This one here.
Have you resigned yourself to the fact that you'll never get an Editor Pick in a specific category (perhaps because you have no interest in/know nothing about that category)? Here's your way around that. You can make a word ladder specific to the criteria laid out by that category's editor. And maybe that editor will EP your quiz.
All word ladders, before being published, are put in the Just For Fun section. However, if a word ladder is EP-ed in a different section and then moved to JFF, the EP will still count towards the Dean's List in whatever category it was originally EP-ed. (So basically this contest will help with the Dean's List Badge but not necessarily the Crazy Ivan Badge.)
If what I just said made no sense, the bottom line is that this contest will help you get an easier editor pick in what you find to be your "hard to reach" category.
These are only the first five categories of the contest, but there are more to follow. Here's how it (these five at least) will work:
Submit a word ladder with one of the given titles or themes to the following categories. The editors of those categories have agreed to EP at least one of the submissions in each category.
Guidelines:
Here are the first five categories. Any word ladder you submit with the title/theme listed under each given category must be submitted to that category. The first three include specific titles submitted by the editors.
ENTERTAINMENT:
LANGUAGE:
*These next two include three general "themes" that each editor is looking for in that category. You can make up whatever clever/goofy title you like--just remember that the more rungs related to the theme, the better. For any entries submitted in these two particular categories, you should either post links to them on this thread or list this thread as your source link. (Just to avoid a situation where an editor mistakes a non-entry for an entry.)
MOVIES:
There are more categories to come--we're still hammering out the specific criteria--but I wanted to get the ball rolling. You may post your entries here for visibility, but it's not required (though see the note on the Movies/TV quizzes.)
I'm sure I've overlooked something, so if you have any questions just go ahead and ask them here. HUGE thanks to the editors for getting behind this. And best of luck to all who participate.
(dru)
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How long do we have to enter?
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SCIENCE:
*Themed category. See note above Movies and Television in the first post.
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HISTORY:
MISCELLANEOUS:
Here’s my effort for the Word Ladder: [BBC Theme] category - http://www.sporcle.com/games/BGCollector/beeb
Enjoy
BGC
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Zaphenath, the limit is 3
Don't know if this was mentioned earlier (and I missed it), but is there a limit to how many entries one can submit?And just when I thought I was being unproductive enough at work . . .
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Last Four...
MUSIC:
Whoops. I'll delete the last post.
Categories and entries together as of now:
HISTORY:
Word Ladder: Been There, Done That
Word Ladder: Miss-Quoted
Word Ladder: It Was a Very Good Year
MISCELLANEOUS:
Word Ladder: Climbing the Corporate Ladder
Word Ladder: The Old College Try
Word Ladder: It's All About the Image
RELIGION:
Word Ladder: Jesus Schlepped
Word Ladder: Mythy Gritty
Word Ladder: Torah! Torah! Torah!
SCIENCE:
Word Ladder: Leading Horticulture
Word Ladder: Let's Get Physical
Word Ladder: A Bone to Pick
LITERATURE:
Word Ladder: [Chick Lit/Romance]
Word Ladder: [Horror/Thriller]
Word Ladder: [Classic Literature]
HOLIDAY:
Word Ladder: [every rung and a camel]
MOVIES:
Word Ladder: [Godfather trilogy-themed]
Word Ladder: [Hitchcock-themed]
Word Ladder: [Mel Brooks-themed]
TELEVISION:
Word Ladder: [BBC-themed]
Word Ladder: [Internet TV series-themed]
Word Ladder: [Kids' TV-themed]
ENTERTAINMENT:
Word Ladder: How Logo Can You Go?
Word Ladder: Just Marvel-ous
Word Ladder: It All Ads Up
LANGUAGE:
Word Ladder: Lost in Translation
Word Ladder: Shirley That's Spelt Wrong
Word Ladder: Xcellent
GAMING:
Word Ladder: ABC's Wide World of Warcraft
Word Ladder: Somebody Set Us Up the Bomb
Word Ladder: Don't Get Mad, Get GLadDOS
MUSIC:
Word Ladder: And She's Buying a Word Ladder to Heaven
Word Ladder: It Was Twenty Years Ago, Today
Word Ladder: Here We Are Now, Entertain Us
GEOGRAPHY
Word Ladder: Bragging Rights
Word Ladder: All the Way to Timbuktu
Word Ladder: Have a Little Kyrgyz
SPORTS
1. Word Ladder: _____ vs. ______
2. Word Ladder: [Sportscaster catchphrase]
JUST FOR FUN
[Promotional Word Ladder]
I believe these are the entries so far:
Word Ladder: Somebody Set Us Up the Bomb by Spacemaniac
Word Ladder: The 32 Rungs by rer2121
Word Ladder: Just Marvel-ous 1 by NYYanks
Word Ladder: Just Marvel-ous 2 by HPGirl
Word Ladder: Shirley That's Spelt Wrong by funnyfavorer101
Word Ladder: Mythy Gritty by leppyfresh
Word Ladder: Just Marvel-ous 3 by Hullabaloo
Word Ladder: The Master of Suspense by zaphenath
Word Ladder: Auntie's Ladder - BBC Theme by BGCollector
Word Ladder: Torah! Torah! Torah! by Spacemaniac
Word Ladder: Don't Get Mad, Get GLaDOS by EMyre
Word Ladder: Guess What Day It Is by Purple_Parrot
Word Ladder: Let's Get (a) Physical by zaphenath
Word Ladder: Shirley That's Spelt Wrong by teddy109768
Word Ladder: Don't Get Mad, Get GLaDOS by michaelm
Word Ladder: Mythy Gritty by mic747
Word Ladder: It All Ads Up by naqwerty3
Word Ladder: 5-South FloorEver by esvadude
Word Ladder: How Logo Can You Go? (Slideshow) by Kazaxat
Word Ladder: This Week in Baseball by Purple_Parrot
Word Ladder: The Godfather by leppyfresh
Please let me know if I screwed anything up.
Plenty of time for more. And plenty of options to choose from. Thanks for contributing. The entries we've seen thus far are just Marvel-ous.
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It was only that way by chance, I will change it when I get to my computer, thanks!
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Actually, brainwave! Epic idea. Does it count if you keep going backwards across the world (like with the dateline and so forth) to constantly give yourself more hours?
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On a side note, peanut M&M's should totally be given out with every EP.
And you know, just in case you get anywhere close, he can just EP it and disqualify you... oh well.
Regarding *the quiz* that we have to beat, it currently has a joy factor of 200. I've never seen anything higher than 185 before- is this abnormal or just me being stupid?
for those who haven't been following, that quiz is Who Wants to be a Millionaire (clickable)
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amazingjosh, skuban's had a 300+ joy factor once upon a time!
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Josh Calianos <joshm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Regarding *the quiz* that we have to beat, it currently has a joy factor of 200. I've never seen anything higher than 185 before- is this abnormal or just me being stupid?
for those who haven't been following, that quiz is Who Wants to be a Millionaire (clickable)
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Unless somebody has the secret recipe for Joy Factor and wants to divulge it, I think there's value in puzzling over it in this forum. I think that the "something else" in the list of elements in the Joy Factor equation is probably Time. If a quiz starts to receive less and less plays over time, it's joy factor goes down. I noticed that when I curator pick a recently launched quiz, it will have a much higher Joy Factor than a quiz that has been around for a few more days or a week. If I curator pick a quiz that's been around for a much longer time, it will start out with an extremely low Joy Factor. (Somehow this got posted before I finished my thoughts :( )
What ones are left for this competition. I have only ever had one EP and want another.