Confirming my intention to play along.
Now give me a little while to read everything!
Pretty happy to be back, by the way.
Fockyeah!
I'll never not love TAC and King poking fun at each other in every roulette they're in
It's not a roulette without Cousy & Heinsohn.
Good morning bedlam!
You have fine tuned your engines and picked the right tire mixes; you've spent the week studying the track's features, searching for its patches of optimal grip, conjuring ideal corner lines. You are clever, prepared, and roulette-hardened professionals, but then the business goes Bizarro on your buttocks, and this time Bizarro solving is a race inside the race. So, please let me give you a bit of Bizarro solving tutorial in order to avoid a huge car wreck before the race even starts.
Welcome to the first
Michael Hutchence Memorial Competitive Bizarro Hangman Tutorial:I promised 1 extra Overtake Point for every item solved in Bizarro Hangman. Let's define what a solved item is, for future litigation's sake.
In the next 12 hours you will see a column made of 17 of these:
?: Focked More Miners Than Firedamp - Peter North Was Not A) Let's say LithoJazzoUltron hacks into my data and comes up with:
Iron Maiden. Partially correct, but that is NOT a solved item.
B) Let's say EverXavier reads my mind and comes up with:
Afraid to Shoot Strangers. Partially correct, but that is NOT a solved item.
C) Let's say Thanariich uses his gauntlet and comes up with:
Iron Maiden - Afraid to Shoot Strangers. That IS a solved item.
Once both Scenarios A and B occur, then whoever between LithoJazzoUltron and EverXavier guesses the sender (the "?" in the string) gets the Overtake Point. They have infinite shots at that, they only need to guess in turn. On the other hand, each of the other players have one shot at guessing the sender; they won't get the Point, but will dastardly deprive both the original contenders of their chance at said Point.
When Scenario C occurs, Thanariich is already granted his Point, but he has one shot at doubling it by guessing the sender. The other players' dastardly intervention mentioned above still applies.
Conclusions:
. There are 17 (potentially 34) Extra Overtake Points up for grabs
. Ideally, you may want to guess the whole item
. Practically, you better edge your bets by guessing as many partial items as possible, therefore contending for different items.
. Everytime I mentioned one shot, I meant only one guess, but before an item has definite contenders the guesses are infinite.
. I blatantly ripped Chad off. Apologies and thanks.
Questions?