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| 23 FEB 2007 at 11:20pm |
TaioPrivate Detective
Posts : 557
Joined: 3 FEB 2007
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Ragfox (23 FEB 2007 11:00pm)
Originally Posted By Aya (23 FEB 2007 3:45pm)
and ragfox and taio aren't too far behind either...
I'm losing ground... fast! I can smell Taio's and Blount's hounds right behind my back! It's not a comfy situation out here... expecially if you're the fox
I was thinking last week was the worst week for me... I had yet to see THIS week!
I don't think I'll stay in the top10 for long... :cry:
Ragfox don't worry, I only know 2 screenshots by now :-/ I won't be able to reach you this time.
I think I have seen some of them somewhere, but I cannot remember >
Hey! 3 posts! Can I be a Super-Intergalactic Janitor? hahaha
www.youtube.com/user/Taioo
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| 24 FEB 2007 at 4:39am |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4038
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | Phew! You outdid yourself for evilness this past week, Puzzleman! I needed a [s]bottle[/s] glass of wine and a long soak in a hot tub to recover.
I had no trouble with the big backside, but the Grim Fandango pic had me conpletely stumped. Of the hundreds of screenshots I've seen of the game, I never came across that one. The Hollywood Murders is a completely new game for me, but the one that drove me [s]to drink[/s] the most crazy was the Blue Ice shot. I've seen it before but kept thinking it was a detective file with photos and a postcard, so I guessed Noir and The X-Files for it.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 24 FEB 2007 at 4:17pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya (23 FEB 2007 3:45pm)
so, ok, i admit it, week 8 was one of the hardest weeks in tourney history! but it builds character!
Lol, tell me about it! I gave up in frustration after a while! : Otherwise I might have found PQ2 in the end. (Ironically enough, I was about to complain you didn't put enough Sierra games in this tournament : ). Funny, I remember that game as having better graphics. Odd. Never would have gotten Grim Fandango, I don't even recognize the full screenshot! Where in the game is it exactly?
Now week 9, hopefully I can find some good ideas soon because once again I got nada, not even a clue on most of those pics. :-/
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| 2 MAR 2007 at 3:39pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | man what a dull week! at least as far as the top 3 is concerned... superedy, papabrody and lady k guessed the exact same sshots! scoring of course the exact same pts, thus keeping things completely unchanged (but also breaking the pattern of even-odd weeks!)... lady k started with a very impressive bunch of early guesses and i thought at the time that she was going for a sweep... but it never happened...
this week was also marked by shany's mediocre performance, which brought her further away from the top 3, and the really bad performances by ziobeppe, agustin ("english version" doesn't mean american! ) and elfstone, which gave the chance to adrian to get his place in the top 5 and also made things in the bottom top 10 really packed! blount didn't do anything exceptional this week either and stayed at about the same distance away from the top 10, but now there seems to be a new threat rising - nick oikonomakis! with a nice dbl-pter, nick climbed to #12, pushing wimli further down, who, if he's not careful, risks losing further ground by the ever rising mehmet sencer... like adrian just proved though, there's still a long way ahead of us!
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 2 MAR 2007 at 6:16pm |
EvaGuild Master
Posts : 3247
Joined: 5 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | My only goal is to be mentioned once in the weekly reports...
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| 2 MAR 2007 at 8:46pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | everyone who does a full sweep will be headline in the weekly report! how's that for motivation!
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 2 MAR 2007 at 9:14pm |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | I would never have guessed Normality with that screenshot. I was sure it was a much older game, and only thought it was 3D for about one second.
I'm kind of mad for not even looking for Quiet Weekend in Capri. I thought about recent games with photo backgrounds, but I guess I blocked the game from memory.
Not that I would've found that picture anyway...
I also completely forgot about the part from Eye of the Kraken... How can you forget a giant chicken...
It seems like each week is harder than the one before.
And that little jumpy JA+ isn't helping.
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| 2 MAR 2007 at 9:20pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | btw, i just remembered, the tourney would be ending today if it wasn't for those server probs in january!
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 2 MAR 2007 at 11:25pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | I thought briefly about Normality for #8 but decided that the graphics were just too good for that game. I went for a couple of LSL games instead. : Also, I'm embarrassed to say that Shivers 2 never even crossed my radar this week.
You mean we could have been free of this torture if the site hadn't been closed?
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 3 MAR 2007 at 3:22am |
TaioPrivate Detective
Posts : 557
Joined: 3 FEB 2007
Status : Offline | Aya.......what have you done!! :'( AHHHHHHH I dont know any of them!! Now I will go to 37 place :-/
Ragfox don't worry again
Aya are you planning a new contest after we finish Kaos?
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| 3 MAR 2007 at 3:27pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | taio, unfort you missed the golden days of the tourneys, when there was a new one here on the forum every 6 months (each lasting 3 months)... now i am kinda burned out, so the frequency has dropped considerably! actually, if the tourneys hadn't moved to the main page, which was a new challenge for me, they probably would have stopped altogether... so there will be nothing coming up any time soon... i do wanna try out a new idea i have, that can only be implemented on the forum, so there may be a mini-tourney here (3 or 4 weeks) some time around summer... as for a major one, i got a new idea for a very complex scoring method, which is what i will do if there's a new one on ja next year
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 4 MAR 2007 at 4:32am |
SusanGuild Master
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Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya (3 MAR 2007 3:27pm)
as for a major one, i got a new idea for a very complex scoring method, which is what i will do if there's a new one on ja next year
Next year?! This year has barely started.
