Information (Skim through if you haven't)
How to Play
A lot of you have probably viewed the Week 1 thread, but just as a refresher and to make some changes, here it is again.
From Week 2 forth, 15 words will be provided with their respective audios, each containing an example sentence. The audio will be read by either a General American Male TTS, or a British Female TTS.
Players then guess how each word is spelled and submit them in a Google Form. A few extra instructions are included there as well. If you guess incorrectly, I then manually check your guess and calculate your guess accuracy syllable-by-syllable. More information on that in §Scoring.
After every week has passed, the form will close at around Friday 4PM GMT, and the scores will be tallied up in a spreadsheet, where the winners are determined.
A new week starts at around Saturday 4AM GMT.
Please don’t discuss your answers with people who haven’t guessed, or in public. Don’t post your answers here either. Please don’t deliberately try to cheat, in ways such as Googling, speech to text, etc. It makes it unfair for other people, and highly against the spirit of the challenge, or anything in that matter.
Prizes
The top users of each round will receive some amount of tokens.
1st - 1 token.
2nd - 2/3 tokens.
3rd - 1/3 tokens.
4th - 1/4 tokens.
5th - 1/6 tokens.
6th - 1/12 tokens.
7th&8th - 1/24 tokens.
9th&10th - 1/36 tokens.
>10th - 1/216 tokens.
Tokens can be redeemed for supporter tags,or a bunch of other random useless stuff. You can also gift other people tokens by DMing or posting below. Listed below. Post what else you’d like to see!
Supporter tag - 1 token per USD.
Scoring
Each word has a point value ranging from 5 to 10, calculated with this formula:
If you guess correctly, you get that amount of points. Simple. But if you don’t, then no worries, because you can still get some points for guessing as accurately as possible. The maximum value for incorrect guesses is calculated as follows:
How many points you get is determined separately.
Accuracy calculation can be best explained with an example.
Word #10 of week #1’s event was ebullience.
If you guess something like “eboliance”, you won’t just get a flat 0 any more. Instead, you’ll get an accuracy score.
Comparing your guess and the answer per syllable, we get:
Syllable 1: e | e - Correct.
Syllable 2: bul | bo - 1/3 correct.
Syllable 3: lience | liance - 5/6 correct.
2 letters are incorrect, and 1 letter is missing.
In the end, your accuracy will be 5.5/10, or 0.55. All the extra syllables will be omitted, but please keep your guesses within reasonable length. In addition, extra, missing, or incorrect letters in a syllable count as -0.5 correct letters.
How to Play
A lot of you have probably viewed the Week 1 thread, but just as a refresher and to make some changes, here it is again.
From Week 2 forth, 15 words will be provided with their respective audios, each containing an example sentence. The audio will be read by either a General American Male TTS, or a British Female TTS.
Players then guess how each word is spelled and submit them in a Google Form. A few extra instructions are included there as well. If you guess incorrectly, I then manually check your guess and calculate your guess accuracy syllable-by-syllable. More information on that in §Scoring.
After every week has passed, the form will close at around Friday 4PM GMT, and the scores will be tallied up in a spreadsheet, where the winners are determined.
A new week starts at around Saturday 4AM GMT.
Please don’t discuss your answers with people who haven’t guessed, or in public. Don’t post your answers here either. Please don’t deliberately try to cheat, in ways such as Googling, speech to text, etc. It makes it unfair for other people, and highly against the spirit of the challenge, or anything in that matter.
Prizes
The top users of each round will receive some amount of tokens.
1st - 1 token.
2nd - 2/3 tokens.
3rd - 1/3 tokens.
4th - 1/4 tokens.
5th - 1/6 tokens.
6th - 1/12 tokens.
7th&8th - 1/24 tokens.
9th&10th - 1/36 tokens.
>10th - 1/216 tokens.
Tokens can be redeemed for supporter tags,
Supporter tag - 1 token per USD.
