Prediction Game: How many Q's will "500 Questions" get to?

[BobF]

404

403, I think question 404 will not be found

Well played. Well played, indeed.

Thanks. I'm a web developer, I couldn't let that one pass.

[KazooJ!fan]

400

[econgator]

404

403, I think question 404 will not be found

Well played. Well played, indeed.

Thanks. I'm a web developer, I couldn't let that one pass.

I was just going to put 404 -- Not Found, but that really wouldn't make sense. I was just going to change it to 405, but figured, eh, I'm sure someone will do something with it.

[ZachTheRiah]

404

403, I think question 404 will not be found

Well, 403 is forbidden. I'll take 399.

[MinnesotaMyron]

And that's game. See you all in a couple hours.

[Bamaman]

375

[bpmod]

And that's game. See you all in a couple hours.

I'm gonna save my guess for later, K?

Brian

[mfc248]

Looks like the final count is 371, and jeff6286 is the winner. I thought I was going to hit the number, but after the second wrong at the end, I realized that there would be only one more question.

[brick]

Well. There goes my last shred of pride.

[MinnesotaMyron]

Looks like the final count is 371, and jeff6286 is the winner. I thought I was going to hit the number, but after the second wrong at the end, I realized that there would be only one more question.

I was kind of hoping someone would do this, and take the pressure off me, so thanks to mfc248 for that. 371 is indeed the final tally, so let's go to the tote board that I'm gonna have to whip up now. Hold on a sec.

[Insert extraneous "GONE!"s, here.]

666 - harrumph
425 - PlayerWM86
404 - econgator
403 - BobF
400 - KazooJ!fan
400 - MinnesotaMyron
399 - ZachTheRiah
390 - The Talking Mime
382 - dhkendall
379 - Silverfox
375 - Bamaman (late entry, but only just)
374 - patkav
373 - mfc248
371 - ACTUAL CORRECT ANSWER
369 - (BuzzerBlog's estimate)
366 - jeff6286
361 - Roadgeek Adam
350 - nightreign
337 - Johnblue
1 - brick

However, jeff6286 is not the winner, because Price is Right is the first tiebreaker, not the overall rule. The overall rule is closest wins, which means that we have

3rd place (Pride): jeff6286 (off by 5, under)
2nd place (More pride): patkav (off by 3, over)
1st place (Most pride): mfc248 (off by 2, over)

Bamaman's ever-so-slightly-late guess was off by only 4, and would have been good for 3rd, if he'd been just a smidge quicker. I hereby award you the consolation prize of "the chance to be a challenger who just stands there, unable to really influence the game much at all".

Thanks all for playing. And honestly, I really enjoyed watching the show, obvious gameplay deficiencies notwithstanding.

-M3

[Bamaman]

Bamaman's ever-so-slightly-late guess was off by only 4, and would have been good for 3rd, if he'd been just a smidge quicker. I hereby award you the consolation prize of "the chance to be a challenger who just stands there, unable to really influence the game much at all".

It could have been worse. If Adam had been able to finish the board (and I suspect if he had they would have cut out some of the chatter and squeezed in four more questions) I would have been exactly right in my guess. Strangely, I did not take into account he might end after 150 questions when making my guess. I saw they had 85 on the last two hour episode and added that to the previous total and added a couple more just for the heck of it.

I suspect if I had gotten it on the nose and still not won I'd have felt a lot like the guy who dethroned Adam.

[brick]

This is so shameful.

[patkav]

::basks::

As Bamaman noted, I feel pretty much like a moron for not calculating an even-50 finish for Adam. D'oh!