RESULTS: Rare Entries JFW05

Here are the results of the Rare Entries JFW05 contest.

I apologize to everyone for the results being late by about a week!!!

There were 14 entries.

!!! The winner is Ben Zimmer with a score of 2 !!!

Second place was a tie between Alan O'Donnell and John Gerson with 4.

The answers of the top 3 contestants were:

FIRST SECOND SECOND Ben Zimmer Alan O'Donnell John Gerson

1. Tokoyo Lord John Aversin Prince Khorshid/Rustam 2. Tracy the Gorilla Doodles Humphrey B. Bear 3. King Ghidorah Troll Pumpkinhead 4. Minnie Mouse Megara Aurora 5. Oman DR Congo Egypt 6. Jakarta Tehran Melbourne 7. Rukhiyet Palace Sierra Leone Goverment Building Royal Exhibition Building 8. John 'Shorty' Howe James Wong Howe Captain Daniel Howe 9. 121 = H in a C C B 38 = L on a G B 44 = P for O C 10. Nashville Minnesota Utah

!!! Thanks to all who entered !!!

For some reason I haven't seen these films, but if they are legitimate adaptations of The Hound of the Baskervilles, the term 'monster' hardly applies. The novel, at any rate, contains no supernatural beings. To be precise (spoiler for novel, rot13), va gur fgbel gurer vf n snzvyl yrtraq nzbat gur Onfxreivyyrf nobhg n tvnag tubfgyl ubhaq, naq n zna jnagvat gb zheqre gur urnq bs gur snzvyl gnxrf nqinagntr bs guvf. Ur bognvaf n ynetr naq ivpvbhf qbt naq cnvagf vg jvgu cubfcuberfprag cnvag fb vg jvyy *ybbx* fhcreangheny, naq gur ryqreyl ivpgvz qvrf bs sevtug.

No, that was question 10. I answered Lyon on this one.

Westminster is officially a city, and a correct answer under the terms of the question. I decided to go for something less obvious.

I'd say a ivpvbhf qbt counts as a monster.

In the Conan Doyle story, there are two hounds, one is the legendary hound that was supposed to haunt the masters of Baskerville Hall in revenge for the mistreatment of the servant girl and is described explicitly as 'a monsterous hound', and a real ordinary hound made up with phosphorous by the evil Doctor Wossname, to imitate the legendary one.

Extrapolating from the second one, surely the first is 'Number of Points on a Go-board'?

Dave Jones

I thought of that too, but a B is missing for Board. (38/2)^2 = 361

So is it oké to make one word of two?

In answer to:

Jan Merolant suggests:

I know of two types of cribbage board. One has 120 holes in four rows of 30 for scoring during a game; you don't put a peg in the board until you score, and when you win by scoring 121, the game is over, so you don't need to put your peg back in. There may also be several extra holes for counting games won. The other type is 'racetrack style' and typically has a set of 120 holes *for each of two or more players*, laid out in parallel rows curved around to fit on the board, plus extra holes at the start and finish or for scoring games won. Mine has a total of 370 holes, I think.

But cribbage is not a board game anyway; it's a card game that merely happens to be traditionally scored using a board and pegs. So if this *is* the intended answer, it's incorrect on two counts. But maybe it's not. Is there a board game played on an 11x11 board?

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Mine has the four rows of 30, plus a 'winners' hole at both ends. (presumably so you can start at either end). This makes 122, of course, but I could imagine that there would be one with only one winner's hole.

(As you say, though, crib isn't a board game)

Somebody claiming to be 'Jan Merolant'

The Japanese word, and one used by many English-speaking Go players, is 'goban' (one word).

Not that this knowledge helps me play go any better.

Mark Brader heeft geschreven in bericht ...

I did not know the Cribbage game. I have seen it as an Language equation before and I guess the word Board makes one think of a board game. The extra 'C' (where I put completed) was new to me, couldn't think of anything else to put there.

So it should have been 'Holes in a Cribbage Counting Board'. Which of course is a wrong answer for the Rare Entries contest.

Thanks for your explanation.

Selamat Pagi

English speakers sometimes use the Japanese word 'goban', meaning go board.