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Gee, it's great to be back writing another column
for Sportalicious! I've been away with some medical
mishaps lately, but it gave me time to leaf through some of
the once-missing Isaac Newton journals sent out to me from the
Stat of the Month Club. Maximum threshold? Are you kidding me?
Anyway, when I found out that Sportalicious' technical staff was
developing Sportalicious! Hangman
I just knew I should be the one to devise the scoring system.
After all, Hangman has long been a game without scoring and I've
always felt that just wasn't right. Merely hanging the man is
not "scoring." You can't chart that - I've tried.
I've long been a fan of scoring in general, but to think that
I could devise a scoring system from scratch gave me goose pimples.
Literally. They're sorta tough to get rid of, actually. Anyway,
I'm sure you're eager to get to the formula.
Everyone knows that it's tougher to get the shorter words. Limited
correct plays with a large sample of letters equals higher points
distribution. To simply factor letter replication with limbs left
to hang would be a gross mistake. Sorta like the North Carolina
coach saying the naughty words to the reporter as he went to the
locker room after his team lost the NCAA championship game Monday
night. Now that was bad math! Ha Ha!
Anyway, although I'm usually opposed to offering bonuses for what
is really rather simple to achieve, based on "pressure"
from our tech department I've included a bonus for each completed
word. The formula entails Y over 5 degrees of minimality plus
the length of limbs left minus 3/4 of which scoring round you're
in.
See? Easy as Pi. Oh golly, that makes me chuckle.
Mister Stats
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