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User talk:Markell

2026-04-22T13:00:20Z

Markell: Why am I being moderated?

I'm told that I'm being moderated and asked to click "I understand," but I don't. What are the details? Why am I being moderated?

It's not letting me contact BGA with questions, either. The question page keeps returning me to the same "you are being moderated" page!

Tips justone

2023-02-20T23:01:45Z

Markell: I added #4, about phrases

Strategies:

Consider where the other players are from (different continents).
Skipping if you are unsure uses up 1 card, however guessing incorrectly uses 2.

There are 4 types of good clues:

# Synonyms
# Reference
# Creative, unusual usage or reference
# Phrases that ''end'' with the target word (but not necessarily ones that ''begin'' with it)

Some clues are there to disambiguate use them wisely.

Less common clues are:

# Related words (not the best clues)
# Meta-word telling what type of word the mystery word is.

When trying to guess one can identify the category and try to guess like that.

Tips pingimus

2021-10-16T22:12:00Z

Markell:

Try and play from a device with a mouse if possible. It isn't as responsive to touch screen drawing.

Remember you have (usually) 60 seconds from when you start drawing in Turn-Based so it isn't a bad idea to think what you want to draw before you start! Or even Google images.

If you vote to combine answers, vote AGAINST the combined answer, since you are giving a point to everyone you combined together.

There are two ways of scoring Pingimus, only one of which gets you points for correct guesses. Keep that in mind when starting up a game--and when voting. Have fun!

Tips pingimus

2021-09-26T22:16:15Z

Markell: Reminder to use Google and that there are two different score systems.

Try and play from a device with a mouse if possible. It isn't as responsive to touch screen drawing.

Remember you have (usually) 60 seconds from when you start drawing in Turn-Based so it isn't a bad idea to think what you want to draw before you start! Or even Google images.

There are two ways of scoring Pingimus, only one of which gets you points for correct guesses. Keep that in mind when starting up a game--and when voting. Have fun!

Gamehelppingimus

2021-07-14T10:33:25Z

Markell:

Each round, everyone is told to draw a particular thing (a "task"), and has one minute to do so. Your 1 minute starts when you begin drawing so you can take a few seconds to think about what you want to do before drawing. After that, all players see one player's drawing and privately guess what they think that player's task was. Players' guesses are then mixed in with the original task, and players vote on which they think is the original task, for each picture. For each guess, players should vote on entries that are the same, such that all players who vote for entries that are the same get credit. For example if one option is "ice tray" and another is "icecube tray" players may indicate that they believe those are the same submissions.

Score 1 point for everyone who chose your guess, and for everyone who chose the original task on your drawing.

The game is played in rounds, for each round every player submits one drawing.

Note: the default scoring method does NOT give points for correct guesses. It is up to the table administrator to decide this before the game begins.

The game continues until the completion of a preset number of rounds (usually 3 to 5).