Grumbleweed Game Thread: Game XI

[Tube Geek]

60 points

[GuyBarry]

Gotcha! Saved from humiliation

EDIT: And now 31 ahead. How quickly fortunes change...

[GuyBarry]

15 points

[Tube Geek]

[GuyBarry]

Jolly good but I'm still in the lead...

[Tube Geek]

Jolly good but I'm still in the lead...

how? I was ahead, then you stopped me. you don't get my points!

[GuyBarry]

Jolly good but I'm still in the lead...

how? I was ahead, then you stopped me. you don't get my points!

No you weren't. I was 31 ahead, I lost 15 points, so I'm now 16 ahead. The scores are GB 136, TG 120, AC 36.

[Tube Geek]

Jolly good but I'm still in the lead...

how? I was ahead, then you stopped me. you don't get my points!

No you weren't. I was 31 ahead, I lost 15 points, so I'm now 16 ahead. The scores are GB 136, TG 120, AC 36.

I DON'T STEAL YOUR POINTS. THIS IS GRUMBLEWEED NOT NIMBLEWEED. I JUST STOPPED YOU GETTING THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GuyBarry]

Jolly good but I'm still in the lead...

how? I was ahead, then you stopped me. you don't get my points!

No you weren't. I was 31 ahead, I lost 15 points, so I'm now 16 ahead. The scores are GB 136, TG 120, AC 36.

I DON'T STEAL YOUR POINTS. THIS IS GRUMBLEWEED NOT NIMBLEWEED. I JUST STOPPED YOU GETTING THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What are you on about?

Before your spoiler the scores were GB 151, TG 120, AC 36. I claimed 15 points. The claim was unsuccessful, so I went down to 136 points. In Grumbleweed, the unsuccessful player loses the points.

EDIT: I've rechecked and this is the entire scoresheet:

08:42 31/10/16 GB +8
13:02 31/10/16 TG +20
16:52 31/10/16 GB +13
18:51 31/10/16 TG +40
22:59 31/10/16 GB +60
06:12 01/11/16 AC +36
07:28 01/11/16 TG +60
09:59 01/11/16 GB +10
13:11 01/11/16 TG +60
14:47 01/11/16 GB +60
15:57 01/11/16 TG -60 (spoiler at 16:25)
17:16 01/11/16 GB -15 (spoiler at 17:24)

Totals:
GB 8 + 13 + 60 + 10 + 60 - 15 = 136
TG 20 + 40 + 60 + 60 - 60 = 120
AC 36

Agreed?

[A Challenge]

Looks reasonable, to me!

43 Points

[Tube Geek]

Where in the rules does it say I lose the points? IT DOESN'T! You just stop me getting them not take them away!

[GuyBarry]

In exactly the same place as it did for Grumbleweeds I-IX, of course! You posted the rules:

(2) If the time difference between a claim for X points and the next post in the thread is X minutes or more, the player gains X points. If the time difference is less than X minutes, the player loses X points.

[boldface added by me for clarity - I haven't changed the words]

Why would the rules suddenly have changed for this game? It wouldn't be much of a game without that aspect - everyone would simply claim the maximum every time!

And how did AC manage to end up on negative points last time without that rule??????????

[GuyBarry]

Looks reasonable, to me!

Looks reasonable to me as well. Tube Geek must have had a sudden brainstorm. Anyway:

10 points

[GuyBarry]

Just to drive the point home, this is a comment from Grumbleweed IX:

That's 85 for me so far this morning.

No, you haven't scored any points at all this morning. Your claim at 06:02 was invalid because you made the previous valid claim (at 19:29 yesterday). And your spoiler at 07:15 lost TG 34 points rather than scoring them for you. Remember this is Grumbleweed, not Nimbleweed!

To which Tube Geek replied "Lol". He clearly didn't object to losing points on that occasion!

[Tube Geek]

Just to drive the point home, this is a comment from Grumbleweed IX:

That's 85 for me so far this morning.

No, you haven't scored any points at all this morning. Your claim at 06:02 was invalid because you made the previous valid claim (at 19:29 yesterday). And your spoiler at 07:15 lost TG 34 points rather than scoring them for you. Remember this is Grumbleweed, not Nimbleweed!

To which Tube Geek replied "Lol". He clearly didn't object to losing points on that occasion!

Lol