Welcome to POG!

This forum is primarily for playing interactive forum-based games and puzzles such as Werewolf (Mafia), Sheep, 20 Questions, etc.

There are other forums to discuss Video Games and Chess and Other Board Games. The chess forum is new (as of March, 2009) and those topics have previously been covered here. POG is sometimes used to get people together to play an online version of a board game. That is still allowed here. Flash Games are sometimes discussed here, but they are also posted in Laughs or Links. There is a sticky thread there linking to many games.

POG Championship:

The POG Championship is a series of games that began in 2008. The schedule is available here and the standings are posted here. Signups are open to everyone regardless of prior participation. Signup threads are posted prior to the start of each game.

Pogchat:

We have an AIM chatroom called "pogchat". You can join simply by inviting yourself to the room.

Various Links:

• OneMoreLevel - Flash Games
• AddictingGames - Flash Games
• AsoBrain - The Settlers of Catan (online board game)
• Bounced - Diplomacy (site for playing)
• Diplomatic Pouch - Diplomacy (strategy site)
• Diplomacy Archive - Diplomacy (strategy site)
• Dominate Game - Risk (online board game)

Please let me know about any sites that you use which are relevant to this forum and I will add them to the list (note: werewolf links will be placed in the werewolf sticky).

Two Awesome POG created videos:

POG's Music Video
POG does Princess Bride

Mods:

The active mods of this forum at this time (January 2011) are gtpitch, legend42 & Zurvan. If you have any questions or concerns, send a PM to one (or all) of us.

Becoming a POG game mod -

If you run allot of games, you may like to make use of the functions available to members of the 'pog game mod' user group.

Members of this group are able to lock threads in pog that they are the OP of, and can send up to 8 pm's at a time. These are very useful for running WW and other games.

To request membership of the 'pog game mods' group, go to your private message page. On the left, between your PM box and the usual sidebar with the list of forums, a second sidebar will appear. Within that is the section 'networking', select 'group membership' from that section. The next window will allow you to request membership of the 'pog game mods' group.

Soah and I don't have a need to check the requests very frequently, so be sure to shoot him or I a pm that you have lodged a request if you want it seen to quickly.

Please note that just because you ask for membership, your request will not be accepted unless you actually are actively modding games here on pog.

** SHEEP MODS AND PLAYERS PLEASE READ THIS **

As of now, brand new accounts cannot send pm's. This is a new 2p2 policy to prevent PM spam.

We want new players to be able to participate in sheep games, and all other aspects of pog, therefore we have a new user group set up, which new accounts can request membership of, which will allow them to send pm's before meeting the criteria for site-wide pm use.

If you see anyone posting in a thread that they cannot send pm's but want to play, please copy/paste the following into the game thread for them, thanks -

To enable a new account to send pm's, first you need to become a member of the pog messages group. Doing this is simple.

Above the first post in this thread, you will see a My2+2 clicky, with a dropdown menu that appears when you click it. From that menu, please select "contacts".

In the page that opens up, in the second sidebar, under the heading 'networking', select on the option, "Group Membership". From there you will see a list of usergroups available here on 2p2. Check the circle next to the 'join group' in the 'POG Messages' section. Now click the 'join group' button below.

You have just requested the ability to send PM's!

Could whoever copy/pastes the above into the game thread them please send a PM to me, soah, Legend and VR letting us know to accept it, because we won't be checking for requests multiple times a day. Thanks!

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Discussion of this issue is here -

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/59.../#post13191674

Official MSPaint Reveal Thread

A must read to see the hilarity that is POG

See below for rules on sheep/peehs.

Please post in this thread if you start a peehs, post a link to the question thread, and a deadline for submissions.

If you wish to extend the deadline, please post that itt.

When you have closed the game to submissions, please post that itt too, at this point I will delete all posts pertaining to your peehs/sheep.

This way, there should be one place where people can go to look at all the open peehs/sheep, and it will be nice and simple.

I will delete all other posts in this thread apart from posts listing currently open sheep/peehs, so the thread should only be a few posts long at all times.

Feel free to post about other people's games, if there is an open game that isn't here, please post it. If a gam,e has ended and the game is still 'live' itt, post and let me know, even if it's not your game.

