Dux of the Forum: Round 1 – ENGLISH
There are 6 questions in this round.
All answers need to be PM'ed to me by:
3 March 2009
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DOF English - Question 1
Let’s start off easy…. with some homophones. Complete the following scintillating conversational paragraphs using these words: they’re, their, there, too, two, to.

Peter and Jenny live at (1) King St.
(2) house is at the beginning of the street. One morning, Jenny said (3) Peter “Lucy and John from next door went (4) buy a new car yesterday!”
“Where is it?” said Peter.
“Over (5)” replied Jenny. “Do you like (6) new car?”
"It looks great!” said Peter, “Maybe we should buy a new car, (7)!”
“If we could afford (8)” replied Jenny, sadly. “New cars cost way (9) much for our budget. We will have (10) be happy with second-hand ones.”

“Lucy and her sister got (11) hair cut yesterday, (12)”
“I saw that.” Peter said, running his fingers through his own hair. “I think I need a Number (13) on mine.”
“I like (14) new hairstyles” said Jenny.
“Yes, it does suit the shape of (15) faces. (16) is another style that looks a little similar, (17).”
“ Cherie and Louise are not likely (18) have (19) hair styled like that though, as (20) very particular about how they look.
“(21) goes a customer for that hairdresser, then!”
“Yes! (22) not likely (23) see the (24) of them!"
“(25) bad.”

Scoring = 1 point per correctly placed word. (Max = 25)

Answer:

Peter and Jenny live at two King St. Their house is at the beginning of the street. One morning, Jenny said to Peter “Lucy and John from next door went to buy a new car yesterday!”
“Where is it?” said Peter.
“Over there.” replied Jenny. “Do you like their new car?”
“It looks great!” said Peter, “Maybe we should buy a new car, too!”
“If we could afford to.” replied Jenny, sadly. “New cars cost way too much for our budget. We will have to be happy with second-hand ones.”

“Lucy and her sister got their hair cut yesterday, too.”
“I saw that.” Peter said, running his fingers through his own hair. “I think I need a Number Two on mine.”
“I like their new hairstyles” said Jenny.
“Yes, it does suit the shape of their faces. There is another style that looks a little similar, too.”
“ Cherie and Louise are not likely to have their hair styled like that though, as they’re very particular about how they look.”
“There goes a customer for that hairdresser, then!”
“Yes! They’re not likely to see the two of them!
“Too bad.”

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DOF English - Question 2 – iSketchForum WordSearch :razz:

There are 38 forumites hidden in this WordSearch Puzzle. Can you find them all?





Notes:

All non-alpha characters have been removed. – eg if sense/net was there, he would be SENSENET
Forumites with numbers have not been included – ie db1986 is not included as db (sorry :sad: The Word Search Generator couldn't cope with numbers)
Members whose names form part of another name are separate, eg if both Bellicimo and Bell are there, they will be in two different places, so finding Bellicimo does not count as finding Bell as well.
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii163/_Saffron/Dux%20Of%20The%20Forum/WordSearch01.jpg

There are no forumites starting with the letters E, O, Q, R, U, W, X, Y or Z
There is 1 forumite starting with each of the letters A, G, H, I, K, L and V
There are 2 forumites starting with each of the letters F, J, M, P and T
There are 3 forumites starting with each the letter N
There are 4 forumites starting with each of the letters B, C and D
There are 6 forumites starting with the letter S

Edit:
When submitting the names, you can submit with or without the non-alpha characters.
The forumite beginning with A appears more than once. You only need to show one location to get the point.

Scoring = 2 points for each forumite found - ie 1 point for the name and 1 for locating it in the word search - (Max = 76)

Answer:

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii163/_Saffron/Dux%20Of%20The%20Forum/WordSearchAnswer.gif

The forumites intended to be in this were:
1. AJ
2. BELL
3. BELLICIMO
4. BUFFERS
5. BUFFYC
6. CAPTSPARROW
7. CHARLOTTE
8. CHES
9. CHRISUK
10. DANFISH
11. DEADLOCK
12. DEADPAN
13. DEAN
14. FENDER
15. FOX
16. GRACIE
17. HONEYBABY
18. ICHI
19. JIGSAW
20. JOBE
21. KATIELEMON
22. LEVESQUE
23. MARAUDERS
24. MRSNERDINATOR
25. NAY
26. NOHINTS
27. NYNA
28. PETER
29. PLATINIUM
30. POOTSIE
31. SAFFRON
32. SENSENET
33. SHADOWS
34. SKETCHES
35. SPECTRE
36. STORM
37. TASHA
38. TEMPUSFUGIT
39. VIK

I did not require Number 29 (Platinium) as she changed her name after this went up. So did sense/net, but I think by then everyone had done this question, so he can remain (everyone got him anyway ^^) So I needed 38 forumite names and the image to show where they were located in the word-search.

Additional forumites found by various people (unintentionally there) are: b..., jar, Bis, Dot, and Pam. I allowed points for these if the entrant missed a forumite beginning with the same letter as they met the criteria (eg the person who entered 'b' as an answer missed BuffyC, but still gets the 2 points)

I did not allow points for Ayeup as she is not a forumite. Blame the random word-search generator for that one!


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DOF English - Question 3

a) Which word can you add to the words in each group to make other words or compound words?

Example:
stool, hold, note = FOOT (FOOTstool, FOOThold, FOOTnote)

1. lass, let, throat
2. mail, list, board
3. boy, lick, poke
4. go, there, seen
5. stop, wash, water
6. time, rock, post
7. back, short, watch
8. light, hot, check
9. back, ship, work
10. powder, fire, shot
11. hot, strong, arrow

b) What do the following words have in common?

i) subcontinental, , unproprietary, facetious, uncomplimentary, abstemious.
ii) cabbage, deface, baggage, face, bad
iii) mild, cimicid, mix, dim
iv) ingesting, murmur, antiperspirant, entertainment, underground
v) strength, scratch, stretch, clutch
vi) defenseless, disinhibiting, handcraftsman
vii) racecar, madam, eye, refer, pup
viii) short, polysyllabic, sesquipedalian

Scoring =
Part a) 1 point per correct word (please also provide the three new words made)
Part b) 2 points per correct answer
(Max = 27)

Answer 3a:

1. CUT = CUTlass, CUTlet, CUTthroat
2. BLACK = BLACKmail, BLACKlist, BLACKboard
3. COW = COWboy, COWlick, COWpoke
4. FORE = FOREgo, thereFORE, FOREseen
5. BACK = BACKstop, BACKwash, BACKwater
OVER = stopOVER, washOVER, OVERwater
6. BED = BEDtime, BEDrock, BEDpost
7. STOP = backSTOP, shortSTOP, STOPwatch
8. SPOT = SPOTlight, hotSPOT, SPOTcheck
UP = UPlight, hotUP, checkUP
9. SPACE = backSPACE, SPACEship, workSPACE
BOARD = backBOARD, shipBOARD, workBOARD
FIRE = backFIRE, FIREship, FIREwork
YARD = backYARD, shipYARD, YARDwork
10. GUN = GUNpowder, GUNfire, shotGUN
11. HEAD = hotHEAD, HEADstrong, arrowHEAD

Answer 3b:
Each of these was worth 2 points. I have tried to explain parital allocation of points here.

i) subcontinental, , unproprietary, facetious, uncomplimentary, abstemious.
Each word has one occurence of each of the five vowels, in either alphabetical or reverse alphabetical order. To get the full 2 points, you needed to mention all 5 vowels, and something to do with their order.

ii) cabbage, deface, baggage, face, bad
Each of these words can be made using the first 7 letters of the alphabet and can therefore be played on most musical instruments. To get the full 2 points you needed to mention the link to musical instruments

iii) mild, cimicid, mix, dim
Each of these words are made using Roman Numerals. To get the full 2 points you had to mention that link.

iv) ingesting, murmur, antiperspirant, entertainment, underground
Each of these words begin and end with the same three letters. To get the full 2 points you needed to mention the beginning and ending.

v) strength, scratch, stretch, clutch
Each of these words are fairly long monosyllabic words that contain only 1 vowel. Other commonalities found were: they all have a T in them, all end in H, all score between 12-14 points on a scrabble board, are commonly misspelt, used in programming PYTHON, contain a silent letter, all contain the th ch sound, and the last three letters of each word are consonants.
To get the full 2 points, you had to either give me the fact that they were monosyllabic AND had only 1 vowel, or one of these points plus something else. (eg that they had only 1 vowel and all ended in H). 1 point for mentioning only 1 of these things without something else.