Scoring
Each word has a point value ranging from 5 to 10, calculated with this formula:
wordValue = 10 - 5 * correctGuess / totalGuess
If you guess correctly, you get that amount of points. Simple. But if you don’t, then no worries, because you can still get some points for guessing as accurately as possible. The maximum value for incorrect guesses is calculated as follows:
wrongValue = wordValue * (1 - 0.5*averageAccuracy)
How many points you get is determined separately.
wrongPoints = wrongValue * accuracy
Accuracy calculation can be best explained with an example.
Word #10 of week #1’s event was ebullience.
If you guess something like “eboliance”, you won’t just get a flat 0 any more. Instead, you’ll get an accuracy score.
Comparing your guess and the answer per syllable, we get:
Syllable 1: e | e - Correct.
Syllable 2: bul | bo - 1/3 correct.
Syllable 3: lience | liance - 5/6 correct.
2 letters are incorrect, and 1 letter is missing.
In the end, your accuracy will be 5.5/10, or 0.55. All the extra syllables will be omitted, but please keep your guesses within reasonable length. In addition, extra, missing, or incorrect letters in a syllable count as -0.5 correct letters.
Click to open
NA:
BR:
NA:
BR:
NA:
BR:
Word #1
NA:
BR:
Word #2
NA:
BR:
Word #3
NA:
BR:
Click to open
NA:
BR:
NA:
BR:
NA:
BR:
Word #4
NA:
BR:
Word #5
NA:
BR:
Word #6
NA:
BR:
Click to open
NA:
BR:
NA:
BR:
NA:
BR:
Word #7
NA:
BR:
Word #8
NA:
BR:
Word #9
NA:
BR:
Click to open
NA:
BR:
NA:
BR:
NA:
BR:
Word #10
NA:
BR:
Word #11
NA:
BR:
Word #12
NA:
BR:
Click to open
NA:
BR:
NA:
BR:
NA:
BR:
Word #13
NA:
BR:
Word #14
NA:
BR:
Word #15
NA:
BR:
A total of 10 responses have been made, and this time around, Karmine takes it home! With Dementedduck and Blushing taking 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Here is the full leaderboard:
Karmine - 90.708 pts - 1st
Dementedduck - 82.633 pts - 2nd
Blushing - 82.05 pts - 3rd
Kobold84 - 79.5 pts - 4th
Lapizote - 75.583 pts - 5th
rynxelia_ - 75.442 pts - 6th
lenpai - 70.886 pts - 7th
Reihynn - 68.246 pts - 8th
Silicosis 2 - 64.467 pts - 9th
Corne2Plum3 - 41.202 pts - 10th
The full spreadsheet:
Last week's answers and example sentences
#1 Separate: Harry felt oddly separate from everyone around him, whether they were wishing him good luck or hissing “We’ll have a box of tissues ready, Potter” as he passed.
#2 Raspberry: During a break before going to graduate school, they started a roadside organic farm on a few rented acres, growing raspberries and baby salad greens.
#3 Coolly: But young men didn't--at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't--drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound.
#4 Affluent: As one of the lucky, happily married affluents, I find that sometimes I can’t win in conversations with relatives and casual friends.
#5 Pharaoh: He might say, for example, that like the pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the prime minister of South Africa was raising an army.
#6 Subpoena: The committee sent subpoenas to dozens of well-known actors, directors, screenwriters, and other professionals suspected of being affiliated with communism.
#7 Moiety: When Oliver Sacks went to work at the Highlands hospital in Brooklyn in the late sixties, he found victims of this third moiety of patients still alive on long-stay psychiatric wards.
#8 Desiccate: There were some old rusted tools lying about and some desiccated straw lined the far left corner, but half the roof was either missing or about to fall off.
#9 Coliseum: I could make out an open-air market filled with colorful tents, a stone amphitheater built on one side of the mountain, a hippodrome and a coliseum on the other.
#10 Ululate: The moment each woman guest arrived in the yard, and before she reached the door, she ululated, making a loud trilling sound, to announce that she shared our joy.