Also feel free to post any suggestions about the implementation of this, these posts will not be deleted for a few days for people to see them.

If this is a success, we can look at adding it to an existing sticky, or giving it it's own.

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you can help your peehs/sheep stand out by selecting this icon when posting your OP.

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Sheep Rules

This is a rough draught and if anyone wants to make a more comprehensive set of rules post, please do and I'll copy/paste as required.

The aim in sheep is to match your answer with as many other players as possible. There is no such thing as an incorrect answer, so if someone asks, 'name a mountain' and everybody replys, 'phil Hellmuth' then that was the best sheep answer.

Reverse Sheep Rules

This is a rough draught and if anyone wants to make a more comprehensive set of rules post, please do and I'll copy/paste as required.

The basic aim of reverse sheep (often called peehs) is twofold. First it is to answer the question correctly. The second is to pick a corrcet answer that the fewest number of players will also answer. The game is a combination of trivia and levveling.

The ultimate goal is to get a correct uniqe answer, for which you score 1. If you anser a correct answer that 1 other person answers you score 2, etc. The winner is the person to get the lowest overall score.

There are various ways of punisghing incorrect answers, and each peehs op should state their method. Ask in the thread for clarification of anyrthing you don't understand.

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script for reverse sheep:

Perl scoring script

This script makes scoring a whole lot easier. thanks to StevieG for the work!

sheepulator:

Fleebrog now has a very basic website where the sheepulator can be downloaded:

http://sites.google.com/site/sheepulator/

Everyone who has a copy so far he has e-mailed instructions to. If there is a demand, he will put instructions and examples on the site.

Another Scoring Program:

http://sheepscorer.codeplex.com/

This is Dudd's program that you can use for scoring.

An improved version of Dudd's program:

https://sites.google.com/site/2p2pogstuff/

DarkMagus Scoring Program (released 2/11/12)

Link to program and discussion thread

THUNDERDOME QUESTIONS - Accurate through Oct 11

Geography

• Countries of Asia
• Countries of Africa
• Top 5 Countries by population, by continent
• Top 30 nations by length of coastline.
• Top 30 countries in the world by area
• Name the 25 largest countries in the world by total area.
• Top 35 cities in the world by population density
• Name the most populous cities in the world.
• US State Capitals
• Major Deserts of the World
• Can you name the world's current and former sovereign communist countries?
• Category is largest countries in the world by GDP. Top 50 answers accepted. Go
• 2-letter chunk Country (sporcle quiz)
• Top 40 European cities by population (within city proper)
• Most populated cities in the world
• The 31 Northernmost World Capitals.
• One of the sovereign countries whose (regular) name begins with the letter B.
• Name current and former sovereign communist countries.
• The category is sovereign countries whose official or de facto (majority) language is English.
• German cities by population - top 50,
• Name a country with a land border over 5000 km long (about 3100 miles)
• Countries known to have carried out executions in 2008
• Most populous world cities containing 5 letters or fewer
• Countries with a current travel warning (usually due to safety reasons) according to the US Department of State.
• Countries whose capital is not the largest city.
• Spanish-speaking cities with more than 1 million people
• Countries that have Arabic as an official language.
• UN member states (or sovereign permanent observers) that have a population of less than 2½ million.
• High points of US State
• Landlocked countries
• Countries that produced at least 100,000 bags of coffee in 2006
• World's busiest airports worldwide, by passengers.
• Countries that start with the same letter as its capital city.
• State nicknames.
• US City that is in the top 100 for population, but does not appear in the name of a MLB, NHL, NBA, or NFL team.
• Name a country that is located in more than one continent.
• Name the countries whose national flag contains BOTH the colour blue and red
• 50 most Populous Countries in 2010
• Name the 20 most populous cities of the world with exactly 6 letters in their name (english name)
• Name the countries whose capital city is NOT their most populous city
• I'm looking for countries that share land borders of over 1000km so each answer should consist of a pair of countries.
• Name an island with a (human) population of at least 1,000,000, as of the time of my source.
• Looking for cities in Europe with a metropolitan population of 1m or more.
• I want a country that scored 2.5 or lower on the Corruption Perceptions Index
• Name a nation whose national flag features one or more stars.
• Give me a state of either Brazil or Mexico.
• Looking for independent countries and inhabited dependent territories with a population of less than 1m.
• Looking for the top 50 busiest airports in the world by number of passengers using the figures from 2009

