Here are a couple of answers from a recent game that just aren't correct:

"6. A severe or incapacitating emotional disorder

Your answer: nervous breakdown

nervous breakdown means "a severe or incapacitating emotional disorder"

The correct answer was looter"

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"9. Rocking chair on a stationary base

Your answer: platform rocker

platform rocker means "rocking chair on a stationary base"

The correct answer was myonecrosis"

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My true score would be 15 correct in 59 seconds, not 13 in 59, as currently listed

Yeah, I got screwed twice in one quiz, and my numbers are so unfairly low now:

11. A symbol of cowardice

Your answer: white feather

white feather means "a symbol of cowardice"

The correct answer was rank and file


12. Continue a term of office past the normal period of time

Your answer: hold over

hold over means "continue a term of office past the normal period of time"

The correct answer was invalidism

Ready to cry here.... :0(

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11. A friendly understanding between political powers
Your answer: entente cordiale

entente cordiale means "a friendly understanding between political powers"

The correct answer was shilling

I don't get it? Glitch? Or am I missing something?

12. Continue a term of office past the normal period of time
Your answer: hold over

hold over means "continue a term of office past the normal period of time"

The correct answer was invalidism

That's not a typo folks!

Insomnia strikes 4.40am, so cuppa and quick game of NWW to lull me back to sleep, but now I'm well and truly awake after this. Something seriously wrong here....

Three consecutive X's:

11. Mail that can neither be delivered nor returned
Your answer: dead letter

dead letter means "mail that can neither be delivered nor returned"

The correct answer was shooter

12. Wear away
Your answer: rub off

rub off means "wear away"

The correct answer was astrocyte

13. Advance stealthily or unnoticed; "Age creeps up on you"
Your answer: sneak up

sneak up means "advance stealthily or unnoticed; "Age creeps up on you""

The correct answer was hubbub.

Maybe I'm not awake at all and it's just a dream....

I came to report those same word, lilyalli, plus another. (Hey, I didn't think we all got the same ones?) Also,

1. Small intestines of hogs prepared as food

Your answer: knackwurst

knackwurst means "small intestines of hogs prepared as food"

The correct answer was chitlins

I really got them all correct, but I'm scored as having missed four. Odd that one excellent player got all correct in 45 seconds.

Here's another few...

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Lens used to concentrate light on an object

Your answer: optical condenser

optical condenser means "lens used to concentrate light on an object"

The correct answer was verticality

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The bathroom loofah

Your answer: vegetable sponge

vegetable sponge means "the bathroom loofah"

The correct answer was decennary

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Something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin

Your answer: close shave

close shave means "something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin"

The correct answer was choreography


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Smooth-leaved kale

Your answer: fennel

fennel means "smooth-leaved kale"

The correct answer was digitalis

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If these 4 were marked correctly, I would have had 15/15 in 45 seconds instead of 11/15.

Uh-oh, same thing happened this hour. I got them all correct but had 4 marked wrong. All but one were different numbers from last time. Think I won't play again till this gets fixed: my ratings plunged 7 points last hour and who knows how far this hour.

It's too early in the hour to post those mistakes now. It's the same kind as previously reported, just different words, so I assume the problem isn't in the database itself but in the scoring.

Like the obsessed WW player that I am, I threw caution to the wind, did the quiz again, and was counted wrong for FOUR correct answers this time, as follows:

1. Lens used to concentrate light on an object

Your answer: optical condenser

optical condenser means "lens used to concentrate light on an object"

The correct answer was verticality


5. Smooth-leaved kale

Your answer: fennel

fennel means "smooth-leaved kale"

The correct answer was digitalis


10. The bathroom loofah

Your answer: vegetable sponge

vegetable sponge means "the bathroom loofah"

The correct answer was decennary


13. Something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin

Your answer: close shave

close shave means "something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin"

The correct answer was choreography

Do I win for a record three in one quiz?
2. A color that has hue
Your answer: spectral colour

spectral colour means "a color that has hue"

The correct answer was plyboard

12. A failure of the seller''s guarantee of good title
Your answer: breach of the covenant of warranty

breach of the covenant of warranty means "a failure of the seller''s guarantee of good title"

The correct answer was rave

15. The study and creation of visual works of art
Your answer: fine arts

fine arts means "the study and creation of visual works of art"

The correct answer was melancholy

My standing doesn't seem to have been affected, but I do wonder when we can safely "go back in the water." Hope there'll be some sort of announcement to that effect.

Hi

I just did the latest round of WW and got the following responses:

1. Lens used to concentrate light on an object
Your answer: optical condenser

optical condenser means "lens used to concentrate light on an object"

The correct answer was verticality

5. Smooth-leaved kale

Your answer: collard greens

collard greens means "smooth-leaved kale"

The correct answer was digitalis

10. The bathroom loofah

Your answer: vegetable sponge

vegetable sponge means "the bathroom loofah"

The correct answer was decennary

13. Something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin

Your answer: close shave

close shave means "something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin"

The correct answer was choreography

Umm not sure what is going wrong here - but it is a bit disappointing to have posted what seem to be the right answers and then get told they are wrong.

Hope somebody can look into to it for future games.

Cheers

Carol/Cazza

Sorry I didn't realise that someone else had already posted these.

I would say that something is up...

I got this one, and was confused, but I guess I should count myself lucky that I only got one of these in my set.

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3. One related on the father''s side

Your answer: patrilineal kin

patrilineal kin means "one related on the father''s side"

The correct answer was domine

lol, thanks agony. removed! also used some creativity to remove other possibilities.

I also got the patrilineal kin one "wrong" and also
Everything stated or assumed in a given discussion
Your answer: diffusor
diffuser means "everything stated ..."
The correct answer was universe
Bother!

Hmm definitely looks like a bug. Will close the game for a few mins while I track it down.

Ok, think I found it. Will put changes in for the new hour, and monitor to make sure it all looks sensible.

Thanks, Terry! It worked fine for me a minute ago.

Thanks Terry

I will dip my toe back in the WW water now

That's funny, because I got the close shave, and was marked right on it.

15. Unsatisfactoriness
Your answer: merchandise that is shoddy or inferior

merchandise that is shoddy or inferior is the definition for "dreck"

The correct answer was the quality of being adequate or suitable


Either this answer is wrong, or I did a lot better in school that I thought when I was being told my performance was unsatisfactory.

11. Jargon

Your answer: lan suitable for grazing livestock

lan suitable for grazing livestock is the definition for "rangeland"

The correct answer was a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon

For 'rangeland' - 'lan suitable for' should be 'land suitable for', of course.

Happy WW Typo Trivia!

I don't know what the word is, but I ran across "obscene terms for female genitals" as a wrong answer.

This was another incorrect answer, I think something's missing: southern variety is the definition for "canebrake_rattlesnake".

Thanks, toasted a whole set of genitalia nicknames. lol. didn't realize there were so many!

14. A very evil man

Your answer: judas

judas means "a one-way peephole in a door"

The correct answer was hellhound

I don't get it. Can someone help me out?

What's the problem? A judas is a peephole in a door and a hellhound is a fiend or very evil person.

Of course the judas does take its name from the Biblical Judas but if it had meant him, his name would have been capitalised.

Anybody else having really slow loading times? Or is it just my network? Word Wizard was by far the slowest of the last dozen pages.