February / March 100 Word Anonymous Challenge 2023 Discussion

[THX1138]

Congratulations @therapist! Voted for it both times.

 

[therapist]

Thanks everyone. 'Which is the Better Life' and 'Range Anxiety' were both perfect stories, I did not expect to win this tie breaker. Congrats to those two authors.

 

[Wayne Mack]

Congratulations, @therapist for the win and to 'Which is the Better Life' and 'Range Anxiety' for very fine stories and an excellent showing.

 

[farntfar]

To give you further aid in the guessing game here is the list of authors with the number of entries they made:

AnRoinnUltra_____________5
BT Jones_________________2
Chrispy__________________3
Christine Wheelwright____2
Cloudy_Day_______________2
Elckerlyc________________3
farntfar_________________4
Guttersnip_______________1
JS Wiig__________________2
paranoid marvin__________1
Shyrka___________________1
Snicklefritz_____________2
Starbeast________________2
therapist________________7
THX1138__________________5
Victoria Silverwolf______1
Wayne Mack_______________1

 

[farntfar]

And for those of you who don't want to play the guessing game, here is the list of entries with their authors:

Spoiler: Entries and authors

Victoria Silverwolf______The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
THX1138__________________Morning Coffee
THX1138__________________The Whaler
THX1138__________________My Love
AnRoinnUltra_____________The rhetoric of bravery
Guttersnip_______________Heel Turn
BT Jones_________________Black on Red
Elckerlyc________________Dear contributor,
Christine Wheelwright____Range Anxiety
THX1138__________________Crosshairs
therapist________________How the honorable Zim Fluxenlozenge lost his job
farntfar_________________A timely arrival
Snicklefritz_____________Message from the Time Travelers Institute Logs
Shyrka___________________No Place Like Home
JS Wiig__________________Challenged
therapist________________Lime Your Boots.
therapist________________War on Terra: Deshi Xu makes more terrible choices
AnRoinnUltra_____________Absolutely no consequences
AnRoinnUltra_____________The Broken Army
paranoid marvin__________The Lamentation of Mr. Wensleydale
Elckerlyc________________<Dr Friedhoff’s Archives> Audio-log (excerpt) - Transcription
therapist________________A ban on public eye contact.
AnRoinnUltra_____________Temba, his arms open wide
farntfar_________________Needled by Giant haystacks.
therapist________________The Blood Diamond Store
Christine Wheelwright____End of Life
Wayne Mack_______________Lawyer’s Lament
Snicklefritz_____________New Dilmun
AnRoinnUltra_____________The eternal optimism of Dob Gullibocity
BT Jones_________________The Eye in the Sky
farntfar_________________Original Regret
therapist________________Consciousness Swap Helmets.
THX1138__________________Which is the Better Life?
Chrispy__________________Non, rien de rien
Chrispy__________________Avec mes souvenirs.
Cloudy_Day_______________The weight of a world
therapist________________Consciousness Swap Helmets.
Cloudy_Day_______________By no uncertain means
THX1138__________________Which is the Better Life?
Chrispy__________________Regretful sex
Elckerlyc________________Dear Roy,
farntfar_________________Never as good as the first time.
therapist________________An Intelligent Man
JS Wiig__________________Pulling
Starbeast________________Because You're Special
Starbeast________________The Last Astronaut on Planet Arachnia

 

[Christine Wheelwright]

Well done @therapist (a well deserved win).

 

[JS Wiig]

@therapist congratulations!

 

[paranoid marvin]

Congratulations therapist!

 

[farntfar]

Is no-one playing the guessing game this month?

