n00bz - n00b 14 needed

[Scurra]

OK, I'm finally in.

It's not as though I had anything better to do.

[Cenwulf]

Ok, so n00b 7 is Scurra, and here's round 7.
Battleships
The attached grid shows an area of sea, in which there are five ships: four cruisers (1 square) and one battleship (2 adjacent squares). The ships are not in contact horizontally or vertically (but can touch diagonally), and the two parts of the battleship are in the same row or column.

n00b 7 Scurra will place the ships in the grid, and the other six n00bz must try to sink the fleet. A cruiser sinks if it is hit, but the battleship is only sunk if both parts are hit. Each n00b has six missiles with which to do this.
Send me your grid references.

Scoring
n00bz 1-6 get 1 point for each ship or part of a ship they hit.
If the battleship is sunk, every n00b who hit it gets 2 bonus points per part hit.
If all six of a n00b's missiles miss, then that n00b loses 6 points.

n00b 7 Scurra gets 3 points for each ship or part of a ship not hit by any missiles.

[Cenwulf]

Here are the results of Round 7:
The number refers to the n00b number in the grid:
1 Bunnylump: 2 hits + 2 bonus = 4 points
2 LAT: 0 hits = -6 points
3 fernando: 0 hits = -6 points
4 kathlyn: 1 hit = 1 point
5 Looby: 2 hits + 4 bonus = 6 points
6 kingsley: 1 hit +2 bonus = 3 points

Scurra: 2 cruisers missed = 6 points

Current scores:
Bunnylump 54
LAT 47
fernando 29
kathlyn 26
Looby 22
Scurra 6
kingsley 5

[Cenwulf]

There is a vacancy for n00b 8.
As the next round could be deadly, n00b 8 will be automatically given 5 points before the game.

[Laura]

OOH! Me please!!!

(think I'm regretting that already!)

[Cenwulf]

Welcome, Laura, you are n00b 8, and you may not hang on to your 5 points for long...

Here's Round 8.
Push The Button
Do you feel a tingle? That's because I've wired up the eight n00bz to the following electric buttons:
Red: Orange: Yellow: Green: Blue: Purple: Brown: Grey
- though I'm not saying which n00b is attached to which button. When a button is pressed, the relevant n00b is fried by 1000 volts. However, I've had to bodge the wiring a bit, and if two people press each other's buttons, then a short circuit will occur and neither will be fried, even if someone else presses either of the buttons.

Just send me the colour of the button you wish to press.

Scoring:
You survive by nobody pressing your button: +5 points
You survive due to a short-circuit happening: +3points
You are fried by pressing your own button: -5 points
You are fried by someone else pressing your button: -3 points
If any of n00bz 1-7 press n00b 8 Laura's button, they will receive 5 bonus points.

[Cenwulf]

Results for round 8:
Bzzzzzt!
Now that the buttons have been pressed, let's see what's happened...
First, here is the list of who would be fried by pressing each button:
Red - fernando: Orange - Scurra: Yellow - Bunnylump: Green - Laura: Blue - kathlyn: Purple - Looby: Brown - LAT: Grey - kingsley.

The following buttons were pushed:
Yellow, by Bunnylump
Green, by Scurra and Laura
Blue, by LAT and kathlyn
Purple, by fernando, Looby and kingsley.

So Bunnylump, Laura, kathlyn and Looby were fried by pushing their own buttons and lose 5 points.
Scurra, LAT, fernando and kingsley all survive and get 5 points.
Scurra gets 5 bonus points for pushing the Green button.

Current score:
LAT 52
Bunnylump 49
fernando 34
kathlyn 21
Looby 17
Scurra 16
kingsley 10
Laura 0

[Cenwulf]

There is now a vacancy for n00b 9.
Please post if you wish to play.

