This could be the last year of this game, I fear. The changes are small in nature but could have wide reaching implications for both how the game progresses and how active players are once the game gets going and points are starting to flow.
But first, here is the item list for this year’s calendar:
bauble
biscuits
candle
candy cane
chicken
chimney
christmas jumper
gifts
gingerbread man
house
marshmallows
reindeer
santa
santa hat
skier
sleigh
snowman
stocking
sunglasses
tinsel
toy car
tree
turkey
wellies
xmas pudding
yule log
26 items there, you’ll observe, and a few we’ve never seen before!
The big rule change is that I’ve finally flipped the scoring model back to how it used to be, how I have always wanted it to be, and how it logically should be. I’ll do another post discussing this in more detail but for now all you need to know is that if you guess correctly on day 1, you get 24 points. If you guess correctly on day 2, you score 23, and so on. Stay tuned for thoughts, history, and what I fear the implications could be.
The only other change is that the socials have been turned off this year. This is borne 90% out of the widget that did the posting demanding money to keep going (thus necessitating having to find a new one) and 10% out of the general anti-social media vibe I have going on these days. The latter may have contributed to the lack of motivation to find a new solution for the former. Again I will revisit this point in a future post and elaborate on both the realities and the possible implications going forward.
PINs will be sent out in a few days, until then: get strategising, I guess!
Don’t you dare stop doing this game.