Sean D

Sean D a very nice bottle of wine or world peace?

Sean D

Sean D Just to clarify, this is (like the poem) your entirely subjective choice of what is the 'best' list?

Matty Artell

Matty Artell Coal or a satsuma?

Tom Cappleman

Tom Cappleman sweet or savoury?

Sarah Binns

Sarah Binns concrete or abstract?

Adam Latchford

Adam Latchford Dialysis or Sprouts

Matthew Brockwell

Matthew Brockwell Sock or sack?

Chris Hare

Chris Hare In order:

Sean D: World peace
Sean D (2): Entirely subjective, yes.
Matty Artell: Coal
Tom Cappleman: Savoury
Sarah Binns: Concrete
Adam Latchford: Sprouts
Matthew Brockwell: Sock

Matthew Tassier

Matthew Tassier Daddy or chips?

Fiona T

Fiona T Tinky-Winky or Laa-Laa?

Jason C.

Jason C. Swans (a-swimming) or geese (a-laying)?

Chris Hare

Chris Hare Matthew Tassier: Chips
Fiona T: Tinky-Winky
Jason C.: Geese

Maria Chandler

Maria Chandler Lapland or Sunderland?

Chris Hare

Chris Hare Maria Chandler: Lapland.

Trevor Potts

Trevor Potts Cake or death?

Trevor Potts

Trevor Potts For the avoidance of doubt, the above is not a threat. Nor is it an offer of confectionery, in truth.

Matt OC

Matt OC Gifts or cash?

Chris Hare

Chris Hare Trevor Potts: Cake
Matt OC: Cash

Elizabeth Beer

Elizabeth Beer Lynx or bulldog, as in toiletry sets?

Chris Hare

Chris Hare Elizabeth Beer: Bulldog

David Holmes

David Holmes Food or drink?

Chris Hare

Chris Hare David Holmes: Food

Tal Lessner

Tal Lessner Vacation - City or Nature?

Chris Hare

Chris Hare Tal Lessner: Nature

Ravi Choudhary

Ravi Choudhary Out of curiousity, Chris - despite forgetting to ask you for help in informing the list-making, is it ok or not ok to go ahead with putting up a list by a participant, in the comments section of his/her own game?

Chris Hare

Chris Hare You can clarify your list in the comments section of your game, yes. Your question seems to imply that you might want to do that for a player that isn't yourself, which I suppose you can also do, but probably shouldn't.

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Ravi Choudhary

Ravi Choudhary Thanks, Chris. As to your 2nd sentence, wasn't sure how to word my question to you. Definitely don't want to make a list for another participant.

Thomas Carey

Thomas Carey Flymo EasiGlide 330V 33cm Corded Hover Lawnmower - 1700W or McGregor Corded 34cm Rotary Lawnmower and 25cm Grass Trimmer?

Chris Hare

Chris Hare Thomas Carey: McGregor Corded 34cm Rotary Lawnmower and 25cm Grass Trimmer

Chris Hare

Chris Hare I'm in the process of transferring your lists to the spreadsheet for general viewing; if I can get that done tomorrow then the results should follow fairly swiftly.

Chris Hare

Chris Hare Results are now up; the review is here: https://www.apterous.org/ticket_view.php?ticket=7119

Thanks for playing!

Tourney round: The Twelve Games of Chris-mas: Vol. III: So, Hare it is, Merry Chris-mas: Game Twelve

<< Game Eleven

Notes from the organizer: Game Twelve! Exit through the gift shop.

For your twelfth and final dose of festive frivolity, I'm giving you a Hypergoat Letters Attack. Your task is to write the best Chris-mas list; that is, make a list of things that I'd most like Father Chris-mas* to leave underneath the Chris-mas tree. You can choose how you do this. For example, you can declare RED in round one and SOCKS in round two, to make RED SOCKS as an item (and so on, with as many adjectives per noun as you like), or you can make a list of twenty nouns instead, or anywhere in between. Invalid declarations won't count towards your list.

The BONUS TOURNAMENT POINT will be awarded to any player who declares a valid word of ten letters or more.

To help you with this task and inform your list-making, each player may, in the comments of this page, ask me no more than one question of the form "X or Y?"; I'll answer them with whichever of X or Y I would prefer to receive.

If you have any questions about the rules, scoring, or anything else pertaining to this tourney, please feel free to ask.

Here is a spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ihS3JL1pa50yoy-U7fJ55vhry0rynVbOsW6Z_lWgNdM/edit?usp=sharing


*Father Chris-mas is not to be confused with the jolly, bearded, red-clad fellow who pops down the chimney and leaves gifts for children. Father Chris-mas is a cantankerous, moustachioed man in a cardigan who thinks that children should be seen and not heard (and preferably not seen either). Ho, ho, ho.

Ran from: 16 December 2024 – 1 January 2025. Format: Hypergoat Letters Attack. Matches: One-off. Level scores: Drawn. Approved.

Organizers: Chris Hare.

Fixtures: 45. Completed: 45.

Results and fixtures

Player 1Player 2Status
Andy SCApterous Prune97 – 0
Dave RobjohnsApterous Prune133 – 0
Martin ThomasApterous Prune84 – 0
Elizabeth BeerApterous Prune116 – 0
Matt OCApterous Prune144 – 0
Sarah BinnsApterous Prune127 – 0
Damian McEvoyApterous Prune102 – 0
Matthew TassierApterous Prune126 – 0
Ian WrayApterous Prune109 – 0
Florence C-LApterous Prune126 – 0
Sean DApterous Prune89 – 0
Jamie FrenchApterous Prune139 – 0
Wesley BartonApterous Prune107 – 0
Elwin CarlosApterous Prune131 – 0
Tom CapplemanApterous Prune137 – 0
Fi ThorneApterous Prune87 – 0
Colin ThompsonApterous Prune106 – 0
Fiona TApterous Prune106 – 0
Zohaib RehanApterous Prune107 – 0
Ben BazzardApterous Prune124 – 0
Thomas CareyApterous Prune126 – 0
Steven OldhamApterous Prune114 – 0
Ian VolanteApterous Prune132 – 0
Matthew BrockwellApterous Prune146 – 0
Martin HurstApterous Prune109 – 0
Anthony EndsorApterous Prune112 – 0
Maria ChandlerApterous Prune99 – 0
Jon ElmerApterous Prune131 – 0
Trevor BissettApterous Prune140 – 0
Adam LatchfordApterous Prune123 – 0
Jack WorsleyApterous Prune109 – 0
Bradley HorrocksApterous Prune113 – 0
Jason C.Apterous Prune123 – 0
Jason TurnerApterous Prune116 – 0
Matty ArtellApterous Prune132 – 0
Steven HardingApterous Prune121 – 0
Dan SpinksApterous Prune99 – 0
Mike LeeApterous Prune121 – 0
Dave KempshallApterous Prune12 – 0
Dan SouthwellApterous Prune126 – 0
Trevor PottsApterous Prune112 – 0
David HolmesApterous Prune135 – 0
Ravi ChoudharyApterous Prune123 – 0
Tal LessnerApterous Prune96 – 0
Richard DeckerApterous Prune118 – 0

Key. Green: winner. Red: loser.

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