Music

• Billboard Magazine Songs of the Year, 1970-2008
• The list is of singles which have peaked in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 this year.
• Top 200 albums of all time, by The Rolling Stone list
• Best selling studio albums worldwide.
• Artists with 10 or more Platinum Albums
• This is solo US top 40 hits by non-Paul Beatles.
• One of the songs off the Beatles album A Hard Day's Night. (British release).
• Name a single released by Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera
• Songs that have topped the billboard 100 since 2000
• Name the best selling musical artists of all time, worldwide.
• Nirvana Songs
• Top 100 male rock vocalists of all time
• Artists in HiFi's iTunes library.
• Name a song from one of the strokes 3 albums.
• Inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Performers Only
• Rickie Lee Jones won the grammy for Best New Artist in 1980. Since then 31 artists have won the award. Name them.
• In 2010 and 2011, there are 52 musical artists that have recorded a song ranking #1 on the charts in either the United States or the United Kingdom. Name them.

Sport

• Olympic Sports
• Nations who have won at least 1 Winter Olympic medal
• Name a country that sent at least one athlete to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games
• NBA Career Rebounds
• #1 overall NBA draft picks, 68-10
• NBA MVPs since 1980.
• NBA Finals MVP's since 69 inclusive
• Baseball's 20-game winners from 2000-2009, 27 corrects
• One of the players on the 2007 San Antonio Spurs championship roster. 15 answers.
• NCAA basketball teams with multiple championships
• Season Scoring Leaders, 60-10
• Name a player who has recorded 200+ hits in THREE or more seasons since 1900.
• This is 500+ MLB home runs.
• Hall of fame baseball players who started their careers 1900 or after.
• Who are the last 25 players to win an MLB mvp award?
• Name a Yankee or Red Sox player whose uniform number has been retired.
• Career NFL Coaching wins
• NFL Career Passing Yardage
• NFL Career Touchdown Scoring Leaders
• NFL All-time Coaching Wins
• NFL QB's that have thrown for 4,000+ yards in a single season
• 47 different men have been a head coach in a Super Bowl. Name them.
• People who have won the Associated Press NFL Player of the Year/MVP Award from 1957 to the present
• Career Interceptions, Active players
• Name a coach that has led an NFL team to the playoffs since 2000-2001 (inclusive)
• Starting QB's for winning playoff games in the 90's.
• 43 different players have had a 100-yard day (rushing or receiving) in the superbowl.
• Name members of the Super Bowl XXXI winning Green Bay Packers (1996-97)
• Tennis, US Open champions, Male or Female, 90-10
• Tennis, winners of 6 or more Grand Slams
• Topic is WSOP Winners starting in 1970. If they won multiple years you MUST include the year or it will be marked incorrect.
• Players who finished 2nd in the WSOP main event.
• Top 50 FIFA world ranking as of today
• Since 1990, 49 different players have been inside the top 10 in the world golf rankings on December 31st of each given year.
• Name a #1 overall draft pick in the NFL, NBA, MLB, or NHL since 1995 (inclusive).
• How many players with more than 1000 NHL points
• The current top 30 rugby union national teams according to the International Rugby Board.
• Name a football team that has won the European Cup or UEFA Champions League.
• Name the teams with more than one Champions League Group Appearance since the 2000-2001 season(including that one).
• Name the players who scored at least 2 goals in EITHER Euro 2008 or the FIFA 2010 World Cup.
• Players who have won the Golden Ball or Golden Boot (later renamed adidas Golden Shoe) at the FIFA World Cup.
• NBA MVPs
• Players who have scored 7 or more goals in FIFA World Cup Final Tournaments.
• Conferences that earn an automatic NCAA tournament bid. In addition, you must name three teams from that conference AND their team nicknames.
• The 64 teams in the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball tournament (2011)
• Players who have received a red card at a FIFA World Cup
• First awarded in 1983, the Manager of the Year award has been won by 38 different people. name them. (Baseball)
• Nolan Ryan threw a no hitter May 1, 1991. Since then 38 big leaguers have accomplished that feat. Name them. (Note: combined no hitters dont count.)
• 44 active NFL players have 4,000+ receiving yards. name them.
• Name a player that was drafted in the first 60 picks of the 2011 NBA Draft.
• 34 different players have been the STARTING QB for the losing team in a superbowl. Name them.
• 6 or more Sports Illustrated covers since 1990
• As of games ending last night, 42 MLB players had hit at least 20 homers. You tell me who they are.
• Name the AP NFL Defensive Players Of The Year. List goes back to -71.
• Single Season Passing Yardage Leaders.
• Category is the top 50 teams with the most all-time wins in NCAA college basketball.
• Name a team that is now in one of the six (yes, really) major or sorta-major North American sports leagues (see below) that joined that league before 1950.
• Name a hockey penalty.
• Looking for stadium worldwide that hold 75,000 or more spectators.
• Name a male cyclist that has won either the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia or Vuelta a Espana.