To give you a bit of a push, here again is the list of entries/
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Morning Coffee
The Whaler
My Love
The rhetoric of bravery
Heel Turn
Black on Red
Dear contributor,
Range Anxiety
Crosshairs
How the honorable Zim Fluxenlozenge lost his job
A timely arrival
Message from the Time Travelers Institute Logs
No Place Like Home
Challenged
Lime Your Boots.
War on Terra: Deshi Xu makes more terrible choices
Absolutely no consequences
The Broken Army
The Lamentation of Mr. Wensleydale
<Dr Friedhoff’s Archives> Audio-log (excerpt) - Transcription
A ban on public eye contact.
Temba, his arms open wide
Needled by Giant haystacks.
The Blood Diamond Store
End of Life
Lawyer’s Lament
New Dilmun
The eternal optimism of Dob Gullibocity
The Eye in the Sky
Original Regret
Consciousness Swap Helmets.
Which is the Better Life?
Non, rien de rien
Avec mes souvenirs.
The weight of a world
Consciousness Swap Helmets.
By no uncertain means
Which is the Better Life?
Regretful sex
Dear Roy,
Never as good as the first time.
An Intelligent Man
Pulling
Because You're Special
The Last Astronaut on Planet Arachnia

Here is the list of authors and their entry counts:
AnRoinnUltra_____________5
BT Jones_________________2
Chrispy__________________3
Christine Wheelwright____2
Cloudy_Day_______________2
Elckerlyc________________3
farntfar_________________4
Guttersnip_______________1
JS Wiig__________________2
paranoid marvin__________1
Shyrka___________________1
Snicklefritz_____________2
Starbeast________________2
therapist________________7
THX1138__________________5
Victoria Silverwolf______1
Wayne Mack_______________1

And here is a link to Therapist's guess which was correct in 6 of his 7 guesses.

My guesses:

Victoria Silverwolf
Which is the Better Life

AnnRoinUltra
Absolutely no consequences
The Broken Army
The eternal optimism of Dob Gullibocity
The rhetoric of bravery

Paranoid Marvin
The Lamentation of Mr. Wensleydale

Snicklefritz
New Dilmun

You can play it by recognition of an author's style, or as a simple logic game, as more and more guesses are made.
As with therapist try, I will simply give you the number of correct guesses you make in each case.

So please try and make it interesting by making several guesses at a time, as therapist did.
Simply saying, "I think New Dilmun was written by Snicklefritz" with nothing else, I find a bit dull, but I will give you you count, nevertheless.
(In this case, I would have to say, "You got 1 out of 1 guesses correct.")

 

[THX1138]

Well, the only one that I could take a guess on is Range Anxiety. At first I thought VS wrote it, but as I read it more it sounds more like Christine Wheelwright's style of writing, so I'm going with Chistine.

Still thinking on Dear Roy...I'll get back later ...

 

[farntfar]

When I asked you to make several guesses at the same time, I didn't really mean several guesses for the same entry. But never mind. .

You are correct with your second guess. Range Anxiety was indeed written by Christine Wheelwright.

 

[THX1138]

Sorry @Fantfar!
Just conversing.

 

[THX1138]

OK, here is my go at it.

Dear Roy - Elckerlyc
No Place Like Home - Starbeast
The Weight of the World - Guttersnipe
Consciousness Swap Helmets - @Snicklefritz

 

[farntfar]

@THX1138
You have 1 correct out of the 4.

 

[Starbeast]

Congratulations Therapist
@therapist​

 

[elvet]

My guesses:
AnRoinUltra
The rhetoric of bravery
How the honorable Zim Fluxenlozenge lost his job
Temba, his arms open wide
The eternal optimism of Dob Gullibocity
Absolutely no consequences

Crispy
Non, rien de rien
Avec mes souvenirs.
The Weight of a World
Elckerlyc
Heel Turn
Dear contributor,
A ban on public eye contact.
Victoria Silverwolf
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams

 

[farntfar]

Elvet, who is taking, I think, her first turn from the other side of the guessing game, has 8 correct guesses out of 12, some of which were repeats of other guesses.

One piece of information which may help, if your playing it by logic.
Two authors have had all their entries guessed so far, but not necessarily by the same guesser.

 

[THX1138]

Going off of the titles, I do see two that might be by the same author, maybe ...

Elckerlyc
Dear Roy
Dear Contributor

(Fingers crossed!)

 

[farntfar]

Fair enough. Both these guesses have already been made.
One by you. One by Elvet.

They are both correct.

 

[THX1138]

I'll share it with Elvet.