vi) defenseless, disinhibiting, handcraftsman
Each word has only one repeating vowel in it. To get the full 2 points, you had to identify this. I was lenient with answers on this due to the way answers were worded.

vii) racecar, madam, eye, refer, pup
Each of these words is a palindrome. To get the full 2 points, you had to use the word palindrome.

viii) short, polysyllabic, sesquipedalian
Each of these words is autonomic/autological - ie they describe themselves. Short is a short word. Polysyllabic has many syllables. Sesquipedalian is a long word. The definitions of the words also are reflected in the number of syllables they have. eg short has a short amount of syllables.....and so on.
To get the full 2 points, you had to mention that they either described themselves, OR mentioned the link between their descriptions and the amount of syllables they had.
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DOF English - Question 4
For this question you need to write a poem.
The poem can take any format – for example (but not limited to) limerick, free verse, couplets, tercets, ballad stanza.
The subject of the poem should be either: iSketch OR iSketchForum.net
Can you please also give me a name for your poem - that is what will go in the poll, with the poem in the thread below.
Each entrant is limited to 2 poems, but there is no word limit per poem. (Don't go silly though, as other forumites might not bother reading something too long :P)

Scoring will be by multi-choice poll and points allocated based on your percentage of votes in the poll.
1st = 10 points
2nd = 9 points
3rd = 8 points
4th = 7 points and so on.
Ties will work as they do in Athletics – eg if two people come first they will each get 10 points, there will be no second place, the next highest score will be third and get 8 points. (Max = 10)

There will also be an Honourable Mention in the Awards thread for the winning poet/s


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DOF English - Question 5 –
Whilst people are working on their poetic masterpieces, I will put up the last two questions for this round - Question 5 has 2 parts.

a) What four letter word can you make the most words from by using the letters within it.

Example:
From the word DIET – you can make 13 words:
DIET, EDIT, TIDE, TIED, TIE, DIE, TED, DIT, TI, ID, IT, DI, I

b) How many English words with a minimum of 4 letters can you make from the letters in the word: ISKETCH?

For both parts
· You need to list all the words you can make.
· Only words found in www.dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com) are allowed (not reference)
· No acronyms or proper nouns are allowed. And definitely no evil etymons
· For part a), you cannot use the word(s) given in the example :P

Scoring =
Part a) 2 points per 4 letter word, plus 1 point for every other word, plus 1 bonus point to the entrant(s) who find(s) the most words. (Max = ???)

Part b) 3 points per 7 letter word, plus 2 points per 6 letter word, plus 1 point for every 4 or 5 letter word, plus 1 bonus point to the entrant(s) who find(s) the most word (Max = ???). Words of less than 4 letters do not gain any points for Part b

Answer 5a:
The word that gained the most points and the most words for this round was EAST:
4 letter words: ates, east, eats, etas, sate, seat, seta, teas
other words: a, ae, as, at, ate, e, eat, es, et, eta, s, sat, sea, set, t, ta, tae, tas, te, tea, ts
I did not accept est as it is an acronym.
This entry is worth 37 points + 1 bonus point for also being the entrant with the most words (29)


Answer 5b:
I must preface this answer by saying I had multiple headaches over marking this! LOL, it really was hard.

From the word ISKETCH, the following 7 letter words can be made:
CHEKIST
I disallowed:
ISKETCH as it is a proper noun, and has no entry in dictionary.com

From the word ISKETCH, the following 6 letter words can be made:
ETHICS, ITCHES, KITSCH, SETHIC, SHTICK, SKEICH, SKETCH
I disallowed:
KITHES – no entry in dictionary.com (eg chi shows chis as plural, but kithe does not show kithes as plural)
THICKS– no entry in dictionary.com
only one of SHTICK/SCHTIK/SHTIK as it is the same word – whichever gave the most points was given, any others disallowed
only one of SCHEIK/SHEIK was given as it is the same word – whichever gave the most points was given, any others disallowed

From the word ISKETCH, the following 5 letter words can be made:
CESTI, CHEST, CHITS, CITES, ECHIS, ETHIC, HEIST, HICKS, HIKES, KETCH, KITES, KITHE, SHEIK, S.HITE, SITHE, SKITE, STECH, STEIK, STICH, STICK, STIES, THICK, TICKS, TIKES
I disallowed:
CHEKI– no word found
CHETS– no word found
ECHTS– no word found
HECKS– no entry in dictionary.com
HETHS– no plural for heth in the dictionary.com
ICHES– not in dicitionary.com (in reference/thesaurus)
KEITH– Proper noun
KHETS– no entry in dictionary.com
KITCH– abbreviation for kitchen
KITHS– no word found
SHICE– no word found
SHTIK– if they had schtik or shtick – same word
SIKET– no word found
SITCH– no word found
SKICE– no word found
STIKE – if stich was used as well as it is the same word
TECHS– no entry in dictionary.com
TICES– no entry in dicitionary.com. tice does not show that tices is the plural

From the word ISKETCH, the following 4 letter words can be made:
CEST, CETI, CHIS, CHIT, CIST, CITE, ECHT, ETCH, ETIC, HECK, HEST, HICK, HIES, HIKE, HIST, HITS, ICES, ICHS, ITCH, KEST, KETS, KISH, KIST, KITE, KITH, KITS, SECK, SECT, SHET, S.HIT, SICE, SICH, SICK, SIKE, SIKH, SITE, SITH, SKIT, TECH, THIS, TICE, TICK, TICS, TIES, TIKE, TSHI
I disallowed:
CHET– short for Chester, a proper noun
CISE– no word found
CITS– no word found
ESTH– short for Esther – proper noun
ETHS– only eth is shown in dictionary.com without a plural
HETS– no word found
ICSH– no word found
IKES– no word found
KHET– no word found
KHIS– only showed khi as the 22nd letter, but did not mention plural is khis
KIST– was disallowed if you gave cist as same word, different spelling
KTCH– short for kitchen
SCET– acronym – spacecraft event time
SECH– (sec)ant + (h)yperbolic – acronym
SEIK– no word found
SEIT– no word found
SETH– proper noun
SHIK– no word found
S.HIT– only disallowed if they had S.HITE as well
TCHE– no word found
TCHI– no word found
TCSH– acronym – Unix C shell
TECK– no word found
THES– acronym



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DOF English - Question 6
This is the final question in the English round.

a) Identify the following famous novels:
1) Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy struggle to overcome major character flaws in this 1868 novel representing family relationships. “Little Women – Louisa May Alcott”
2) This 1988 novel was at the centre of violent protests and resulted in the author receiving death threats. “Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie”
3) A world champion prizefighter tries to woo a wealthy aristocrat without revealing his illegal profession in this 1882 novel. “Cashel Byron’s Profession” – George Bernard Shaw
4) “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” “Rebecca” - Daphne Du Maurier
5) This novel begins with a white rabbit carrying a watch, lamenting being late and tells the story of a girl in a fantasy world populated by peculiar creatures. “Alice’s Adventrues in Wonderland “ - Lewis Carrol
6) This episodic quest, with the prose interspersed with songs and poetry, has a title derived from a word meaning “hole-dwellers”. “The Hobbit” J R R Tolkien
7) In this novel, the author explores the effect of the Civil War and its aftermath on the old order of the South through the experiences of a rebellious Southern belle. . “Gone with the Wind” – Margaret Mitchell
8) Narrated by a six year old child, this novel sees a reclusive neighbour come to the rescue of the children when a white man takes revenge on them because of their father’s representation of a ‘colored’ man against his daughter in Court. “To Kill a Mockingbird” – Harper Lee
9) Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy slip through a magical wardrobe in the professor’s house, discovered whilst they are playing Hide-and-Seek. “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” – C S Lewis
10) “Call me Ishmael” “Moby Dick” – Herman Melville


b) Identify the following nursery rhymes. (Note, these origins are ones I found on the Internet, I make no claim to their veracity) :P You do not need to give me the nursery rhyme in its entirety – just a name to identify it.