#11 Pizzazz: Rhinestones and golden buttons added pizzazz to jumpsuits and jackets, while many looks carried intricate flower embroideries and ruffles.
#12 Autochthonous: Florida first had dengue autochthonous transmission in 2009–10, with the Department of Health tallying a total of 88 cases “associated with Key West,” the southernmost part of the state.
#13 Regmaglypt: The largest Henbury meteorites show beautiful regmaglypt structures. Some are oriented, displaying a shieldlike form produced when a meteoroid passes through the atmosphere without tumbling and ablates, primarily on the leading side.
#14 Shrithe: He realized the monster meant to attack Heorot after the blue hour, when black night has settled over all— when shadowy shapes come shrithing dark beneath the clouds.
#15 Gramarye: Whate'er he did of gramarye, was always done maliciously. He flung the warrior on the ground, and the blood welled freshly from the wound.
#2 Raspberry: During a break before going to graduate school, they started a roadside organic farm on a few rented acres, growing raspberries and baby salad greens.
#3 Coolly: But young men didn't--at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't--drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound.
#4 Affluent: As one of the lucky, happily married affluents, I find that sometimes I can’t win in conversations with relatives and casual friends.
#5 Pharaoh: He might say, for example, that like the pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the prime minister of South Africa was raising an army.
#6 Subpoena: The committee sent subpoenas to dozens of well-known actors, directors, screenwriters, and other professionals suspected of being affiliated with communism.
#7 Moiety: When Oliver Sacks went to work at the Highlands hospital in Brooklyn in the late sixties, he found victims of this third moiety of patients still alive on long-stay psychiatric wards.
#8 Desiccate: There were some old rusted tools lying about and some desiccated straw lined the far left corner, but half the roof was either missing or about to fall off.
#9 Coliseum: I could make out an open-air market filled with colorful tents, a stone amphitheater built on one side of the mountain, a hippodrome and a coliseum on the other.
#10 Ululate: The moment each woman guest arrived in the yard, and before she reached the door, she ululated, making a loud trilling sound, to announce that she shared our joy.
#11 Pizzazz: Rhinestones and golden buttons added pizzazz to jumpsuits and jackets, while many looks carried intricate flower embroideries and ruffles.
#12 Autochthonous: Florida first had dengue autochthonous transmission in 2009–10, with the Department of Health tallying a total of 88 cases “associated with Key West,” the southernmost part of the state.
#13 Regmaglypt: The largest Henbury meteorites show beautiful regmaglypt structures. Some are oriented, displaying a shieldlike form produced when a meteoroid passes through the atmosphere without tumbling and ablates, primarily on the leading side.
#14 Shrithe: He realized the monster meant to attack Heorot after the blue hour, when black night has settled over all— when shadowy shapes come shrithing dark beneath the clouds.
#15 Gramarye: Whate'er he did of gramarye, was always done maliciously. He flung the warrior on the ground, and the blood welled freshly from the wound.
List of currently unspent tokens (in fractions)
Kobold84 - 25/12
Dementedduck - 5/4
Karmine - 7/6
Blushing - 1
Farfocele - 5/6
lenpai - 3/8
Lapizote - 1/6
abraker - 1/12
rynxelia_ - 1/12
Corne2Plum3 - 1/18
nominomu - 1/24
Manishh - 1/24
Reihynn - 1/24
Nuuskamiikkunen - 1/36
Silicosis 2 - 1/36
Dementedduck - 5/4
Karmine - 7/6
Blushing - 1
Farfocele - 5/6
lenpai - 3/8
Lapizote - 1/6
abraker - 1/12
rynxelia_ - 1/12
Corne2Plum3 - 1/18
nominomu - 1/24
Manishh - 1/24
Reihynn - 1/24
Nuuskamiikkunen - 1/36
Silicosis 2 - 1/36
Week 1 - Kobold84 & Farfocele
Week 2 - Kobold84
Week 3 - Karmine