[MBH]

Go on - I'm in (but feel free to 'prompt' me if I'm late with answers and holding the game up)

[Cenwulf]

n00b 9 is MBH: welcome to the game.
Here's round 9:
Goat Game
The opposite to a Sheep Game: you have to try and think of something which nobody else thinks of.

I require a list containing one example of each of the following:
1) A Shakespearian character beginning with T
2) A writer whose surname begins with B
3) A drink beginning with C
4) A town or city in the UK beginning with L
5) A country beginning with A
6) An animal (mammal, amphibian or reptile) beginning with R
7) Something to eat beginning with S
8) A bird beginning with P
9) A girl's name beginning with J

Scoring:
2 points for each Goat word (an item on nobody else's list)
-2 points for each Sheep word (an item on the lists of another n00b) (Does not apply to n00b 9 MBH)
+9 bonus points for a full Goat list (all your words are Goats)
-9 penalty points for a full Sheep list (all your words are Sheep)(Does not apply to n00b 9 MBH)

[Scurra]

May I just check that they all have to be valid answers as well?
Given that we need to find unique answers, making things up would seem like the obvious approach

[MBH]

Somehow I've got an idea tha if he sees something he doesn't recognise he's going to CHECK IT OUT -

[giraffe]

You'd be hard pushed to prove a girl's name doesn't exist, with some of the ones you hear of!

[Cenwulf]

I have adjusted No. 6 as I have received an entry with a bird for that category.
Yes, it is an animal, but I was thinking more of mammals, reptiles or amphibians, not birds or fish.

[kathlyn]

are you continuing with this game Cenwulf:?:

[Cenwulf]

Yes, just had to wait for kingsley's entry. It's now in, so here are the results.
Rather than list everyone's entries, I shall just list the Sheep for each category.
1) A Shakespearian character beginning with T
Bunnylump and Looby both submitted Tranio.
LAT and Scurra both submitted Theristes.

2) A writer whose surname begins with B
No Sheep.

3) A drink beginning with C
LAT and fernando both submitted Cranberry juice.

4) A town or city in the UK beginning with L
No Sheep.

5) A country beginning with A
Bunnylump and MBH both submitted Azerbaijan.
fernando and kathlyn both submitted Australia.

6) An animal (mammal, amphibian or reptile) beginning with R
LAT and Laura both submitted Raccoon.

7) Something to eat beginning with S
No Sheep.

8) A bird beginning with P
LAT and Looby both submitted Ptarmigan.

9) A girl's name beginning with J
No Sheep.

Score for this round:
Bunnylump 7 Goats, 2 Sheep: +14 -4 = 10
LAT 5 Goats, 4 Sheep: +10 -8 = 2
fernando 7 Goats, 2 Sheep: +14 -4 = 10
kathlyn 8 Goats, 1 Sheep: +16 -2 = 14
Looby 7 Goats, 2 Sheep: +14 -4 = 10
kingsley 9 Goats: +18 +9 bonus points =27
Scurra 8 Goats, 1 Sheep: +16 -2 = 14
Laura 8 Goats, 1 Sheep: +16 -2 = 14
MBH 8 Goats (1 Sheep, which doesn't count): +16

Current score:
Bunnylump 59
LAT 54
fernando 44
kingsley 37
kathlyn 35
Scurra 30
Looby 27
MBH 16
Laura 14

[Cenwulf]

There is a vacancy for n00b 10. Who wants to play?

[LAT]

Hmmm! I'm usually quite good at being a sheep - not so good as a goat I see

[MBH]

Yes, just had to wait for kingsley's entry....

kingsley 9 Goats: +18 +9 bonus points =27

Giraffe... exactly how much of a computer wiz is she? And is it likely that she backtracked the PuzzleBrains login and hacked into Cenwulf's computer to see what we had all written???


I'm so glad my double-bluff on the "Animal beginning with R" worked

[Bunnylump]

I'm obviously a far better goat than a sheep. Maybe I'm a nanny. (Lord, that's a scary thought).