1) In the Middle Ages, the King imposed a tax on wool, of which one third went to the local lord, one third to the church, and the other third to the farmer.
Baa Baa Black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes, Sir, yes, Sir - three bags full.
One for hte master, and one for the dame,
And one for the little boy who loves down the lane

2) A powerful cannon used during the English Civil War that was mounted on the top of St Marys at the Wall Church to defend the city against siege. It fell off the wall and could not be mended.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses and all the King's men
couldn't put Humpty together again.

3) During the Great Plague, people placed little bundles of herbs in their pockets to ward off the Plague. The Plague caused a rosy rash, and sneezing which accompanied the fatal moment when sufferers would fall down dead.
Ring a ring of rosies, a pocket full of posies, Atishoo, Atishoo - we all fall down

4) Apparently, in England, a person who can jump over a lit candle without the flame blowing out is considered to be going to have good luck over the next year.
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick

5) It was ancient custom to throw a shoe after a bride when she left on her honeymoon as a blessing of fertility on the union.
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth, without any bread
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed


Scoring =
Part a) 2 points each – one for the name of the novel and one for the author.
Part b) 1 point for each correctly identified nursery rhyme.
(Max = 25)

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This is the end of the English Round. There are 6 questions. You need to PM the answers to all 6 questions (or to those parts you wish to enter) to me by:

3 March 2009
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If you are competing in the entire round, you need to submit/or have submitted the following:

1. Up to 25 words for Question 1
2. A picture of the Word Find showing where up to 38 forumites are hidden, as well as a list of the forumites names you have found.
3. Up to 11 words for Question 3a) – showing how each word joins with the given words (ie: FOOTstool, FOOThold, FOOTnote). Plus up to 8 descriptions for 3b) explaining what each set of words has in common
4. A minimum of 1 poem, or a maximum of 2 poems for Question 4
5. Two lists of words for Question 5.
6. The names of up to 10 novels and their authors, and up to 5 nursery rhymes for Question 6

Using your bonus points:

You should also tell me by the due datewhether or not you wish to use some or all of your bonus points for this round.

The total maximum score from the questions for this round is undeterminable due to Question 5. However, the most points I can get for Q5a is 23 and 5b is 58 so if you use this as a baseline, the maximum possible score overall (including the possible 35 bonus points) is at least 279.

Bonus points available this round are:
25 - these are the original 25 points you get when you answer your first question
10 - for submitting attempts to all 6 English questions before the due date/time. NB: If someone sends a revision to one of their answers, they will lose their bonus points.

Good Luck Everyone :razz:

TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS - AS AT CLOSING DATE.
Question 1 - 25
Question 2 - 76
Question 3a - 11
Question 3b - 16
Question 4 - 20 (10 for entering + 10 for winning)
Question 5a - 38 (37 word points + 1 bonus for finding the most words)
Question 5b - 75 (74 word points + 1 bonus for finding the most words)
Question 6a - 20
Question 6b - 5
Scissors-Paper-Rock - 22 (min 10 for entering, and the winner went through 6 rounds before being eliminated)
Use of possible available bonus - 35

Maximum possible score using all available bonus points - 343

This will be converted to a percentage - your score/343*100 - and will be maintained to two decimal places....

OooOooOooOoo...? 23 Jan, 2009?!?!? This is gonna be FUNNNNNNN! Can't waittt for the Maths Round... and I don't wanna see the Art Round... :razz:

Yep. The answers to all 6 questions for this round need to be in by 23 January 2009. You can send them in as soon as you have answered it, or wait until the due date. The next 5 questions will be up periodically over the next week or so, giving you plenty of time to work out the answers.

And remember, you get 25 Bonus Points when you enter your first answer - you can use these points at any time throughout the competition.
And yes, I will be quite disappointed if you don't enter AT LEAST the Maths round!!

LOL... Me NOT enter the Maths Round? Is that even possible as long as I'm healthy and alive (or even when I'm dead :razz:)? Even if I were on the hospital bed (GOD FORBID! I HATE (and am dead scared of) HOSPITALS AND INJECTIONS AND DOCTORS AND OPERATIONS AND...), I'd probably ask someone (But WHO?) to send in my entry... lol

Oh, I thought 23 Jan is the last date for this QUESTION only... lolz... And I was wondering why...

Oh, I thought 23 Jan is the last date for this QUESTION only... lolz... And I was wondering why...
LOL!! Cos your so excitable, you didn't read it properly. You just thought "oOOOoOoOOOoOOo ....a competition....and some of it involves MATHS......OoOoOoooOOOO" :razz::twisted:

LOL... YEAH! How did you knowwww? :embarrassed::embarrassed:

Anyway, here's wishing you a verrryyy happpyyyy, mathematically adventurous and a successsfullllll new year!

This reminds me of those English lessons at school :P

Yeh :embarrassed:
English is the first round I came up with, I got more creative the further along the comp I went.
But hopefully, Question 2 (http://www.isketchforum.net/showpost.php?p=156098&postcount=1) is less lesson-like :rolleyes:

There are no forumites starting with the letters E, Q, R, U, W, X, Y or Z
There is 1 forumite starting with each of the letters A, G, H, I, K, L and V
There are 2 forumites starting with each of the letters F, J, M, T
There are 3 forumites starting with each the letters N and P
There are 4 forumites starting with each of the letters B, C and D
There are 6 forumites starting with the letter S


No forumites starting with the letter O either, I gather?! :twisted:

Gosh I should employ a proofreader........you would be correct :P

yay, the crossword was definitely lots of fun! only the part where i had to find the last 2 forumites names starting with S... -_- everything was circled, it was so messy, so it took me ages to get those final 2 names. hmm...

For the names of the forumites, you're not bothered about what form they come in.. uhh i.e. Hmm.. (using your example) if you'd put Sense/net in, would you want us to pm sensenet (As it would appear in the wordsearch), or sense/net or either?

Urgh.... I have two left to find!! This is driving me insane - lol :razz:

You saying you still had your sanity before this? Pfft. Yeah right. :razz:

I might enter this. Nice idea, Saffypoos :D

Oh wow, I love the wordsearch idea :biggrin:

excuse me. one question please. why does jenny have to be the name?

oh also XD more serious question :P for the word search, how do we show that we found the names?

...for the word search, how do we show that we found the names?

Probably the best way is to copy the wordsearch picture, circle the names using an image editing program, and then submit it.

For the names of the forumites, you're not bothered about what form they come in.. uhh i.e. Hmm.. (using your example) if you'd put Sense/net in, would you want us to pm sensenet (As it would appear in the wordsearch), or sense/net or either?
No that's fine, you can give me their name with or without the non-alpha characters.

excuse me. one question please. why does jenny have to be the name?
eep. I don't understand this question :sad: ...there isn't a forum member called Jenny. Or did I call something else Jenny? I'm confused.
But to answer your second question - Deebs' idea is probably the best, you can just send me a link to your edited image.

And.....
One forumite's name appears 5 times. You only need to show one location to get the point.

lol saff XD its just people call me jenny sometimes ;) i wanted to know why my name was in it XD dont worry bout it XD not a serious question :P

lol, no bonus points for getting the name 5 times? :D

Hmm, well....that would have been one of the things I would have given bonus points for in the original scoring system ;) but I'm doing it differently now. Consider them pre-bonussed :P

I like it so far, can't wait for Question 3 :)

* db1986 sits on the other side of the competition fence

/me looks for the competition fence db is talking bout.....

i dont get it. btw. are these questions coming up daily? how long will we have after the sixth question comes out? XD

I was referring to not being the organiser of the comp, so I have no idea what's coming next :S :P

It's actually easier for me if you send them along as you finish them, that way I don't have a heap of checking to do all at once.

I didn't want to place unnecessary time limitations at this time of year, or have people who are on holidays miss out on part of the round if they came back part way through to find some of it already closed.

This looks fantastic! :smile: Thanks for organising it Saff!

About the wordsearch, can we edit it in Paint and then link it to you through Photobucket or something or is there another way?

Your welcome Capt.
And as for sentence Number Two: People can send me their entry in whatever way gets it to me. They're welcome to use a link to photbucket etc, or if there is another way, they're welcome to use that,too :embarrassed:

That's what I have found easiest to do too. There are multiple ways for entrants to submit their entries. :smile:
Damn, I forgot how much waiting one has to do...

