To celebrate my 5000th post, I am running a special game. Those who have been around long enough should know that I have a penchant for playing around and blending formats. This one will be more of that. There will be three groups of five questions.

The first group will be scored as a standard SHEEP: 1 point for each player who gives the same answer you do.

The second group will be scored as a HEEP: every answer gets its sheep score, except that the most frequent answer (or answers, if there is a tie) will score 0, and the second highest scoring answer will have its score multiplied by 1.5.

The third group will be scored as a PEEHS: every answer gets its sheep score, but you want your answer to be unique AND correct. Actually, every answer gets the negative value of its sheep score. In addition, if an answer is INCORRECT, its score will be the score of the most popular response plus the number of distinct answers given, negated, of course. Correctness will be determined by Wikipedia.

By the way, for any new players, the negative business above is an Eric thing. It is not standard PEEHS scoring. I use it when running a blended game.

The final score for each player is the sum of the scores of all fifteen questions.

I am planning to reveal on Tuesday, October 30 (I don't want to interfere with anybody's Halloween plans).

Please PM me an unnumbered and single spaced list of your fifteen responses to the following:

SHEEP

1. An actor named Eric
2. A musician named Eric
3. A writer named Eric
4. An athlete named Eric
5. A Monarch or politician named Eric

Any of these forms of Eric are acceptable: Eric, Erik, Erick, Erich, Eriq. And King Eric is not acceptable for #5 without more specificity.

HEEP

6. A movie that starts with M
7. An element that starts with M
8. An animal that starts with M
9. A food that starts with M
10. A TV show that starts with M

PEEHS

11. A Major League Baseball player with more than 5000 total bases
12. A national capital with a population density of more than 5000 people per square kilometre
13. A river longer than 5000km
14. A US state with more than 5000 lakes
15. An airport that averages more than 5000 passengers per hour

And NO RESEARCH for the last five.

Wondering how anyone would know #12.

I liked e_holle but I don't know this Eric guy from Adam.

this piece of spew means that 5000-6000 is a middling number for population density

In! Will send nearer the time

Oops. That is an old version. It should read simply "more than 5000 people per square kilometre".

Okay, that makes a lot more sense.

What is "total bases"? Is that like points scored as a batter, or am I guessing a pitcher, or one of the useless catchy guys...

Every homerun counts as 4 bases; triples count as 3; doubles count as 2; singles count as 1. Add up over a career.

Revised in OP to:

Two in, so far. Reveal in 5 days. I realize there is a lot going on, but I couldn't hold back 5000 any longer.

in with 0k quality answers

Booker answers are always 24k.

in

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took more energy than I thought it would

more random guesses than I'd like on the PEEHS side of things

In with...um...yeah...did I mention I was in?

You did it way wrong. I took the tried and true Booker Wolfbox method.

Barring unforeseen circumstances, the reveal for this game will go ahead tomorrow at about this time. Deadline for entries is 1 p.m. Eastern tomorrow.

Oops forgot about this, will send it soon

in with Sheeps, Heeps and Aces but not necessarily in the right games.

And by that I mean 3 p.m. Eastern, of course.