[bksvol-discuss] Re: o.t sleep and Jeopardy
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:45:54 -0500
Cindy,
Of course if you buzz in too quickly, the system also locks you out.
Often then someone else buzzes in before you are aloud to try again. This is
true of the Jeopardy! computer game I have that I wrote to Casondra about.
In the game however, there is a sound, no person.
Jake
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From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:41 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: o.t sleep and Jeopardy
> I don't think he was really all that much smarter than
> a lot of the people he played against, but he was
> quicker on the buzzer. I read somewhere that he
> watched the person who controlled when you could buzz
> in. I had read that you can't buzz in until Alex
> finishes reading the question, but I didn't know until
> the article about Ken that there was someone we don't
> see who controls, somewhere, when that is. If you buzz
> too soon, it doesn't --show or sound, I don't know.
> That's probably why we see some of the contestants
> keep hitting their buttons frantically.
>
> I'm sure you know of the blind man, whose name I
> forget, who did so well -- won 5 games I guess-- and
> was in the recent championship contests. He would have
> had the disadvantage of not being able to watch the
> engineer or whatever -- would have to time his buzzer
> anticipating when Alex would end reading the answer.
> I think that's why he didn't do as well in the
> championship rounds. I was routing for him and the New
> York fireman.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> --- Kasondra payne <Kassyp36@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Cindy,
> >
> > Our TV station out here reruns old episodes of
> > Jeopardy during the day.
> > Right now they are rerunning the episodes with Ken
> > Jennings. The other day
> > I was watching one while my husband was taking a nap
> > after a long shift. He
> > woke up and said he dreamed he was in the game, but
> > his buzzer wouldn't
> > work, and he couldn't answer any of the questions.
> > Sleeping and watching TV
> > really does strange things to you. By the way, I
> > might like to play Ken.
> > We know a lot of the same stuff, and we have a lot
> > in common based on the
> > things he said on the show.
> >
> > Kasondra Payne
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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