(sorry :sad: The Word Search Generator couldn't cope with numbers)

It's OK. It's still fun all the same :D

haha this looks fun:). I'm in. hopefully this gets a good turn out. thanks for organising another tournament saff. when are the other 4 question coming in?

They'll be spaced out over the next few weeks, there's lots going on with the Daily Quiz, Weekly Quiz, Weekly Maths Quiz, and so much activity in the Games section - I guess people might need *some* time for eating and sleeping and such ^^

We don't need time for foood and sleep :O Sleep is for the uhh.. me.. actually. I should sleeep. xD And yeah it is kinda true ;) I've been letting myself get distracted from real life by all these quizzes etc... :P It's good they're spaced out.. although I think as long as the last one isn't too close to the deadline it'll be fine :)

Lets hope that we're not the ones who are spaced out :P

Your welcome Capt.

Hmm.. maybe you should base question 3 on the two words your and you're? :razz:

/me snickers and runs off laughing! :razz:

HAHA OMG :embarrassed:
Maybe I should get Miss 10 to check the answers to the first Question........
Ah well - I guess my ideas are alright, there's just something lost in the execution ^^

ROFLMAO! :biggrin::razz:

hehe XD oh lovely :P

/me twirls around

btwwww. for the word search...neh. if we found other forum peoples....what should we do? XD

You found more people?

* db1986 looks more closely for secret things

Other forum people.....:eek:
Hmm, how can a program that is supposed to generate random letters make more names? :rolleyes: There aren't any extra points to give other than the ones I said, but I'd be really interested to see what other names are in there. :razz:

And whoa, Deebs - how did you do that? You sent me a message on my Profile and when I clicked it it opened as a PM. I swear that's how it happened!

It's actually easier for me if you send them along as you finish them, that way I don't have a heap of checking to do all at once.

Ah OK, I'll send mine now, as you're online.

Question 3 (http://www.isketchforum.net/showpost.php?p=156098&postcount=1)is now up
:razz:

O gawddd, that's... hard -_-

Wow You must put a lot of thought into your competitions Saffron :)
It's going to be a hard one question 3.. I can't wait for the other questions either.. although I still haven't finished question two.. I got lazy. xD

Actually, I had heaps of help with this one - Mr Saff got invoved with some rounds, and the mini-Saffs all had a hand in suggesting ideas, and helping to look for various things. It's been fun ^^

And whoa, Deebs - how did you do that? You sent me a message on my Profile and when I clicked it it opened as a PM. I swear that's how it happened!

Um, idk. I sent it as a PM...
On second thoughts... when you get a PM, it comes up under the list of subscribed threads as well as a PM. Maybe that's what you saw?

Saff, for question 3, does the new word have to come at the beginning, the end, or can it be either of those two? In your example, the new word comes before all the starting words.
e.g. Year, Case, Mark.
YearBOOK, BOOKcase, BOOKmark?

You need to add the same word to each of the words in each group to make three new words/three compound words. The example I gave is one example of doing this. ;)

After solving a few, I now understand it, thanks Saff :)

and OMG part B... so much thought went into that :o

* db1986 trundles off to work out some more

I just wanted to say I love Question 3. I like the kind of questions that make you think about things in a different way ^_^

I thought I liked English. I feel dumb.

I can't even do the wordsearch, let alone most of Q3 part B! lol

But your award ches.. You're well clever init :P So you should be able to do this ;)

Poor Ches :P Use the brain that you've applauded yourself with ;)

Haha... touché! Reckon I'll take those awards away now.

edit: That's better. Don't want to show off my awesome intellect too much :P

Lol okay Ches, if you say so :P

Right. I'm going to pm answers to question 1 and 2 if photobucket decides to like me... xD Eh. xD I'm hoping the way I marked the wordsearch is ok... less effort than circling :P

Now to start work on question 3.. xD It's quite a hard one. :P I have one word so far... :P

I found part one easy enough... the wordsearch.. well - I still have two to find :S and as for Part three.... Saffron... I think you are horrible :twisted: There are another three parts to it as well *gulp*

Question 3 definitely takes a lot of thinking...

Oh wow, I love those questions like in Q3, they remind me of Fort Boyard. :D hehe. I hope that they were actually in that and that this isn't just a false memory...

LOL I THOUGHT OF THAT TOO O_O
It's like the clue word :O to get the treasure xDDD And also the lighthouse guy he gave riddles.. and like.. :D heh heh.

/me sends Fox in to fight the tigers.

You know that the lighthouse guy was Tom Baker, Sorsie? :o :o Did you also know that when he, wherein "he" is Tom Baker, finished school he went to become a monk for five years or something. :D hehe

/me slaps a growling tiger on the nose. "Shush."

haha XD i actually can picture foxy doing that :P
/me goes to copy and paste round 3 -_-
english...is not my fav.

Other forum people.....:eek:
Hmm, how can a program that is supposed to generate random letters make more names?

randomly. :twisted:

tskk. but i FOUND some others.....well, one other...i think. havent checked for more ....

"li'l Jen" is in there, that you?:twisted:

lil jen? XD i dont recall seeing that

It has to make a whole new word, right? Not, say, two words just that are often used together. I don't want to give an example in case you can do this.. hope that makes sense!!?

Send me an example by PM if you like.

lil jen? XD i dont recall seeing that

6th row from bottom, roughly in middle.

haha XD lovely :P
/me twirls around

:D i wish it was me ;)

I have removed Q 3a 8 from the comp.
This question was:

3a) Which word can you add to the words in each group to make other words or compound words?
8) big, soil, table.
My answer was ''TOP" but it has been pointed out by a few people that BIGTOP is not actually a word, nor a compound word, so Ima just take it out and make that part out of 11 instead of 12. :razz:

Also, some of these (as it turns out) have more than one answer. I will accept any word that makes three new or compound words, not just the one I had intended.

Carry on
:razz:

Yayyy that's one less q to find the answer to!! Lol
Still plenty more to find though O__O

/me trundles off to unsuccessfully try again

Oh.
Yeh, I was going to say, as well:
If you have completed earlier questions, please feel free to send them in prior to 23 January, so I'm not spending 2 days straight checking WordSearch puzzles. I don't think my eyes have recovered fully from looking at TreasureBows yet.
Thanks
:biggrin:

Ooo yes I did mean to send you my answers to q's 1 and 2
I'll do that now :)
I need a little longer on q 3... *cough* maybe forever XP

LOL Meds :P
Maybe you can leave Q3 for your subconscious mind to work out and start on Question 4......... (http://www.isketchforum.net/showpost.php?p=156098&postcount=1)

Omg omg omg omg question 4.. O__O *dies*
And a poll?!! That means my awfulness will be up for EVERYONE to see and laugh and mock!
Please tell me my piece of pathetic tripe will forever remain annonymous even after it's been judged...

I love isketch
I love it a lot
Its fun.....
And what-not.

Beat that and you're in with a chance...... ;)

damn i have no chanceXD

Is there a word limit for the poem? If not, maybe there should be...?

Edit: Can we submit as many poems as we want? :biggrin:

There is no word limit. It takes as many words as it takes to create a poem ;)

And yes, you can submit more than one. In this case, your highest scoring poem will give you points, the others will be taken out in order to determine other people's points.

(ie if two of your poems get respectively 1st and 2nd in votes, then you will get 1st, and the person who gets the 3rd amount of votes overall will be deemed 2nd)

Gosh TWO poems?? I'm struggling to do one..

I love isketch
I love it a lot
Its fun.....
And what-not.

Beat that and you're in with a chance...... ;)

I can't beat that.. but I can match it exactly!
*steals poem and submits :twisted:*

And I think there should be a word limit.. perhaps 3 words? XP

These questions are piling up! Ahhhh I need to start them soon. Will there be any more Q's Saff?

Yep 2 more for English :P - 6 all up. Though 5 and 6 shouldn't be too time-consuming.
All due by 23 Jan
Chop chop ;)

I'm glad I made that poem in the Rhyme Time thread. That means I can use this (http://www.isketchforum.net/showpost.php?p=150335&postcount=16)

And it's copyrighted so no-one steals it :P

This is just getting more and more insane... That's why I don't really like English. Wait till Q5 turns out to be an essay... or a commentary-writing exercise on Shakespeare. :eek:

This is just getting more and more insane... That's why I don't really like English. Wait till Q5 turns out to be an essay... or a commentary-writing exercise on Shakespeare. :eek:

I'd prefer it was an essay to poetry.. *shudders*
I'm not bad at English.. Well I wasn't... till now >.< Lol

This is just getting more and more insane... That's why I don't really like English.

