[Fictionary] Re: albondiga results!

[Lawrence Miller]

I'm sorry, I completely forgot to count the best guess points!  And I made
some other errors as well.  In another 15 years when I win again, I will
try to do better!

Larry

On Tuesday, January 3, 2012, J-J Cote <jjcote at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On 1/3/2012 5:57 AM, Ellen Sasse wrote:
>
> Er, shouldn't that be 2 points for Jim?
>
> Actually, it goes deeper than that:
>
> Ranjit got 6 points -- correct.
> Jimmosk got 2 points, not 3 (addition error).
> Eric got 4 points -- correct.
> The real def got 4 points, not 3 (Ellen's vote counted incorrectly).
> Nick got 3 points -- correct.
> Jean-Joseph got 6 points, not 4 (forgot to count points for correct guess)
> Linda got 0 points -- correct.
> Hutch got 0 points -- correct.
> David got 4 points -- correct.
> Pierre got 0 points -- correct.
> and Ellen gets 2 points for guessing correctly, though she didn't submit
a definition.
>
> So that means that I'm tied with Ranjit for first, but I'll defer to him,
because I suspect that my correct guess was influenced by the three years
of Spanish that I took in high school back in the 1970s.
>
> Jean-Joseph
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 1/2/12, Lawrence Miller <ajacs1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (...)
> albondiga, n. A ritual exchange of gifts between the elders of warring
Bedouin tribes.
>  - 0 points from Ellen: "If they're warring, why are they exchanging
gifts? ('Tis the season, I suppose, for fictioneers to have gifts on their
minds)"
>  - 1 point from Nick: "This doesn't sound like what little Touareg etc.
that I've heard, but I'll give it 1 point for not being of Spanish origin."
>  - 1 point from Pierre.
>  3 points for Jimmosk
> (...)
>
>
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