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19 October 2011

Bored? Try this It will kill a few minutes. My highest score is 2400 so far.

post by: mygothlaundry at: 18:19 | 19 comments

Now I'm at 3500. Go, me.

posted by mygothlaundry 19 October | 18:27

3950! Though I am not sure my knowing that Brendan Fraser starred in "The Mummy" really is an indicator of high IQ.

posted by fancyoats 19 October | 18:47

Ugh. Next round was 1450.

posted by fancyoats 19 October | 18:51

I have determined that I am no good at country capitals or at international politics. I am awesome at pattern recognition, vocab and multiplying three numbers.

posted by fancyoats 19 October | 18:55

5250. I got the same question twice, and I died on hangman.

posted by heatherann 19 October | 18:57

"You [ME!] have finished all five levels of CHOKE. Final score: 11600"

First try. Got down to one life twice, got lots of time bonuses for fast answers. Wasted over 20 minutes, but some of that was spent waiting on hold.

The only categories that gave me any trouble were FindAWord, Crossword and Hangman. They had one error in a history question, setting the year for the Olympic Massacre as 1975 instead of 1976 (but the other choices were in other decades, so I got it anyway).

posted by oneswellfoop 19 October | 18:58

ARgh! 9250. What felled me were the damn word searches. There was no way I could parse the word search fast enough!

posted by Miko 19 October | 19:12

Last time I'm ever recommending a trivia game to the bunnies. I still can't get higher than 3500.

posted by mygothlaundry 19 October | 20:00

10900. Stupid hangmen.

posted by punchtothehead 19 October | 20:10

4500. It would have been more but I typo'ed "polytheism"

posted by BoringPostcards 19 October | 20:26

BEEF I was going for a higher score and was presented with the crossword challenge:

"Stationary, staying in one place:

S _ A _ _ _

And it didn't accept "Stable!"

posted by Miko 19 October | 20:51

Fourth time through, I hit an even 13,000. I kept losing on the word searches because I couldn't figure out how they wanted me to input the answer. Finally figured that out.

Seems like you can score higher by missing one each round? Maybe.

I like it though. Thanks, MGL.

posted by ufez 19 October | 21:00

OK I finally got to 6550 on my 5th or 6th try. Phew. Maybe I is not so dumb.

posted by mygothlaundry 19 October | 21:16

8650. Hangman kills me.

posted by gaspode 19 October | 21:35

More beef with the crossword. "Courteous and respectful" isn't parallel with "deference," but "deferential."

posted by Miko 19 October | 21:47

Beat it first time through. Only got one wrong, due to an oversensitive touchpad. 15950.

posted by Eideteker 19 October | 22:49

I went back to the game and instead of a new game, it put me on level 6 with my 11,600 to add to. The one difference: you don't get an extra 'life' when you finish each level, so I only made it as far as Level 8 and 17,450.

And yes, Miko, I notice they get the part-of-speech (noun vs. adjective) wrong on some of the crossword challenges. What good is a quiz that gets the answers wrong?

posted by oneswellfoop 20 October | 03:08

Mahi mahi is NOT dolphin. It may be known as the dolphinfish, but it is certainly not dolphin!

posted by youngergirl44 20 October | 12:01

I beat it the first time through, too, but I did notice my heart rate increasing with the crosswords, hangman, and word searches vs. the straight trivia.

posted by rainbaby 20 October | 19:46

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