Nah, it's not that bad Maths. Like Saff said, most of the answers can't be googled which makes it a little more interesting. I say most, but not all :razz:

Wait till Q5 turns out to be an essay... or a commentary-writing exercise on Shakespeare. :eek:

I don't think it will be that bad, Saffy has to think about herself when she's marking them. It would take her an age to mark at least 10 of those.

I think it's great Saffy, and I can't wait to see what you have in store next :smile:

Ahhh an essay would be fun(ny) but I'd never be able to finish it in time :(

This is great :P I've just spend the last few hours and am pretty happy with questions 1-3.

ahhh a poem? :( i cant do them, i dont even know if im gunna have time to finish first three

I know Mr. Melaschi. English is not my forte!!! :cry::cry: Maths Round... come in nice and hard!!!

But then yeah... Questions have to be challenging and must cover all aspects of English if we want an outright English Dux...

/me runs in circles
a POEMMMMMMMMM?
:(
/me sits in the corner and cries :(

ah XD hm. can i use an old poem of mine and just like edit it to relate to isk? :D

I sat at a blank screen staring at nothing for a while.
But once I started it off, I began to fill up that file.
It was early in the morning before sunrise =(
If it doesn't win it will be no surprise ^_^
What I mean is that you should try
It should be fun, and make you laugh! Not cry...
We will all have a good time
Reading what others have used to rhyme.

/me hugs jenni


EDIT: P.S. this is not my submission lol :D

lol tgfcoderrr :P think u're supposed to pm that to saff ;) not post it hereee XD unless that's just u writing one :P
/me hugs tgfcoder :D:D:D:D

i'll do 2 poems:) (as i'm happy with the my answers for the first 3)

Yes I've already PM'ed my 4 questions haha
/me huggles! :D:D:D:D

Lolol I might nick your poem tgf :P lolol and adapt it ;)

Nah I'm just kidding. I have no idea how I'm going to write a poem. I only ever write poetry when I'm inspired, and that poetry is usually only ever about love.. somewhere.. Hmm..

Actually I have a few ideas forming.. I think I will mull this over for a while.. :P Leave it to form in the brain :)

Lolol I might nick your poem tgf :P lolol and adapt it ;)

Sorsie sat at a blank screen staring at nothing for a while.
But once Sorsie started it off, Sorsie began to fill up that file.
It was early in the morning before sunrise =(
If it doesn't win it will be no surprise ^_^
What Sorsie means is that you should try
It should be fun, and make you laugh! Not cry...
We will all have a good time
Reading what others have used to rhyme.
By Sorsie

:eek:

tsk, how do u manage to write poems like that tgf -_- crazy. people. that. can. actually. write. poems. in. less. than. 10. hours. :P

However I did it, I didn't not use http://rhymezone.com/

DISCLAIMER: The author of this text does not encourage nor condone the use of a rhyming dictionary as a substitute for poetic skill

Sorsie sat at a blank screen staring at nothing for a while.
But once Sorsie started it off, Sorsie began to fill up that file.
It was early in the morning before sunrise =(
If it doesn't win it will be no surprise ^_^
What Sorsie means is that you should try
It should be fun, and make you laugh! Not cry...
We will all have a good time
Reading what others have used to rhyme.
By Sorsie

:eek:
Lol I was thinking more..
Sorsie sat at a screen staring at iSketch for a while.
Sorsie saw the drawing, and it inspired her to fill up that file.
It was early in the morning before sunrise =(
She guessed the word, it was no surprise ^_^
What Sorsie means is that she likes to try
ISketch is fun, and makes her laugh! Not cry...
We will all have a good time
Reading this adaptation of tgfs rhyme.

Haha. You don't like my adaptation style? I call it la finda et réplace

ay.....dont tell me. its another sparrowhead with a diff name that knows anything and everything -_- making us all feel dumb.

(Psst la finda et replace = find and replace!)
(Also this is getting very off-topic!)

righttttttttttttttttt
/me goes off to figure out a topic for the poem....

Lolol. Isn't the topic iSketch? :P

I'm actually gonna do this sounds like fun. Time consuming and brain boggling but fun :razz:
God help my terrible poetic skills :eek:

tsk, i meant topiccccccccccc about isk? drawing in isk? studio? being bored? forum? so many topics to choose frommmm

Questions 5 and 6 are not too time consuming. And I think you can google most of 6.....I tried not to include too much stuff that was googleable else it would just become a "who could search quickest" competition.

I forgot to ask people to give me a name for their Poem for Q4 when they submit please. When I put the poll up, I will just put the name of the Poem in the poll bit, and then the poem will be in the thread below. Thanks :razz:

Saffy, you have two rep square thingies :o

WOAAH :O Wow. :D Well done saff :)

Uhh and yes... uhh.. iSketch poem.. hard.. :P Dof.. good :D

Saffy, you have two rep square thingies :o
:O I got one for my spelling I think - seeing how I never typo.......
Edit: Just checked UserCP and it says 110 points - I didn't notice when the second square came up, I wonder if it was at 100....

Saffy, you have two rep square thingies :o
Eh??

Oh!! What do those thingies actually mean?

This (http://www.isketchforum.net/showpost.php?p=90779&postcount=19) post might explain :)

Ohh! I read that post ages ago and couldn't make head nor tail of it :s I see the meaning now, they should be ranges right?
e.g. 10 - 49: User is on a distinguished road

Double-posting but this is important! What if we find more forumites which begin with a certain letter than you've said are in the wordsearch. I've found 5 beginning with D but you said there should be 4. Also, what if we find a forumite which isn't on your list to make up the number of forumites beginning with that letter?

lol, asked the first question already ;) she was shocked i found one XD

Ohh! I read that post ages ago and couldn't make head nor tail of it :s I see the meaning now, they should be ranges right?
e.g. 10 - 49: User is on a distinguished road

Yep, they are ranges but the post just shows the default minimum for each category.

This forum doesn't seem to use the defaults though (or doooooooooooooooooes it???????) - I wasn't upped until 60.

That's strange because I have 59 and I "will become famous soon enough".

Back on topic: Is there an absolute maximum number of poems we can submit?

Whew! Finally done the wordsearch, with 3 extra forumites :o No bonus points? :(

Aw, I secretly suspected it was just me :P

How peculiar.

If there's no maximum, I'll just employ some monkeys with typewriters.

/me did win a poetry competition in his youth though ;)

If there's no maximum, I'll just employ some monkeys with typewriters.
Travelling at near to the speed of light in order to meet the deadline? :biggrin:

Double-posting but this is important! What if we find more forumites which begin with a certain letter than you've said are in the wordsearch. I've found 5 beginning with D but you said there should be 4. Also, what if we find a forumite which isn't on your list to make up the number of forumites beginning with that letter?

If you give me the names of 39 forumites and their locations, I will give you the full points for the question. Remember though, no forumites with numbers have been included - and the forumite's full name is required (minus any non-alpha characters if relevant)

And I think I'm going to have to limit the number of poems to 2 per entrant.
Who knows, we may find that polls do have a limit to the number of options!

Questions 5 and 6 are not too time consuming. And I think you can google most of 6.....


Yes yes yessss muahaha :twisted:
No more of this "thinking" stuff kthx

haha oh no you wouldn't want to have to THINK in a competition like this now would you?:P

Maybe I ought to make another poem instead of mine then. Everyone will know it's mine. It was a good poem as well :(

And I think I'm going to have to limit the number of poems to 2 per entrant.


Argh... poo. Wish I'd read this an hour ago.

lol ouch. Which ones to choose....
Edit: Definitely keep number 2

Ohh! I read that post ages ago and couldn't make head nor tail of it :s I see the meaning now, they should be ranges right?
e.g. 10 - 49: User is on a distinguished road

Yep, they are ranges but the post just shows the default minimum for each category.

This forum doesn't seem to use the defaults though (or doooooooooooooooooes it???????) - I wasn't upped until 60.

That's strange because I have 59 and I "will become famous soon enough". ...


As far as I recall, Saff got the 'will become famous soon enough' when her's was '30 thanks received'. But not everyone's changed at 30, so I don't think it's the actual number of times you've been thanked/number displayed in public.

