game sidekicks, but it wasn't particularly high. Neither was the movies.

I also made a few, although they are mostly extremely specific.

Hitman Targets. Don't even bother with this one if you haven't played at least two of the Hitman games through several times.
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lexprod · NOT not a title

PuzzleScot · Daedalian Member

I don't see any images for the boardgame close-ups... so 2/15 from guessing...

35/52 on 3x3x3x3. Similarly to Quailman, I got the ultimate connection early on by trying to guess a round 1 word! Great game.

Europe - 45/47. 2 mising ones were spelling 'issues', though I'm surprised they missed out on Faroe Islands (I suppose they 'belong' to Denmark in the same way as Scotland/Wales/England/NI 'belong' to UK, despite having FIFA recognition)

Poisonium · annoyed by the old

22 Best reviewed PC Games according to Metacritic

It's a lot less specific than the others I've made, anyway. It's still quite hard, though.

LordKinbote · Daedalian Member

Zag · Tired of his old title

Poisonium · annoyed by the old

LordKinbote · Daedalian Member

PuzzleScot · Daedalian Member

"Can you name the parts that formal white tie consists of?"
I guess that's an americanism? Either that or the question is badly worded... 0/8
I tried knot, bow etc... then funeral, wedding etc..

For anyone else trying it, assume the question says:

"Name all items of clothing that should be worn by a man dressed in 'formal white tie' attire"

I dunno - may it's just me...

Poisonium · annoyed by the old

Amb · Amb the Hitched.

The point values of the tiles in scrabble:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/Peppermallow/ScrabbleValues

The highest scoring countries when spelt in scrabble tiles
http://www.sporcle.com/games/Peppermallow/CountryScrabble

Surnames of Simpsons characters by first name.
http://www.sporcle.com/games/Peppermallow/simpson_surnames

Word triplets (Also a thread in VSP)
http://www.sporcle.com/games/Peppermallow/word_triplets

Highest scores by player in Test Cricket.
http://www.sporcle.com/games/Peppermallow/TestCricket

Thok · Oh, foe, the cursed teeth!

PuzzleScot · Daedalian Member

Courk · Daedalian Member

I liked this one: http://www.sporcle.com/games/Hejman/historyasweheardit2

Poison* · Guest

PuzzleScot · Daedalian Member

A good one: http://www.sporcle.com/games/Jonilase/AlsoOnYourKeyboard

Amb* · Guest

Hitchhiker · Finally got a ride.

I really liked this one of Tahnan's:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Tahnan/catreviews

Quailman · His Postmajesty

bah! I misspelled Archy as Archie, and couldn't remember what went with the Witch and the Wardrobe. I did correct my spelling on one, and I knew the author of one, but never heard the title before.

Amb* · Guest

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Peppermallow/bentcountries

Zag · Tired of his old title

Angola is in the puzzle but not amongst the answers. This was especially frustrating because I got so few of the answers, but I did see that one.

Amb* · Guest

My apologies for that, I didnt notice I hadnt added it to the answer list. I was awre it was in there Revenge most foul!

. I will fix that up.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Peppermallow/BentAnimals

Internet Stranger · Paragon of Mafia Hunters

You got 16 out of 25 video game character given their sidekick.
You got 15 out of 24 movie titles, given a fictional prequel.
You got 8 out of 15 board and card games from an extreme close-up.
You got 29 out of 52 word that can be added to the end of the 3 given words.
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Zag · Tired of his old title

Although I got a lot more on this one, I don't like it as much. This is primarily because there are way too many 3- and 4-letter words, which are impossible to find in this format. I got a lot of them just by typing names of animals, not by finding them in the grid.

Also, there is a huge range of obscurity of the animals. IMHO, since it is hard enough to find names in the bent-word-search format, you should stick with 6+ letter words and fairly common animals (that a 5-year-old would know). So no pangolin, taipan, okapi, or lamprey, and more giraffe, hippopotamus, crocodile, and the like.

Also, some QA for you:

Marmoset is spelled that way, not marmaset
Gnu is in the answer list twice
Maggot isn't an animal, it is the larval stage of flies.
Hen isn't an animal name, it is the name of a female of many species.
Ram and drake are terms for males of different species, also not animal names

Amb · Amb the Hitched.

Thanks. I researched the countries one a lot more fully.

I might rework this one a bit anyway.

lexprod · NOT not a title

LordKinbote · Daedalian Member

You guys can test this one out for me.

Movies with a Secret Theme
http://www.sporcle.com/games/LordKinbote/movies_secret_theme_1

Zag · Tired of his old title

Besides being way too hard for a non-movie buff like myself, it was fine. (I only got the Julie Andrews one as a movie. I also got the Mark Twain one just from the book.) I did get the theme, though, once I saw the answers.

LordKinbote · Daedalian Member

Duke Gnome · Daedalian Member

It should respond to "phonetic alphabet" as that is the way most people would describe your theme.

LordKinbote · Daedalian Member

Zag · Tired of his old title

Poisonium · annoyed by the old

Progressively Tougher Border Route

I hope the description makes sense, I'm not really the best at explaining stuff.
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Zag · Tired of his old title

Hah, ridiculously too hard for a (typical) geography-challenged American like me.

Your description was ok, but this sentence: "... where one can cross the least countries." You should say "fewest countries."

less, least, more, too much: used for a non countable item (i.e. water)

fewer, fewest, more, too many: used for countable items (i.e. countries)