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It's the Zany Popetastic Sede Vacante Supergame! Tom Send a noteboard - 07/03/2013 06:00:53 PM

It's simple to play. Just tell us the following:

  1. Who the next Pope will be (full name as it appears today)
  2. When he will be elected (exact day)

AND (bonus points)

  1. His Papal name upon ascension.

Scoring is as follows:

Correct name: +50 points
Correct day: +25 points (15 if one day off either way, 5 if two days off)
Papal name: +75 points

Whoever has the most points win.

Pope away and have fun!

Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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It's the Zany Popetastic Sede Vacante Supergame! Tom - 07/03/2013 06:00:53 PM 1613 Views
I will try my hand at it. Tom - 07/03/2013 06:04:08 PM 1212 Views
Well... I think there is a fair chance that I'll score 0 points. jh - 07/03/2013 07:39:54 PM 1216 Views
There's a fair chance any of us will score 0 points. Tom - 07/03/2013 09:47:49 PM 1183 Views
That's gonna an epic fail DomA - 07/03/2013 08:09:16 PM 1400 Views
Paul David Hewson, 1 April, Pope Bono I Joel - 07/03/2013 09:54:50 PM 1233 Views
Take your fake answer elsewhere if you're not going to play seriously. *NM* Tom - 07/03/2013 11:48:57 PM 709 Views
*is chastened* That was the only remotely possible answer I could come up with w/o research. *MN* Joel - 08/03/2013 04:13:44 AM 1300 Views
So go do the research! It can't take as long to perform as one of your standard diatribes... *NM* Tom - 08/03/2013 09:29:57 PM 647 Views
Tomorrow; I am running on fumes and trying to tell Demotic from demotic at the moment. Joel - 08/03/2013 10:03:52 PM 1317 Views
Still, it only takes surfing quickly through 1-3 articles at most Larry - 08/03/2013 10:48:17 PM 1302 Views
Johnny was married FOUR times: I doubt he was Roman Catholic (the internet claims Methodist.) Joel - 09/03/2013 07:32:06 PM 1334 Views
Demotic is a Greek term, so capitalizing it or not really doesn't change anything. Tom - 09/03/2013 03:13:17 PM 1322 Views
Ah, I did not realize the Greek term was reserved for modern Greek; thanks. Joel - 09/03/2013 07:11:16 PM 1382 Views
Greek letters haven't changed in about 2800 years Tom - 09/03/2013 09:05:30 PM 1301 Views
So we do not know WTF numbers the die represents, if it does indeed represent numbers? Joel - 09/03/2013 10:15:59 PM 1199 Views
There is a simple way to figure out if they represent numbers. Tom - 10/03/2013 03:33:10 AM 1285 Views
That probably answers the positional notation aspect we'd been discussing on the other board Isaac - 10/03/2013 04:12:32 AM 1329 Views
Based on the photo shot, I can't see how the die would be used in a percentile fashion. Tom - 10/03/2013 03:18:43 PM 1249 Views
Thanks, it still leaves the purpose rather uncertain but random number generator seems ruled out Isaac - 10/03/2013 05:10:05 PM 1647 Views
Those are just the first 20 letters (of 24) of the Greek alphabet. Tom - 10/03/2013 06:57:46 PM 1183 Views
One would THINK so, yes.... Joel - 11/03/2013 04:54:05 PM 1490 Views
First vertical row: Ε Α Β. Second: Z Η Θ Ι Κ. Third: Ρ Σ. Tom - 12/03/2013 12:27:15 AM 1197 Views
Re: It's the Zany Popetastic Sede Vacante Supergame! moondog - 08/03/2013 12:06:51 AM 1264 Views
I'll go with Cardinal Turkson, Benedict XVII, March 22nd Isaac - 08/03/2013 12:10:32 AM 1280 Views
Re: It's the Zany Popetastic Sede Vacante Supergame! Great Lord of Chaos - 08/03/2013 02:21:51 AM 1507 Views
Eh, why not? Larry - 08/03/2013 02:26:37 AM 1386 Views
Hugo Chavez *NM* ironclad - 08/03/2013 09:46:22 AM 733 Views
Re: It's the Zany Popetastic Sede Vacante Supergame! Danu - 08/03/2013 03:17:22 PM 1165 Views
Billy Dee Williams, March 19th, Pope Lando II Stephen - 08/03/2013 04:15:39 PM 1170 Views
Wasn't Pope Lando I the guy who made the deal to keep the Roman Empire out of Vatican City Forever? *NM* Isaac - 09/03/2013 12:02:20 AM 684 Views
He was acting under pressure, you can't hold it against him! *NM* jh - 09/03/2013 08:27:12 AM 670 Views
True, and the deal just kept getting worse all the time *NM* Isaac - 09/03/2013 03:08:03 PM 720 Views
he had to truly pray that it wasn't altered any further *NM* moondog - 11/03/2013 02:23:06 PM 683 Views
Fine: Christoph Maria Michael Hugo Damian Peter Adalbert Graf von Schönborn, 24 March, Pius XIII Joel - 09/03/2013 07:45:48 PM 1492 Views
White Smoke *NM* Isaac - 13/03/2013 06:43:56 PM 666 Views
Congratulations! We have all tied with 0 points out of a possible 200. Tom - 13/03/2013 07:27:24 PM 1371 Views
Victory Stephen - 13/03/2013 07:40:03 PM 1293 Views
Or Lando. Great Lord of Chaos - 13/03/2013 08:56:11 PM 1616 Views
I am very particular about my Landos. *NM* Stephen - 13/03/2013 09:59:44 PM 709 Views
Calixtus, not Caxtillus. There has never been a Pope "Caxtillus". Tom - 14/03/2013 12:55:44 AM 1201 Views
I was shocked it happened so soon. Spriteling - 13/03/2013 07:46:08 PM 1366 Views
Us and most Vaticanists it appears DomA - 13/03/2013 11:49:29 PM 1378 Views
Well, I guess some might say we've gone from the "Nazi Pope" to the "Collaborator Pope" Larry - 14/03/2013 06:34:23 AM 1271 Views
I wondered what you would think about him, given his strong rejection of liberation theology. *NM* Ghavrel - 15/03/2013 06:59:17 AM 648 Views
Outside of what I noted above, I have some optimism Larry - 16/03/2013 07:30:03 AM 1313 Views
if i had known this pope was almost the last pope, it may have influenced my decision.... moondog - 14/03/2013 02:29:09 PM 1137 Views
Pope Suburban (the First) Praziquantel - 14/03/2013 02:09:44 AM 1197 Views
I love that you guessed after it happened and still got it wrong Sareitha Sedai - 14/03/2013 02:18:53 PM 1210 Views
so sue me! Praziquantel - 16/03/2013 06:31:40 PM 1338 Views
I had the feeling it was going to be one of the Latin Americans Danu - 14/03/2013 06:16:10 PM 1141 Views
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