---

I've not finished annyyy of my qs and I've done, like, 2 lines of the poem, o_0

i'm out... sorry. studies are more important(have to study for year-end important exam) and seeing that i cant possible do all that i think i give up. :(

year-end? It's like......7 January....
Feel free to join in bits here and there though char, even if you don't have time for the whole thing......some of the things are fun just on their own

oh, i didnt really mean year -end... its somewhere in october. only 10 months of studying and ill have to take the examination. so i have to take my eyes of the computer and the forum for awhile, and get back to my work. but yeah, i'll probably be coming back every now and then.

As far as I recall, Saff got the 'will become famous soon enough' when her's was '30 thanks received'. But not everyone's changed at 30, so I don't think it's the actual number of times you've been thanked/number displayed in public.

It's to do with the rep points you have (shown in UCP). dbs changed at 50 points though, and mine definately didn't.

You get different points per thank depending on who thanks you.

Maybe there's more factors though. Isn't important :)

... You get different points per thank depending on who thanks you.

Yeah, I've noticed that.

It's to do with the rep points you have (shown in UCP). dbs changed at 50 points though, and mine definately didn't. ...

But if it's to do with the rep points in UCP then why doesn't everyone's change at the same points?

You say yours didn't change at 50 points and db's did. Yours has changed now though. So maybe it's not that simple. Maybe it's a ratio of no. of posts:thanked or something...

/me thinks a mod's going to move this discussion soon XD

I have no idea what's going on and I don't plan to find out. All I know is... "Send in your answers by 23 Jan." :biggrin:

* storm thinks a mod's going to move this discussion soon XD

* db1986 thinks so too
This (http://www.isketchforum.net/thank-you-button-t1791.html) thread will probably be the destination :P

I'm gonna start writing my poem today I think.

Just wanted to add, that it's probably to do with number of thanks, rep power, and if you're just repped in general. Eh. But like. there's probably boundaries.

Anyways. I started my poem today. Ish. My friend suggested to do a limerick, but then couldn't make up their own on the topic squares xD So yeah. But it's slowly coming along... I think if I get time I'll do 2, one in one style, one in the other. But just to be clear on the points, if you got 1st in poll and last in the poll, would you get points just for being first, or would you average the place or..? So basically, are you scoring on whos poem gets the highest per poem, or is it whos gets the highest averagely..?

I would assume that it's the same as the Christmas comp poll. I guess you get the number of points on your highest scoring poem.

How many poems will one be able to vote for?

Lol.. some of you guys are giving out your styles to your poems.. and considering there'll be an anonymous poll, we might be able to guess some of them :P (unless you change it, of course..). I'll try not to discriminate when it comes to voting.. :razz: :twisted: I tease, I tease.

SaffyPoos.. I want to find the energy to enter this, but I just can't seem to do it :( *sigh* Pregnancy has made me so lazy :(

With the scoring:
It will be a multiple choice poll - you can vote for as many as you want to. I prefer this style of voting as in a poll of, say, 10, there are usually 3 or 4 stand-out entries and it is really difficult to choose between them, and you can reward all of them.

The points will be allocated based on the percentage of votes you receive. Remember in a multiple choice poll, the percentage is worked out by dividing the number of votes you receive by the total number of voters, not the total number of entries.

The number of points:
The person with the highest percentage of votes will get 10 points, 2nd = 9 points, 3rd = 8 points, 4th = 7 points and so on. Ties will work as they do in Athletics – eg if two people come first they will each get 10 points, there will be no second place, the next highest score will be third and get 8 points.

Submitting more than one poem:
If you submit more than one poem - your highest scoring poem will receive the points, and the second one will then be eliminated. The question only asks for one poem - you can increase your chances of winning by submitting two, but you can't "win twice".

ps Nerdles, it's OK. If there is anything that takes your fancy, and you find some energy, you can just enter one-off things here and there.

About flexibility:
Someone has just pointed out that one of the forumites to be found in Question 2 (the Word Search) has changed their name, and there is no longer any reference to that name in the Members List. So Question 2 will now have only 38 forumites to find, and will be marked out of 76. There is one less forumite beginning with 'P' to be found. :razz:

About flexibility:
Someone has just pointed out that one of the forumites to be found in Question 2 (the Word Search) has changed their name, and there is no longer any reference to that name in the Members List. So Question 2 will now have only 38 forumites to find, and will be marked out of 76. There is one less forumite beginning with 'P' to be found. :razz:
I found 4 with 'P' to begin with, so down to 3 now :p Can I leave this former forumite in the wordsearch pic because it'll be a pain to uncircle them properly? :/

On another note, for Q3b, can the commonality between the words be something very trivial?

Yes, that's fine to leave them in as circled.
For 3b, each answer is worth 2 points :twisted:

/me sighs................

i shouldn't have posted that poem in rhyme time -_- ladida. so far..what i've written? i dont want anyone to know i wrote it XD
hm....

gotta luv writing poems during class .....ignoring the immature guys messing around -_-
/me skips off

lol don't you dare write a poem in the Maths class!!! unless it praises Maths, I guess... :razz:

What if 2 get 1st place, 2 get 2nd place and 3 get 3rd place? How does it work in 'Athletics', then? (dumb Athletics rules) :razz:

What?

If 2 get 1st place, there is no second place.

The ranks will be #1,#1,#3,#3,#5,#5,#5

If two people win, they both get 10 points. Therefore two places have gone, (which would have been 1st and 2nd) so next is 3rd, which would score 8 points.

Edit: Beated :P

Finally managed to submit Q1-3...

Now for Q4 :eek:

I remember my tenth grade English teacher calling me up one day and saying : "There is a lot more to life than just Mathematics." Now I understand why.:embarrassed:

Question 5a is up (http://www.isketchforum.net/showpost.php?p=156098&postcount=1) - 5b will follow in the next few days

Edit: And Vik: Where are youuuuuu? :O English is your THANG!! And I haven't seen you faint ONCE since this comp started.......

Edit: And Vik: Where are youuuuuu? :O English is your THANG!! And I haven't seen you faint ONCE since this comp started.......

Maybe she didn't get up from the last time she fainted? :O

/me throws ice water on Vik
Vik - TORIA!!!!!!!! A new comp has started.
Yo
:P

I remember my tenth grade English teacher calling me up one day and saying : "There is a lot more to life than just Mathematics." Now I understand why.:embarrassed:

NONSENSE! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Q5 is impossible.

Tis not.
I have had one response already.
So there.

Wow. Saff you really have gone all out with this contest.. I know you said you had help from everyone in your family, so I thank the Saff family for this wonderful contest :D If I could thank your first post again I would. I think I may start on 5a in my exam today when I have about 30 minutes left of nothing... It would be good to fill the blanks. (Obviously after I've checked over all my answers meticulously)

zomgggg I have no idea how to get that done. I won't be able to get more than 5 words! :cry::cry:

I've wanted to do this but just haven't had the time...and still don't really....oh well maybe I will get to play one of the upcoming rounds. =P

Wow, round 5 is hard.

Nopes, tortoise bro. It's extra super duper bazooka HARD.

Blagggghhh, still 16 to go on the wordsearch..

Come on tasha, I'm sure you'll get there :)

* db1986 thinks long and hard about number 5...

:( thatsss gunna take foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Question 5a is up (http://www.isketchforum.net/showpost.php?p=156098&postcount=1) - 5b will follow in the next few days

Edit: And Vik: Where are youuuuuu? :O English is your THANG!! And I haven't seen you faint ONCE since this comp started.......

Maybe she didn't get up from the last time she fainted? :O

* Saffron;158451 throws ice water on Vik
Vik - TORIA!!!!!!!! A new comp has started.
Yo
:P

OMG I'm so late coming in on this one

/me faints

lol

/me hugs Vik

-_- i think....imma quit trying for this round..... maybe. we'll see.

yep just blame saff XD

Part b (http://www.isketchforum.net/showpost.php?p=156098&postcount=1) of Question 5 is up.
Sorry tasha :razz:
There's still nearly 2 weeks til everything has to be in - plenty of time!

/me welcomes Vik back to the competition thread, where she belongs

I am slowly working through everything :D Slowly does it ;) So hopefully by the time the deadline comes near I will have done most of it without stressing my work :)

Ahh yes. :) The second part of b is alot nicer than the first part :D I can work on that bit in lessons :DDD

DOF English - Question 5 –

a) What four letter word can you make the most words from by using the letters within it.

b) How many English words can you make from the letters in the word: ISKETCH?

