[KLUG Members] GJ followup (was Meeting Notes)

[Adam Williams]

>> I'll tell ya, Adam, it was a sight to see over at Team A (aka "The
>> ex-chairs"), I knew a bunch of answers, but Peter was ON that paddle!
>> He was also quite smooth about jumping as soon as he knew the answer,
>> and very few of them tailed away and nicked the outside corner....
>Doh! I'm blushing!
>Jeopardy, invite me over to your house for a game of Trivial Pursuit.
>And thanks for all the kudos, but if you think I'm competitive at Geek
>It gets ugly. ;-)

Yep, same thing here, my wife will rarely ever play TP with me.

>> > Actually more 1024/2048 questions were answer in jest without
>> > pushing the button than were actually attempted.  Sigh.
>> I think by that time the scores were so heavily negative that no one
>> wanted to take a flyewr on a 104/2048 question, unless they KNEW the
>> answer. We were all several lengths back, and it was a long way to go
>> for a first down.
>That's true. One problem is that TV's Jeopardy scales geometrically, but
>ours scales exponentially. For the one, if you answer all the questions
>in a column and miss only the last, you get 1000. In ours you get -4.
>That's a killer problem, and contributes to a lack of nerve.

And I try to make the difficulty scale exponentially. :)