TV

• 45 TV shows have been nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Best Comedy since 1980 (inclusive). Name them.
• Primetime Emmy Winners (Lead Actress – Comedy Series) since 1975
• Primetime Emmys- Lead Actor Comedy, 75-09[
• Primetime Emmys, Best Comedy and Best Drama, 1978-present
• 44 people have appeared in 90+ episodes of SNL
• British Sitcoms
• Name a TV series which has aired more than 200 episodes.
• Annual top-rated U.S. TV series from 1950 to 2010
• Topic is names of TV game show hosts.
• Actors in Friends, Cheers or Seinfeld
• Celebrities who have guest voiced on The Simpsons
• This is a list of employers in tv shows. Name the TV show in which a main character works for one of these employers.
• Name all characters in the wire who have appeared in 5+ episodes

Movies

• Top grossing movies in 2009.
• Name the 50 highest grossing actors of all time.
• Best Actress Oscar Winners, 70-09.
• Best Actor Oscars, by award, 70-09
• Best Picture Oscar Nominees, 1990s
• This is movies with 4 or more Oscar acting nominations.
• Actors and actresses with 6 or more Academy Award nominations.
• This is Multiple Acting Oscar Award winners. For the acting.
• Movies directed by Woody Allen.
• Jack Nicholson Movies
• Movies starring Matt Damon or Ben Affleck.
• Name any movie that either Brad Pitt or Michael Keaton has appeared in.
• Name a movie with Al Pacino
• Movies Samuel L Jackson has been in.
• Name the top 50 comedy movies in American cinema as defined by the American Film Institute in 2000
• Name one of the 100 highest rated movies on IMDb
• Name a movie in the top 100 of the IMDB top 250 list
• The 100 greatest movie characters of all time according to Premiere.com
• ESPN's Top 25 Sports Movies, as of 2004
• Name a movie staring an actor/actress from the tv show the office (US)
• Films based on Marvel Comics
• Top 50 SciFi films
• Top 50 Movie Villans
• OK, so I'm going to post a list of movie taglines and you have to pick which movie the tagline comes from. Tag Lines
• Top 50 highest-grossing movies of 2010 in the US
• The 45 most recent nominees for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
• Top 30 Hacker-movies
• Top 50 highest grossing movies of 2010
• Oscar winners as best actor
• Name a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• People who have appeared in at least 3 movies on the IMDb top 250.
• Please name an animated movie that is in the top 50 of worldwide box office gross for animated movies AND an animal that has a speaking part in it.