For both parts
· You need to list all the words you can make.
· Only words found in www.dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com) are allowed (not reference)
· No acronyms are allowed.
· For part a), you cannot use the word(s) given in the example :P


Roight, I'm back after a hellish week. :eek:

Would I be correct in presuming that we are not allowed to use abbreviations, proper nouns (names, etc.), mathematical/elemental word forms, symbols/letters, signifiers, descriptors, etymons, etc ... and that all words must be whole/full (not partial, affixial, prepositional, suppositional, etc.) words in English? :twisted:

And presumably plurals are okay? :razz:

:rolleyes:

Yes, I'd guess basically the same rules as in scrabble.

TY Vik. Yes - same rules as Scrabble.
Plurals are fine.
And no etymons. Defintiely not. They are evil. Whatever they are. Evil!!
And WB Proofy x

God, I spent all day catching up - I even had lunch at the computer!

Now I'm off to compose a masterpiece. Oh well, the fresh air and outside world will still be there tomorrow, I guess...

Hmmm......Proofy's question has made me think about this one......cos I have no idea what she is talking about......(Heh, I'm just co-ordinating this thing, doesn't mean I know anything )
To hopefully avoid too many problems........I'm only going to count words with 4 letters or more towards the points. If you have already submitted your answer, you don't need to re-submit, I'll just disregard anything with less than 4 letters.

As you were :razz:

Hmmm......Proofy's question has made me think about this one......

To hopefully avoid too many problems........I'm only going to count words with 4 letters or more towards the points. If you have already submitted your answer, you don't need to re-submit, I'll just disregard anything with less than 4 letters.

As you were :razz:
:eek: Oh no! No, no, you mustn't change it just cos I was being silly! :embarrassed: :sad:

I was really only trying to clarify for everyone that, in essence, and as Vik says, the word rules of Scrabble apply. :embarrassed:

/me slaps her wacky sense of humour around with a slimy pork chop!

:sad:

hehe
It's alright - it's changed now. It will save me all those 2 letter word headaches anyway ;)
And to compensate, Ima give people 2 points for every 6 letter word as well.

/me tickles Proofy with with an evil etymon

The final question is up now. (http://www.isketchforum.net/showpost.php?p=156098&postcount=1)


************************************************** ************************************************** **************
This is the end of the English Round. There are 6 questions. You need to PM the answers to all 6 questions (or to those parts you wish to enter) to me by:

Midnight 23 January 2009 (your time)
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Please see the original post for the final submission requirements.

Squuueee :D I like question 6. :D Firstly because I recognised quite a few :) The nursery rhymes annnnd the stories :D I'm so glad. It made me feel smart.. :) So yeah. :) I think I'll probably have quite a bit to submit at the end although I'll try to submit bits as it comes through me doing it :)

58 for 5b? with anything less than 4 letters not counting?

erk... I am WELL off!

OMG I'm so late coming in on this one

So late.......yet the first one to submit answers for everything :razz:

LOL!

What can I say? I just love English :P

LOL!

What can I say? I just love English :P

Ahh I used to love it too... lolol XP
Blargh *headache*

/me puts her cruddy attempts at answers on hold for awhile..

I know we get 25 bonus points each to start with but will there be opportunities to get more bonus points during each competition or is 25 our lot?

25 is your lot.
Use them wisely.
;)

Can we give others 25 points;)

Yes. But only forumites with names beginning with V.

* db1986 would like dibs on Dean's 25 bonus points :razz:

haha vik :P neverrrr XD
/me should get the points, shes got exams atm :(

Can we give others 25 points;)
:razz:
That would be interesting........
But, no.

Oops. I should really read the posts more thoroughly. Thanks Saff. I would have missed out on a relatively easy 10 points.
Then again, I think I might have made up for those elsewhere :razz:

:razz: - Just to clarify, so no-one thinks I'm giving answers away :eek:
Deebs did not submit all the requirements for Question 6, only gave me the names of the books, not the authors - so I told him to "re-read the requirements" and accepted the re-submission.

And Dean's idea is growing on me.....I feel there might be a fair way to distribute bonus points that are not wanted.........it's......just......out of reach in my mind..........I'll come back to that. :biggrin:

haha I was joking:P. I just wanted to throw a random idea out thereXD

As you do....:razz:
But let me know if the random idea develops into something useable ;)

People who end up being dux (Or last) of an area can choose x amount of bonus points to go from one person to another? Lol Just a random pop.. I wouldn't go with that as people may be mean xD

phooeymabob...almost done XD btw. can i submit a joke poem? XD i dunno :P

Yep, submit any kind of poem you want. People will be voting on them - humour usually works.

Edit: And...uh.....only 1 week left now to get it all in. All these distractions now with the new arcade games...... (*points to the top right of this post ^^ )

Hmmmmmm
Dunno whether this is worth continuing. I've only had one person submit all the answers so far......so unless people are storing them all up..........:cry:

Oh.. may be the arcade.. but then still a week left.. so yeah.

As for me, I have submitted one half, the other half.. I am still about to do those, except that I had no uni for 4 days.. and so I will get back to the anagrams when I have class :D .

Except the poetry bit... :(

Yeh, could be the timing.
Might do it again later...heh, idk

They're comingggg Saff I promiseeeee!
I still needa do 5 and 6
And some of 3 is still a bit patchy
And my poem sucks major arse.. i mean majorrr!
But I will submit answers for everything before the end!
Have faith little one XP

I only need to submit 3 and 4. I've done all the others.
Oh and the second poem is coming too. I'm just waiting for a moment of creativity...

* db1986 waits for quite a long time
I promise they're coming though Saffy :D

haha damn arcade..and work and such..I'm procrastinating:o. and acutally went backwards in my poem. well at least q6 won't take long:)

The Arcade is my main reason for not completing these sooner :D
So addictive...

I do have quite a bit of the answers, vaguely.. but yeah. :P I have lots of exams next week so I think I'll be doing the contest on the day of the deadline.. xD Well I've done quite a bit of most of it, they're just written at home and not submitted... Basically you will get whatever I have done by the dealine ;)

AAHHHH That's exactly what I'm worried about Sorsie... I just hope I can submit this well b4 the deadline...

Creativity is somewhat lacking today :s

Eeeek! I've not done anything but 1, 2 and some of 3 :eek: Panic! I have exams all of this week as well. sdnfl >_<

Yes, there were a few other people who have exams, and the Arcade sort of exploded......

Deebs and jenni have organised something for Valentine's Day which is to start on 1 February and run for about 3 weeks. We tried to co-ordinate having the English Round completed before that comp started, but it looks like it's not going to work that way.

Also I know there is something planned for Easter.......which will run for about a month leading up to Easter.

So here's what I'm going to do:

I will leave the English Round open throughout the Valentine's Day competition, and make the due date to be prior to the start of the Easter comp - so it will be early March sometime. You can still submit any answers as you finalise them (this makes it easier for me to check them).

I will have to think about a little incentive to remind people once Valentine's Day is over though.........:razz:

I will have to think about a little incentive to remind people once Valentine's Day is over though.........:razz:

* db1986 suggests buying a large stick

what it isn't due in a couple of days?! Oh, I guess I don't have to rush my answers now:P. Dont give into the masses saff, your comp was here first XD.

Hush dean XD

Thanks Saff! XD Phew!

Dont give into the masses saff, your comp was here first XD.

Haha. It's not a comp if there's only one entry :eek:.
And anyway, it will give you more time to put the polish on your poem.

"Dean loves isketch
He loves it a lot.
He reckons it's fun
And what not."

^_________^ Woooo!! :D I'm so happy about that now.. I was worried I was going to have to cram answer on friday. xD

Ty Safff!!! :)

I was quite happy to have it all crammed by Friday, as I didn't really have much to do, now im just going to procrastinate some more, and forget about this for a while so then i can procrastinate later.

Saffy changed the date of closing
now we have too much time
standards of poems will be imposing
why do they always rhyme?

