07-24-2019, 11:18 AM
Yesterday was day 4 of bloom, I think. Had something interesting happen. GF and I went to dinner at a specific restaurant on the beach because they have fish tacos that she likes, and they just happened to have trivia starting as we were finishing up, so we stayed for trivia as a bit of unusual entertainment. Out ream name: Wicked Tuna. Much better than what she was coming up with, lol.
Anyway, we bombed. Got almost every question wrong. And yet, we got the trickiest questions right. On the last question, we somehow had 40 points (I counted 14, myself) and the caller told us he had different rules for points than most callers do, made it more fun. I'll say he had different rules! I thought, this guys, just making shit up.
Then on the last question usually you hear the question and bet a certain number of points on your answer (typically 1 to 20) and then if you're right, you get those points,and if you're wrong you lose them. His rule was, you don't know the question until after you tell me how many points you're betting.
My system is, if you don't absolutely know the answer and are 100% sure it is correct, bet the minimum possible; otherwise, bet everything possible. This system usually makes up for my playing alone vs groups of people who have nothing better to do, so I at least sometimes win. But without knowing the question and with our record that night of getting 4/5ths wrong, I bet 0, the least possible.
The question was, "Excluding Hawaii and Alaska, which two states share no border with any other state in the union?" The answer, of course, is, "If you exclude Alaska and Hawaii, there is no such thing." We got it right. But even with 40 points, we were in last place before the betting started. Our only hope was that people were fooled and bet a lot also.
By the end, it was us and two other teams left. We had 40 points because we had bet zero, and one of the other teams bet everything and got it wrong. The last team bet 10 points, and got it right, bringing their score to 84 points. I thought we had lost. But then, the caller launches into this story about how Wicked Tuna was convinced that they couldn't win, but they bet everything on the last question and scored, so they have 80 points and win 2nd place.
I was laughing my ass off. That man made up so much crap it was ridiculous, and I thought, "He just did that to make us feel good and come back." Then he announced that we had won a $15 gift certificate, but we would have to come back next week and pick it up. As I was heading to the bathroom, he came running out of nowhere and handed me a $15 GC, with someone else's team name scribbled out and ours in place of it.
I was thinking, "Didn't you just say we had to come back next week for this?"
I don't know if that was just because he wanted us to come back or because of the rich people vibe this program seems to create, but it certainly struck me as beyond coincidence and worth mentioning.
Anyway, we bombed. Got almost every question wrong. And yet, we got the trickiest questions right. On the last question, we somehow had 40 points (I counted 14, myself) and the caller told us he had different rules for points than most callers do, made it more fun. I'll say he had different rules! I thought, this guys, just making shit up.
Then on the last question usually you hear the question and bet a certain number of points on your answer (typically 1 to 20) and then if you're right, you get those points,and if you're wrong you lose them. His rule was, you don't know the question until after you tell me how many points you're betting.
My system is, if you don't absolutely know the answer and are 100% sure it is correct, bet the minimum possible; otherwise, bet everything possible. This system usually makes up for my playing alone vs groups of people who have nothing better to do, so I at least sometimes win. But without knowing the question and with our record that night of getting 4/5ths wrong, I bet 0, the least possible.
The question was, "Excluding Hawaii and Alaska, which two states share no border with any other state in the union?" The answer, of course, is, "If you exclude Alaska and Hawaii, there is no such thing." We got it right. But even with 40 points, we were in last place before the betting started. Our only hope was that people were fooled and bet a lot also.
By the end, it was us and two other teams left. We had 40 points because we had bet zero, and one of the other teams bet everything and got it wrong. The last team bet 10 points, and got it right, bringing their score to 84 points. I thought we had lost. But then, the caller launches into this story about how Wicked Tuna was convinced that they couldn't win, but they bet everything on the last question and scored, so they have 80 points and win 2nd place.
I was laughing my ass off. That man made up so much crap it was ridiculous, and I thought, "He just did that to make us feel good and come back." Then he announced that we had won a $15 gift certificate, but we would have to come back next week and pick it up. As I was heading to the bathroom, he came running out of nowhere and handed me a $15 GC, with someone else's team name scribbled out and ours in place of it.
I was thinking, "Didn't you just say we had to come back next week for this?"
I don't know if that was just because he wanted us to come back or because of the rich people vibe this program seems to create, but it certainly struck me as beyond coincidence and worth mentioning.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
