Two Chelsea Mind Games Left in 2009

December 6, 2009

There are only two more Chelsea Mind Games on the calendar for 2009 (or, at all, actually) — after this, you’ll have to find your own forum for intellectually dominating others and/or hitting on smart people.

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  1. duke on December 10th, 2009 5:03 am

    jen–

    thanks for another titillating tourney, please entertain in return some testy prompts.

    opening game–3 kerns in a fontanelle–is not being scored right; elegance, subtlety, and ease are shortshrifted for the trampling of laborious banalities; dan brown pisses on beckett.

    second game–mamagrams–cries for time sensitive scoring: say, under 10 secs a 6, under 20 a 5, usw; and more care to even the playing field, so that a clue with the word ‘corrected’ in it is not given for anagram of ‘incorrigible’.

    cruciform finale game–gadzooks–several problems, beginning with the miking, which several people said garbled into borborygmus when standing up close, certainly true for me, had to guess what you were saying, as i should think you would have noticed; and, too much knowledge is penalized, e.g., identifying ‘annulus’ as part of our blessed anatomy being marked wrong just because it’s not the common tree-hugger definition; and, crippling variance in difficulty, giving some players mostly lobs and others all spitballs, unacceptable for the decisive game.

    hope you find this utile dulce.

    –duke

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