Wow! Early March! :razz: Gives me more time to start some of the latter rounds, but I fear that Parkinson's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law) will be proven again and again :s

Lolllllllll ! That's aaaaaages

/me puts her half finished q's in the too hard basket and forgets about them... for now :biggrin:

Wow! Early March! :razz: Gives me more time to start some of the latter rounds, but I fear that Parkinson's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law) will be proven again and again :s

Hmm yeh :( But.....there is another comp coming up, and people will concentrate on that, I think....just hang on to the answers you have already, I'll think of something to remind everyone :rolleyes:

But.....there is another comp coming up, and people will concentrate on that...

Let's hope so, but yours is better. I could never think of a comp to last several months.

I'll think of something to remind everyone http://www.isketchforum.net/images/smilies/main/icon_rolleyes.gif

How about large pink flying elephants with wings? That'll sure get some attention :P

awwww
/me hugs saff
db is right XD urs is better. no offense of course XD but i think its cause it has a million and one rounds :P

haha XD
/me 'll help saff remind everyone bout this :D ^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^
i havent posted around profiles in a long time......

but anyways :D i was actually ready to submit my answers..just have like 3 more questions i need to finish....but i think i'll start concentrating on my studying for now XD bad idea to leave my review stuff till like..the day before.

But we have done a good job, I think Jenga :)

more like u have :( i feel sorta bad that i didnt do as much.........

btw, im recruiting peoples now XD ;)

How about large pink flying elephants with wings? That'll sure get some attention :P
<3 Dumbo! :razz:
Oh and I hear there's a special prize in db and jenni's comp ;p

haha sparrowhead XD oh goodness XD that prize ur talking bout? :P thats only for if u win XD we'll come up with something more suited for everyone...

Er... do you have any ideas Jen?

Back to the Dux: I have one part of a question left to do Saffy and then I will submit the last sections.

true...a prize for a valentines comp sorta is hard...im not giving out kisses though -_-

phooey db XD :P

Aw.. I was looking forward to my jenni kiss. :(

Lolol. Eh. I'm happy the deadline has been extended :P I think now when I have spare time I'll just do a bit here and there slowly until march :P I'll try and submit before the end of february though :)

/me wuvs saffy :D ^_^
/me gives saff a kiss

:P keep dreaming sorsie XD we'll see..imma ask the admins bout stuff.....

Hehe
Thanks to those who are sending in bits as they complete them.
Deebs/jen - all the comps are fun, I don't think people think about which is 'better', they just enjoy doing them...... I'm really looking forward to what you have worked out for Valentine's Day....so long as I can drag myself out of the arcade :O

BTW, I think this round is going to come down to the poem, and the bonus points......so many clever forumites......
And I already got my Valentine's kiss from jen ;)

BTW, I think this round is going to come down to the poem, and the bonus points......so many clever forumites......


Huh...? What do you mean?

LOL, I mean......a few people are on full or close to full points so far.......and it may very well come down to the poem round to seperate them

Oh my... that doesn't make me feel like I have to do well in this round then :P lololol. Eh. xD It's only a contest ^___^ Bit of fun ^_______^ :D -maow-

-hugs all forumites, clever or not- :D

Hmm. If it's coming down to the poem I reckon I won't get very far.

Although I'm quite pleased with my answer to 5a, I even beat Saffy's top score of 23 :D

However, the most points I can get for Q5a is 23...

phooeymabos.......
/me sighs -_-
i think imma use a couple points.but we'll see

and lol, u better join saff XD

Thanks to those people who are still sending in bits and pieces of this comp, it makes it easier for me to check answers, rather than having it all submitted at the end.
And I have thought of a good way to get people back into it after the Valentine's Day comp - however..............there will only be about 10 days after that finishes to submit everything, before the Easter one starts....... so keep working away.......:razz:

however..............there will only be about 10 days after that finishes to submit everything, before the Easter one starts....... so keep working away.......:razz:

OMG. Is there really? Hmm.. I'll send you a little PM.

:( safffff, i might end up sending mine at the end. because my hard drive completely got ...well...destroyed a week ago, i have like...none of the competition finished...have to restart :( which sux.

*hugs*

Seeing as the first round is still going, can I join in this?

Saffy, I've linked the Dux Comp at the bottom of my results post to get them back into it :)

Seeing as the first round is still going, can I join in this?
Yes, indeed-y.

And thanks Deebs, I will come back to this later in the day as well, just here briefly for now, but I also have something to tempt people back..... :razz:

Nice one. I think I might be skipping on that poem though, I'm no good at writing those. :P

OK Folks – time get back into the Dux Comp – you have until 3 March 2009 to get your answers for the English round in.
Here's a link to the first post that has the 6 questions. (http://www.isketchforum.net/dof-round-1-t2923.html)

And looky here, it’s bonus bonus points: Anyone who has provided answers to all 6 questions by 3 March 2009 will receive an additional 10 bonus points to use at their discretion throughout the Dux competition. (Please let me know before the due date if you wish to use these for the English Round).

In addition, I have added one further part to this round to get people back in the mindset - a game of: “Scissors-Paper-Rock”

If you are not familiar with this game, here’s how it works:
IRL – on the count of three, each player chooses either scissors, paper or rock - scissors beats paper, paper beats rock and rock beats scissors. It’s that easy! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rock_paper_scissors.jpg)

Here’s how it will work for this comp:

I will have a pre-determined answer which I will PM to an independent person. Once I have notified this person of my choice, the round begins. Players should PM me within 36 hours with their own choice – either scissors, paper, or rock.

If you beat me, or choose the same option as me, you go through to the next round
If I beat you, you are out.
We will repeat this until there is a clear winner.
I will advise at the end of each round what my choice was.

Scoring: You will receive 10 points for entering Round 1 of Scissors-Paper-Rock. For each subsequent round you enter, you will receive 2 points, however, you may only enter a subsequent round if you beat me in the previous round.

Edit - I have sent a PM to my independant person for Round 1 - so it has started. You've got 36 hours to PM me your choice :razz:

OMG. Virtual rock/paper/scissors with the answer being PM'ed! Saff you're crazy lool XD

you mean its not rock paper scissors bomb?!

Haha Dean.. complicating things... may be this link (http://www.gogomag.com/rsp/rsp_matchups.htm) can explain :twisted:

Yay :) I have done all of the rounds.. :P

Saffron, cool round idea!

Just to clarify:

You can enter as little or as much of this competition that you want. If you don't enter all the questions for each round, you still get points for the questions you have answered, and these will add to your total score for the Overall Dux.

3 March? Oh dear for some reason I had it in my head that it was the 29th!!

Eep, no. Deebs needs from around the 10th March to start his Easter comp.....so I want to get the poll for the poem finished by then..........giving peopleample time to vote. The poems submitted so far.....very hard to choose!

I really need to get back to work on this as uni starts next week...thanks for the reminder Saff and db :)
Also- didn't know about the more complex version of scissors-paper-rock, so thanks for the link too Gav!

:) Sent the rock paper scissors one.. now I just need to get on with answering the Q's! I've even changed my mind about doing the poem. :)

ETA: Ahhhh I've done them all except one name on the wordsearch - I HATE wordsearchs!

ETA(2): Haha, found it just after I edited the last time :D

I like the Scissors, Paper, Rock game, Saffy. It's a nice incentive for getting back into the Dux :)
Now, I just hope I chose the right one.

I've had a few people not sure whether this has actually started....so:
YES - please send in your first scissors-paper-rock choice now....TY :razz:

OK - Round 1 of Scissors-Paper-Rock has ended.
I chose PAPER.
Anyone who chose Paper or Scissors can enter the next round.
Anyone who chose Rock - *waves buh-bye for now*

My Round 2 answer has been sent. Please PM me your choice for Round 2 within 36 hours of this post.

Awww I didn't see this earlier. Best of 3? :embarrassed:

Aw, Capt :(
Hmm. If this one doesn't take too long, I can do another-y.

Huh? I'm confused... rock paper and scissors, ok but what? Have I missed the first round of it? And what's the point if we're only going to be eliminated? If we're eliminated does that mean we can't do the first six questions?

Edit: Duh, course I missed the first round :(

It is just something to get the thread/competition moving again *AJ*.
Yes, you have missed the first round.
The point is you get points for entering, which add to your total points.
And no, it doesn't affect the other 6 questions, it is additional.

Oh I see. I hope you do another round for those who didn't enter this time. :p

Well, I wasn't notifying individually.....hmmmm, lol.....too much to doooooo
;)
but tasha, you are good to enter this round ;P