Guessing and Other Stats

[killabeez]

And now some guessing stats!

nicky_gabriel, I regret to inform you that your random guesses did not bear fruit this time, but I still like your style. merriman , on the other hand, managed to get 4 right by rolling the dice! (impressive)

dswdiane and pennywashburne played it close to the vest, guessing only 3 each—but all 3 correctly, for a 100% score.

CORRECTION: LS got 5 right, hafital got 6, and dkwilliams had 7 correct.

teratornis got an impressive 11 right! But was outdone by...

black_dwarf retaining the crown with 14 correct guesses!

Well done, guessers! havocthecat  black_dwarf  and merriman also get a special prize for managing to fool absolutely everyone.


And some story and character stats from teratornis:

20 stories

20 signups

1 PH

dswdiane wrote 2 stories

 

3 crossovers (Stargate SG1 & Underworld, Good Omens, Lucifer & Our Flag Means Death)

 

Characters:

Duncan MacLeod - 12

Methos - 12

Joe Dawson - 8

Richie Ryan, Rebecca Horne, original characters - 5

Connor MacLeod, Amanda Darieux, Darius- 4

Gina de Valicourt - 3

Robert de Valicourt, Rachel Ellenstein, Amy Brennan-Thomas - 2

Midori Koto, Don Salzer, Lynn Horton, Kronos, Hugh Fitzcairn, Matthew McCormick, Angie Burke, Ceirdwyn, Sunda Kastagir, Brenda Wyatt, Silas, Tessa Noel - 1

Comments

[merriman]

I am stunned that I got anyone right! But also, one of those (I won't say which) was the first one I guessed before I rolled the dice. So, not entirely random.

Congrats to Black Dwarf for nailing 14! That's amazing.

[killabeez]

Time for a trip to Vegas?

[morgynleri]

I didn't have enough brain to check the guessing post until now, and am blinking at only one person guessed what I wrote correctly, and I wasn't even remotely trying to hide it this year.

[killabeez]

Hiding in plain sight!

[nicky_gabriel]

Are you telling me that I didn't guess correctly even what I have written??? :)

[killabeez]

No—but I appreciate that you included it for maximum chaos when shaking the jar!

[nicky_gabriel]

I haven't had this much fun in a long time :)

[pennywashburne]

Yay!! This was so fun, as always. Thank you to everyone who helped run Shortcuts this year! You guys are awesome!

[killabeez]

And YOU guys are awesome for continuing to play, and for writing such fantastic fic.

[argentum_ls]

Thank you for keeping the exchange running! This is my favorite one, by far.

[killabeez]

I'm so glad. Thank you for coming back!

[hafital]

And Matthew! One story with Matthew lol 😭

[killabeez]

Yes!

[teratornis]

How the heck did I miss that, it was such a good story, too. My bad!

[brightknightie]

Many, many, thanks to Killa and Havoc and anyone else who assisted them along the way! This is my favorite exchange of the year for many reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you to Killa and Havoc for another amazing year of Shortcuts. Still my favorite exchange of all time. And thanks to everyone who participated. All these stories are fantastic 🥰. Can’t wait to read them all again and comment.

[black_dwarf]

Forgot to sign in. Anonymous is me 😁
Guess that works since nobody figured out my story this time around. 😅

[dkwilliams]

Great fest, as usual! I am surprised that I got 7 right, my head wasn't in the game this year. Congrats to everyone!

And I am surprised that anyone guessed my story correctly (I think 2 people did) as I put in extra effort to reword everything in a more flowery way than I usually do. I had a lot of fun taking simple sentences and trying to make them as evocative as I could. Needed something new to spice up the usual! Thanks in particular to the comments on Methos's line about being a well-curated archive. I had a lot of fun with that one. My other favorite to write was Amanda vowing to steal less or better next year.