GAME: MindTrap

[Stalemate]

MindTrap
(game ended on 02/22/2005)

It's not what you know... it's how you think

I've been wanting to do something like this for a while,

in honour of one of my favourite board games.

RULES

First person to correctly answer the question I post wins that round. He/she who accumulates the most points in this thread wins. Length of game will be decided arbitrarily. Googling is forbidden. Please use your own brain to resolve these.

Questions will be posted at any time I have available.

Post titles will indicate whether or not a question has been answered correctly and completely (question mark will be replaced by an exclamation point ).

POINTS

• 1 point for the right answer (without correct explanation)
• 1 point for the right explanation (without correct answer)
• 3 points for right explanation of right answer.
• X bonus points under special (even arbitrary) circumstances, such as suggesting a problem or question to me by PM that is eventually used in the game.

PRIZES

I'm open to suggestions. We'll see how it goes from there. Since this game will end at 500 questions, the first 5 players will receive a prize, as per Suggestion 1 below.

Suggestion 1:

Miscellaneous prizes to be distributed by myself. Some may be very slightly used, but all will be geek oriented. See here for a sample.

Suggetion 2:

Having milestone achievers include a line in their signature indicating their impressive intellectual prowess such as: "I got 500 points in adept's MindTrap and you didn't".

Points accumulated per player

49 players

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Deity: 409

3fingersalute: 384

edball: 169

Mindwarp: 121

Ya_Know: 119

RIOT: 93

Machodkis:92

SirGraystone: 90

El_Squid: 84

gazzak: 82

Camaro80z: 64

NooNoo: 63

Matridom: 49
Jaeger: 46

Guntz: 36

Khazad: 31

Damned Angel: 29

notorious_carl: 29

Wayward Clam: 25

Spork: 24

Commander Klarg: 19

Jonesy>|X|<: 15

Kymera: 14

TechZ: 12

Zil: 11

Kineda: 10

Kato2274: 9

OskarTheSmurf: 9

thirdfey: 9

Diver01: 7

Cisco2: 6

geoscomp: 6

meatwad: 6

Atodini: 5

GrandDad: 5

Rejection Man: 5

Cobra X: 4

corturbra: 4

firemonkey: 4

King Grover: 4

Sunshine: 4

inept: 3

pmetal: 3

ClickHere2Surf.com: 2

Confus-ed: 1

DocPC: 1

ebra: 1

Mayet: 1

Snooper2: 1

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