Game-week analyses - Season 1
Here are the links to the detailed game-week (GW) analyses:
Analysis: Season 1, Game-week 1
Once the first game-week started rolling, we realized that some of the questions were too hard for people to crack, but that didn't stop some of you from cracking it. No questions went unanswered in the first week. The most answered questions in Game-Week 1, with them being answered in every game (i.e. 29 games) were 12 in number. That means 25% of the …
Analysis: Season 1, Game-week 2
Game-week 1 was really a shot in the dark, with us having very limited idea about how it will play amongst the participants. While many loved it, some said that it requires some formatting to make several questions a bit shorter, and as expected some seasoned players complained about the excess of lateral hints. With this feedback, we had trimmed the we…
Analysis: Season 1, Game-week 3
Game-week 3 saw the increase in number of days to play the game from 7 to 9 days, given the number of players who had to skip games due to time-zone differences and incompatibility of their availability compared to the players who they were matched with. We are planning to stick with 9 days to ensure games with four players and space for rescheduling i…
Analysis: Season 1, Game-week 4
Game-week 4 left players thinking about ethical questions in conservation as well as the earworms of sound effects from Star Wars. It was quite an eclectic mix. It featured some of easiest quads of the season as well as some of the hardest. In game-week four, no questions went unanswered. The most answered questions was the same as in the first game-week…
Analysis: Season 1, Game-week 5
Researching about a matter while writing a small question, often sends us down a rabbit hole of interrelated information. That’s exactly what happened to me while writing the Areography quad for game-week 5. It was a great opportunity for me to learn the history of the mapping of Mars, as well the topography of Mars. A lot of it was completely new infor…
Analysis: Season 1, Game-week 6
This game-week analysis seems to be twice as long as the usual analyses. So, pardon the length. Game-week 6 was hands down my favourite set so far. It had two different quads related to the taxonomy (both scientific and common) of wildlife, which is one my favourite trivia topics, and lighthearted questions from the quad on 'IT Crowd’. It also featured s…
Analysis: Season 1, Game-week 7
The penultimate game-week was as exciting as GW6. And this week, we were able to introduce casual players outside of academia, some terms associated with academic publishing, and I didn’t miss the chance to introduce them to the amazing repository of knowledge - Sci-Hub, which breaks barriers and brings knowledge to everyone from the lockers of the thie…
Analysis: Season 1, Game-week 8
We wrapped up the last game-week in the first week of December. The last game-week featured some of most brain-wracking topics and questions. We Broke Bad this week, and decided to go out with a Big Bang, with some help from Mr. Robot - featuring three very popular television series. Binge-worthy content sure do have a good amount of chemistry, math and…