Other

• Category is Romance Languages
• 50 most spoken languages
• he 27 Most Common English verbs
• Subject is top 60 most commonly used English adjectives
• Video Game systems Released in the US 1995 and on.
• The 50 best global brands
• Top 100 corporations in the world by revenue
• Name the top 10 most powerful brands in the following categories: (beer, spirits, softdrinks)
• Best selling videogame franchises of all time.
• 20 Leading Causes of Deaths, United States
• Fads off the 80's an 90's the list has everything from everything
• 40 greatest comic book characters according to empireonline.com
• Western Empire Roman Emperors
• Top 50 Cartoons
• Indian Tribes
• 2009's Top 100 Most Popular Pornstars
• Video Game systems released in the US between 1972 and 2006.
• Nobel Laureates in Literature.
• In 1985, People Magazine named their first "Sexiest Man Alive". They have done so 24 times in total, go.
• Top 20 street names in the U.S. Name them.
• US Presidents 1900- or English Prime Ministers 1937-
• US Vice Presidents
• First 35 States to enter the Union
• Name the top 30 U.S breweries by sales volume.
• Name this years list of FHM's 100 sexiest women alive.
• Top 100 best novels of the 20th century as judged by the Modern Librarys Board list
• 20 wars that have caused the most estimated casualties in the past 2000 years.
• Plays written by William Shakespeare
• Stephen King novels published, including those written as Richard Bachman, excluding short story collections.
• List of 25 top earning celebrities as from 2008-2009
• Name the 100 most commonly used words (according to the OED) in the English language.
• The topic: From 1903-1971, there were 64 crayola colors. You need to name them. Go.
• Top 10 video games by console
• Chemical elements 1-50 by atomic number
• The top 22 most common religions in the world.
• The 50 greatest cartoon characters ever, from a list on about.com
• 100 Most influential people in the world
• 100 most popular web-addresses
• 100 most followed Twitter accounts
• Highest POG threads by posts
• 27 common household appliances
• Seven letter words from the rack EINRST?
• Breeds of Cow
• Fads from the 2000s
• Top 50 selling car models of all time
• Top 50 largest corporations in the world by revenue
• 50 most web searched woman as of May 6, 2010.
• WW - Top 50 posters from Harry Potter 2
• WW - Name one of the Top 50 players drafted in the POG werewolf draft
• WW - People who played at least one game in 2006
• WW - Name the themes/titles of all long WW games that have run in the last 6 months of 2010
• Nicknames and euphamisms for breasts
• Name a kind of gemstone (precious or semi-precious).
• WW - Werewolf players from the year of 2006.
• WW - People who have played 65+ games according to the werewolf archive
• SIX-LETTER word ending in -Y
• Constellations (those used in modern astronomy; slang accepted).
• Bingos from the following rack: AEINST_ (the _ is a blank)
• Bingos from the following rack: AEINRT? (? is a blank).
• Top 50 vehicle manufacturers, worldwide (2009 data). Includes cars, trucks, and buses. Remember, manufacturer (company), not brand.
• Standard crayola colors according to wikipedia.
• Units of volume measure.
• Fictional materials.
• Name a fighter, bomber, attack, or other armed fixed-wing aircraft currently in service in any air force.
• Themed Monopoly Games Released in the US
• Topic is 63 most common hardwood trees in north america.
• 3 letter words beginning with 'A'.
• Products sold by The Coca-Cola Company in the US
• I have a book in front of me, twenty decisive battle of the world. These are the battles that the authors judged to be most influential in determining the progress of history. You have to name them.
• There are 34 Prime Ministers of Spain (1976-), Presidents of Portugal (1911-), and Presidents of Italy (1946-)
• Members of either the George W. Bush or Barack Obama cabinet.
• US presidents and Great Britain prime ministers, inclusive.
• So I went to wikipedia and copied down a list of all the incantations in the books/movies that were on there. There are 86 of them.
• The list is the houses Baratheon, Stark, Lannister, Tully, Tyrell, Greyjoy, and Martell. Everyone must be living at the start of GoT.
• WORLD POKER TOUR CHAMPIONS
• There are a total of ten letters that are worth four or more points each in Scrabble: f, h, j, k, q, v, w, x, y, and z. I'm looking for English language words that contain at least three of one (or more, I guess) of those letters.
• Alphabets
• Name a winner of the Nobel Prize in either literature or peace.
• Give me a species of animal that has been domesticated by humans.
• There are 77 video games made for the N64 and original Game Boy that have sold 1 million copies. Name them.
• Current presidents/prime ministers/leaders of government.
• Name a commodity that is traded on a major exchange.
• Bones in the human body

*Thanks to TimeLady & Derwipok for the awesome list