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 4 MAR 2007 at 6:28pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya (2 MAR 2007 3:38pm)
blount didn't do anything exceptional this week either and stayed at about the same distance away from the top 10, but now there seems to be a new threat rising - nick oikonomakis! with a nice dbl-pter, nick climbed to #12, pushing wimli further down, who, if he's not careful, risks losing further ground by the ever rising mehmet sencer... like adrian just proved though, there's still a long way ahead of us!
Oh, I'm pretty sure that will happen in the coming weeks as the tourney should have changed its name to 'Games Wimli won't recognize' these last few weeks. I made two guesses for week 9 (one correct, one wrong) and gave up afterwards. Looking at the solutions, I don't think I would have found one of the others had I put more time in it. I hope I'll at least have a direction to look for for some pics the following weeks! :
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| 9 MAR 2007 at 3:26pm |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | I knew that was "Secrets of Da Vinci". I even remembered you saw the house at night. But I didn't guess. I also missed Kyrandia 3 and Eric the Unready... bah. And I won't be catching up this week either... :'(
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| 9 MAR 2007 at 3:34pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | oh give me a break, will you? NO correct guesses for journeyman project?? while 11 of you guess father frost?? you ppl are abnormal! (at least someone guessed jp2 and jp3, but i have no idea why they didn't try jp1!)
so superedy shakes off papa this week and stays alone first, thanx to another #10 guess of his (if he wins the tourney, it's mainly because of his #10s!)... lady k and shany lose a little more ground, and now, with 3 weeks remaining, chances are pretty slim for first place (but the battle still rages for 3rd place)... ziobeppe didn't participate this week which resulted to a big dive to tenth place... nick oikonomakis didn't even come close to his last week's performance and allowed wimli to reclaim a higher place... same goes for mehmet sencer, pushing eva and betje one step upwards... and a late new entry this week: shannara
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 9 MAR 2007 at 4:43pm |
| Deleted User | Ten weeks... high time to do some math of my own.
One hundred adventures in the contest so far.
I've played 55 of them.
I recognized 21 games plus one I haven't played.
I joined the contest in week 3, but would have guessed only 3 pics from week 1 and 2.
So my grand total is 24 correct. Out of 55... out of 100...
That is [s]appalling[/s]... let's not be judgmental... I guess amazing is the word I'm looking for. :
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| 9 MAR 2007 at 5:51pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | I would have NEVER guessed The Journeyman Project... and I did play the bloody game (years ago though). I thought that was the room of a kid and hence I was (for some reason) convinced it was a Nancy Drew game
I will aim to enter the Top 5... but the outlook is bad at the moment.
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| 9 MAR 2007 at 5:53pm |
BlountSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 271
Joined: 19 APR 2006
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Betje (9 MAR 2007 4:43pm)
Ten weeks... high time to do some math of my own.
I think you had a great idea, i´ll do the same.
I started on week 5. Out of 50 games from week 5 to 10, I played 38 (76%), but guessed only 28 (56%).
In the previous 4 weeks, I would have recognized instantly about 9 screenshots (I think the one from The Dig was the easiest of the entire tourney), but I didnt play most of the other games.
My aim is to finish in the Top 10, which I think I can still accomplish, week 11 seems easy.
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| 9 MAR 2007 at 7:34pm |
EvaGuild Master
Posts : 3247
Joined: 5 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya (9 MAR 2007 3:34pm)
same goes for mehmet sencer, pushing eva and betje one step upwards... and a late new entry this week: shannara
My goal is achieved... I can now retire in peace...or not...
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| 9 MAR 2007 at 11:18pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | I thought number 2 looked like something from the Journeyman Project games. Never would have guessed that for number 3 though. [smiley=doh.gif]
My own (rather pitiful) stats:
I've played 19 games, and correctly guessed 11 of those. I've correctly guessed 9 games I haven't played.
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| 10 MAR 2007 at 12:35am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Andromus (9 MAR 2007 11:18pm)
I thought number 2 looked like something from the Journeyman Project games. Never would have guessed that for number 3 though. [smiley=doh.gif]
i just noticed that your jp guesses were for pic#2, not 3!!! i was wondering how you could guess jp3 for this kind of gfx, and not jp1... now i know why! (if you had guessed jp1 for #2 i would probably have counted it for #3 :) i can see how one could think #2 was from jp2 though, from the davinci era (davinci everywhere! )
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 10 MAR 2007 at 5:41pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | If it makes you feel any better, Aya, I did have JP 1 written on my paper along with JP 2 and Rex Nebular, but of course I chose to guess Blade Runner and Martian Memorandum. I tried listening to my gut, but I just wish it would talk louder!
So far, I've guessed the 4 games I've played correctly, which leaves 60 correct guesses for games I haven't played.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 11 MAR 2007 at 4:22am |
SusanGuild Master
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Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya (9 MAR 2007 3:34pm)
oh give me a break, will you? NO correct guesses for journeyman project?? while 11 of you guess father frost?? you ppl are abnormal! (at least someone guessed jp2 and jp3, but i have no idea why they didn't try jp1!)
[smiley=rofl.gif]
Somehow I seem to always correctly guess Father Frost even though I've never played it. It has a look to it [which I remember from reading the review] that has yet to be duplicated anywhere else.
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 11 MAR 2007 at 4:15pm |
BlountSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 271
Joined: 19 APR 2006
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Susan, the Office Goddess (11 MAR 2007 4:21am)
Somehow I seem to always correctly guess Father Frost even though I've never played it. It has a look to it [which I remember from reading the review] that has yet to be duplicated anywhere else.
You probably are right, except for "Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Fungoria" & "The adventures of Valdo and Marie", games which I think look very similar.
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