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Fortnightly Spelling Challenge #6 [Actually Cursed]

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Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio
TIER ONE
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Word #1

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Word #2

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Word #3

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TIER TWO
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Word #4

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Word #5

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Word #6

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TIER THREE
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Word #7

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Word #8

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Word #9

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TIER FOUR
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Word #10

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Word #11

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Word #12

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TIER FIVE
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Word #13

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Word #14

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Word #15

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WEEK 5 RESULTS

A total of 13 responses have been made, and to no surprise at this point, Kobold84 has won again! With  sadave, a first-timer and Reihynn taking 2nd and 3rd respectively. Karmine seems to be having a bit of a dip. 5 players in total participated for the first time.

Here is the full leaderboard:

Kobold84 - 92.680 pts - 1st
sadave - 89.514 pts - 2nd
Reihynn - 72.570 pts - 3rd
Bridget Enjoyer - 71.868 pts - 4th
rynxelia_ - 70.680 pts - 5th
buregrnfat - 69.133 pts - 6th
Silicosis 2 - 68.267 pts - 7th
legitify - 66.463 pts - 8th
Light_Palette - 62.554 pts - 9th
nominomu - 60.848 pts - 10th
McEndu - 58.257 pts - 11th
Karmine - 53.014 pts - 12th
MusicRitman - 43.845 pts - 13th

(Past victors get fancy italics now)

The full spreadsheet:



List of currently unspent tokens (in fractions)
Kobold84 - 49/12
Karmine - 325/216
Dementedduck - 5/4
Blushing - 1
rynxelia_ - 11/12
Farfocele - 5/6
sadave - 2/3
Reihynn - 5/8
lenpai - 3/8
Lapizote - 1/3
Bridget Enjoyer - 1/4
Corne2Plum3 - 7/72
McEndu - 19/216
abraker - 1/12
burgernfat - 1/12
nominomu - 5/72
Silicosis 2 - 5/72
TomisNotGood - 1/24
Manishh - 1/24
legitify - 1/24
MusicRitman - 7/216
Nuuskamiikkunen - 1/36
Light_Palette - 1/36




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.

Regarding alternative spellings: If an alternative spelling is not due to the differences in NaME and BrE and is used way less frequently than the conventional, it will be considered erroneous. Take this in mind when dealing with possible alternative spellings.

After every fortnight (literally, 14 nights) 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 round 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:

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.


Winners' Hall of Fame

Week 1 - Kobold84 & Farfocele
Week 2 - Kobold84
Week 3 - Karmine
Week 4 - Kobold84
Week 5 - Kobold84
Bridget Enjoyer
got cucked out of 2 points, one from not using a capital letter and another for letter choice (don't want to give it away)
Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio

Bridget Enjoyer wrote:

got cucked out of 2 points, one from not using a capital letter and another for letter choice (don't want to give it away)
Capitalization shouldn't affect it? I'll check.
burgernfat
Did i really misspell my fucking name
Karmine
It just keeps getting harder. :cry:
I'm gonna be at the bottom again.
rynxelia__
this is my downfall
Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio

burgernfat wrote:

Did i really misspell my fucking name
Yes apparently.

MusicRitman

Karmine wrote:

It just keeps getting harder. :cry:
I'm gonna be at the bottom again.
At least you can't get lower than me XD
Mysdibule
Holy woke foke!
Karmine

MusicRitman wrote:

Karmine wrote:

It just keeps getting harder. :cry:
I'm gonna be at the bottom again.
At least you can't get lower than me XD
I wasn't far so we'll see. :D
Light_Palette
why is this one actually impossible 😭😭😭

I'm now a contender for the lowest spot in the list
Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio

Light_Palette wrote:

why is this one actually impossible 😭😭😭

I'm now a contender for the lowest spot in the list
Doubt it.
burgernfat
i couldnt even do tier 1, its so over
Ymir
Congrats BN
Corne2Plum3
Since when you're BN?
vi_xlt
wait WTF I'm gone for 7 months and come back to YyottaCat being a BN? Congrats!
Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio

Ymir wrote:

Congrats BN
Thanks!

Corne2Plum3 wrote:

Since when you're BN?
Literally today.

-Umbreon- wrote:

wait WTF I'm gone for 7 months and come back to YyottaCat being a BN? Congrats!
Thanks as well!
anatharax
wow this was cursed
nominomu
ooh congrats for bn!!
Wimpy Cursed
Damn congrats on bn
Silicosis 2
congrats for bn
but also wtf is this week's words
Arctos Sagittario
I thought this was something I've missed for a month plus

恭喜上bn
Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio
How I'd wish this gained nearly as much traction as my queue form...
Karmine

YyottaCat wrote:

How I'd wish this gained nearly as much traction as my queue form...
Put it in your signature hehe.
Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio

Silicosis 2 wrote:

congrats for bn
but also wtf is this week's words
😈😈😈

Also someone broke the score record somehow on this so...
SilentWuffer
i only found this through your bn queue
Nuuskamuikkunen

SilentWuffer wrote:

i only found this through your bn queue
omg dude hi, nice to see you here
Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio

SilentWuffer wrote:

i only found this through your bn queue
The advertisement worked!
Corne2Plum3
You're really saying that if we pass your english test we get more chance for being accepted lmao


(from your profile)
Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio

Corne2Plum3 wrote:

You're really saying that if we pass your english test we get more chance for being accepted lmao


(from your profile)
This is true though.
SilentWuffer
where are you finding these words omg
legitify
putting 11th century old english words into this is malevolent work
B0ii
did the thing
let's see if I failed or not
Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio

SilentWuffer wrote:

where are you finding these words omg
On Wiktionary mostly.

legitify wrote:

putting 11th century old english words into this is malevolent work
😈
vi_xlt
I have submitted for my first time
Corne2Plum3
I'm too ashamed to play it again
Topic Starter
Hoshimegu Mio

Corne2Plum3 wrote:

I'm too ashamed to play it again
Hey at least you never got a flat 0.
Light_Palette
Soon enough, the tier 1 words will be too hard for me to even know and guess...
Mysdibule
Here we go.
Karmine

Mario wrote:

Here we go.
Mysdibule
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