mingtian wrote:
Lol, that's the arghhhhh you used with the eagle on pineappoloi.
What?
Random, I understand that it was unfair to you all that I tried to assure myself a kill each round. However, the fact is that I would have run out of clues very quickly because I was giving them five at a time, and I felt that it was almost a kind of necessity for me to kill one person each burst. What chance was there for me to win anyway? I had ten officers, of whom half were VERY VERY GOOD officers with lots of experience. To quote Doctor Evil "Throw me a frikkin bone here!" So what, I lose with 27 kills or accusations left instead of 29? What does it matter? If I had won, then believe me, you would be angrier and I would be more apologetic.
As for my first clue, I did check it- it didn't even occur to me that not everyone solves it in their head.
For my third, yes, many cultures have different currencies, but the cocoa thing not only came up in kjhs's round but in the second TAR, and I have heard in many places. So I kind of thought that one of the ten officers would make the connection. Also, tiger body parts are sold a lot on the black market, and make lots of money, so tiger could have been justified here as well.
Fourth, well, I agree with you. I was trying to think of a clue for EAST that wouldn't be too familiar. I would have put this at the end, making it the hardest, but the one for fmtiger was a lot harder.
Speaking of which, yeah, this was hard. Way too hard. I have two justifications- 1, that he protected himself anyway based on a cat reference, and 2, that Max Geiger did a lot of stuff for Deadliest Warrior, including creating the show. mingtian got on it, but seemed to abandon the trail. Anyway, I admit it was terrible. But what did you lose from it? Until the game wrapped everyone thought it was pointing to Kokonilly anyway!
Well, I blame harryk for this one, but in response to your point about the threshold- IT DOESN'T MATTER. I LOST QUICKLY, ABOUT 25 KILLS LEFT!
For the second, well, no they're not similar, but I was trying to tip him off. Maybe saying "My favorite science is both old and new..." would make space scientist say "Wait, mine is too!" As it turned out, he didn't really log on for the second burst at all, but he was pretty active for the first and I saw no reason to suspect that he wouldn't be.
I should never have changed the third one. It was originally "He's getting shortchanged for a dollar." This would have added that the victim is male, and included the whole thing about 100 cents. I think it would have been more fair.
This was a hard clue. I knew it wouldn't be solved, but I anticipated a protect on kestrel because he was so valuable. So I didn't bother dumbing it down. And if I had gotten the kill? YIPPEE! 5 kills until fmtiger got me. Out of 30. Big whoop.
Anyway, I'm sorry if I sound annoyed in this post, because I'm not, I'm just trying to display the full picture. I'm already working on more clues that I hope will be more fair, so that on the off-chance I ever get chosen again, I will give people what they want.
